All Screen articles in 12 May 2005 – Page 3
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Brits on pre-Cannes shopping spree
UK companies picked up several titles from theCannes official selection before today's festival opening.Tartan signed CarlosReygadas' competition entry Battle In Heaven, Kim Ki-Duk's Un Certain Regard entry, The Bow, and Kim Jee-woon's A Bittersweet Life (screening out of competition.)It also took UK rights (excluding TV) to James Marsh's Un Certain ...
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Icon does brisk business with Clear Day
UK sales outfit Icon International has been doing brisk business on therun up to Cannes with Gaby Dellal's On A Clear Day, securing salesto MK2 (France), Degeto/ARD for free TV in Germany as well as wrapping dealswith Portugal (Lusomundo), Israel (Shapira) and Iceland (Skifan.)On A Clear Day, the opening film ...
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Elton John to exec produce It's A Boy Girl Thing
SirElton John is to executive produce high school comedy It's A Boy Girl Thing through his company Rocket Pictures, it was announced this week. "Iabsolutely love this project. The script is hysterical - I can't stop laughingwhenever I read it," the British pop star commented.Directedby Nick Hurran (Little Black Book, ...
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Woo and Wong boost StudioCanal slate
Adding to their big-ticket Wong Kar-wai film A Lady From Shanghai, StudioCanal hascome to Cannes boasting a new collaboration with John Woo and a line-up thatincludes films from RichardGrandpierre and directors Diane Kurys and Xavier Beauvois The studio is also promising a surprise visitfrom Sydney Pollack.Woo, who is also on ...
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Zeitgeist takes US rights to Ballets Russes
New York-based ZeitgeistFilms has picked up all US rights from Geller/Goldfine Productions to DanielGeller and Dayna Goldfine's dance documentary Ballets Russes, which premiered in Sundance.Los Angeles-based sales anddistribution house Lightning Entertainment has acquired international rights onthe picture, announcing key sales to Xanadeux in Japan and Hopscotch Films inAustralia and New ...
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Inarritu's Babel towers into view
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu revealed exclusive details of his latestopus Babel in an interview with Screen from the Morocco set this week. Although he says it is more challenging structurally than AmoresPerros, it has similar themes of 'love and how we deal with it as humanbeings, while on a microscopic level ...
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Von Trier sets aside USA trilogy to renew his Dogme vows
Cannes favourite Lars VonTrier, in competition with the second part of his USA trilogy Manderlay, will shoot aDogme film in February next year before making part three, Wasington, which has nowbeen postponed until 2007.The film, his second Dogmeproduction produced by Trier's Zentropa, has been titled Direktoren For DetHele in Danish ...
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Roeg's sales arm kicks off with Klimt
Independent Film Sales, thesales arm of Luc Roeg's UK production operation Artists Independent Films,arrives at its first Cannes with a trio of films including Klimt, a biopic of the artist starring John Malkovich anddirected by Raoul Ruiz.A European co-productioncurrently in post, Klimt marksthe sales division's first third-party film.Also on the ...
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Lolafilms to sell off sales arm
Spanish producer-distributorLolafilms is restructuring - the company is to sell off a majority holding inits international sales and distribution arm.Founder and CEO AndresVicente Gomez will immediatelyfocus on revving up production on two ambitious Lolafilms biopics.Gomez bought back his companylast year from former majority shareholder Telefonica, and recently closed asale of ...
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Warner Bros snaps up Habana Blues for Latin America
Warner Bros has taken rightsin Latin America to Un Certain Regard closing film Habana Blues.The company boarded the filmat script stage and kept rights in Portugal, Italy and Spain, where it has beenseen by more than 600,000 people since it bowed last month.Pyramide International, whichco-produced the film and has rights ...
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Toronto's January Films signs Dragojevic to direct After
Start-up Toronto production company January Films has signedSerbian director Srdjan Dragojevic (Pretty Village, Pretty Flame) to direct After, a post- World War II dark comedy abouta trio of concentration camp survivors suddenly set loose in war-ravaged Germany.Based on a novel by Melvin Jules Bukiet, with a screenplay byAngus Fraser (Kissed),the ...
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King pledges AFM return for Initial
Graham King assured buyers this week that his InitialEntertainment Group will have a new slate of films on offer for buyers by AFMin Nov, following the news in April that he has signed a first-look deal withWarner Bros. Speaking from the New York City set of Martin Scorsese's TheDeparted, which ...
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German gov't to launch Euros 90m film fund
The German government is tocreate a venture capital fund with a total volume of Euros 90m to support theGerman film industry over the next three years.The funding instrument wasthe result of discussions between a specially convened working group of theFederal Chancellery and the Finance Ministry (ScreenDaily, May 4 2005). Itfollows ...
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Goda's FilmMates hits Croisette with 10 titles
Alan Goda's Los Angeles-basedfinance, production and distribution outfit FilmMates Entertainment is hittingthe Croisette for the first time with 10 titles that feature the likes of SusanSarandon, Jeremy Irons, Jennifer Love Hewitt and Shirley MacClaine. The company plans to finance,produce and release eight to 10 pictures a year budgeted at up ...
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Mindhunters
Dir:Renny Harlin. UK-Neth-Fin-US. 2005. 108mins.Finallyemerging in the US theatrical market after a year or more on the shelf, RennyHarlin's Mindhunters is a serial killer thriller offering a few decentthrills, some fairly gruesome chills and more than its fair share of laughablyoverblown moments.Financierand international seller Intermedia has already reaped revenues from ...
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The Great New Wonderful
Dir. Danny Leiner. US. 2005.89minsThe Great New Wonderful is thetitle but "new" is the only adjective of the three that describes this filmfrom the director of Dude, Where's My Carand Harold And Kumar Go To White Castle.A story that aims to encapsulate the ennui of post-9/11 New York City, itsucceeds ...
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Storm Entertainment takes world for Foolish Things
Michael Heuser's StormEntertainment has picked up worldwide sales rights on Julia Taylor-Stanley's TheseFoolish Things starring TerenceStamp, Lauren Bacall, Anjelica Huston and Joss Ackland.Taylor-Stanley's directorialdebut, which will receive its first market screening at Cannes, is a pre-warstory centring on a young actress' efforts to emulate her mother's glitteringstage career.Taylor-Stanley wrote thescreenplay ...
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Firth, Kingsley enlist in The Last Legion
Colin Firth andBen Kingsley have been cast in Doug Lefler's upcoming Fall of the Roman Empireadventure and Dino De Laurentiis presentation The Last Legion.Martha De Laurentiis and Raffaella De Laurentiis will produce the project inpartnership with Quinta Communications' Tarak Ben Ammar and Britishco-producers Chris Curling and Phil Robertson of Zephyr ...
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Polo, Kilborn, Electra join Nothing But The Truth
Teri Polo, Craig Kilborn andCarmen Elektra have joined Ryan Pinkston on the cast of New Line's upcomingcomedy Nothing But The Truth,which started production in Winnipeg this week.Atmosphere Entertainment and Relativity Media are teaming up on the story abouta habitual liar who is overrun with problems when his tall stories suddenlybecome ...
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By The Pricking Of My Thumbs (Mon Petit Doigt M'a Dit)
Dir: Pascal Thomas. Fr.2005. 105mins.A French adaptation ofAgatha Christie's same-named novel, By The Pricking Of My Thumbs findsthe right balance between silly humour and creepy mystery. Directed by PascalThomas (La Dilettante) and starring Andre Dussolier - best known outsideof France as the unseen narrator of Amelie - and Catherine Frot ...