All Screen articles in 11 February 2006 – Page 2
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Samuel L Jackson to star in Myriad's The Shadow Chaser
Samuel L Jackson has signed on to play the lead in The Shadow Chaser, a $30m actionthriller that is being put together by LA-based Myriad Pictures.Myriad is producing the project with Michael Mailer andcompany president and chief executive officer Kirk D'Amico and his sales teamwill commence worldwide sales at Berlin.Filming ...
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Celluloid Dreams strikes a deal with Hammer And Tongs
French sales house Celluloid Dreams is to part-finance and sell the nextproject from UK film outfit Hammer And Tongs - also known as GarthJennings and Nick Goldsmith.Jennings and Goldsmith, who last directed and produced The Hitchhikers Guide ToThe Galaxy, will move forward immediately with Son of Rambow (working title), to ...
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SPRI sets Capote international release schedule
Sony Pictures Releasing International (SPRI) has finalised key releasedates for Capote, which earned five Oscar nominations last week andgets its international premiere at the Berlin Film Festival on Feb 17.The picture will open in Italy, Switzerland, Poland and New Zealand onFeb 18, followed by Australia, the UK, Spain, Brazil, Finland ...
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Casting complete for Douglas Buck's remake of Sisters
French star AnnaMouglalis, Chloe Sevigny and Stephen Rea will head the cast of Sisters, Douglas Buck's remake of BrianDe Palma's cult 1973 thriller which Voltage Picture is selling here.Production is scheduledto begin on March 13 in Vancouver on the first title from Ed Pressman's Pressman &Company and Image Entertainment's genre ...
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Fortissimo sells Cut Sleeve Boys to here! Films
US independent here! Films hasacquired North American rights to UKcomedy Cut Sleeve Boys fromFortissimo Films.Written and directed by Ray Yeung,the film is set in London'sunderground drag club scene and focuses on the British Chinese gay experienceincluding an all-male production of the MissPacific Rim Beauty Pageant.Outside of gay and lesbian film ...
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Bill Block to launch sales, financing and production company
Producer and former Artisanpresident, Bill Block has teamed up with threeentertainment industry veterans to launch the Beverly Hills-based international sales, financing and production house QED International.Block is joined in the newenterprise by senior vice president Kimberly Fox, the former head of international sales at Kathy Morgan International; chief operating officer ...
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BD Fox & Friends signs picture deal with Noble House
Hollywood-based marketing firm B D Fox & Friends'freshly minted sales divisionhas signed a three-picture deal with producer Mark Roemmich's Noble House EntertainmentPictures.In addition to Roemmich'spreviously announced dark romance Taylor, B D Fox & Friends will handlethe $65m Snow Princessand the $54m The Lost Gold Of Khan.Snow Princess isset to go ...
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Arclight puts spotlight on Asia
Arclight Films has launched Easternlight, a sales, marketingand distribution division dedicated to Asian cinema.The division will encompass all genres, with Arclight managing director Gary Hamilton serving asmanaging director and chairman.Easternlight will commence salesat Berlin on its first two titlesfrom China:cinematographer Hou Yong's cross-generational familysaga Jasmine Women starring Zhang Ziyi and ...
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WiP picks up North American rights to Chen Kaige's The Promise
Warner Independent Pictures (WiP)has picked up North American rights to Chen Kaige's The Promise ahead of its Europeanpremiere at Berlin.WiP plans a May release on theepic fantasy, which last December became the third biggest grossing releaseever in mainland China behind Titanicand Hero.The picture had originally been acquired for North America ...
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Wild Bunch back Marc Caro's new sci-fi action film
Marc Caro, the French film-makerwho collaborated with Jean-Pierre Jeunet on Delicatessen and The City Of Lost Children, is preparing anextravagant new sci-fi action movie called DanteXXI that is being represented for worldwide sales by Wild Bunch.Billed by the seller as Cubemeets Gattaca,it's a tale about a convict in space. Tormented ...
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Taxidermy (Taxidermia)
Dir: Gyorgy Palfi.Hungary/Austria/France. 2005. 90 mins.Gyorgy Palfi's second feature, whichcollected a slew of awards including best film at the recent Hungarian FilmWeek, is likely to be as much of a talking point as his first film Hukkle,albeit for very different reasons. Spanning three generations of one family,this horror film will ...
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White Palms (Feher Tenyer)
Dir: Szabolcs Hajdu. Hungary. 2006. 100mins.Szabolcs Hajdu's film casts a jaundicedeye over the world of sports prodigies. A grim and disenchanted portrait of howone young gymnast is almost ruined by a gruelling training programme and theinsatiable expectations of his parents, the film almost runs out of steam inthe second half, ...
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Hugh Grant to receive honorary Cesar on Feb 25
British actor Hugh Grant is set to receive an honorary Cesar from theAcademie des Arts et Techniques du Cinema. The Cesars, France's equivalent tothe Oscar, will be handed out at the upcoming ceremony on February 25.French actress Carole Bouquet, who will preside over the ceremony, willpresent Grant with the award.Grant's ...
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Snow Cake
Dir: Marc Evans. UK-Can. 2006. 112minsWith itstale of two misfits who improbably bond in a snowbound small town, Snow Caketakes a surefire formula and delivers a gently crowd-pleasing if somewhatlow-key - comedy-drama.A sweetlyintrospective execution, it marks a signal departure for British director MarcEvans, cranking the stylistics down several notches ...
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Wanda Vision prepares new slate of films
Spain'sWanda Vision, co-producer of Panorama opening title Family Law, is preparing a new slate of films including twofeatures set in Africa.Documentarian-turned-fiction-filmmakerGerardo Olivares is preparing his follow-up to BerlinaleSpecial screener The Great Match (El Gran Final) for Wanda. The road movie about Africanemigrants to Europe is called Tenere after the Saharan ...
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AMC Entertainment to sell Iberian multiplex network
AMC Entertainment is in final negotiations to sell off its multiplexes in Spain and Portugal to UK private equity firm Terra FirmaCapital Partners.AMC and Cinesa (the Spanish brand of TerraFirma-owned UCI) have reached an agreement for the "potential acquisition" of AMC's cinemas on the Iberian Peninsula, according to a Terra ...
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Brokeback rides away with London Critics prizes
Continuing its awards season kudos, Brokeback Mountain received the top honours at the London Critics' Circle Awards. Ang Lee won for best director and the film won the group'sbest film award. The other prizes were less predictable: Bruno Ganz won best actor for Downfall(which also won the foreign-language film category), ...
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Troubled German media fund will fight on, says CEO
Andy GroschCEO of beleaguered German media fund VIP, made a defiant defence ofhis company at the Screen International Europe Film Finance Summit, shruggingoff a new lawsuit being prepared against the company as pure nonsense. Eventhough his business partner Andreas Schmid has beenin custody on charges of tax evasion since Sept ...
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Darclight gets on board horror Dark Ride
Arclight Films has bulked up itsgenre division Darclight Films in preparation for Berlin'sEFM and boarded the serial killer thriller DarkRide.Directed by Craig Singer from a screenplay he co-wrote withRobert Dean Klein, Dark Ride is aboutan escaped serial killer who returns to the theme park ride where he slaughteredtwo girls 10 ...
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Gilliam goes west with McMurtry's Billy The Kid
Terry Gilliam is to team up with Brokeback Mountain co-screenwriter and Pulitzer Prize-winner Larry McMurtry on AnythingFor Billy, a new feature inspired by wild west anti-hero, Billy The Kid. Gilliam is attached to direct the new project, which isadapted from McMurtry's best-selling novel. Anything For Billyis about Ben Sippy, an ...