All Screen articles in 19 May 2004 – Page 10
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Godard provokes at Cannes
In Cannes yesterday, Jean-Luc Godard (unveiling hisnew film Notre Musique out ofcompetition) was in typically provocative and gnomic form. Asked to comment onMichael Moore's work, he compared it unfavourably to the "great movies" 25 years ago of Frederick Wiseman. "Ofcourse he (Moore) says he is attacking Bush but my feeling ...
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UK Film Council eyes up Loach
Is the UK Film Council rediscovering the auteur bug'Earlier this week, the UK public funding body announced itwould be pumping $483,000 into The PianoTuner Of Earthquakes, the new feature from animators The Quay Brothers.Now, sources at Cannes suggest that the UK Film Council is "desperate" tosupport British director Ken Loach ...
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Kormakur embarks on A Little Trip To Heaven
Forest Whitakerand Norway's Maria Bonnevie are heading the cast of Baltasar Kormakur's hotEnglish-language debut A Little Trip ToHeaven, which has become the biggest Icelandic film ever with its $8.5mbudget.New sales outfitKatapult Film Sales has already pre-sold the project to A-Film (Benelux) andArtfree (Greece), and LA-based Icelandic producer Joni Sighvatsson is ...
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Monster sales for Film Transit's Metallica
Films Transit is reporting strong buyer interest in documentary Metallica: Some Kind of Monster, inspite of the fact that world DVD rights to the feature have already been soldto Paramount Home Entertainment.Since its premiere at Berlin, theatrical rights for the film have beensold to the UK (Tartan), Australia (Dendy), Canada ...
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Salles to tackle football-themed film
Walter Salles,whose Motorcycle Diaries screens incompetition in Cannes today, is to make a low budget football-themed film forDonald K. Ranvaud's new production and sales collective, Buena Onda.Salles willco-direct with Daniela Thomas with whom he made Foreign Land. The film, set in Sao Paolo, will tell of four youngbrothers from an ...
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Lusomundo swallows up Filmax slate
Filmax International hassold all rights in Portugal to their entire library of titles at Cannes toLusomundo Audiovisuals, plus newupcoming films Fragile, Captain Trueno,The Machinist (with Christian Baleand Jennifer Jason Leigh) and the three in-production animation titles Donkey-Xote,Pinnochio 3000 and Nocturna.The deal involves a morethan a hundred titles and includes current ...
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Reding spells out Media Programme future
"Filmeducation and training are to be put at the heart of the next version of theEuropean Union's Media Programme," said EU culture and education commissionerViviane Reding yesterday."Wewill not harmonise training. We will maintain national specificity. But we willput all the training programmes together in a new network with a new ...
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Hart Sharp gets Super Size
Hart Sharp Video hasacquired domestic home video rights to hit documentary Super Size Me from Roadside Attractions and Samuel Goldwyn Films.The film, in which film-maker Morgan Spurlock puts himself on a strict diet ofMcDonald's food for 30 days, will be released in the autumn on DVD and VHS.The deal was ...
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Thomas team take off with IRA samurai story
Asamurai-inspired story about an unemployed IRA hitman is set to be the nextproduction from May Miles Thomas and Owen Thomas, the director-producer teambehind market title Solid Air and theacclaimed One Life Stand.The digitalfilmmaking couple are putting the finishing touches to a script titled Tokushika, a Takeshi Kitano or JimJarmusch-inspired tale ...
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Nexo takes on The Woodsman for Italy
Nexo has taken Italian rights to The Woodsman, Nicole Kassell's directorial debut which is inDirectors Fortnight, from Lee Daniels Entertainment.The acquisition comes hard on the heels of Nexo's successwith Monster which has grossed over$2m after three weeks on release in Italy. Like Monster, The Woodsmanwill be distributed domestically in the ...