All Screen articles in 2 October 2006 – Page 5
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New Line takes worldwide on Hood's thriller Rendition
New Line has picked up worldwide rights to the political thriller Rendition, Gavin Hood's Tsotsi follow-up that will star Jake Gyllenhaaland Reese Witherspoon.Gyllenhaal will play a CIA analyst who oversees the interrogationof a terrorist suspect in the Middle East and questions his ethics as the processspirals out of control.Witherspoon is ...
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Rescue Dawn
Dir/scr: Werner Herzog. US. 2006. 120mins.With the escape drama Rescue Dawn, Werner Herzog has finally managed to make a pure commercialHollywood thriller, as if to prove that he always could - if he really wanted. Anopening title informs us that his new feature is "inspired by true events inthe life ...
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Whitaker, Luke, Lohan join honours roll at Hollywood Film Awards
Forest Whitaker, Derek Lukeand Lindsay Lohan have been added to the roster of Hollywood Film Awardsrecipients at this year's upcoming ceremony on Oct 23.Whitaker receives theHollywood Actor of the Year Award for his role as former Ugandan dictator IdiAmin in Fox Searchlight's The Last King Of Scotland.His other upcoming releasesare ...
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Gardens In Autumn (Jardins En Automne)
Dir/scr: Otar Iosseliani. Fr-It-Russ. 2006. 117mins.The then-Soviet republic of Georgia lost one of itsmajor cultural assets when it allowed non-conformist film-maker Otar Iosseliani to 'emigrate' professionally to France in 1984. Since then,he has regularly regaled audiences with his wry, deadpan, post-modern comedies(though arguably none has equalled the poetic films he ...
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After The Wedding (Efter Bryllupet)
Dir: Susanne Bier. Den. 2006.122mins.The desperate conflict between individual actions andcollective responsibility is explored to devastating effect in After The Wedding.The latest feature from director Susanne Bier, it shows a powerful command ofcraft and narrative as it unfolds an emotionally complex and gripping saga ofmoral dilemmas and the way good ...
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Indo-American Film Festival in New York to screen 60 films
Sixty features,documentaries and shorts including the New York premiere of Mira Nair's TheNamesake will screen during theIndo-American Arts Council's Sixth IAAC (Indo-American Arts Festival) FilmFestival in New York from Nov 1- 5.Screenings include AdityaBhattacharya's adaptation of King Lear called Dubai Return,Suman Gosh's Podokkhep Footstepswith Nandita Das, Rehana Mirza's Hiding Divya ...
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Hot Docs expands 2007 festival to 11 days, adding 25 screening slots
Hot Docs CanadianInternational Documentary Festival will expand its 2007 edition to eleven days,adding approximately 25 slots to its screening slate. The Toronto-based festivaldates will run April 19 to 29, 2007. Film submissions for the event are now open,with an early entry deadline of December 15, 2006 and a late entry ...
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LA post facility to give $125,000 in grants to new film-makers
Los Angeles-based post production facility Filmworks/FX hasannounced a programme offering $125,000 in post-production grants to aspiringfilmmakers in 2007.Grants supporting lab and telecine work will range from $1,000 to$25,000 and will be awarded to select winners of popular film festivals as wellas to several film schools around the country.'Too often, new ...
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Jaman strikes 30-film deal with Venevision
New US-based internet filmdistributor Jaman has closed a deal for rights to 30 feature films fromVenevision in a move announced at the Donostia-San Sebastian International FilmFestival.The agreement encompassesnon-exclusive rights for broadband distribution and an option to pick upanother 50 titles. The original 30 films include 22 Latin American and eightSpanish ...
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Sony strikes VOD deal with Telecom Italia
Following on a similar UK deal with Arts Alliance Media, Sony PicturesTelevision International has struck a video-on-demand agreement with TelecomItalia.Telecom Italia will offer Sonyfilms on its Alice Home TV internet service and its ASDL portal Rosso Alice. The VOD offerings will include recent releases and catalogue titles. Some ofthe films ...
