All Screen articles in 23 October 2006 – Page 5
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Before We Fall In Love Again
Dir/scr: James Lee. Malay-HK-Chi. 2006. 99mins.Husbands and their wives' lovers have never hit itoff as well as they do in Before We Fall In Love Again, a strange and tightly controlledMalaysian romantic drama. Granted, it would have gained much by being shot onfilm, but even in its digital form it ...
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Death Defying Acts wraps London shoot
Gillian Armstrong has wrappedprincipal photography on Death DefyingActs, starring Guy Pearce, Catherine Zeta Jones and Timothy Spall. Thedrama, about Harry Houdini meeting a mysterious woman on tour, filmed onlocation in and around London.Tony Grisoni wrote thescreeplay with Brian Ward. Marian Macgowan produced forMacgowan Lupovitz Nasatir Films with Chris Curling for ...
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PUSAN: Taiwan's Three Dots unveils DNA cast
Taiwanese actors Terri Kwanand Eddie Peng and Hong Kong's Peter Ho are set to star in Three DotsEntertainment's My DNA Says I Love You,written and to be directed by Robin Lee. The high-concept romanticcomedy tells the story of two single girls who work in a biotech company anddecide to alter ...
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PUSAN: Indonesia's Queen Films on buying spree
Indonesia's Queen Films, the distribution arm of start-upexhibitor Blitz Cinemas, has snapped up four Korean titles from iHQ, as well asGhost Game from Hong Kong's Golden Network Asia.Queen Films' Ananda Siregarsigned with iHQ's head of international sales Catherine Park for KimYoung-joon's Gangster High; Thursday's Child, a melodrama starringKim Sun-ah; Taewon ...
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PUSAN: Cineclick Asia sells horror duo to Wild Side
On the third day of theAsian Film Market, Cineclick Asia has announced a raft of sales to France's Wild Side Films and Thailand's J-bics.Wild Side has picked upFrench-speaking rights to upcoming horror film Hanzel And Gretel to be directed by Yim Pil-sung (Antarctic Journal). The film hypothesises whathappens to the ...
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BBC Worldwide on board for African elephant feature
Following on its first twofeatures Deep Blue and earth, BBC Worldwide is planning is third wildlife feature, Distant Thunder. BBC has comeon board as a co-producer with independent film-makers Mark Deeble and VictoriaStone. Distant Thunder will be about the previously unseen emotional intelligence of theAfrican elephant.BBC Worldwide's previous features were ...
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Arista, BBC and Capitol launch minority writing scheme
Arista, BBC Films andCapitol Films Production will launch the minority screenwriting programmeScribes 2 with a networking event on Oct 24. The scheme, for black and minority ethnic UKscreenwriters, is backed by the UK Film Council and Film London. Eight selected participants will go through an eight-month projectdevelopment programme and will ...
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Fourteen short films nominated for Prix UIP
TheEuropean Film Academy and UIP have announcedthe short film nominees for the 2006 European Film Awards. Thenominees are selected at 14 film festivals across Europe and the 1,700 members ofthe European Film Academy now vote for the winner.Thisyear's nominees are: Never Like The First Time!(Aldrig Som Forsta Gangen!) by Jonas ...
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Rome Fest scales back activities after local train crash
Organisersof the Rome Film Fest suspended all activities beyond screenings and pressconferences Tuesday morning when two Rome underground trainscollided causing the death of at least one person.Immediatereports from Italian news agency ANSA confirmed two deaths and two hundredinjuries of which six are critical. Final injury counts are not yetdiscernable.Thecrash took ...
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Redgrave, Staunton on board for next Binchy adaptation
Irish producer Noel Pearson, an Academy Award nominee for MyLeft Foot, willfollow his recent Maeve Binchy adaptation, Tara Road, with How About You' based on a Binchy short story. Adapted by Jean Pasley and directed by Anthony Byrne, HowAbout You' is acomic tale about a clash between the generations which ...
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The Legacy (L'Heritage)
Dirs: Gela Babluani, Temur Babluani. Fr-Geor.2006. 80mins.Hotly tipped since his sensational debut feature, 13 (Tzameti), won prizes at Veniceand Sundance and excited remake interest in the US, 28-year-old Paris-based Gela Babluani returns to hisnative Georgia for The Legacy. Butthe result is a poorly acted and only spottily effective drama, as ...
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L'Aria Salata
Dir: Alessandro Angelini. It. 2006. 88mins.Tight and tense, this debut feature by documentarydirector Alessandro Angelini is the first local buzztitle to have emerged from the inaugural Rome Film Fest. Telling the story of ayoung prison counsellor who discovers that his latest charge - a convictedmurderer - is the man who ...
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The Go Master (Wu Qingyuan)
Dir: Tian Zhuangzhuang. Chi. 2006. 107mins.The latest feature from Fifth Generation Chinesefilm-maker Tian Zhuangzhuang,The Go Master is an austere, poeticstudy of one of the most famous 20th-century players of the Japanese board gameGo, considered the most complicated strategy game in the world. As reticent asits central character (played by Wong ...
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Odyssey pacts with Starz on CG comedy Sheepish
UK-based Odyssey Entertainment will handle international sales anddistribution on Starz Animation's $45m CG family animated comedy Sheepish.Starz Animation is a division of Starz Media, the newly configuredmedia company run by John Malone's Liberty Media Corporation and based aroundits Starz US pay-TV network. Starz recently bought IDT Entertainment and indoing so ...
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Chris Davis International bringing Ten Inch Hero to AFM
Brave New Films has completed principal photography on DavidMackay's ensemble drama Ten Inch Hero, which Chris Davis International is representing forinternational sales.Elisabeth Harnois, Clea DuVall, and Sean Patrick Flanery are amongthe cast in the story of a young woman searching for her daughter who winds upworking in a quirky sandwich ...
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