All Screen articles in 23 March 2006 – Page 4
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Ten Canoes
Dir: Rolf de Heer. Aus.2006. 91mins.The Adelaide Film Festival has aninvestment fund which, with its first feature flutter last year, shrewdlybacked the critically acclaimed Look BothWays. Sarah Watt's drama about fractured lives in a big city suburb went onto play well at international festivals - it won Toronto's Discovery award ...
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Scanbox buys video distributor DVS from Nordisk
Denmark's Scanbox Entertainment, which was recently acquired byIcelandic-born producer Joni Sighvatsson, has signed a deal to buy leading homeentertainment distributor DVS Entertainment from Nordisk Film and SE 2001."DVS has delivered very satisfactory results throughout thelast few years," Nordisk film distribution chief Michael Junker said."The further development of the company is, ...
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Panther beats Vendetta in international markets
Fox International's The Pink Panther ruled the international marketplace overthe weekend with an estimated $12.3m weekend haul from 3,900 screens thatraised the film's cumulative total to $47.3m.The comedy remake stormed to the top of the UK charts with a solid$3.5m debut on 400 screens. It opened in second place in ...
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Miss Potter scores North American deal with TWC
The Weinstein Company (TWC) has picked up North American rights toMiss Potter fromPhoenix Pictures and David Kirschner Productions.Chris Noonan's Beatrix Potter biopic is currently inproduction in the UK and stars Renee Zellweger, Ewan McGregor, Emily Watson,Barbara Flynn, Bill Paterson and Lloyd Owen.Kirschner Productions' David Kirschner and Corey Sienega areproducing alongside ...
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V For Vendetta is the box office victor in North America
Warner Bros' dystopian thriller V For Vendetta vanquished the opposition at the weekenddebuting at the top of the charts on an estimated $26.1m.Directed by James McTeigue from a an adapted screenplay by theWachowski Brothers of Alan Moore's cult graphic novel, the picture stars HugoWeaving as a masked freedom fighter battling ...
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News From Afar takes best film prize at Mar del Plata
Latin American filmsdominated the awards at the 21st Mar del Plata Film Festival, which closedyesterday with a record attendance of 150,000 spectators.Noticias Lejanas (News From Afar), Mexican Ricardo Benet's first feature film about a 17-year-old boy whohas grown up in a rural village and undertakes a journey of initiation to ...
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Animus acquires international rights to Celestine
Miami-based Animus Entertainment Group has picked up worldwiderights excluding the US, Canada and Puerto Rico to the upcoming adaptation ofJames Redfield's international new age bestseller The Celestine Prophecy.The rights, distributed by Animus on behalf of KingstonProperties, include television, theatrical, DVD, and licensing andmerchandising.The spiritual adventure centres on a troubled teacher ...
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C.R.A.Z.Y. takes 13 prizes out of 13 nominations at Quebec's Jutra Awards
Jean-Marc Vallee's C.R.A.Z.Y. literally swept the 2006 Jutra Awards, thecelebration of cinema in Quebec, to continue its domination of Canada's cinemaprizes. One week after winning ten prizes at Canada's Genie Awards, includingBest Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Actor, the Quebecois filmwon in each of the thirteen categories for ...
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Fortissimo game for Tian's Go Master
Fortissimo Films has boardedTian Zhuangzhuang's highly-anticipated The Go Master, taking international rights outside China.Fortissimo co-chairmenMichael Werner and Wouter Barendrecht are executive producers on the $6mCannes-tipped epic, which is currently in post-production in Beijing.The Go Master stars Chang Chen (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon), Sylvia Chang (Eat Drink Man Woman) and Xin ...
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HK's Focus cultivates ties with emerging filmmakers
Affirming its commitment togrooming new talents, Hong Kong's Focus Film is producing new feature films bythree directors that emerged through its First Cuts low-budget filmmakinginitiative that was unveiled last year.Robin Lee, who shot theTaiwanese episode The Shoe Fairy,will now direct My DNA Says I Love You, a new quirky romantic ...
