All Screen articles in 18 September 2006 – Page 3
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Pyongyang festival opens with international line-up
North Korea's 10th Pyongyang International Film Festival (Sep13-22) opened yesterday with a programme of more than 70 features films fromaround 30 countries and 50 organisations. According to the isolationistcountry's Korean Central News Agency, the line-up includes theatrical andmade-for-TV films - with a competition and special screenings for films "highlyregarded" at ...
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The Last Kiss
Dir: Tony Goldwyn. US.2006. 105mins.A group of late twentysomethingsgingerly approaches the big 3-0 in TheLast Kiss, a tiring melodrama that coddles its immature characters.Director Tony Goldwyn has gathered an impressive cast, but Crash Oscar-winning screenwriter Paul Haggis' ponderous adaptationof the Italian hit L'Ultimo Baciostrangles the life from this ensemble picture.Starring ...
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Vernon promoted to marketing head at Metrodome
UK distributor Metrodomehas promoted Jezz Vernon to Head of Marketing. Hereplaces Tom Grievson, who is leaving Metrodome to join Warner Bros. as Marketing Manager. Vernon joined Metrodome in 2005 from RevolverEntertainment. He had been Marketing Manager at music publication NME. He willnow oversee marketing for theatrical and DVD campaigns. Metrodome ...
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France submits Fauteuils d'Orchestre for Oscar race
Daniele Thompson's ensemble dramedy Fauteuils d'Orchestre has been selected to represent France in the race for this year's foreign language Academy Award nomination.The film is produced by Thelma Films and set in the Parisian theatre world with an all-star cast including Cecile De France, Valerie Lemercier, Albert Dupontel, Laura Morante, ...
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London Film Festival to close with Inarritu's Babel
The Times BFI London FilmFestival (LFF) has announced the 181 features and 131 shorts programmed for its50th-anniversary event. As previously announced, the festival willopen Oct 18 with Kevin Macdonald's TheLast King Of Scotland. It will close Nov 2 with Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu's Babel starring Cate Blanchett, Brad Pitt and Gael ...
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...while Metrodome nabs UK rights to Away From Her
Metrodome Distribution has acquired all UK rights foractor-turned-director Sarah Polley's feature directorial debut, Away From Her, which premiered this weekat the Toronto International Film Festival.Metrodome plans a spring 2007 release. This news follows on Lionsgate's deal for US rights. Away From Her stars Julie Christie and Gordon Pinsetin the story ...
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Pinewood in partnership to fund Shepperton development
UK studio company Pinewood Shepperton has announced plans to enter into a joint venture with Morley Fund Management to form a partnership that will further develop Shepperton Studio. Pinewood had previously announced plans for the expansion and growth at both Pinewood and Shepperton, and this new partnership will enable the ...
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Bunny Chow's Dv8 renews slate deal with South Africa's NFVF
Joel Phiri and Jeremy Nathan's Dv8 Films, the production companybehind John Barker and Dog Pack's Toronto world premiere comedy Bunny Chow, have renewed their slate deal with theSouth African government's entertainment industry agency NFVF.The deal commits to the production of at least fourfeatures over the next 18 months, with a ...
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Cruz, Williams, Bullock added to lineup of Oct Hollywood Film Awards
The Hollywood Film Awards has added Robin Williams, Penelope Cruzand Sandra Bullock to its line-up of honorees at its annual bash on Oct 23 inBeverly Hills.Williams stars in drama The Night Listener and will receive the Hollywood CareerAchievement Award, while Cruz will appear later this year in the Spanish drama ...
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Bonneville
Dir: Christopher M Rowley. US.2006. 104mins.A slushy salute to female friendship and the greatmysteries of life and death, Bonnevillehas the unmistakable feel of a TV-movie tearjerker. Filled with predictabledevelopments and heart-tugging revelations, it is bereft of surprises anddripping in syrupy sentiment. It has been a long while since an older ...
