All Screen articles in 12 October 2006 – Page 4
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Fox's Devil steps out in Germany, Italy, Taiwan
Fox International's comedy The Devil Wears Prada took the overseas arena by storm lastweekend and executives will be looking for more of the same this time around.The picture opens in Germany on Oct 12, followed by Italy on Oct13 and Taiwan on Oct 14, and currently stands at $48.5m.The History ...
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UK shoot starts next week for Grant's Coffee Sex You
Marcel Grant’s Coffee Sex You will shoot in London from Oct 16-31 before moving to shoot in Italy Nov 1-7.The feature is about a27-year-old investment banker who questions her suicide plans when she meets afledgling film producer. Rosie Fellner and Caspar Zafer will star.The financing is beingraised independently.Grant, who previouisly ...
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The Sugar Curtain (El Telon De Azucar)
Dir/scr: Camila Guzman Urzua. Fr-Sp. 2006. 80mins.A classic portrait of a dream gone wrong, Camila Guzman Urzua's personaland intimate Cuba documentary The SugarCurtain is as fierce an indictment of the Castro regime as any academicanalysis of it.The daughter of expatriateChilean film-maker Patricio Guzman, whosedocumentaries on Pinochet's military coup are textbookmaterial ...
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The Sugar Curtain (El Telon De Azucar)
Dir/scr: Camila Guzman Urzua. Fr-Sp. 2006. 80mins.A classic portrait of a dream gone wrong, Camila Guzman Urzua's personaland intimate Cuba documentary The SugarCurtain is as fierce an indictment of the Castro regime as any academicanalysis of it.The daughter of expatriateChilean film-maker Patricio Guzman, whosedocumentaries on Pinochet's military coup are textbookmaterial ...
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The Post Modern Life Of My Aunt (Yi Ma De Hou Xian Dai Sheng Huo)
Dir: Ann Hui. Chi. 2006. 113mins.A slapstick comedy opening leads to a melancholy and melodramaticending in Ann Hui's The Post Modern Life Of My Aunt, which is tailoredto please home audiences and Chinese communities abroad but will hold limitedinterest beyond that. Conceived as an episode piece that shifts from a ...
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Media 8 takes international rights to Air Guitar Nation
Los Angeles-based Media 8 Entertainment has acquired allinternational rights to Alexandra Lipsitz' documentary Air Guitar Nation. Media 8 will introduce the project tobuyers at next month's AFM.Docurama Films will release it domestically in spring 2007in association with Shadow Distribution and with marketing support from VH1.Air Guitar Nation charts the fortunes ...
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Rising Star to open two more KinoStar multiplexes in Nov 2007
Russian exhibitor Rising Star Media, a joint venture betweenNational Amusements and Paul B Heth's Moscow-based Soquel Ventures, hasfinalised leases with leading Russian shopping centre operator Ikea Mega toopen KinoStar multiplexes at Mega Belaya Dacha in Moscow and Mega Dybenko in StPetersburg.Both locations are scheduled to open in November 2007. TheMega ...
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Red Road makes clean sweep of Scottish Baftas
Andrea Arnold's Red Road has added Best Film at the Lloyds TSB BAFTA Scotland awards to its previous honours, including the Cannes Jury Prize and five BIFA nominations.The win was universally predicted, as was the film's easy dominance of theevening's other film prizes - Best Actress for Kate Dickie, BestActor ...
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London Children's Festival to open with Azur And Asmar
The London Children's FilmFestival will run its second event Nov 18-26 presented by the Barbican and theIndependent Cinema Office in partnership with Film London. The festival willscreen 39 features and 30 shorts from 19 countries.The festival's opening filmis Michel Ocelot's Azur And Asmar and the closing film will be a ...
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Jeremy Thomas to receive Screen International prize at European Film Awards
Famed UK producer Jeremy Thomas has been selected to receive Screen International's Achievement In World Cinema Prize at the European Film Awards. At the European Film Awardsceremony on Dec 2 in Warsaw, ScreenInternational, the European Film Academy and EFA Productions will recognise Thomas as aEuropean professional who has made an ...