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Chinese studio start-up hires sales veteran
Korean sales executive Bill Hwang has moved to Meridian Pictures Group(MPG) as Director of International Distribution. Formerly of Tube Entertainment and KangJeKyu Film, Korean-AustralianHwang has relocated to Shanghai to join the newly formed Chineseinvestor/distributor.MPG is currently in the process of completing output deals for mainlandChina and international distribution from leading ...
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China's Lotus remakes Japanese smash
Hong Kong and Beijing-basedproduction house Lotus Entertainment has acquired the Chinese-languageadaptation rights to 1980s Japanese blockbuster Kamata Koshin Kyoku (TheFall Guy). Based on the successfulJapanese play by Tsuka Kohei, who also wrote the screenplay, the originalJapanese film was produced by Haruki Kadokawa for Shochiku in 1982 and went onto gross ...
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Iconic Singapore picturehouse re-opens for business
Singapore's signature Cathaybuilding will welcome back movie-goers again this week following a $100mredevelopment effort by resurgent exhibitor-distributor Cathay.The old 16-storey building,when opened its doors to the public in 1939, was Singapore's first high-riseand housed the city's first air-conditioned cinema, the Cathay Cinema with1,300 seats.The new 17-storey building,which retains the original ...
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Biopic spies North Korean location shoot
A biopic about a Korean composer who was found guilty of spying for the North while in Germany is about to become the firstSouth Korean film to shoot on location in North Korea's capital city. LJ Film, with the backing ofparent company Innotz/Prime Entertainment, looks set to film Yun Isang, ...
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Ayres' family saga unites Oz and Singapore
The firstAustralia-Singapore co-production, Tony Ayres' The Home Song Stories starring China-born American actress Joan Chen, isto start filming next month in Melbourne and later in Macau for a 2007delivery. Christopher Doyle is the cinematographerBig and Little Films'Michael McMahon and Liz Watts of Porchlight Films are producing the epic dramain collaboration ...
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Ayres' family saga unites Oz, Singapore
The firstAustralia-Singapore co-production, Tony Ayres' The Home Song Stories starring China-born American actress Joan Chen, isto start filming next month in Melbourne and later in Macau for a 2007delivery. Christopher Doyle is the cinematographerBig and Little Films'Michael McMahon and Liz Watts of Porchlight Films are producing the epic dramain collaboration ...
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Media Asia unveils brace from Infernal Affairs duo
Hong Kong's Media Asia isplanning to produce two films this year from Infernal Affairs directors Andrew Lau and Alan Mak as part of anambitious slate of between eight and ten productions.First up is HK$60m ($7.7m)thriller Behind The Sin which isset to star Tony Leung Chiu-wai and scheduled to start shooting ...
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Universe hot to trot with Tony Au's 21 Feet
Hong Kongproducer-distributor Universe Entertainment has added 21 Feet, veteran filmmaker Tony Au's first project asdirector in more than a decade, to the sales slate it is offering buyers at this week's Filmart convention. The $2.5m drama isabout a boy from Hong Kong who moves to China's Hainan island with his ...
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Cruz reveals passion for India
PenelopeCruz and Spanish producers Colomo Producciones and Sogecine have optioned therights to popular novel Pasion India.Cruzis set to take the lead alongside Bollywood co-stars inthe English-languagefilm adaptation, expected to shoot in Spain and India.JavierMoro's original novel (Indian Passion)was inspired by the true story of Anita Delgado, a 17 year old ...
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Strong documentary presence at Diagonale
The documentary genre willbe particularly strong at this year's Diagonale - Festival of Austrian Cinemawhich is being opened in Graz on March 21 with FlorianFlicker's No Name City about a WildWest town theme park south of Vienna.Among the 22 newdocumentaries selected to screen are Elisabeth Scharang'sTintenfischalarm (which had its world ...