All Screen articles in 16 October 2005 – Page 2
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Pathe boards Coppola's Youth Without Youth
France's Pathe has boardedFrancis Ford Coppola's Youth Without Youth as French co-producer and international sales agent. Pathe PicturesInternational will start selling the American Zoetrope film to buyers at AFM.The movie, a low-budgetreturn to directing for the US master, is currently shooting in Bucharest,Romania, and will continue production on and off ...
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Intandem takes on sales for Nobody's Hero
Intandem Films has taken on international sales for Jason Lehel's forthcoming drama Nobody's Hero, which the company is also executiveproducing. The film follows a soldier from the Iraq war who tries to return to normal life back home. The film is currently inpre-production with producers Esther Randall of Open Eye ...
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The Tiger And The Snow (La Tigre E La Neve)
Dir: Roberto Benigni. It. 2005. 114mins.Strictly for those with high schmaltz threshholds, Roberto Benigni's The Tiger And TheSnow will go down well at home, but outside of Italy it isunlikely to extend the fanbase of the madcap Tuscanactor-director.Certainly this £30m ($36m) romance,set against the backdrop of the war in Iraq, ...
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The Tin Mine (Mahalai Meung Rae)
Dir: Jira Maligool. Thai. 2005. 110mins.A picture that presents life working underground asan uplifting, character-building experience is nothing if not an oddity. Andwhile this attitude should bestow on TheTin Mine - Thailand's best foreign language Oscar submission - adistinctiveness all of its own, it is hard to guess how much ...
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Pavee Lackeen
Dir: Perry Ogden. Ire. 2005.87mins.Perry Ogden's debut feature Pavee Lackeen, which charts the lives of Irishtravellers on the outskirts of Dublin, joins a long list of desolate portraits- including Hector Babenco's Pixote and the Dardennes' brothers' Rosetta- as a harsh and grim indictment of Western society's uncompromising treatmenttowards children.Shot on ...
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German student film-maker wins Next Reel festival in NYC
Germany's HolgerErnst has won New York University's Next Reel International Film Festival firstprize for Rain Is Falling.Poland's LeivIgor Devold came second with Tomorrow, and Indian filmmaker Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni took thirdprize for Grinding Machine.Other awardshanded out at the closing night ceremony in New York on Oct 1 include the bestfiction ...
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Evangelist's story gets US video release through Maverick
Director-actorDamian Chapa and Sabeva Film Distribution have partnered with US videodistributor Maverick Entertainment Group (MEG) to release Man Of Faith on Maverick's Spirit label on Jan 10,2006.MEG picked upNorth American rights to the picture, based on the true story of controversialOhio evangelist Leroy Jenkins. Chapa stars along with Faye Dunaway, ...
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German-US investors take over Senator Entertainment
A German-US group of investors, headed byCologne-based media lawyer Helge Sasseand German-born, Los Angeles-based independent producer Marco Weber (Igby Goes Down, The 13th Floor), has acquired amajority 50.1% interest in insolvent distributor-producer Senator Entertainment.Sasse and Weber struck the deal with Deutsche Bank and a consortium offinancial investors, who are to ...
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Hof Film Days unveils festival programme
German documentariesare particularly strong at this year's International HofFilm Days (October 26-30) including world premieres of new films about musicianJohn Cale, a 'behind the scenes' look atthe casting couch in Hollywood, and thelegendary 1940s screenwriter 'Buzz' Bezzerides.Joerg Bundschuh's documentaryabout John Cale, ToTulsa And Back, is the first portrait ever made ...
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UK tax plans get some credit
Ever since the Government published its consultation document for thereplacement of Section 48 and 42 in July, accountants and producers have beenquick to run their slide rules over the new tax credit proposals to see whatthey are really worth.There were several immediate areas of concern. One was inward investment- would ...
