All Screen articles in 14 July 2006 – Page 2
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Locarno's line-up boasts more US films
The full line-up for the 59ththLocarno International Film Festival (Aug 2-12) hasbeen unveiled, marked by a boost in US fare underlined by opening film Miami Vice, final night film Little Miss Sunshine and two Sundancetitles in the International Competition. Actor Willem Dafoe will behonoured with an artistic excellence award while ...
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Catalunya establishes new $7.6m co-production fund
Spain's regional government of Catalunya has approved a new $7.6m (Euros 6m) filmco-production fund, Mesfilms Inversions.The CatalanInstitute of Finances (ICF), the Catalan Institute of Cultural Industries(ICIC) and regional public broadcaster TVC each bring $1.3m (Euros 1m) to thefund initially, with an agreement to bring an additional $1.3m (Euros 1m) eachby ...
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Edinburgh to open 60th year with The Flying Scotsman
The2006 Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) will open with the worldpremiere of The Flying Scotsman. Thefilm tells the true story of champion cyclist Graeme Obreeand marks the feature directorial debut of Douglas MacKinnon. Jonny Lee Miller plays Obree andthe cast also includes Brian Cox, Billy Boyd and Laura Fraser.The60th Festival ...
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Goldblum signs on to Schrader holocaust project
Jeff Goldblum hassigned on to star in Beverly Hills-based Bleiberg Entertainment's holocaustdrama Adam Resurrected, followingmonths of courtship and negotiation.Bleiberg Entertainment chief Ehud Bleiberg is preparing a spring 2007 start onthe project, which is being directed by Paul Schrader and will be shot inGermany, Romania and Israel.Bleiberg Entertainment is co-financing with ...
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Pakistani feature starts historic shoot in India
Pakistani director JavaidFazil has started shooting his latest film, IShall Return (Ek Din Lot Kar Aain Ga),in Mumbai, marking the first time that a Pakistani film has ever lensed in India. Fazil, who started shootinglast week, had earlier gone to Mumbai with composer Javaad Ahmad to recordsongs with the voices ...
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Moore replaces Hewison at Melbourne film festival
Richard Moore will be thenext programmer of the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF), replacingJames Hewison as executive director from September.Moore co-programmed 'Real Life on Film', a documentaryfestival held at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) in Melbourne in February as part of the cultural programme of the2006 Commonwealth ...
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The Destiny (El Destino)
Dir: Miguel Pereira. Arg-Sp. 2006. 102mins.An allegory about the rape of Latin America throughforeign intrusion, Destiny has justthe kind of political message that will appeal to liberal festival and arthouse audiences. The addition of spectacular landscapesand generous splashes of local colour should help usher it to events around theworld.But while ...
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Cars drives into China's crowded summer schedule
Now that China's month-long blackout on foreign blockbusters isover, there's a bottleneck of Hollywood films waiting for release. Disney has just confirmedthat Pixar animation Cars will bereleased in China on August 22, but the release of PiratesOf The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest has been delayed indefinitely, accordingto local media. Disney's ...
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Telefilm Canada funds four films through Quebec office
Telefilm Canada's Quebecoffice has agreed to fund four projects, including Capitalisme Sentimental, the first feature of writer-director Olivier Asselinsince 1997's The Seat Of The Soul. Three projects will beFrench-language and one in English. Funding is through Telefilm's Low BudgetIndependent Feature Film Assistance Program, which provides support up to$176,000 (C$200,000) per ...
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National Film Board Of Canada hires Din, Van Beusekom
The National Film Board ofCanada has appointed Ravida Din as executive producer of the Quebec Centre andMichelle van Beusekom as assistant director general of English Programming. Din was previously assistantdirector general for English programming and was associate producer on themulti-award winning NFB title The Tree That Remembers. In her new ...
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Kathy Bates joins jury of Montreal World Film Festival
Oscar-winning US actressKathy Bates will serve on the jury of the 30th Montreal World Film Festival.The veteran star of stage and screen is best known for her roles in Titanic, where she played "the unsinkable Molly Brown", and Misery(1990), as the tormentor of JamesCaan's author in the adaptation of the ...
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Babenco to start shooting The Past on Monday
Argentinian-bornBrazil based director Hector Babenco will start shooting his long-awaited ninthfilm, The Past, on Monday inBuenos Aires. Based on thebest-selling 551-page novel by Alan Pauls, winner of the prestigious HerraldePrize, The Past centres on acouple who decide to split up after 12 years. While the man, Rimini, played byMexican star ...
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Toronto announces Spanish films in festival including Labyrinth
Guillermo Del Toro's Pan'sLabyrinth will have its NorthAmerican premiere at the upcoming Toronto International Film Festival. TheCannes competition title was among seven Spanish-language features announcedTuesday for screening during the September event. Another Cannes title is Fantasma, from Lisandro Alonso, which was a special screeningin the Quinzaine.In announcing the pictures,Toronto organizers ...
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Japan's Avex Entertainment plans anniversary film
Japan's Avex Entertainment hasannounced plans to produce a commemorative feature film for release in April2008, in order to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the founding ofthe Avex music and media group.Starting from this monthuntil October, the company will solicit story ideas from the public. The range ofpossible ideas is fully ...
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AMPAS elects six new governors including Brooks, Epstein
Six new governors, three of them serving for the first time, havebeen elected to represent their branches on the Board of Governors of theAcademy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.The newcomers are Rob Epstein, documentary branch; Mark Goldblatt,film editors; and James L Brooks, writers. Returning to the board after a ...
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The Host generates advance bookings fever
Bong Joon-ho's sci-fithriller The Host is already whippingup unprecedented advance bookings in Korea, selling more tickets in a shorterperiod than ever before, according to producer Chungeorahm Film.Starting three weeks beforeits July 27 release, advance bookings for about 100 select theatres have beenselling like hotcakes, with the multiplex Megabox COEX site ...
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Crazy Stone becomes China's biggest local film in 2006
Ning Hao's black comedy Crazy Stone has become the highest-grossinglocal production at the Chinese box office so far this year, with box officereceipts of $775,000 (RMB6.2m).The low-budget comedy, distributed by Warner China Film,was also the best performing domestic production during the "Local FilmProtection Month", which ended two days ago.Ronny Yu's ...
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Cannes Residence names next six directors
Six directors have beenselected by the Cannes Film Festival Residence to participate in the 13thedition of the scheme from October 2006 through February 2007.A jury presided over bydirector Rithy Panh haschosen Natacha Feola fromthe US, Fien Troch fromBelgium, Antonio Campos of the US, Sebastian Campos of Chile, Alexis Dos Santosof ...
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German funds back new initiatives for Eastern Europe
Three German funding bodieshave launched new initiatives to support the film industry in Central andSouth-Eastern Europe.Baden-Wuerttemberg's MFG andLeipzig-based MDM have joined forces with the Vienna Film Fund tooffer up to six grants worth $5097 (Euros 4,000) each for young producers fromCentral and South-Eastern Europe to participate in the EAVE producers ...
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Monster House
Dir: Gil Kenan. USA. 2006.89mins.Seemingly every neighbourhoodhas a house or two whose spooky reputation derives either from an owner neverglimpsed or else an atmosphere unnervingly caustic and weird. The animatedmovie Monster House takes this impressionto the extrapolated extreme in a slick, wholly rousing family adventure aboutthree pre-teens banding together to ...
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