All Screen articles in 25 August 2006 – Page 2
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Saari's Kasting wins horror short competition
Aloysha Saari'sKasting haswon the Zone Horror CUT! short film competition.London-based Aloysha wins $9460 (£5000) and gets aspecial screening Aug 26 with nine other CUT! finalists at the Zone Horror FrightFest. The two-minute film's budget was only £100. It stars Monica Bertei as an actress auditioning for a part that could ...
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Celluloid picks up Maddin's Toronto premiere Brand
Celluloid Dreams hasacquired international sales rights to Guy Maddin's upcoming Toronto title BrandUpon The Brain! The film will besold through Celluloid Nightmares, the company's genre label.The silent feature willscreen at TIFF as a Special Presentation with live orchestral accompaniment aswell as on-stage foley artists, a narrator and a castrato. It ...
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Fox's History Boys to have royal world premiere in London
Nicholas Hytner's upcomingfilm of Alan Bennett's stage phenomenon The History Boys will have its world premiere in London in thepresence of the Prince Of Wales and the Duchess Of Cornwall on Oct 2. Thepremiere will be held in aid of The Prince's Trust.The cast of the play, whichalso appears in ...
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Cholera cast beefs up with Leguizamo, Montenegro
John Leguizamo, HectorElizondo and Fernanda Montenegro have joined the cast of Mike Newell's film ofGabriel Garcia Marquez's novel Love In The Time Of Cholera which is set to start shooting on Sept 4 inCartegena, Colombia and London.They join Javier Bardem,Giovanna Mezzogiorno and Benjamin Bratt in the film which has been ...
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Beautiful Dreamer to open Temecula Valley Film festival
Terri Farley's romanticdrama Beautiful Dreamer will openthe 2006 Temecula Valley International Film & Music Festival on Sept 13.The festival, which runs Sept 13 to 17, will also screen the short West BankStory on opening night, a musicalcomedy about an Israeli soldier and a Palestinian girl torn between their lovefor each ...
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Regent takes worldwide rights to Aurora Borealis
Regent Releasing hasacquired worldwide rights to James Burke's family drama Aurora Borealis and will release it domestically on Sept 15.The film, which stars JoshuaJackson, Donald Sutherland, Juliette Lewis and Louise Fletcher, has played atnumerous film festivals throughout the US including Tribeca, Jackson Hole andFort Lauderdale.Jackson plays an aimlessyoung man who ...
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PHEI makes series of senior appointments and promotions
Paramount Home EntertainmentInternational (PHEI) has made a series of promotions and appointments in itsinternational management team to reflect the integration of DreamWorks into thecompany, among other factors.The appointments wereannounced by Kelley Avery, president of worldwide home entertainment atParamount Pictures.Don Hunton, currently seniorvice president of the Asia Pacific business adds the ...
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Harness wins UK Film Council's 25 Words Or Less scheme
Writer Peter Harness and hispitch The Bone Family has won the"Director's Cut" competition for the UK Film CouncilDevelopment Fund's 25 Words Or Less scheme. Harness is now working with Intermission director John Crowley todevelop the script, about a man cursed with freezing the women he falls in lovewith.Other 25 Words ...
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TIFF Group sets ground-breaking for new centre in 2007
The Toronto InternationalFilm Festival Group says it will break ground on its proposed headquarters inthe first quarter of 2007 towards an opening in the second quarter of 2009. Construction of FestivalCentre, as it is dubbed, was announced in April 2003 and was originally plannedto begin in 2005 - and be ...
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Sony breaks $1bn international gross mark in record time
Sony Pictures ReleasingInternational (SPRI) has announced that it passed $1bn in grosses today(Aug 24)- a record time for the company. The previous record for the studio wasSept 8, 2002, when the company went on to take $1.3bn in international grosses.So far in 2006, the companyhas taken $2.1bn in worldwide grosses ...
