All Screen articles in 2 October 2006 – Page 2
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Paramount seals $300m fund with Dresdner Kleinwort
Paramount Motion Picture Group (PMPG) has set up a $300m filmfinancing fund called Melrose Investors 2 (Melrose 2) with Dresdner Kleinwort.The fund will invest in the production of at least 30 picturesthat will go out under the PMPG umbrella, which covers Paramount, DreamWorksSKG, MTV Films and Nick Movies. Paramount Vantage ...
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On Set With French Cinema 2006 directors announced
French export body Unifrance has announced the fourth edition of On Set With French Cinema, to take place in the US from Oct 2006 - Jan 2007.First held in 2003, theprogram sees France's best film directors teach masterclasses tobudding US film-makers.This year's On Set directorsare Anne Fontaine, Jacques Audiard, Costa-Gavras, ...
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17th Dinard British Film Festival announces jury line-up
The Festival du Film Britannique de Dinard (Oct 5-8) hasannounced its final jury line-up. Irish actress Bronagh Gallagher joins British actor/directorCharles Dance and actor Stephen Mangan to make up the UKcontingent of the 2006 Dinard British Film Festival jury. Other jury members are French actor Francois Berleand,actress Chantal Lauby, producer ...
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$12.9 million package Norway's biggest budget yet
Norwegian director Ulrik Imtiaz Rolfsenstarts principal photography on BitterFlowers (Bitre blomster) onOctober 10.Bitter Flowers is the first film in a $12.9 million package of two features and four TVmovies about Norwegian hardboiled private investigator VargVeum. It the largest budget so far realised in Norway.Norwegian actor Trond Espen Seimwill play the ...
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Copenhagen gives top award to 12.08 East Of Bucharest
As the CopenhagenInternational Film Festival wrapped, Romanian feature 12.08 East Of Bucharest won the Golden Swans for best film and bestscript. Corneliu Porumbiou's darkly comic project about Romania just before thefall of the Ceausescu dictatorship previously won the Camera d'Or and theEuropa Cinemas Label in Cannes. The Copenhagen jury,which judged ...
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World Trade Center takes international lead for Paramount
Paramount's World TradeCenter ruled the international roostas it grossed an estimated $12.3m from 2,690 screens across 20 territoriesthrough UIP and raised the overseas total to $22m.The carefully plannedrelease benefited from Oliver Stone's extensive publicity tour that took inLondon, Berlin, Venice, Moscow, Tokyo and Seoul.The 9/11 drama opened insecond place in ...
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Sony Animation's Season tops North America with $23m
Sony scored its 11thdomestic number one release of the year as the animated feature Open Season stormed to the top on an estimated $23m. Thepicture, which features the vocal talents of Martin Lawrence and Ashton Kutcher, opened tomixed-to-favourable reviews.It was a great weekend forKutcher, who also stars alongside Kevin Costner ...
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France rules over San Sebastian
French film My Son (Mon Fils A Moi) has won top honours at the San Sebastian International Film Festival sharing the Golden Shell for Best Film with Half Moon and taking the Best Actress award for Nathalie Baye.My Son is the first feature film from director Martial Fougeron about a ...
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Peace Arch Films finalising US rights for Delirious
Peach Arch Films is in final talks with US buyers for the rights to distribute Tom DiCillo's film Delirious in North America after its successful world premiere at San Sebastian. A final deal is expected to be made early next week. "Several US buyers attended the first screening of the ...
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Cork Film Festival gets Death Of A President
The 51st Cork Film Festivalwill open on Oct 8 with Toronto Fipresci Critics Award winner Death Of A President, the Channel 4-financed drama which imaginesthe assasination of George W Bush."We are delighted to havesecured the European premiere of Death Of A President,' said Cork Film Festival DirectorMick Hannigan. 'This is ...
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Ray Winstone and Tilda Swinton back the BIFAs
Actors Ray Winstone andTilda Swinton have become patrons of The British Independent Film Awards.The other patrons already onboard for the Awards include Mike Figgis, Adrian Lester, Ken Loach, SamanthaMorton, Michael Winterbottom and Meera Syal.The BIFAs are now in theirninth year, honouring independent films that are majority financed by UK companies. ...
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Bavaria takes on rights to Miguel & William
BavariaFilm International has picked up world sales rights outside ofSpain for Spanish director Ines Paris' Miguel & William, about a fictitiousencounter between Miguel de Cervantes and William Shakespeare and their rivalryin love of a beautiful woman.Featuring Spain's European Shooting Star 2004 ElenaAnaya, the UK's Will Kemp, double Goya-winner JuanLuis Galiardo ...
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Oliver Stone continues political talk in San Sebastian
Speaking at the San Sebastian film festival, Oliver Stone revealed he wants tomake a film about the current war on terror, and is searching for the rightkind of story.He was at pains to stress,however, that he didn't want to go down the journalistic route, favoured bydirectors like Michael Moore. "Film-makers ...
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Norway backs Reprise in Oscar race
Norway has submitted Joachim Trier's feature debut, Reprise, for consideration in the foreign-language Oscar race. "We have great confidence inthis year's candidate - it is unusual, poetic and exciting, and gets to theaudience from the very first moment" said chairman of the selection committee, JanErik Holst of the Norwegian Film ...
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TWC signs output deal with ARD Degeto in Germany
The Weinstein Company (TWC) has signed a multi-year output dealwith leading German broadcaster ARD Degeto for free TV rights to current andupcoming TWC and Dimension Films pictures.Pictures in the pipeline include John Madden's thriller Killshot starring Thomas Jane, Diane Lane andMickey Rourke; satirical comedy The Nanny Diaries starring Scarlett Johansson, ...
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Digital future depends on single standard, says Fox d-cinema chief
If the international film business doesn't adopt the single digital DCI standard agreed by the studios, it risks derailing the whole d-cinema revolution.That was the stark warning offered by Julian Levin, Twentieth Century Fox executive vice president in charge of digital exhibition, in his keynote address at the Screen International's ...
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Reykjavik festival tries to grow industry presence
The third ReykjavikInternational Film Festival, which opened last night (Sept 28) with a totalblack-out in the Icelandic capital, is mainly devoted to audiences, but it isgradually extending its industry side."The festival is still verynew, so for a start we have organised a seminar for producers and filmmakers,in collaboration with the ...
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Reviews
Employee Of The Month
Dir: Greg Coolidge. US.2006. 103mins.Neitheroutrageously funny nor sweetly romantic enough to generate much interest, EmployeeOf The Month is anegligible work-place comedy that struggles to establish its personality. Inhis first leading role, standup comedian Dane Cook does what he can withthreadbare material but, more critically, lacks the sort of undeniable screencharisma ...
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Dimension signs two-year deal with Stoopid Monkey
Dimension Films has signed a two-picture deal with Seth Green andMatthew Senreich's Stoopid Monkey Productions.The agreement includes the stop-motion animated holiday feature NaughtyOr Nice and alive-action untitled comedy.Green and Senreich will produce both projects as they make theirfirst forays into theatrical features. The pair created, write, direct andserve as executive ...