All Screen articles in 14 November 2005 – Page 3
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Wild Side takes two from Thailand's GMM Tai Hub
Thai production house GMMTai Hub (GTH), which attended AFM for the first time this year, has pre-sold Alone and Dorm to France's Wild Side Films during the market. Alone,unveiled at Pusan last month, is a $2.5m follow-up by directorsParkpoom Wongpoom and Banjong Pisanthanakun to their Asian box office sensationShutter. The ...
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Six films shortlisted for the Prix Louis-Delluc
Six films have been shortlisted for the Prix Louis-Delluc,one of France's top cinematic awards.The contenders are: Philippe Collin's crime drama Aux Abois Philippe Garel's Venice entry Les Amants Reguliers Cannes laureate Cache by Michael Haneke Jacques Audiard's critical darling De Battre Mon ...
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ITVS to support international documentary film-makers
US publictelevision provider The Independent Television Service (ITVS) has launched ascheme that for the first time supports non-US documentary filmmakers whosework will be broadcast on US television.TheInternational Media Development Fund will offer production financing, as wellas distribution, promotion and educational outreach support.The aim is tosupport a dialogue between the US ...
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Sheffield documentary festival heads to Chile
The UK's Sheffield InternationalDocumentary Festival has announced that it will hold a three-day seminar inSantiago de Chile during the Festival Internacional de Documentales de Santiago(FIDOCS).The Catholic University of Chile andthe British Council are organising the seminar, to be held November 30 toDecember 2. The SheffieldInternational Documentary Festival On Tour: New ...
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Madman grabs Three Burials for Oz/NZ
Madman Cinema has acquiredall Australian and New Zealand rights to TheThree Burials Of Melquiades Estrada from French sales agent EuropaCorp.The film is the directorialdebut of Tommy Lee Jones, whose performance in the drama earned him the bestactor award at Cannes this year. Writer Guillermo Arriaga (Amores Perros, 21 Grams) won ...
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MGM commits to Blu-Ray high-definition DVD format
MGM has joinedthe Blu-ray Disc camp and plans to begin releasing film and television titlesfrom its library on the new high definition DVD format.Yesterday'sannouncement hardly came as a surprise given that Sony led the consortium thatacquired MGM and is one of Blu-ray's chief backers.Blu-ray iscurrently locked in an emerging technology ...
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Universal buys Blink for Gaghan, DiCaprio
Universal has won out a keenly fought bidding war and acquiredfeature rights to Malcolm Gladwell's bestseller Blink: The Power OfThinking Without Thinking.The studio paid $1m forthe rights and has paid a further $2m for Stephen Gaghan to write and directthe adaptation that has Leonardo DiCaprio attached to star.Gaghan will also ...
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Mike Leigh honoured with BFI Fellowship
Mike Leigh has been awarded the British Film Institute (BFI)'s 57th Fellowship in London. Leigh wasgiven the honour by BFI chairman Anthony Minghella atthe National Film Theatre (NFT), where the Bafta-winning director was taking part in an interview abouthis career, following a screening of his 1983 film Meantime."I don't thinkI've ...
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French step up anti-piracy measures
The French government has announced a new campaign meant toboost awareness of the "misdeeds of counterfeiting and digital piracy."It forms part of a stronger line on copyright theft whichwill culminate in legal changes to protect film later this year.French culture minister Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres and FrancoisLoos, deputy minister of ...
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French step up anti-piracy measures
The French government has announced a new campaign meant toboost awareness of the "misdeeds of counterfeiting and digital piracy."It forms part of a stronger line on copyright theft whichwill culminate in legal changes to protect film later this year.French culture minister Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres and FrancoisLoos, deputy minister of ...
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French step up anti-piracy measures
The French government has announced a new campaign meant toboost awareness of the "misdeeds of counterfeiting and digital piracy."It forms part of a stronger line on copyright theft whichwill culminate in legal changes to protect film later this year.French culture minister Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres and FrancoisLoos, deputy minister of ...
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French step up anti-piracy measures
The French government has announced a new campaign meant toboost awareness of the "misdeeds of counterfeiting and digital piracy."It forms part of a stronger line on copyright theft whichwill culminate in legal changes to protect film later this year.French culture minister Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres and FrancoisLoos, deputy minister of ...
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Strand picks up US rights to Akin's Bridge
Strand Releasinghas picked up all US rights from Bavaria Film International to Fatih Akin's CrossingThe Bridge.The picture,which premiered in official selection at Cannes this year, portrays the musicscene in Istanbul, which Akin has long regarded as his second home.CorazonInternational, the production company founded by Akin, Andreas Thiel and KlausMaeck, produced ...
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Phone film first dropped after exhibitor backlash
Italian exhibitors have stopped plans to release a full-length feature film on mobile phone just a week after its theatrical debut in the territory.The 3 Italia mobile network was this week due to offer Sidney Pollack's The Interpreter to customers for around $10.50 (nine euros) for unlimited viewings. The proposal ...
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Italian exhibitors lift boycott after phone film rethink
Italian exhibitors today withdrewa boycott of The Interpreter, imposedin protest at plans to stream the film on mobile phones just a week after itslocal theatrical release.The 3 Italia mobile network had planned to offer customers the full-lengthfeature film on Monday for just $10.50 (nine euro) with unlimited viewing.As a result, ...
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Edinburgh artistic director steps down after five years
The EdinburghInternational Film Festival has confirmed that Shane Danielsenwill step down as artistic director after the 60th festival in August 2006.The move isanticipated as Danielsen has said since hisappointment in 2001 that he planned to say for five festivals.The EIFF willstart its search for a new artistic director in January ...
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Carnahan Starts Shooting Smokin' Aces
Director Joe Carnahan has started principal photography on dark action comedy Smokin' Aces, a Universal Pictures and Working Title Films production. The feature is shooting on location in Lake Tahoe and Los Angeles. Working Title's Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner are producing with Robert Graf and Liza Chasin serving as ...
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46th Thessaloniki festival breaks all-time records
The ThessalonikiInternational Film Festival has unveiled today its full line-up for this year'sevent (Nov 18-27).The festival celebratesits 46th anniversary with an all-time record number of 255 filmsrepresenting 42 nations.The event, the firstunder the new team of president George Corraface and director Despina Mouzaki, promises to bethe most star-studded ever, while ...
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International Screenwriters Festival makes debut in 2006
The world's first major festival exclusively devotedto the art, craft and business of international scriptwriting is to be inaugurated next Summer.The Screenwriters Festival(June 27-30), backed by Screen International, will be based in the UK town ofCheltenham, which is already home to a leading literary festival.Major names from around theworld have ...
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Reviews
Zathura
Dir: Jon Favreau. US. 2005. 100mins.Family features can often fall foul to several traps.One is that they end up as showcases for bedazzling special effects thatdominate the storytelling; another is that they rely on rote bodily function humour that may be funny to a six-year-old but is indicativeof lazy and ...