All Screen articles in 12 May 2006 – Page 5
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Hopkins and Dunoyer launch Griot with Chevalier and Minion
Thomas Hopkins andproducing partner Tony Dunoyer haveformed New York and LosAngeles-based production anddevelopment company GriotPictures Entertainment (GPE) andhave announced their first two projects.Period drama Chevalier takesplace in pre-RevolutionaryFrance and charts the real-lifeexploits of fencing and musical maestro Chevalier de Saint George, who becamea hero during the Revolution. Paris Qualles Winnerwrote ...
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Tartan gets UK rights to Re-Cycle and Look Both Ways
TartanFilms has taken all UK and Ireland rights totwo selections at Cannes 2006, the Pang Brothers' Re-Cycle from Thailand andSarah Watt's Look Both Ways from Australia. TartanFilms acquired rights to Re-Cycle,written and directed by Oxide and Danny Pang, from Universe Films Distribution.Tartan Films owner Hamish McAlpine pre-bought thefilm at script ...
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Spanish court slaps $15m in fines on major distributors
A Spanish court has handeddown fines of $3.2m (Euros 2.4m) each on five multinational distributorsaccused of price fixing and otheranti-competitive practices in Spain.The decision, affectingDisney/Buena Vista, Sony Pictures, Hispano Fox, UIP and the now defunct jointventure Warner Sogefilms, puts an end to a caseinitiated more than three years ago by ...
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Screen Yorkshire gets record $18.7m in funding
Screen Yorkshire, one of the UK's regional screen agencies, announced that it hasreceived a record $18.7m (£10m) in funding over the next four years fromregional development agency Yorkshire Forward. That compares to the $8.4m (£4.5m)over three years that Yorkshire Forward awarded the film agency in 2003. Screen Yorkshire said the ...
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New Writers' Circle recruits UK writers including Toby Young
UK organisations The Script Factory and Skillset have announced the firstnine members of their new Writers' Circle initiative. The scheme aims to helpparticipants segue from another writing arena to become screenwriters. More than 500 peopleapplied, and the nine selected are: playwright/journalist Toby Young, authorMeg Rossof, playwright Moira Buffini, TV writer ...
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FACB founder Rob Fisher dies in Sydney
Today was a black day forthe Australian film industry with the death last night of Rob Fisher, thefounding chief executive of one of only two long-standing completion bondcompanies in the country.Fisher was known as astraight shooter and was very popular. He was a watchdog at the financial endof what is ...
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SCB pacts with Kong for Golden Flower financing
Standard Chartered Bank (Hong Kong) has signed an agreement with award-winning local producer Bill Kong toprovide financing for the production of Zhang Yimou's Curse Of The Golden Flower. Currently shooting at China's Hengdian World Studios, the $45m film is producedby Kong and Beijing New Picture Film Co with Focus Features ...
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Newmarket takes Sundance winner God Grew Tired Of Us
Newmarket Films haspicked up North American rights to Christopher Quinn's Sundance DocumentaryGrand Jury Prize and Audience Award winner God Grew Tired Of Us.The distributor plans an autumn release on the picture, which profiles theodyssey of three refugees from Sudan's civil war as they try to establish a newlife in the ...
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Just My Luck
Dir: Donald Petrie. US.2006. 103mins.Apparently designed to help teen queen Lindsay Lohan, Just My Luck ends up feeling like a teenromantic comedy not very convincingly dressed in adult clothes. Lohan's existing fan-base may still respond to the mix oflifestyle aspiration and fairy-tale romance, and the appearance of real-lifepop-rock group McFly ...
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M:I:3 set to fly past $100m as Da Vinci Code looms
Mission: Impossible 3 will soar past $100m this weekend as it consolidatesits grip on the international marketplace.The action picture stood at more than $83.1m as of May 11 and Paramount and UIPexecutives know this is a key time for consolidation.Next weekend sees the global launch of The Da Vinci Code ...
