All Screen articles in 18 September 2006 – Page 4
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Black Sheep
Dir/scr: Jonathan King. NZ. 2006. 87mins.A canny mix of splatter-movie aesthetics, nationaldread and ecological warning, Jonathan King's debut feature Black Sheep is a riotously funny,gleefully overdone horror exercise that more than hints at the influence of earlyPeter Jackson like Meet The Feebles, Braindead and BadTaste.Swift andentertaining, though at times too ...
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Pusan to present record 64 world premieres
The Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF) announced itsline-up today with a record 64 world premieres. A total of 245 films from 63countries will show at the festival's 11th edition, running Oct 12 - 20. The inauguralAsian Film Market will run parallel to the festival from Oct 15-18, with 95registered sales ...
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Pusan to present record 64 world premieres
The Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF) announced itsline-up today with a record 64 world premieres. A total of 245 films from 63countries will show at the festival's 11th edition, running Oct 12 - 20. The inauguralAsian Film Market will run parallel to the festival from Oct 15-18, with 95registered sales ...
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European Film Academy to honour Polanski
The European Film Academywill give this year's lifetime achievement award to film-maker Roman Polanski. Polanski,who has been an actor, writer director and producer, will receive the honour atthe European Film Awards on Dec 2 in Warsaw.The director himself grew up in Poland. TheAcademy cited Polanski's "impressive contribution tothe world of ...
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Kim moves up at Lionsgate
ElizabethKim has been promoted to Lionsgate's senior vice president of internationalsales as the company continues to bolster its international operations.Kim, whois in Toronto with the entire international sales team and handling The USVs John Lennon andworld premiere Fido, oversees sales for Latin America, Asia, the Middle East and keyEuropean territories.Her ...
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Ruby Tuesday gets animated with Jagger, Europa
EuropaCorp and Mick Jagger's Jagged Films are preparing a late2006 start on the animated feature Ruby Tuesday in time for a winter 2008 release.The partners are jointly producing the project and EuropaCorp isfinancing and ...
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Bachchan to join Abraham in Mehta's next Exclusion
Indian megastar AmitabhBachchan is expected to take the lead role in Deepa Mehta's Exclusion, a$15m historical drama about an ill-fated voyage of emigre Sikhs who soughtrefuge but where rebuffed by Canadian authorities in the early part of the 20thcentury. Bachchan, who is in Torontoto promote Never Say Goodbye,will play Gurdit ...
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Puerto Rico confirms 40 percent tax break
ThePuerto Rico Film Commission revealed full details of its 40% tax credit schemeat an official industry launch here yesterday.Thescheme, which is believed to be the second-largest in the world behindManitoba's 65% facility, will offer a rebate of local spend on features,television productions, miniseries and soundtracks.Qualifyingproductions will need to shoot 50% ...
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Cairo festival resurrects market as Egyptian production grows
The organisers of the CairoInternational Film Festival, now in its 30th year, are launching afilm market to run alongside the main festival. It will take place in the CairoOpera House, Dec 2-7."We had a market a few yearsback but it stopped for various reasons. This seemed the year to bring ...
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Rob-B-Hood
Dir: Benny Chan. HK-Chi. 2006. 135mins.Jackie Chan returns to the broad Hong Kong comedyaction of earlier films like Meals On Wheels with the enjoyably ramshackle, fast-pacedbabysitting-crook yarn Rob-B-Hood.Laced with some classic stunts - a couple of them as inventive as anything Chanhas ever done - and action set-pieces, and canny ...
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Newman named deputy director of US National Video Resources
Former National Board of Review (NBR) executive director EileenNewman has been appointed deputy director of National Video Resources.In her new role Newman will serve as the organisation's chief programmaticand operating manager, overseeing all NVR programmes including the Media ArtsFellowships, which award approximately $800,000 annually to artists.Newman served as the NBR's ...
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Schumacher to direct Gold Circle's Town Creek
Joel Schumacher willdirect Gold Circle's upcoming supernatural thriller Town Creek, with Lionsgate on board for domestic and MandatePictures handling international rights.Production is set to begin on Mar 1 2007 on the story of former abductee andhis brother who return to the site of the kidnapping and become trapped in anoccult ...
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The Missing Star (La Stella Che Non C'e)
Dir: Gianni Amelio. It-Fr-Switz. 2006. 107mins.Gianni Amelio treads waterwith The Missing Star, an anti-hero quest moviethat has moments of emotional engagement but is marred by its genrefence-sitting and the muddiness of its final message. It's one of those filmswhose fascination lies not so much in the drama, whichis structured like ...