All Screen articles in 19 May 2005 – Page 4
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New York Doll ready to rock festivals
Gary Rubin's First LookIndependent is planning a high-profile festival berth for Greg Whiteley'sdocumentary New York Doll aheadits October US release.Rubin has been fieldingstrong interest from festival organisers on the picture, which charts the upliftingstory of former New York Dolls bass player Arthur 'Killer' Kane, a reformedalcoholic and Mormon church librarian ...
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DeAPlaneta signs on for Summit duo
Spanish-Italian media groupDeAPlaneta is flexing its buying muscle with new acquisitions for Spainincluding Summit Entertainment's Michael Clayton and Harsh Times.Michael Clayton, which marks Tony Gilroy's directorial debut, willstar George Clooney as a fixer in a law company. Harsh Times stars Christian Bale and Eva Longoria in a SouthCentral Los Angeles-set ...
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Greeks set sail with financing deals
The sword and sandal epic isset to get its biggest gift since the wooden horse. Greece is launching a filmfinancing incentive worth up to 30% of a budget to boost its local industry andattract overseas productions.Speaking in Cannes, deputyminister of culture Petros Tatoulis said the financial incentive, part of thecountry's ...
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Fortissimo, Notro in TV deal
FortissimoFilms' recently-established TV sales division has closed its first majormulti-rights deal by selling a package of nearly 50 film titles to Spain'sNotro Films.Included inthe package is the Jim Jarmusch library of films, including Down By Law, the Killer Films Collection,including Todd Haynes' Poison, and Gregg Araki's most recent film Mysterious ...
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Louis Malle collection sells for Pyramide
Pyramide International'scollection of newly-remastered Louis Malle films has sold strongly at Cannes.The UK's Optimum, Italy'sMikado, Lumiere in Benelux and Avalon Productions in Spain are among thebuyers.This follows on fromprevious sales to US distributor Criterion and Arte for France in dealsbrokered by Malle's son Manuel via his company NEF.Pyramide's Malle collectionis ...
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Finns fly to China for kung fu co-production Jade Warrior
Beijing-based MingProductions has boarded AJ Annila's Jade Warrior, billed as Finland's "first ever martial arts movie",which is set to shoot in China, Finland and Estonia starting in August. Also the first-everChinese-Scandinavian co-production, the $3m film was previously set to shootonly in Finland with an all-Finnish cast. It will now shoot ...
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Cash versus culture clash for European film finance
Tension between cultural andeconomic aims have become a serious complicating factor in film financepolicies in Europe, according to the European Audiovisual Observatory.At a conference oninternational partnerships at Cannes on Sunday, experts said transnationalco-production was a clearly growing trend. Accordingto its 2005 Focus report, US-launched films benefiting from European funding -like ...
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Lucky Red embarks on Cannes buying spree
Upscale Italian arthousedistributor Lucky Red has been on a buying spree in Cannes, snapping up rightsto three new titles. It has picked up Korean gangster drama A BittersweetLife from CJ Entertainment, Thaihorror hit Shutter from GMM ThaiHub and Carlos Reygadas' competition entry, Battle In Heaven from The Co-Production Office.Just prior ...
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Bond plots shooting defection from UK to Prague
Having boosted the Britishproduction sector for decades, James Bond is in advanced negotiations to headto Eastern Europe for his next outing, Casino Royale.A spokesperson for Prague'sBarrandov Studios confirmed that the studio is well along in talks with EonProductions, the production outfit behind the James Bond franchise, to come to the ...
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Hayden strikes back with first-look Bauer Martinez deal
Philippe Martinez' BauerMartinez Studios has struck a first-look deal with Hayden Christensen's ForestPark Films.Hayden, in Cannes for StarWars, runs the production outfitwith his brother Tove.The 18-month deal will cover projects in the $10m-$40m range and bothparties are currently discussing which titles to take into development.All productions in the partnership will ...
