All Screen articles in 18 February 2006 – Page 4
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Weinsteins board CG-animated Escape From Planet Earth
The Weinstein Company has picked up rights to the CG-animated pitch EscapeFrom Planet Earth from Hoodwinked creators by Tony Leech and CoryEdwards.Leech will direct and Preston Stutzman of Blue Yonder Films will produce alongwith Jonathan Shestack, Brian Inerfeld and Gregory R Little of animation studioMainframe Entertainment.Escape From Planet Earth centres ...
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'Chico time' for the big screen
Chico Slimani, one of the contestant's on UK television's talentcompetition The X Factor, is set toappear in a feature film based on his real adventures of his former career as amale stripper. Slimani will co-produce and hasco-written the script with director Helen Grace and his brother, actor JC Mac. The ...
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Revolution signs first-look TV deal with Channel 4
Revolution Films, the UK production company founded by producer Andrew Eaton and directorMichael Winterbottom, has set up a new televisiondivision and signed an exclusive first-look deal with Channel 4. Kate Ogborn, an independent producer at TheBureau and the former executive producer at regional screen agency EM Mediawill head the TV ...
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John Kochman to head Unifrance in USA
French film export body Unifrancehas named John Kochman as Director of Unifrance USAin New York. Kochmanwill be joined by a new deputy director, Aurelie Godet.Former Unifrance USAdirector Catherine Verret-Vimont recently steppeddown opening up a key job in the organization's structure.Kochman is a 15 year internationalsales veteran and comes to Unifrance ...
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Freedomland
Dir: Joe Roth. US. 2006.113mins. Trying to streamline andilluminate Freedomland, Richard Price's panoramic 1998 novel,studio executive Joe Roth is working beyond his range, temperament andsensibility.Unlike other directors whohave adapted the works of Price Martin Scorsese, Spike Lee, Philip Kaufman,John McNaughton Roth is not a natural or ...
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V For Vendetta
Dir:James McTeigue UK-Ger. 133mins.Thelatest Alan Moore graphic novel adaptation, after From Hell and The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen, V for Vendetta has A for Auxiliarywritten all over it.It allstarts promisingly enough, with sombre chords and a vintage, black-and-white WarnerBros logo ushering us into a dark vision of a totalitarian Britain ...
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Roginas to head St Petersburg Film Festival
Ex-Eurimages executive secretary RenateRoginas has been named Artistic Director for the first St. Petersburg InternationalFilm Festival in July.Roginas, who has been appointed toa five-year contract, wants to see the festival become 'a bridge from Russiato Europe and also to the rest of the world. I think itwill be important ...
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Nimbus slate to include two Kragh-Jacobsen features
Prolific Danish production house Nimbus Film is pushingahead with a slate of new projects including two features from Kragh-Jacobsen (Mifune) which may shoot back to back.First up should be romantic comedy The Sandwich Thief, dueto shoot in September. Once that is wrapped, Kragh-Jacobsenwill move straight ahead with political thriller, Another ...
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Wajda to tackle feature on wartime massacre of Poles
Revered 79-year-old Polish auteur AndrzejWajda, in Berlin to receive an honorary Golden Bear,has revealed details of what promises to be one of the most ambitious andcontentious films he has ever made.The new feature will deal with the KatynForest massacre, in which an estimated20,000 Poles were killed by the Soviet Union ...
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Rapid sales for Roehler's The Elementary Particles
Celluloid Dreams has announced 15 territory sales on Oskar Roehler's Competition titleThe Elementary Particles, tocompanies including France'sTFM, Momentum in the UK,Canada's Sevilleand Lucky Red in Italy.Particles was not pre-sold: 'We wanted to seewho actually liked the film after Michel Houllebecq'scontroversial novel,' said Celluloid head Hengameh Panahi. 'But we've had multiple ...
