All Screen articles in 23 October 2006 – Page 3
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New York Film Critics Circle welcomes four new members
VA Musetto and Kyle Smith from The New York Post, and David Fearand Joshua Rothkopf from Time Out New York have been invited to join the NewYork Film Critics Circle (NYFCC).The organisation has also voted Stephen Whitty from the StarLedger and Newhouse News as vice-chairman. He will replace Marshall Fine ...
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Children Of Men multiplies in four major territories
Fox International's overseas champion The Devil Wears Prada stands a chance of crossing $100m thisweekend as it launches in four territories.The comedy has amassed $83.5m and goes out in smallermarkers this weekend including Sweden on Oct 20. Decent holds in previouslyopened territories should account for another strong weekend haul.Little Miss ...
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PIFF to expand to LA, launch TV channel
The Pusan International FilmFestival is collaborating with JoongAng Broadcasting Corporation (JBC) to setup a Los Angeles edition of the festival and also launch aPIFF-branded cable channel in South Korea. The two partners, along withthe JoongAng group's LA-based newspaper KoreaDaily, plan to hold the first edition of the tentatively titled "PIFF ...
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Summit calls for UK business shake-up alongside tax breaks
The annual Screen International UK Film Finance Summit heard calls for a quick resolution to the current delay in ratification of the planned new tax law.But the clear message from a distinguished series of panellists was that the industry needed to improve its commercial skills and adapt to customer-driven change, ...
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Alliance Atlantis puts MPD on the block
Alliance Atlantis Communications has hung a for sale sign onits majority-owned releasing arm, Motion Picture Distribution (MPD). The decision, announced today, to "explore ownershipalternatives" comes after months of speculation and much internal acrimony. InJuly of this year MPD chairman Victor Loewy and two senior MPD executivesabruptly left the company amidst ...
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Love Conquers All, Betelnut take top Pusan prizes
Malaysian drama Love Conquers All, directed by Tan ChuiMui, and Chinese director Heng Yang's Betelnutwere jointly awarded Best New Asian Filmmaker of the Year at the PusanInternational Film Festival (PIFF) on Friday night (Oct 20). The $30,000 award ispresented to the best film in New Currents, which is the only ...
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EFP again hosts umbrella office at AFM
European Film Promotion isfor the ninth year running an umbrella office for European sales companies atthe American Film Market (Nov 1-8).This year, the EFP office(Loews room 504) will host 16 industry professionals from eight countries. Participating companies are:Austria's EastWest, Belgium's PPA - Walter Ertvelt and Banana Films, the CzechRepublic's Simply ...
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Sega to adapt two games into animated features
Sega Sammy Group Holdingsand subsidiary TMS Entertainment Co have announced plans to adapt two of itsmost popular game franchises into animated theatrical feature films to bereleased next spring.Osharemajo Love And Berry and Kabutomushi:Oja Mushiking are two of Japan's best selling card and video games for girls andboys respectively. Both games ...
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61 films submitted for foreign language Academy Award
A record 61 countries have submitted films for consideration inthe foreign language film category for the 79th Academy Awards.As previously reported, Finland had submitted Aki Kaurismaki's LightsIn The Dusk, which thedirector subsequently said he wanted to withdraw, claiming his permission tosubmit was not sought. At time of going to press ...
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David Lean classics to be restored by 2008
The BFI National Archive andGranada International have announced a new plan to restore and preserve eightclassics by David Lean before 2008, the centenary of his birth.The David Lean Foundationhas funded the initiative, which will preserve In Which We Serve (1942), ThisHappy Breed (1944), Blithe Spirit(1945), Brief Encounter (1945), Great Expectations ...
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Becker on board for animated Mary & Max
Becker International hassigned on to handle worldwide sales on the planned animated feature Mary & Max from Oscar winner AdamElliot.The writer/director won anAcademy Award in 2004 for his short film HarvieKrumpet. His new project is backed by Becker alongside Australiandistributor and sister company, Dendy Films.Becker head Iain Canningwill be talking ...
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Scherfig returns to Danish film-making with Hjemve
Lone Scherfig isshooting in Denmark again for the first time since making her 2000 dogma hit Italian For Beginners. She will be onthe island of Funen working on a project entitled Hjemve, which can be translated as "longing for home" although anofficial international title hasn't been set yet. The film ...
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Suburban Mayhem leads Australian nominations
Suburban Mayhem led the Australian Film Institute Award nominations with nods in 12categories, but was passed over for a best film nomination. The film about an audaciousteenager had its world premiere in Un Certain Regard in Cannes in May, closed the Melbourne International FilmFestival, and finally opens to the Australian ...
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Kaurismaki doesn't want to be considered for Oscar
Finnish director Aki Kaurismakihas withdrawn from the race for an Academy Award nomination in the BestForeign-Language Film category. He has told the FinnishOscar Committee that he does not want LightsIn The Dusk - the final film in his losers'trilogy - to be Finland's official submission. With deadline for submission passed, ...
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Tornatore film boasts sales to seven countries at Rome
Giuseppe Tornatore's La Sconosciuta (The Unknown) has been sold to seven countries at the inaugural Rome festival.The film, which marks the director's return to film-making aftera six-year hiatus, closed the Premiere section of the festival.Based on a storythe Sicilian director clipped from a newspaper years ago, the film was shot ...
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Sao Paulo boasts best of Brazil alongside wide world programme
The 30thedition Sao Paulo International Film Festival (Oct 19 - Nov 2)is to screen more than 360 films from more than 50 countries. The event willopen with the documentary The US vs John Lennon, by David Leaf and John Scheinfeld, andclose with the restored version of Macuna'ma (1969), by Joaquim ...
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Novkovic wins hat-trick of awards at Cottbus festival
Serbiandirector Oleg Novkovic scored a hat-trick at this year's FilmFestival Cottbus(Nov 14-18) when his latest feature Tomorrow Morning (Sutra Ujutru) won the Main Prize for Best Film, the FIPRESCI Prize and thenewly-created From Cottbus to Cinema Distribution Support Prize.This Novkovicthird film to show at the festival of East European Cinema, ...
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ContentFilm on board for Barker's Outpost
ContentFilm Internationalhas acquired worldwide rights to and will co-finance the new action horror filmOutpost.Steve Barker will direct theproject for producers Black Camel Pictures and Matador Pictures. The film, written by RaeBrunton, is set in an unnamed Eastern European country, where battle-wornmercenaries are hired by a mysterious businessmen forhis own special ...
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London's 50th festival opens with Last King Of Scotland
The Times BFI London FilmFestival opened Wednesday night with the European premiere of Kevin Macdonald'sThe Last King OfScotland.Guests at the Odeon Leicester Square included the film's stars Forest Whitaker, JamesMcAvoy, Kerry Washington and Gillian Anderson along with director Macdonald, writer Peter Morgan and the novel's author Giles Foden.Other attendees for ...
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The Unknown (La Sconosciuta)
Dir/scr: Giuseppe Tornatore. It-Fr. 2006. 121mins.Giuseppe Tornatore hashardly set world cinema alight in the 18 years since the Oscar-winning Cinema Paradiso.But although it's far from perfect, TheUnknown, the Sicilian director's first film in six years at least has thedramatic substance that lacked in style exercises like Malena (2000) and The ...