All Screen articles in 22 October 2004 – Page 2
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Focus teams with Hadida on Silent Hill
Focus Features has acquiredinternational sales rights to Davis Film Productions' adaptation of Konami'ssmash videogame series Silent Hill,with Christophe Gans set to direct and Davis Film's Samuel Hadida producing fora March 2005 start.Sales will commence at nextmonth's AFM. Hadida's distribution company Metropolitan Filmexport will releasein France and a North American distributor ...
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New Zealand lobbies for second film sound stage
New Zealand film agency Film Auckland is bidding forUS$1.8m (NZ$1.7m) from the New Zealand Government to help construct a secondpurpose-built film sound stage in the country.New Zealand's only other purpose-built film stage is downsouth in Wellington and is now being used for Peter Jackson's King Kong.It was built earlier this ...
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Harmony Gold signs three-year sales deal with Slamdance
Production and distributioncompany Harmony Gold has signed a three-year deal to become the exclusiveinternational distributor for Slamdance Media Group.Harmony Gold will hold alltheatrical, broadcast and DVD distribution rights and will have access to aminimum of 12 new titles each year. Slamdance retains North American rights.The first two pictures willbe offered ...
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Gyllenhaal confirmed as Mendes' lead in Jarhead
Jake Gyllenhaal has beenconfirmed as the lead in Universal's Gulf War drama Jarhead, which Sam Mendes will direct based on US MarineAnthony Swofford's memoirs.William Broyles Jr adaptedthe screenplay and Doug Wick and Lucy Fisher will produce under their Red Wagonbanner. Ivan Fenyo, Laz Alonso, Evan Jones, Jacob Vargas, Brian Geraghty ...
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Eaton named UK Film Council deputy chairman
Producer Andrew Eaton hasbeen appointed deputy chairman of the UK Film Council, the most senior positiona member of the independent film business has held at the Government-backedsupport body.Eaton, director MichaelWinterbottom's regular producer, last made headlines this Cannes, when hissexually-explicit film Nine Songs outraged the UK's rightwing press. Hereplaces former UK ...
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Australia, New Zealand generate star power
Films of all shapesand sizes are now underway in New Zealand and, after a considerable productiondrought, in Australia - and both countries are awash with internationallyrenowned acting talent.In Australia, HeathLedger and Geoffrey Rush are to star in Candy,and Cate Blanchett is the focus of LittleFish, which also stars Sam Neill ...
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AFM announces conference & seminar schedule
Conferences and seminars covering US productionincentives, digital filmmaking, and how to exploit ancillary markets are amongthe line-up of events scheduled for next month's AFM in Santa Monica.Other subjectsat the market, which runs from Nov 3-10, include the marketing of women'spictures, cinematography and budget constraints, and writer-producercollaborations.The conferencespresented by Akin Gump ...
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Hof Film Days unveils festival line-up
New features by Anno Saul (Kebab Connection),Cyril Tuschi (Sommer Hunde Soehne), Andrew Hood (Das Apfelbaumhaus)and Gil Mehmert (Aus der Tiefe Des Raumes) are among a raft of worldpremieres of German films at this year's Hof International Film Days (Oct27-31) which will be opening with Dennis Gansel's Karlovy Vary prize-winner Napola.Internationally ...
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Capitol Films names Crowe as head of sales
SimonCrowe, formerly head of sales at Icon Entertainment, is joining Capitol Filmsas head of sales.Aspart of the move, Eve Schoukroun has been promoted to senior sales manager.Crowe replaces Nicole Mackey, who joined Fortissimo Film Sales to spearhead itsLondon arm.Crowesaid that UK-based Capitol has established itself "as one of, if not ...
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INTERNATIONAL 21 October
The top two international titles eased passed $50m thisweekend as Shark Tale held the leadand Collateral climbed back to fourthfollowing a host of number one launches for both films.DreamWorks Animation's latest hit opened in multipleEuropean territories spearheaded by number one positions in the UK ($13.6mincluding previews, $9.1m without), France ($4.2m) ...
