All Screen articles in 12 October 2006 – Page 2
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Cronenberg dominates Directors Guild Of Canada awards
David Cronenberg's AHistory Of Violence was the bigwinner at the 2006 Directors Guild of Canada Awards, winning the prize for allbut one of the feature film categories for which it was eligible, includingOutstanding Achievement in Direction, Team Achievement, Sound Editing andPicture Editing. Phillip Barker won the prizefor Oustanding Achievement in ...
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Daniel Thomas and Sue Milford join new Film Agency For Wales
The new Film Agency for Wales has tapped Daniel Thomas and Sue Milford for itsmanagement team.Working with previouslyannounced chief executive Pauline Burt, Thomas will serve as audiencedevelopment manager. He previously worked with UGC and Southwest Scotland on behalf of Scottish Screen.Milford has been named finance manager. She has worked withvarious ...
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IFC, TWC jointly acquire North American rights to Penelope
IFC Films and The WeinsteinCompany (TWC) have jointly acquired North American rights to Mark Palansky'sfantasy drama Penelope, which receivedits world premiere at Toronto last month.IFC Films will take the leadon the US theatrical distribution and TWC will handle home video andtelevision. Hyde Park is handling international sales.Leslie Caveny wrote thescreenplay ...
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Prada continues to lead international pack with $22.7m
Once again Fox International's The Devil Wears Prada dominated the overseas arena as thecomedy grossed an estimated $22.7m from 4,250 screens to raise its tally to$75.5m.Four muscular launches drove the result, led by a $3.7mnumber one Italian haul on 437 screens, and $4.4m from 575 German screens forsecond place.Prada opened ...
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Grudge 2 tops strong weekend at North America box office
Sony registered its 12th number one release of the year as horrorsequel The Grudge 2 launchedon an estimated $22m.The supernatural tale of a rage-inducing curse stars AmberTamblyn and features a cameo by the original's leading lady Sarah MichelleGellar. Overall box office annihilated the same weekend last year,rising 41% as the ...
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UK piracy operation leads to 10 arrests
Following an undercoveroperation of house raids in North Wales, Cheshire, and Wirral early Oct 15,ten people were arrested for piracy-related crimes in the UK.This operation, codenamed"Buzzard," was a mission to expose merchants who claim benefits while makingmoney selling pirate DVDs to shoppers at Greenfield Market in Flintshire. Themulti-agency task force, ...
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German films claim top prizes at Sitges
Two German films, Hans-Christian Schmid's Requiem and Martin Weisz's Butterfly-AGrimm Love Story (Rohtenburg), split most of the top prizes at the 39th edition of thegenre International Film Festival of Catalunya (Oct 6-15), better known as Sitges.Requiem, the story of a woman's dramatic spiral downward,took home the official fantastic competition's best ...
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Sellers predict Rome can help wrap-up autumn deals
As sales companies and buyers go terrace hopping in Rome thequestion on everyone's mind is will Rome's inaugural Business Street (Oct14-16) catch on' Turnout atop Hotel Bernini's terrazza - one of the ViaVeneto hubs for the 160 buyers and 50 sales companies at the market was full ofindustry regulars who ...
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Scorsese talks budgets and restorations in Rome
As his latest film The Departed screened at the inaugural Rome FilmFest, Martin Scorsese denied talk that the film would be his last big-budgetproject. Scorsesesaid that although his next film, the Japanese-themed Silence based on the book by Shusako Endo will have a lowerbudget, he wouldn't rule again directing films ...
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Warsaw jury goes euphoric for Vyrypaev's debut
Russian dramatist Ivan Vyrypaev's feature film debut Euphoria was the winner of the Grand Prix inthe New Films, New Directors competition at this year's Warsaw InternationalFilmFest. Announcing the winner at the awards ceremony on Saturdayevening, jury president Petr Zelenka said that the choice of the drama about alove triangle on ...
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Small screen trends go even smaller at 2006 Mipcom
The buzzwords at this year's Mipcom television market (Oct8-12 in Cannes) were clearly heard in every conference, at every cocktail andaround every corner in the Palais: multi-platform, content and digital. While with each Mip event in the past few years theseterms have gained in popularity, never before have they been ...
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The Prestige
Dir: Christopher Nolan. US. 2006. 128mins.Sometime superheroes Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale play obsessively feudingVictorian magicians in The Prestige,a classy thriller, with a Gothic sci-fi twist, from writer-director ChristopherNolan. Coming off last year's comic book blockbuster Batman Begins, Nolan this time turns intricate literary materialinto an atmospheric and intriguing - ...
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The Prestige
Dir: Christopher Nolan. US. 2006. 128mins.Sometime superheroes Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale play obsessively feudingVictorian magicians in The Prestige,a classy thriller, with a Gothic sci-fi twist, from writer-director ChristopherNolan. Coming off last year's comic book blockbuster Batman Begins, Nolan this time turns intricate literary materialinto an atmospheric and intriguing - ...
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Hoax
Dir: Lasse Hallstrom. US. 2006. 115mins.As struttingly confident asits main character, true-life literary fraudster Clifford Irving, The Hoax is far and away Lasse Hallstrom's best Americanfilm yet. Featuring a Richard Gere who has finallycast off his mid-term career doldrums to reveal himself as an actor ofMachiavellian charisma and authority, it ...
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Traces Of Love (Gaeulro)
Dir. Kim Dai-seung. S Kor. 2006. 112mins.A perfect choice to promote South Korea's natural beauty, Pusan's official opener is an easily watchablebut unabashed sentimental melodrama, swimming in a sea of decorous tears andclassical music warhorses. Traces Of Love revolves around a real-life 1995 disaster in Seoul, when a departmentstore collapsed ...
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Napoleon And Me (Io E Napoleone)
Dir: Paolo Virzi. It-Fr-Sp. 2006. 110mins.The latest Eurozone attemptto find a new angle on the Napoleon story finally, Napoleon And Me allows Daniel Auteuil to pitch into a role which seems to have been cutout for an actor of his professional and physical stature. But this - and onesteamy love ...
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Dasepo's Naughty Girls (Dasepo Sonyo)
Dir. Lee Jyong. S Kor 2006. 103mins.Going to see Lee Jyong's latestventure on the strength of his previous work Untold Scandal, a highly stylised periodrelocation of Dangerous Liaisons, is a serious mistake. Dasepo's Naughty Girls, a high-school romp, is a world away from thebeautifully-shot historical pageant which toured the world ...
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PUSAN: Taewon unveils Resurrection at Asian Film Market
Korea's Taewon Entertainment took advantage of the firstday of the Asian Film Market to promote its upcoming project Three Kingdoms - Resurrection Of The Dragon.MaggieQ has joined Andy Lau in the cast of the epic actioner, which Taewon isco-producing with Hong Kong's Visualizer Film Production.Recently featured in Mission: Impossible3, Q ...
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My Friend And His Wife (Naeui Chingu, Geueui Anae)
Dir/scr: Shin Dong-il. S Korea. 2006. 116mins.After the hospitable reception for Host And Guest, his two-hander debut, lastyear, writer-director Shin Dong-il extends hishorizons to a full trio of characters with MyFriend And His Wife, an often fascinating if ultimately overlongexploration of an unusual relationship between two men and a woman.The ...
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Nightmare Detective (Akumu Tantei)
Dir/scr: Shinya Tsukamoto. Jap. 2006. 107mins.By now a brand name whose body of work has its ownband of dedicated and faithful followers, Shinya Tsukamoto sticks to form with Nightmare Detective, a brutal, violent,and nerve-racking slasher feature that blurs allborders between fantasy and reality. Assailing the audience from the start withblazes ...