All Screen articles in 12 October 2006 – Page 6
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Jacques Toubon confirmed as Eurimages chair
The Council of Europe'sproduction fund Eurimages has re-elected Jacques Toubon for a third term aschairman. Toubon called upon membersof the management board of Eurimage "to act in their countries to preservecultural diversity and ensure that the rights of directors and actors be fullyrecognised."
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Denver Film Festival to host Canadian focus, King tribute
Canadian documentarian Allan King will receive a three-picturetribute at the 29th Starz Denver Film Festival, which runs from Nov 9-19.The screenings are the US premiere of King's most recent picture, EMPz4 LIFE, as well as his1969 release A Married Couple, and 2005's Memory For Max, Claire, Ida And Company.The festival ...
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The History Boys
Dir: Nicholas Hytner. UK.2006. 112mins.It is hard to begrudge a film as wellwritten and acted as The History Boys.Nicholas Hytner's screen adaptation of Alan Bennett'sacclaimed play is buoyed by some tremendous performances, one or two of whichlook very likely to be nominated for major awards. The writing is superb. Nonetheless,in ...
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Weisz to star in Johnson's Brothers Bloom for Endgame
Rachel Weisz will star in the con artist adventure story The BrothersBloom, Rian Johnson'sfollow-up to his high school noir Brick.Jim Stern's Endgame Entertainment is financing the story of siblingconfidence tricksters who attempt to fool a mysterious millionairess (Weisz) and get indeeper trouble than they planned.CAA is representing domestic rights and ...
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Bon Cop passes Porky's as biggest ever Canadian hit
Hit comedy Bon Cop BadCop has become the highest-grossingCanadian film of all time, toppling the 1982 release Porky's from the top spot. Directed by Erik Canuel,produced by Kevin Tierney of Montreal's Park Ex Pictures and released acrossCanada by Alliance Atlantis' Motion Picture Distribution, the film notched acumulative gross of $10m ...
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Dendy has Consideration for Aus/NZ
Dendy Films has securedAustralian and New Zealand rights to the comedy For Your Consideration from sales agent Fortissimo Films. Dendy joint general managersRichard Payten and Andrew Mackie, who describe themselves as longtime fans ofdirector Christopher Guest and his regular ensemble of collaborators, plan torelease the film early next year.Guest again ...
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Korea's Screen Quota alliance to stage Pusan protest
Korea's Screen Quota Action Alliance has announced it will hold a silentprotest in the hour before the opening ceremony of the Pusan International FilmFestival (PIFF) tomorrow (Oct12). The protest - to have the146-day local film screening quota reinstated - will be headed by King And The Clown star Lee Joon-ki ...
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Hollywood Film Festival unveils lineup for Oct 18 to 23 event
The Hollywood Film Festival has unveiled this year's line-up ofmore than 80 pictures, as well as the Movie of the Year nominees for the publicMovie Of The Year award to be presented on Hollywood Awards night on Oct 23.Gala screenings at the festival are Michael Mayer's family drama Flicka starring ...
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Polybona boards Bigfoot's Chinese-language Huilu
China's Beijing Polybona has come on board as co-producer on Huilu, the Chinese-language version ofHong Kong-based Bigfoot Entertainment's psychological thriller Irreversi.The move qualifies the filmas a Hong Kong-China co-production, thus making it eligible for release inmainland China. Huilu wasshot in Hong Kong almost back-to-back with the English-language Irreversi, the directorial ...
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Northern Lights summit to host Refn talk and pitching session
The Northern Lights FilmFestival's 2006 industry summit will run Nov 17-18 in Newcastle Upon Tyne's Tyneside Cinema.Highlights of the industryprogramme will include a talk about the ups and downs of the business fromdirector Nicolas Winding Refn, who will also screen his film The Gambler. Other panels will offerpitching advice, explore ...
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BVI and Sony announce deals at MIPCOM
In deals announced at MIPCOM, Buena VistaInternational Television has signed a VOD deal with France's TFI Vision and Sony Pictures Television has signed a multi-yearcontent deal with UK network Five and its new digital channels Five Life and Five US.The BVI deal with the VOD service of France's leading broadcaster ...
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New Wales film agency taps staffers
The newly created FilmAgency for Wales has announced its initial staffing.Pauline Burt will head theagency as chief executive, as previously reported, and she will be joined byBritt Harrison as head of talent and Anneli Jones as talent developmentexecutive. Burt previously worked at London's Mansfield Associates, the Royal Bank of Scotland ...
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Margaret von Schiller departs Berlinale Panorama
TheBerlinale's Panorama section has announced personnel changes as part of the restructuringof the past few months that has seen the Panorama Short Film programme mergedwith that of the Official Competition.In apersonal communique, Panorama's director Wieland Speck revealed that Margaretvon Schiller, who had become his successor as Panorama shorts programmer in1992, ...
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Loughran to head new US Irish Film office
Following the announcementof its intention to open its first overseas office in Los Angeles (made earlier this year at Cannes) the Irish Film Board has confirmed the appointmentof Jonathan Loughran as VP Irish Film Commission, effective mid-November.The new office will becalled the Irish Film Commission US and will focus on ...
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EFP backs 11 films to be sold in Pusan
EuropeanFilm Promotion's Film Sales Support is backing European sales agents andproducers for the third year at the Pusan International Film Festival (Oct12-20). The 11films being supported and the affiliated companies are Florian Henckel vonDonnersmarck's The Lives Of Others (BetaCinema); Uli Gaulke's Comrades In Dreams(Flying Moon); Matthias Luthardt's Pingpong(Media Luna); Laila ...
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London Film Festival ramps up industry plans
TheTimes BFI London Film Festival, celebrating its 50th event, has launchedseveral new industry initiatives. Whilethe festival is primarily consumer-focused, several UK deals were struck last yearfor films including Man Push Cart, QuoVadis Baby' and Heading South.Thefestival will host a Meet The Buyer session on Oct 24.Industryscreenings, backed by Film London, ...
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Grierson nominees include Unknown White Male
The 2006 GriersonAwards, The British Documentary Awards, have announced this year's nominees.Most of thenominees are for TV documentaries but the UK Film Council sponsors a cinemadocumentary category. The four nominees in that category are Alex Gibney's Enron: The Smartest GuysIn The Room, Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross' The Road To ...
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Brooks starts Definitely, Maybe for Working Title
Working Title Films and Universal Pictures will start principalphotography this week in New York City forromantic comedy Definitely, Maybe. Thefilm stars Ryan Reynolds, Rachel Weisz, Derek Luke, Isla Fisher, ElizabethBanks and Abigail Breslin.Adam Brooks, who previously wrote Wimbledon and co-wrote Bridget Jones: The Edge OfReason, wrote and will direct the ...
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Man Of The Year
Dir/scr: Barry Levinson. US. 2006. 114minsWith Man Of The Year, Barry Levinson returns to the Americanpolitical scene that he satirised so ably in Wag The Dog, this time forgoing unregenerate cynicism for satireslathered between layers of disarming sweetness and optimism.But despite boasting RobinWilliam's most restrained and winning performance for some ...
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Forever
Dir: Heddy Honigmann. Neth. 2006. 95mins.An intellectual mood piece about life and art,observed through the perspective of death, Heddy Honigmann's documentary about renowned Parisian cemetery Pere Lachaise is surprisinglyaffecting and perceptive, despite its conventional structure.Taking a camera through oneof the most celebrated resting places in the world, and pointing it ...