All Screen articles in 23 October 2005 – Page 3
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Kadokawa to enter Chinese cinema market
Kadokawa Holdings (HD), thecore company of Japan's Kadokawa media group, has announced plans to join with HongKong-based Sun Wah Group to build and manage 20 multiplex cinemas in mainlandChina. Kadokawa will be the firstJapanese company to enter the Chinese multiplex market with a Chinese partner. The two partners will soonlaunch ...
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France's TFI renews film deal with BVITV
Buena Vista International Television (BVITV) and France'sleading private terrestrial broadcaster TF1 renewed multi-year agreements forvarious genres at this week's international television market, Mipcom.The deals consist of drama series, first-run and library features andkids programming.Announced by BVITC's Philippe Maigret and TF1's Laurent Storch,the renewal will give TF1 access to such high-profile ...
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Merged festivals to boost French cinema in UK
French cinema is set to receive a significant boost to its UK profile with the merging of two festivals into a single focused promotional event to be held each Spring. The UK's annual French Film Festival, first launched in 1991, is to merge with the Renault French Film Season to ...
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Lucas to accept Hollywood Movie Of The Year award for Episode III
George Lucas will bepresented with the Hollywood Film Festival's Hollywood Movie of the Year Awardon Oct 24 after Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge Of The Sith was voted best film.More than 70,000 people casttheir votes on Yahoo and ETonline, which together reported more than 20millionimpressions throughout the poll.The sixth ...
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Media 8 brings Persuasion to AFM buyers
Los Angeles-based productionand sales house Media 8 Entertainment has added Pretty Persuasion to its AFM slate after picking up all internationalrights from Prospect Pictures.The company will screen thepicture for buyers after the market kicks off in Santa Monica on Nov 2.Marcos Siega's high schoolsatire stars Evan Rachel Wood and received ...
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UK box office promises strong end of year run
With a promising fourthquarter to come, the UK box office looks set to leave the rest of Europe in the shade and may even have an outside chance of beating 2004's numbers. After a phenomenal run forWarner Bros' Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, theterritory is just 4% down on last ...
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IFC aqcuires UK hangman story Pierrepoint
IFC Films hasacquired US rights from Capitol Films to Adrian Shergold's true-life drama Pierrepoint (formerly The Last Hangman) following its recent world premiere inToronto.The distributorplans a 2006 release on the picture, which stars Timothy Spall as Albert Pierrepoint,Britain's last Chief Hangman and arguably the country's best-known publicexecutioner.Pierrepoint wassingly responsible for ...
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Voltage has rights to American Standard
LosAngeles-based sales company Voltage Pictures has acquired international rightsfrom Eleven Eleven to Matthew Cole Weiss' psychological thriller TheAmerican Standard andwill begin selling at AFM.Eleven Eleven, whichproduced the eagerly awaited thriller Unknown, plans to begin shooting next week inLos Angeles on the story of a woman who comes between two male ...
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Gold Circle, Vertigo team up for Eye 2 remake
Gold Circle Films andVertigo Entertainment have teamed up to co-produce In-Utero, an adaptation of the Pang brothers' Hong Konghorror title Jian Gui 2 aka TheEye 2 that will be released throughNew Line.Gold Circle is financing theproject and Mandate Pictures will handle international sales. Gold Circle Filmspresident Paul Brooks will produce ...
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Red Mercury
Dir: Roy Battersby. UK.2005. 110mins.Completed before the July bombings in London, Red Mercury has become one of thoseprescient films which looks somewhat visionary in itschoice of subject matter. But while audiences should find much of it intriguingand compelling, it does not necessarily deliver the dramatic punch it promises.Commercially it stands ...
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Spain finalises plans for new guarantee fund
The Spanish government hasformed a landmark new mutual guarantee fund for the audiovisual sector,unveiled Monday in Madrid under the banner Audiovisual SGR.Spain's Minister of CultureCarmen Calvo announced the initiative in sketchier detail at last month'sDonostia-San Sebastian International Film Festival while the project awaitedapproval from supervising entity the Bank of Spain.It ...
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Producers warn of uncertainty for UK film financing
UK film financing is stillploughing through choppy waters as the consultation period for the new taxbreaks comes to an end this Friday (Oct 21).And while producers andfinanciers at Screen International's UK Film Finance Summit in London onTuesday were hardly talking up doomsday scenarios, they did foresee uncertaintyahead, followed by new ...
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Feast
Dir. John Gulager. US. 2005. 80mins.The third instalment from the Project Greenlight program, John Gulager's Feastis a stripped down, grungy exercise in blood and gore that agreeably satisfiesthe expectations of the horror movie without transcending or ever slylysubverting the material.The fantastic premise ofreality show Project Greenlight(originally shown on US cable ...
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Election leads race for Taiwan's Golden Horse
Johnnie To'sElection leads the nominations for this year's Golden Horse awards with11 nods, followed by Stephen Chow's Kung-Fu Hustle with 10 nominationsand Hou Hsiao-hsien's Three Times with nine.All three films have beennominated for best feature and best director along with Tsai Ming-liang's TheWayward Cloud. Feng Xiaogang's A World WithoutThieves was ...
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Yemenidjian named director at Regal Entertainment
Former MGMchairman Alex Yemenidjian has been appointed an independent director and amember of the audit committee at leading US exhibitor Regal Entertainment.Yemenidjian'sappointment became effective on Oct 13, along with that of real estate agentNestor R Weigand Jr, who was named independent director and member of thecompensation committee and nominating and ...
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Fox follows Disney in signing digital deal with Christie
TwentiethCentury Fox has become the second US major to sign a non-exclusive deal tosupply its features to digital cinema projection systems deployed by Christie.Christie willinstall between 2,500 and 4,000 systems in North America over the next twoyears in a development that has taken a long time to reach fruition.The announcementfollows ...
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Slow Burn
Dir/scr: Wayne Beach. US. 2005. 93mins.A debut feature directed and written by Wayne Beach, Slow Burn is too reminiscent of The Usual Suspects for its own good, andas such seems more likely to end up at the neighbourhood video store than the nearestmultiplex.It's a tricked out mystery, though rather than ...
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HK government appoints film committee members
The Hong Kong government has appointed 11 members to the newly-established FilmDevelopment Committee (FDC), which was first unveiled by chief executive DonaldTsang last week. Jack So, deputy chairman oflocal telco PCCW, will chair the committee with Hong Kong's Secretary for Commerce, Industry and Technology, John Tsang, servingas vice-chairman. The other ...
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Lions Gate acquires Redbus in the UK
Lions Gate Entertainment hasacquired the UK's Redbus Film Distribution in a combined cash and stocktransaction valued at approximately $35m.The move gives theburgeoning US independent studio a vital distribution outlet in the UK, one ofthe leading markets outside North America, and brings in a library of more than130 titles including Bend ...
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AFI Awards to get makeover for TV debut
Organisers of the AFI(Australian Film Institute) Awards have revealed a major revamp on the heels ofthe recent announcement that the event is being hosted by Russell Crowe.The awards have been splitinto a craft and non-feature awards event on Friday November 25 at theWaterfront City Pavilion and a cocktail party and ...
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