All Screen articles in 2 October 2005 – Page 3
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Lynch, Solondz, Kerrigan among highlights of Next Reel fest
Biannual cinema showcase theNext Reel International Film Festival, formerly known as the NYU InternationalStudent Film Festival, winds down on Oct 1 following week-long programme of 111titles.The week-long event openedwith NYU alumnus Lodge Kerrigan's drama Keane. In other highlights, Todd Solondz hosted ascreening of Palindromes andDavid Lynch led a discussion on ...
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BVI aims Goal! at UK in first worldwide opening
Warner BrosPictures International (WBPI) has ruled the roost with Charlie And TheChocolate Factory overrecent weeks and executives will be looking to consolidate the picture's$206m-plus international running total with more strong holds this weekend.Meanwhile animated family title Tim Burton's The CorpseBride gets its first major internationaldebut this weekend when it launches ...
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AFI FEST to close with Hallstrom's Casanova
AFI FEST 2005will close in Los Angeles on Nov 13 with the North American premiere of LasseHallstrom's Casanovastarring Heath Ledger as the legendary lothario.'Casanova is a wild and whimsical cinematic tourde force,' director of programming Nancy Collet said. 'We're solooking forward to welcoming back Lasse Hallstrom, whose The Cider HouseRules ...
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Arista launches third Adept programme for UK screenwriters
Training body AristaDevelopment has launched a new development programme for MA Screenwritinggraduates. The new Adept 3 scheme isfunded by Skillset's Film Skills Fund (partly funded by the UK Film Council),the European Union's MEDIA Programme, and Arista's own Writer Scholarship Fund.The nine-month Adept 3programme will concentrate on industry mentoring and project ...
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FIND sets first film-maker forum in LA on Oct 15
Film Independent (formerlyIFP/Los Angeles) will host its first annual Filmmaker Forum, Sell Your FilmWithout Getting Screwed!, on Oct 15 at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles.Topics to becovered include negotiating techniques, sales contracts, and new distributionmodels.Panelistsinclude UTA's Richard Klubeck, director Catherine Hardwicke and her Thirteen producer Jeffrey Levy-Hinte, Netflixchief content ...
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EastWest picks up sales rights to Totally Personal
Sales agent EastWest Filmdistribution has picked upinternational rights to the Bosnian documentary Totally Personal, whichhas just been nominated as that country's entry for the Academy Awards in theforeign film category.TheLondon-based sales company has also nabbed international rights to Edinburghtitle The Wedding, a black comedy directed by Poland's WojtekSmarzowski. It also ...
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CMG seals Toronto sales on Reeker, Conan
Edward Noeltner's CinemaManagement Group (CMG) has reported a string of Toronto sales on David Payne'shorror title Reeker and animatedproduction Conan: Red Nails.Theatrical rights to Reeker, which played out of festival in a de facto marketscreening, went to Baditri in Spain, Dutch Film Works in Benelux, Cine Video yTV in Mexico, ...
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Wild Bunch strikes slew of sales on Viva Zapatero!
French salesoutfit Wild Bunch has made a swathe of sales on hot Italian documentary VivaZapatero!The documentary, which has screened in Venice and at theSan Sebastian Film Festival, has sold to Spain (Golem), Belgium (Cineart),Holland (A-Film), France (Haut et Court) and Switzerland (Frenetic). Directed bycomedian Sabina Guzzanti, Viva Zapatero focuses on ...
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Endeavor, TW1 joint venture in Transend
Seeking to expand a global platform for its clients,Hollywood talent agency Endeavor has teamed up with TW1, the television,broadcast and new media arm of IMG, to launch a new partnership calledTransend.Transend willpackage and distribute TV programming and formats in all media. It has alreadyset up its first two projects, Vegas ...
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Garpastum
Dir: Alexei Guerman Jr.Russ. 2005. 118mins.With its stunnisngphotography, interminable takes, abstract narrative and metaphoric ambitions,Alexei Guerman Jr sophomore effort Garpastum cannot fail to become acritics' favourite and a must-book for any self-respecting film festival. Thatit left Venice - where it competed - without any distinction reflects more onthe juries than ...
