All Screen articles in 18 September 2006 – Page 4
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Japan names Hula Girls as Oscar selection
The MotionPicture Producers Association of Japan (Eiren) hasannounced Lee Sang-il's Hula Girls as Japan's official entry for Best ForeignLanguage Film for the Academy Awards. The final five films nominated in thecategory will be announced by AMPAS on January 23.Hula Girls tells the true story of a group of Japanese coalminers' ...
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New Manchester festival commissions film by Greg Hall
The Manchester InternationalFestival has commissioned director Greg Hall and composer Steve Martland to create a new feature film that will premiere atthe inaugural festival in 2007. Greg Hall's feature debut The Plague, a low-budget urban dramachampioned by Mike Leigh, will be released in UK cinemas on Oct 6. Martland'smusic has ...
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Fortune Star acquires China Star library
Regional broadcaster StarGroup's content arm, Fortune Star, has acquired 100 library titles from Hong Kong's China Star Entertainment Group, in a deal valued at $18m. Most of the titles wereproduced in the past five years by China Star production subsidiaries OneHundred Years of Film, China Star Pictures and S&W. The ...
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DOAP, Bella, Reprise top TIFF prizes
UK filmmakerGabriel Range's Death Of A President won the FIPRESCI prize while Joachim Trier's Reprise(Norway) won the Diesel Discovery Award as the 31st TorontoInternational Film Festival wrapped here on Saturday. The prizes went to arange of films, many of them debut features. The audienceprize, the People's Choice Award, was asurprise: ...
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Picturehouse takes Lopez/Anthony starrer El Cantante
Picturehouse has swooped on North American rights to ElCantante following itsworld premiere at Toronto in what sources close to negotiations said was thebiggest deal of the festival so far.The distributors' senior vice president of acquisitions Sara Roseand New Line's executive vice president of business affairs and co-productionsCarolyn Blackwood concluded marathon ...
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Starter For Ten
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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Starter For Ten
Dir. Tom Vaughan. UK. 2006. 96mins.James McAvoy confirms hisposition as Britain's brightest newcomer in StarterFor Ten, a solid, rather endearing comedy, basedaround Britain'slong-running quiz show University Challenge. A period piece setin 1985-6, with all the music and haircuts to match, it is produced by TomHanks, via Sam Mendes, and, despite ...
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Pirates breaks record in Italy, with $12.8m in five days
Buena Vista International(BVI) reported its second consecutive one-two punch overseas as Pirates Of TheCaribbean: Dead Man's Chest crossed$600m and usurped Cars to returnto the top.DeadMan's Chest used a late Italiandebut to boost its already formidable box office, and set a new five-dayindustry opening record in the territory of $12.8m.The result ...
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Qantas named best inflight entertainment airline by WAEA
Qantas has been named thebest inflight entertainment airline of all large fleets by a 23-personinternational media panel.The panel, sponsored by theWorld Airline Entertainment Association's Avion Awards, declared KLM and CathayPacific runners-up.Jet Airways (India) Ltd wonthe Small Fleet category, followed by Hawaiian Airlines and Sri LankanAirlines.The best inflight magazineaward went to ...
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Gridiron Gang tops lacklustre North American box office
Sony set a record tenth number one release for a distributor in asingle year as the American football drama Gridiron Gang starring The Rock opened top on anestimated $15m.Four new pictures were not enough however to rouse the businessfrom its early autumnal slumber as the top 12 pictures trailed the ...
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Barker & Bernard, Murphy to receive honours at HFA ceremony in Oct
Sony Pictures Classics' (SPC)co-presidents Michael Barker and Tom Bernard will receive the Hollywood LeadershipAward at the Hollywood Film Awards on Oct 23 in Los Angeles.Running With Scissors director Ryan Murphy will collect the Hollywood BreakthroughDirector of the Year Award.Barker and Bernard formedSPC with Marcie Bloom 15 years ago and their ...
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IFP Filmmaker Conference kicks off Monday, keynote speakers include Battsek, Sehring
IFP's1st Annual Filmmaker Conference, formerly known as the IFP Market &Filmmaker Conference, will kick off in New York today and last for the rest ofthe week.Eventsinclude panel discussions, on-stage interviews, networking opportunitiesfor filmmakers, and screenings.Panelists scheduled to speakinclude Forest Whitaker and his The Last King Of Scotland director Kevin Macdonald, ...
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Bong and Park to team on comic book adaptation
Old Boy directorPark Chan-wook is to produce a film directed by Bong Joon-ho, whose latestmovie The Host recently became Korea's top-grossing local film of all time. The project, which Bong iscurrently developing, is based on the French sci-fi comic Le Transperceneige, created by Jean-Marc Rochette and Jacques Lob.Park's production house,Moho ...
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Korean telco to install 100 digital cinema systems
Korea's leading telco KT Corp has signed a memorandum of understanding withexhibitors Lotte Cinema, Cinus and MMC to install 100 digital cinema systems intheir theatres by the end of the year.The move is part of KT'splan to install digital cinema systems in more than 500 screens, which isaround 30% of ...
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El Cantante
Dir: Leon Ichaso. US. 2006. 116mins.The last time JenniferLopez collaborated with the love of her life the result was the toe-curlingembarrassment of Gigli(2003). Now, she has dared to co-produce and co-star with husband Marc Anthonyin a drama inspired by the life of 1970s salsa superstar Hector Lavoe. El Cantante is ...
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Cashback
Dir/scr: Sean Ellis. UK. 2006.90mins.A wistful, endearing slip of a romantic comedy, Cashback marks anassured feature debut from writer/director Sean Ellis. An expansion of hisOscar-nominated short, it strains to fill the bigger canvas of a feature butany reservations are balanced by the unusual lyricism of Ellis's approach tothe genre, the ...
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Lives Of Others chosen as German Oscar entry
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's Stasi thriller TheLives Of Others (Das Leben DerAnderen) has selected by Germany as itssubmission for the Foreign Language Film Oscar next year.Commenting on its decision, the independent expert jurywho made the selection said that von Donnersmarck's film "intenselydescribes not only a chapter of the history of ...
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The City Of Violence (Jjak-pae)
Dir: Ryoo Seung-wan. S Kor. 2006. 93mins.Action film-maker Ryoo Seong-wan takes a comparative step backwards from thepsychological complexity of last year's CryingFist with The City OfViolence, his latest outing, which pegs a series of appetisingly choreographedfight sequences onto a threadbare script.Co-produced by Korea's mainmartial arts school, the film seems more ...
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Everybody's Hero
Dir: Christopher Reeve, Daniel St. Pierre, ColinBrady. US. 2006. 85mins.It's easy to see why Christopher Reeve,who died during the making of animated children's film Everybody's Hero (directing duties were assumed by Daniel St Pierreand Colin Brady), was attracted to the material. The story of a young boy whofinds the strength ...
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Everyone's Hero
Dir: Christopher Reeve, Daniel St. Pierre, ColinBrady. US. 2006. 85mins.It's easy to see why Christopher Reeve,who died during the making of animated children's film Everyone's Hero (directing duties were assumed by Daniel St Pierreand Colin Brady), was attracted to the material. The story of a young boy whofinds the strength ...