All Screen articles in 2 March 2006 – Page 2
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Lionsgate, Twisted set Saw III for Oct 27, 2006
Lionsgate and TwistedPictures are reuniting the original creative team behind Saw and fast-tracking the third episode in time forHalloween this year.An Oct 27 US release datehas been set for the project, which will be directed by Saw II director Darren Lynn Bousman based on a story from Saw creators Leigh ...
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Hong Kong festival to open with Election 2 world premiere
This year's Hong KongInternational Film Festival (HKIFF) will open with two local films - the worldpremiere of Johnnie To's Election 2and Pang Ho Cheung's Isabella, whichrecently won a Silver Bear for best score at Berlin. The festival, which runs April4-19, will close with two other Berlin competition titles - Marc ...
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Working Title lines up March shoot for Hot Fuzz
Working Title has confirmed that Hot Fuzz, the new film from Shaun of the Dead co-creators EdgarWright and Simon Pegg, will start shooting in Marchin the UK.Wright will direct the action comedy, which heco-wrote with Pegg. The action comedy is about London police officer(Pegg), who is sent to a sleepy ...
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British cinematographers announce 2006 award nominees
The British Society ofCinematographers has announced the 2006 nominations for its best cinematographyaward. The nominees are Cesar Charlone for TheConstant Gardener, Andrew Dunn for MrsHenderson Presents, John Mathieson for Phantom of the Opera, Wally Pfister for BatmanBegins, and Roger Pratt for HarryPotter and the Goblet of Fire. In a change ...
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New pan-African co-production market for Sithengi market
A new pan-African co-production market will be launched at this year's Sithengi Film And TV Market in Cape Town.The African Co-Production Forum is an initiative between Sithengi and various international and African funds andfestivals to select two projects to pitch at Rotterdam's co-production market CineMartin 2007.A total of 15 projects ...
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Miramax gets North American rights to Becoming Jane
Miramax has taken North American rightsto Becoming Jane, starring AnneHathaway as young novelist Jane Austen.Becoming Jane is set to start its eight-week shoot in Ireland on March 27. Director Julian Jarroldpreviously directed Kinky Boots,another UK project that Miramax distributed. James McAvoyhas joined the cast starringas Tom Lefroy, Jane's love interest. ...
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Skillset picks 26 for Guiding Lights mentor programme
Skillset, the Sector SkillsCouncil, and training provider Lighthouse have announced the 26 successfulapplicants for mentoring scheme Guiding Lights. The scheme runs for 12months and pairs the applicants with established mentors including directors Paul Greengrass, GurindaChadha, Peter Cattaneo, andStephen Frears, writers Julian Fellowesand Tony Grisoni, producers Andrew Eaton and MichaelKuhn, and ...
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Arista planning UK development conference in April
Arista Development is planningits third Business of Development Conference, to be held in London on April25-26. The topics will includeinformation on development investments in the UK, US studio involvement in UK film development, the newfilm tax credit, case studies of film financing, making a second film, and areview of the ...
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Alan Menken signs multi-picture deal with Disney
Composer Alan Menken, who has won eightAcademy Awards for his music for Walt Disney films such as The Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid and Pocahontas, has signed a non-exclusivemulti-picture deal with Walt Disney Pictures/Touchstone Pictures. Menken, whose most recent score was writtenfor the upcoming Disney comedy The ShaggyDog, ...
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Triangelfilm acquires six features from Wild Bunch at EFM
Swedish film distributor Triangelfilm acquiredsix titles during the Berlin Film Festival, all of them from French salescompany Wild Bunch. Triangelfilm secured distribution rights for Sweden,Norway, Denmark and Finland for Marilyn Manson's Phantasmagoria, Emir Kusturica's Maradona, Nanni Moretti's IlCaimano, Emanuele Crialese's TheGolden Door, Luc Jacquet's The Foxand the Child, and Sabine ...
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Artificial Eye enjoys box office returns with Hidden
Hidden became the latestfilm to join the select few foreign language titles to pass £1m ($1.7m) in theUK at the weekend and became distributor Artificial Eye's first £1m hit since1994. Hidden (Cache) opened onJanuary 27 and crossed the mark after just five weekends in the territory. Thefilm, which won best ...
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John & Jane
Dir: Ashim Ahluwalia. India. 2005. 83mins.Tracing a fine line between fact and fiction, John & Jane, AshimAhluwalia's documentary about workers in Bombay callcentres, is an intriguing, understated meditation on the new hi-tech slavery.It follows, in relay sequence, the lives of six workers in a facility run by aUS company which ...
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Tropfest feature programme singles out September
September,from writer/director Peter Carstairs, will be the first project to emerge from Tropfestand the Movie Network's new feature programme, which each year gives $743,000(A$1m) to the creator of a short film to make a feature.The debut feature is about afriendship between two teenage boys - one white Australian, the otherAboriginal ...
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The Red Cockatoo (Der Rote Kakadu)
Dir. Dominik Graf. Ger. 2006.128mins.Sharply pitched between funny, rueful memory andcautionary tale about compromise and lost promise, DominikGraf's The Red Cockatoo confronts thetime when sex, art and American rock and roll collided with crude ideologicalpolitics.The latest production from XFilme Creative Pool, it conflates the themes andstyle of its two internationally ...
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Seville picks up nine titles for Canada from Berlin
Montreal-based SevillePictures has picked up nine pictures out of the Berlin Film Festival fordistribution in Canada. Leading the pack is OskarRoehler's German box office topper Elementary Particles, which won the Silver Bear for best actor for leadMoritz Bleibtreu; Seville bought the film from Celluloid Dreams.From Trust Film Sales,Seville bought Lars ...
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Close To Home (Karov La Bayit)
Dir/scr: Dalia Hager, Vidi Bilu. Israel. 2005. 90mins.A modest, low-budget feature that shows the rarelyexplored routines of female soldiers in Israel, Close To Home was one of the more pleasant surprises from Israellast year.A theatrical debut for itstwo directors, it follows two 18-year-old girls, Smadar(Smadar Sayar) and Irith (Naama Schendar),new ...
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Singapore film festival to focus on Arab cinema
Arab cinema is a majorhighlight of the 19th Singapore International Film Festival (April 13-29) whichwill open with Kiss Me Not On The Eyes,an Egypt-set drama about a female student of poetry and belly dancing byLebanese director Jocelyn Saab.This year's festivalline-up, announced today, features more than 300 films from 40 countries,including ...
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Another Morning (Sobhi Digar)
Dir/scr: Nasser Refaie. Iran. 2006. 89minsA study in grief and solitude verging on theexperimental, Nasser Refaie's second feature Another Morning is a tough nut to crackfor all but the most dedicated students of Iranian cinema.It's not as if the messagehe wishes to deliver is that obscure or difficult to unravel; ...
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Oscar shorts on sale at iTunes
Shorts International and Magnolia Pictures have struck a deal to offer this year's five live action shorts Oscar nominees for paid download at the iTunes Music Store. Also, Shorts International and Magnolia are working with UK exhibitor Picturehouse Cinemas to release a program of the Oscar-nominated shorts to 14 cinemas ...
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UK Film Council honours young filmmakers
FirstLight, the UK Film Council's initiative for young filmmakers, presented itsawards in London today. The winners were TheEnchanted Gourd by East Riding School Improvement Service for bestanimation, Come Play by Calling theShots for best horror, Ice House byCre8 Studios for best thriller, Babes byAll Change Arts for best documentary, ARight ...
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