All Screen articles in 19 May 2005 – Page 5
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High Point scores Vinci sales to Japan, US
UK outfit High Point Filmshas announced sales on Juliusz Machulski's Vinci, which screened at Cannes earlier in the week. The comedy crime caper hasbeen picked up by New Select Co in Japan, Bonton Film for the Czech Republicand Slovakia and Pegaz Art Production for North America.Vinci officially opens its festival ...
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New Films takes the world for Prodigy, Last Run
Nesim Hason's LosAngeles-based production and distribution company New Films International haspicked up worldwide rights to William Kaufman's assassination thriller TheProdigy and Jonathan Segal's comedy-drama The Last Run.Both pictures have been soldas part of a package deal to Brazil's Conquest Films.The Last Run, starring The Wonder Years' Fred Savage as a ...
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Participant gobbles up Fast Food Nation
eBay mogul Jeff Skoll'sParticipant Productions has munched up North American rights as well a healthymouthful of equity in Fast Food Nation, it was announced in Cannes yesterday by Participant ProductionsPresident Ricky Strauss. The deal was done with London-based Hanway Films.Fast Food Nation is a Recorded Picture Company production. It isbeing ...
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Cuaron, Del Toro enter Pan's Labyrinth
Mexican filmmakers Guillermodel Toro and Alfonso Cuaron will produce the Spanish-language Pan'sLabyrinth, to be directed by delToro. The two have set up a production shingle, OMM Films, with FridaTorresblanco to co-produce the film alongside Spain's Telecinco.Shooting will begin in Julyon the Euros 11.5m film which stars Sergi Lopez, Maribel Verdu, ...
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Global Cinemas takes world rights to Mortal Kombat: Krusades
Peter Elson'sGlobal Cinema Group has picked up worldwide rights to the upcoming $35m actiontitle Mortal Kombat: Krusades and is pre-selling the project here. LarryKasanoff's Threshold Entertainment holds the rights to the video game franchiseand the producer expects to start production later this year.Paul W SAnderson directed the franchise curtain-raiser Mortal ...
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Weinsteins on a Promise with Chen
Harvey and Bob Weinstein areback in business with Chen Kaige, the Chinese director whose Farewell MyConcubine shared the Palme d'Or in1993 and gave Miramax one of its breakthrough Chinese hits.The brothers'new operation The Weinstein Company has teamed up with IDG New Media Fund toacquire rights in North America, the UK, ...
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Brussels sprouts new tax financiers
Belgian tax financiers havehit Cannes with a vengeance this year, announcing plans to launch new filmfunds while looking for new international projects to invest in.New Brussels based outfitMoviestream has already invested Euros 1.5m in a slate of four projects and isnow planning to raise Euros 15m over three years from ...
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Fox takes chance on Brazilian love story
Fox Latin America has boughtpan-regional rights to Philippe Barcinski's Not By Chance, a love story co-produced by Donald K Ranvaud'sBuena Onda and Fernando Mereilles' 02 Filmes.A love story between anobsessive compulsive and a control freak, Chance will shoot from October inBrazil and participated in the Sundance Screenwriters' Lab last January.Theproject ...
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Myriad tunes up Copying Beethoven deals
Kirk D'Amico's MyriadPictures has concluded sales on Copying Beethoven to Japan's Tohokushinsha, Brazil's VideofilmCorporation, Portugal's LNK Home Entertainment, Greece's PCV, Eastern Europe'sParadise/MGN, Iceland's Myndform and Singapore's Shaw Renters. Ed Harris and Diane Krugerstar in the Sidney Kimmel Entertainment and Film & Entertainment VIPMedienfonds co-production, which is produced by Kimmel, Michael ...
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Huayi Brothers takes Battle to Cannes
China's leading privateproduction company Huayi Brothers has unveiled a high-profile slate ofproductions headed by $20m period epic Battle Of Wisdom. Hong Kong star Andy Lau isheading the cast of the film which is scheduled to start shooting this Octoberwith Hong Kong's Jacob Cheung directing. According to Huayi president JamesWang, Battle ...
