All Screen articles in 19 May 2005 – Page 6
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Von Trier's Manderlay stirs up Cannes controversy
If Lars Von Trier's Manderlay doesn't elicit claims of anti-Americanism, hiscomments at today's Cannes press conference for the film certainly will."Let's get this businessabout me being anti-American out of the way," said the director beforelaunching into a blistering attack on the President of the United States."Mr. Bush is an asshole,"said ...
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Kingdom holds on at international box office
Kingdom of Heaven, last week's big day-and-dateopener and international box office leader, held on to its position thisweekend with moderate drop-offs in many territories and a solid opening inJapan. The results owed something, however, to the scarcity of competition inthe last weekend before Star Wars: Episode III invades the globalmarketplace. ...
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Battle In Heaven (Batalla En El Cielo)
Dir:Carlos Reygadas. Mex. 2005. 98mins.Followingon the heels of his demanding but brilliant first feature, Japon,Mexican director Carlos Reygadas now bulls his way into the Cannes competitionline-up to give us another exceptionally ambitious aesthetic effort. While itdoesn't always work - and critical opinion is sure to be violently split - it'simmensely ...
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Cannes briefs: latest deals, announcements
Content spooks AliensContent is to handle the UKand US releases of Jake West's Evil Aliens. The £1 million slapstick British horror film will bereleased theatrically in the UK through Content's distribution arm. It will goout in the US as part of Content's deal with Martin W. Greenwald's ImageEntertainment.Pangs go UniversalUniversal ...
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Lexi Alexander signs to direct Life 'N' Lyrics
German filmmakerLexi Alexander, whose award-winning drama Hooligans is being pursued by a number of Hollywoodstudios, has been confirmed to direct Life 'N' Lyrics. As reportedearlier this week, the project will star UK rapper Ashley Walters in the storyof rival DJ crews from North and South London. The project isthe first ...
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Japan, France strike joint production, distribution agreement
Representativesfrom UniJapan, the Japanese film industry's export body, and the FrenchNational Film Centre (CNC) signed a protocol for mutual cooperation in filmproduction and distribution at the Cannes Film Festival on May 14. CNC DirectorGeneral Catherine Colonna and UniJapan chairman Kaoru Yosano and TokyoInternational Film Festival chairman Tsuguhiko Kadokawa participated in ...
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Bowie to executive produce 30 Century Man doc
David Bowie isexecutive producing a new music documentary about American rock muse ScottWalker called 30 Century Man. The projectheads up the debut slate of UK production outfit Missing In Action Films, runby former marketing and distribution executive Mia Bays.Bays is inCannes with a 10-minute promo of 30 Century Man: The ...
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Basic Instinct 2 star revs up Merseyside movie shoots
In a bid tokickstart movie production in the Merseyside region of England, BasicInstinct II starDavid Morrissey's Tubedale Films is to partner with England's North WestVision. North West will invest £145,000 over the next year on a slatepartnership with Tubedale.The deal,it is claimed, is the first of its kind from a ...
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Four Horsemen ride with lads mag icon Ellison
British lads' mags iconJennifer Ellison is to star in The Cottage, one of four new horror films being launched in Cannes by Four HorsemenFilms (the genre horror label of UK production company Random Harvest.)Ellison, aged 21, leaped tofame aged 14 when she joined the long-running UK soap opera Brookside. Ellison ...
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Myriad packs trunk with Elephant Tales pre-sales
Kirk D'Amico's Myriad Pictures has notched up pre-sales on MarioAndreacchio's live-action family adventure Elephant Tales, which is set togo into production in South Africa on Jun 13.The French/Australian co-production has sold to LNK for Portugal, Prooptikifor Greece, Myndform for Iceland, Box Office for Thailand and Wild World forthe Philippines.As previously ...