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Gerolami named md, Europe, of NBC Universal Global Networks
Olivier Gerolamihas been named managing director, Europe, for NBC Universal Global Networks.Beginning Nov 1in London, Gerolami will oversee NBC Universal Global Networks' television assetsin Europe, where the company's established channels include 13th Street and SCIFI in France, Das Vierte, 13th Street, SCI FI and GIGA in Germany, StudioUniversal in Italy, ...
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DreamWorks exits merger talks with NBC Universal
DreamWorks has pulled out of$1bn merger talks with NBC Universal as two months of exclusive negotiationsended without a deal this week. Both parties were optimisticin July when talks got underway for Universal to acquire the studio founded bySteven Spielberg, David Geffen and Jeffrey Katzenberg. However any eventual dealbetween the parties ...
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Dreamer: Inspired By A True Story
Dir/scr: John Gatins. US.2005. 104mins.Horseracing often has thereputation of being a sport ruled by, and mainly for, the wealthy - thoseunencumbered by the pesky constraints of regular, office-bred employment. Asthe recent critical and crossover screen success of Seabiscuit proved,though, the same general rules of other underdog movies apply to tales ...
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Xingu wraps Guide starring Downey Jr
Rosario Dawson,Dianne Wiest, Chazz Palminteri and Eric Roberts joined Robert Downey Jr in thecast of A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints, which has completed principal photography for TrudieStyler's Xingu Films. Orlando (Dito)Montiel's directorial debut is a product of the Sundance Institute's Directorsand Screenwriters Labs and centres on Montiel's youth growing ...
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Warner, Universal seal China-Russia video deal
Warner Home Video (WHV) andUniversal Pictures International (UPI) will release each other's titles in China and Russia respectively in a joint venture aimed at thwartingpiracy in both emerging markets.CAV Warner HomeEntertainment, a joint releasing operation between WHV and China Audio Video,will handle Universal's video titles, and UPI will release WHV ...
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Hollywood presses charges in Star Wars piracy case
Hollywood fired off significant anti-piracy broadsides thisweek as eight people faced charges for their roles in the illegal distributionof Star Wars: Episode III days before the picture's global release.In a separate case, RonaldRedding pleaded to illegally distributing a "screener" copy of MillionDollar Baby, the Warner Bros drama that won four ...
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Two Sons strikes a chord at Brazilian box office
Two Sons Of Francisco, a biopic about Brazilian country music duo Zeze DiCamargo & Luciano, has become the highest-grossing Brazilian film of theyear in its home territory. The film has topped thecharts for six weeks straight, grossing just over $10m (R$22.7m) since itsdebut on August 19, according to local distributor ...
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Solondz heads to Russia for Palindromes bow
Todd Solondz will attend theRussian premiere of Palindromes at the American Autumn In Moscowfestival of contemporary American culture, which runs from Oct 12-16.Solondz will also be on handfor a special screening of his 1995 feature Welcome To The Dollhouse,playing in the IndieVisual programme that focuses on American independentcinema.Gus Van Zant's ...
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The Notorious Bettie Page
Dir. Mary Harron. US.2005. 91mins.The detachment from hersubject that Mary Harron successfully kept with her screen adaptation of AmericanPsycho (2000) is in evidence again with The Notorious Bettie Page -although the end result is less compelling.With Bret Easton Ellis'novel, Harron and co-writer Guinevere Turner delivered a chilling and darklyfunny slice ...
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Indian filmmaker challenges onscreen smoking ban
Hindi film director andproducer Mahesh Bhatt has taken the Indian government to court over newlegislation that bans the depiction of smoking in films and TV serials. The New Delhi High Court hasdirected the Indian government to make a submission by Sept 30 in response toBhatt's petition. Acting through his counsel, ...