All Screen articles in 24 June 2006 – Page 4
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Darryl Hunt, Simple Curve are favourites at Nantucket
AubreyNealon's A Simple Curve won the 11thNantucket Film Festival's Writer/Director Award, and Ricki Stern and AnnieSundberg's The Trials of Darryl Hunttook the audience award for best feature as the event wound down at theweekend.BestStorytelling in a Documentary Film was awarded to Steven Cantor's WhatRemains, while South African filmmakerAvie Luthra won ...
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GI Jesus takes grand jury prize at CineVegas
Carl Colapert's Iraq Wardrama GI Jesus was awarded the2006 Cinevegas Film Festival's Grand Jury prize as the event wound down at theweekend.Joe Arquette, Patricia Mota,Maurizio Farhad, Mark Cameron and Telana Lynum star in the tale of a returningMexican national who fought in the conflict in exchange for US citizenship andsuffers ...
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Cedric The Entertainer joins cast of Talk To Me for Focus, Kimmel
US comedian Cedric The Entertainer, Mike Epps and Taraji P Hensonhave joined the cast of Focus Features' Talk To Me, which began shooting last week.As previously announced Kasi Lemmons is directing and DonCheadle and Chiwetel Ejiofor star in the story based on the life of Ralph Waldo'Petey' Green, an outspoken ...
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Cars, Tokyo Drift post powerful international debuts
The Da Vinci Code ruled the roost and became the 13th biggestinternational release in history at the weekend as it reached $480m andovertook Shrek 2 and Star WarsEpisode III.Sony Pictures ReleasingInternational chiefs reported an estimated $15.2m weekend haul from 7,800screens in 83 territories. The adventure is by far Sony's biggest ...
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To Get To Heaven First You Have To Die (Bihisht Faqat Barqi Murdagon)
Dir/scr: Djamshed Usmonov. Fr-Ger-Switz-Russ. 2006. 93mins.Narratives rarely come crisper and more to the pointthan To Get To HeavenFirst You Have To Die - and audiences rarely get taken on suchsubtly unpredictable rides. The new film from DjamshedUsmanov, the Tajik director of Angel On The Right, begins as adeceptively gentle, tragic-comic ...
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Jesus Camp gets Sterling Award at Silverdocs festival
HeidiEwing and Rachel Grady's Jesus Camp wonthe Silverdocs Sterling Award for a feature film as the week-long event came toa close in Maryland.JesusCamp explores the faith of young followersat a summer camp whose lives are driven by fervent evangelism.DanielCross and Mila Aung-Thwin's Chairman George received an honourable mention for its ...
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Basil-Jones returns to Sony to head Australia, New Zealand
StephenBasil-Jones will return to Sony Pictures Releasing International (SPRI) asmanaging director of Australia once he completes his tenure as DreamWorks International'smarketing and distribution chief at the end of the year.Basil-Joneswill also serve as regional supervisor for New Zealand and SPRI executive vicepresident, reporting to Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group president ...
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USC student King wins BAFTA/LA student film award for animated short
Adam Parrish King has won BAFTA/LA's third annual Student FilmAwards for his animated short The Wraith Of Cobble Hill.The Brooklyn-set coming-of-age fable beat out sixfinalists from a pool of 30 submissions from Los Angeles County colleges.All finalists will receive diplomas from BAFTA/LA. The finalistswere: King, from USC; Jesse Eisenhardt, from ...
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Change Of Address (Changement D'Adresse)
Dir/scr: Emmanuel Mouret. Fr. 2006. 85mins.As light and frothy as a Feydeau farce, ChangeOf Address (Changement d'Adresse) is aParisian romantic comedy whose charm is all in its peppy performances and deft,old -school take on one of the oldest genres in the book. Halfway in tonebetween a Gallic take on the ...
