All Screen articles in 2 October 2006 – Page 4
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Transmedia gets rights to Short Order
New UK distributor Transmedia has announced theacquisition of the film Short Order,which will be released in early 2007 under the title Life Is A Buffet. The feature film was written by young Irishdirector Anthony Byrne and stars French actress Emma de Caunes, with VanessaRedgrave and John Hurt. The film takes ...
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Jackson & Walsh team up with Microsoft for games
Peter Jackson and screenwriting partner Fran Walsh have partneredup with Microsoft Game Studios to create two interactive entertainment seriesexclusively for Xbox 360 and the online games series Xbox Live.The studio will also work with Jackson and Walsh to set up WingnutInteractive, an entertainment studio aimed at creating interactive titles.The first ...
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Raindance premieres films made on phones
London-based festival Raindance hasbecome the first in the UKto screen movies made entirely on mobile phones. The festival, which runs at Cineworld Shaftesbury Avenuefrom until Oct 8, will be presenting the finalists in this year'sNokia Shorts competition, which had film-makers submit 15-second shorts shot ontheir handsets. The five finalists in ...
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Equinoxe, Milagro in Montreal sign on for Saura's Secrets
Montreal-based productioncompanies Equinoxe Films and Milagro Films have signed on as coproducers ofCarlos Saura Medrano's upcoming psychological thriller Secrets alongside Madrid-based Zebra Producciones, theproduction outfit of Antonio Saura. Saura, who wrote the screenplay, and SauraMedrano are sons of veteran Spanish auteur Carlos Saura. The Euros 3mEnglish-language project is set to ...
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Meek to replace Ikin at Film Finance Corp
Producer Scott Meek, whorelocated from the UK to Australia in 2004 to join ABC TV, is to replace Bridget Ikinat Film Finance Corporation Australia (FFC). Ikin and Tait Brady were thefirst people employed to choose which films seeking FFC finance through theevaluation door should get the go-ahead. Both of them ...
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Odeon purchases two new cinema sites
The UK'slargest cinema chain, Odeon, has announced that they will be opening two new cinemas. Anew site in Medway, Kentand the acquisition of the Vue cinema in Basingstoke,Hampshire, sees Odeon now owning a total of 110 cinemas and 843 screensnationwide.The Odeon cinema in Kentwill be a state-of-the-art nine-screen multiplex built ...
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Hong Kong selects Banquet; Taiwan chooses Cha Cha
Hong Kong has selected period epic The Banquet as its entry for the best foreign-language filmcategory of next year's Academy Awards.The film, directed by China's Feng Xiaogang, is a co-production between Hong Kong's Media Asia and Beijing-based Huayi Brothers. It recently premiered atVenice and has grossed $13m across Chinese-speaking territories ...
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Astronaut Farmer to close Hamptons Film Festival
Michael Polish's drama The Astronaut Farmer starring Billy Bob Thornton will closethe 14th Annual Hamptons International Film Festival, which runs from Oct18-22. As previously announced,Philip Haas' The Situation will open the festival.15 world and eight North American premieres will be featured atthe festival. Among the world premieres are Brad ...
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NZFC announces new short film manager
The New Zealand FilmCommission has announced that Juliette Veber will take on their newly created role of Short FilmSales and Marketing Manager. Veber, whose post begins on Oct 2, has worked in thefilm industry for 10 years. She produced the feature film Toy Love, directed byHarry Sinclair, and associate produced ...
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Soros/Sundance Documentary Fund launches tenth anniversary film series in NYC
The Open Society Institute and Sundance Institute have curated a seriesof 19 international documentaries that will screen at New York's Film Forumfrom Oct 26-29.The Soros/Sundance Documentary Fund: A 10th Anniversary FilmSeries, showcases social justice and human rights documentaries made with supportfrom the fund, and opens with Mandy Jacobsen and Karmen ...
