All Screen articles in 10 June 2007 – Page 2
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Holland to direct National Lampoon's Ratko: The Dictator's Son
National Lampoon has signed Savage Steve Holland to direct the fish-out-of-water story Ratko, the company's second in-house production after Bagboy.National Lampoon's Ratko: The Dictator's Son follows the adventures of a despot's son who heads to the US to attend college. Robert Mittenthal and Michael Rubiner wrote the screenplay.The National Lampoon, ...
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Foresight sells key territories on Machine, Ledge, Alive
Mark Damon's production, financing and sales company Foresight Unlimited has reported a strong Cannes on a diverse slate, headed by sales on the $15m Jean-Claude Van Damme mixed martial arts film Smashing Machine.Sony picked up the UK, Australia, France, Japan, and Italy to Smashing Machine, which also sold to Germany ...
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Naomi Kawase: force of nature
Naomi Kawase, director of Cannes award-winner The Mourning Forest, tells Jason Gray why the elements are on her side. A dense forest. A young woman follows a wild-haired old man as they struggle upwards through thick underbrush. They are covered in mud and sweat. The young woman helps the man ...
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Shanghai International Film Festival: going for growth
Shanghai is expanding market activities in 2007. Sen-lun Yu reports.Celebrating its 10th edition this year, the Shanghai International Film Festival (Siff), held June 16-24, is gradually expanding its film market and intends to demonstrate China's business potential.Aside from the Jin Jue Competition, the festival's main competitive section, and the Asian ...
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Distribution: studio's home movies
US studios see opportunity in local-language film. Sheri Jennings reports. The importance of the US studios to local-language film has been growing steadily for some years now. But it now seems clear that tentative steps are becoming big strides.Italy provides a good illustration with two films from the Rome-based Cattleya ...
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Editorial opinion: dangers of diversity
There are two words that should be worrying the international film business: cultural diversity. That's not in any way to disagree with the principle: globalised trade does have an innate drive towards homogenisation, with the big overpowering the small. So United Nations body Unesco was fully justified in raising the ...
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Creature features
Screen staff reporters identify forthcoming nature documentary projects.Animals In Love (Fr)Dir: Laurent CharbonnierFrench director Charbonnier, who was the DoP on the Oscar-nominated documentary Winged Migration, makes his directorial feature debut on the $10m Animals In Love, which explores courtship and love in the animal kingdom. Produced by Jean-Pierre Bailly for ...
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China: cheaper thrills
Faced with a rapidly expanding cinema sector, Chinese producers are looking to end their reliance on martial-arts epics. Sen-lun Yu looks at the new funds aiming to generate an upturn in cheaper commercial homegrown product. Chinese film-making may be best-known internationally for its eye-popping martial-arts films and its lavishly mounted ...
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Case study: The Meerkats
Billed as a coming-of-age tale, BBC Films' The Meerkats is an attempt to mount a resolutely big-screen experience. Melanie Rodier reports. Now in post-production, James Honeyborne's The Meerkats is the first theatrical nature documentary from the UK's BBC Films.Co-financed by The Weinstein Company (TWC), the film is a collaboration with ...
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Wildlife documentaries: nature calls
Following the global success of March Of The Penguins, animal films are the hot new genre. But is there a market for theatrical wildlife documentaries' Melanie Rodier reports. From meerkats to elephants, turtles to polar bears: in the post March Of The Penguins marketplace, a host of animal-based nature documentaries ...
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Critical view: breaking the rules
Romania's cash-poor but ideas-rich film industry is proving that necessity is the mother of invention with a string of influential titles. What's the secret formula, asks Lee MarshallWhat is it about those Romanians' The Eastern European country's cash-strapped film industry manages to squeeze out no more than 10 full-length features ...
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Black Gold: storm in a coffee cup
Coffee expose Black Gold riled multinationals in the US and is now raising awareness in the UK. Chris Evans speaks to film-makers Marc and Nick Francis about taking on the world's second-largest export industry. Following Super Size Me, An Inconvenient Truth and most recently Michael Moore's Sicko, brothers Marc and ...
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Jon Kilik: for whom the Bell tolls
The US producer of The Diving Bell And The Butterfly tells Peter Bowen how he got the film made when both Johnny Depp and Universal dropped out. The French-language memoir The Diving Bell And The Butterfly (Le Scaphandre Et Le Papillon) marks the third collaboration between US producer Jon Kilik ...
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BBC Films: a drama or a crisis'
The planned relocation of BBC Films back to BBC headquarters has provoked a panic in the UK, where producers fear the future of one of the territory's most important financiers is under threat. Geoffrey Macnab reports. At Cannes last month, BBC Films arrived with what its boss, David Thompson, has ...
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James Gray: good cop, bard cop
Shakespeare and Italian melodrama provided the creative inspirations for James Gray's We Own The Night, set in New York in the 1980s. Peter Bowen reports. The inspiration for James Gray's We Own The Night, a character-driven drama about a man who has hidden his past only to confront an inevitable ...
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Chiara Arroyo: asilent witness
The Mexican director of the Cannes prize-winner Silent Light tells Chiara Arroyo why he chose to make a film about an isolated German-speaking sect. Just a decade ago, Mexico's Carlos Reygadas was a high-profile human-rights lawyer for the European Commission, specialising in armed conflicts. Now he is one of the ...
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Abel Ferrara: go go dancer
The new film from energetic film-maker Abel Ferrara is a sexy, glossy comedy - or so he promises, says Sheri JenningsWhat does a director like Abel Ferrara, who has already had four films invited to Cannes, do for his next act' Something completely different, it seems.Ferrara's Go Go Tales screened ...
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Analysis: International box-office - Weekend June 1-3
Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World's End continues to hold on to the top spot despite a 52% drop - it raked in $103.2m from 103 territories bringing its total to a whopping $406.4m in its second weekend. Spider-Man 3 remains firmly in second place, generating $12.6m in its fifth ...
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Wild Bunch enjoys a strong Cannes Market
Wild Bunch had a hearty Cannes Market with notable sales across its slate. Palme d'Or winner 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days sold in 31 territories including to IFC in the US, France's Bac Films/Why Not, Germany's Concorde, Spain's Golem, Canada's Metropole, the UK's Artificial Eye, Brazil's Lumiere and China's ...
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Taormina plans new Mediterranean focus under Deborah Young
Egyptian cinema and a new competitive section focusing on Mediterranean films are all on the agenda for the reinvigorated 53rd Taormina Film Festival.Other features brought in for the new Mediterranean-heavy format, introduced by artistic director Deborah Young, include the first Giuseppe Tornatore retrospective and the revival of the Sicilian short ...