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Friday, June 30 - Professional Day 3
The programme is subject to changesSWF 2006 // FRIDAY 28 JUNE 2006 Overview10:00 PRESSURES FOR CHANGEWriter Terry Loane,Producer Mark Huffam (Goal, Goal II) andScript Developer Fiona Kinsell of Moonstonediscuss the issues they facedmaking Terry's contentious film Mickybo And Me, setaround the Northern Ireland divide.10:00 GETTING A HOLLYWOOD DEAL (Masterclass)Industry Lawyer ...
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Tuesday, June 27 - New Writers Day
The programme is subject to changes10:30 NEW WRITERS DAY - OPENING SPEECHVeteran comedy writers Lawrence Marks and Maurice Gran are responsible fromsome of British television's most enduring comedies. FromBirds of a Feather to The New Statesman, the pair discuss their successful careers and offer new screenwriters advice on the business ...
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Cars finishes first on $31.2m in US, despite stiff competition
Buena Vista/Pixar's Cars remained in pole position in its second weekend onan estimated $31.2m, despite respectable debuts for Paramount's comedy NachoLibre on $27.5m in second place andUniversal's The Fast And The Furious: Tokyo Drift in third on $24.1m.Overall business climbed forthe fifth consecutive weekend as the top 12 titles grossed ...
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Thursday, June 29 - Professional Day 2
The programme is subject to changesSWF 2006 // THURSDAY 28 JUNE 2006 OVERVIEW09:00 TESTING THE WRITERMarket testing of films before release is increasing. SeanSteele of test screening company NRG, who test for all themajor studios, joins Writer/Director (TBC), to explore what testing revealsabout screenplays and the implications it holds for ...
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France's OSS 117 wins top audience prize at Seattle
The 32nd annual Seattle International FilmFestival (SIFF) closed its epic, 25-day run on Sunday with a gala screening ofMichel Gondry's The Science Of Sleep atwhich Gondry was in attendance.418 films were screened at the festival, 19 of them worldpremieres and 41 of which were North American premieres. The festival isexpecting ...
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Aardman content goes to M1 in Singapore
Mobile content company Starcut has struck a deal on behalf of AardmanAnimations for Singapore-based M1 to distribute Aardmancontent.M1's Watch-A-Video service,available to 3G customers, will now carry Aardman clipsfrom Wallace & Gromit,Angry Kid and Creature Comfortsas part of its distribution deal with Starcut formobile content in Southeast Asia. "Aardmanhas looked to ...
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Wednesday, June 28 - Professsional Day 1
The programme is subject to changes09:30 COMMERCIAL BREAKSFestival Director David Pearson opens the festival followed by Oscar Winner Julian Fellowes in conversation with Colin Brown ofScreen International on why writers should become morecommercially minded.Sponsored by BAFTA & South West Screen10:30 TELLING THE TRUTH IS TOUGHScreenwriter Jimmy McGovern ( Hillsborough, Bloody ...
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Shanghai film festival gets off to glittering start
Judging by the openingweekend, the Shanghai International Film Festival (June 17-25) is finallystarting to take advantage of its position as mainland China's leading film festival and industry platform.Past editions have struggledto attract stars or premieres - mostly because of restrictions and otherproblems in the Chinese movie market - but the ...
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India's Adlabs makes move into Hollywood production
Ashok Amritraj's Hyde Park Entertainment and Anil Ambani's Mumbai-based Adlabs have signed a deal in Dubai to co-produce feature films in Hollywood. Adlabs will invest $30m of the $50m budget of the first co production, the David Ellis-directed Asylum, which is expected to begin shooting in the next two months. ...
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MDA reports strong Cannes sales tally for Singapore
Singapore's Media Development Authority (MDA) has announced astring of sales on the Singapore films presented at Cannes, including multiple deals on MediaCorp RaintreePictures' noir thriller One Last Dance.US sales outfit BleibergEntertainment sold the film to Germany (EMS), Poland (Carisma), Hungary (IMA),Israel (PTV), CIS (Soyuz-Video), Spain (Silco Telecinema), Yugoslavia (MG Film),Brazil ...