All Screen articles in 19 May 2006 – Page 5
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Fortissimo closes raft of sales on Frank Gehry
Fortissimo Films has closedseveral sales on Sydney Pollack's documentary Sketches Of Frank Gehry on the eve on Cannes.The film, which is screeningin official selection out-of-competition at Cannes, has gone to Germany's Kinowelt, Israel's United King and Wise Policy in Japan. It was previously sold to Bim for Italy and Pathe ...
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Momentum gets UK and Spanish rights to Cholera
Momentum has acquired the UKand Spanish rights to Cannes market title Love In The Time Of Cholera. Mike Newell, who previouslydirected Four Weddings and a Funeral and Harry Potter And The Goblet of Fire, will direct the $40m project. Javier Bardem, GiovannaMezzogiorno and Benjamin Bratt will star. The Pianist screenwriter ...
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Intandem on board for sales of new Carry On film
Bawdy British comedyfranchise Carry On is beingrevived. Here in Cannes, London-based Intandem Films is introducing buyers to CarryOn London, the 32nd and latestinstalment in the long-running series that began way back in 1958 with CarryOn Sergeant.The film, now inpre-production, is being produced by Chris Chrisafis and directed by PeterRichardson. Shane ...
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Capitol takes on sales for Beresford's Mansions
Capitol Films has taken oninternational sales for Bruce Beresford's A Dream Of Red Mansions, currently in pre-production. Kate Hudson and KenWatanabe are set to star in this epic love story set during the ChineseCultural Revolution. Capitol has already closed adeal on A Dream Of Red Mansionspre-Cannes with Toshiba Entertainment for ...
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Chiesa picks up rights to Fortnight's Libero Va Bene
Adriana Chiesa Enterprises(ACE) has picked up world-wide rights to Kim Rossi Stuart's DirectorsFortnight film Anche Libero Va Bene.The drama marks CrimeNovel actor Rossi Stuart'sdirectorial debut, and is about family strife seen through the eyes ofan 11-year-old boy. The picture is produced by Palomar and Rai Cinemaand stars Rossi Stuart and ...
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Seven Arts to start sales for Henry Bean's Noise
Los Angeles-based Seven ArtsInternational will commence sales here on 'a slate of new work fromdirector Henry Bean, John Malkovich and Burt Reynolds.Seven Arts is in productionin New York on Bean's black comedy Noise about a frustrated New Yorker who declares war on the city's noise. WilliamHurt, Tim Robbins and Bridget ...
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Shochiku does Kafka in animation debut
Japan's Shochiku is launching two animatedfilms from high-profile directors at Cannes, marking the first time it hasproducedtheatrical animations in-house.The first film, The Country Doctor,is based on Franz Kafka's short prose of the same name and is being directed byKoji Yamamura who picked up an Oscar nomination for his short film ...
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Woody Allen signs McGregor and Farrell for UK film
French sales, distribution and financehouse Wild Bunch has confirmed casting on Woody Allen's upcoming Summer 2006 Project. Colin Farrell and EwanMcGregor will co-star alongside Tom Wilkinson and an as-yet unannounced female.The film, budgeted at $20.7m (Euros 16.2m),will begin shooting in London in June and should be ready in time for ...
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Cannes to go ahead with Summer Palace premiere
One day before Lou Ye's SummerPalace screens in competition atCannes, the controversial film has yet to receive a greenlight from China'scensors, but according to the festival the competition screening will go ahead.The film was made in Chinathrough official channels, but according to Chinese regulations, the censorshipcommittee of the Film Bureau ...
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Memento adds two Cannes titles to slate
French sales company MementoFilms International has picked up competition title Juventude EmMarcha as well as Un Certain Regardfilm El Violin.The first film aPortugese/French/Swiss co-production directed by Pedro Costa and will be released in Portgualby Costa Do Castelo, in France by Equation and in Switzerland byFrenetic.El Violin, from Mexico's Francisco ...