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Max Films plots English-language Seducing Dr Lewis
Montreal-based Max Films issetting up an English-language remake of its 2003 Quinzaine hit Seducing Dr.Lewis, with director Jean-FrancoisPouliot and screenwriter Ken Scott onboard to reprise their roles. The new version is one offour-pictures being prepared by producers Roger Frappier and Luc Vandal toshoot over the next 18 months. Pouliot and ...
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Millenium strikes three picture deal with Eclectic
Avi Lerner's Millennium Pictures has signed a three-picture deal withHeidi Jo Markel's fledgling development and production outfit EclecticPictures.The exclusive arrangement provides Los Angeles-based Eclectic with fundsto attach talent and make films with foreign distribution being servicedthrough Millennium's Nu Image.Markel, whose producing credits include the Val Kilmer thriller BlindHorizon and Snoop ...
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Momentum signs up for football comedy The Other Half
Momentum Pictures has pickedup all UK rights to football romantic comedy The Other Half from UK-based seller AV Pictures.The film, which stars DannyDyer and footballer-turned-actor Vinnie Jones, is Momentum's second deal withAV this market after the UK distributor picked up horror thriller Wilderness.The Other Half joins WW2-set drama The Aryan ...
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Gold Circle snaps up remake rights to Soundless
Gold Circle Films hasacquired remake rights to Mennan Yapo's Soundless which screened in the German Cinema section of theBerlin Film Festival in 2004.The film is a thriller/lovestory about a pensive hired gun trying to get out of the business. Soundless also won the Jury Prize at the recent CognacThriller Festival ...
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Fortissimo ices Snow Cake, Shanghai sales
Fortissimo Films has closeda string of sales on Competition title Shanghai Dreams and drama Snow Cake, starring Sigourney Weaver, and racked up furtherdeals on The Night Listener and U-CarmeneKhayelitsha.Shanghai Dreams, directed by China's Wang Xiaoshuai, has gone toItaly's Teodora, Brazil's Imagem, A Films for Benelux and Roadshow for Greece.A drama ...
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France's Pretty Pictures embarks on doc buying spree
Frenchdistributor Pretty Pictures is on a documentary buying spree with threebrand-new pick ups.Marc Levin's Protocols OfZion will have a big autumn releasesaid Pretty Pictures' James Velaise, who bought the film from THINKFilm. Zion is a look at anti-semitism which uses 9/11 as adeparture point and traces the roots of the ...
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Focus strikes deals on Jarmusch's Broken Flowers
Focus Features has closed major territory sales on Jim Jarmusch's BrokenFlowers ahead of the comedy's competition screening on Tuesday Rights have been sold to Roadshow in Australia, Momentum Pictures in theUK, Tobis in Germany, Bac Films in France, Mikado in Italy, Vertigo in Spain,Europe Films in Brazil, and Nordisk Film ...
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Rainmaker unveils fresh slate following Bomb success
With its debut film Diameter Of TheBomb picked up by THINKFilm for North America andRedbus for the UK, fledgling UK financing and production outfit Rainmaker Filmshas unveiled a fresh slate of projects.The London-based company, which funds development and,increasingly, production, is backing Chinese Wall, asuspense thriller by US writer Mark Wheaton ...
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Weinstein Company boards Bodrov's Nomad
The WeinsteinCompany has acquired a second film from French sales and finance outfit WildBunch this week. Bob and HarveyWeinstein have taken North American, UK, Australian/New Zealand and SouthAfrican rights to Nomad, starring Jason Scott Lee, Kuno Becker and Jay Hernandez. Directedby Sergei Bodrov and Talgat Temenov, it was written by ...
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Constantin on the Edge with Applebaum
Germany's Constantin Filmwill finance and co-produce commercials director Chris Applebaum's featuredebut Water's Edge with SidGanis' Out Of The Blue Entertainment. Set for a September star inArizona's Lake Powell and Los Angeles, the horror-thriller stars JordanaBrewster and follows a group of holidaymakers whose lake trip turns sour when abrutal serial killer ...