All Screen articles in 19 May 2006 – Page 3
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Bondarchuk Jr to complete his father's And Quiet Flows The Don
Like father, like son. Fyodor Bondarchuk announced yesterday that he iscompleting his late dad's Sergei Bondarchuk's unfinished epic film And QuietFlows The Don.''Actor-director Sergei Bondarchuk, one of the legendary figures inpost-war Soviet cinema, originally shot And Quiet Flows The Don in 1992, twoyears before his death. An English-language adaptation of ...
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Lionsgate bites into Daybreakers
Lionsgate isteaming up with US-based Furst Films and New Zealand effects house WetaWorkshop on the vampire horror feature Daybreakers.Lionsgatepresident of international Nick Meyer will introduce the project to buyers herethis week and Lionsgate plans a North American release in 2007.Australianfilmmakers Peter and Michael Spierig will direct the future-set story of ...
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Younggu Art hires Hollywood crew to finish D-War
Korean production houseYounggu Art has hired a top-flight Hollywood crew to finish post-production onits multi-million dollar sci-fi epic D-War, which was recently picked up for international sales by Korea'sShowbox.Directed by Shim Hyung-raeand starring Jason Behr and Amanda Brooks, the English-language film, about agiant serpent on the rampage in Los Angeles, ...
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Alpine launches domestic distribution arm with Snipes-starrer
Alpine Picturesis launching a theatrical distribution arm and will kick off this autumn withthe release of teen thriller Love Is The Drug written by CapeFear screenwriter Wesley Strick.Darryl Hannahstars in the story of a treacherous love triangle. The Box Office Productions'thriller also stars Lizzy Caplan, John Patrick Amedori and Jenny ...
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Sarah Alexander joins Stardust cast
Actress Sarah Alexander has joined the cast of Matthew Vaughn's fantasyepic Stardust. She will play Empusa, a 400-year-old witch.The film also stars Robert de Niro, Michelle Pfeiffer, Claire Danes andnewcomer Charlie Cox.Filming starts in June. Alexander has appeared on UK TV shows including Coupling and Green Wing and she alsorecently ...
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Maria Koepf to leave X-Filme to set up own company
Maria Koepf, co-managingdirector of X-Filme creative poolsince 2000, is leaving the Berlinproduction house to set up shop with herownoutfit MagnetFilmproduktion.Koepf started at X-Filme asa line producer in 1995, working with Tom Tykwer as line producer on Wintersleepers, as executive producer onRunLolaRun, and producer on The PrincessAnd The Warrior, Heaven and ...
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Lionsgate partners with Lakeshore for Midnight Train
Lionsgate and LakeshoreEntertainment are partnering up on the horror thriller Midnight Train based on a short story by Clive Barker.Patrick Tatopoulos willdirect the tale of a New York photographer who tracks down a serial killer andunearths a devastating secret. Jeff Buhler adapted the screenplay.Lakeshore is producing theproject, its second collaboration ...
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Tartan takes UK, Ireland rights to Mr Lonely
Tartan Films has taken onall UK and Ireland rights to Harmony Korine's Mr Lonely, which is currently shooting on location in Panama,Scotland and Paris. Diego Luna stars as aMichael Jackson look-a-like and the cast also features Samantha Morton, AnitaPallenberg and Denis Lavant. Harmony Korine co-wrote with Avi Korine. MarcelZyskind served ...
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Schroeder prepares Inju for SBS
Director Barbet Schroeder is set tostart work on Inju in September forFrench producers SBS Films and La Fabrique de Films.SBS is run by Said Ben Said of UGCInternational which will start sales on the project at Cannes this year.Inju stars Benoit Magimel and is based on a novel by Edogawa ...
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Schamus and Karpen promoted in Focus reshuffle
James Schamus has been promoted to Focus Featureschief executive officer in the wake of David Linde's appointment twomonths ago as Universal Pictures co-chairman.Schamus, who shared the role of Focus co-presidentsince he founded the company with Linde in 2002, assumes oversight ofFocus, Rogue Pictures and Focus Features International (FFI).Meanwhile Andrew Karpen ...
