All Screen articles in 12 May 2007 – Page 5
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Sheffield Doc/Fest and Unexpected Media start documentary lab
The Sheffield Doc/Fest and Unexpected Media, with support from the BBC, London Development Agency and Screen Yorkshire, are starting a new initiative to support new documentary projects. The Crossover UK programme, a five-day residential lab will work with documentary makers, new media producers and video games developers form Yorkshire and ...
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Mandarin finds Tsui Hark's Missing on Cannes slate
Hong Kong 's Mandarin Films Distribution has added the latest picture from Tsui Hark, romantic thriller Missing, to its Cannes slate. The film features a hot cast of young Asian actors including Lee Sin-je, Isabella Leong, Chang Chen and rising Chinese star Guo Xiao Dong. Produced, directed and written by ...
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Wild Bunch's new titles include $47m Mr. Nobody with Sarah Polley
With six films spread throughout the official selection, Critics Week and Un Certain Regard, Wild Bunch is also presenting a packed line-up at the Cannes Market. In selection are Cristian Mungiu's 4 Months, 3 Weeks And 2 Days in the main competition, Abel Ferrara's out-of-competition Go Go Tales, Juan Antonio ...
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Robert Forster joins the cast of Fried's Fire Bay
Robert Forster has joined Kuno Becker on the cast of Randall Fried's Bay Of Pigs drama Fire Bay, which is set to begin shooting on Jul 16 in Mexico.Fried's Los Angeles-based DragonFire Films will produce with Structured Capital Group Inc from New York City. Hector Lopez and Tony Mark are ...
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Sony Acquisitions Group signs pact with Inferno
Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group (SPWAG) has signed a multi-year, co-financing and domestic distribution deal for all-media rights to films produced by Inferno Distribution.The non-exclusive agreement is structured as a first-look deal that effectively turns Inferno into a producer on certain projects for the studio with the ability to sell ...
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Wind Dancer names first two thrillers from development fund
US-based Wind Dancer Films has announced the first two thrillers from its recently established development fund.Crescendo is based on a story by Wind Dancer's Matt Williams and will be written by Andrew Klavan and centres on a traumatised concert violinist plagued by visions of her late father.House Of War is ...
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2929 takes on international sales to Gracie
2929 International will commence sales in Cannes on Davis Guggenheim's true-life drama Gracie based on a tragedy that struck the family of actress Elisabeth Shue.Set in 1978, Gracie tells the story of a 16-year-old girl who won the right to play competitive football on her high school boy's team after ...
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Screen Media Ventures to sell three at AFM
New York-based distributor Screen Media will introduce three new theatrical projects to buyers in Cannes through its new sales arm Screen Media Ventures.Walker Payne is a small-town drama about a man forced to make heart-breaking choices to save his two daughters and stars Judd Payne, Jason Patric and Sam Shepard.Matt ...
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Screen Gems picks up spoof script Armageddagain
Screen Gems has picked up Robert Moniot's upcoming comedy spoof Armageddagain: The Day Before Tomorrow.Production is scheduled to begin in August and Screen Gems will release in 2008. Screen Gems' Michael Helfand negotiated the deal with Moniot's agents at ICM.Noah Emmerich makes his major producing debut through Sandbox Entertainment, alongside ...
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Talk To Me to open Los Angeles Film Festival
Talk To Me, Kasi Lemmons' biopic of radio DJ Ralph Waldo Greene, and Danny Boyle's Sunshine bookend the 2007 Los Angeles Film Festival, which will screen more than 230 features, shorts and music videos between Jun 21 and Jul 1.The eight narrative competition entries will vie for a $50,000 unrestricted ...
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WBITD signs Hong Kong VOD deal with ViDeOnline
Warner Bros International Television Distribution has signed a multi-year video-on-demand and subscription video-on-demand deal with ViDeOnline Communications for the Hong Kong rights to current features and library titles.The agreement will initially cover more than 100 Warner Bros titles that ViDeOnline will offer for download through its recently launched 08Media portal.Films ...
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Capitol strikes UK , Australian deal with Lionsgate for The Edge Of Love
Lionsgate has taken UK and Australian rights to John Maybury's The Edge Of Love, previously known as The Best Time Of Our Lives. Capitol Films is handling sales on the project, which is starting principal photography this week. The film is shooting in Wales before moving to London and Pinewood ...
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CORRECTION: Alma selling Honore's The Love Songs
Christophe Honore's Cannes 2007 competition film, The Love Songs (Les Chansons d'Amour), is being sold internationally by Alma Films, not Gemini. The contact was incorrectly reported in our April 27, 2007 weekly edition.The number for Alma Films is +33 (6) 72 97 31 90.
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The Unknown leads Italy's Donatello award nominations
Giuseppe Tornatore's noir The Unknown (La Sconosciuta) leads the nominees for Italy's top film honors, the David of Donatello awards which are in their 51st edition this year. The film scored 12 nods. Emanuele Crialese's immigration-themed film The Golden Door (Nuovomondo) (recently presented at the Tribeca Film Festival by Martin ...
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Bavaria Film International picks up Certain Regard title from Uruguay
Bavaria Film International has picked up the international rights for the tragicomedy The Pope's Toilet (El Bano Del Papa) which will be screening in the Un Certain Regard sidebar at Cannes. The co-production between Uruguay's Laroux Cine, France's Chaya Films and Brazil's o2 Filmes is the directorial debut of Oscar-nominated ...
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Film4 signs on as headline sponsor for UK's FrightFest
Film4 has signed on to become the headline sponsor of the UK's FrightFest for two years. The horror and fantasy film festival runs for five days at London's Odeon West End, from Aug 23-28. During its eighth year, the festival will present more than 30 films. The deal includes a ...
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Walter Salles to serve as patron for Cannes Europe Day
Brazilian filmmaker Walter Salles will act as patron for the 2007 edition of Europe Day at this year's Cannes Film Festival.This year marks the fifth year that European Union culture and audio visual ministers will convene in Cannes to discuss issues currently facing the industry. The ministers will meet this ...
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The Matrimony (Xin Zhong You Gui)
Dir: Teng Huatao. Chi. 2007. 90mins.Produced by the brothers Wang - China's answer to the Weinsteins - and released in Mainland China on Valentine's Day, The Matrimony was just pipped to the post by Li Shaohong's The Door (which hit cinemas on 18 January) for the title of 'China's first ...
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You Kill Me
Dir: John Dahl. US. 2007. 90mins. A return to form of sorts for John Dahl after his epic World War Two flop The Great Raid, You Kill Me is a short, sharp, mordant little mob comedy about a Buffalo hitman on hiaitus from killing in San Francisco and trying to ...
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Charlie Bartlett
Dir: Jon Poll. US. 2007. 97mins.Jon Poll, an established editor with credits including the Austin Powers and Meet The Parents films, makes a commendable directorial debut with Charlie Bartlett, a high-school comedy which sits in the same class of wry, deadpan movies as Rushmore, Election and Saved!. Sunnier and more ...