All Screen articles in 19 August 2005 – Page 2
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Toronto adds 11 foreign-language world premieres
The Toronto International Film Festival has added 11 worldpremieres to its September line up, including The Duelist from Korea's Lee Myung-se, Iberia from Spanish auteur Carlos Saura and a Galapresentation of German filmmaker Hermine Huntgeburth's White Masai.Deflecting criticism that it's a Hollywood-centred event,TIFF packaged its latest 21- title announcement as ...
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Sizer joins Icon as head of development
Chloe Sizer has joined Icon Entertainment Internationalas head of development, reporting to CEO Martin Bigham. Sizer, who most recently served as Magic Light Pictures'head of development, will start with the company at the beginning of September2005. Bighamcommented: "Icon's London based operations have gone through many key changesthis past year. Chloe's ...
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Weber quits Bavaria to launch own sales outfit
Michael Weber, managingdirector of Bavaria Media and Bavaria Film International (BFI), is leaving thecompany to set up his own as-yet-unnamed world sales outfit. Munich based sales companyBFI will now be run by two of its experienced executives: head of salesThorsten Schaumann and head of marketing Thorsten Ritter who have been ...
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Meadows get mobile with 15 second short
Award-winning Britishdirector Shane Meadows has made a short film shot entirely on a mobilephone. The Stairwell, a 15-second short film, premiered on www.nokiashorts.co.uk on August 15 aspart if this year's Nokia Shorts competition. Meadows, who has directedsuch films as Dead Man's Shoesand TwentyFourSeven, shot thefilm in a few hours on ...
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Rag Tale
Dir. Mary McGuckian.UK-Lux. 2005. 123mins.Bashing newspapers hasalways been popular sport for film-makers. But Mary McGuckian's Rag Taleadds nothing to the genre, despite its radically different technical approach,and ultimately only results in a muddle.Shot mostly in hugeclose-ups by three madly swinging HD cameras and using every type of distortinglens to twist ...
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Sogepaq to handle five more from Tesela
Spanishsales house Sogepaq has inked a deal with local producer Tesela to handle internationalsales and domestic video on five new and in-development features Includedin that five are two films that will be unveiled in the upcoming festivalseason. Among them is Venice Days screener The Wind (El Viento) from director Eduardo ...
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FFC Australia revamps board
The Film Finance Corporation Australia (FFC) has revamped its board,appointing investment banker Alastair Walton and the high-profile entertainmententrepreneur Paul Dainty.The terms of four of the eight-member board have expired in the past sixweeks and a further two people are likely to be appointed soon by theAustralian Government, although it may ...
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The Smiths cross $200m overseas benchmark
New Regency/Summit Entertainment/Weed Road Pictures' Mr And MrsSmith has passed $200min international ticket sales.The action picture stayed top in France through SND for the third weekend in a row and stands at more than $13.9m.In other market highlights, Mr And Mrs Smith has taken more than $21m in Germanythrough Kinowelt, ...
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Euro films set for Industry Screenings in New York
European Film Promotion (EFP) is tolaunch a series of Industry Screenings in New York in November 2005 with theaim of introducing new European films to North American buyers. Thisinitiative, supported by the MEDIA Programme of the European Union, will featureone screening each of four new European films. The screenings will ...
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New Locarno chief outlines festival strategy
Locarno Film Festival's incoming artisticdirector Frederic Maire has set himself of the goal of making the event"the festival of the future."Speaking to ScreenDaily.com a day afterthe unanimous decision by the festival's board to appoint him as successor toIrene Bignardi, Maire said that "the spirit of Locarno must be preserved:Locarno is ...
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Austrian box office plunges in first half of 2005
Mirroring the general internationaltrend, Austrian exhibitors have reported year-on-year falls in box-officerevenues and admissions for the first half of 2005, but are bullish aboutprospects for the next six months.According to figures collated by theAustrian exhibitors' association FLA, 7.35m tickets were sold in the first sixmonths - down 18.3% on 2004's ...
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Familia
Dir. LouiseArchambault. Can. 2005. 102mins.Louise Archambault's cheerful debut may bebookended by some ambitious statements about the inevitability of geneticinheritance, but by the end has proved to be a light romp that is more than happyto settle for crowd-pleasing solutions.If audience responseat Locarno, where Familia played last week, is any indication, ...
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Red Eye (S Korea)
Dir: Wes Craven. US.2005. 81mins.Screen elitists arealways decrying the feckless over-complications of modern action movies, butWes Craven's air-bound Red Eye strikes a blow for old-fashionedentertainment, even as it unfolds against a decidedly contemporary setting. Athriller cast as a breathless nouveau labyrinth dash, the movie delivers solidgenre jolts in a tight, ...
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Roadshow takes on Oz distribution for Wolf Creek
Roadshow has acquireddirector Greg McLean's horror film Wolf Creek for an October 27 localrelease. Australia's biggestindependent distributor acquired the film from Miramax sister companyDimension, which bought a raft of territories from Arclight early this year. Producer David Lightfoot said the UKrelease through Optimum on September 16 will be the biggest ...
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A Perfect Couple (Un Couple Parfait)
Dir/scr. SobuhiroSuwa. Fr-Jap. 2005. 104mins.Tailor-made for film festivals and those with apenchant for obscure material, Sobuhiro Suwa's A Perfect Couple is the sort offeature that will deter audiences whose patience is tried by films that delaydelivering their message.Shot in Paris with aFrench cast, this chiaroscuro (more scuro than chiaro) portrait ...
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The Constant Gardener
Dir: Fernando Meirelles.2005. UK-Ger. 125mins.Proving that City OfGod was no one-hit-wonder, Brazilian director Fernando Meirelles delivers avivid tapestry of international intrigue set against the backdrop of Africa anda pharmaceutical industry in The Constant Gardener, based on spyspecialist John le Carre's novel of the same name.Part retrospective lovestory, part political mystery, ...
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Japanese film takeover deal collapses
Cable and broadband broadcaster Usen Corp. has revealed itwill not acquire film producer and distributor Nikkatsu from its parentcompany, game maker Namco.The deciding factor was reportedly strong opposition fromthe Nikkatsu labor union. In an interview with the Nihon Keizai Shimbun, a Usenofficial said that the company no longer "expects to ...
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Pair of film channels to launch in Germany
Germany's free-TV channels Tele 5 and NBC Giga are beingrelaunched as film channels from this autumn.Tele 5, which is a 100% subsidiary of Herbert Kloiber's TeleMuenchen Group (TMG), will be relaunched on September 22 and has acquired a70-title package from license trader Intertainment including Grey Owl, TheBig Kahuna and The ...
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Butler spearheads sword-and-sandal war epic for Warner
Gerard Butler (pictured) will star in Warner Bros'adaptation of 300, a graphic novel by Frank Miller (Sin City) that recounts one ofancient Greece's best-known military battles. Warner, returning to the sword-and-sandal action-adventure genre thatyielded blockbuster results at the global box office with Troy but more mixed fortunes with Alexander, plans ...
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Muren, Miyazaki score at Hollywood Film Awards
The Hollywood Film Festival's board of advisors hasunveiled a roster of film recipients for the upcoming 9th annual Hollywood FilmAwards, which is set to take place in Beverly Hills in October.Warner Bros' Batman Begins will receive the Hollywood Sound of the Year Award, Disney'sHowl's Moving Castle earnsthe Hollywood Animation of ...
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