All Screen articles in 19 May 2006 – Page 4
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FilmFour backs Winterbottom's Italy-set Genova
FilmFour hasannounced plans to continue its relationship with Michael Winterbottom andAndrew Eaton's Revolution Films by financing Winterbottom's next feature Genova. Eaton said theproject's budget would be around $3.9m (£3m) and shooting is likely to start inthe autumn. Laurence Coriat,who also collaborated with Winterbottom on 1999's Wonderland, wrote the screenplay. The ...
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Optimum starts music, audio books division
UK distributor Optimum Releasing, which was recentlyacquired by France's StudioCanal, has launched a new division devoted tocompilation albums, audiobooks and soundtracks.Optimum Sounds will issue its first release, tripleCD Extended Seventies - The Dawning of the the 12" Era, in May. Feel The Spirit - Other Worldly FolkSongs & Psychedelics will ...
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UK's One Eyed Films launches production arm
London-based One Eyed Films,a sales boutique specializing in Latin American cinema, is launching aproduction arm at Cannes.The first film on the slateis a $1.2m Buenos Aires- and Rio-set sexual coming-of-age drama called FromThe Beginning To The End. Brazilianwriter-director Aluizio Abranches (The Three Marias) is behind the project.One Eyed Films managingdirector ...
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Peace Arch takes on Roberts' In Tranzit
Peace Arch Films has boardedthe post-war drama In Tranzit,starring John Malkovich, and the drama How To Change In Nine Weeks.In Tranzit is currently in post-production and centres on agroup of German soldiers accidentally sent to a female-run prisoner of war campin Leningrad after the second world war.Thomas Kretschmann andDaniel Bruhl ...
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Rezo signs up for Sokurov's Alexandra
France's Rezo Films hassigned with legendary Russian director Aleksandr Sukourov for his upcoming Alexandra.The film, about agrandmother who goes in search of her grandson fighting in Chechnya will shootin the Caucasus in July and August.Alexandra is in keeping with Sokourov's previous films about familyties Father And Son and MotherAnd Son. ...
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High Point adds Bride Flight and Dennis P to Cannes slate
London-based sales andproduction company High Point Films has taken world rights (excluding Benelux)for Bride Flight and Dennis P.The company is also now handling sales for Frank Van Mechelen's Belgium drama Tangier,about two Belgian bus drivers that are arrested in Morocco for trafficking drugs.Pre-production has just startedon Bride Flight, which is ...
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Roeg's IFS adds London To Brighton to Cannes slate
Luc Roeg's Independent FilmSales (IFS) announced in Cannes that it will handle sales on London To Brighton,a British thriller about a runaway girl caught up in an undergroundprostitution ring. Vertigo will be releasing the film (currently in post-production)in the UK following its debut at an autumn festival later in the ...
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Kaufman to direct space shuttle drama for Media 8
Philip Kaufman will directMedia 8's space shuttle disaster drama Challenger with Oscar-nominated David Strathairn set to playthe lead.US-based Media 8 is sellingworldwide rights in Cannes on the project, which Media 8 will co-producein association with Code Entertainment and Carol Baum ProductionsStrathairn will play the scientistand Nobel Laureate Richard Feynman, who ...
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Klockworx snaps up Japanese rights to Ong Bak 2
Thailand's SahamongkolfilmInternational has sold hotly anticipated Tony Jaa vehicle Ong Bak 2 to Japan's Klockworx.Jaa will star in and serveas action choreographer on the $12-$15m film and is also considering whether todirect. Prachya Pinkaew, director ofthe original Ong Bak and TomYum Goong, will produce. Jaa'smentor and action choreographer Panna Rittikrai ...
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Kim Ki-Duk's Time to open Karlovy Vary
Kim Ki-Duk's new film Time will open the Karlovy Vary International FilmFestival. TheKorean director is scheduled to attend the world premiere of the film June 30 at the Czech festival. The film will see its marketpremiere in Cannes on May 20 and has reportedly already been sold in 15territories. Time ...
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Tartan takes UK, US rights to Ghost of Mae Nak
Tartan Films has acquiredall rights in North America and the UK to De Warrenne Pictures' supernaturalthriller Ghost of Mae Nak. British writer/director MarkDuffield makes his feature debut with the Thai-language project. The film wasalready a success at the box office in Thailand and Malaysia. The deal was struck byproducer Tom ...
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Gatti-Pascual to work with Film London's Microwave scheme
Producer Sol Gatti-Pascual hasjoined Film London's micro-budget feature film fund Microwave as a freelancecreative executive. Gatti-Pascual previouslyworked on films including Glue, L'Annulaire,Joyeux Noel and Noi Albinoi. She will support FilmLondon's head of production Maggie Ellis is overseeing the new scheme, whichwas announced in February.The BBC-backed Microwaveprogramme will work with film-makers ...
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Da Vinci goes global with international launch
The Da Vinci Code floodsthe international marketplace this weekend, opening day-and-date (orthereabouts) with its US launch on nearly 12,000 screens spread across almostevery territory. The international opening is thewidest ever for distributor Sony Pictures Releasing International (SPRI) and itgives the film an even broader global launch than the summer's first ...
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Screen Media buys domestic rights to Disaster!
Screen Media Films has acquired North American theatrical and video distributionrights to the claymation adventure spoof Disaster!Los Angeles-based Dream Entertainment and Bleiberg Entertainment sold therights to the story of a crack team assembled to thwart an earth-boundplanetoid.Screen Media plans an October release followed by DVD launch in February2907 through its ...
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Film Connection gets Brazil rights to The Gigolos from Punk Cinema
Film Connection has taken Brazilian rights to TheGigolos, the debut feature from new UK company Punk Cinema.Film Connection plans to release theatrically inBrazil in September 2006.New UK distributor Word of Mouth struck a pre-Cannesdeal for all UK rights and also plans a September release. "Our experience suggests that The Gigolostravels ...
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Paramount appoints key execs in new international unit
ParamountPictures International has announced a number of key appointments for its newLondon-based international distribution arm, which will become operational inJanuary 2007. All will reportdirectly to Andrew Cripps, who as previously announced will serve as presidentof Paramount's new international operations. Of the four newdepartment heads announced, one is already at Paramount ...
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UK distributor Soda Pictures adds two to team
UK distributor Soda Picturesis growing with the addition of two new staffers. Kevin Owen has joined as theatricalsales manager. In June, Martin Gough will come on board as marketing manager. Owen worked as a film bookerat Artificial Eye and Tartan Films. Gough has a background in distribution andmedia planning and ...
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UK Film Council awards $1.2m from Development Fund
The UK Film Council hasannounced funding for nine new film projects through its Development Fund.The total investment in thenine films is $1.2m (£628,339). The projects funded are:Mrs Ratcliffe'sRevolution written by PeterStraughan and Bridget O'Connor, to be directed by Bille Eltringham;Ghetta Life, written by Christopher Browne;West Is West from writer Ayub ...
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EC approves new Irish and Polish film schemes
The European Commission hasapproved new and amended national aid schemes that support film-making inIreland and Poland under EC Treaty state aid regulations.The Irish Section 481 schemeto support film production, which amends the existing scheme previouslyapproved by the Commission, allows film production companies to obtain 80% taxrelief on investments of up ...
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Hong Kong's Emperor, Sundream set to steal together
Hong Kong's Emperor Motion Pictures (EMP) has added severalnew titles to its slate in the run-up to Cannes, including action adventure Let's Steal Together, set to star pop duo Twins.A co-production with Hong Kong's Sundream Motion Pictures, the film revolves around several gangs ofthieves chasing a religious relic. It will ...