All Screen articles in 19 May 2004 – Page 9

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    Roeg, Beresford front Beyond slate

    2004-05-13T04:00:00Z

    Beyond Films hasunveiled a new slate including a Nicolas Roeg erotic thriller with DonaldSutherland Robert Carlyle, a Bruce Beresford title with Colin Firth and twopictures with Ripley's Game star Dougray Scott.Sutherland, whostarred in Roeg's classic psychological thriller Don't Look Now, willplay an author trapped in a web of lies when ...

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    Roeg, Beresford front Beyond slate

    2004-05-13T04:00:00Z

    Beyond Films hasunveiled a new slate including a Nicolas Roeg erotic thriller with DonaldSutherland Robert Carlyle, a Bruce Beresford title with Colin Firth and twopictures with Ripley's Game star Dougray Scott.Sutherland, whostarred in Roeg's classic psychological thriller Don't Look Now, willplay an author trapped in a web of lies when ...

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    Becker boards Islamic omnibus

    2004-05-13T04:00:00Z

    LeBrocquy FraserProductions, whose first feature credit was Osama, has signed on BeckerFilms International to help finance and later sell Five Worlds - anomnibus of 20-minute films from different Islamic countries by fivehighly-regarded local directors.Each of the five films is avery personal story but also demonstrates the effects of recent political ...

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    Beart joins Film Distribution slate

    2004-05-13T04:00:00Z

    French sales house FilmsDistribution has announced four pick-ups coming into Cannes' market including anew feature from Train Of Life director Radu Mihaileanu and twoEmmanuelle Beart-starring films.Live And Become is the long-awaited follow up to Milhaileanu'slauded Train Of Life. Films Distribution's Francois Yon told Screen thatthe company has taken world rights ...

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    Beart joins Film Distribution slate

    2004-05-13T04:00:00Z

    French sales house FilmsDistribution has announced four pick-ups coming into Cannes' market including anew feature from Train Of Life director Radu Mihaileanu and twoEmmanuelle Beart-starring films.Live And Become is the long-awaited follow up to Milhaileanu'slauded Train Of Life. Films Distribution's Francois Yon told Screen thatthe company has taken world rights ...

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    Cannes market bustles with attendees

    2004-05-13T04:00:00Z

    The Cannes Market, which opened its doors yesterday (Wed12 May), looks set to be busier than ever. According to its preliminary figuresregistered attendee numbers are up 11% at 7,225 from 63 countries.Films screening increased this year from 1,214 to 1,340including 55 trailers.According to the market's analysis of the films on ...

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    Cannes market bustles with attendees

    2004-05-13T04:00:00Z

    The Cannes Market, which opened its doors yesterday (Wed12 May), looks set to be busier than ever. According to its preliminary figuresregistered attendee numbers are up 11% at 7,225 from 63 countries.Films screening increased this year from 1,214 to 1,340including 55 trailers.According to the market's analysis of the films on ...

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    Little steps into Attenborough's Ring

    2004-05-13T04:00:00Z

    Veteran sales agent RobbieLittle has stepped in as executive producer on Closing The Ring, RichardAttenborough's epic love story.Little is expected to tie upselected pre-sales at Cannes on the project, which now has an unconfirmed castincluding Dennis Hopper, Pete Postlethwaite, Mena Suvari, Shirley MacLaine andColin Hanks.Shooting is scheduled forthis summer with ...

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    Assayas producer drums up starry slate

    2004-05-13T04:00:00Z

    Producer Edouard Weil isbusy preparing new projects following his latest collaboration with OlivierAssayas on Cannes competition film Clean.Xavier Giannoli's lovetriangle drama La Belle Image stars hot French up and comer LudivineSagnier, Nicolas Duvauchelle and Bruno Todeschini and is set to start shootingon June 7 in Paris and Brussels. The French-Belgian ...

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    Assayas producer drums up starry slate

    2004-05-13T04:00:00Z

    Producer Edouard Weil isbusy preparing new projects following his latest collaboration with OlivierAssayas on Cannes competition film Clean.Xavier Giannoli's lovetriangle drama La Belle Image stars hot French up and comer LudivineSagnier, Nicolas Duvauchelle and Bruno Todeschini and is set to start shootingon June 7 in Paris and Brussels. The French-Belgian ...

