All Screen articles in 14 April 2006 – Page 2
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Universal signs multi-year distribution deal with Mattel
Universal Studios and Mattel have signed a multi-picture,multi-year feature-length DVD worldwide marketing and distribution deal.Universal will handle global marketing and distribution onupcoming instalments of the Barbie Entertainment franchise and will handle theworldwide release this autumn on PollyWorld, the first feature to be based onMattel's miniature Polly Pocket doll.'An agreement of ...
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Independent CG-animated Chimps starts for Vanguard, IDT
Vanguard Animation and IDT Entertainment have started productionon their CG-animated feature Space Chimps.The comedy follows the galactic misadventures of a haplessdescendant of the first chimpanzees in space and will be distributeddomestically through IDT's multi-picture deal with Twentieth Century Fox.Character design and storyboarding are currently underwayin Vancouver at IDT Entertainment and ...
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Madsen, Hannah start production on Arcview's Vice
Production began this week in Vancouver on psychological thriller Vicefrom Nevadan productionand financing company Arcview Entertainment.Michael Madsen, Daryl Hannah, Mykelti Williamson, Mark BooneJunior and rapper Kurupt star in the story of a group of troubled policeofficers who fall under suspicion when a drugs haul goes missing.Raul Sanchez Inglis directs and ...
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Arclight, Roadshow board Gray debut
International sales agentArclight Films and Australian distributor Roadshow have signed on to When She Gets There, the debut featurefrom writer-director Richard Gray.Cassandra McGrath, whosecredits include Wolf Creek, has been lined up to star in the $2.93m (A$4m) film,which is scheduled to start shooting at the end of July. Gray is ...
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Goldcrest takes on Elvis And Anabelle
Production began this week in Austin, Texas, on UK-based GoldcrestFilms International and Austin-based Orange Productions' dark romantic comedy ElvisAnd Anabelle.Will Geiger is directing the story about an unlikely romance that blossomsbetween a deceased local beauty queen and the town mortician's son. Goldcrestis handling worldwide sales.Max Mingella will play the mortician's ...
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Craig joins Momentum as VP of business affairs
Momentum Pictures has appointedKathryn Craig as its new VP of business affairs for Europe. Craig, who joins the companythis month, will be responsible for all business affairs for Momentum in the UK and for Aurum in Spain.She previously worked atPolyGram, Pathe, and had been head of businessaffairs for Qwerty Films. ...
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Korean director Shin Sang-ok dies aged 80
Master Korean cineaste ShinSang-ok passed away at the age of 80 late last night (April 11) in Seoul. With a career that spans the modern history of Korea, his life has often been compared to a film scriptitself.Born in Cheong-jin (now in North Korea) in 1925 during the Japanese occupation, ...
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Tbilisi-Tbilisi takes top prize at GoEast Festival
Georgian filmmaker Levan Zakareishvili's Tbilisi-Tbilisi, a portrait of harsheveryday life in his nation's capital, was the surprise winner of the GoldenLily award for best film at this year's goEastFestival of Central and East European Cinema, which came to a close on Tuesdayevening in Wiesbaden.The international jury,headed by German film historian ...
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Becker appoints Keen as CEO; Bradley to relocate to LA
Tim Keen has beenappointed as the new CEO of Becker Group Limited, the film exhibition,distribution, production and sales company. In an unrelated move, thehead of sales company Becker Films International, Reiko Bradley, will soonrelocate from Sydney to Los Angeles. Bradley is a shareholderand made the reverse move when she helped ...
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Bosnia plans more support for regional films
Bosnia and Herzegovina'snational Fund for Cinematography has reserved $242,250 (Euros 200,000) of its $908,437(Euros 750,000) annual budget to support regional co-productions.Speaking to ScreenDaily.com at this week's goEastFestival, Sarajevo Film Festival director Mirsad Purivatra described thisdecision by the Bosnian Minister of Culture and Sport Gavrilo Grahovac as"a first step towards a ...
