All Screen articles in 18 September 2005 – Page 3
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Cronenberg Maps future with Wagner, Fields
David Cronenberg is plottinga film of Bruce Wagner's original screenplay Maps To TheStars, to be produced by Robert Lantos and his Serendipity Point Films.But whether he will get to Mapsas his next film is uncertain, since there has been movement on hislong-gestating film of Martin Amis' London Fields. Cronenberg told ...
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Starter For Ten cranks up in London
Principalphotography started on September 5 on feature Starter for Ten, producedby Tom Hanks' Playtone in association with Sam Mendes' Neal Street Productionsfor HBO Films. The film is produced in association with the BBC. Shootingwill continue in Greater London, Bristol, and Clacton through the end ofOctober. The budget is described as ...
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Celador readies Marshall, Webber projects
Celador Films, the UK production outfit behind StephenFrears' Dirty Pretty Things and Neil Marshall's The Descent hasunveiled its new development slate. The slate includes a string of projects in the £3-5mbudget range from acclaimed directors such as Neil Marshall and Peter Webber (GirlWith A Pearl Earring) that Celador plans to ...
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Arclight grabs Bana-starrer Romulus
Arclight Films has picked upinternational rights to the Romulus, My Father,an adaptation of Raimond Gaita's award-winning memoir that will star Eric Bana.Australian theatre directorand actor Richard Roxburgh will direct the story of a young family's bid tostart a new life in a hostile country. The story focuses on the relationshipbetween ...
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Spence takes the reins at Seattle
Carl Spence has been namedartistic director of the Seattle International Film Festival Group (SIFF) aspart of an organisational restructure that replaces the role of executivedirector with the equal roles of artistic director and managing director.The restructure follows thedeparture of Helen Loveridge who resigned from her post as executive directorin July ...
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Walk The Line
Dir: James Mangold. US. 2005. 135mins.More the story of the romance between Johnny Cash and JuneCarter than a straight biopic of Cash, the eagerly awaited Walk The Line isa winning Hollywood entertainment dominated by two bright star performancesfrom Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon.Wide audiences will lap up the drama, especially ...
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Just Like Heaven
Dir: Mark Waters. US.2005. 95mins.Despite another winningstar turn from Reese Witherspoon in the lead role, Just Like Heaven feelslike a convoluted blend of other movies from Ghost to While You WereSleeping to Sleepless In Seattle to What Dreams May Come.Set to be released byDreamWorks in North America on Sept 16 ...
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Leonard's Jailbait finds Kindred spirit
Kindred Media Group haspicked up worldwide distribution rights to Brett C. Leonard's directorial debutJailbait, starring Michael Pitt.The New York andPennsylvania-based boutique distributor plans a North American release in April2006, with home video set to follow shortly afterwards.Pitt plays a young mansentenced to a California maximum-security prison under the three-strikeslaw, who ...
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London Film Festival unveils full line-up
The Times bfi London Film Festival (Oct 19-Nov 3) unveiled its fullline-up today and pledged to follow on last year's long-term strategy to expandindustry services. The festival announced a programme of 180 feature films, opening withFerndando Meirelles' The Constant Gardener and closing withGeorge Clooney's Venice hit Good Night, and Good ...
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Don't Tell
Dir:Cristina Comencini. It-UK-Sp-Fr. 2005. 120mins.Thestrongest of the three Italian films in competition at Venice this year, Don'tTell will nevertheless struggle to extend worthy local director CristinaComenicini's limited international appeal.GiovannaMezzogiorno's gritty performance as a soon-to-be-mother forced to deal for thefirst time with the ghosts of child abuse in her childhood netted ...
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Warners takes US rights to heavy metal documentary
Seville International has sold all U.S. rights to thedocumentary film Metal: A Headbanger's Journey, directed by Sam Dunn,Scot McFadyen and Jessica Joy Wise to Warner.Thedocumentary, which had its world premiere at the Toronto International FilmFestival on September 14, follows Sam Dunn, a professional anthropologist andlong-time heavy metal fan, as he ...
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CrossDay strikes raft of sales on Shooting Dogs
Demonstrating that anappetite still exists for cinematic insight into the 1994 Rwandan genocide,producer CrossDay Productions has sold Michael Caton-Jones's drama ShootingDogs to a raft of international territories, including Japan and the UK.Starring John Hurt and HughDancy, the film tells the harrowing tale of 2,500 Tutsis who took refuge in atechnical ...
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Soda takes C.R.A.Z.Y. for UK
UK distributor Soda has picked up on Jean-Marc Vallee's Canadian smash C.R.A.Z.Y.Soda co-president EveGabereau signed the all-rights deal on Tuesday in negotiation with Francois Yonof Paris-based Films Distribution on behalf of producer Pierre Even of Montreal's Cirrus Productions. It's the latest majorEuropean territory to fall for the Quebecois coming-of-age tale, ...
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Capote
Dir. Bennett Miller. US. 2005. 110mins.Philip Seymour Hoffman delivers agalvanising and awards-worthy performance in Capote, the superbdramatisation of US novelist Truman Capote at the zenith of his career: the sixyears from 1959 to 1965 that he devoted to his ground-breaking 'non-fiction'novel In Cold Blood.But the real star of the show ...
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Sony Classics buys Waddington's House
Sony Pictures Classics has acquiredNorth American rights to Andrucha Waddington's House Of Sand fromBrazil's Conspiracao Filmes after its premiere at the Toronto film festival.House Of Sand stars leading Brazilian actressesFernanda Montenegro (Central Station) and Palme D'Or winner andMontenegro's daughter, Fernanda Torres (Parle-Moi D'Amour). It tells thestory of three generations of ...
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Tristram Shandy: A Cock And Bull Story
Dir: Michael Winterbottom. UK. 2005. 91mins.Michael Winterbottom's deliriously funny film-about-a-filmof 18th century novel Tristram Shandy is the prolific director's mostenjoyable feature to date. Based around the gigantic comic talents of SteveCoogan, A Cock And Bull Story is both Winterbottom's affectionate homageto film-making itself and a snapshot of UK talent and ...
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FIFM to dole out bounty of prizes
The Festival Internationalde Film de Montreal is preparing to hand out an embarrassment oftrophies when its inaugural edition closes on September 25.The FIFM, topped by Moritzde Hadeln, announced it will present seven audience awards, including four forshort films, and three extra prizes on top of its already announced Iris Awardsfor ...
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Lions Gate offers $90m for DVD specialist
Lions Gate Entertainmenthas launched a $90m bid to buy Image Entertainment, the North American producerand distributor of home entertainment programming whose operations include a UKsubsidiary.The unsolicited bid sentImage Entertainment's shares soaring by as much as 57% this Wednesday afternoon on NewYork's Nasdaq exchange upon speculation that Lions Gate would increase ...
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HDNet lines up Hartley, Soderbergh
HDNet Films, the 2929Entertainment digital production arm headed up by Jason Kliot and Joana Vicente,has greenlit seven low-budget projects to add to its already packed slate.With three pictures playingat Toronto led by Bubble, the first of six Steven Soderberghprojects announced earlier this year, HDNet is wasting little time ramping upbarely ...
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Mayhem lands at Fortissimo
Fortissimo Films has pickedup worldwide rights outside Australia/NZ to black comedy Suburban Mayhem,directed by Australia's Paul Goldman (Australian Rules), andproduced by Lea Churchill Brown with The Piano's Jan Chapman executiveproducing. Icon will distribute in Australia/NZ.The film, about a murderousteenager, starts shooting in Sydney and Newcastle on August 26, starring NZ ...