All Screen articles in 19 May 2007 – Page 5
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Bridges steps up to join cast of $25m Weide film
In a move which is already whetting buyers' appetites, Jeff Bridges has joined the cast of Bob Weide's How To Lose Friends And Alienate People, the $25 million adaptation of Toby Young's bestselling satirical memoir about his time as a British journalist abroad, working in Manhattan. Bridges will be playing ...
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Heavyweight sales for KM's 200 Pounds Beauty
Korean sales company KM Culture has sold cosmetic surgery romantic-comedy 200 Pounds Beauty to Amuse, Inc. for Japan, M Pictures for Thailand, Vietnam Media for Vietnam, and AOE for Malaysia. The Amuse deal in particular is good news after last year's huge slump in Korean sales to Japan. Lee Sang-mi, ...
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Industry moves
Dubinet to head myriad pictures financing armRevelations Entertainment partners Morgan Freeman and Lori McCreary have hired former Myriad Pictures distribution chief Ann Dubinet to head their new financing arm, Global Revelations. The new venture will nurture a "talent-inspired" consortium of equity and hedge-fund personnel ranging from studios and financiers to ...
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United Kingdom - Good times
If I wasn't a Jew I'd be a Nazi," says UK producer Miriam Segal. It is a forthrightness designed to make you sit up and pay attention. Her debut film, Good, starts shooting in Budapest this week and Segal is determined it will have a shocking appeal - for all ...
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New Goals
Tristan Whalley and Nicki Parfitt first met while working for Portman Entertainment on the comedy Saving Grace in 2000. Both saw the potential of the film, originally made for TV, to go larger. Of course, it did.Whalley and Parfitt are now using that approach with their new company Goalpost Film. ...
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Spidey gets into full swing
Spider-Man 3 continues to dominate the international box office despite a 52% drop over its second weekend. Sony's web-slinger generated $84.2m from 73 territories, bringing its total to a whopping $385.4m. Zombie-sequel 28 Weeks Later trailed far behind in second place, and took $4.9m in its opening weekend from 11 ...
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India - Mother figure
Fresh from The Namesake, prolific Indian director Mira Nair is working on two very different projects. She is set to direct the epic $100m Shantaram on four continents for Warner Bros. An adaptation of Gregory David Roberts' autobiographical novel, it is being produced by Initial Entertainment Group's Graham King and ...
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The festival treasure hunt
Back in 1992, Canadian distributor Jim Murphy was on the prowl, as ever, for new, unheralded movies to acquire. On the opening day of the Cannes film festival, he trudged off to the Olympia Cinema for the first market screening of the day. It was a debut effort by an ...
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United States - Prairie Days
Jennifer Lynch's philosophy of film-making' When you're surrounded by fertiliser, "there's got to be a pony".The 39-year-old director knows something about dealing with adversity. Her new $5.5m feature Surveillance, produced by Lago Film and being sold by Arclight Films, is her first since the now-notorious Boxing Helena, which was greeted ...
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United States - The Next Chapter
As befits a public company with offices in Toronto, Los Angeles and Vancouver, there have been many cogs in Peace Arch Entertainment's machinery.For years, the company has operated successfully as a producer, buyer and distributor of feature, television and home entertainment programming, and now it is ramping up operations in ...
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Promotional Feature - Cash on demand
The theatrical sector has always been at the centre of the film universe. Over the years, though, its dominance has diminished. First came the threat from television, then video, followed by its digital sibling DVD. Now, there is a new kid on the block, one that is shaping up to ...
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Promotional Feature - Case study - The road to online
The first major UK film to experiment with a day-and-date release was Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross' The Road To Guantanamo in 2006.Produced by Andrew Eaton, the $3m (£1.5m) film is based on the true story of the 'Tipton Three', a trio of British Muslims who journeyed to a wedding ...
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The bucks start here
From the big bucks 1980s to the private equity boom, Cannes has been synonymous with the business of film. Nick Roddick, a former editor of Screen International, charts its development as an international deal-making hub. I remember standing outside the Petit Carlton with a British producer some time in the ...
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UK - The Importance Of Being Ealing
If you think you know Ealing Studios from the glory days of The Lavender Hill Mob, it is time to fast forward. The new Ealing Studios, launched in 2000, has worked on films including The Importance of Being Earnest and Valiant and is quietly ramping up its future business.Having a ...
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'Without the auteurs there wouldn't be a festival'
Festival president Gilles Jacob (pictured right) and artistic director Thierry Fremaux talk about stars and auteurs, resisting pressure and staying relevant in the digital age. It is mid-April and with the 60th edition of the Cannes film festival less than a month away, festival president Gilles Jacob and artistic director ...
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Taking a critical angle
Evaluating Cannes' wealth of films is an exhilarating - and exhausting - experience for critics. Long may it continue, says Derek Malcolm. Time was when you could walk down the Croisette at Cannes, spy a famous director sipping his coffee and sit down and chat without interference. Now you have ...
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Editorial - Screen says - All franchised out'
The nightmare for everyone involved in any creative industry is that one day the ideas will dry up. More particularly for the international market, it is what happens when all the remakes have been remade, the original books and plays adapted, the sequels drifting off into painful repetition.It's a niggling ...
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Comment - Discovering the actual new cinema
Imagine a world in which our knowledge of US cinema came exclusively from the films that play the major festivals. In this strange parallel universe directors such as Gus Van Sant, David Lynch and Harmony Korine would spring to mind at the free-association prompt "American movies!".They do not, of course ...
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Jury service: the acclaim game
What's it like to sit on the Competition jury at Cannes' Lee Marshall goes behind the scenes. When he was president of the Cannes jury in 1953 - a year marked by a row over Henri-Georges Clouzot's The Wages Of Fear, a political thriller accused of being 'anti-American' - Jean ...
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Cannes at 60 - Short order
For the 60th edition of Cannes the festival called on 35 directors to make 33 short films in honour of the event, themed around the movie theatre.Says festival president Gilles Jacob: "I wanted to see if it would be possible to gather a big number of very short films and ...