All Screen articles in 18 February 2005 – Page 5
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New Spanish distributor Notro launches sales arm
NewSpanish distributor Notro Films is launching an international sales armstarting with three films from local producer Filmanova, including Berlincompetition title One Day In Europe.The films, which Notro will distribute in Spain, alsoinclude Jorge Gaggero's Sundance screener Live-In Maid (Beba Y Dora) andJuan Taratuto's comedy It 's Not You, It's Me ...
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Arclight takes on rights to Spacey's First Time
Arclight has picked upinternational rights to dark comedy Mini's First Time, which is producedby Ed Bass' Bold Films and Berlin festival entrant Kevin Spacey's TriggerStreet.The picture, now in postproduction, stars Nikki Reed as a 17-year-old who likes to experiment. Thingsturn sour, when, trying her hand as a call-girl, she discovers ...
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Tickets
Dirs:Ermanno Olmi, Abbas Kiarostami, Ken Loach. It-UK. 2005. 118mins.Three famous directors joining forces to direct one film is not new, but Ticketsdiffers from other recent "celebrity trio" showcases (Eros, ThreeExtremes) in that its film-makers share the same setting, some of the samecharacters and the same screenplay (or, in the case ...
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Tickets
Dirs:Ermanno Olmi, Abbas Kiarostami, Ken Loach. It-UK. 2005. 118mins.Three famous directors joining forces to direct one film is not new, but Ticketsdiffers from other recent "celebrity trio" showcases (Eros, ThreeExtremes) in that its film-makers share the same setting, some of the samecharacters and the same screenplay (or, in the case ...
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Rois Et Reine named French film of the year
The French critics union hasnamed Arnaud Desplechin's Rois Et Reine best French film of the year. The film, which starsEmmanuelle Devos, Mathieu Almaric and Catherine Deneuve, recently took the PrixLouis Delluc and is up for seven Cesar awards including best picture, director,actor and actress.Best foreign film went toSofia Coppola's Lost ...
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I-On buys German home ent rights to Murder-Set-Pieces
MSP Productions has soldGerman home entertainment rights for the horror title Murder-Set-Pieces to I-On New Media.Nick Palumbo's picture premiered last December at the Sitges International FilmFestival in Barcelona and played in limited release in Los Angeles and NewYork.Murder-Set-Pieces follows theexploits of a homicidal fashion photographer and stars Sven Garrett, Tony ...
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Williams to star in inner city drama Brother
Vanessa Williams has signed to play the lead in Liberty Artistsand My Brother Productions' inner city drama Brother.Williams will play a dying mother of two young boys who tries to put herchildren up for adoption. The experience forms an intense sibling bond as thebrothers grow into adults.Fredro Starr and newcomer ...
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UK Directors Guild picks Mendes for lifetime award
SamMendes will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award at the upcoming secondannual Directors Guild Awards for Outstanding Directorial Achievement inLondon.The event is scheduled to take place on Mar 20. Michael Winterbottom and PeterJackson were big winners last year for In This World and The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of ...
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Kino picks up Happily Ever After, Or for US
Kino International has pickedup US rights to Yvan Attal's Happily Ever After and Keren Yedaya's Or.The romantic comedy Happily Ever After (Ils Se Marierent Et Eurent Beaucoup D'Enfants) stars Charlotte Gainsbourg, Emmanuelle Seigner andAttal and centres on the sexual politics that engulf two Parisian couples and asingle man.French-Israeli co-production Orwon ...
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Universal acquires Magic Kingdom For Sale series
Universal Pictures haspicked up rights to Terry Brooks' book series Magic Kingdom For Sale which The Mummy creator Stephen Sommers willdirect.Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel will adapt the story, the first in a series ofsix books about an attorney widower who buys a magical kingdom and must save itfrom an ...
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Errol Morris to be feted at 2005 Hot Docs
Acclaimed US documentary filmmakerErrol Morris will be the guest of honour at the 2005 Hot Docs CanadianInternational Documentary Festival. Along with a retrospective of his work, thedirector of such films as Gates Of Heaven,The Thin Blue Line and the AcademyAward-winning Fog Of War will bepresented with the event's ...
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AUSTRALIA 15 February
Two US films new to cinemaslead the box office on the weekend and both would have got a boost because oftheir links to Australia. The Aviator, starring the homegrown Cate Blanchett, tookA$1,830,974 from 248 screens for Roadshow, and Hide And Seek, directedby the homegrown John Polson, took A$1,652,264 from 205 ...
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SPC, Renaissance swoop for Junebug rights
Sony Pictures Classics has acquired domestic rights andRenaissance Films has acquired international rights to Junebug, Phil Morrison's comedic drama set in the deep southof the US which played in dramatic competition at Sundance this year.The film created buzz at the festival for its performance bynewcomer Amy Adams playing a childlike ...
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Park's Lady sells to Japan and US
Korean giant CJ Entertainment closed two major deals on SympathyFor Lady Vengeance, the third and finalpart of Old Boy director ParkChan-wook's revenge trilogy.The film was bought fora multi-million dollar sum byToshiba Entertainment for Japan and by Tartan Films for North America.The $6m film is five weeks into its 12 week ...
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Momentum makes Friends with Inferno
Momentum Pictures has acquired UK and Spanish rights to JustFriends from up-and-coming LA-based salesand financing outfit Inferno Distribution. The two-territory deal was negotiated and closed in Berlinby Inferno partners Jim Seibel and Bill Johnson with Momentum's head ofacquisitions Lara Thompson.New Line Cinema has acquired US rights to the romanticcomedy which ...
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Tartan snags The Devil documentary
Active market buyer Tartan Films has picked up UK rights to TheDevil And Daniel Johnston, the documentaryabout a cult musician which won Jeff Feuerzeig the directing prize at Sundancelast month. The film is being sold by Jeremy Barber of talent agency UTA,who negotiated with Tartan's Jane Giles. A US deal ...
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Celluloid Dreams grabs Grace and Good rights
French sales house Celluloid Dreams has expanded itsEnglish-language slate with a pair of powerful acquisitions. It has grabbed international rights on Savage Grace, one of the hottest US indie projects of the moment,and Good, a feature adaptation ofC P Taylor's acclaimed play about an otherwise moral professor whoformulates Hitler's Final ...
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Israel lends helping hand to Palestinian bomber drama
Just daysafter the Middle Eastern summit in Egypt, Israel has offered a cinematic olivebranch to a Palestinian filmmaker.Paradise Now, a drama about the last 24 hours of twoPalestinian suicide bombers that was made by a Palestinian-born director on theWest Bank will receive distribution support from the Israeli Film Fund. Thepublic ...
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Shochiku strikes multiple Hidden Blade deals
Japanese giant Shochiku,which is celebrating its 110th anniversary, has struck deals onTuesday's competition film The Hidden Blade (Kakushi Ken Oni No Tsume) for the US, Germany, France and Australia. The period martial artsdrama, directed by the Oscar-nominated Yoji Yamada (Twilight Samurai), was soldto Tartan Films for the US, EMS for ...
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Scherfig lines up Good shoot in Berlin
Good, a feature adaptation of C P Taylor's acclaimedplay about an otherwise moral professor who formulates Hitler's FinalSolution, is to shoot on location in Berlin this summer.Danish director LoneScherfig, a regular at the Berlin International Film Festival, will shoot the film in Potsdam, central Berlin andthe city's Olympic stadium, built ...