All Screen articles in 22 July 2005 – Page 3

  • News

    Loggerheads, Year win top OUTFEST prizes

    2005-07-19T00:00:00Z

    Los Angeles Gay and LesbianFilm Festival OUTFEST ended its 23rd festival on Sunday night withan awards night which saw 15 winners headed up by Tim Kirkman's relationshipdrama Loggerheads which won the juriedprize for OUTstanding American narrative.Anahi Berneri'sArgentinian AIDS drama A Year Without Love (Un Ano Sin Amor) won OUTstanding International ...

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    De Hadeln unveils four films in New Montreal FilmFest

    2005-07-19T00:00:00Z

    Moritz De Hadeln hasunveiled the first four titles of the New Montreal Filmfest, which opens onSept 18 with the North American premiere of Cedric Klapish's Les PoupeesRusses.The picture follows up onthe 2002 romantic comedy L'Auberge Espagnole and reunites Audrey Tautou, Cecile de France, RomainDuris, and Kelly Reilly.Meanwhile there are worldpremieres ...

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    Hytner's History Boys starts shooting

    2005-07-19T00:00:00Z

    Shooting has begun on the film adaptation of AlanBennett's The History Boys. Like the award winning play, the film version will bedirected by Nicholas Hytner from a script by Bennett. The project is financed by DNA and BBC Films anddistributed by Fox Searchlight. The film will shoot for six weeks ...

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    Toronto has four world prems in black cinema focus

    2005-07-19T00:00:00Z

    Wayne Beach's hot USthriller Slow Burn is among fourworld premieres announced in a batch of five pictures celebrating black cinemaadded to the line-up of the 30th Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF).The picture plays in thespecial presentations programme and stars Ray Liotta as a district attorney whohas one night to exculpate ...

  • News

    Nevins, Yari to co-chair Gotham Awards in NYC

    2005-07-19T00:00:00Z

    HBO Documentary and Familypresident Sheila Nevins and producer Bob Yari will co-chair IFP's upcoming 15thAnnual Gotham Awards.The awards are scheduled totake place in New York on Nov 30, when three new competitive categories of BestEnsemble Cast, Best Use of the Arts in Film, and Best Film Not Playing at aTheatre ...

  • News

    Chow Yun-fat hops on board Ann Hui project

    2005-07-19T00:00:00Z

    Chow Yun-fat is reteamingwith Hong Kong director Ann Hui on the US$5m drama, The Aunt's PostmodernLife, produced by start-up Beijing-based production outfit Cheerland Films.Chow said he would forgo hisusual fee to work with Hui, who directed him in his first critical success,The Story Of Woo Viet, in 1981. Their new ...

  • Reviews

    The City Of The Sun (Slunecni Stat Aneb Hrdinove Delnicke Tridy)

    2005-07-19T00:00:00Z

    Dir. Martin Sulik. CzRep-Slovak. 2005. 99mins.At the start Martin Sulik's feature about four unemployedCzech men promises some sort of a social comment on the collapse of EastEuropean industry, with its images of violent clashes between management and redundantworkers.But before long The CityOf The Sun settles into the predictable patterns of ...

  • News

    LA's Gersh promotes ten agents to partner

    2005-07-19T00:00:00Z

    As part of an ambitiousexpansion mandate, LA-based talent agency The Gersh Agency has promoted tenexecutives to partner and announced that longtime senior executive LeslieSiebert has become senior managing partner.The move precedes a periodof planned growth over the next two years that will see construction of a40,000 sq ft headquarters in ...

  • News

    Zhang Ziyi boards Feng's $15m Banquet

    2005-07-18T21:00:00Z

    Zhang Ziyi is attached to star in Feng Xiaogang's $15mperiod drama The Banquet which has been set up as a co-productionbetween Beijing-based Huayi Brothers and Hong Kong's Media Asia. Thefilm's stellar cast also includes Feng regular Ge You, hot up-and-comingactress Zhou Xun and Hong Kong star Daniel Wu. Production is ...

  • News

    Auteuil joins Bellucci for Napoleon comedy

    2005-07-18T04:00:00Z

    Daniel Auteuil has joined Monica Bellucci in the cast ofPaolo Virzi's new comedy, which is entitled "N."The Euros 8.5m film, adapted from Ernesto Ferrero'sprize-winning novel, tells the story of Napoleon's exile on the island ofElba, where he lived for 300 days, and a librarian who closely observes histurmoil and his ...

