All Screen articles in 20 January 2006
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Potente debut among dozen surprises in German sidebar
Billed as "a surprise package of recent German cinema", the first films in the Perspektive Deutsches Kino programme include the directorial debut of Franka Potente, the German actress who became an international star on the back of Run Lola Run and The Bourne Identity and its sequel. Celebrating its fifth ...
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Britdoc provides support for Sundance doc Black Gold
Britdoc, the Channel 4Documentary Film Foundation, is providing completion and marketing funding forthe documentary Black Gold, directedby Nick and Marc Francis.Black Gold looks at the global economy through the story of hugely profitablemultinational coffee companies and the coffee farmers in some of the world'spoorest countries such as Ethiopia. The marketing ...
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Berlinale Forum list is finalised
Originalityand innovative strength are the keywords at this year's edition of the Berlinale's Forum programme which will focus on directorialdebuts by young filmmakers.Amongthe strikingly original debuts are Fujiwara Toshi'snarrative experiment We Can't Go HomeAgain, Khalo Matabane'sgenre-bending documentary Conversationson a Sunday Afternoon and Laura Poitras' on-the spot political film My Country, ...
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Berlinale Forum list is finalised
Originalityand innovative strength are the keywords at this year's edition of the Berlinale's Forum programme which will focus on directorialdebuts by young filmmakers.Amongthe strikingly original debuts are Fujiwara Toshi'snarrative experiment We Can't Go HomeAgain, Khalo Matabane'sgenre-bending documentary Conversationson a Sunday Afternoon and Ben Hopkins ethnographic documentary with ...
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Bavaria Film International adds to sales slate
Bavaria Film International has added five new Germanlanguage titles to its sales slate, all of which will be having their worldpremieres at the Berlin filmfestival next month.Three of the films TheFree Will, Requiem and Slummingwill be presented in Competition. Matthias Glasner's The Free Will (Der Freie Wille), starring Juergen Vogel ...
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Picturehouse, New Line Int'l take Silk road together
Picturehouse and New Line International have snapped up themajority of the world on Francois Girard's dark romantic adaptation Silk, which will stars Keira Knightley,Michael Pitt, Koji Yakusho and Alfred Molina.Filming is due to begin at the end of February in Matsumoto, Japan,and will end in late May in Italy, as ...
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Icon enjoys brisk sales on Winona Ryder comedy
Icon Entertainment International has closed a raft of sales onFinn Taylor's dark comedy The Darwin Awards, which premieres next week at the SundanceFilm Festival.Rights have gone to Concorde/Tele-Muenchen in Germany, PresidioCorp in Japan, Dea Planeta in Spain, Nordisk in Scandinavia, LumiereDistribution in the Benelux, and EEAP in Eastern Europe.Additionally, Odeon ...
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Malaysian box office reaches record high
Malaysia's box office revenues grew by 21.5% to hit $64.87m(RM243.63m) in 2005, making it the biggest year ever in the territory's boxoffice history. Last year was also thefourth year in a row that Malaysia enjoyed double-digit growth. An average of 20.5% perannum growth was recorded over the three years from ...
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Concorde acquires distribution rights for Candy
Fortissimo Filmshas closed a distribution deal for Candy with German distributor Concorde Filmverleih. The deal was brokered by Fortissimoco-chairman Wouter Barendrecht andConcorde Filmverleih's managing director MarkusZimmer."This marks a first-time collaboration between Fortissimo and Concorde,a distributor with a universal reputation for high quality films, ranging from Girl With A Pearl Earring ...
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Disney in 'serious' takeover talks with Pixar
Walt Disneyis in serious discussions about a potential takeover of Pixar, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. The deal is said by the reports to mean that Pixar - and Apple - CEO Steve Jobs would become Disney's largestindividual shareholder. The twocompanies have worked together for more ...
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UK Production looks healthier for 2006
With news earlier this weekthat UK production spending was down 31% in 2005, theindustry is on shaky ground going into 2006. The good news is that 2006 isexpected to be a stronger year in terms of both inward investment from Hollywood and wholly UK films, thanks in large part to ...
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Eugen wins Best Film at Swiss Film Awards
Last year's local blockbuster, Michael Steiner's My Name Is Eugen(Mein Name IstEugen) was named Best Film at the 2006 Swiss FilmAwards ceremony in Solothurn on Wednesday evening.The jury headed by Oscar-winning film editor Pietro Scalia (JFK, Black Hawk Down) commented thatSteiner's family film had "brought a fresh breeze into the ...
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Christie steps in for Redgrave in Polley's directorial debut
Julie Christie has replacedVanessa Redgrave in the lead role of Sarah Polley's debut feature Away FromHer. The veteran actress willstar opposite Gordon Pinsent and Olympia Dukakis in the Polley-pennedadaptation of the Alice Munro short-story "The Bear Came Over The Mountain."Kristen Thomson, who starred in Polley's short film I Shout Love, ...
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Bello, Butler join Brosnan in Butterfly On A Wheel
Maria Bello andGerard Butler have joined Pierce Brosnan in the thriller Butterfly On AWheel, which is beingproduced by Brosnan and Beau St Clair's Irish Dreamtime, Infinity and IconEntertainment. Shooting isscheduled to begin in March in Vancouver on the story of a couple whose idylliclife is shattered when their daughter is ...
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IFC Films announces Sex Addict, Dolls buys
IFC Films maintained its concerted acquisitions drive byannouncing two new pick-ups this week, Caveh Zahedi's I Am A Sex Addict and Cedric Klapisch's Russian Dolls.The autobiographical comedy I Am A Sex Addict chronicles the life of an insecure youngman who becomes addicted to prostitutes at the expense of his friendships. ...
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Sony, Universal hatch co-financing pacts with Relativity
Seeking new ways to offset their production risks while holding onto global distribution rights, Sony Pictures Entertainment and UniversalPictures have each signed separate co-financing deals with investors groupsconnected to Relativity Media.The Los Angeles-based Relativity, which structured a similar $528m dealwith Warner Bros last year, retained Deutsche Bank to raise in ...
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Korea's CJ Entertainment to be restructured
Korea's major film industry power player, CJ Entertainment, is being delistedand split into two in a move by its parent company to increase investment inthree core growth businesses. Only film investment anddistribution functions will be left under the banner of CJ Entertainment whilethree lucrative subsidiaries - television arm CJ Media, ...
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Narnia, Kong set to continue box office domination
TheChronicles Of Narnia should remainthe one to beat this weekend despite no new launches. The blockbuster nowstands at $326m through Buena Vista International (BVI). Narniawill cross $600m in worldwide ticketsales this weekend - it reached $590.6m at time of writing - and will becomethe fifth Disney Company title to achieve ...
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The Constant Gardener leads Bafta nominations
The Constant Gardener leads the nominations for the Orange British Academy Film Awards with 10 nominations. Brokeback Mountain and Crash followed with nine each. Good Night, And Good Luck, Memoirs of a Geisha, and Pride & Prejudice each scored six nominations, and Capote has five. Gardener, a UK-German co-production, ...
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AFI manager quits despite successful awards show
The general manager of theAustralian Film Institute (AFI), Geoffrey Williams, has resigned two monthsafter successfully overseeing a revitalised awards ceremony compered by actorRussell Crowe.Williams has citeddifferences of opinion with a board that has three new members and a new chairbut the exact nature of the disagreement has not yet emerged. ...