All Screen articles in 10 November 2006 – Page 4
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Warner Bros crosses $1bn in international grosses
Warner Bros Pictures International (WBPI) has crossed $1bn inoverseas ticket sales for the sixth year in a row.The strong recent international openings of Martin Scorsese's TheDeparted, ClintEastwood's Flags Of Our Fathers and Christopher Nolan's The Prestige pushed the division over the threshold.WBPI's key drivers this year have been Superman Returns ...
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Mads Mikkelsen signs up for Danish Flame & Citron
Lars Bredo Rahbek, the producer behind the $7.6 (Euros 6m) Flame & Citron has signed up current Bond villain Mads Mikkelsen to play the lead character alongside co-star Thure Lindhardt. Nimbus Film is currently working on the last rounds of financing with 75 % of the film's budget in ...
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35 new projects on show at Iberoamerican Co-production Forum
Close to 30 companies will get an early look at 35 new projects from 13 countries at the upcoming Iberoamerican Co-production Forum (Nov 19-21) at Spain's Iberoamerican Film Festival of Huelva (Nov 18-25).Projects range from the low budget $300,000 El Premio from Peru's Alberto (Chicho) Durant to the $12m La ...
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Vatican world premiere for Hardwicke's Nativity
New Line cinema's Virgin Mary themed picture Nativity is to hold its world premiere at the Vatican on November 24.Eagle Pictures, the film's Italian distributor, said the Catholic prelates, academics and experts in Catholicism gave approved the film's "poetic and faithful retelling of the Scriptures" after a private viewing.The premiere ...
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Vatican world premiere for Hardwicke's Nativity
New Line cinema's Virgin Mary themed picture Nativity is to hold its world premiere at the Vatican on November 24.Eagle Pictures, the film's Italian distributor, said Catholic prelates, academics and experts in Catholicism approved the film's "poetic and faithful retelling of the Scriptures" after a private viewing.The premiere of Catherine ...
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Jade Warrior (Jadesoturi)
Dir: Antti-Jussi Annila. Fin-Neth-Chi-Est.2006. 100mins.Making a kung fu film in Finland sounds so bizarrethat it might just work, especially when it combines the Scandinavian epic taleKalevala, about valiant warriors unhappy in love, withChinese mythology. But expecting a first-time film-maker to tackle such a task isasking too much - and certainly ...
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Mandate pre-sells key territories on Horsemen
Mandate Pictures has closed major territory pre-sales on JonasAkerlund's dark crime thriller Horsemen starring Dennis Quaid and Ziyi Zhang.Rights have gone to Icon for the UK and Australia, Concorde forGermany, West Video for CIS, and Sony Pictures Entertainment for Spain,Portugal, South Africa, Latin America and South Korea.Deals also closed in ...
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Tsai Ming-liang withdraws Sleep from Golden Horse
Taiwan auteur TsaiMing-liang has withdrawn his new feature IDon't Want to Sleep Alone from the Golden Horse Film Awards, declaring thathe would no longer participate in the event.Tsai has also withdrawn hisfilm from the affiliated Golden Horse Film Festival, despite its slot as theevent's opening gala on Nov 10.Tsai's film, ...
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Senator ends dispute over X-Filme
Producer-distributor Senator Entertainment is to retain its 56.1% interest in the Berlin production house X-Filme Creative Pool after an out-of-court settlement.The dispute dates back to 2004 when Senator filed for insolvency, since when there has been often acrimonious wrangling about the stake in X-FIlme.Now Senator's new majority shareholders Marco Weber ...
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Tell No One (Ne Le Dis A Personne)
Dir: Guillaume Canet. Fr. 2006. 125mins.Actor Guillaume Canettackles his second film as director with TellNo One, a slickly confected adaptation of Harlan Coben'ssuspense bestseller about a widower who opens a Pandora's Box of family secretsand violent death. Credibly transposed to France, it has the dynamic rhythm ofa good chase thriller ...
