All Screen articles in 23 October 2005 – Page 2
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Eisner to revisit Creature From The Black Lagoon
Breck Eisner hassigned to direct Universal Pictures' remake of the horror classic CreatureFrom The Black Lagoon.Gary Ross willproduce through his Larger Than Life production company and has written a draftscreenplay, which may not end up as the final version.Ross' fatherArthur A Ross wrote the screenplay to the 1954 original, in ...
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Berlin boosts film funding coffers
The BerlinSenate has increased its backing for Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg (MBB) this year by Euros 1.5m to bringthe regional fund's overall budget for film funding and location marketing toEuros 17.9m."We canreally use these additional funds as the run of film producers onBerlin-Brandenburg continues undiminished," noted MBB managing directorKirsten Niehuus who pointed ...
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St Jacques' La Mecque
Dir/scr: Coline Serreau. Fr. 2005. 112mins.Comedy writer-director ColineSerreau came a cropper two years ago with 18 Years After, a pointless anduninspired sequel to Three Men And A Baby, her 1985 sleeper smash that definitivelyturned the tide for Hollywood's remake industry. Now Serreauattempts to return to the social comedy that is ...
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Glitzy Gardener opens London festival
The 49th Times bfi London Film Festival opened amid torrential rain on Wednesday night (Oct 19) witha gala screening of Fernando Meirelles' TheConstant Gardener. The director was in attendance along with stars Ralph Fiennes,Rachel Weisz, Danny Huston, and author John Le Carre, who wrote the novel onwhich the film is ...
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Doom
Dir: Andrzej Bartkowiak. US. 2005. 101mins.Just as knowing one's own intellectual limitations isits own form of intelligence, so it is wise for a film to have a keen sense ofboundary and mission. Sometimes economy is the smartest choice, as Doom, the surprisingly enjoyable newadaptation of the wildly popular first-person videogame ...
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Sean Farnel leaves TIFF for Hot Docs
Sean Farnel, documentaryprogrammer at the Toronto International Film Festival, has been appointed tothe newly-created post of director of programming at Hot Docs, the CanadianInternational Documentary Festival. As well as leading the programming team, Farnelwill be charged with refining the event's slate of professional developmentindustry programming.Farnel told Screendaily:"It's an organic step ...
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Working Title cranks up Sixty Six
WorkingTitle Films started principal photography in London for its coming-of-age comedy Sixty Six. Paul Weiland (Roseanna'sGrave, City Slickers II) is directing from a screenplay by Peter Straughan and Bridget O'Connor. Elizabeth Karlsen, Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner are producing with NataschaWharton executive producing.UniversalPictures will handle worldwide distribution of Sixty Six, ...
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Shoreline, Matador embark on Dark Corners shoot
Shoreline Entertainment and Matador Pictures recently started principalphotography on horror thriller DarkCorners. Shooting started October 11 in London. Ray Gower wrote and is directing the film, which stars Thora Birch as a woman living two lives who is stalked by amonster. Toby Stephens and Christien Anholt also star.Shoreline will handle ...
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Moviehouse takes on sales for UK teen comedy Popcorn
London-based sales agent Moviehouse Entertainment has taken on sales of UK teen comedy Popcorn.Darren Paul Fisher (Inbetweeners)is directing with Rebecca Knapp and Daniel M. San producing.Moviehouse's Gary Phillips and Mark Vennisare executive producing with Sheryl Crown of Screen East. The film recentlycompleted shooting in Londonand Hertfordshire. The film stars Jack ...
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Benigni's Tiger takes pole position in Italy
As expected, The Tiger and The Snow, the new filmfrom Italy's top grossing comic Roberto Benigni, landed at number one at thelocal box office on its opening weekend, earning $3,740,934 for Rai Cinemalabel 01 Distribution.However, with noother major pictures opening over the weekend, some local analysts felt thefilm underperformed - ...
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Sony to back first Hindi film with Leela Bhansali
Sony PicturesReleasing India is teaming up with Sanjay Leela Bhansali to co-produce Sony'sfirst Indian feature Saawariya (Beloved)in Hindi."India hasa rich and a prolific film history," Michael Lynton, chairman and chiefexecutive officer of Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE), said."We at Sony Picturesrecognise the potential and importance of the Indian market and welcome ...
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Asian producers unveil historical epic Battle Of Wisdom
The four co-producers behind pan-Asian historicalepic Battle OfWisdom officially unveiled the production at a press conference in Beijingtoday. Japan'sComstock and South Korea's Boram Entertainment have joined previously announcedpartners Huayi Brothers from mainland China and Hong Kong's Sundream MotionPictures in the $16m film. Directed by Hong Kong director Jacob Cheung, the ...
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Palm takes North American rights to Machado's City
Palm Pictures has picked upNorth American and Caribbean rights for Sergio Machado's Lower City (Cidade Baixa) from sales outfit Lumina Films.London-based Lumina also hasPalm on board for two of its other projects - Pablo Trapero'sArgentinian road movie Familia Rodante and -- as previously announced-- City of Men, the TV series ...
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Tree crosses 600,000 admissions in Iran
Majid Majid'sfeature The Willow Treehas passed 600,000 admissions to become the highest grossing drama of all timein Iran.Majidi's earlierrelease The Color Of Paradise totalled 250,000 admissions in Iran. The director's other filmsinclude Children Of Heaven and Baran.The WillowTree, which is beingsold to international buyers through GreeneStreet Films International (GSFI),tells of ...
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The Quiet
Dir: Jamie Babbit. US. 2005. 91mins.Put DesperateHousewives on a double dose of Benzedrine and you have a roughapproximation of Jamie Babbit's The Quiet, an overheated and lurid, if beautifully mounted,American indie melodrama that verges on guilty pleasureterritory for all the wrong reasons.While Desperate Housewives, with its drooling tales of adultery ...
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Prime
Dir/scr: Ben Younger. US. 2005. 105mins.It's doubtful that Prime, Ben Younger's bittersweet comedyabout the age-gap love affair between an older woman and a younger man, willgenerate as much interest as the recent nuptials of DemiMoore and Ashton Kutcher.Neither as broadly comic noras sophomorically crude as Meet The Parents, it mines ...
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Nanny McPhee
Dir: Kirk Jones. UK 2005. 98minsEmma Thompson makes her long-awaited return toactress-screenwriter mode (her first since Sense& Sensibility, for which she won several major awards) with Nanny McPhee,a family film based on the Nurse Mathilda children's books.Also appearing in this taleof seven motherless children, their hapless father (Firth) and theirastonishingly ...
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Trust The Man
Dir/scr. Bart Freundlich. US, 2005. 103 mins.An enjoyable and high-spirited romp, Trust The Manis one of the brightest and most uplifting US indiecomedies of late. A screwball romantic comedy, it may not be to all tastes, andthose averse to plot loopholes are advised to stay clear. But Bart Freundlich's fourth ...
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Djurkovic wins Sheffield Doc fest's Jerwood prize
The12th Sheffield International Documentary Festival (October 10-16) has awardedits top prize, the Jerwood First Cuts DocumentaryAward, to Sasha Maja Djurkovic's Last MenStanding. Djurkovic is a student at the National Film and Television School, and she topped theshortlist of 12 projects to win a cash prize of £3,500 towards her next ...
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Lelouch, Japanese cinema to get tribute programmes at Denver
Organisers at the 28th StarzDenver International Film Festival have announced tributes to Claude Lelouchand Japanese cinema at next month's event.Lelouch will be interviewedon stage following a screening of his latest drama The Courage To Love on Nov12. Lelouch's Les Miserables and AMan And A Woman will also screen.The Japanese spotlight ...
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