All Screen articles in 11 September 2008 – Page 9
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Altadena takes on Andrew van den Houten's Offspring
Altadena Films has acquired international rights to director and producer Andrew van den Houten's horror thriller Offspring, which Jack Ketchum adapted from his own best-selling novel. Offspring is the second collaboration between van den Houten and Ketchum after The Girl Next Door, also sold by Altadena (and premiering at Deauville).Offspring ...
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Image takes North American rights to $5 A Day
Image Entertainment has picked up North American rights (excluding theatrical) from Capitol Films to Nigel Cole's comedy $5 A Day, which gets its world premiere tonight [September 6] in Toronto's Contemporary World Cinema strand.Alessandro Nivola and Christopher Walken star in the tale of a conservative man who grudgingly joins his ...
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Queens Of Langkasuka (Puen-Yai-Jom-Sa-Lad)
Dir: Nonzee Nimibutr. Thailand. 2008. 133mins.A big-budget Thai period epic that mixes pirates, magic, martial arts action and a kneejerk eco-pacifist subtext, Queens Of Langkasuka is good to look at but clunky in pretty much every other department. Those in the mood for a chaste action-laced love story with dazzling ...
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Denzel Washington to star in Hughes Brothers' Book Of Eli
Denzel Washington will star in Alcon Entertainment and Silver Pictures' post-apocalyptic thriller The Book Of Eli that Allen and Albert Hughes will direct.Based on an original story by Gary Whitta and a rewrite by Anthony Peckham, the story takes place in the near future in an American wasteland where a ...
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Spike Lee launches second Babelgum Online Film Festival
Spike Lee, in Toronto for the world premiere of Miracle Of St Anna, launched the second Babelgum Online Film Festival today [September 5] and unveiled details about the competition.Web TV platform Babelgum set up the festival to support international short film and Lee will return as honourary judge alongside the ...
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San Sebastian to honour Antonio Banderas and Meryl Streep
The San Sebastian film festival has announced that Meryl Streep and Antonio Banderas will receive the Donostia award, which is given to a film personality in recognition of their work and career. A respected Spanish actor and director, Banderas' career spans from his role in Pedro Almodovar's Labyrinth Of Passion ...
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Landau, Zahn, Buscemi, Livingston star in ensemble Company Men
Martin Landau, Steve Zahn, Steve Buscemi and Ron Livingston will star in Raul Sanchez Inglis' ensemble drama The Company Men, set to begin shooting in Detroit in November.Inglis wrote the screenplay about an aging salesman and his younger colleague who struggle to save an ailing toy company. Matthew Robert Kelly ...
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BackUp launches new funding scheme with indie distributors
French film financing agency BackUp Films has created a new funding scheme intended to co-acquire distribution rights alongside independent distributors. The venture, entitled Districup, will share risk with distributors while the distributors will have the opportunity to own all of the co-acquired rights following the first exploitation cycle.In its first ...
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Memento adds sales on Goodbye Solo to Benelux, Switzerland
Memento Films International has generated strong buzz on Venice Horizons title Goodbye Solo with sales to Imagine in Benelux and Xenix in Switzerland. Following its premiere in Venice, the film is also being pursued with offers from France, Portugal, Greece and Italy among others.Ramin Bahrani's third feature will hit Toronto ...
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Anna Marsh joins StudioCanal as VP of international sales
StudioCanal has employed Anna Marsh as vice president of international sales in charge of English-speaking territories, Scandinavia and Latin America. Toronto will be her first outing with StudioCanal.Marsh, formerly of TF1 International, will be based in both Paris and London and report to StudioCanal international sales executive vice president Harold ...
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Hungary names Iska's Journey as Oscar submission
Hungary will submit Iska's Journey for consideration for the Foreign Language Oscar.Csaba Bollok's feature, his second, is a tale of modern slavery, following a teenage girl's harrowing journey from an abusive home in a Romanian mining village. The film saw its international premiere in Berlin in 2007. It has screened ...
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ReviewsIl Seme Della Discordia
Dir: Pappi Corsicato. Italy. 2008. 84mins.Neapolitan director Pappi Corsicato conjures up the spirit but little of the dramatic and thematic depth of his acknowledged master Pedro Almodovar in this bright but lightweight comedy-melodrama. But though its afterglow is short-lived, Corsicato’s amusing little film still came as ...
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Thom Fitzgerald to direct Sense Of Things for Samson, Eagle Vision
Thom Fitzgerald is set to direct an adaptation of novelist Alison Dye's The Sense of Things next summer. The film will be produced by Ireland's Samson Films, producers of the Oscar-winning Once, and Eagle Vision of Canada, producers of the Oscar-winning Capote. Fitzgerald's other titles include The Hanging Garden, Beefcake, ...
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Almost Perfect grosses $7m despite Olympics opening
Despite opening during the Beijing Olympics, Chinese comedy Almost Perfect has grossed $6.72m (RMB46m), making itthe best-selling local comedy of recent years. The film's distributor Polybona and production company Happy Star Culture and Media Corp yesterday celebrated its unexpected box office success.Previously, the biggest local comedies of the past two ...
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The Mummy 3 has strong opening in mainland China
The Mummy: Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor had a strong opening in mainland China, where it was filmed as a co-production between Universal Pictures and Shanghai Film Group, despite a delayed release date. On the first day of release (September 3), the film grossed more than $2.05m (RMB14m), similar to ...
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ReviewsRockNRolla
Dir/scr: Guy Ritchie. UK. 2008. 114mins.RocknRolla returns Guy Ritche precisely to the world that made his name; the low-level underworld of Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels (1999) and Snatch (2000) which were in turn the inspiration for a UK geezer subgenre (Sexy Beast, Layer Cake, ...
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UK minority film-makers join Toronto Talent Lab
The UK film industry has selected Juliet Ellis and Robert Samuels as its two black, Asian or minority ethnic film-makers to participate in Toronto's Talent Lab (Sept 3-6).Samuels is currently developing The Amazing Labours of Arthur Glass with Film4.This marks the second year that UK training body Skillset has partnered ...
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Venice dates move: A storm in a teacup'
Reports that the Venice Film Festival is contemplating moving its start date into September next year will not affect Toronto, which itself moves back a week to start on Sept 10 in 2009.Toronto's dates traditionally shift with the calendar (the first Thursday after North American Labour Day). Venice's dates this ...
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The Works on board for Rachel Ward's feature debut Beautiful Kate
The Works International has taken on world sales for Rachel Ward's Beautiful Kate. Ward's feature directorial debut is based on the novel of the same name by Newton Thornburg.Beautiful Kate is a story of dark family secrets in the Australian outback - told in parallel strands of past and present ...