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    Movision, Invicta team for all-star Pushers

    2004-05-13T04:00:00Z

    Joan Allen, Claire Danes,Kathy Bates, Brenda Blethyn and Maggie Smith will head the cast of JimmySmallhorne's second feature film Pushers Needed which is being financedby Movision, Invicta and The Irish Film Board. Arclight Films is handling saleshere.The film, which is describedin the vein of The Full Monty and Calendar Girls, ...

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    Aligator measures up with Salazar's Centimetres

    2004-05-13T04:00:00Z

    New Spanish productioncompany Aligator is prepping its first feature film: Ramon Salazar's follow-upto 2001 Berlin screener Stones, the provocatively titled 20Centimetres.Former Alquimia Cinema headof international relations Iker Monfort launched Aligator earlier this yearwith the goal of making and co-producing two to three films per year.Salazar's 20 Centimetres(20 Centimetros) is a ...

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    Aligator measures up with Salazar's Centimetres

    2004-05-13T04:00:00Z

    New Spanish productioncompany Aligator is prepping its first feature film: Ramon Salazar's follow-upto 2001 Berlin screener Stones, the provocatively titled 20Centimetres.Former Alquimia Cinema headof international relations Iker Monfort launched Aligator earlier this yearwith the goal of making and co-producing two to three films per year.Salazar's 20 Centimetres(20 Centimetros) is a ...

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    Entertainment falls for Alibi as UK buyers pounce

    2004-05-13T04:00:00Z

    EntertainmentFilm Distributors has boarded Summit Entertainment's The Alibi as the UKshows strong signs of buying across all budget ranges.Entertainment hastaken the UK on the contemporary thriller, which stars Steve Coogan and RebeccaRomijn-Stamos. Having previously bought Summit's Around The World In EightyDays, also starring Coogan, the Greens' powerhouse will be now ...

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    Carlyle, Anderson come of age with The Mighty Celt

    2004-05-13T04:00:00Z

    Robert Carlyle and GillianAnderson are being lined up to star in The Mighty Celt, a coming of age talebased at Robert Walpole and Paddy Breathnach's Irish company TreasureEntertainment.BBC Films, The Irish Film Board and the NorthernIreland Film & Television Commission are to bankroll the production, whichis set to shoot in ...

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    Carlyle, Anderson come of age with The Mighty Celt

    2004-05-13T04:00:00Z

    Robert Carlyle and GillianAnderson are being lined up to star in The Mighty Celt, a coming of age talebased at Robert Walpole and Paddy Breathnach's Irish company TreasureEntertainment.BBC Films and the NorthernIreland Film & Television Commission are to bankroll the production, whichis set to shoot in Northern Ireland this month. ...

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    German cinema admissions plunge

    2004-05-13T04:00:00Z

    2.4m fewer tickets were soldat German cinemas in the first three months of 2004 compared to the previousyear, according to statistics collated by the German Federal Film Board (FFA).The Berlin-based institutionreported that box-office takings fell year-on-year by 9% to Euros 213.1m andadmissions by 6.2% to 37m, the lowest tally since ...

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    Last minute addition to Cannes competition

    2004-05-13T04:00:00Z

    An eleventh-hour addition tothe Cannes competition line-up was announced Wednesday, just hours before thecurtain was set to go up on the opening ceremony.Jonathan Nossiter's Mondovinowill be screened in competition on Friday May 14, festival artistic directorThierry Fremaux announced Wednesday morning. The film is an investigativedocumentary about winemaking that spans three ...

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    Last minute addition to Cannes competition

    2004-05-13T04:00:00Z

    An eleventh-hour addition tothe Cannes competition line-up was announced Wednesday, just hours before thecurtain was set to go up on the opening ceremony.Jonathan Nossiter's Mondovinowill be screened in competition on Friday May 14, festival artistic directorThierry Fremaux announced Wednesday morning. The film is an investigativedocumentary about winemaking that spans three ...

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    Foley has Pacino for 88 Minutes

    2004-05-13T04:00:00Z

    Avi Lerner's Millenium Filmsand Randall Emmett and George Furla's Emmett/Furla Films have unveiled theirlatest picture 88 Minutes, a contemporary thriller to be directed byJames Foley with his Glengarry Glen Ross star Al Pacino attached tostar.Scripted by Gary ScottThompson (The Fast And The Furious), the film is budgeted at under $30mand ...