All Screen articles in 18 September 2005 – Page 4
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Searchlight smokes, Paramount fumes in rights duel
Thank You For Smoking producer and the head of Room 9 Entertainment DavidO Sacks has declared that Fox Searchlight Pictures is the sole owner of thefilm and that, while negotiations had taken place with Paramount Classics, nodeal had been closed with that studio.Paramount Classics co-headDavid Dinerstein said that he stood ...
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Hot Venice doc Zapatero goes Wild
French sales and financingoutfit Wild Bunch has taken world rights to Viva Zapatero!Thedocumentary, which tackles Italian censorship in relation to prime minister andmedia magnate Silvio Berlusconi, generated serious buzz following its surpriseunveiling at Venice.Directed by Sabina Guzzanti,the film will be distributed by Lucky Red in Italy which negotiated the deal ...
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Meadows cranks up This Is England
Shane Meadows will startshooting his fifth feature, tentatively titled This is England, onlocation in Nottingham and Grimsby starting on Wednesday. The dark comedy is a coming-of-age story set in northern England duringsummer 1983, when an 11-year-old boy, Shaun, mourns the loss of his father andfalls in with a group of ...
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Corraface named president of Thessaloniki festival
Greek-French actor George Corraface(Giorgos Chorafas) has been named president of the Thessaloniki InternationalFilm Festival.The post has been vacant forfive months following film-maker Pandelis Vougaris' resignation as president inMay, just one month after he was appointed to takeover from fellow film makerTheo Angelopoulos.Corraface will work closelywith artistic director Despina Mouzaki.Corraface's nomination ...
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Fleishman gets top communications job at Warner Bros
WarnerBros Entertainment has named Susan Fleishman to its top communicationsposition. She will become Executive Vice President, Corporate Communications,effective from September 26.Fleishmanreplaces executive vice president and chief corporate communications officerBarbara Brogliatti, who retired from Warners after 18 years in May.Fleishman,an experienced communications veteran, will oversee all of Warner'scommunications strategies worldwide, including ...
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Bauer Martinez to herd Lau's Flock into Louisiana
Andrew Lau's The Flock, which had been due to go intoproduction in New Orleans later this autumn, may still shoot in Louisiana inspite of the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina. Philippe Martinez, CEOof Bauer Martinez Studios (BMS), told ScreenDaily.com that the plan nowis to see if it will be feasible ...
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Arclight picks up Hindi Carmen
Arclight Films todayannounced that it has picked up world sales rights to Chamki, ShyamBenegal's Hindi film adaptation of Carmen."We have been activelylooking at projects out of India and believe that this film has the potential ofbeing a truly global film," said Gary Hamilton, managing director of Arclight."Shyam Benegal is a ...
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Schrader commits to Adam Resurrected
Paul Schrader has signed onto direct the Holocaust epic Adam Resurrected for Ehud Bleiberg'sfledgling Los Angeles-based Bleiberg Entertainment.Bleiberg will commencecasting immediately and is eyeing a summer 2006 start date in Germany, Romania and Israel.Noah Stollman adapted thescreenplay from Yoram Kaniuk's novel about a former circus entertainer andHolocaust survivor who inhabits ...
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Thank You For Smoking
Dir. Jason Reitman. US.2005. 92mins.First-time director JasonReitman pulls off the miraculous feat of creating a single-issue comedy thatretains its freshness and drive throughout with his satire Thank You ForSmoking.It's a bristling, wickedlysmart portrait of a lobbyist named Nick Naylor (Eckhart), who makes his living orrather, in the running motif that ...
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Shopgirl
Dir: Anand Tucker. US.2005. 106mins.Shopgirl is a love letter to Clare Danes. The camera caressesher features, gazes adoringly into her tear-filled eyes and celebrates hertalent in a way that has rarely been seen since the MGM heyday of George Cukor.If you weren't besotted byher before then you should be after ...
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Shopgirl
Dir: Anand Tucker. US.2005. 106mins.Shopgirl is a love letter to Clare Danes. The camera caressesher features, gazes adoringly into her tear-filled eyes and celebrates hertalent in a way that has rarely been seen since the MGM heyday of George Cukor.If you weren't besotted byher before then you should be after ...
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On The Outs is in with Polychrome
US-based Polychrome Pictureshas acquired North American rights to Lori Silverbush and Michael Skolnik'sDeauville grand jury prize-winner On The Outs.The picture will get adomestic release on Jan 13 2006 through Polychrome's distribution agreement with New York and Pennsylvania-based boutique distributor KindredMedia Group.On TheOuts received its world premiere atToronto 2004 and stars ...
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L'Enfer
Dir: DanisTanovic. Fr-It-Bel-Jap. 2005. 98mins.Forget everythingyou thought you knew about Danis Tanovic, whose debut feature No Man's Land(2001) won the best foreign language Oscar. L'Enfer, his sophomoreeffort, leaves behind his native Balkan territory and its stalemate politics totackle a far more subtle, complex and less evident theme.The script he useswas ...
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Sympathy For Lady Vengeance
Dir: Park Chan-wook. SKor. 2005. 113mins.Few contemporarydirectors are able to mix genres and moods as confidently as Park Chan-wook -and get away with it. The third and final part of the Korean director'sJacobean revenge trilogy, after Sympathy For Mr Vengeance and Oldboy,is the most daring of the lot in the ...
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Mrs Henderson Presents
Dir: Stephen Frears. UK.2005. 103mins.A jaunty combination ofsocial history, screwball comedy and theatrical kitsch, Mrs HendersonPresents offers a sparkling, emotion-charged stroll down memory lane. Adeliciously witty script by Martin Sherman is seized upon with relish by JudiDench who gives a spellbinding, tour de force as the merry widow behindLondon's Windmill ...
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Edmond
Dir: Stuart Gordon. US.2005. 81mins.You never know how aDavid Mamet adaptation is going to turn out. The best of the last 10 years, Oleanna,was the one that stayed closest to its stage original in the college settingand the claustrophobic one-to-one stand-off of the two main characters.William H Macy starred thereand ...
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Canada's Frieberg gets ready to Throw
Canadian producer CameliaFrieberg is set to become a triple threat, co-writing and directing her firstfeature film, A Stone's Throw. Production of the $1m filmwill be through her Halifax-based Palpable Pictures. Garfield Lindsay Miller, aVictoria-based writer and producer of documentaries, collaborated on thescreenplay. The film will shoot on location in February ...
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...as Kaye's Paranoia relocates from Brazil
Tony Kaye's upcomingthriller Paranoia is relocating from Brazil to Louisiana, producer Michel Shane told delegates at a Louisiana production brunch yesterday (Sep 12).Shane said production on the$20m project will begin in early 2006 at unspecified state-wide locations.Currently out to casting, Paranoiacharts the experience of a compulsive obsessive woman who loses ...
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Penguins march into US record books
The MarchOf The Penguins has officially become the most successful Frenchfilm ever at the US box office with sales of $66.8m since its June release.Luc Jacquet's film has beat out Luc Besson's The FifthElement which took $66m in 1997 and previously outdistanced Jean-PierreJeunet's Amelie which now moves to third place ...
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Transmedia takes UK rights to Daly's Aryan Couple
NewUK distributor Transmedia has acquired the rights to its first feature film,WWII drama The Aryan Couple. JohnDaly, a veteran producer whose past credits include The Terminator, The LastEmperor and Platoon, co-wrote, directed, and produced the film. Setin Occupied Hungary 1944, The Aryan Couple follows the wealthy Jewish Krauzenberg family who ...