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Board shifts at Germany's Senator Entertainment
SenatorEntertainment's executive board has been restructured following the end of theinsolvency proceedings against the Berlin-based distributor-producer. Theconcern's two major shareholders Cologne media lawyer HelgeSasse and US-based German producer Marco Weber of HSWGmbH, which holds a 36.32% stake in Senator Entertainment, have now beenappointed to the executive board. Sasse is serving ...
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David Dobkin to direct RIPD for Universal
DavidDobkin will direct Universal's long-in-the-works comic book adaptation RIPD based on the Dark Horse comic book Rest In Peace Department.PhilHay and Matt Manfredi will adapt the screenplay about a murdered police officerwho is recruited to a supernatural agency charged with removing troublesomespirits from Earth.NealH Moritz and Mike Richardson will produce, ...
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Buenos Aires festival kicks off with Rosell's Sofabed
The eighth Buenos AiresInternational Festival of Independent Cinema (BAFICI) will kick off tonightwith plans to show 342 features and 145 shorts from 49 countries.The city-financed BAFICI is Argentina's biggest film event in terms of numbers of screenings andcinema-goers (last year's attendance was 184,500), besting the nationallyfinanced Mar del Plata Festival, ...
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O'Shea hired to run Odd Lot's new international sales arm
LosAngeles-based production and finance outfit Odd Lot Entertainment is launchinga foreign sales division and has appointed former Media 8 senior vice presidentof worldwide distribution Brian O'Shea (pictured) to oversee it.OddLot International (OLI) will be based at Odd Lot's new Culver City site andwill handle films from Odd Lot Entertainment and ...
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Kirk's Middletown is late entry to Tribeca
Brian Kirk's Middletown has been added to the Discovery Section of theupcoming Tribeca Film Festival.The UK/Ireland co-productionproduced by Michael Casey (Freeze Frame) is set in Ireland's Bible belt and tells the story of two brothers,one wracked by the love of his family, the other by the love of his god.Andrew ...
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Focus takes on worldwide rights to Iraq documentary
FocusFeatures has acquired worldwide rights to Patricia Foulkrod's documentary TheGround Truth: After The Killing Ends,which premiered at Sundance. The company plans to release it later this year.Thepicture recounts the experiences of six American men and women who served inIraq and chronicles their recruitment, training, combat and traumatichomecoming.TheGround Truth was produced ...
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Weinstein Company picks up Dragon Tiger Gate
TheWeinstein Company (TWC) has picked up all English-speaking territories toWilson Yip's martial arts action thriller Dragon Tiger Gate.Basedon a well known Hong Kong comic book The Gate Of Dragon And Tiger, the picture follows three young martial arts masters fromthe back streets of Hong Kong who team up to fight ...
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Old Joy, Clear Cut get top honours at Sarasota festival
KellyReichardt's Old Joy and PeterRichardson's Clear Cut: The Story Of Philomath, Or, were the big winners at the 2006 Sarasota Film Festivalas they were named the best narrative and documentary features in competitionSpecialjury prizes in both categories went to Cristi Puiu's The Death Of MrLazarescu and Gary Tarn's Black Sun.The2006 ...
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Usen Corp buys stake in CJ Media Japan
Japan's Usen Corp, parent of Gaga Communications, has acquired an 8.57% stakein CJ Media Japan, a foreign affiliate of Korea's CJ Media, for a reported $2.53m (Y300m).Usen stated that itsinvestment in CJ Media Japan, which was established last August, was to furtherdevelop the sharing and distribution of contents produced by ...
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Byrne and O'Reilly join Irish Film Board
Byrne and O'Reilly joinIrish Film BoardThe Irish Film Board hasappointed Mark Byrne as its business & legal executive. Byrne has worked as anentertainment lawyer for the past three years and also acted on co-producer forfeature film Middletown. Byrne's role willinclude negotiating with producers and co-financiers, and acting as a liaisonwith ...
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