All Screen articles in 19 May 2006 – Page 7
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Lightning Entertainment takes global rights to football drama
SantaMonica sales and distribution company Lightning Entertainment has takenworldwide rights territories excluding Brazil and Germany to Brazilian footballcrime drama Showdebola. Commercialsdirector Alexander Pickl makes his feature directorial debut on the story of ayoungster whose dream of playing professional football may be his only way outof a tough Rio de Janerio ...
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DeLoach takes top role at Fox Searchlight
SheilaDeLoach has been promoted to senior vice president and general sales manager atFox Searchlight, where she has been vice president of distribution for the pastnine yearsShe willrelocate from new York to Los Angeles reporting to chief operating officerSteve Gilula, who called her a "pioneer in film distribution' and a mentorfor ...
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Danish director Simon Staho readies third feature
For his third feature Simon Staho is rounding up an impressive cast of Danish film andtheatre actors. The shoot of DaisyDiamond is scheduled to begin on May 22.The romantic drama stars Sofie Grabol (Accused), Trine Dyrholm(A Soap), Sonja Richter (Open Hearts) and Jens Albinus among others. Albinus willalso star in ...
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Sundance premieres bookend Seattle festival
Twohigh-profile Sundance premieres bookend the 32nd Annual SeattleInternationalFilm Festival (SIFF), with Neil Berger's period dramaTheIllusionist opening and Michel Gondry's The ScienceOf Sleepclosingthe event.Programmershave picked 419 features and shorts including 19 world premieres for the 25-dayevent, which runs from May 25 to Jun18.Amongthe world premieres are Jordan Albertsen's youth drama The ...
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THINKfilm takes Off The Black on the Croisette
THINKFilmhas picked up all worldwide rights to James Ponsoldt'scoming-of-agedrama Off The Black, which premiered at SundanceandstarsNick Nolte and Trevor Morgan.Thedistributor plans a November release in the US and will introduceinternationalrights to buyers on the Croisette this week.OffThe Black charts the fateful friendship between a high schoolumpireand the young man who ...
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High-flying Snakes director claims Asylum
LosAngeles-based Hyde Park Entertainment has signed David Ellis to direct the darkthriller Asylum, which becomes the latestproject to join Hyde Park International's (HPI) dynamic Cannes slate.Thedeal represents a coup for Hyde Park as Ellis' upcoming thriller Snakes On APlane is tracking at a phenomenal level months ahead of itsUS release ...
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David Ellis to direct Asylum for Hyde Park
Los Angeles-based Hyde ParkEntertainment has signed David Ellis to direct the dark thriller Asylum, which becomes the latest project to join Hyde ParkInternational's Cannes slate.The deal represents a coup for Hyde Park as Ellis' upcoming thrillerSnakes On A Plane istracking at a phenomenal level months ahead of its US release ...
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Alonso and Musaluppi recruited for Locarno juries
Leadingfigures from the New Argentine Cinema have been invited to serve on new jurieswhich are being established at this year's LocarnoFilm Festival under the new artistic director Frederic Maire.FilmmakerLisandro Alonso, whosedirecting credits include La Libertad, Los Muertos and the as-yet-unreleased Fantasmas, will be a jury memberof the new Leopard for ...
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An Inconvenient Truth
Dir: Davis Guggenheim. US. 2006.98mins"I'm Al Gore. I used to be the next president of theUnited States... I don't find that particularly funny," former vice-presidentAl Gore declares early on in Davis Guggenheim's fascinating documentary,bounding on stage before one of his multi-media lectures about global warming.Gore is a contradictoryfigure, aloof and ...
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van der Werff promoted to executive vp at SPRI
Longtime Sony Picturespublicity strategist Susan van der Werff has been promoted to executive vicepresident of international publicity for Sony Pictures Releasing International.The promotion, announced byPaul Smith, president of worldwide theatrical operations for the studio, comeson the eve of SPRI's launch of The Da Vinci Code as the opening night of ...
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MPA appoints Thomas Dillon to anti-piracy post
The Motion PictureAssociation (MPA) has promoted Thomas Dillon to vice president, deputy generalcounsel and regional legal director anti-piracy in the MPA's Europe, MiddleEast and Africa office in Brussels.Dillon had been advising theMPA on legal issues arising from copyright and anti-piracy matters sinceJanuary 2001.Dillon will handle publicpolicy and litigation issues relating ...
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Hassid named director of foreign film acquisitions for Canal Plus
The Canal Plus Group announced Friday the appointment of Laurent Hassidto the post of director of foreign film acquisitions.Hassid will report to head of film Evi Fullenbach. His responsibilitieswill include overseeing acquisitions of foreign films, excluding films from theUS majors, and pre-buys on French films shot in foreign languages for ...
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Hassid heads foreign film buying for Canal Plus
The CanalPlus Group has appointed Laurent Hassid to the post ofdirector of foreign film acquisitions.Hassidwill report to head of film Evi Fullenbach. His responsibilities will includeoverseeing acquisitions of foreign films, excluding films from the US majors,and pre-buys on French films shot in foreign languages for Canal Plus, CanalPlus Cinema and ...
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Stasi thriller takes seven Lolas at German Film Awards
FlorianHenckel von Donnersmarck's The Lives Of Others (Das Leben Der Anderen)was the big winner at this year's German Film Awards in Berlin.The Stasithriller picked up seven Golden Lolas for best film, best direction, best leadactor (Ulrich Muehe), best supporting actor (Ulrich Tukur), best productiondesign (Silke Buhr), best cinematography (Hagen Bogdanski), ...
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The Day On Fire adds heat to Bleiberg's Cannes slate
LosAngeles-based sales house Bleiberg Entertainment will begin worldwide sales atCannes on thriller The Day On Firestarring Olympia Dukakis.JayAnania directed the tale of four women from different backgrounds whose livesintersect over the course of a turbulent 12 hours in New York punctuated by abombing.CarmenChaplin and Martin Donovan also star and Larry ...
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Mission stays strong in international marketplace
Paramount's Mission: Impossible III stayed strongover its second weekend in the international marketplace with an estimatedgross of $40.5m, representing a relatively modest 42% drop from last weekend'simpressive $70.3m opening.The weekend take - from the same 7,390 sites in 57territories at which the Tom Cruise sequel opened - brought M:I:III'srunning international ...
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Poseidon can't sink Mission in US
Poseidon failed to knock Mission:Impossible III off the top of the North American box office chart thisweekend, as Paramount's Tom Cruise sequel grossed an estimated $24.5m and theWarner disaster movie managed a mediocre $20.3m.M:I:III's gross was down an acceptable 49%from last weekend's less than stellar opening figure of $47.7m. Poseidon'stake, ...