All Screen articles in 12 December 2004 – Page 2
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Parker's Denmead merges with Rogers & Cowan
Nikki Parker's LA-basedpublicity outfit Denmead Marketing has merged with public relations companyRogers & Cowan in a deal announced yesterday (8).Effective immediately,Parker becomes executive vice president of Rogers & Cowan and will team upwith Rogers & Cowan's executive vice president of worldwide film publicityand marketing Michael Dalling, whose clients include film ...
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Scullions signs partners to complete Hooligans movie
Mike and Kevin Scullion'sHooligans - The Movie Inc has signed a deal with Calgary-based production houseNomadic Pictures and secured completion funds from Dublin/Glasgow-basedHannaywood Studios and subsidiary Film Das Abra for their inaugural feature Hooligans.Both Hooligans - The MovieInc and Nomadic Pictures bring distribution partners to the table and areexpected to ...
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Disney favours Blu-Ray in DVD format face-off
Eight days after Paramount,Universal and Warner Bros announced their support of the next generation HD DVDin a deal with Toshiba, the Walt Disney Company has joined the Sony camp andthrown its weight behind rival technology Blu-Ray.Disney said it would becomea board member of the Blu-Ray Disc Association and Buena Vista ...
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German fund to bankroll Mann's Miami Vice
Three high profile big budget feature projects fromMichael Mann, Sam Mendes and Gary Ross have been shortlisted for considerationby the investors of Hannover Leasing's (HL) second Montranus media fund at ameeting in Munich next week (December 17).After consulting with film industry experts, theMunich-based fund has put forward three projects with ...
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Rwanda, Voices get PGA Kramer award
Hotel Rwanda and Innocent Voices will share the Producers Guild of America's (PGA)2005 Stanley Kramer Award honouring work that highlights provocative socialissues.Hotel Rwanda producers A Kitman Ho and Terry George and InnocentVoices producers Lawrence Bender,Luis Mandoki and Alejandro Soberon will accept the honour at the PGA Awards onJan 22."This year's ...
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France, Switzerland sign co-production agreement
Franceand Switzerland have signed a co-production agreement with a view to "tightenthe bonds between the two cinematographic industries."Swissculture minister Pascal Couchepin was on hand with his French counterpartRenaud Donnedieu de Vabres in Paris for the signing of the new agreement whichreplaces and updates a 1977 accord. The new terms include ...
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Italian industry rails against funding crisis
Italianentertainment body AGIS is once again urging the Italian government toimmediately address the financial problems that have been crippling the localfilm industry for the last 12 months.It is the second time in the last year that the Italianfilm sector has protested against massive cuts to state funds, endless delaysin handing ...
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Haven
Dir/scr: Frank E Flowers. UK-Ger-US-Sp. 2004. 115mins.Handsomely, even expensively mounted, and serviceably if notbrilliantly, acted, Haven is a filmso lacking in narrative skill, interesting characters, or anything but the mostshowily attractive situations andthemes that it self-destructs barely 15 minutes in and stays out of servicethroughout its long, long length.Despite the ...
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36 Quai Des Orfevres
Dir: Olivier Marchal.France. 2004. 110mins.A muscular police actionthriller, 36 Quai Des Orfevres is a welcome throwback to the stylish1980s French cops and robbers pictures of Blier, Corneau and Beineix. That itis by relative newcomer director (and former cop) Olivier Marchal (who directed2002's Gangsters) and the recently somnolent Gaumont are also ...
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Empire magazine unveils dates, venue for 2005 awards
Empire Magazine's annualawards ceremony, the Sony Ericsson Empire Film Awards, will take place onSunday March 13, 2005, two weeks after the Oscars.The Awards will also becelebrating their tenth anniversary at a new venue, London's Guildhall.Empire Editor Colin Kennedycommented: "It is fitting that in our tenth year the Awards have moved ...
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Mandeville, Fuse to remake Danish comedy for Disney
David Hoberman's Mandeville Films has joined MikkelBondesen's Fuse Entertainment in remaking the Danish romantic comedy OhHappy Day.Heather Hach (Freaky Friday) has been hired to do theEnglish-language rewrite, which will be a co-production between the Walt DisneyPictures label and the original Danish and UK producers at Fine & Mellowand Ugly Duckling, ...
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BVI returns to Serbia and Montenegro
BIV is returningto Serbia and Montenegro a year after Pirates Of The Caribbean wasreleased, in October 2003 by the company's then principal partner Bandur Film.The localdistributor suffered a financial collapse and until this November, BVI had notreleased a single film in the territory.Now, BVI productis to be handled by Taramount ...
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Australian distributors go Christmas shopping
Australian independentdistributors, including Hopscotch, sister companies Dendy and Becker, and MagnaPacific, have been acquiring ever more product lately for their own territoryand New Zealand.DVD distributor MagnaPacific has broken free of the Becker Entertainment Group and is ramping up itstheatrical activities through the all-rights acquisition of up to 12 genrepictures per ...
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Snoop Dogg joins Besson's Arthur
Rapper Snoop Dogg has joinedthe cast of Luc Besson's Euros 65m animated film Arthur and will voicethe role of Max.In an interview with Frenchdaily Le Parisien, Besson said the film, which will be his first directorialeffort since 1999's The Messenger: The Story Of Joan Of Arc, had beenshooting for the ...
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Winslet to star with Jackman in Aardman's Flushed Away
Aardman Animations, the UK animation house behind Chicken Run and DreamWorks SKG's upcoming Wallace & Gromit film, has finally caught its rat. Kate Winslet will play a savvy sewer rat called Rita in Flushed Away, rounding out the main cast on Aardman's next production.Nicole Kidman had been amongst the actresses ...
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Indonesia's Oscars return after 12-year gap
TheCitra awards, Indonesia's equivalent of the Oscars, are back this year for thefirst time since 1992 as part of the Indonesian Film Festival (FFI), organisedby the National Film Supervisory Body (BP2N) with a funding of $66,000 (Rp600m).TheCitra awards are open to films produced from 2000 - 2004. Both Ada Apa ...
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Doc Hollywood Kidz signs Perry to five-year producing deal
Family-oriented LA-based film production outfit DocHollywood Kidz (DHYK) has signed a five-year agreement with filmmaker StevePerry, under which Perry will produce pictures in the $30m-$100m range with thecompany.Perry produced TrueRomance and served asco-producer and executive producer on the entire Lethal Weapon franchise.He shared theDirectors Guild of America's Outstanding Directorial Achievement ...
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Mandela names Bachchan ambassador against AIDS at Yesterday screening
Indian star AmitabhBachchan, whose credits include Aks, Baghban and Hum,has been appointed a special ambassador in the fight against AIDS.Former South Africanpresident Nelson Mandela made the announcement at a screening of South Africa'sofficial foreign language Oscar entry Yesterday at the International Film Festival of India on WorldAIDS Day on Dec ...
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Disney, Pixar move Cars to June 2006
Walt DisneyStudios and Pixar Animation Studios have put back the US release of Cars by seven months to Jun 9 2006,announcing a roster of key international releases to tally with the new summerslot. It was originally set to open in the US on Nov 4 2005.Cars will open through Buena ...
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Ocean's 12 to open Bahamas Film Festival tomorrow
Theinternational premiere of Ocean's Twelve will open the inaugural Bahamas International Film Festival(BIFF) on Dec 9.Steven Soderbergh's picturestars George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Julia Roberts and CatherineZeta-Jones, among others, and opens in the US through Warner Bros on Dec 10."It's an honourfor both the festival and the nation to ...