All Screen articles in 16 March 2005 – Page 3
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Wade joins Palmer to form Runaway film division
Producer Todd Wade has teamedup with Linda Palmer to form a feature film division at Palmer's LosAngeles-based commercials outfit Runaway Productions.The partners plan to produce between three and four low tomoderately budgeted titles each year with the first project, thriller Look @Me, set to begin filmingin Los Angeles later this ...
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Glickman to kick off movie convention Showest
When the annual ShoWest convention opens in Las Vegas today [March14], the vast floors and ballrooms of the Paris and Bally's hotels will bebuzzing with talk of the standard issues that have beset the industry in recentyears - piracy and digital cinema roll-out.Yet there is another key element that distinguishes ...
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Fabrication buys worldwide rights to Conversations
Los Angeles-based sales company Fabrication Films haspicked up worldwide rights to Hans Canosa's drama Conversations With OtherWomen, which was shotentirely in split-screen and stars Helena Bonham Carter and Aaron Eckhart.The story centres on a perilous love affair between two people whomeet at a friend's wedding reception.GordonStreet Pictures' Ram Bergman, whose ...
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Nordisk Film chief quits for top broadcasting job
Nordisk Film chief Kenneth D. Plummer has been named as the newhead of Danish national broadcaster Denmark Radio (DR).Plummer, 44, will take overin his new role on October 1, leaving Nordisk Film parent company EgmontEntertainment plenty of time to find a successor.One of the oldest filmcompanies in the world, Nordisk ...
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RTL to bankroll Dutch film-makers
Dutch broadcaster RTL Entertainment isexpanding its activities into film production. Senior head of programme acquisitionsDirk de Lille said he had reserved "a couple of million" Euros toco-produce around five film projects a year.They will primarily be Dutch filmprojects, but de Lille has not ruled out linking up with foreign partners ...
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Mann cinemas sets out 3D digital plans with Real D
Southern California UStheatre chain Mann Theatres will today announce today [March 14] that it haschosen Los Angeles-based Real D as its exclusive delivery system for digital 3Dentertainment throughout the theatre chain.Mann Theatres' Grauman'sChinese Complex, locaed in Hollywood, will host the Real D flagship theatre andwill open to the public in ...
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Hitch romances $30.1m out of 42 markets for Sony
Hitchremained the top international picture over the weekend as the romantic comedyadded an estimated $30.1m on 4,640 screens in 42 markets for a $65.5minternational running total.Key drivers were a powerful $8m number one debut in the UK on 709screens including previews that raised the total after last weekend's exclusivedebut to ...
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Junebug
Dir: Phil Morrison. 2005.US. 102mins.Actress Amy Adams pullsoff a small miracle in Junebug, an ensemble comedy-drama about whathappens when a golden boy-turned-prodigal son brings his cosmopolitan bridehome to meet his working class North Carolina family.Adams (The Wedding Date)takes centre stage as Ashley, a sweet, naive Deep South chatterbox whoinstantly idolises ...
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Kiarostami set to shoot next film in Italy this summer
Abbas Kiarostami has announced that he plans to shoot afilm in Italy this summer.'Iwill shoot one film in Iran and I will make one in Italy this summer,' theIranian director said at a conference in Rome, where he is promoting Tickets,the picture he co-directed with Ermanno Olmi and Ken Loach.Kiarostamisuggested ...
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Unleashed (Danny The Dog)
Dir: Louis LeterrierFr-UK. 2005. 103mins.The latest action vehicleto roar off the assembly line at Luc Besson's EuropaCorp, Unleashed -known in France as Danny The Dog - is a wonky mixture of bone-crunchingviolence and mawkish sentiment. It casts martial arts star Jet Li as asub-human fighting machine who finds that music ...
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Sony Pictures Classics swallows Jordan's Breakfast
Sony Pictures Classics has taken North American, LatinAmerican, German and South African rights to Neil Jordan's latest film, BreakfastOn Pluto.Breakfast On Pluto is Jordan's second adaptation ofa novel by Patrick McCabe following on from his award-winning 1997 effort, ButcherBoy. Starring Irish trio Cillian Murphy, Stephen Rea and BrendanGleeson as well ...
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Fox takes the top spot at US box office with Robots
Twentieth Century Fox'sanimated family romp Robots opened topover the weekend on an estimated $36.5m, while the much delayed Hostage finally opened in fourth place through Miramax on$9.8m.Meanwhile last weekend's champion The Pacifier was shunted into second place on $18.1mfor $54.4m in its second weekend through Buena Vista, and MGM's Be ...
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Deauville Asian festival enjoys Holiday Dreaming
Fu ChanHsu's Holiday Dreaming took the main prize at the 7th annual DeauvilleFestival of Asian Film which wrapped on Sunday. The Taiwanese film is a first effort from Fu-Chun Su andis a nostalgic look at youth. The film was also the recipient of the critics'prize.The jury prize went to This ...
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Iger appointed Eisner's successor at Disney
Disney president Robert Iger has been chosen to succeed MichaelEisner as chief executive of the media conglomerate, according to an announcementby the company yesterday [13].Iger's appointment follows more than a year of speculation andrumour at the studio, which at times has reached the depths of muck-racking morecommonly associated with a ...
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Adam and Paul
Dir:Lenny Abrahamson. Ire. 2005. 86mins.Imaginea full-length Laurel and Hardy film set in Dublin's junkie netherworld andscripted by the bastard son of Samuel Beckett. If you like the sound of that,then you'll love Adam and Paul, Irish commercials director LennyAbrahamson's first feature.Abrahamsondoes a grand job, but it's scriptwriter and co-star Mark ...
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Fox's Robots tops US box office with $36.5m weekend
Twentieth Century Fox'sanimated family romp Robots opened topover the weekend on an estimated $36.5m, while the much delayed Hostage finally opened in fourth place through Miramax on$9.8m.Meanwhile last weekend's champion The Pacifier was shunted into second place on $18.1mfor $54.4m in its second weekend through Buena Vista, and MGM's Be ...
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Noyce, Slovo team for Working Title's Hot Stuff
Nearly 20 yearsafter A World Apart, the acclaimed film about her relationship with hermother - a leading anti-apartheid campaigner who was killed by a parcel bomb -writer Shawn Slovo is revisiting South Africa's last two turbulent decades.Slovo, the daughterof Ruth First and leading ANC figure Joe Slovo, has teamed with ...
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Hitch has new dates, Robots hits Mexico
Hitch will be the one to beat in theinternational marketplace this weekend as Sony Pictures Releasing International(SPRI) executives line up two more major market openings with the firmintention of keeping it in pole position.Last weekend'smuscular $21m haul saw the romantic comedy storm to number one overall anddominate a raft of ...
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Dedicated Scandinavian film channel set for launch
A team of Scandinavian producers headed by NielsAalbaek Jensen is planning to launch a pay-TV film channel dedicated toScandinavian film.The channel will play no US films or commercials -just Scandinavian features, documentaries and short films. The new channel, which will be co-owned by theproducers and Aalbaek Jensen, is close to ...
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Thai production powerhouse unveils 2005 slate
Following a successful firstyear of operation, Thai production powerhouse GMM Tai Hub has unveiled aline-up of 10 genre-driven films directed by young talent for 2005. Headed by CEO VisutePoolvoralaks, Thailand's best-known producer, GMM Tai Hub was created last Junewhen GMM Pictures, Tai Entertainment and Hub Ho Hin merged. It produced ...
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