All Screen articles in 12 May 2006
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Mission accomplished as Paramount, UIP gross $70.3m
Paramount's Mission: Impossible III swept across the international landscapeover the weekend as it grossed an estimated $70.3m from 7,390 sites in 57territories.Combined with the $48m domestic tally, the third instalment in theaction series took $118m worldwide to register the biggest global launch for thefranchise to date.The strength of the result ...
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Mission sequel underperforms domestically with $48m
Paramount's Mission: Impossible III was the runaway winner over the weekendas expected but the estimated $48m three-day total fell far below expectations.JJ Abrams' feature directorial debut averaged $11,872 on anextremely wide 4,054 screens yet didn't take as much as the previous instalmentin 2000, which opened on $57.8m. The 1996 original ...
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Focus acquires Kimmel biopic for US release
Focus Features has picked up domestic rights to Sidney KimmelEntertainment (SKE) and Mark Gordon Company's biopic Talk To Me, starring Don Cheadle and ChiwetelEjiofor.Kimmel International will commence sales at Cannes later thismonth on the true story of Ralph Waldo 'Petey' Green, an outspoken ex-con whobecame an iconic radio personality and ...
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New Films Int'l taps Kessler as business affairs chief
Craig A Kessler has joined Beverly Hills-based New FilmsInternational as vice president of business and legal affairs.Reporting to New Films executive vice president Ron Gell, Kesslerwill be responsible for negotiating production and co-productions for NFI'sexpanding slate.Kessler previously served at Doug Liman's production companyHypnotic, and prior to that he served in ...
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Star backs high-def trio from Hong Kong's Yee
Star Chinese Movies isinvesting in three high-definition films to be executive produced byaward-winning Hong Kong filmmaker Derek Yee.The first of the threefilms, love story Pandora's Booth,started filming last week in Hong Kong. Starring Hong Kong popidols Fiona Sit and Kenny Kwan, the film is directed by Mak Kai-kwong whostarted his ...
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Motocross legend David Bailey to get big screen treatment
Rodney Wilson's Todd Gilmer Productions has secured the liferights to Motocross and Supercross legend David Bailey.Bailey started riding at 10 and went on to win every major pro Motocrossand Supercross event in the early 1980s before he was paralysed in a freakaccident and became a triathlon champion.'Bailey's real life is ...
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Weinstein Co brings Knight Rider to big screen
The Weinstein Company (TWC) is bringing the 1980s hit television seriesKnight Rider to thebig screen after acquiring rights from show creator Glen A Larson.Larson will write the screenplay and serve as executive producer throughGlen A Larson Productions.Knight Rider is a revenge story about a police investigator who survives ashooting and ...
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Blessed By Fire, War Tapes triumph at Tribeca
Tristan Bauer's Argentina-Spain co-production, the wartime drama BlessedBy Fire won the bestnarrative feature at the fifth annual Tribeca Film Festival, which endedyesterday, while Deborah Scranton's War Tapes won the documentary award.Jurgen Vogel won best actor in a narrative feature for Germany's FreeWill and the CzechRepublic's Eva Holubov won corresponding best ...
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Umizaru sequel floods Japanese box office
Japanese action title Umizaru 2: Test Of Trust, about a teamof coast guard divers, has scored the biggest opening of the year for adomestic film with a gross of $8.64m (Y964m) over the two-day weekend (May6-7).Produced by Fuji TV anddistributed by Toho, the film opened on 315 screens for an ...
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Perlman, Rea, Furmann join cast of Mutant Chronicles
Ron Perlman, Stephen Rea and Benno Furmann have joined JohnMalkovich and Thomas Jane in Ed Pressman's upcoming sci-fi project TheMutant Chronicles.Pressman Film Corp, Grosvenor Park and Isle Of Man Filmfinanced the project and Voltage Pictures is handling international sales atCannes.Shooting is set to begin this summer in London and the ...
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Weitz returns to directing chair on New Line's Compass
Anand Tucker has exited the job of directing New Line's children'sfantasy epic The Golden Compass, and he has been replaced by the project's original directorChris Weitz.Weitz relinquished his director's role in December 2004 citingtechnical challenges but stayed on as screenwriter.Now he gets a second bite of the cherry following the ...
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Hopkins' Dead Sheep wins international prize at Hot Docs
The awards for the 2006 Hot Docs Canadian InternationalDocumentary Festival were handed out in Toronto on May 5, with best Canadian documentarygoing to Shelley Saywell's Martyr Street.Best International Documentary went to Ben Hopkins' UK title 37Uses For A Dead Sheep,while best documentary short was awarded to Ibtisam Ma'arana's Badal from ...
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States and Stories take top prizes at Korea's Jeonju festival
Canadian director DenisCote's Drifting States and Stories From The North, from Thaidirector Uruphong Raksasad, picked up the top prizes at South Korea's Jeonju InternationalFilm Festival (April 27 - May 5).Drifting States was awarded the Indie Vision Woosuk Award for films by first andsecond-time directors while documentary StoriesFrom The North took ...
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Over The Hedge
Dirs: Tim Johnson, KareyKirkpatrick. US. 2006. 87mins.Cute animals and energetic slapstick make up for anoverly generic storyline in Over The Hedge, DreamWorks Animation's entry in this year'scrowded field of computer-animated family movies. Younger kids should certainlyrespond to the impressively realised creatures and the rambunctious physicalcomedy, but teens and parents (even ...
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StudioCanal slate includes two from Wong Kar-wai
StudioCanal is heading to the CannesMarket with a line up that includes two films from Cannes jury president WongKar-wai along with the latest from Mathieu Kassovitz, Emir Kusturica andDavid Lynch and a sentimental documentary about a year in the lives of newbornbabies.Along with the previously announced Lady From Shanghai, which ...
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Sokurov to receive Locarno's Leopard of Honour
Locarno Film Festival's Leopard of Honour will be awarded inthe first edition under the new artistic director Frederic Maireto the Russian master Alexander Sokurov.Sokurov has a special fondness for the Swiss festival sincehis first film The Lonely Human Voice wasawarded the Bronze Leopard there in 1987 and, ten years later, ...
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FilmFour gets on board for first Screenwriters Festival
The firstInternational Screenwriters' Festival, to be held in the UK from June 27-30, has added FilmFour as one of its sponsors. Supportersof the inaugural event, to be held at Cheltenham Film Studios in the Cotswolds,include Gosford Park writer Julian Fellowes, Gladiator writer Bill Nicholson and Stoned director Stephen Woolley. Thefestival ...
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Lumina's Panic Attack label to represent thriller Reverb
London-based sales company Lumina Films will be handlingthe worldwide rights (including UK) for supernatural thriller Reverb.The film is being handled by Lumina's thriller label PanicAttack.Reverb stars rising UK actors Leo Gregory, Eva Birthistle, Margo Stilley andLuke de Woolfson. The project is in post-production,eyeing an autumn festival launch.The film centres on ...
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Shaun Woodward named new film minister in UK
The UK has a new film minister as Shaun Woodward has beennamed the new Creative Industries and Tourism Minister, replacing James Purnell. After his Labour partydidn't fare well in last week's local elections, Prime Minister Tony Blair madesignificant shifts among government leaders. As part of the changes, Purnell was moved ...
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Lithuanian Film Studios moves into financing
Lithuanian Film Studios has announced a long-termcommitment to co-finance select projects that are produced at its studio. To launch the new strategy, the studio has partneredwith Los Angeles-based Little Film Company to finance, produce and distribute theaction thriller War of the Dead. Finnish director Marko Makilaaksowill start shooting the film ...