All Screen articles in 18 February 2005 – Page 2
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Sophie Scholl ' The Final Days
Dir. Marc Rothemund. Ger.2005. 120mins.Previously the basis for two previous German features, thestory of wartime freedom fighter Sophie Scholl again reaches the screen - thistime in competition at Berlin - with the added draw of new and as yet unpublishedevidence which purports to throw additional light on her case.Scholl, played ...
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ReviewsThe Beat That My Heart Skipped (De Battre Mon Coeur S'Est Arrete)
Dir:Jacques Audiard. Fr. 2005. 107mins.
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All eyes on the Berlinale prizes
Asthe festival awaited news from the jury, the front-runners for prizes wereemerging from a competition that most critics agreed was stimulating, butuneven. Among the favourites were TheBeat That My Heart Skipped, Jacques Audiard's stylish homage to JamesToback's 1970s classic Fingers, which was tipped to net a best actorprize for Romain ...
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Spurlock readies school version of Super Size Me
A re-edited version ofMorgan Spurlock's hit Oscar nominated documentary Super Size Me specially tailored for schools will be released onFeb 28, one day after the Academy Awards.Hart Sharp Video and Comchoice Corp developed the new disc set with Spurlock,who outlined the plan in an interview with Screen International earlier thisyear ...
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MonteCristo scares up a horror slate
IS Media, the company behinddefunct online entertainment operation InternetStudios, has launched aninternational sales and distribution outfit called MonteCristo Entertainmentunder sales and acquisitions executive Michael Taverna.MonteCristo has acquiredinternational rights to a slate of independent films including comedy YardSale starring Andrea Robinson and David Lipper and thriller Milagros DeRio which will be ...
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Kino snaps up Happily for US
US independent distributorKino International has picked up US rights to two 2004 pictures - Yvan Attal's HappilyEver After (Ils Se Marierent Et Eurent Beaucoup D'Enfants) andFrench/Israeli co-production Or directed by Keren Yedaya.The romantic comedy HappilyEver After (Ils Se Marierent Et Eurent Beaucoup D'Enfants) stars CharlotteGainsbourg, Emmanuelle Seigner, Alain Chabat and ...
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Fox sinks its teeth into Night Watch vampire franchise
20th Century Fox has unveiled its plans to build a global blockbusterfranchise out of Timur Bekmambetov's Night Watch (Nochnoj dozor), theRussian-language smash hit vampire thriller, playing at the Berlinale tomorrownight as a special screening.Last summer the studio bought worldwide rights (excluding Russia and theBaltic States) to the movie, which took ...
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Germany moves forward with sale and leaseback plans
Germany's adoption of a UK-style sale and leaseback (S&L) fundingmodel has come one big step closer after a meeting between German filmproducers and Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder yesterday morning. According to one of the producers attending, a working group will becreated to draft a concept for a sale and leaseback ...
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La Fabrique takes French rights to Slamdance hit On The Outs
La Fabrique De Films, the French distributor run by Verane Frediani, hasacquired French rights to US Forum entry On The Outs, directed by LoriSilverbush and Michael Skolnik. Andrew Herwitz's The Film Sales Company, whichis representing the film, closed the deal.The film, which follows the story of three US inner city ...
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Menzel serves up King Of England
Oscar-winning Czech directorJiri Menzel is finally set to direct his long-gestating adaptation of IServed The King Of England, one of the greatest novels by Czech writerBohumil Hrabal. The new project is beingpresented to potential production partners at the EFM by Czech sales anddistribution outfit AQS in advance of its official ...
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Diver surfaces as WBITD UK marketing director
Becky Diver has been appointed director of UK Marketingat Warner Bros. International Television Distribution (WBITD).Based in London, Diver will develop and implement WBITD's UK and Irelandmarketing strategies, working with executives in other divisions to maximisepublicity and marketing activities for all the company's television properties.She will report to WBITD vice president ...
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IFP/New York names five docs to win development funding
IFP/New York, the membership and advocacy organization for independentfilm-makers, has announced the names of the five films which will be share$50,000 in the latest round of development funding through the AnthonyRadziwill Documentary Fund.The grants are open to US-based producers and directors and were createdto provide "seed funding" to new documentary ...
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Sogepaq strikes US deal on de la Iglesia's Crime
Spanishsales company Sogepaq has closed North American rights on Alex de la Iglesia'sblack comedy Ferpect Crime (Crimen Ferpecto) to US independentdistributor Vitagraph, which will partner with exhibition chain LandmarkTheatre Corp for the film's release.Theunusual partnership promises cult director de la Iglesia (Perdita Durango,Day Of The Beast) his widest US release ...
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Onoma racks up ChokDee sales
Onoma International has scored a raft of sales on its Thai-boxing drama ChokDeeby French director Xavier Durringer. The film, which stars martial arts star Dida, Bernard Giraudeau andrising Thai-French model Vanessa Vanida Faivre, was sold to Victory forBelgium, Svensk Filmindustri for Scandinavia, Front Row for the Middle East,Amero Mitra for ...
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Robin Williams cast as lead in The Night Listener
Robin Williams has signed onto play the lead in The Night Listener, Hart Sharp Entertainment's adaptation of Armistead Maupin'sbestselling drama.Toni Collette is in talks to join the cast on the story of a radio show hostwho strikes up a telephone friendship with a mysterious boy and in the processloses a ...
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Korean dramas fetch record prices with Japanese buyers
Japanese buyers at EFM are breaking records for the size of the dealsbeing made on Korean films.In an inter-Asian buying spree, Comstock paid $4m for Korea Pictures'period action drama The Duellist, pre-sold on the strength of a clipreel. Due to finish production in April, the Lee Myung-se-directed tale of afemale ...
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Celluloid skips ahead with Beat sales
Celluloid Dreams has closedmost major territories on Jacques Audiard's Berlinale competition entry TheBeat That My Heart Skipped (De Battre Mon Coeur S'Est Arrive) before itsworld premiere screening in Berlin.The film, which will bereleased by UGC in France on March 23, has gone to Happinet in Japan,Artificial Eye in the UK, ...
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Sony Pictures Classics takes 2046 for US
Fortissimo Films has finalised the global distribution patchwork on WongKar-wai's epic romance 2046 by closing a US sale on the film to SonyPictures Classics (SPC).The movie, which was screened in its first incarnation in competition atCannes last year, had been extensively pre-sold by the Hong Kong andAmsterdam-based Fortissimo to companies ...
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Sutherland promoted to executive vice president at MGM
Ian Sutherland has beenpromoted to executive vice president, international theatrical distribution andmarketing, at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) just months before the studio is set tomerge into Sony Pictures Entertainment.The announcement was madeyesterday by MGM Home Entertainment president David Bishop. Sutherland joinedMGM in 2000 as senior vice president, international marketing and distribution,overseeing the ...
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France's foreign press sings Chorus's praises
Christophe Barratier's The Chorushas been voted Best Picture by France's foreign press. Organisers of theLumiere awards, the local equivalent to the Golden Globes, announced today.Jean-Pierre Jeunet took thedirecting prize for his epic A Very Long Engagement. Continuing their reign as awardsroyalty this year, Emmanuelle Devos and Mathieu Almaric won the ...