All Screen articles in 12 May 2007 – Page 4
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Pellington to direct Henry Poole Is Here for Lakeshore
Los Angeles-based Lakeshore Entertainment is teaming up for the fourth time with director Mark Pellington on the drama Henry Poole Is Here starring Luke Wilson.Joint senior vice presidents of international sales Jonathan Deckter and Elisabeth Costa De Beauregard will begin sales in Cannes next week on the story of a ...
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Son Of Rambow to open Seattle Film Festival
The 33rd Annual Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF) will kick off with Garth Jennings' coming-of-age drama Son Of Rambow and close with the North American premiere of Laurent Tirard's period comedy Moliere.All in all 405 features will screen during the May 24-Jun 17 festival. Events include the new Planet Cinema ...
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Cotter's Continental signs option to board non-Warner Initial films
Continental Pictures, Colin Cotter's recently announced financing and sales company, has signed a deal with Initial Entertainment Group, in which Cotter is still a partner, whereby Continental will have the option to board Initial projects not taken up by Warner Bros under its first-look studio deal.Continental is Cotter's new initiative ...
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Little, Lightning team up to sell Fan-Demanium
Los Angeles-based sales and distribution companies Lightning Entertainment and The Little Film Company have jointly acquired international sales rights to football documentary Fan-Demanium.The parties will commence sales at Cannes next week on the project, which shot during the 2006 World Cup in Germany and follows 10 fans from around the ...
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Ocean's Thirteen to open ninth annual CineVegas
The ninth annual CineVegas Film Festival that runs in Las Vegas from Jun 6-16 will open with Ocean's Thirteen following the film's out of competition screening in Cannes.Ocean's Thirteen producer Jerry Weintraub will be presented with the Vanguard Producer Award during the opening night festivities at the Palms Casino, the ...
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Venice to celebrate 75th with tribute to Kluge
The Venice Film Festival will celebrate its Jubilee in 2007 - 75 years since it's founding - on August 6, 1932 on the Lido of Venice.As the world's oldest film festival, Venice will mark the jubilee with an event dedicated to Alexander Kluge, the German director (also 75 years old), ...
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Smart joins Malloy in swing dance romance Love N Dancing
Amy Smart will join Tom Malloy and a cast of swing dancing champions in Trick Candle Productions and Dolger Films' West Coast swing dance romance Love N' Dancing.Robert Iscove will direct from a screenplay by Malloy about a bored English teacher and her swing dancing instructor who fall in love ...
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Sundance Channel takes Film Movement's Man
North American distributor Film Movement has licensed Jose Henrique Fonseca's Brazilian crime caper Man Of The Year (O Homem Do Ano) to the Sundance Channel.Man Of The Year tells the story of an ordinary person who is propelled into destiny after the seemingly innocuous act of dying his hair blond.Murilo ...
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GSFI gets Expired for worldwide sales
GreeneStreet Films International (GSFI) will arrive in Cannes buoyed by the acquisition of worldwide rights to Cecilia Miniucchi's Critics Week romantic comedy Expired.Sales chief Ariel Veneziano will introduce to the project to buyers at the market next week. Expired stars Samantha Morton and Jason Patric as diametrically opposed characters who ...
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Films from Reygadas and Aguilera top Bac's Cannes slate
Continuing its move into international sales, Bac Films is coming to Cannes this year with Silent Light in competition, La Influencia in the Fortnight and a stream of new offerings. The sales arm of Bac Films will be selling Carlos Reygadas' Silent Light; a love story set in Mexico. Reygadas' ...
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Constantin signs first-look deal with Little Shark
Germany's leading producer-distributor Constantin Film, who took six Lolas home last weekend for Tom Tykwer's Perfume - The Story Of A Murderer, has concluded a three-year first-look deal with the Cologne-based production outfit of Sonke Wortmann and Tom Spiess. The aim of the collaboration is the development, production and exploitation ...
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Arts Alliance enters US market with acquisition of Hart Sharp
London-based Arts Alliance Media has expanded into the US with the acquisition of New York-based Hart Sharp Video. Hart Sharp develops, acquires, markets and distributes films for home video, DVD and digital platforms. Past releases include Super Size Me! The deal, announced by AAM CEO Howard Kiedaisch and Hart Sharp ...
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International delegates at Tribeca see room for growth
Proximity to Cannes is still an issue, say international attendees, but those who attended found it a useful pre-Cannes meeting point and appreciated the 75 world premieres in the programme. Wendy Mitchell reports...The Tribeca Film Festival has clearly stated that one of its aims is to increase the presence of ...
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Government greenlights new Palazzo del Cinema for Venice
Venice will finally get a new Palazzo del Cinema. The project - a long standing and contentious issue - finally got the rubber stamp today when Italy's culture minister Francesco Rutelli signed an agreement with Venice's Mayor Massimo Cacciari and the President of the Veneto Region Giancarlo Galan ratifying the ...
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Fortissimo takes on Mexican Critics Week selection Bad Habits
Fortissimo Films has taken worldwide rights outside the Americas to Bad Habits (Malos Habitos), screening as part of Cannes Critics' Week. Simon Bross' feature won best film in the Mexican section at the 22nd Guadalajara International Film Festival. The story follows a family with diverse eating disorders. Ximena Ayala, Elena ...
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Moviehouse takes on sales for Harman's feature debut Credo
UK-based sales company Moviehouse Entertainment has come on board for sales of Credo, the first feature from Alto Films (produced in association with Axis Films). Director Toni Harman makes her feature debut with the psycholoigcal horror film about five students squatting in an abandoned London building who find out they ...
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New York's LaSalleHolland restructures as Sweet 180
New York-based management and production company LaSalleHolland has been restructured and renamed as Sweet 180. Company president Lillian LaSalle said: 'I restructured the company to accommodate a smaller but more prestigious client list. I'm excited about our new partnerships within the industry and I feel the new name reflects the ...
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Norway's Paradox establishes closer ties with distributor Scanbox
Norway 's leading production house, Oslo-based Paradox Film, has tied up closely with Scanbox Entertainment, after the pan-Scandinavian distributor has purchased a stake in parent company Paradox Holding. The deal will extend the working relationship between Paradox and Scanbox, which have been associated since 2002, both in domestic distribution and ...
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Horton and Ashton join UK's Men-from-Mars
Visual effects company Men-from-Mars has expanded its team by hiring Tom horton in a senior producing role in the management team. Horton had been managing director and head of VFX at several post companies in London, Singapore and Australia. Also, senior VFX line producer Paul Bearch has been promoted to ...
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Reviews
28 Weeks Later
Dir: Juan Carlos Fresnadillo. UK-US-Sp. 2007. 100mins. 28 Weeks Later is superior genre fare, directed and performed with such gusto that you scarcely notice its creaks. Atmospheric and creepy production design, excellent use of London locations and a succession of bloodcurdling chase sequences keep the tempo high, even as the ...