All Screen articles in 12 May 2004

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    Reda strikes out with Purple Pictures

    2004-05-12T04:00:00Z

    Hadeel Reda, the formerpresident of Winchester Films, has struck out on her own with a new LA-basedfilm production and financing outfit called Purple Pictures.Reda has secured adevelopment and overhead fund from private European equity investors and optionedthree youth-driven genre projects led by horror thriller The Fearwritten by Eduardo Carrillo and ...

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    John Woo kicks off UNICEF project

    2004-05-12T04:00:00Z

    LA-based director John Woois to visit the Croisette for the first time on Saturday as part of aninternational film-making project for the Children's relief agency UNICEF.The Hong Kong director of Paycheckwill travel to Cannes to announce a charity film he'll be making with festivalcompetitor Emir Kusturica, actress Maria Grazia Cucinotta, ...

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    Gilliam's Tideland rolls into HanWay

    2004-05-12T04:00:00Z

    Terry Gilliam is set toshoot Tideland, his adaptation of Mitch Cullin's southern gothic novel,for the company, with Jeremy Thomas producing. Financing has come together inthe last few months, with the project re-configured as a UK-Canadianco-production.The filmmakers hadoriginally aimed to shoot in Texas but principle photography is set to startthis year ...

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    Waiting for Lions Gate

    2004-05-12T04:00:00Z

    Lions Gate FilmsInternational has acquired international rights to twentysomething comedy Waitingwhich marks the directorial debut of screenwriter Rob McKittrick whose creditsinclude Son Of The Mask.The film follows a day inthe life of arrested adolescent roommates Monty and Dean as they negotiate thetreacherous terrain of girls, booze and weed while working ...

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    Fortissimo returns to roots with Hong Kong trio

    2004-05-12T04:00:00Z

    Leading art-house seller Fortissimo is returning to itsroots with the pick-up of three pictures from Hong Kong.Top of the list is Jiang Hu, a gangland epic which isalready benefiting from renewed interest in the genre following InfernalAffairs and has gone on to become one of the big hits of 2004. ...

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    Richard E Grant's Wah-Wah set for summer shoot

    2004-05-12T04:00:00Z

    British actorRichard E Grant is set to start shooting his long-gestating debut as awriter-director, Wah-Wah.Theautobiographical tale of growing up in South Africa is expected to starNicholas Hoult from About A Boy as the young Grant. Also likely to appearare Emily Watson and Miranda Richardson.UK-based salesoutfit The Works is understood to ...

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    UK finds new development cash

    2004-05-12T04:00:00Z

    In an innovativeuse of UK tax funding, Civilian Content, the publicly-listed parent of salesoperation The Works, has secured development financing through a joint venturewith financing outfit SureFire.Projects set tobenefit from the deal include River Queen, an epic New Zealand-setadventure expected to star Samantha Morton. Civilian chief Chris Auty and DonReynolds ...

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    Politics colours Cannes

    2004-05-12T04:00:00Z

    Even if everything passes off peacefully this year's festival, as a result of a rapprochement with striking arts workers, Cannes will still be shaped by the invasive effects of politics - global politics, politics of the workplace and political films.Indeed, industry politics was already charged at a high-powered colloquium on ...

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    Politics colours Cannes

    2004-05-12T04:00:00Z

    Even if everything passes off peacefully this year's festival, as a result of a rapprochement with striking arts workers, Cannes will still be shaped by the invasive effects of politics - global politics, politics of the workplace and political films.Indeed, industry politics was already charged at a high-powered colloquium on ...

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    Europa brings high-profile titles to Cannes

    2004-05-12T04:00:00Z

    Luc Besson and Pierre-Ange Le Pogam's French mini-majorEuropaCorp enters the festival with a slew of hot titles ranging from thenewest Guy Ritchie to the first instalment of its latest franchise.Ritchie, of Snatch and Lock, Stock And Two SmokingBarrels fame returns to similar territory with Revolver. The $20mfilm - a sophisticated ...

