All Screen articles in 2 October 2006
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Metrodome raises $3.8m for new company strategy
The UK's Metrodome Distribution has announced that it hasraised $3.8m (£2m) by way of a placing and the conversion of a loan from parentcompany TV-Loonland.As discussed in recentweeks, the company's new CEO Peter Urie is implementing a new growth strategyfor Metrodome. The new approach is a shift from the high-risk ...
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Scandinavia sweeps Greece's Opening Night awards
Scandinavian productionstook top honours at Sunday's closing gala of the 12th Athens International FilmFestival-Opening Nights Conn-X, obtaining all three major awards.The Swedish/Danishco-production Farval Falkenberg(Falkenberg Farewell), directed by first timer Jesper Ganslandt was named BestFilm. The director was present to receive the Golden Athena Award of $9,560(7,500 Euros). The Best Direction ...
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Pathe UK Distribution recruits Woodward from Icon
Pathe hasappointed David Woodward as sales director, UK Distribution. He takes up his new post late 2006 afterleaving his current job as head of sales at Icon Film Distribution. In the Patherole, he replaces Neil Marshall who is departing Pathe after six years to becomedirector of sales for Warner Bros ...
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Canal Plus signs French VOD agreement with Fox
France's Canal+ Active has signed a VOD agreement with Fox, it was announced Friday.The deal means new Fox releases, as well as catalogue films, will be available on Canal Plus' CanalPlay, the company's one-year old VOD service.Canal Plus' Bruno Thibaudeau said, "We are very proud of this partnership with this ...
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Belfast shoot starts for Collins' Kings
Prinicipal photography hasstarted in Belfast on Kings, an adaptation of Jimmy Murphy's play The Kings of the Kilburn High Road about a group of Irish emigrantswho reunite for the funeral of one of their friends.Leading Irish actor ColmMeaney features in an ensemble cast along with Donal O'Kelly, Brendan Conroy,Donncha Crowley, ...
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Maguire named president of international at PHE
Dennis Maguire has been appointed president of international forParamount Home Entertainment.Maguire will take charge of sales, marketing and distribution ofhome entertainment content for the Paramount Motion Picture Group (PMPG) andwill also oversee product from MTV Network Properties, CBS, PBS and Hasbro, aswell as fulfilment services for DreamWorks Animation Home Entertainment.He ...
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Om Puri signs for role opposite Hanks in Nichols' War
Veteran Indian actor Om Puri has signed for a lead role in MikeNichols' Charlie Wilson's War opposite Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts and Phillip Seymour Hoffman. Puri previously worked with Nichols in Wolf opposite Jack Nicholson and MichellePfeiffer in 1994.Based on the book by George Crile, Charlie Wilson's War is a ...
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Half Moon (Niwemang)
Dir: Bahman Ghobadi. Iran-Iraq-Austria-France. 2006. 107minsMore ambitious than his previous films, BahmanGhobadi's Half Moon about a famous musician travelling from Iran to Iraq for aswansong performance, explores the unifying spirit of the dispersed Kurdishnation. Not as narratively concise as his best work, the film tries to pack intoo much particularly ...
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My Son (Mon Fils A Moi)
Dir: Martial Fougeron. France. 2006. 90mins Martial Fougeron's modest family drama went almostunnoticed during the San Sebastian film festival but certainly ended the eventcausing a storm of controversy when it was declared the ex aequo winner of theGolden Shell, a decision that was greeted by boos by some critics. An ...
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Silver takes senior international role at Focus Feature
Allison Silver has been promoted to senior vice president ofinternational physical production at Focus Feature, effectiveimmediately.Silver previously served as vice president of international physicalproduction and joined the company as a production executive in autumn2002.Reporting to president of international sales and distribution AlisonThompson, she will remain in the company's Manhattan offices ...
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Germany's e-m-s to coproduce Lolafilms' Manolete
Spanish producer Lolafilmshas recruited Germany's e-m-s new media as aco-producer on Manolete, starringAdrien Brody and Penelope Cruz, as well as for Io Don Giovanni. The film finishedprincipal photography this summer. Werner Wirsing, CEO ofe-m-s, is now an executive producer of the film and his company will handledistribution in Germany and ...
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Robbins gets Cassavetes honour at Denver Film Festival
Tim Robbins, who will next be seen starring opposite Derek Luke inthe South African political drama Catch A Fire, will receive the John Cassavetes Awardat the 29th Starz Denver Film Festival.Robbins will collect the honour at a Nov 16 ceremony following aclip reel of career highlights, which include his 2004 ...
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The Yacoubian Building selected as Egyptian Oscar entry
Marwan Hamed's The Yacoubian Building has been selected by Egypt to represent it in the race for a foreign language Oscar nomination this year.The film, which has enjoyed great success in its home territory, has been the subject of controversy given its themes of Islamic fundamentalism, police brutality and homosexuality.Released ...
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Eros branches out from Bollywood with Provoked
High-profileBollywood conglomerate Eros International has acquired the rights to the dramafeature Provoked.Directedby Jagmohan Mundhra, the film is a departure from Eros' usual Bollywood fare,foregoing song and dance to tell the true story of Punjabi housewife KiranjitAhluwahlia, who murdered her abusive husband in 1989 and whose trialtransformed the British judicial system.Thecharacter ...
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Dead Girl awarded Netherlands Production Platform Prize
This year's Kodak NPPDevelopment Prize was awarded to writer/director/producer Elbert van Strien and producer Claudia Brandt for their feature film Dead Girl. The Netherlands ProductionPlatform (NPP) is in its eight year and is awarded at the Holland Film Meeting(Sept 28 - Oct 2), a sidebar to the Netherlands Film Festival. ...
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Dead Girl awarded Netherlands Production Platform Prize
This year's Kodak NPPDevelopment Prize was awarded to writer/director/producer Elbert van Strien and producer Claudia Brandt for their feature filmProject Dead Girl. The Netherlands ProductionPlatform (NPP) is in its eight year and is awarded at the Holland Film Meeting(Sept 28 - Oct 2), a sidebar to the Netherlands Film Festival. ...
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Italy announces Oscar bid hopeful
Italy has announced its entry into the best foreign film category of the 2006Academy Awards as Nuovomondo (TheGolden Door). Written and directed by Emanuele Crialese, the $11 million movie is a period epic about Italianemigration, set in the early 20th Century. It follows a family as they headfrom Sicily to ...
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Bocco leaves Gersh for key acquisitions post at IFC
Arianna Bocco has joined IFC Entertainment as vice president of acquisitionsand production as the company expands its game-plan to accommodate largercommercial releases.Bocco will identify and chase completed features with rightsavailable and will bring new projects into the company. She will also take the leadin filling IFC First Take's 24-picture annual ...
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Free film screenings mark Pinewood's 70th birthday
Pinewood Studios is hosting a week of free film screenings tocelebrate its 70th birthday.The celebratory screenings are to be held in conjunction withThe Times and Vue West End, London, andwill feature one film from each of the seven decades that Pinewood has beenworking in UK film.The screenings run from Oct ...