All Screen articles in 18 September 2006 – Page 2
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Sony Classics pre-buys British memoir drama
Sony Pictures Classics has bought North America and Latin Americanrights to And When Did You Last See Your Father'Anand Tucker will direct the film, whose production is set tobegin in October. The project has been developed under the UK Film Council's Super-Slateinitiative in association with Film4, Intandem Films and the ...
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Bugmaster
Dir: Katsuhiro Otomo. Jap-US. 2006. 130mins.Japanese anime director Katsuhiro Otomomakes a curiously subdued, poetic foray into live-action cinema with his latestfeature, Bugmaster.Though the story's setting in the late Meiji era and its "invisible bug"infestation theme initially suggest a period horror along the lines of ShinyaTsukamoto's Gemini, the meditativepace, lonely but ...
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Lionsgate swoops for Polley's directorial debut
Lionsgate has bought US rights to Sarah Polley's directorial debutAway From Herfollowing its world premiere earlier in the festival.The company plans to release the picture, which stars JulieChristie and Gordon Pinsent, in spring 2007. The adaptation of Alice Munro's short story The Bear Came OverThe Mountain deals withrevelations that emerge ...
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Yamada to direct World War II drama for Shochiku
Japanese major Shochiku isproducing the next film from Yoji Yamada following his acclaimedsamurai trilogy - a World War II drama with the working title Kabei, set to star veteran actressSayuri Yoshinaga. Based on the non-fictionnovel Chichi Eno Requiem, written byTeruyo Nogami, the film is set in 1940s Tokyo and follows ...
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Medavoy, Foster invest in Korean production house
Korea's Guardtec Inc hasannounced that Phoenix Pictures head Mike Medavoy and Mr & Mrs Smith producer Lucas Foster have bought into the firm,marking the first time that Hollywood players have directly invested in alisted Korean production company.The two US producers have also joined the company as advisoryboard members.Originally a securitysystems ...
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Sarandon, Byrne, Plummer get Emotional
Susan Sarandon, GabrielByrne, Christopher Plummer, Max von Sydow and Roy Dupuis have signed on asleads in Emotional Arithmeticfrom Montreal-based BBR Productions and Toronto's Triptych Media. Budgeted near$5.8m, the long-gestating project begins production in Quebec's Easterntownships in October. Directed by Paolo Barzmanand adapted by Jefferson Lewis and Barzman from the eponymous ...
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Penelope cruises into international markets
Hyde Park International has closed multiple territory deals onMark Palansky's fantasy drama Penelope, which has been in play with domestic buyers since itsworld premiere screening last week.Rights have gone to Australia (Magna Pacific), Mexico(Gussi), Brazil (Paris Films), CIS (MGN), Taiwan (CMC), and Portugal(Lusomundo).Deals also closed in Benelux (RCV), Greece (Village ...
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Transmedia strikes UK deal for A Few Days In September
New UK distributor Transmedia hasacquired all UK rights to A Few Days In September (Quelques Jours En Septembre). The film, written anddirected by Santiago Amigorena, stars Juliette Binoche, John Turturro, Nick Nolte, Sara Forestierand Tom Riley.A Few Days In September is a thriller set in Paris and Venice in 2001, ...
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Japan's Avex buys into Chinese talent agency
Japan's Avex Group has agreed to acquire a 20% stake in the holding companyof Beijing-based talent agency and production house, Chengtian EntertainmentGroup. The two companies also planto establish a joint venture, Avex China, with dates to be announced. Two undisclosed US companies have also acquired a combined 5% stake inthe ...
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King Of The Mountain to go ahead despite Brock's death
The filmmakers behind King Of The Mountain, which was set tobe the acting debut of Australia's best-known racing car driver Peter Brock, who diedin an accident on the track last Friday, have said that the project willcontinue.Executive producer Tom Kennedysaid the $2.3m (A$3m) action drama will be financed by sponsors ...
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All The Boys Love Mandy Lane
Dir/scr: Jonathan Levine. US. 2006. 88mins.A quick $3.5m-$4m buy for The Weinstein Company atToronto, All TheBoys Love Mandy Lane proves to be a crisply-executed teen horror debut fromdirector Jonathan Levine and LA production outfit Occupant Films. It's likelyto be a smart buy, given that this genre, at its best, is ...
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All The Boys Love Mandy Lane
Dir/scr: Jonathan Levine. US. 2006. 88mins.A quick $3.5m-$4m buy for The Weinstein Company atToronto, All TheBoys Love Mandy Lane proves to be a crisply-executed teen horror debut fromdirector Jonathan Levine and LA production outfit Occupant Films. It's likelyto be a smart buy, given that this genre, at its best, is ...
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Bside takes on documentary Before The Music Dies
Bside Entertainment hasacquired North American rights to Andrew Shapter's documentary Before TheMusic Dies which will be its firsttheatrical release.The innovative distributorwill ally itself with companies like MySpace and chipmaker AMD and deployonline marketing and innovative exhibition models. Further details will beunveiled in due course.Before The Music Dies premiered at the ...
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Breaking And Entering
Dir/scr: Anthony Minghella. UK. 2006. 119mins.Anthony Minghella's firstcontemporary London-set film since Truly MadlyDeeply in 1991, Breaking And Enteringis an ambitious but disappointing affair revolving around middle class folkfrom North London in crisis. Although handsomely produced and featuring one ortwo noteworthy performances, it is hijacked by a surprising lack ofplausibility, both ...
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Strand buys domestic rights to Goldberger's Hawk Is Dying
Strand Releasing has acquired North American rights to JulianGoldberger's The Hawk Is Dying which had its world premiere at Sundance this year and alsoplayed in Directors' Fortnight at Cannes.The deal was concluded between Jon Gerrans of Strand with JeffLevy-Hinte of the film's production company Strand Releasing. Also representingthe film were ...
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Perfume: The Story Of A Murderer (Parfum: Die Geschichte Eines Morders)
Dir: Tom Tykwer. Ger-Fr-Sp. 2006. 140mins.Tom Tykwer pulls out allthe stops with his sumptuous English-language adaptation of Patrick Suskind's novel Perfume,making for a daring and imposing achievement that is likely to leave audiencesstunned and somewhat exhausted rather than truly dazzled.With its dark tone, wilfullymorbid subject matter and antipathetic protagonist, it ...
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Netflix takes domestic rights to Prisoner doc at Toronto
Netflix-owned Red Envelope Entertainment snapped up North Americanrights yesterday [Tuesday] to North American rights on Michael Tucker and PetraEpperlein's documentary The Prisoner Or: How I Planned To Kill Tony Blair.The picture will be released theatrically with additionalfootage in 2007, and will also be released across a number of platforms in ...
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Netflix takes domestic rights to Prisoner doc at Toronto
Netflix-owned Red Envelope Entertainment snapped up North Americanrights yesterday [Tuesday] to North American rights on Michael Tucker and PetraEpperlein's documentary The Prisoner Or: How I Planned To Kill Tony Blair.The picture will be released theatrically with additionalfootage in 2007, and will also be released across a number of platforms in ...
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Tales From Earthsea (Gedo Senki)
Dir: Goro Miyazaki. Jap. 2006. 114mins.Hayao Miyazaki has passed the director'smantle on to his son Goro for Tales From Earthsea,Studio Ghibli's latest feature-length 2D anime. Basedon the series of books by fantasy author Ursula Le Guin,this dragon and wizard yarn is drawn - at least as far as the backdrops ...