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Solo Dios Sabe finds domestic home in Palm
Palm Pictures has acquired North American and Caribbean rights to CarlosBolado's Brazilian feature Solo Dios Sabe.The distributor plans an early 2007 theatrical release followed byDVD roll-out on the Palm Pictures label.Solo Dios Sabe, which premiered at Sundance this year, follows the relationshipof a Mexican journalist who falls in love with ...
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The Dead Girl
Dir/scr: Karen Moncrieff. US. 2006. 93mins.The Dead Girl, Karen Moncrieff's thoroughly downbeat follow-up to herwell-received debut Blue Car, may beatmospherically creepy and have some good acting by respected names, but itsanguished, dysfunctional characters are so extreme that the film slips intounintentional self-parody.Theatrical prospects don'tseem good for First Look's late-December release, ...
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Goya's Ghosts (Los Fantasmas De Goya)
Dir. MilosForman. UK-Sp. 2006.114mins.Director Milos Forman and producerSaul Zaentz reteam for thefirst time since the Oscar-winning Amadeus(1984) with Goya's Ghosts, a strongly crafted productionwhich effectively brings to life not only the revered painter Francisco Goyabut also the tumultuous period in which he lived.Tightly-scriptedplotting (the film also reunites Forman and Valmontscreenwriter ...
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Sundance commissions original movies for mobile phones
Robert Redford's SundanceInstitute is dipping an experimental toe in the mobile entertainment arena bycommissioning five original short films intended for viewing on cell phonesworldwide.The three-to-five minutefilms will debut in Barcelona, on the opening day of next February's 3GSM WorldCongress, a mobile communications conference that attracts some fifty thousandtelecom-related professionals from ...
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Mikkelsen to star in wartime thriller Flame & Citron
Mads Mikkelsen, the Danish star whose internationalprofile is set to soar when he is seen as the villain in Casino Royale later this month, has signed to play Citron in the$7.7m World War II thriller Flame & Citron.The Danish-language film will be directed by OleChristian Madsen, whose fourth feature Prague, ...
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WBIC withdraws from Chinese cinema investments
Warner Bros InternationalCinemas (WBIC) has decided to stop investing in the Chinese cinema market dueto a tightened policy on foreign investment, the company said in a statement inShanghai today. However, Warner Bros' otherinvestments in China, including local-language production and home video, will not beaffected the statement said.The main reason for ...
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Whitaker, Inconvenient Truth honoured at Santa Barbara
Forest Whitaker will receive the 2007 Santa Barbara InternationalFilm Festival's American Riviera Award and Al Gore and Davis Guggenheim will berecognised for their achievements in nature filmmaking for An InconvenientTruth.As previously announced Will Smith will collect the Modern Master Awardat the event, which runs from Jan 25-Feb 4, 2007.For more ...
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Media Asia seals further deals on Confession, Exiled
As the AFM draws to a closetoday, Hong Kong's Media Asia has sealed several more sales on its upcomingAndrew Lau and Alan Mak title ConfessionOf Pain and Johnnie To's Exiled. Italy's Lucky Red acquired cop drama ConfessionOf Pain, which stars Tony Leung Chiu-wai and Takeshi Kaneshiro, along with Turkey's Filma, ...
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Better Things lie ahead
Award winning short film-maker Duane Hopkins has received $486,000 (£255,000) from the UK Film Council's New Cinema Fund towards his debut feature Better Things.Currently in production, Better Things tells the story of a group of young adults struggling to get ahead in life with limited opportunities. Hopkins' script for the ...
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TWC takes US rights to Death Defying Acts
The Weinstein Company (TWC) has picked up US rights to Gillian Armstrong's Harry Houdini drama Death DefyingActs.The project stars Guy Pearce as the master escapologist who goeson tour in 1926 and embarks upon an affair with an exotic psychic played byCatherine Zeta Jones.The psychic and her daughter attempt to con ...