  • News

    Skillset's Inside Pictures film business course invites applicants

    2005-07-18T04:00:00Z

    Skillset's InsidePictures, the film business trainingprogramme now funded by the Skillset Film Skills Fund, is acceptingapplications from 18 July.Comprising three intensiveone-week modules, Skillset's Inside Pictures takes place in London and Los Angeles betweenNovember 2005 and May 2006. Seminars, workshops andstudio visits are hosted by some of the US and UK's ...

  • News

    Wonderful Place takes top Jerusalem prizes

    2005-07-18T00:00:00Z

    Eyal Halfon's corrosive view of foreign labor in Israel, Whata Wonderful Place, won two of the top Wolgin awards at the 22ndJerusalem Film Festival.What a Wonderful Place won the best film prizeand the best male performance prize for Uri Gavriel. Earlier this month Eyal Halfon's film won a grand jury ...

  • News

    Sepet dominates at Malaysian Film Festival

    2005-07-18T00:00:00Z

    Sepet, an inter-racial lovestory by commercials director Yasmin Ahmad, won six awards including best filmat the 18th Malaysian Film Festival, which presents the country'stop film awards.Theother awards included best promising actor (Ng Choo Seong), best promisingactress (Sharifah Amani), best supporting actress (Ida Nerina) and bestoriginal storyline (Ahmad). ButAhmad was beaten ...

  • News

    Serkis, Fry join Stormbreaker cast

    2005-07-18T00:00:00Z

    Andy Serkis and Stephen Fryare the latest stars to join the cast of Samuelson Productions' Stormbreaker,which has just started shooting on the Isle of Man.The $40m-plus teen superspy adventure is based on the first book in the best-selling AlexRider series by Anthony Horowitz.Serkis will play Mr Grin, theunfortunately disfigured henchman ...

  • News

    Charlie is golden for Warner Bros

    2005-07-18T00:00:00Z

    Charlie And The Chocolate Factory dominated the weekend with anestimated $55.4m opening as the positive box office reversal continued for thesecond weekend in a row.Warner Bros' revival of Roald Dahl's children's classic wasapplauded by critics for its dark tone and the Tim Burton-directed filmaveraged $14,689 on 3,770 screens.Johnny Depp stars ...

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    Madagascar leads int'l weekend, beating War by a whisker

    2005-07-18T00:00:00Z

    DreamWorks' animated family title Madagascar was the number one international titleover the weekend as it grossed an estimated $31m through UIP, beatingParamount's War Of The Worlds by a whisker.The picture opened in six territories and currently stands at$143m from more than 5,100 sites in 40 territories so far.The chief highlight ...

  • News

    MPA strikes anti-piracy deal with Chinese government

    2005-07-18T00:00:00Z

    The Motion Picture Association (MPA) has signed an agreementwith two Chinese government agencies to co-operate in the fight against China'srampant piracy.China'sMinistry of Culture (MoC) and the State Administration of Radio, Film andTelevision (SARFT) both co-signed a memorandum which aims to help Chineseenforcement agencies to identify pirated movie products.Under the terms ...

  • News

    Pan-Euro exhibitor Kinepolis sees admissions fall

    2005-07-18T00:00:00Z

    Pan-Europeanexhibitor The Kinepolis Group has announced its first half of 2005 figures with10.7m admissions recorded, a fall of12% year-on-year.Between January and June the company, which operatessites in France, Spain, Belgium, Poland and Switzerland, sold 10.7m tickets.This is comparable with 12.1m in 2004. However,excluding figures for the Paris Max Linder complex ...

  • News

    Charlie sells $55.4m in golden tickets for Warner Bros

    2005-07-18T00:00:00Z

    Charlie And The Chocolate Factory dominated the weekend with anestimated $55.4m opening as the positive box office reversal continued for thesecond weekend in a row.Warner Bros' revival of Roald Dahl's children's classic wasapplauded by critics for its dark tone and the Tim Burton-directed filmaveraged $14,689 on 3,770 screens.Johnny Depp stars ...