All Screen articles in 19 May 2005 – Page 10
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Carlyle, Firth to learn Meat Trade with The Works
Robert Carlyle and ColinFirth are to star in Meat Trade, a darkly comic, bodysnatching horror writtenby Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh.UK-based sales company TheWorks has taken on international sales to the film, which is pre-productionunder director Antonia Bird.Set in the historic streetsof Edinburgh, the script is a contemporary re-working of one ...
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Caplan goes on spending spree for UK Film Council
Weeks after she was appointed as the head of the UK Film Council'sPremiere Fund, Sally Caplan has already made a handful of sizable investments. The Fund, itemerged in Cannes, is backing Severance, the latest horror picture from Chris Smith (Creep), backed by Qwerty Films and sold byHanway.Caplan is alsoinvesting in ...
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Hanway takes on sales for Forman's Goya biopic
London's Hanway Films hasboarded Milos Forman's Goya biopic Goya's Ghosts as international sales agent. The film marks areunion between Zaentz and Forman who previously teamed on AcademyAward-festooned One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest and Amadeus.The film is scheduled tostart in Spain in September. Cannes Jury member Javier Bardem and NathaliePortman ...
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Gilliam makes Grimm return to the big screen
TerryGilliam hasn't released a film for seven years but he's fielding two in 2005 - Tidelandand The Brothers Grimm, set for a splashy bow today whenMiramax unspools 20 minutes of footage in Cannes with Gilliam, star MonicaBellucci and producer Chuck Roven in attendance.The Grimm tale is typicalGilliam country, an ambitious ...
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Plague for Van Der Beek
James Van Der Beek will starin the upcoming thriller Plaguefor Clive Barker's Midnight Picture Show banner, which is being jointlyfinanced by Wall Street-based film equity fund D H Blair Film Capital Fund andArmada Pictures International.Beverly Hills-based ArmadaPictures International is handling worldwide sales on the project, which is setto go before ...
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French pair launch Borsalino with focus on Asian film
Wild Bunch salesexecutive Gael Nouaille and Laurent Baudens, formerly of Gemini Films, are inCannes christening a new company which will specialise in the distribution ofvideo and TV rights for Asian films. Callingthemselves Borsalino, the two will focus on getting Asian catalogue films toaudiences in Latin American which Nouaille and Baudens ...
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Arclight launches North American distribution arm
Arclight Filmshas launched Arclight Releasing, a full-service North American distributioncompany that will be managed by former Artisan and Lions Gate acquisitionsexecutive Paul Gardner.The company willchiefly acquire programming for the sell-through market, however it will alsohandle limited theatrical releases and service the pay/cable broadcast,video-on-demand and pay-per-view markets.Initial plans are for theunit ...
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UK sales outfit keeps an eye on Latin America
London sales outfit One EyedFilms, a Brazilian film specialist, has broadened its scope to include filmsfrom across Latin America and makes its Cannes debut with three multipleaward-winning titles on its slate.Among its firstSpanish-language pick-ups is Uruguayan film Alma Mater, a Rosemary'sBaby-like tale about a woman who believes she may be ...
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South Africa, UK start co-production treaty talks
SouthAfrica is in talks about a co-production treaty with the UK, according to theorganisation spearheading the development of South Africanfilm.NationalFilm and Video Foundation (NFVF) chief executive Eddie Mbalo told a Cannespress conference that the UK would be added to similar agreements already beensigned with Italy, Germany and Canada."People have long ...
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Karmitz heads to China, son takes the reigns at MK2
Veteran jack of all filmtrades Marin Karmitz is turning over the bulk of his business to son Nathaniel.Karmitz told Screen it was"change, but with continuity".Nathaniel Karmitz has beenat MK2 for ten years and was notably responsible for making the DVD label ahit. He has just been promoted to deputy managing ...
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Match Point
Dir/scr: Woody Allen. US.2005. 124mins.Match Point would seem to prove the theory that youcan't teach new tricks to old dogs. Quintessential New York filmmaker WoodyAllen may have relocated to London but his eternal preoccupations with love,death, broken hearts and guilty minds remain central to the story. However, MatchPoint does show ...
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Lemming
Dir: Dominik Moll. Fr. 2005.129minsFive years ago, Cannes helped to put Dominik Moll on theinternational map with the rapturous response for Harry, Un Ami Qui VousVeut Du Bien. The response to his eagerly awaited follow up is likely to bemore equivocal. A psychological thriller with a peppering of Bunuellian blackcomedy, ...
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Kilometre Zero
Dir/scr: Hiner Saleem. Fr-Kurd. 2005. 96minsOne person's illegal war is another's act of sweetliberation in Kilometre Zero. Inspired by the toppling of SaddamHussein, Iraqi Kurdistan director Hiner Saleem has made a film that vividlyilluminates the brutal realities of life under the tyrant's rule. Pettydictators lurk at every checkpoint, people are ...
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UGC International embraces Family Hero
French sales outfit UGCInternational is to handle Family Hero, the new film from Une Vie A T'Attendre director Thierry Kilfa starring Catherine Deneuve,Gerard Lanvin, Miou-Miou, Geraldine Pailhas and Michael Cohen.At Euros 12m Hero is written by Klifa and Christopher Thompson andwill be produced by UGC International president Said Ben Said's ...
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Last Days
Dir/scr/ed: Gus Van Sant. US. 2005. 96minsWe sort of suspected that Gus Van Sant would not pull offanother Elephant: he's one of those directors that needs a littlebreathing space between masterpieces. But Last Days, Van Sant's newfilm, which is inspired (in the words of the final disclaimer) "in part... bythe ...
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Spain's Zebra readies Cervantes, Shakespeare comedy
Spain'sZebra Producciones andMiguel&William Producciones are developing a Euros 8m period comedy thatasks the question what if Cervantes and Shakespeare had met'Titled Miguel &William, the feature will pull close to 10% of its budget from the public agencyDon Quijote de la Mancha 2005, set up by the Spanish government to ...
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Cannes hit by ghosts of rock stars
Two very different directors- Gus Van Sant and Stephen Woolley - hit Cannes today with films inspired bythe deaths of rock stars.Van Sant's Last Days was originally meant to be a full blown biography ofNirvana frontman Kurt Cobain, the director explained at a press conference forthe competition film. "But I ...
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New Line, HBO open Picturehouse for business
New Line Cinema and HBOFilms have officially launched their new US specialised distribution jointventure, announcing the name of the company - Picturehouse - and unveiling thefirst nine picture-slate.Diane Arbus biopic Fur starring Nicole Kidman and Robert Downey Jr anddirected by Steven Shainberg was named as the first film to be ...
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The Bow (Hwal)
Dir/scr/ed:Kim Ki-duk. S Kor-Jap. 2005. 90mins.South Korean festival favourite Kim Ki-duk has two modes:the island film (The Isle; Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter' And Spring),and the urban film (Bad Guy; Samaria; 3-Iron). It lookedfor a while as if his city tales were a progression from the fishhooks andBuddhist isolation of his ...
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Bashing
Dir/scr: MasahiroKobayashi. Jap. 2005. 82mins.A mystifying experience for any but a Japanese audience, Bashing,Masahiro Kobayashi's fictional rendering of a real-life event, would haveplayed more comfortably on less demanding grounds than its Cannes competitionberth.The story of a Japanesehumanitarian worker kidnapped in Iraq who then returned home to widespreadspite, Bashing is expressed ...