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Pieter Jan Brugge recruited for Netherlands talk
Producer/director Pieter JanBrugge will be the new guest of honour at this year's Binger - Screen International Interview at theNetherlands Film Festival on Friday. Jasmila Zbanic, who won Berlin's Golden Bear for Grbavica, had to cancel her plans to attend on doctors' orders. Dutch-born Brugge has workedin Hollywood on The ...
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First Rome Film Fest adds more studio premieres
The Rome Film Fest hasannounced the line-up for its first edition, which runs from Oct 13-21. With atotal of 12 world premieres in its two main sections, the festival line-up hasgone some way towards disproving predictions that the newborn event would becrushed in the autumn festival logjam.In addition to opening ...
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Rome unveils lineup for inaugural festival
Premiere Section Alatriste,Agustin Diaz Yanes (Spain)The Stone Council (Le Concile De Pierre), Guillaume Nicloux (France/Italy/Germany)Fur: An Imaginary Portrait OfDiane Arbus, Steven Shainberg (US)The Hoax,Lasse Hallstrom (US)N, PaoloVirzi (Italy/France/Spain)The Namesake, Mira Nair (US)The Prestige, Christopher Nolan (US)The Unknown (La Sconosciuta), Giuseppe Tornatore (Italy/France) Uno Su Due,Eugenio Cappuccio (Italy) Cinema 2006 Section ...
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Rome unveils lineup for inaugural festival
Premiere SectionAlatriste,Agustin Diaz Yanes (Spain)The Stone Council (Le Concile De Pierre),Guillaume Nicloux (France/Italy/Germany)Fur: An Imaginary Portrait Of Diane Arbus,Steven Shainberg (US)The Hoax, Lasse Hallstrom (US)N, Paolo Virzi (Italy/France/Spain)The Namesake, Mira Nair (US)The Prestige, Christopher Nolan (US)The Unknown (La Sconosciuta),Giuseppe Tornatore (Italy/France) Uno Su Due, Eugenio Cappuccio (Italy)Cinema 2006 SectionA Casa ...
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Lars von Trier to shoot horror project next summer
Only hours after the worldpremiere of Lars von Trier's The Boss Of It All at the Copenhagen International Film Festivallast Thursday, the maverick director has announced his next film. Moving fromthe comedy of The Boss OfIt All, he will next tackle horror in Antichrist.The project was announced forthe first time ...
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Wenders joins Bardem's The Invisibles project
Director Wim Wenders has come on board for the new portmanteau film TheInvisibles (Los Invisibles), produced by Spanish actor Javier Bardem. In October, Wenders will travel to Congoto shoot a short film about the sexual abuse of women in that country. His isthe last of five 15-20 minute projects to ...
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LoveFilm sets up German operation
LoveFilmis continuing its European expansion. The online DVD rental company,headquartered in London, haslaunched LoveFilm Deutschland in Germany. Inestablishing the German business, LoveFilm has struck a strategic partnershipwith postal and logistics company Deutsche Post WorldNet Group.For thisinitial launch, LoveFilm will provide the website, customer and marketing supportand project management to run ...
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Macedonia submits Kontakt for Oscar race
Sergei Stanojkovksi'sfeature debut Kontakt has beensubmitted by Macedonia as its national entry for the Academy Awards' Best ForeignLanguage Film category.Starring Labina Mitevska and Nikola Kojo, the Macedonian-German co-productionbetween Skopje Film Studio and Busse & Halberschmidt Filmproduktion had itsworld premiere at last year's Manaki Brothers International CinematographersFilm Festival in Macedonia's Bitola ...
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Perfume sees off Pirates to lead international weekend
Perfume:The Story Of A Murderer was the topinternational picture of the weekend as box office results released on Monday[Sept 25] revealed a comprehensive picture of overseas business. It had been reported that Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest was the weekend winner with a $7.6m take.TheConstantin Film adaptation of ...
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Smith hired at NBC Universal for international on-demand licensing
Warren Smith has been named director of sales, internationalon-demand licensing for NBC Universal Television International Distribution.Based in London, Smith will report to and support senior vicepresident, international on-demand licensing Beth Minehart in all aspects ofon-demand licensing for the company's product outside North America. His primaryfocus will be Europe.Smith recently returned ...