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BVI's Pirates has final territorial opening in Italy
Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest will cross the $600m international markthis weekend as it launches in its final market of Italy.Buena Vista International's (BVI) adventure yarn has taken$594.6 to date and will surely pass $600m with the Sept 13 Italian release.Meanwhile Cars,which overtook its BVI stablemate as the ...
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Strike (Die Heldin Von Danzig)
Dir: Volker Schloendorff. Ger.2006. 104mins.Billed in the opening credits as a "ballad", Strike is based on events in the Leninshipyards in Gdansk, Poland during the early 1980s,which sparked the creation of the Solidarity movement and, ultimately, thebeginning of the end of the Cold War.Coming off as a Polish Norma Rae ...
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Sachar to oversee financing, development at Kindred Media Group
Filmmaker and actor Jonathan Sachar has joined USdistribution outfit Kindred Media Group as executive vice president and willoversee development and financing.Sachar has been working with Kindred on One Part Sugar starring Danny DeVito, Dylan Walsh andJustin Long; Southern Gothic; and Superheroes.Kindred Media Group president Jeffrey D Erb said:'We're very happy ...
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Loewy to return to MPD, focusing on New Line product, says report
The dispute between filmdistributor Motion Picture Distribution and its former chairman Victor Loewyhas been resolved, according to a newspaper report in Canada. Citing unnamed sources, theGlobe and Mail newspaper said Loewy had negotiated a return to the MPDexecutive suite which will see him deal exclusively with the output deal withNew ...
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Macbeth
Dir: Geoffrey Wright. Aust. 2006.109mins.Shakespeare's bloodthirsty Scottish warlords are transportedto contemporary Melbourne, recent home to Mafia-style vendettas, tit-for-tat slayingsand alleged police corruption, for Geoffrey Wright's Macbeth. The result makes for a good genre fit, casting the centuries old plot in a new light with suavely dressed killers,beautiful women and a ...
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The Optimists (Optimisti)
Dir: Goran Paskaljevic. Serb-Monaco. 2006.94mins.Eight years after his feature The Powder Keg portrayed Milosevic's Serbia self-destructing with avengeance, Goran Paskaljevicreturns for another look at his homeland with The Optimists. But although the former Serbian leader is now gone,and democracy of sorts has replaced him, Pasklajevicis not really enchanted by what ...
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Spain's Lolafilms readies Aranda's Lolita's Club
Spanish production house Lolafilms is preparing director Vicente Aranda'sLolita's Club, the follow-up to his English-languageromp The White Knight.The estimated $6.4m (Euros5m) film will star Eduardo Noriega (Alatriste) and is expected to start shooting in Spain in early 2007. Producer Andres Vicente Gomez says hewill seek co-producers, likely starting in Italy.The ...
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Revolver and Shooting People team for Destricted short competition
Revolver Entertainment andShooting People are hosting a short film competition tied to Revolver's releaseof Destricted,a compilation of films with sexy themes. Larry Clark will judge theentries, which will be shorts under five minutes madeby emerging film-makers that "challenge the boundaries between art and porn." Clark's own 38-minute Impaled isincluded on ...
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Fox, MySpace launch preview screenings programme with Borat
Twentieth Century Fox and corporate sibling MySpace have teamed upon a new promotional tool that will enable MySpace users to see previewscreenings of upcoming features.The Black Carpet scheme will kick off with the preview screeningof Toronto hit Borat.MySpace users in six countries Ð the US, UK, Ireland, Australia, Germany andCanada ...
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Susanne Bier to direct UK shoot for The Duchess
Director Susanne Bier willdirect period love story The Duchessfor Qwerty Films and MagnoliaMae Films. The project will shoot onlocation in the UK in early 2007 after Bier completes work on her current project, Dreamworks' Things WeLost InThe Fire, starring Halle Berry and Benicio Del Toro.The Duchess is based onAmanda Foreman's ...