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Vision Music takes world rights to Punk's Not Dead
Vision Music has picked upworldwide rights excluding Japan (King Records) and Scandinavia (FutureFilm) to Susan Dynner's documentary Punk's Not Dead.The film explores theorigins of punk and features interviews and footage of such luminariesof the genre as The Ramones, Black Flag, and current super group GreenDay.Punk's Not Dead is set to ...
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Korea's Core Studio takes on Lee Myung-se horror project
Korea's Core Studio isfinancing and handling international sales on the first horror film from hotKorean director Lee Myung-se.Entitled M, the $5m film is a supernatural love story between a30-something writer and a mysterious young girl. It's currently being scriptedand production is expected to start in September or October. Core Studio ...
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Goldwyn strikes US deal for Conversations With God
Samuel Goldwyn Films hasacquired US theatrical rights from Lightning Entertainment to the spiritual filmConversations With God.Fox Home Entertainment hastaken North American video rights to theadaptation of Neale DonaldWalsch's bestselling series of books about his transformation fromhomeless person to spiritual guru.Henry Czerny stars as Walschalongside Ingrid Boulting.Goldwyn plans an autumnrelease.Stephen Simon ...
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Warner Italy starts shooting Lucchetti's political comedy
Shooting has just started onWarner Bros Italy's $7.7m (Euros 6m) political comedy, Mio Fratello e'Figlio Unico.Directed by DanieleLucchetti, the film is about a young seminarian who becomes a fascistand then a left-wing activist. It is inspired by Antonio Pennacchi'snovel Il fasciocomunista.The film is produced byCattleya, and written by Stefano Rulli ...
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TFI takes on family film Duke & Claire
TFI International has pickedup live-action family film Duke & Claire from Endgame Entertainment, producers of HotelRwanda and Lord Of War.The story is about a pair ofmismatched dogs shepherding a group of ducklings through the American west on ajourney where they must battle rattlesnakes, wolves and other wilds along theway.The project ...
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Rai Cinema boards Salvatores's Naima
Rai Cinema has boardedOscar-winning director Gabriele Salvatores's next film, a $25.5m (Euros20m) English-language drama about a ship's last voyage.The film, with a workingtitle is Naima, is written byUmberto Contarello and Salvatores, who won a best foreign language Oscar for Mediterraneo.Naima is a romantic adventure drama about an Irish shipcaptain and ...
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Dutch Filmworks strikes deal for King's Black Sheep
Dutch Filmworks has acquiredBenelux rights to Jonathan King's comedy horror Black Sheep from NZ Film.The film, which recentlycompleted its shoot in New Zealand, was previously sold to Icon for the UK,Australia and New Zealand. Jiants has rights for Thailand, Singapore andMalaysia.Produced by PhilippaCampbell, Black Sheep is set on avast sheep ...
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Germany's Beta Cinema takes on Salvador
Germany's Beta Cinema willhandle international sales on Un Certain Regard entry Salvador, produced by Spain's MediaPro.The film stars Goodbye,Lenin! actor Daniel Bruhl asSalvador Puig Antich, a young Catalan anarchist who was put to death at thetail end of the Franco era after years spent on the lam.Meanwhile, MediaPro chiefJaume Roures ...
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Weinsteins ring in Bell love story
The Weinstein Co will produce produce $20m love story,Alec & May - the US-set story ofthe Scottish inventor of the telephone Alexander Graham Bell.The project, developed by the UK's Headline Pictures,follows the romance between Bell, then a 28-year-old teacher and a 16-year-olddeaf girl."The telephone was the direct consequence of theirrelationship," ...
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Katapult takes on sales for Puccini For Beginners
Thomas Mai's Katapult FilmSales begins international sales in Cannes on Maria Maggenti's comedy PucciniFor Beginners, which premiered at Sundance.The film receives itsinternational market debut screening and charts the exploits of a commitment-phobicNew York lesbian.Elizabeth Reaser, JustinKirk and Gretchen Mol star.Maggenti wrote thescreenplay, and Eden Wurmfeld produced with InDigEnt's Gary Winick ...