All Screen articles in 11 September 2006 – Page 2
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Hong Kong set to lose only arthouse cinema
Hong Kong's only dedicated arthouse cinema, the Cine-ArtHouse, is facing closure as its owner Sil-Metropole Organisation is havingdifficulty renewing the lease.The two-screen cinema, locatedat the Sun Hung Kai Centre in Wan Chai on Hong Kong Island, programmes mainland Chinese, foreign-language and other kinds of arthouse and specialist cinema. It has ...
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All The King's Men
Dir: Steven Zaillian. US. 2006. 125mins.The queasy compromises of love, loyalty and bareknuckle politics are at the heart of a handsome, star-studded new version ofthe Pulitzer Prize-winning novel All The King's Men. The celebrated 1949 adaptation of theRobert Warren Penn epic is probably best remembered for Broderick Crawford's Oscar-winningperformance as ...
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Barab named to run Bauer Martinez's Lucky 50 Productions
Martin Barab has been appointed president of Bauer MartinezStudios' production arm Lucky 50 Productions.Barab formerly served as the company's general counsel and priorto that had been the president of Bauer Martinez Distribution before it wasrenamed Bauer Martinez Entertainment (BME).He will work alongside BME chairman and chief executive officer PhilippeMartinez and ...
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Pirates 3 set for global day-and-date launch in 2007
On the weekend that Piratesof the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chestpassed the $1bn worldwide gross mark, The Walt Disney Company has revealed thatsequel Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End will be released day-and-date around the world nextsummer."We're going to open onthe weekend of May 25 in every country around the ...
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Jia's Still Life is surprise winner of Venice's Golden Lion
Still Life (Sanxia Haoren), thelast-minute competition entry by cult Chinese director JiaZhangke, was the surprise winner of the Golden Lionfor Best Film at the Venice Film Festival. Added to the list of 21 competitionfilms halfway through the 12-day Italian festival, Zhangke'sfifth feature, with a slow pace and near absence of ...
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Penelope
Dir: Mark Palansky. UK.2006. 101minsMore of anexaggerated pantomime than a lyrical fable, Penelopestruggles to find the magical qualities that seemed to arise so effortlessly inEdward Scissorhandsor Amelie.The tale of a pig-faced girl's search for love and happiness is sweetly toldbut too often plays for easy laughs rather that true wonderment ...
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Weinsteins take Mandy, Vince in Toronto
Harvey and Bob Weinstein stamped their mark on the festivaltoday as they swooped on Jonathan Levine's hip genre picture All TheBoys Love Mandy Lane forDimension and Ari Sandel's documentary Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show for The Weinstein Company (TWC).Dimension Films took worldwide rights to Mandy Lane in a deal ...
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Hana
Dir: Hirokazu Kore-Eda. Jap. 2006. 127mins.Rambling, overlong and at times even messy, Hana isnevertheless a delightful surprise from well known Japanese director Hirokazu Kor-Eda. Alwaysidentified in the past with slow, reflective, sad pieces such as Maborosi and philosophicalreflections on human existence like Afterlife- not to mention the heartbreaking NobodyKnows, one ...
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Stranger Than Fiction
Dir: Marc Forster. US. 2006.118mins.A highly original script by newcomerZach Helm, some superlative performances and the deft guiding hand of directorMarc Forster, trying his hand at comedy for the first time, make Stranger Than Fiction the season's must-seefilm for discerning audiences. Financed and co-produced by Mandate Pictures,the film is having ...
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Sunshine reigns over Deauville
JonathanDayton and Valerie Faris' Little Miss Sunshine won the grand prize at the 32ndDeauville Festival of American Film last night in Deauville, France. The film,a huge box office success in North America, opened in France on Wednesdaythrough 20th Century Fox.Meanwhilethe jury prize went to Ryan Fleck's Half Nelson and the ...
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Chechik to direct Pornographer's Poem for House Of Films, Fondry
Jeremiah Chechik, directorof Benny And Joon, TheAvengers and Diabolique, hassigned on to direct The Pornographer's Poem through Bill House's House Of Films and Daniel Ironsof Fondry Films, co-producer of Sarah Polley's TIFF Gala Away From Her. Karen Walton is adapting thescreenplay from the book by Michael Turner, a story of ...
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Bruce Weber plots Robert Mitchum documentary
Bruce Weber, in Toronto, tosupport a Dialogues screening of his 1988 documentary Let's Get Lost, has announced that his next project will definitelybe his long-cherished Nice Girls Don't Stay For Breakfast: A Portrait OfRobert Mitchum.Described by Weber as a'musical documentary,' the project is a profile of Hollywood's original badboy, Mitchum. ...
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Brand Upon The Brain
Dir: Guy Maddin. US-Can. 2006. 97mins.Arguably the first true silent movie produced ineight decades, Guy Maddin's Brand Upon The Brain premiered in Toronto with a liveorchestra, in-house sound effects artists, a singer and narrator providing apure cinematic full monty. And though there areobvious challenges in recreating such a singular event, ...
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Borat
Dir: Larry Charles. US.2006. 82mins.A hand grenade lobbed towards the American heartland,mockumentary Borat explodes with intermittently uproarious results. Fansof Sacha Baron Cohen's enthusiastic Kazakhstanreporter and his television escapades will not be disappointed by a featuredebut filled with caustic encounters and razor-sharp observations. Others mightwonder what all the fuss is about; ...
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Cars passes billion dollar Pirates on international track
Buena Vista International had a lot to celebrate thisweekend, as Cars took over pole position at the international box officeand previous leader Pirates of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest passedthe $1bn worldwide gross milestone. A powerful opening in Germany helped Cars gross anestimated $9m from 3,900 screens in 34 countries ...
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Vancouver's Anagram readies three pictures from three founders
Vancouver-based productioncompany Anagram Pictures, whose Fido went over to rapturous public response here, is readying a three-pictureslate for production in 2007. As with previous Anagram projects, the company'sthree founders, Trent Carlson, Blake Corbett, and Andrew Currie, are eachdirecting projects while working in support roles on the others. First up is ...
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Voltage sells six-picture creature feature package to AMG in Japan
Voltage Pictures has sold a trio of upcoming Romanian-UK creaturefeatures to Japan's AMG as part of a package of six titles.The live-action family picture Mammoth 2 and adventures Sherlock Holmes andTerracotta Warriors arebeing co-financed by Voltage and will shoot in Romania from October tomid-2007.Voltage previously sold King Arthur And The ...
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Weinstein Co extends output deal with MPD in Canada till 2010
The Weinstein Company hasextended its output deal with MPD, a notch in the favour of the Canadiandistributor as it tussles with its former chairman Victory Loewy and former CEOPatrice Theroux. Given that the agreement had another three years to run - thetermination date was December 31, 2009 Ð the extension ...
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TF1 kicks off sales on Calderon's wildlife tale White Tuft
TF1International is launching sales here on wildlife feature White Tuft, TheLittle Beaver.Thefilm is directed by Philippe Calderon whose The Besieged Fortress will be released in France by TFM Distribution nextmonth and screened here for buyers yesterday.Afamily film using real animals, White Tuft is set in northern California and follows the ...
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Hammer & Tongs wraps Son of Rambow
Shooting has wrapped on Son Of Rambow, the latest film from the UK film-making team of Garth Jennings and Nick Goldsmith, better known as Hammer & Tongs (The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy).The film is being sold in Toronto by Celluloid Dreams and was executive produced by Hengameh Panahi and ...