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Eurimages backs 14 co-productions with $5.5m
The Council Of Europe's film fund, Eurimages, has announced its supportof 14 new European co-productions for a total of $5.5m (Euros 4.4m). The films are:L'aube du monde by Abbas Fahdel (France/Germany) Back To Africa by Othmar Schmiderer (Austria/Germany)Ein Fall fur Freunde... wie alles begann byTony Loeser and Jesper Moller ...
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Buena Vista strikes Spanish VOD deal
Buena Vista International Television (BVITV) has announced several newdeals as the Mipcom TV market continues.The company is teaming with Spain's Telefonica in aVOD deal which will include films from Walt DisneyPictures, Touchstone and Miramax. Titles available will include recent hit PiratesOf The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest as well asupcoming releases ...
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David Tennant and Emily Blunt pair for UK's Wedding
UK actors David Tennant and EmilyBlunt have signed on for the lead roles in CheerfulWeather For The Wedding, a project from London-basedClockwork Pictures. The shoot is planned for May 2007.Clockworkproducer Teun Hilte, who was one of the producers of Paul Verhoeven'saward-winning Black Book, is devlopingthe script with Donald Rice and ...
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Pusan Promotion Plan
Pusan Promotion Plan (PPP)has announced 36 projects for its ninth edition, to be held Oct 15-18 duringthe Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF). Originally a co-productionmarket for Asian projects, the PPP is renewing itself under the inaugural umbrellaof the Asian Film Market with more commercially-oriented fare than in previousyears, along with ...
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New Line's Shaye gets honour from US literary group
New Line co-chairman and co-chief executive officer Bob Shaye willreceive the Award of Honor at PEN USA's 2006 Literary Awards on Dec 12 in LosAngeles.The award is handed out to a person or institution whose effortshave significantly affected culture. PEN USA is the West Coast centre for writers'organisation International PEN.George ...
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Taiwan gears up for five-pronged Film & TV Expo
The second TaiwanInternational Film & Television Expo was officially unveiled at a pressconference in Taipei today.To be held November 8-26, itencompasses five major events: 28th Golden Horse Film Festival, 43rd GoldenHorse Film Awards, 51st Asia Pacific Film Festival, 40th Golden Bell TelevisionAwards and 4th Taipei International TV, Film and Digital ...
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Lumina takes on worldwide rights to Espectro
London-based Lumina Filmshas picked up worldwide rights to Colombian horror movie Espectro (pictured) and will screen the film for buyers atAFM.The film all takes placeinside an apartment inhabited by an agoraphobic woman called Vega (played byNoelle Shonwald). Sensing she is not alone, she sets up cameras to film herselfsleeping and ...
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EFP presents four new films at New York Industry Screenings
EuropeanFilm Promotion is launching its third edition of industry screenings in New York this year. Four newEuropean films will be presented at the Tribeca Screening Room on Oct 23 and 24to US distributors and buyers, festival scouts and cinema programmers.The fourfilms for October are Krisztina Goda's JustSex And Nothing ...
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Warner signs multi-year free-TV deal in Ukraine
Warner Bros International Television Distribution (WBITD) hassigned a multi-year free television volume deal with Inter TV, ICTV and New Channelin the Ukraine.Titles include Superman Returns, Batman Begins, Charlie And TheChocolate Factory, andupcoming releases such as Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix, and Happy Feet.WBITD's vice president of Scandinavia ...
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PUSAN: CJ Entertainment joins Focus: First Cuts
Korea's CJ Entertainment has boarded the Focus: First Cuts series of films,launched by Hong Kong star Andy Lau's Focus Films, as a project partnerand will distribute all six films in Korea from early 2007. Focus and CJ are also intalks about the next instalment of the project, Focus: First Cuts ...