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El Custodio
Dir:Rodrigo Moreno. Arg/Ger/Fr. 100 mins.ElCustodio did nothing to satisfy festivalBerlinale audiences hungry for a little light entertainment. This study of anArgentinian government minister's police minder is painfully slow, taking allof 90 minutes to build to its first, and last, moment of real action. But itis also a strangely compelling exercise ...
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Lionsgate and Lakeshore Crank it up
Lionsgate International andLakeshore International have finalised a slew of major sales on the JasonStatham revenge saga Crank, currentlyin post-production in Los Angeles.Lakeshore completed sales to Universal in the UK,Aurum in Spain,TF1 in France,and Rai in Italy.Lionsgate concluded sales in therest of the world, including Hoyts in Australiaand New Zealand,Presidio/Movie Eye ...
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Hong Kong conglomerate New World steps into China
Hong Kong conglomerate New WorldGroup, which is owned by Media 8 Entertainment investor Henry Cheng, is to stepinto film production in Chinawith PK.com to be directed byBeijing-based filmmaker Xiao Jiang (Electric Shadows). Hong Kongidol Jaycee Chan, son of action star Jackie Chan, and Taiwanese heartthrob ChenBo-lin will head the cast ...
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Spain's Telespan in five-picture pact with BVI
Spanish producer Telespan 2000isnearing a five-picture distribution agreement with Buena VistaInternational in Spain.The deal encompasses local theatrical distribution andpossibly video on five new titles, including Berlin Panorama Documentary title The Railroad All-Stars (EstrellasDe La Linea) by ChemaRodriguez.Other titles include: David Serrano's Dias De Cine (Cinema Days), a co-production with Estudios ...
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Screen International boosts FilMart relationship
Screen Internationalannounced that it will introduce daily publications at Hong Kong's FilMart in March. Supported by trade development council, the TDC, the dailies will bepublished throughout the March 20-23 event and will be similar in concept tothe leading dailies published in Berlin and Cannes.Screen's Publishing Director Tim McLoughlinsaid: 'The ...
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GreeneStreet sells rights on Black's comedy
GreeneStreet Films International(GSFI) has sold a raft of rights on Michael Ian Black's comedy The Pleasure OfYour Company headed up by Pathe in the UK.GSFI has been entertaining buyers with a promo of theproject, which is in post-production and stars Jason Biggs and Isla Fisher, who won plaudits for her ...
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Garai is Ozon's English Angel
Casting has been locked in on Francois Ozon'sEnglish-language debut Angel, with Romola Garai to star alongside BerlinaleJury president and Ozon regular Charlotte Rampling. Celluloid Dreams is handling the film in Berlin.Principal photography has started up around Londonand Bristol on the $17.8m (Euros15m) story, set in 1910, about a woman who ...
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Hyde Park gets sales rights to Chaos and America
Hyde Park International has boarded Roland Emmerich's human trafficking project Welcome To America and the comedy Chaos Theory starring Ryan Reynolds,Stuart Townsend and Emily Mortimer.Welcome To America is one of the first productions to emergefrom Reelmachine, which Emmerichformed in late 2004 with VIP Medienfonds' Andreas Schmid andis partly backed by ...
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Producer Alan Greenspan forms alliance with SHIP
In an attempt to kick-start its English-language ambitions,Studio Hamburg International Production (SHIP) has entered an alliance withLA-based producer Alan Greenspan.The deal, which was brokered by CAA,will provide SHIP with increased access to English projects and talent, whilegiving Greenspan access to international finance for projects in the $10m-$30mrange.'If you have access ...
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Frigo assumes management reins at BVI Europe
Daniel Frigo hasbeen promoted to senior vice president and general manager of Europe, MiddleEast and Africa for Buena Vista International (BVI).As of Feb 1,Frigo assumed responsibility for BVI's European operations, replacing BVIexecutive vice president and general manager of Europe Stuart Salter, who isretiring after shepherding BVI Europe for 14 years. ...