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    Hussein body double in Cannes to tout lifestory

    2004-05-12T04:00:00Z

    Latif Yuhia, the man who wasforced to be the body double of Saddam Hussein's son Uday will arrive in Cannesthis weekend in a bulletproof Mercedes that he recently bought from the UK'sQueen Elizabeth.UK-based Yuhia will be intown to promote a film adaptation of his life which is to be produced ...

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    European film export body names directors

    2004-05-12T04:00:00Z

    Film sellers' trade body, the European Film ExportAssociation (EFEA) has elected a new board of directors that gives theorganisation a much more international outlook.New board members include Angus Finney of the UK'sRenaissance Films, Annakarin Strom of Denmark's Trust, Thorsten Schaumann ofGermany's Bavaria, Pascal Diot of France's Onoma International and KevinWilliams ...

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    Japanese play with Ouija Board

    2004-05-12T04:00:00Z

    South Korean sales company Mirovision has clinched thelargest ever pre-sale for a Korean film with the Buena Vista-financed horrortitle Bunshinsaba - Ouija Board.Distributor Happinet Pictures bought Japanese rightsto the film for a $3m minimum guarantee, which ranks among the highest figuresever paid for a Korean film.OuijaBoard is the second Korean ...

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    Summit takes over Myriad's Being Julia

    2004-05-12T04:00:00Z

    Summit Entertainment is taking over sales duties fromMyriad Pictures on Istvan Szabo's Being Julia starring Annette Bening.The deal is being done between Summit and the film's production companySerendipity Point run by Robert Lantos. Summit previously handled SerendipityPoint's The Statement.Myriad chief executive Kirk D'Amico had no comment yesterday, butSummit's CEO Patrick ...

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    Funny Balloons takes Critics' Week title

    2004-05-12T04:00:00Z

    New French sales outfitFunny Balloons has picked up international rights to Critics' Week title TemporadaDe Patos.The Mexican film was writtenand directed by Fernando Eimbcke and took seven prizes at the Guadalajara FilmFestival earlier this year including Best Picture, Best Director, BestScreenplay and the top acting awards.Produced by ChristianValdelievre for Cinepantera ...

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    Intermedia bags Baghdad Blog

    2004-05-12T04:00:00Z

    Intermedia has bought film rights to Baghdad Blog, the bookof a weblog written by a 29 year-old Iraqi calling himself Salam Pax aboutdaily life in Baghdad before and after the invasion.Salam Pax has written his own column in The Guardian newspaper inthe UK and has become popular there with his ...

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    Momentum, Aurum love The Dark

    2004-05-12T04:00:00Z

    UK distributor MomentumPictures and its new sister company Aurum Producciones in Spain have made theirfirst joint acquisition, taking rights in the UK and Spain to Impact Pictures'horror movie The Dark starring Sean Bean and Maria Bello from SummitEntertainment.Momentum and Aurum teamed upwhen Momentum's parent company, Canada's Alliance Atlantis, closed a ...

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    Architect builds on sales

    2004-05-12T04:00:00Z

    Andrew Herwitz's The FilmSales Company has closed deals for Oscar-nominated documentary My Architectwith Gaga in Japan, Academy Films in Germany, Austria and German-speakingSwitzerland and Films Sans Frontiers in France and French-speaking Switzerland.The film, which is the storyof legendary US architect Louis I Kahn from the point of view of hisillegitimate ...

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    Cinema Service strikes Arahan deals

    2004-05-12T04:00:00Z

    South Korean major Cinema Service is reporting strong sales of itscontemporary martial arts film Arahan.Arahan, about a youngman and woman who harness their ch'i powers to fight an evil adversary, becamethe second Korean film to be picked up by Universal Japan.South African-based Distant Horizon has also signed a contract torepresent ...

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    Aishwariya Rai outlines World vision

    2004-05-12T04:00:00Z

    Indian cinema's highest paid actress and former Miss WorldAishwariya Rai is to star in Roland Joffe's next film Singularityalongside Brendan Fraser.The film, previously titled The Invaders and with areported budget of $40m, revolves around the first battle between Englishinvaders and the Maratha dynasty from Western India. It begins shooting inSeptember ...