All Screen articles in 23 April 2006 – Page 4
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Ten Canoes to open Sydney Film Festival
Un Certain Regard Cannes entrant Rolf de Heer's TenCanoes is to open the 53rd Sydney Film Festival (SFF) on June 9."We are absolutely thrilled to have such an exciting anddistinctively Australian film open the festival," said SFF artistic directorLynden Barber in the statement."It is fitting that such a beautifully poetic ...
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Silent Hill
Dir: Christophe Gans. Can-Fr. 2006. 127 mins.Apparently designed to appeal both to fanboys and to a slightly older, mixed-gender crowd, videogame adaptation Silent Hill comes offas an atmospheric but disappointingly dull horror thriller. Interest fromhorror and game aficionados should be strong enough for the Sony-distributed chiller, produced by Samuel Hadidaand ...
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Mertes named head of documentaries at Sundance
AmericanDocumentary Inc executive director and PBSexecutive producer Cara Mertes has been named director of the SundanceInstitute's Documentary Film Program.Merteswill oversee all of the Documentary Film Program's projects, including theSundance Documentary Fund, the annual Documentary Edit and Story Laboratory,the annual Documentary Composers Laboratory, the House of Docs programming, andyear-round support for ...
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DeVito stars in Kindred Media Group's One Part Sugar
Jeffrey D Erb's US-based Kindred Media Group has startedproduction on Hart Bochner's comedic fable One Part Sugar starring Danny DeVito and Dylan Walsh.This is the second project to secure financing at the productionstage from Kindred following the thriller Southern Gothic, which went into production in January.Hart Sharp has come aboard ...
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Cannes competition entry faces Chinese censor
LouYe's Summer Palace, the sole Chinese film incompetition at Cannes this year, will be screened for the China Film Bureaulater this week in what should be an interesting test case of the country'scurrent censorship environment.Thefilm was approved at script stage and filmed through official channels, butaccording to Chinese regulations, the ...
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TriStar tops North American box office with Silent Hill
TriStar's horror tale Silent Hill emerged as the North American weekendchampion on an estimated $20.2m while Fox's thriller The Sentinel opened third on $14.7m and Universal's AmericanDreamz flopped in eighthplace on $3.7m.Meanwhile last weekend's top title Scary Movie 4 from Dimension Films fell to second placeon $17m for a $67.7m ...
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Akeelah And The Bee
Dir: Doug Atchison. US.2006. 112mins.The story of a young girl's unlikely journey from anunder-funded school to the National Spelling Bee finals, Akeelah And The Bee is an inspirational dramapowered by template familiarity and an abundance of earnestness. The winner ofthe 2000 Nicholl Fellowship, a screenwriting competitionsponsored by the Academy Of ...
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Estate of late Disney animator endows $5m to LA film school
Theestate of Disney animation artist John C Hench has made a $5m endowment gift tocreate the John C Hench Division of Animation & Digital Arts at theUniversity of Southern California's (USC) School of Cinema-Television.Theendowment will support several key initiatives including funding faculty andstudent assistant positions, updating technology, underwritingartists-in-residence, hosting symposia, ...
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Ice Age 2 cracks $300m at international box office
Fox International's Ice Age 2: The Meltdown remained the runaway number one title in theinternational marketplace as it swept past $300m.The hit animated sequel added $40.3m on 8,964screens to raise the international cumulative tally to $333.1m.It opened number one in Italy on a superb $6.2m on 644 screens,and scored a ...
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Moretti tops golden week with Donatellos triumph
Nanni Moretti's The Caiman was named best picture at the 50th David di Donatello film awards, and took home six prizes. Its main rival, MichelePlacido's Crime Novel, walked away with eight Donatellos, including best screenplay and supporting actor.The Caiman, which screens in competition in Cannes, is a mix of marital ...
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DeA Planeta to launch new international sales arm
Spanish-Italian media venture DeAPlaneta will launch a new international sales department at Cannes, headed by CFOGonzalo Martin.Current acquisitions directorYolanda del Val and sales manager Laia Medina will handle day-to-day work.The company's slate will spanin-house productions, co-productions and third-party pick-ups from Spain andLatin America.Among DeA Planeta's recent featurefilm productions are psychological ...
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Mexican documentary wins Buenos Aires top prize
Mexican Juan Carlos Rulfo's documentary In the Pit (En elHoyo)won the prize for best film in the internationalcompetition at the eighth Buenos Aires International Festival of IndependentCinema (BAFICI), while German Valeska Grisebach's Longing took theSpecial Jury Award, Argentinian Lorena Munoz's painting documentary LosProximos Pasados (Next to be Gone) received the ...
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SquareOne adds five genre films to theatrical slate
German independent distributor SquareOne Entertainment hasacquired five new high-profile films to boost its theatrical slate:* Roland Joffe's Mark Damon-produced intense thriller Captivity,from a script by Larry Cohen and starring Elisha Cuthbert, Daniel Gillies,Pruitt Taylor Vince and Michael Harney;* Daniel Myrick's horror film Solstice, produced byEndgame Entertainment and starring Shawn Ashmore, ...
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Chadha to shoot JR in Dallas remake
Gurinder Chadha has confirmed that she is to direct Twentieth Century Fox's screen adaptation of TV series Dallas(which ran from 1978-1991.)Thefilm, scripted by Robert Harling (Steel Magnolias), will star JohnTravolta as Texas oil magnate JR Ewing and Jennifer Lopez as hishard-drinking wife, Sue Ellen. Luke Wilson and Shirley Maclaine are ...
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