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AFI launches first DC French Film Festival in Silver Spring
The American Film Institute (AFI), The French-American CulturalFoundation, La Maison Francaise and the National Gallery of Art have launchedthe First Annual DC French Film Festival C'est Chic: New Films From France.Running from Oct 12-28 at AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Centerin Silver Spring, Maryland, the event will feature latest work ...
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Emerging to stage 14-city US tour of nine Latin films on digital network
Emerging Pictures, the New York-based digital cinema network, hascurated a 14-city US tour of nine pictures from the Film Society of LincolnCenter's LatinBeat 2006 film festival.All pictures will screen in their original language alongsideEnglish subtitles, and the tour will commence in early October following theFilm Society screenings in New York.Titles ...
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Tokyo Filmex unveils nine competition titles
Tokyo Filmex hasannounced the line-up for its seventh edition. Festivaldirectors and programmers Kanako Hayashi and Shozo Ichiyama have selected ninefilms to compete for a Grand Prize of $8,500 (Y1m). The titles include Close To Home by debut directors DaliaHager and Vidi Bilu, Half Moon from Iraniandirector Bahman Ghobadi, Mani Haghighi's ...
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Serbians add Tomorrow Morning to Oscar pool
The Serbian Academy ofFilm Arts and Science has selected Oleg Novkovic's Tomorrow Morning for its submission for consideration for the BestForeign Language Film at the Academy Awards.The drama tells the story of a generation of30-somethings who grew up in the nightmare of the war in former Yugoslavia andconfront their past ...
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Sweden submits Falkenberg Farewell for Oscar race
Sweden has submitted Jesper Ganslandt's Falkenberg Farewell (Farval Falkenberg)as its official candidate for the Oscar nomination as Best Foreign-LanguageFeature. The film opened domesticallylast week and is already showing appeal for international buyers after itsfestival screenings. The film was shown in Venice Days at the VeniceInternational Film Festival, and in Toronto's ...
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Czechs back Lunacy in Oscar race
The Czech Film andTelevision Academy (CFTA) has selected Jan Svankmajer'sLunacy as the Czech Republic's contender for the foreign-language category of theAcademy Awards. The film stars Pavel Liskaand Anna Geislerova as semi-willing residents of a madhouse run by a sadisticdoctor, played by Jan Triska. Svankmajer wrote the script in 1970 inspired ...
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Two Maghreb projects near completion with Cinema In Motion
San Sebastian'sCinema in Motion event has given production funding and technical support to fourfilms from the Maghreb region in Northern Africa and Portuguese-speakingAfrican countries.Cinema in Motion, a spinoff from thefestival's Films in Progress (Cine en Construccion) programme for Spanish andLatin American films, is now in its second year. Two ...
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Wild Bunch takes on Death Of A President
WildBunch has taken on sales for Toronto buzz title Death Of APresident by Gabriel Range.BeforeWild Bunch came on board, deals had already been struck for Newmarket for the US;Maple for Canada; the Indie Circle cooperative (representing A-Flm, Lucky Red,Haut Et Court, Frenetic Films and Cineart) for France, Italy, Switzerland andBenelux; ...
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Reviews
The Tiger's Tail
Dir/scr: John Boorman. Ire-UK. 2006. 106mins.John Boorman's admirers,uneasily awaiting his latest feature after the disappointment of Country Of My Skull,can rest easy. Back on familiar ground - Dublin - and reunited with a sterlingBrendan Gleeson, The Tiger's Tail isan alternately funny and thoughtful doppelganger story that may well see theveteran ...
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Luxembourg has Oscar hopes for Justine
As Monday's submissiondeadline looms, yet another film has entered the foreign-language Oscar race. Luxembourg's National Selection Commission for the Oscars has putforward Your Name Is Justine (Ton Nom est Justine) for potential Oscar nomination. The Luxembourg-Polish film isdirected by Franco de Pena. The film has garnered prizes in Montreal, Poznanand ...