All Screen articles in 19 May 2004 – Page 6
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Rousselet announces slate
Philippe Rousselet hasannounced a slate of new projects from Paris-based Films de la Suane andUS-based EMC.EMC, a partnership betweenRousselet and Andrew Niccol, is producing LordOf War and preparing Manhattan Bravea $25 million coming of age story for 2005. Heath Ledger is in talks to star.Niccol will direct.Also being developed is ...
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UIP boards Attenborough's Ring
UIP has boardedRichard Attenborough's $20m Anglo-Canadian epic, Closing The Ring, it was confirmedat the launch of the new Northern Ireland Production Fund. The film isto shoot in the early autumn in Northern Ireland and Canada. It is receiving£500,000 from the new fund.The project,originally supported by Grosvernor Park, was one of ...
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Venice to close with bang
New Venice heads Marco Mueller (artistic director) andDavide Croff (Biennale president) said that this year's Venice festival willclose with a bang. The closing ceremony will take place on the main Veniceisland at the newly restored la Fenice opera house. This will have the doubleadvantage of a spectacular close to the ...
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Troy lays siege to global box office
Troy dominated the box office in its internationalopening weekend, opening top in all its 47 markets according to Warner BrosPictures International on an estimated $54.8m.Highlights were record bowsin Germany and France including the all-time biggest three-day openingexcluding previews in Greece. Combined with the picture's $45.6m number one USbow Troy grossed ...
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Bruce-Smith re-joins FilmFour
FilmFour hasappointed Sue Bruce-Smith, former head of sales at the operation's previousincarnation under Paul Webster, as head of commercial development.Bruce-Smith stepsdown from her current post, head of production at production company LittleBird, in mid-July, though she continues as a non-executive director and retainsher minority share in the company. At FilmFour, ...
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Silfen earns svp business and legal stripes at Miramax Intl
JillSilfen has been promoted to senior vice president of business and legal affairsat Miramax International, where she will continue to negotiate andimplement international theatrical, homevideo and television licence agreementsSilfenhas worked at the company for two years and joined as vice president ofinternational business and legal affairs.Priorto Miramax she practised law ...
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Telepool snaps up Weeping Camel follow-up
Germany's Telepool has picked up international sales on The Mongolian Dog, the follow up film tobreak-out hit documentary The WeepingCamel. The film shoots from next month, but has already been pre-sold toFrance's ARP Selection and to Ascot Elite for Switzerland.The picture by Mongolian director Byambasuren Davaa, heads aTelepool sales slate ...
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Focus takes int'l on Cronicas
Focus Features has picked upinternational rights to Cronicas, theserial killer drama starring John Leguizamo and Leonor Watling screening in UnCertain Regard tomorrow. John Sloss's Cinetic Media is handling North Americansales.Shot in Ecuador by directorSebastian Cordero, Cronicas was produced by Producciones Anhelo's AlfonsoCuaron and Jorge Vergara. Focus also handled sales on ...
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Life Is A Miracle (Zivot Je Cudo)
Dir:Emir Kusturica. Fr-Serb-Mont. 2004. 154minsExperiencingan Emir Kusturica film is like being stone cold sober in a room of drunken,overwrought revellers. Life Is A Miracle is no exception. A boisterousbear hug of a film, it explores the bitter ironies of the Bosnian-Serbianconflict with an irrepressible appetite for the joys and sorrows ...
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Miramax makes Grimm German deal
Miramax International has made its first German sale in two years,clinching a deal on Terry Gilliam's TheBrothers Grimm with Concorde Film.The company is selling all territories on the film,budgeted in the $80m region, including those territories in which ittraditionally handles its own pictures such as Germany, UK, France, Spain,Australia and ...
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Dear Wendy goes to Japan
After a two day bidding war,Thomas Vinterberg's Dear Wendy hasbeen sold to Wise Policy of Japan by Denmark's Trust Film SalesWritten by Lars VonTrier, it is a contemporaryEnglish-language film set in the US about a group of young pacifists who becomeobsessed with guns. It is currently in post-production.
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Locarno to focus on Mekong Delta
Film-makers from the Mekong Delta region will be at thecentre of this year's Locarno festival (4-14 Aug). The festival's Open Doorssection will host a delegation of directors from Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia whowill present a selection of their previous films and attempt to match theircurrent projects with financiers and distributors ...
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Lions Gate wraps up Japanese horror package
Lions Gate Films has boughtworldwide distribution rights to the six-film horror package of films byproducer Taka Ichise dubbed J-Horror Theater.The franchise of films is bysix Japanese horror masters - Takashi Shimizu who made The Grudge, Hideo Nakata (TheRing, Dark Water), Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Cure,Pulse) and screenwriter Hiroshi Takahashi who wrote the ...
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Luna zeros in on $18m Moscow
Spain's Luna is to up theante by directing Moscow Zero, a $18mproduction and a significant increase on the budgets for her previous films, Stranded and Whore.The film is to be made undera new label, Valentia Pictures, designed for higher-budget movies, said Whoreand Moscow Zero producer Jose Magan who previously operated ...
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Dreamworks realising Shrek 3 & 4
DreamWorks FeatureAnimation, which has arrived in Cannes with a 300 strong entourage fortonight's competition screening of Shrek2, has begun production on Shrek 3- and is already working on Shrek 4.Studio partner JeffreyKatzenberg told Screen that Shrek 3 is scheduled for release in 2006, withShrek 4 to be decided."There are actually ...
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Korea pledges $33m for digital cinema push
South Korea's government is gettingbehind the push towards digital cinema, pledging $33.2m to speed up the filmindustry's transition to digital.In a report published this week titled 'Plans and Visions for theCulture Industry,' the Ministry of Culture and Tourism earmarked the fundsfor 2005-2007 to stimulate research, support the installation of digitalprojectors, ...
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Lee outlines Media 8 ambitions
Hong Kong-based entrepreneurSammy Lee has ambitious plans for his movie company Media 8 Entertainment whichgoes far beyond just financing films like Running Scared, Santa Slays, TheUpside Of Anger and the company's biggest production investment to date -the $50m Man About Town which has Ben Affleck attached to star."I want to ...
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UK mines South African gold
Highlightingrising interest in South Africa as a financing and production partner, miningtycoon Mzi Khumalo has taken a minority stake in busy British-Irish productioncompany Little Bird as part of a move into film.Under the deal,Khumalo's Metallon Corp is making what Little Bird co-chief Jonathan Cavendishcalled "a sizeable equity investment" in the ...
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Dubai plans festival splash with royal backing
Middle Eastern micro-state Dubai is planning a major splashin the film world with the launch of the Dubai International Film Festival inDecember (Dec 6-11).Highly developed and politically liberal, Dubai ispositioning the festival as a cultural bridge between the Middle East and theoutside world. It comes complete with the blessing of ...
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Shrek producer turns to Europe to bankroll Vanguard slate
Vanguard Films,the production company headed by Shrek 2and Shrek producer John Williams andNeil Braun, is exploring European investment sources to bankroll an initialslate of five animation films.The long-termfinancing pact is aimed at building on the company's foray into the independentsector with Valiant, Happily N'Ever Afterand Space Chimps.Braun told ScreenInternational that ...