All Screen articles in 20 January 2006 – Page 2
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Walden acquires Allende trilogy about teen adventurer
WaldenMedia has acquired the rights to Isabel Allende's young adult trilogy featuringthe teenage adventurer Alexander Cold. Thefirst story in the series, City Of The Beasts, will be produced by Barrie Osborne of The LordOf The Rings fame. DavidRothenberg will adapt the screenplay from Allende's novel and serve asco-producer. HarperCollins, which ...
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THINKFilm buys North American rights to Down In The Valley
THINKFilmhas acquired all North American rights from Element Films to David Jacobson'scontemporary western Down In The Valley starring Edward Norton and Evan Rachel Wood. THINKFilmplans a spring release for the San Fernando Valley-set story of a young girlwho falls for a charismatic stranger who is not all he appears to ...
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Disney denies plans for Beijing theme park
Disney has denied reports inthe Hong Kong and mainland China press that it plans to build a theme park in Beijing by 2010.Local newspapers reported onTuesday (Jan 17) that the Beijingcity government had suggested a Disney theme park would be one of ten facilitiesestablished at the upcoming National New Media ...
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Brokeback Mountain towers over Golden Globes
AngLee's western romance Brokeback Mountain and James Mangold's Johnny Cash biopic Walk The Line dominated the Golden Globe Awards at last night's 63rdannual ceremony.BrokebackMountain won four prizes - bestmotion picture (drama), best director for Ang Lee, best screenplay and bestsong. Walk The Line won threetrophies - for best motion picture ...
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Gitmo
Dirs: Erik Gandini,Tarik Saleh. 78mins. Den-Swe. 2005.There is something Kafka-esqueabout the Guantanamo Bay prison camp in Cuba. Despitebeing part of the War On Terror, prisoners detainedhere in their strident orange suits are not given "Prisoner Of War" status butare treated as "Unlawful Combatants." Many have been left in limbo for ...
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Golden Globes
2006 Golden Globe winners:Best Motion Picture - DramaBrokeback MountainBest Performance By An Actress In AMotion Picture - DramaFelicity Huffman - TransamericaBest Performance By An Actor In A MotionPicture - DramaPhilip Seymour Hoffman - CapoteBest Motion Picture - Musical Or ComedyWalk The LineBest Performance By An Actress In AMotion Picture - ...
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Last Holiday
Dir: Wayne Wang. US. 2006.111mins.Queen Latifah came of age,as an actress, in 2002's Chicago (whichtook $306m worldwide) and the following spring's Bringing Down The House (a global $162m), which collectively helpedlaunch her film career into more rarified air.From her earliestdays, though - whether on her platinum-selling rap albums or in ...
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International Jury for the 56th Berlinale is decided
The eight-member international jury under the presidency ofCharlotte Rampling was announced today, January 17th.For the first time in 56 years of the Berlin International Film Festival, thejury will announce the winners during the awards ceremony on February 18.The international jury awards the following prizes to filmsscreened in the Competition: The ...
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Scots producer enters distribution fray
Scottish producer Ros Borland hasestablished BS Distribution to handle the UKrelease of her latest feature WildCountry. The low-budget teen horror movie was made by Borland's GabrielPictures and co-stars Martin (Sweet Sixteen)Compston and Peter Capaldi.It will be released in six prints in Scotlandon February 24 with a wider release across the ...
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Ireland leads Celtic fest nominations
The Celtic Film and Television Festival has announced the awards shortlist for its 27th annualfestival, which recognizes works from the Celtic countries and regions (Brittany, Cornwall, Ireland, Scotland and Wales). Ireland leads with 30 nominations, Scotland follows with 27, and Wales with 26. In the filmcategories, best feature film nominees ...
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Korean master's 100th film saved from shutdown
Korean master director ImKwon-taek's 100th film has been saved from the verge of shutdown bystart-up production company Kino2 and funding from Centurion TechnologyInvestment Corp and the Korean Film Council.The director's long-timeproducer Lee Tae-won announced that funding for the $3.5m film had fallenthrough just days before it was due to go ...
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Herzog to get Hot Docs Outstanding Achievement Award
German filmmaker WernerHerzog will be presented with the Hot Docs Outstanding Achievement Award on May5 during the 2006 festival in Toronto. The occasion will be markedby An Evening With Werner Herzog, a co-presentation of Hot Docs and theCinematheque Ontario. Both organizations will present complimentaryretrospectives gleaned from his more than 40 ...
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Marshall joins Marvel Studios as senior vp, legal and business affairs
Marvel Entertainment has hired Michael Marshall as senior vicepresident of business and legal affairs for its Marvel Studios division.Marshall will oversee all business and legal affairs issuesrelating to development and production, as well as character licensing fortheatrical, direct-to-video and television projects.He will work closely with Marvel Studios president and chiefoperating ...
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Pioneering technologist Demos to receive Gordon E Sawyer Award
Gary Demos, a pioneering motion picture technologist in the motionpicture industry, will receive the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts and SciencesGordon E Sawyer Award in recognition of his scientific contributions to film.Demos, along with John Whitney Jr, established the Motion PictureProject at Information International to produce computer-generated simulatedscenes for such ...
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Bangkok unveils contenders for Golden Kinnarees
Brazil's House Of Sand, the UK's Mrs Henderson Presents and South Korea'sSympathy For Lady Vengeance are amongthe 12 films that have been selected for the international competition sectionof this year's Bangkok International Film Festival (Feb 17-27).Four Golden Kinnaree awardswill be given out for best film, best director, best actor and ...
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Mandate options film rights to The Ghouly Boys
Mandate Pictures has optioned the film rights to The GhoulyBoys, based onChristopher's children's comic books that were initially published by SlaveLabor Graphics Publishing in 2004.The stories track the fortunes of four misfit young monsters whofind it hard to integrate with human children and embark upon an adventure oftheir own.Los Angeles-based ...
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Day Watch breaks Russian box office record
Day Watch, the firstsequel to Russian horror fantasy thriller NightWatch, has followed its predecessor and broken box office records in Russia and theCentral Independent States (CIS) in record time. Distributedby Gemini Film the sequel was released on New Year's Day in Russia and hadearned $25.9m as of January 16, making ...
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New UK festival will combine two French events
Thefirst Renault French Film Festival will be presented at nine UK cities - London, Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen and Dundee - in March. Thisfestival combines two previous events, the French Film Festival UK and the Renault French Film Season with UniFrance. "Audiences did not understand why there ...
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Marc Evans' Snow Cake to open Berlin Film Festival
MarcEvans' drama Snow Cake, starring AlanRickman and Sigourney Weaver, will open the Berlin Film Festival in Competitionon February 9.Thefull Competition line-up is now almost complete, with 23 out of 26 titlesannounced and a further three to be revealed at the end of the week.Worldpremieres from the UK's Michael Winterbottom (The ...
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