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Tillinger named production president at Scorsese's Sikelia
Emma Tillinger has been named president of production for MartinScorsese's New York-based Sikelia Productions.Tillinger will oversee all aspects of Scorsese's production operation and workwith him on the development of projects.Scorsese is currently in post-production on The Departed starring LeonardoDiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson and Mark Wahlberg, which will be releasedby ...
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Spanish exhibitors' federation responds to ruling
The Spanish exhibitors'federation has called for the creation of a commission to ensure that thelandmark ruling handed down last week against five multinational distributors accusedof anti-competitive practices gets carried out.In last week's decision bySpain's Anti-Trust Court, Disney/Buena Vista, Sony Pictures, Hispano Fox, UIPand Warner Sogefilms were fined $3m (Euros 2.4m) ...
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Toronto Film Festival creates new pass structure for delegates
The Toronto International Film Festival has instituteda new pass structure for its 2006 event for industry delegates offering moreoptions to choose a pass to meet their specific professional needs.Features of the new passes include access to publicscreenings, access to special sales premiere screenings, upgrades to includeindustry initatives programming and optional ...
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The Da Vinci Code
Dir: Ron Howard. US.2006. 152 mins.If Dan Brown's soaraway bestseller The Da Vinci Code wasclumsily written but a page-turning guilty pleasure, Ron Howard's film versionis well-made but chronically devoid of the guilty pleasures it needs to make itsucceed as first-rate popcorn entertainment. Howard and screenwriter AkivaGoldsman have remained rigidly faithful ...
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Element closes slew of deals for Mr Brooks
Element Films International(EFI) has closed a raft of deals on thepsychological thriller MrBrooks starring Kevin Costner in theunlikely role of a compulsive killer. The co-production of LosAngeles-based Element Films, Costner's TIGProductions and ThomasAugsberger's Eden Rock Media is currentlyshooting in the US.Bruce A Evans directs thestory of a jaded killer pursued ...
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Sola/Atrix pick up international rights to Friel-starrer Bathory
German sales company SolaMedia/Atrix Films has picked up international rights to Juraj Jakabisko's Bathory, which stars Anna Friel as the murderous Countess ofTransylvania alongside Hans Matheson, Karel Roden and Vincent Regan. Friel takes over from FamkeJanssen who was previously attached to the role co-produced by Jakubisko FilmSlovakia, Film & Music ...
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Mike Leigh picked for Heart of Sarajevo award
Mike Leigh will receive this year's honourary Heart of Sarajevo awardat the Sarajevo Film Festival. Leigh has previously visited the festival to show Topsy-Turvy in 2000, to receive a tribute in 2002, andto serve on the competition jury in 2004. 'His presence and support has done a great deal in ...
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MPA appoints Halli Kristinsson to Brussels-based post
The Motion PictureAssociation (MPA) has appointed Halli Kristinsson to the position of VP andregional director, anti-piracy, for the Europe, Middle East and Africa region.As regional director, hewill work with the MPA's regional partners from the MPA regional headquartersin Brussels. Kristinsson reports to ChrisMarcich, senior VP in Brussels and John Malcolm, ...
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Grodnik signs five-year domestic distribution agreement with Genius/TWC
Genius Productshas signed an exclusive five-year distribution agreement with Dan Grodnik'sGrodfilm Corporation giving Genius first right of refusal on all futureproductions.Genius expects torelease six to 12 films each year under the agreement, which includes NorthAmerican home video, digital, television and theatrical rights.Theatricalreleases will be distributed through The Weinstein Company under ...
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here! picks up comic strip adaptation Ethan Green
here! Films has picked up worldwide rights to George Bamber's romanticcomedy The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life Of Ethan Green.Based on Eric Orner's cult comic strip, the project stars Daniel Letterle as asocially inept 'professional assistant' who spins a web of lies in order tohold on to the new man in ...