All Screen articles in 2 March 2006 – Page 3
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Snider leaves Universal for DreamWorks
Stacey Snider has joinedDreamWorks as co-chairman and chief executive officer following a nine-yeartenure at Universal Pictures where she served as chairman for the last six.Snider joins the film and television studio recently acquired by Paramount and willassume responsibility for four to six release a year.Reporting to Paramount chairman and chief ...
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Sandrew Metronome acquires rights to five feature films
Sandrew Metronome acquired Scandinavian rights to five newfeature films following the Berlin Film Festival. Winners of the Silver Bearfor Best Director documentary, Michael Winterbottomand Mat Whitecross', The Road to Guantanamo is part dram andpart documentary and tells the tale of a trio of British Muslims, known as theTipton Three who ...
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Dutch Film Fund grants $2.03m in production subsidies
The Dutch Film Fund has granted production subsidies for five major new Dutch featurefilms. The total production subsidy amounts to $2.03m (Euros 1.7m.) The grantshave been awarded to four different production companies: IdtVFilm, 24FPS Features, Feature Partners and LagesteeFilm.IdtV Film received funds for two features, the first Unfinished Sky is ...
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Bavarian fund backs family entertainment and Wixxer sequel
Three familyfilms and a sequel to the 2004 box office hit Der Wixxer are among seven feature projects awarded over $4.8m (Euros4.1m) by Bavaria's regional film fund FFF Bayernat its latest sitting.The largestamount $1.6m (Euros 1.4m) - went to Uli Limmer's Collina Filmproduktion for HerrBello which reunites the successful producer ...
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Princesas
Dir/scr: Fernando Leon de Aranoa. Sp. 2005. 113mins.Princesas, FernandoLeon De Aranoa's latest slice of social realism, isalmost a total gender switch from the ultra-masculine unemployed dockyard saga Mondays In The Sun, which vaulted himonto the international stage in 2002.A beautifully acted storyabout the friendship between two prostitutes in Madrid, Princesas ...
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The Feast Of The Goat (La Fiesta Del Chivo)
Dir. Luis Llosa. Spain/UK. 2006. 135mins.In The Feast Of The Goat, action specialist Luis Llosa(Sniper, Anaconda) moves decisively from his Hollywood assignments to somethingmore personal and troubling. Adapting from the novel by his cousin Mario VargasLlosa, it results in a wrenching and awkward study aboutthe monstrous political reign of Dominican ...
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Thai horror Dorm tops local box office
GMM Tai Hub (GTH)'s psychologicalhorror Dorm opened in the top spot atthe Thai box office last weekend, beating the opening of Fun With Dick And Jane and Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain which was already on release.The film, directed bySongyos Sukmakanan, racked up more than $762,082 (30 million baht) on 75 ...
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Lassie to open Sprockets Toronto in April
Lassie Come Home will make its North Americanpremiere as the opening night film at the ninth annual Sprockets TorontoInternational Film Festival for Children on April 21. Released in the UKin December 2005 under the title Lassie, the Charles Sturridge-directed update of theclassic canine hero stars Peter O'Toole, Samantha Morton and ...
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Lassie to open Sprockets in Toronto in April
Lassie Come Home will make its North Americanpremiere as the opening night film at the ninth annual Sprockets TorontoInternational Film Festival for Children on April 21. Released in the UKin December 2005 under the title Lassie, the Charles Sturridge-directed update of theclassic canine hero stars Peter O'Toole, Samantha Morton and ...
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Universal appoints Neil as senior vice president of new media
Doug Neil has been appointed senior vice president of new media atUniversal Pictures.Neil, who most recently served as director of entertainmentstrategy and sales development for America Online, become the studio's chiefstrategist for the development and implementation of new media marketingcampaigns for theatrical releases.He will also supervise the company's ongoing efforts ...
