All Screen articles in 18 February 2005 – Page 6
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Fortissimo dances off with Mad Hot Ballroom rights
Fortissimo Film Sales has picked up international rights toSlamdance hit film Mad Hot Ballroom. Therights were sold by Paramount Classics, which acquired the film outsideAustralia and New Zealand jointly with Nickelodeon last month.Directed by Marilyn Agrelo and written by Amy Sewell, thedocumentary tracks a group of 11-year old New York ...
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Arclight picks up powerhouse comedy pair
Arclight Films has picked up international sales rights totwo new films: $15m contemporary comedy thriller Three Bad Men and US comedy Nothing But The Truth.Three Bad Men is oneof the first films to emerge from Priority Pictures, the new company headed byColin Leventhal and Marion Pilowsky. It is produced by ...
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TFI adds Clark, Captain Alatriste to slate
TF1 International has added the biggest-ever Spanish filmand the new title by controversial director Larry Clark to its European FilmMarket slate. Swashbuckling 17th century adventure CaptainAlatriste has an all star cast headed byLord of The Rings star Viggo Mortensen alongside Eduardo Noriega, JavierCamara, Elena Anaya and Enrico Lo Verso. The ...
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SPC adds Potter, Zhang to bulging slate
Sony Pictures Classics has added three new internationaltitles to its 2005 US slate, picking up domestic rights to Erik VanLooy's Belgian smash The Alzheimer Case, Sally Potter's UK drama Yes and Zhang Yimou's next picture Riding Alone ForThousands Of Miles from China.SPC, run by Michael Barker and Tom Bernard, has ...
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Palm acquires US rights to City Of Men
US distributor Palm Picturesyesterday acquired North American distribution rights to City Of Men, the TV series that picks up from FernandoMeirelles' Oscar-nominated smash film City Of God. International rights are being handled by theUK's Lumina Films. Lumina is also gearing up topre-sell the feature film of City Of Menwhich will ...
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Berlin abuzz with Harvey and Bob talk
With Harvey and Bob Weinstein just weeks away fromfinalising their exit deal from The Walt Disney Co, the rumour mill in Berlinis running on overdrive about their future - and their international plans areat the heart of the speculation.If the brothers' plans to create a new home forWeinstein-friendly film-makers like ...
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Berlinale unveils European Film Market plans for 2006
Next year's European Film Market will comfortablyaccommodate as many as 300 film companies as it decamps to its spacious newhome at the historic Martin-Grobius-Bau, a ten-minute walk away from thefestival's Palast nexus.Atpresent, 170 sales outfits and umbrella organisations are housed in crampedquarters at the Debis building, with another fifty or ...
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NonStop takes on sales for Rancid, Monster Thursday
Scandinavian-basedsales agent NonStop Sales has picked up international sales to Sonet Film'sEnglish- language thriller Rancid and Norwegian Sundance competitor MonsterThursday.Starring Matthew Settle and Faye Masterson andco-starring Pernilla August, Rancid takes place during one hectic nightin New York. The film is written and directed by Los Angeles-based Swede JackErsgard and produced ...
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Karlovy Vary lines up Peckinpah, Maddin and Kawamoto tributes
The Karlovy VaryInternational Film Festival (July 1-9) has lined up tributes to Sam Peckinpah,Guy Maddin and Japanese animation director Kihachiro Kawamoto for its 2005edition.Kawamoto will celebrate his80th birthday at Karlovy Vary, the first international festival topresent a retrospective of his work. He is currently shooting a new feature, ShishaNo Sho, ...
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Myriad joins Partition
LA-based Myriad Pictures hasstruck a co-production deal with Canada's Sepia Films for the epic India-setromance Partition. Jim Mistry and Kristin Kreuk will star in the film. Partitionis being executive produced by imX Communications, which previously worked withMyriad on The River King.Myriad is handling allinternational sales on the film excluding Canada, ...
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Rezo Int'l takes rights to Rohmer, Karel titles
Newly launched French saleshouse Rezo International has picked up international rights to new pictures byFrench veteran Eric Rohmer and The World According To Bush directorWilliam Karel.Rohmer aims to shoot TheRomance Of Astrea And Celadon at the end of 2005 and complete it in timefor Venice 2006. The film is adapted ...
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How do I sign up'Please fill in the attachedform and return to Jane Chapman FIFE 2005 NCH, the children's charity 85 Highbury Park London N5 1UD Tel: 020 7288 7837Fax: 020 7226 2537Jane.chapman@nch.org.ukFor an application form, click HERE
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Hayat
Dir:Gholamreza Ramezani. Iran. 2004. 78mins.Want to make a heartwarming Iranian kids' movie' Take an endearing kid froma poor background, give her a goal, and then provide an obstacle. It worked forThe White Balloon (goal: buy goldfish; obstacle: money goes down thedrain, literally), and it works for Hayat, which opened the ...
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Hayat
Dir:Gholamreza Ramezani. Iran. 2004. 78mins.Want to make a heartwarming Iranian kids' movie' Take an endearing kid froma poor background, give her a goal, and then provide an obstacle. It worked forThe White Balloon (goal: buy goldfish; obstacle: money goes down thedrain, literally), and it works for Hayat, which opened the ...
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German hit Napola scores US sale
Doug Witkins' Picture This!Entertainment has acquired North American rights to Dennis Gansel's German hit Napolafrom Bavaria Film International. The film, which has so far grossed $2.2m onthree weeks of release in Germany through Constantin Film, is being scheduledfor an autumn 2005 theatrical release in the US.Based on a screenplay byGansel ...
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Lions Gate picks up international rights to Isolation
Lions Gate Films International has picked up worldwide rights excludingthe UK, France and North America to UK-Irish horror movie Isolation which is beingdirected by first-timer Billy O'Brien. Produced by The Bureau in association with Blue Orange Films and ElementFilms, Isolation stars John Lynch, Ruth Negga and Sean Harris in thestory ...
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Lions Gate Int'l takes selected rights on Isolation
Lions Gate FilmsInternational has picked up worldwide rights excluding the UK, France and NorthAmerica to UK-Irish horror movie Isolation which is being directed byfirst-timer Billy O'Brien. Produced by The Bureau inassociation with Blue Orange Films and Element Films, Isolation stars JohnLynch, Ruth Negga and Sean Harris in the story of ...
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Malta unveils new financial incentives to woo film-makers
The Maltese filmindustry suffered a body blow last year when, three months into pre-production,Steven Spielberg decided to postpone his highly contentious new film about theaftermath of the 1972 Munich Olympics and concentrate on The War Of TheWorlds instead.Nonetheless,Malta (where films from Troy to Gladiator have shot in recentyears) is regrouping: ...
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Instant replay for German version of Finnish football film
In an unusual move,Hamburg's Wueste Filmproduktion will remake the Finnish football comedy FCVenus before the movie is even in theatres at home.Finnish production companyTalent House will start shooting the Joona Tena-directed Venus at theend of May, while the German remake, to be directed by Ute Wieland, will beginfilming at the ...