All Screen articles in 23 March 2006 – Page 2
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Tribeca shorts lineup includes new work from Kiarostami, Sylvia Kristel
Short films from musician Laurie Anderson, Dutch actress SylviaKristel and young US actors Adrian Grenier and Melissa Joan Hart are amonginternational narrative shorts from 15 countries in Tribeca's short filmline-upDocumentary shorts cover subjects ranging from Don Cheadle'sfamily trip to Africa to Roseanne Cash's recollections of family and music to newwork ...
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The Works signs DVD deal with Universal Pictures UK
The Works UK distribution has just signed an exclusive home entertainment output deal with Universal Pictures UK. Universal will release The Works Distribution titles on video and DVD and the UK, while The Works will continue to handle theatrical distribution. One of the first titles under the new deal will ...
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Croatian Wonderful Night In Split wins at RiverRun festival
Arsen Anton Ostojic's Croatian drama A Wonderful Night In Split dominated the closing night ceremony atthe 8th RiverRun International Film Festival, winning four jury awardsincluding best narrative feature.The tapestry of interwoven stories also claimed the best directorand screenplay honours for Ostojic and the best cinematography award for MirkoPivcevic.James Burke's US ...
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Noonan lands promotions and communications role at WBHEG
Jim Noonan has been promoted to the newly created post of seniorvice president of worldwide strategic promotions and communications at WarnerBros Home Entertainment Group (WBHEG).In the new post he will create strategic cross-platform, cross-divisionalpromotions for content distributed through the ambitious WBHEG's units, whichinclude home video, digital distribution, and interactive.He was ...
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Telefilm Canada closes Paris office
Telefilm Canada is closingits Paris office, effective March 31, 2006. The Canadian film and televisionfunding agency said the closure made sense because few clients were using theoffice and that what limited function is achieved there can be obtained throughother Canadian operations in the French capital and throughout Europe, such asembassies ...
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UK hoping for tax break details in Budget
UK Chancellor Gordon Brown may announce tax break details in his Budget speech at 12.30pm (GMT) this afternoon.The UK film industry was cheered in December by an announcement about new film tax laws and they are hoping to have a clearer picture today.There is, however, no guarantee it will even ...
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German producers look to the Balkans for success
Champagnecorks may have popped in Sarajevo after Jasmila Zbanic's debut feature Grbavicawon the Golden Bear at last month's Berlinale - but celebrationswere not confined to Bosnia and Herzegovina.Therewas also cause for jubilation in Germany: Didi Danquart's Karlsruhe-based noirfilm was one of the co-producers, along with Austria'scoop99, Zbanic's own company Deblokadaand ...
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Fat Englishmen among winners at HAF
Lawrence Gray's Fat Englishmen, about a group ofbeer-swilling Brits who get cast as Sumo wrestlers in a Japanese beercommercial, was presented with the HAF Award for a Hong Kong project at the Hong Kong Asia Film Financing Forum (HAF) today. The cash award of $13,000(HK$100,000) was based on the creativity ...
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Filmko, Fortissimo come up for Air
Fortissimo Film Sales andHong Kong production company FilmkoEntertainment have boarded Zhang Yang's Air(working title), one of 25 projects participating at this year's Hong Kong AsiaFilm Financing Forum (HAF).Filmko announced today thatit is fully financing the $2.5m film while Fortissimo will handle world sales.Production is scheduled to start in southern China ...
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Showcase, Midnight, Restored sections unveiled at Tribeca 06
Louis Pepe and Keith Fulton'smockumentary Brothers Of The Head,Ward Serrill's female basketball documentary The Heart Of The Game, and Richard E Grant's directorial debut Wah-Wah were named today in the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival'sShowcase line-up.Several world premieres areincluded in the Midnight section, among them Todd Stephens' gay teen spoof AnotherGay ...
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Lotte makes first move into international sales
LOTTE EMBARKS ON INTERNATIONAL SALESBy Jean NohLeading Korean exhibitor Lotte Entertainment is getting its feet wet in international sales with A Millionaire's First Love, selling the teen romance to Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand at this Filmart, and is currently looking at deals for Hong Kong/China and Vietnam.The teen romance starring ...
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Chinese TV's biggest film channel grabs MK trio
Korean producer/distributor MK Pictures has announced a deal with China's government-run film channel CCTV-6 for broadcast rights to three films. The pact, signed in Beijing, is for MK Pictures library titles YMCA Baseball Team, a historical melodrama, Jung Ji-woo's critically acclaimed Happy End and melodrama If The Sun Rises In ...
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Drummer marches to a German-Asian beat
Germany's Twenty Twenty Vision Filmproduktion has boarded Hong Kong director Kenneth Bi's upcoming drama The Drummer as co-producer alongside Hong Kong's Kenbiroli Films and Taiwan's Arc Light Films.The $1.8m film, scheduled to start shooting in mid-May, tells the story of a young Hong Kong man who runs away to Taiwan ...
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Filmart focuses on European and Asian co-operation
Now is a great time forEuropean and Asian producers to start talking to one other about potentialcollaborations, if only because they are at least nine months away from doingbusiness together under any one of the official co-production treatiescurrently being negotiated.The need for internationalpartners to work organically together, rather than be ...
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Dragon Tiger Gate sells to major Asia territories
Mandarin Films' $10m DragonTiger Gate has been sold to a string of Asian territories including Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia and Taiwan, in addition to France, Benelux and the Scandinavia. Apan-Asian release is scheduled on July 28. A co-production with BeijingPolybona, the highly anticipated picture is based on TheGate of Dragon ...
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Antony Szeto's Wushu gets golden touch
Golden Network has picked up international rights to Hong Kong-based director Antony Szeto's Wushu, which is currently in pre-production.Produced by Hong Kong's Hippopotamus Films, the $1.5m drama is a coming-of-age story set in a martial arts school in a remote corner of China.Szeto is an award-winning action choreographer who recently ...
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Adrift finds safe harbour with Korean distributor
Summit Entertainment hasclosed a deal with Korean major distributor Showbox Mediaplex forEnglish-language thriller Adrift. About a groupof holiday-makers who get stranded in the water without a ladder to get back upinto their yacht - with a baby alone on board, the film was all but sold out inBerlin. Korean acquisitionsexecutives ...
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Tartan takes UK and Irish rights to Driving Lessons
Distributor Tartan Filmshas acquired all UK and Ireland rights to Driving Lessons, starring Julie Walters, Rupert Grint,and Laura Linney. The film is the directorialdebut from Mrs Brown screenwriterJeremy Brock, who also wrote the original story about an aging actress(Walters) who develops an unconventional friendship with a poetry-lovingteenage boy (Grint)."Driving Lessons ...
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Wilderness
Dir: Michael J Bassett. UK 2006. 91mins"Get them out of here. Get them to the island andteach them a bloody lesson!" the governor at a young offenders institutionroars at the inmates early on in Wilderness,Michael Bassett's lurid but enjoyably cheesy horror picture.This is not subtlefilm-making. Dario Poloni's screenplay is influencedby ...
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Slither
Dir: James Gunn. US. 2006. 94mins.A loving homage to B-movie horror films, James Gunn'sSlither supplies gross-out scares aswell as some self-mocking humour. But while the filmwill please genre fans, others may find the presentation over-familiar.Slither opens on March 31 in the US - following its appearance at the SXSW FilmFestival ...