All Screen articles in 18 May 2001 – Page 2
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Bauer strikes deals on Good War
Bauer Martinez Studios has made a raft of sales on Giorgio Serafini's English-language picture, The Good War, and has also unveiled a 4-picture slate of international English-language co-productions. Buena Vista International has acquired rights to The Good War for Benelux and Scandinavia. Negro Y Azul has bought rights for Spain ...
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Producer Martin Brown parts ways with Baz Luhrmann
Moulin Rouge producer Martin Brown has parted ways with longtime directing partner Baz Lurhmann, and is readying a slate of ten films to produce through his own production company, Martin Brown Films.Brown, who worked with Luhrmann as art director on Strictly Ballroom and as a co-producer on Romeo + Juliet, ...
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Premiere Kino signs with Capitol, Franchise
Russian group Premiere Kino Holding has secured a clutch of A-grade all rights deals which bolster the company's position as a powerhouse distributor and underline the country's recovering potential as a film market.Through its sister company Era Media, which has all Eastern European rights, Premiere Kino is finalising the acquisition ...
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Jim Sheridan readies East Of Harlem for June
Jim Sheridan, director of The Boxer, In The Name Of The Father and My Left Foot, is readying to shoot tentatively titled drama East Of Harlem as soon as next month - strike or no strike.Sheridan and regular producing partner Arthur Lappin are setting up the $10m-$11m production with an ...
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FilmFour boards Van Sant film starring Matt Damon
UK film powerhouse FilmFour has boarded Gus Van Sant's latest project Jerry in which Matt Damon - Oscar-winning co-writer and star of Van Sant's Good Will Hunting - and Casey Affleck, who also played in Good Will Hunting, are attached to star, according to sources on the Croisette.The William Morris ...
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Maya sparks Indian controversy at Cannes
Cannes market title Maya - which deals with the sensitive subject of young girls raped by village priests as a coming-of-age ritual in certain regions of India - sparked a lot of interest from buyers when it screened on May 12. Unfortunately, it has attracted a much less enthusiastic attention ...
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Jour De Fete buys Big Eden for US
LA-based microdistributor Jour de Fete Films has acquired US theatrical distribution rights to Chaiken Films' Big Eden, a gay romantic comedy which is the directorial debut of Thomas Bezucha. Arye Gross, Louise Fletcher, Eric Schweig and Nan Martin star in the film which will open in Los Angeles and San ...
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Cinema Service takes on trio of big budget pics
Expanding the tide of Korean sci-fi and gangster pictures, Korean major Cinema Service has added a trio of big-budget pictures to its forthcoming slate. It is finishing Volcano High School a futuristic action comedy due for delivery in December 'It is a stylish picture with excellent production values situated between ...
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The Man Who Wasn't There
Dir: Joel Coen. US. 2001. 117 mins.With their latest foray into film noir, Joel and Ethan Coen continue to explore a recurrent motif of their work: The destructive force of unbridled individualism, or more specifically, greed as the dark side of the American Dream. Arguably their most ambitious film since ...
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BVI finalising first-look with Harbour
Buena Vista International (BVI)'s UK comedy label is finalising a first-look pact with Harbour Pictures, the production outfit behind Women's Institute naked calendar picture, Calendar Girls.Along with Calendar Girls, BVI is backing Harbour's Kinky Boots, a story written by Lizzie Mickery about a 100-year-old traditional shoe factory whose owner diversifies ...
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Slate, FilmFour set for Laurel and Hardy comedy
The Full Monty writer Simon Beaufoy is scripting an original comedy about Laurel and Hardy as one of the debut projects on Andrea Calderwood's FilmFour-bankrolled production outfit, Slate Films.The untitled project, set up with Footprint Films, will be set behind the scenes in the world of 1930s comedy talkies. Also ...
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USA greenlights Who Goes There'
USA Films has greenlit Who Goes There', the first production it is bankrolling from its three-year deal with Charles Finch and Luc Roeg's London-based company Artists Independent Network (AIN).The film is to be directed by AIN client Ben Ross (RKO 281, The Young Poisoner's Handbook) and to star Jamie Bell ...
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US buyers go to war at Cannes
North American buyers continued an aggressive streak yesterday as new deals were unveiled on at least four films and a bidding war erupted over well-liked Bosnian competition contender No Man's Land.Sony Pictures Classics acquired North American rights to Fabian Bielinsky's Nueve Reinas (Nine Queens), a box office sensation in its ...
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Lothian & Metzstein to make Soul with Ideal World
Late Night Shopping writer-director team Jack Lothian and Saul Metzstein are to make romantic comedy Northern Soul for Ideal World Films, the Glasgow-based production operation behind their highly regarded Berlin festival debut.The music-fuelled story of a group of young people partying in Blackpool in the north of England will also ...
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Colifilms buys Assassination In February
Spanish producer Elias Querejeta has sold French rights on Cannes Critic's Week entry Assassination In February (Asesinato En Febrero) to specialist French distributor Colifilms. Querejeta says negotiations are also underway for sales to the US, UK and Italy. The feature film documentary, written by Querejeta and directed by newcomer Eterio ...
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Colifilms buys Assassination In February
Spanish producer Elias Querejeta has sold French rights on Cannes Critic's Week entry Assassination In February (Asesinato En Febrero) to specialist French distributor Colifilms. Querejeta says negotiations are also underway for sales to the US, UK and Italy. The feature film documentary, written by Querejeta and directed by newcomer Eterio ...
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Gaga buys Jeepers Creepers from Capitol Films
Japan's Gaga has picked up Jeepers Creepers from UK-based Capitol Films.Capitol has sold a host of overseas territories on the American Zoetrope title, with Spain's Tri-Pictures taking the film as part of a three-picture package including City Of Ghosts and CQ.Jeepers also went to Scandinavia's Scanbox, along with Robert Altman's ...
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Myriad, Tapestry team for co-production alliance
LA/London financing, production and sales outfit Myriad Pictures has teamed with LA production outfit Tapestry Films for a multi-year co-production alliance under which Myriad will provide Tapestry with a development fund and the two will co-produce two films a year. Myriad will retain international distribution rights to all the titles. ...
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Lolafilms boards Serrano's Cannibal's Daughter
Spanish heavyweight Lolafilms has boarded Mexican production The Cannibal's Daughter (La Hija Del Canibal), which reteams the director and producers of box office smash Sex, Shame And Tears (Sexo, Pudor Y Lagrimas).Lola, which handled distribution in Spain on Tears, will co-produce and take all Spanish rights to the $2-2.5m comedy-thriller ...
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Lacklustre Cannes festival leaves d'Or still ajar
At its exact midway point, with only five more days to go, the 54th edition of the Cannes Film Festival registers as a solid but not particularly exciting programme. No major discoveries, no artistic breakouts, not many commercial hits -- not even real controversies or scandals to stir festival watchers ...
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