All Screen articles in 16 March 2006 – Page 4

  • News

    Feature debut for Unjoo Moon with adaptation of children's book

    2006-03-10T11:52:00Z

    Unjoo Moon is to direct an adaptation of children's book The Wicked, Wicked Ladies In The HauntedHouse. She directed short film, Sorrow'sChild in 1998 and this will be her feature debut. It also looks likely to bethe next project for Moon's cinematographer husband, DionBeebe who won an Oscar for Memoirs ...

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    Sandino Moreno signs on to Cuadri's new feature

    2006-03-10T04:00:00Z

    Oscar-nominated Colombian actress Catalina Sandino Morenohas signed on to the cast of $14.3m (Euros 12m) Spanish-UK-Portugalco-production The Heart Of The Earth,shooting from March 31.Sandino Moreno, who earned anOscar nomination and Berlin'sSilver Bear for her feature film debut in 2004's Maria Full Of Grace (Maria LlenaEres De Gracia), starsin the true ...

  • News

    Focus to back Euro projects from McDonagh and Barra

    2006-03-10T04:00:00Z

    Focus Features has boardedtwo new European productions - Belgium-set hitman drama In Bruges directed by this year's live action short Oscarwinner Martin McDonagh, and an adaptation of the bestselling World War II novelNaples '44: A World War II Diary Of Occupied Italy by Norman Lewis.In Bruges is being produced by ...

  • News

    Vienna Film Fund puts $1.6m into 10 projects

    2006-03-10T04:00:00Z

    New featurefilms by Antonin Svoboda, Michael Glawogger,and Rupert Henning are among 10 projects awarded over $1.6m (Euros 1.4m) bythe Vienna Film Fund.The largestamount $542,609 (Euros 455,000) went to first-time director Rupert Henning'sadaptation of the satirical play Friendship(Freundschaft) which will be produced by Danny Krausz and Kurt Stocker's DOR-Film with Henning ...

  • Reviews

    Flannel Pajamas

    2006-03-10T00:00:00Z

    Dir/scr: Jeff Lipsky. US. 2006. 124mins.With his reportedly autobiographical FlannelPajamas, former arthousedistribution specialist Jeff Lipsky successfully tracksthe emotional ups and downs of a relationship, moving from sublime rapture andsurrender to grim heartbreak.Guided by two excellent leadperformances and shaped by some raw writing, he reveals a finely shaded and tactilesense of ...

  • Reviews

    My Country, My Country

    2006-03-10T00:00:00Z

    Dir: Laura Poitras. US. 2006. 90mins.The trouble with current affairs documentaries istheir topicality: contemporary as they may seem at the time, they lose lustreby the time they premiere.It could be an obstacle forLaura Poitras' MyCountry, My Country, about the Iraqi elections of January 2005. There islittle more she can add ...

  • News

    Walden to co-finance Wonder Emporium with Mandate

    2006-03-10T00:00:00Z

    Chronicles OfNarnia backer WaldenMedia has teamed up with Mandate Pictures to co-finance Mr Magorium's WonderEmporium, thedirectorial debut of screenwriter Zach Helm which will star Natalie Portman,Dustin Hoffman and Jason Bateman.Richard Gladstein of FilmColony and Jim Garavente areproducing the film which is scheduled to start shooting in Toronto at the endof ...

  • Reviews

    In Between Days

    2006-03-10T00:00:00Z

    Dir: So Yong Kim. US-Can 2005.83mins.Some of the most interesting films in this year's Berlinale screened in the supposedly off-off Forum sidebar,with In Between Days - a small butmemorable teen romance - a case in point.So Yong Kim's feature is, asthe title hints, a work that takes its time getting ...

  • News

    Panther laughs its way into France, Germany, Australia

    2006-03-10T00:00:00Z

    20th Century Fox International takes MGM's US hit ThePink Panther out in aslew of major territories this weekend including France, where the film is set,Germany, Australia, Norway and South Africa.The Steve Martin-starrer whichwas a surprise family success in North America goes out on 510 prints inFrance, 550 in Germany and ...

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    Odd Lot reteams with Lexi Alexander on A House Divided

    2006-03-10T00:00:00Z

    DeborahDel Prete and Gigi Pritzker's Odd Lot Entertainment has acquired A HouseDivided, a script by Lexi Alexanderfor whom they produced Green Street Hooligans.Alexanderwill produce the film under her Irons Productions along with her partner StefanHeller. Del Prete and Pritzker will serve as executive producers, while LindaMcDonough will co-produce.AHouse Divided is ...

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    Weinsteins acquire Crane-Iron Pentalogy for films, stage

    2006-03-10T00:00:00Z

    The Weinstein Company (TWC)has acquired worldwide film rights to Wang Du Lu's Crane-Iron Pentalogy, the series of novels upon which Ang Lee's classic CrouchingTiger, Hidden Dragon was based. TWChas also acquired the worldwide rights to develop and produce stage adaptationsof the pentalogy including Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon which will be ...

  • Reviews

    Piano 17

    2006-03-10T00:00:00Z

    Dir: Manetti Bros. Italy2006. 105mins.Italy long ago lost the talent for genre film-makingthat made it such a commercial force in the 1960s and 1970s. But a few bravesouls, like the Manetti brothers, are trying to kicksome life into the old corpse. The Rome-based brothers' first feature, thetrash horror parody Zora ...