All Screen articles in 11 February 2006 – Page 3
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Kosslick predicts big business at new-look EFM
The European Film Marketopens today in its new centre at the Martin Gropius Bau (MGB) with Berlinale directorDieter Kosslick estimating a 100 percent increase infilm executives attending Berlin over 2005, both inside theofficial venues and out.'I'm completely confidentthat it will work and people will do big business here,' he said.With ...
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Listener secures sales and slot in Berlin's special section
Fortissimo Films has secured a raft ofpost-Sundance sales on The NightListener, starring Robin Williams and Toni Collette, including Telepool in Germany andIcon in the UK.The Berlinale hasalso announced that the psychological suspense thriller has been added to thefestival's Berlinale Special Section. Both directorPatrick Stettner and Armistead Maupin, on whosebest-selling novel ...
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Intandem Films comes to Berlin with a slate of eight
London-based financing, sales, and distribution company Intandem Films comes to Berlinwith a slate of eight new pictures.Heading the slate is Zoo,the first project from its horror and thriller label FearFactory,the Enterprise Investment Scheme set up with producers Spice Factory, Colin Pons, and Mark Thomas. Zoois a dark comedy/horror film directed ...
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Gael Garcia Bernal to star in Hector Babenco film
Gael GarciaBernal will star in the new Hector Babenco film, The Past (O Pasado),confirmed Oscar Kramer of Argentina's ShokFilms to Screen. Based on a novel by theArgentine writer Alan Pauls, The Past is about a couple who decide to separate after 12 years;while the man tries to leave his past ...
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Media Asia Distribution pre-sells Johnnie To's Exiled
Hong Kong's Media Asia Distributionhas pre-sold Johnnie To'supcoming thriller Exiled to a raft ofterritories including Sharada for Italyand Cineart for Benelux.The $5m film, which started shooting last November in Macau,has also gone to Videosonic for Greece and Cyprus,Taiwan's Long Shong, WPM Films in Thailand and Galaxy Studio in Vietnam.Produced by ...
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Focus takes international on $45m Zhang epic
Focus Features has boardedthe Untitled Zhang Yimou Epic, the Chinese master's$45m upcoming period romance starring Gong Li and Chow Yun-fat.President of internationalsales and distribution Alison Thompson will commence sales in Berlin this weekon the project, which is set to begin shooting in China at the end of the monthin time ...
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Relatives (Rokonok)
Dir: Istvan Szabo. Hungary. 2006. 110minsAfter 12 years making films with stronginternational flavour, Istvan Szabo is back home for an adaptation of acritically-acclaimed novel by Zsigmund Moricz about an ambitious but naiveidealist who is sucked in by corruption. A Hungarian picture made for Hungarianaudiences, this darkly ironic cautionary tale resonates ...
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International weekend preview
The major European territoriessee audiences spoilt for choice this week with a variety of new openers,although last week's international chart leader, French smash Les Bronzes 3:Amis Pour La Vie, may prove hard to shiftfrom the throne.In the UK the weekend heralds the arrival of schoolhalf-term holidays and as a result ...
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Boreman named head of film buying for Vue in UK
UKexhibition company Vue Entertainment has named Stuart Boreman as its newdirector of film buying. He takes the post immediately.Boremanpreviously worked at UCI for 17 years, most recently for director of filmbuying across Northern Europe and previously as film booking manager. Hewill report directly to Vue's COO Steve Knibbs. "This is ...
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Block launches sales and financing outfit QED
Producer andformer Artisan president Bill Block has teamed up with three entertainmentindustry veterans to launch the Beverly Hills-based international sales,financing and production house QED International.Block is joinedin the new enterprise by senior vice president Kimberly Fox, the former head ofinternational sales at Kathy Morgan International, chief operating officer PaulHanson, the ...
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Kinowelt resurrects Arthaus theatrical distribution label
Germany's KinoweltFilmverleih has resurrected its Arthaus label for the theatrical release of arthousetitles.The first film to bereleased under the Arthaus label will be Marc Forster's Stay starring Ewan McGregor and Naomi Watts onFebruary 23. The film, which wasreleased by 20th Century Fox in the US last year, is also screeningin ...
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Director Gabriele Muccino sets up production company
Last Kiss director Gabriele Muccino has set up his own production company, which willfocus on adverts and feature films and will have offices in Milan, Rome and LosAngeles'IndianaProduction will group together both young and established writers and directorsand will also operate as a talent agency,' Muccinosaid. Indiana will also have ...
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Seven Swords, Perhaps Love lead race for Hong Kong Film Awards
Tsui Hark's martial arts film Seven Swords and Peter Chan's musical Perhaps Love lead the race for the 25thHong Kong Film Awards with 11 nods each, closely followed by Johnnie To's triad drama Electionand Andrew Lau and Alan Mak's car racing drama Initial D with 10 nods each. All fourfilms ...
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Sam Riley cast as lead singer in Anton Corbijn's Control
Sam Riley has been cast as leadsinger Ian Curtis and Alexandra Maria Lara as his lover Annikon music video director Anton Corbijn's Control, his fact-based debut feature onUK post-punk band Joy Division.It is a first big role for newcomerRiley - the troubled Curtis was in his early 20s when he ...
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Korean filmmakers stage screen quota protest
SouthKorean filmmakers across the nation put a stop to production for the day, andstaged a large-scale protest rally against the government's recent announcement- bending to US tradepressure - that it would half the 146-day screen quota. A turn-out of approximately 3,000protestors including filmmakers, actors, students, and citizens' group members,rallied this ...
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Young Hannibal wraps Czech shoot
Director PeterWebber has wrapped principal photography on YoungHannibal: Behind the Mask, after a 14-week shootin the Czech Republic. The Dino De Laurentiis production is made with partners Quinta Communications and Ingenious Film Partners. The UK'sZephyr Films is also on board.Internationalsales are being handled by producers' consultant Pamela Pickering in Los ...
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Odeon to open Braehead cinema in March
Cinema chain Odeon is planning to open anew 12-screen, $8.7m (£5m) cinema in Braehead, near Glasgow.The facility will open March 27 with 2406seats, all in stadium-style theatres. The cinema will be part of the Xscape leisure and sports complex near Braeheadshopping center.Odeon Braeheadwill employ up to 80 staffers. Manager Paul ...
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National Geographic and Paramount Classics pick up sales to The White Planet
In what could be the nexttrue indicator in confirming Bac FilmsInternational's The White Planet (La Planete Blanche) as this year's documentary to watchthe French company has announced its North American sale to National Geographicand Paramount Classics. The film, a $12m (Euros 10m)documentary about life in the North Pole, was culled ...
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Tarr to resume work on The Man From London
Hungarian director Bela Tarr spoke to journalists at the 37th Hungarian Film Weekin Budapest about the revival ofhis project, The Man FromLondon, which was stalled last winter after the death of French producer Humbert Balsan. The film, which is to begin shooting in March, is now aFrench-German-Hungarian co-production featuring an ...
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Trueba's Bienvenido A Casa to open Malaga Film Festival
David Trueba's romanticdrama Bienvenido A Casa will have its world premiere asthe inaugural film atthe upcoming 9th annual Spanish Film Festival ofMalaga (March 17-25).A co-production of Fernando Trueba and Antena 3 Television's Ensueno Films stars up-and-coming actors Pilar Lopez de Ayala and Alejo Sauras as a young couple undergoing a ...