All Screen articles in 17 September 2004 – Page 3
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London cherrypicks festival favourites for 2004 line-up
"They don't openthe London Film Festival with films like Vera Drake...but they donow!" Mike Leigh, fresh from his Golden Lion triumph in Venice, quippedyesterday at the official launch of this year's Festival programme.Speaking on the stage ofthe Odeon West End in Leicester Square, Leigh said he had been coming to ...
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DENMARK 15 September
Shrek remaineduntouchable on the top spot with its high 119 prints taking a strong DKK44.350screen average. This week's best average was, however, the new release of Resident Evil: Apocalypse's DKK51.962 onits 12 prints putting it on fourth, two slots higher than Around The World In 80 Days on seventh, which ...
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Gaga, Momentum sign on for Rahtree
Gaga of Japan leads an impressive list of buyers which have signedup for Rahtree: Flower Of The Night ahead of its North American premiere tomorrow (Sept 15).Handled by independent Hong Kong sales outfit GoldenNetwork, the Thai horror spoof also sold to Momentum for the UK, Panorama forHong Kong, Flash Forward ...
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Imax in Deep partnership with Warners
Imax and Warner Bros are jointly producing Denizens Of The Deep (working title), to be directed and filmed by Howard Hall.A follow-up to 1991's Into The Deep, Imax's first 3D underwater film, the new film will provide a giant-sized view of exotic undersea creatures.Produced by Toni Myers, executive produced by ...
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Deal-making gets going at Toronto for Focus, Newmarket
The deals kept on closing yesterday as Focus Features picked upmultiple territory rights to Pawel Pawlikowski's My Summer Of Love and Newmarket Films bought NorthAmerican rights to Lukas Moodysson's highly controversial A Hole In My Heart.Meanwhile Fine Line Features and HBO Films confirmed that theywould be teaming to release Lucrecia ...
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David Gordon Green to write lesbian project for Pollack
Fast-risingUS indie filmmaker David Gordon Green has signed on to script ShockproofSydney Skate for Fox 2000.SydneyPollack is in the frame to direct the adaptation of the novel by MarijaneMeaker. Considered a classic of lesbian literature since its publication in1973, the coming-of-age POV follows a 17-year-old who falls in love with ...
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Miike cooks up Soup as English debut
Cult Japanese director Takashi Miike - who unveiled hislatest bloodcurdling epic Izo in Venice last week - is to make the jumpinto English-language film-making.Miike hassigned up to direct Dragon's Fin Soup, an adaptation of the novella byThai writer S.P. Somtow for Paris-based production and distribution outfit, DesFilms. The film is ...
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Rousselet cranks up French crime caper
ProducerPhilippe Rousselet has begun production on his latest film, Les Parrains,in Paris. The film is directed by Frederic Forestier, who is best known for hiswork on hit film Dead Weight (Le Boulet)The Euros 12m comedy stars Jacques Villeret, Gerard Lanvinand Gerard Darmon as a trio of former mafioisi who come ...
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Stephen Chow denied entry visa into Canada for Toronto fest
Toronto is today to be denied the pleasure of the company ofStephen Chow (aka Stephen Chiau), who was today (Tues Sept 14) to havepresented his hugely anticipated directorial effort Kung Fu Hustle as a world premiere. Chow was refused avisa by Canadian immigration authorities.Festival press officer Gabrielle Free, confirmed yesterday: ...
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Gleeson, Rea join Jordan's Breakfast On Pluto
Brendan Gleeson and StephenRea have joined the cast of Neil Jordan's Breakfast On Pluto, which started shooting last week for PathePictures.The two actors join LiamNeeson and star Cillian Murphy in the tale of a young transvestite from ruralIreland on the make in London. Shooting is taking place in the Republic ...
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Jackson, Borde, Doban team up for US distribution venture
Susan Jackson, Mark Borde and Mike Doban have teamed up to form anew LA-based theatrical distribution and marketing company Freestyle Releasing.The company will first release Stephen King's Riding The Bullet on Oct 8 followed by James Redford's Spin on Oct 15.Jackson'scompany Turtles Crossing will merge with Borde's Innovation Film Group ...
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Media Luna picks up four to launch at MIFED, AFM
German sales house MediaLuna has picked up a quartet of new pictures which it will take to market atMifed and AFM later this autumn.Atlast week's Montreal festival it boarded Metallic Blues, a tragicomic road movie about a couple ofdim-witted Israeli car dealers. Directed by Danny Verete, it won best actor ...
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Filmax adds Deadly Cargo to sales slate
Following its pick-up this week of Hypnos, FilmaxInternational has acquired worldwide distribution rights to another Spanishthriller, Deadly Cargo (Camara Oscura).Judging by Filmax's two new pick-ups in two days, theSpanish industry looks to have a dynamic new sales house to go to, particularlyfor genre product. Filmax is best known internationally for ...
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Ray
Dir: Taylor Hackford. US.2004. 152minsA scene-stealing co-starin Collateral, Jamie Foxx becomes a star attraction in Ray. Hisaccomplished performance as music icon Ray Charles has Oscar contender writtenall over it and offers conclusive proof of his leading man potential.The film itself is a solid,diligent biopic in which director Taylor Hackford displays ...
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Millions
Dir: Danny Boyle UK-US.2004. 97minsTen years after Shallow Grave, director DannyBoyle once again discovers that sudden wealth is not without its complications.In Millions it is innocent schoolboys rather than larcenous flatmateswho are faced with a cash windfall.Boyle's approach to the material is equally dynamicbut the screenplay by Frank Cottrell Boyce ...
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Land Of Plenty
Dir:Wim Wenders. Ger-UK. 2004. 113mins.WimWenders' Land Of Plenty is a post 9/11 parable that is half politicalpamphlet, half yet another exploration of the director's favourite theme - thestranger in a strange land. But although it is a more controlled exercise thanthe mess that was The Million Dollar Hotel, it does ...
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Kinsey
Dir/scr: Bill Condon US.2004. 124minsA deftly handled mixture ofpersonal drama and social history, Kinseysculpts a compelling film from the life of the pioneering scientist who devotedhimself to the study of human sexuality. Beautifully judged and paced, it isboth intellectually stimulating and emotionally satisfying.Illuminating the presentthrough dramatising the past, it offers ...
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Spain's Sogepaq closes sales on The Sea Inside
Spain's Sogepaq has announced the first sales on AlejandroAmenabar's The Sea Inside (Mar Adentro)following its double prize coup in Venice over the weekend.The company closed seven territories including Switzerland(Frenetic), Netherlands (A Film), Portugal (Atalanta), Belgium (CineArt),Hungary (Budapest Film), Greece (Strada) and Israel (Shani Films).Fine Line already has English-speaking territories, whileFrance ...
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Cellular
Dir: David R.Ellis. US 2004. 90minsTotallyimplausible from start to finish, suspense thriller Cellular has a silly premise and zero chills, but offers plenty ofaction (without a single explosion) and an easy-to-follow storyline. Given thedearth of good popcorn movies during the past five or six weeks, it may evenmanage to hold ...
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Ghost Rider heads for Australia
The attractiveness of runaway production to local economieswas made clear in Australia today with the Victorian Government announcing thatColumbia Pictures Entertainment is to film $40m GhostRider in Melbourne.Premier Steve Bracks and the Minister for Innovation JohnBrumby said Ghost Rider, a Marvelcomic adaptation to be directed by Mark Steven Johnson ...