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Verhoeven's Black Book selected as Dutch Oscar entry
PaulVerhoeven's long-awaited Black Book has been named as the official Netherlands entry for the Best ForeignLanguage Film Academy Award.The filmwill have its world premiere Sept 1 at the 63rd Venice FilmFestival, where it is screening in competition.The$21.8m (£17m) wartime thriller is the most expensive predominantly Dutch-languageproduction ever made and tells ...
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New competition launched for UK screenwriters
A new script competition hasbeen launched for emerging young UK writers. The Make Your Mark in Film With CobraVision is connected to EnterpriseInsight's Make Your Mark programme and Cobra Beer's short film competition CobraVision.The winner, working with ascript of the theme of "having an idea and making it happen" will ...
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Kim Ki-duk stirs controversy in Korean film world
Maverick Koreandirector Kim Ki-duk, known internationally for filmsincluding 3-Iron, Samaritan Girl and Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring,has renounced all his previous films as "trash" saying he will leave the Koreanfilm world after a public brouhaha started on a television debate program. On Aug 18, whileappearing on an MBC TV ...
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Dubrovnik's Libertas festival to open with Three Burials
The second Libertas Film Festival begins Friday (Aug 25) with ascreening of Tommy Lee Jones' The ThreeBurials Of MelquiadesEstrada. Owen Wilson and Woody Harrelsonare among the guests expected to attend the six-day festival in the picturesqueCroatian port of Dubrovnik. M. Night Shyamalan's Lady In The Waterwill close the festival following ...
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Hunter and Gardner to head Glasgow festival
AllanHunter and Allison Gardner will serve as joint directors of the third GlasgowFilm Festival (Feb 15-25, 2007). The festival'sprogramme of international and Scottish features and documentaries will beannounced in January.Hunter isthe Scottish correspondent for ScreenInternational and ScreenDaily.comand serves as the film critic for TheDaily Express and Scotland On Sunday.Allison Gardneris ...
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Wolfe picks up seven gay and lesbian titles for US distribution
Gay and lesbian-focused USindependent distributor Wolfe Releasing has picked up seven films on the summerLGBT film festival circuit. Wolfe president Maria Lynnand acquisitions director Orly Ravid attended Frameline in San Francisco,NewFest in New York City, the Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Festival and Outfestin Los Angeles in search of new ...
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Cruise/Wagner parts with Paramount in full media spotlight
Tom Cruise and PaulaWagner's Cruise/Wagner Productions is leaving Viacom's Paramount Pictures after13 years at the studio. The news was the talk ofHollywood yesterday (Tuesday) after the publication of a Wall Street Journalinterview with Viacom chairman Sumner Redstone in which Redstone said "As muchas we like [Cruise] personally, we thought it ...
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Showbox picks up UK rights to Edinburgh title Cards
Shoreline Entertainment hassold UK rights to Dead Man's Cardsto Showbox Media Group. The film had its world premiere this week as a BritishGala at the Edinburgh International Film Festival. Showbox plans to release thefilm theatrically later this year.The gritty drama stars PaulBarber as a struggling boxer from Liverpool who loses ...
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Nolte, Foster, Suvari board Groundswell's Mysteries
Nick Nolte, Jon Foster andMena Suvari have joined Peter Sarsgaard and Sienna Miller in the cast of TheMysteries Of Pittsburgh, the firstfilm to go before the cameras for Michael London's new financing and productionoutfit Groundswell Productions. Arclight Films has come onboard to handle international sales.The film starts shooting inPittsburgh on ...
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Bauer Martinez settles legal wrangles with McTiernan
Bauer Martinez Entertainmentand film-maker John McTiernan have settled the litigation between them thatarose over the project Crash Bandits which McTiernan was to have directed for Bauer Martinez.The two parties have agreedto the dismissal of the April 26, 2006, complaint by Bauer Martinez and thesubsequent counterclaim by McTiernan."Bauer Martinez and JohnMcTiernan ...
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