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Wild Brain buys into toy dealer Kidrobot, plans animated features
San Francisco-based Wild Brain Animation Studios has expanded its stablefollowing a majority stake acquisition of New York-based limited edition toydealer Kidrobot.The two companies will jointly develop feature and televisiontitles based on Kidrobot's collectible characters, which include the Munny, Dunnyand Ice-Bot figures.Kidrobot owner and founder Budnitz will continue as president of ...
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Big Bang Love, Juvenile A (46 Oku Nen No Koi)
Dir: Takeshi Miike. Jap. 2006. 84mins.The softening of Takeshi Miike- after the loopily tender Zebraman, and Box, his operatically stylised contributionto the Three Extremes anthology- continuesapace with this bizarre gay prison yarn.With shades of Gohatto (Taboo) and early German expressionistcinema, Big Bang Love, Juvenile A beginsintriguingly as a sort of ...
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Celestial Pictures launches youth culture channel
Hong Kong-based CelestialPictures is rolling out a 24-hour youth lifestyle and entertainment channel,WaTV, starting with a launch on Indonesia's PT Direct Vision pay-TV service on Feb 28. The channel, which isfocused on content from mainland China, will launch in Malaysia and Brunei later in 2006, followed by other countries in ...
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Aardman director duo nominated for Cartoon Movie Tributes
Directorialduo Nick Park and Steve Box, the UK's Aardmananimation studios behind their Wallace& Gromit: The Curse Of TheWere-Rabbit, and Italian distributor Mikado Film are among the nominees forthis year's Cartoon Movie Tributes which will be announced at the eighthedition of the Cartoon Movie co-production market at the BabelsbergStudios in Potsdam ...
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UK film marketers launch film channel on Sky Digital
Digital TV company etv and the UK film industry group AllIndustry Marketing are partnering on a new Sky Digital channel, Eat Cinema,that will be devoted to promoting current films to consumers. Eat Cinema, channel 199, launchesFebruary 28 with 24-hours-a-day programming designed to lure UKaudiences into cinemas. The programming will include ...
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Karl Urban to star in Robert Sarkies' untitled feature
Karl Urban, who played Eomer in The Lord Of TheRings and Matt Damon's nemesis in TheBourne Supremacy, takes one of the lead roles in director Robert Sarkies' untitled feature now in production.Tim White, who is producing alongside Steven O'Meagher, told ScreenDaily.comthey experienced some of the wildest weather he had ever ...
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Focus seals key deals on Zhang, Gondry titles at Berlin
Focus Featureshas finalised major sales from the European Film Market on two key titles, UntitledZhang Yimou Epic and DaveChappelle's Block Party.Rights to Zhang Yimou's upcoming period epic went to Tobisfor Germany, RAI for Italy, Nordisk for Scandinavia, RCV for Benelux, Odeon forGreece, Shani for Israel and Eco Filmes for Portugal. ...
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Milarepa
Dir. Neten Chokling. Bhutan, 2005. 96mins.Milarepa is a glossy,lovely movie from Bhutan that details the life of Tibetan Buddhism's most reveredsaint, who was born as Thopaga in the eleventh century.Whilesomewhat slow-moving at times - although would one want a life-transforming awakeningaccompanied by MTV-style editing'- its stateliness, deep spirituality, gorgeous mountainscenery ...
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Hotel Harabati (De Particulier A Particulier)
Dir: Brice Cauvin. Fr. 2005. 94mins."Sublimely enigmatic" is one way to describe Hotel Harabati;for many viewers, "maddeningly inscrutable" will becloser to the mark. Either way, Brice Cauvin'steasing debut will keep audiences arguing long after its unexpectedly beatificending.Personably spikylead performances, a willfully fractured narrative and a defiantly provocativeattitude to viewer expectations ...
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TAG and Myriad call off merger talks
Beverly Hills-based TAGEntertainment Corp has ended takeover negotiations with Myriad Pictures underwhich it planned to acquire all outstanding shares of capital stock in Myriad.Both parties said the talks were called off after neither side was able tofulfil expectations laid out prior to the negotiation process."After careful consideration, we have determined ...
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