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Starfield's Rabbit sex comedy arouses interest
UK-basedStarfield Productions has been enjoying some enjoyable tremors with its raucousnew sex comedy about a vibrator, Rabbit Fever, directed by Ian Denya. An all-starcast has been assembled for the project, about the best-selling vibrator in theworld, known as The Rabbit. Sienna Guilroy, Tom Conti, Stephanie Powers, Tara Summers,Flora Montgomery, Sam ...
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Cannes briefs: latest deals, announcements
Cineclick racks up Bow dealsKorean sales agent CineclickAsia has concluded a raft of sales on Kim Ki-duk's The Bow, screening here in Un Certain Regard. Thecross-generational love story has gone to France's TF1, the UK's Tartan Films,Spain's Golem, Greece's Audiovisual, Mexico's Filmhouse, Singapore's CathayKeris and Bright Angel in Benelux. The ...
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LITE launches Latin American film fund
A newBrazil-based finance and development company has launched a $1m fund to supportLatin American projects with international potential.Life In TheTropics Entertainment (LITE) says the money will nurse 10 scripts and ideasthrough early stages of development.Fundfounders Roberto d'Avila and Richard Palmgren say film-makers from across theregion will benefit not just from ...
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America Theatrical gets Childstar
Fledgling theatrical salesventure America Theatrical is busily assembling its initial slate and haspicked up international rights to Don McKellar's Childstar.Launching here under theaegis of Argentina-based America Video Films, the company is targeting 12commercial titles for sale each year.Childstar earned Jennifer Jason Leigh a best supportingactress Genie in March for her ...
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Amelio's Star shines as Italian, Singapore co-production
Gianni Amelio's new film LaStella Che Non C'e' (The Missing Star)has been set up as a Singapore/Italian co-production, with Sergio Castellito inthe lead role of an Italian worker trying to prevent an industrial disaster ina Chinese steel mill.Shooting will start nextmonth in Shanghai on the film, which is to be ...
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French culture minister addresses Engagement controversy
France's culture ministerRenaud Donnedieu de Vabres doesn't want his country "to cut itself off" byrefusing certain countries access to subsidies.He has recently commissionedIsabelle Lemesle, via CNC president Catherine Colonna, to come up with a plan foropening France's subsidy system to non-European companies.The issue arose following acourt decision that Jean-Pierre Jeunet's ...
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The Child (L'Enfant)
Dir/scr: Jean-Pierre andLuc Dardenne. Bel-Fr. 2005. 95mins A few square miles of unprepossessing urban landscapecontinue to yield a rich fictional universe in the Dardenne brothers' latestchronicle of life among modern European have-nots.Filmed as usual in theBelgian industrial town of Seraing, The Child continues the run ofsteely, confident realist dramas that ...
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Summit climbs the heights with Cannes slate
Summit Entertainment has reported brisk business on its Cannes slate,virtually selling out on Atom Egoyan's competition entry Where The TruthLies,Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's ensemble piece Babel, Tony Gilroy's dramaticthriller Michael Clayton, Nick Goossen's comedy Nana's Boy, and David Ayer's SouthCentral set drama Harsh Times.Where TheTruth Lies has sold toMomentum in the ...
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Broken Flowers
Dir/scr: Jim Jarmusch.US. 2005. 106minsAfter diversions into genre-subversion like mysticalwestern Dead Man and modern day samurai saga Ghost Dog, Jim Jarmusch makes afull scale return to the kind of lugubrious, meticulously observed comedy thatfirst made his reputation in the 1980s.Commercial prospects arevery robust for Broken Flowers, a film that fans ...
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Cannes briefs: latest deals, announcements
Shoreline Green with Coupland screenplayMorris Ruskin's ShorelineEntertainment has picked up worldwide rights excluding Canada to the DouglasCoupland original screenplay Everything's Gone Green. The deal was concluded with Radke Films and TrueWest Films. The upcoming project centres on a good-natured slacker whofalls into a money-laundering scheme and ends up having ...