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Slimline Rotterdam festival to roll back the years
The Rotterdam Festival(IFFR) is to downsize, festival director Sandra den Hamer has confirmed inCannes. Aiming torecapture some of the intimacy which characterised the festival's early yearsunder founder Hubert Bals, Den Hamer says she is planning to cut the programmeby around 20%."One of the biggest challenges for me isto make it ...
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Taiwan launches first Asian tax finance incentives
Taiwan has become the firstdestination in Asia for producers looking for tax-based financing. LA and Taipei-based fund,Double Edge Entertainment, is working with the Taiwanese government to provideprivate equity and tax credits that can cover up to 50% of mid-budgetproductions that partially shoot in Taiwan. Following a change inTaiwanese law, the ...
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Storitel funding rouses horror Arising
Manchester-based producerPaul Sherwood's Storitel Films is to fully finance Arising, a new Britishhorror film marking the directorial debut of veteran TV director Bob Baldwin. Scripted by Dan Spencer,Nick Ryan and Mark Barron, the film moves into production next month. Also new on Storitel's slateis (Seymour's Adventures in) Bookworld, billed as ...
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Alzheimer Case wins China entry deal
The Alzheimer Case is China-bound. Erik Van Looy'spsychological thriller has been chosen as one of the quota of 20 westernfeatures that the Chinese Government has passed for release this year. The dealwas negotiated with Hong Kong distributor Domo Media and China Film by UK-basedsales agent, The Works. The Chinese Censorship ...
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Manderlay
Dir/scr: Lars Von Trier. Den-Swe-Fr-UK-Ger-Neth.2005. 139mins.The road to hell is pavedwith the noblest of intentions in Manderlay, the stunning second film inLars Von Trier's American trilogy. A philosophical debate on slavery, equality,oppression, free will and racism, it will inevitably be read as anti-Americanin general and a specific response to the ...
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Where The Truth Lies
Dir:Atom Egoyan. Canada. 2005. 107mins.Fans of Canadian auteurAtom Egoyan, hoping for a comeback from the multiple missteps of his last film,Ararat, which played at Cannes in 2002, are bound to be disappointed bythe director's latest offering, Where The Truth Lies. Based on RupertHolmes' novel of the same title, the film, ...
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Le Temps Qui Reste
Dir. Francois Ozon. Fr.2005. 79mins.Faithful to his reputation of changing genres with everynew film, Francois Ozon reveals yet another facet of his talents with LeTemps Qui Reste, treading on a familiar path which he tries to decorate inhis own personal style.The concept - a personfacing imminent death and having to ...
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A History Of Violence
Dir: David Cronenberg.US. 2005. 96minsTwo American genres - thefilm noir and the Western - are gene-spliced into vigorous new shape in whatlooks, at first sight, like David Cronenberg's most mainstream project inyears. Yet A History Of Violence, a deviously-plotted tale of danger andthe darkness beneath innocent surfaces, soon reveals characteristic ...
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Gibraltar takes on sales for Magnoli's horror Scream
Shooting on Albert Magnoli's horror-thriller PrimalScream is scheduled to begin in New Brunswick, Canada, onJun 13.Gibraltar International is handling allrights on the Gravity Pictures production about five youngsters who areterrorised by a mallet-wielding killer during a 15-hour weekend rampage.Victor Webster, Stark Sands, Charity Shea and TrentFord star and Gravity's Philip ...
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Eccleston heads to Hungary with Cougar Films' Double Life
Christopher Eccleston hassigned to star in Double Life for Sophie Balhechet and Lynda La Plante's CougarFilms. UK TV director Joe Ahearnewill make his feature debut on the film which is set and will be shot inHungary. Ahearne has previously worked with Eccleston on the TV series DrWho. Double Life is ...