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Private disqualified as Italian Oscar candidate
Italy's Oscar candidate, SaverioCostanzo's Private,has been ruled ineligible by the Academy Of MotionPicture Arts & Sciences for the foreign-language film Oscar category thisyear, since the picture was not shot in Italian. Private is adrama about the Middle East conflict, which focuses on an Israeli patrolwho takes over the home of ...
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Fox restructures Asia/Pacific, moves HQ to Sydney
FoxInternational has rung in the changes at its Asia/Pacific regional operation,cutting jobs at the Tokyo-based headquarters and relocating the regional baseto Sydney, Australia.Fox Australiamanaging director Sunder Kimatrai is promoted to vice president of Asia/Pacificbased in Sydney, supported by Asia/Pacific marketing director Janice Tay, salesmanager Brendan Gutsell, and print services director ...
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Myriad picks up art robbery documentary Stolen
LosAngeles-based production and sales house Myriad Pictures has picked upinternational rights in all media to Rebecca Dreyfus' documentary Stolen.Produced inassociation with the US's Court TV, Stolen follows the art detective Harold Smith as he investigates a$500m robbery from Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner museum that includedVermeer's prized work "The Concert".Blythe Danner ...
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Skillset names successful applicants for Inside Pictures programme
Skillset's film business training programmeInside Pictures has announced the 14 successfulapplicants for its 2005/6 programme. The group was chosen from hundreds of applicationsthrough a committee selection process and a shortlist of interviews. The successful applicants are:- Alexei Boltho, Commercial Executive, BBCFilms -Tara Buckwell, Legal and Business Affairs Manager,Tiger Aspect Pictures ...
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Mandel named dean of LA's AFI Conservatory
Director and AFIConservatory alumnus Robert Mandel (pictured) has been named dean of the AFI Conservatoryin Los Angeles.Mandel graduatedfrom AFI in 1979 and his subsequent credits include FX, The Substitute,School Ties and BigShots."Having analumnus at the helm of the AFI Conservatory for the first time in its 36-yearhistory is an exciting ...
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Conversations talk for Fabrication
Los Angeles-basedFabrication Films concluded a raft of deals at Toronto and Telluride recentlyon Hans Canosa's romance Conversations With Other Women starring Aaron Eckhart and Helena BonhamCarter.All respective territory rights have gone to MK2 inFrance, Dendy in Australia, Solopan in Poland, Prooptiki in Greece, Shapira inIsrael, VideoFilmes in Brazil, and Cathay ...
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Hodge signs on to adapt Dark for Walden
Trainspotting screenwriter John Hodge will adapt SusanCooper's British children's fantasy novel The Dark Is Rising for Walden Media.As previously reported here (Screendaily, May 6 2005),Marc Platt is producing the project about a young boy who discovers that he isdescended from a line of immortal warriors dedicated to fighting evil."We are ...
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Opa!
Dir: Udayan Prasad. UK. 2005.97mins.Make no mistake, UdayanPrasad, director of such smart racial explorations as Brothers In Trouble or My SonThe Fanatic, seems to have taken a leave of absence with Opa!, a featherweight romp set in the Greek islands that squeezesthe life out of every Mediterranean recipe in the ...
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Lie With Me
Dir: Clement Virgo. Can.2005. 92mins.Graphic sex and a voracious, predatory femaleprotagonist are the hallmarks of Lie With Me, a raw perspective of carnality that's initiallydisarming in its aggressive stance and mesmerising inits heady resolve.Belying thesensuality of The Lover or thegentleness of 9 Songs, it only beginsto falter when it abandons ...
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IMAX system to be installed in ZAO multiplex in Ufa, Russia
IMAX Corp. and Ufa,Russia-based exhibitor ZAO Kompaniya Perspektiva have signed an agreement toinstall an IMAX MPX theatre system in ZAO's flagship multimplex. Located in central Russia,Ufa is the fourth Russian city where IMAX cinemas are set to debut by the endof 2006. New facilities are expected to open in Kazan, ...
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