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The Little Film Company adds eclectic trio to Cannes slate
Robbie and EllenLittle's Los Angeles-based worldwide sales and marketing house The Little FilmCompany has bulked up its Cannes slate with worldwide rights to three projectsin pre-production.Sean Mathias' multi-layered political drama The Colossus based on Ann Harries' novel Manly Pursuits is being produced by Lisa Katselas.Thriller Ghost Maker is writtenand will ...
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Prime becomes Ireland's first digital film release
Ireland's Digital Cinema Limited(DCL) is working with distributor Momentum Pictures to handle Ireland's first digital film release.Momentum'sPrime will open today on the firstdigital print screening in the country. "Weare delighted, in association with Momentum Pictures, to release the movie Prime digitally," said Kevin Cummins,director of operations at DCL. "This release ...
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New Films doses up on Caffeine for Cannes
Beverly Hills-based NewFilms International (NFI) has picked up international rights to John Cosgrove'sensemble comedy Caffeine and will commence sales at Cannes next week.Mena Suvari, Marsha Thomason, Katherine Heigl, Mike Vogel and Breckin Meyerstar in the story of sex, fidelity and forgiveness.John Cosgrove's feature directorial debut is based on a screenplay ...
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Relativity sets up Gun Hill Road II co-financing with Sony, Universal
Relativity Media hasestablished Gun Hill Road II, an independent co-financing package that providesdiscrete and separate funds for both Sony Pictures Entertainment and UniversalPictures. The arrangement willprovide production funds for a total of 19 features, 11 from Sony and nine fromUniversal, one of which is a co-production between the ...
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Relativity sets up Gun Hill Road II co-financing with Sony, Universal
Relativity Media has establishedGun Hill Road II, an independent co-financing package that provides discreteand separate funds for both Sony Pictures Entertainment and Universal Pictures.The arrangement will provide production funds for a total of 19 features, 11from Sony and nine from Universal, one of which is a co-production between thetwo.The pictures ...
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Relativity Media fires up Gun Hill Road package
Relativity Media has established Gun Hill Road II, an independent co-financingpackage that provides discrete funds for both Sony Pictures Entertainment and Universal Pictures.Thearrangement will provide production funds for 19 features, 11 from Sony andnine from Universal, one of which is a co-production between the two.Thepictures are planned for release at ...
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Cannes announces final juries for Un Certain Regard and Camera d'Or
Cannes festivalorganizers have announced the final compositions of the juries for the UnCertain Regard and Camera d'Or juries.As previously announced US director and producer Monte Hellman will preside over the Un Certain Regard jury joinedby Iranian author Marjane Satrapi,American journalist Laura Winters, Italian journalist Maurizio Cabon, French journalist Jean-Pierre Lavoignatand ...
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Act, Knatchbull acquire UK distributor Artificial Eye
In a further shake-up to the UK distribution market,Artificial Eye Film Company, for 30 years the UK's leading distributor of arthouse and foreign language films, has been acquired byAct Entertainment Group, owner of Curzon Cinemas, andKnatchbull Communications Group.Terms of the acquisition were not released.The deal comes just as Artificial Eye ...
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Eurimages backs nine new European co-productions
Eurimages, the Council of Europe's film fund, has announced aslate of nine films to receive its latest round of support. Eurimageswill back the European co-productions with a total investment of $3.6m (Euros2.8m). The films are:Noemie Lvovsky's L'ami de Fred Astaire (France-Switzerland) Eric Rohmer's Les amours d'Astree et de Celadon(France-Spain-Italy)Sinisa Dragin's ...
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Verhoeven on board for adaptation of Kneeling on a flowerbed of violets
Paul Verhoevenhas taken on a new directing job in the Netherlands. Joining forces with the Dutch production company NLFilm & TV, Verhoeven will adapt the awarded Dutchnovel Kneeling on a flowerbed of violets (Knielenop een bed violen) forthe big screen.The project reunites Verhoeven and long-term collaborating writer Gerard Soeteman, who ...
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