All Screen articles in 19 May 2004 – Page 2
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New Line signs pact with UK publisher Chicken House
New Line Cinema has struck a first-look deal with ChickenHouse, the English children's book company whose publisher was creditedwith the discovery of Harry Potterauthor J K Rowling.The publishing deal creates a new channel of story ideasfor the studio and will allow Chicken House to co-produce and develop its ownwriters' ideas ...
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The Assassination Of Richard Nixon
Dir:Niels Mueller. US. 2004. 103minsLastyear at Cannes, Mystic River marked out Sean Penn as an early best actorOscar contender. This year, The Assassination Of Richard Nixon doesexactly the same. Currently in the prime of his career, Penn adds to his recentrun of outstanding work with a performance that captures every ...
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9 Songs
Dir: MichaelWinterbottom. UK. 2004. 65minsAlthough scarcely inmid-career, Michael Winterbottom has attempted almost every available filmgenre in which to test his considerable talents. 9 Songs, filmeddigitally, like his 2003 Berlin Golden Bear winner In This World, is hisbest shot at a film about sex.You could almost call it aporn movie - ...
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Actor Tony Randall dies aged 84
Tony Randall, the Emmyaward winning comedian and star of stage, cinema and television who won acclaimfor roles in Pillow Talk and No Down Payment, has died aged 84.Randall, who will perhapsbe best remembered for such television hits as One Man's Family, MrPeepers and The Tony Randall Show, passed away in ...
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NORTH AMERICA 19 May
Like the Trojan Horse that plays a pivotal, albeit utterlywooden, role in Warner Bros' Troy,everybody thought they knew what they were getting as the picture's releasedate approached. And sure enough Wolfgang Petersen's abridged adaptation ofHomer's Iliad generated plenty of publicity and opened number one. The onlypart that didn't go to ...
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Tartan names Schreiber as US video president
Tartan USA has named AndrewSchreiber president of Tartan Video USA, a division of the new US distributorset up by Hamish McAlpine of Tartan Films in the UK.Schreiber joins Tartan afterten years at Playboy Video where he was vice president, international sales,and a stint running his own consultancy Forward Marketing.The home ...
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Golden Harvest takes Grudge to Taiwan
Taiwan is now on the acquisitions radar for Hong Kong majorGolden Harvest.It has picked up Taiwanese rights to The Grudge, the English-language remake of Japanese chiller Ju-On being sold by SenatorInternational.Golden Harvest has previously licensed rights to the picturefor Hong Kong, Malaysia and Singapore. The move may pre-empt expansion of ...
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Merchant Ivory goes Latino
Merchant Ivory Productions(MIP) has acquired rights to Peter Cameron's novel City Of Your Final Destination and it will be James Ivory's nextfilm as a director after The WhiteCountess which is shooting later this year. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala iscurrently writing the screenplay.Talking to Screen in Cannesyesterday, MIP's Ismail Merchant said that ...
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Gayet named as Jobson's Woman
Rising Frenchactress Julie Gayet is to star in British director Richard Jobson'ssupernatural love story Woman In Winter.UK seller ParkEntertainment, which is handling Jobson's ThePurifiers and its follow-up The OnlyOnes, has acquired international rights. Shot digitally, the film beginsproduction in Edinburgh in November with the support of Adobe.The story,written by Jobson, ...
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Super sales for Fortissimo
Fortissimo Film Sales is on course for its best ever market."If we close everything that we expect by the end of the month we will exceedlast year's annual turnover," said company co-chief Michael J Werner.Its controversial documentary Super Size Me is close to selling out. Completed deals on thepicture are ...
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Euro tax financiers spread their wings
Led by UK players, Europe’s tax fund managers are diversifying their operations into new territories and new spheres of activity.Future Film, which has risen over £1bn of tax-backed film finance, yesterday announced that it is launching a fully-fledged German tax fund. The move follows the UK government’s February 10 clampdown ...
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SPC flies with Zhang's Daggers
Sony Pictures Classics hasacquired North American rights to Zhang Yimou's House Of Flying Daggers which is screening in Cannes on Wednesdayout of competition.The epic action romancestars Zhang Ziyi, Takeshi Kaneshiro and Andy Lau and is produced by Bill Kong,whose Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragonwas also an SPC release, and Zhang Yeiping.House ...
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Shochiku engineers Casshern sales
Japanese major Shochiku is reporting strong sales interest in sci-fititle Casshern, about a futuristicworld where biologically-engineered humans attempt to take over the earth.Contracts have already been signed with unnamed distributors for the UKand Portugal, and head of international business Masaki Koga says he is innegotiations for almost all major territories.The ...
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Seville, Capri team for Canadian releases
Two Canadian distributors -the newly formed Capri Films Releasing and Seville Pictures - have announced atwo-year distribution deal for theatrical releases serving French and EnglishCanada.Under the terms of the deal,Capri will service all Seville releases in English Canada, with Sevillereleasing all Capri films in Quebec.Discussions between Capri'sTony Cianciotta and Seville's ...
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Paris boosts film funding
France's Ile de Franceregion - the area that incorporates Paris and its environs - has announced itwill increase its available film funding by Euros 2m to Euros 12m next yearwith a view to bumping the total up to Euros 15M over the course of the next fewyears.The existing Euros 10m ...
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Focus boards Onimusha
Samuel Hadida's Davis Filmshas enlisted Focus Features to handle sales outside of France and Japan to Onimusha, the ambitious live actionmovie of Capcom's best-selling video game. Hadida will produce the film basedon the game created by Keiji Inafune.Davis sister companyMetropolitan Filmexport will handle distribution in France, while GagaCommunications, which is ...
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Saddle Club set for big screen
Australia's CrawfordProductions and Canada's Protocol Entertainment are preparing to shoot afeature that is based on the hit TV series TheSaddle Club, which is currently screening on Discovery Kids in the US and,when last screened in Sydney, attracted an astounding 95% of all five to12-year-olds at its peak.Matt Carroll, who was ...
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Trio team for new Belgrade film studio
UK-basedtax financier Grosvenor Park, Serbian media group Pink International andWashington-based government lobbyist OCo International have partnered toco-produce a slate of horror films and build a new $20m film studio inBelgrade.Theinitial five low-budget productions will be set up as internationalco-productions accessing Serbian tax credits that the partners expect to beintroduced this ...
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BBC, Content fast forward indie film-making scheme
Scottish Screen,BBC Scotland, BBC Films and ContentFilm have launched a low budget film schemeunder the banner Fast Forward Features that aims to bring US indie-stylefilmmaking to the UK.The initiativeaims to fully fund three low budget features from emerging talent costing up to£1.2 million per film. ContentFilm will handle international sales ...
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UGC takes Bielinsky's Aura to UK
El Aura,the upcoming project reuniting NineQueens (Nueve Reinas) director Fabian Bielinsky with star Ricardo Darin,has been bought by UGC for the UK.The picture is scheduled tostart shooting in the third week of October for a May 2005 release.The deal is estimatedbetween $200,000 and $300,000. Pablo Bossi, president of Argentina's PatagonikFilm ...