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FRANCE 21 October
US boxoffice leader Shark Tale opened atnumber one in France this week with 630,561 admissions. The film shouldcontinue to hold well given the arrival of school vacations next week althoughit will face fierce competition from the October 27 release of Jean-PierreJeunet's A Very Long Engagement.Last week'snumber one, L'Enquete Corse, droppedto ...
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NORWAY 21 October
While Shrek 2stayed at the top of the Norwegian chart for the fifth week running, itsNOK17,220 screen average was matched and even bested by a number of newreleases which had fewer prints.Among these the new local surfer-romantic-drama Monsterthursday, which made it intofourth with NOK20.755 average from its 37 prints. Though ...
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Haunting shoot starts in Romania with territories sold
Filming has begun in Romaniaon the gothic ghost story An American Haunting starring Donald Sutherland, Sissy Spacek, JamesD'Arcy and Rachel Hurd-Wood.The UK-Canadian-Romanianco-production is being made by Midsummer Films, Remstar, Media Pro Pictures andMighty Panda and bonded by Film Finances with banking facilities by the Bank ofIreland.Courtney Solomon directs theproject based ...
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Valenti presented with honour by Italian government
Former MPAA president andchief executive officer Jack Valenti has been made Knight of the Grand Cross ofthe Order of Merit of the Republic of Italy, or Cavalier Di Gran Croce.Prime Minister SilvioBerlusconi personally presented the honour during a ceremony at his officialresidence at Rome's Palazzo Chigi.The Order of Merit of ...
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Valenti presented with honour by Italian government
Former MPAA president andchief executive officer Jack Valenti has been made Knight of the Grand Cross ofthe Order of Merit of the Republic of Italy, or Cavalier Di Gran Croce.Prime Minister SilvioBerlusconi personally presented the honour during a ceremony at his officialresidence at Rome's Palazzo Chigi (pictured above).The Order of ...
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Smarinsky gets evp stripes at MGM
Michael Smarinsky has beenpromoted to executive vice president of corporate and governmental affairs atMGM.Reporting to MGM seniorexecutive vice president Bill Jones, Smarinsky will continue to rungovernmental affairs and supervise content-protection activities, as he did inhis previous role as MGMC;s principal governmental affairs officer.Prior to MGM, Smarinskyworked at a private law ...
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Warsaw fetes Iranian City
20th Warsaw International Film Festival closed on Monday,October 18, with the premiere of the French film Comme Une Image by Agnes Jaoui.Featuring 110 films from 38 countries, the 2004 editionrecorded an audience total of more than 73,000.Fourteen films screened in competition, evaluated by a Jurycomprising Fridrik Thor Fridriksson (chair), Mirjam ...
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City Lights, Intrinsic Values team for desert thriller Four Women
New York City-basedCity Lights Pictures will produce the thriller Four Women with Intrinsic Value Films, based on thecomic book by writer-illustrator Sam Kieth, who will direct from his ownscreenplay.Described by thefilmmakers as Open Water in the desert, Four Women involves a life-changing road trip thatturns sour for a group of ...
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Swedish journalists question state funding choices
The Swedish Film Institute (SFI) has attracted localcriticism for its selection of seven new features to receive state funding.Among the seven films that received $3.1M (SEK 23M) in totalfrom the SFI, not one will be directed by a woman. Furthermore, five of thefilms are adaptations of books written by internationally ...
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Cheadle, Eternal Sunshine get Gotham honours
Don Cheadle will collect theGotham Actor Award and Michael Gondry's Eternal Sunshine Of The SpotlessMind will receive the inauguralCelebrate New York tribute at IFP/New York's upcoming 14th Annual IFP GothamAwards.Cheadle's credits includethe upcoming Hotel Rwanda, Crash, The Assassination Of Richard Nixon and Ocean's Twelve, and he enters a pantheon of ...