All Screen articles in 25 February 2005 – Page 2
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Sacred Heart (Cuore Sacro)
Dir: Ferzan Ozpetek. Italy. 2005. 117 minsFerzan Ozpetek serves upa cringingly sentimental tale of managerial altruism for the multiplexgeneration: and yet another great white hope of Italian cinema falls by thewayside. The Turkish-born, Italian-trained Ozpetek is, alongside fellow Medusaregular Gabriele Muccino, the director who most ably occupies the middle-groundbetween commercial ...
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Constantine to wreak havoc in Italy, Spain
Warner Bros PicturesInternational's supernatural thriller Constantine opens in Italy and Mexico today (Feb 25) on the backof a smattering of smaller European debuts earlier in the week.The picture has grossed$33.7m after two weekends and executives will look for solid debuts and strongholds in Asia as well as Spain, France and ...
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FRANCE 25 February
French comedy Iznogoud is pretty good after all. Staying in the topspot in its second week, the film beat Meet The Fockers which debuted atnumber two with 751,304 admissions. Iznogoud has now taken a cumulative$13,649,422. Keanu Reeves supernatural thriller Constantine opened in third placewith just over half a million tickets ...
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UK film pirate gets three-year prison sentence
In a landmark case in thefight against film piracy, a UK court has given a Cambridge-based DVD pirate,a three-year prison sentence.Jayanti Amarishi Buhecha,who was estimated to make more than £25,000 per month from piracy, was found guilty of two offences under theTrade Marks Act 1994, at Harrow crown court, in ...
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De Macedo gets top Sony production job in Europe
Iona de Macedo has been promoted to senior vice-presidentof European production at Sony Pictures Entertainment, where she will overseeEuropean local production in France, Spain and the rest of continental Europe,while the UK will remain an independent entity.Sony currentlyhas stand-alone local production units in Spain and the UK, and operates ajoint ...
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THINKFilm buys Eddie Izzard profile doc
THINKFilm hasacquired all North American rights to the upcoming untitled documentary profileof the much-loved British comedian Eddie Izzard, and hopes to unveil thepicture at the Toronto Film Festival in September accompanied by a live Izzardshow.The project, firstannounced at Cannes 2004, combines performance footage and interviews anddocuments Izzard's life onstage and ...
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Bruehl, Mullan board Cargo for Wild Bunch
TheUK's Peter Mullan, Germany's Daniel Bruehl and Spain's Luis Tosar will star in Cargo, a UK-Spanish thriller starting shooting next week for French salesand financing company Wild Bunch.Documentary film-maker CliveGordon will make his feature debut with a script by Ken Loach's longtimescreenwriter Paul Laverty. Set on a cargo ship travelling ...
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Spain's Filmanova to co-finance flamenco biopic Camaron.
Galician investment fundFilmanova Invest has signed on to co-finance Spanish veteran Jaime Chavarri'slatest film, flamenco biopic Camaron.Camaron will star up-and-comer Oscar Jaenada (November)in the life story of well-known flamenco musician Jose Monge Cruz, better knownas "Camaron de la Isla.""We were attracted to thisproject because we believe it has huge international ...
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REAL D buys StereoGraphics in a bid to set new projection standard
LosAngeles-based visual technology company REAL D has acquired stereoscopichardware and software manufacturer StereoGraphics Corporation in a bid toestablish an industry standard for next generation projection.REAL Dexecutives plan to use StereoGraphics' 25-year history of working with thelikes of NASA and Boeing to service the entertainment industry and provide analternative to in-home ...
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Bavaria Film closes deals on Berlinale prize-winner Sophie Scholl
Bavaria Film International(BFI) has closed further deals for Marc Rothemund's prize-winning Berlincompetition film Sophie Scholl - The Final Days. Deals were closed in Italywith Istituto Luce, Benelux with Cinemien, Hungary with Best Hollywood, Poland withKino Swiat, and Brazil with Imovision.Earlier, during the EFMitself Bavaria closed Japan (Kinetique), Spain (Lola Films), ...
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Korea's LJ Film aspires to international market
LJ Film, the productionhouse behind Sundance and Forum title This Charming Girl, is positioningitself as the gateway between the Korean and international production sectors. Korean films have undergonea massive turnaround in the last five years, achieving a more than 50% share oftheir local market and seeing exports rise exponentially. But, ...
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Nine titles to compete at Deauville Festival of Asian Film
The jury for the DeauvilleFestival of Asian Film will be presided over by French director Regis Wargnier,organisers announced Wednesday. The seventh edition of theevent will run from March 9-13 in the seaside Normandy town where nine filmswill screen in the major competition and tributes will be paid to Indonesianactress-producer Christine ...
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Rai Cinema, Ben Ammar to finance De Laurentiis's Decameron
Italy's Rai Cinema isteaming up with Tarak Ben Ammar to finance Dino De Laurentiis's upcoming $38mproduction, Decameron.Written and directed byDavid Leland, the English-language movie will start shooting in Italy inmid-July with Hayden Christensen and Mischa Barton (The O.C) in the leadroles."One year ago, I wokeup in the morning and thought ...
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Stranger (Ono)
Dir:Malgosia Szumowska. Ger-Pol. 2005. 98mins.Thesecond full-length feature by Polish film-maker Malgosia Szumowska, Strangeris infused with the spirit of Kieslowski. But this slow, measured film about anunmarried girl who decides to go ahead with an unplanned pregnancy does notfeel derivative.Unsentimental,emotionally intelligent, it gets under the skin, adding up to more than ...
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Kekexili: Mountain Patrol (Kekexili)
Dir: LuChuan. Chi-HK. 2004. 90mins.Chinesefilm-maker Lu Chuan, who made a lively debut with The Missing Gun in2001, confirms his promise and extends his range with Kekexili: MountainPatrol, which screened in Forum at Berlin after successful outings at Tokyoand Sundance (it also beat Wong Kar-wai's's 2046 to the best film prizeat ...
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Night Watch (Nochnoy Dozor)
Dir: Timur Bekmambetov.Russia. 2004. 114mins.One of the mostimpressive things about Night Watch is the fact that such a stylish andtechnically polished fantasy movie - which can teach Hollywood a trick or twoabout squeezing a great look out of a tight budget - is it is 100% made inRussia. But, as ...
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Fullenbach returns to Canal Plus
Former head of acquisitionsat the Canal Plus premium channel, Evi Fullenbach, will return to the foldafter a little over a year away. Fullenbach, who wasresponsible for many of the output deals signed by Canal with Hollywoodheavyweights over the years resurfaces as director of cinema for the Canal PlusGroup, a new ...
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Focus takes international rights on Benigni's latest.
Focus Features has acquiredinternational sales rights excluding Italy on Roberto Benigni's The TigerAnd The Snow.The film, written anddirected by and starring two-time Academy Award-winner Benigni, is inpost-production and will be released first in Italy on Oct 14. Benigni plays a poet desperately wooing thewoman of his dreams until they suddenly ...
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Mad Hot Ballroom
Dir: Marilyn Agrelo. US.2005. 114mins.An upbeat, feelgooddocumentary about kids from three New York public elementary schools whocompete in a citywide ballroom dancing competition, Mad Hot Ballroom isthis year's Spellbound, if with a less an ironic take on its subjectsthan the spelling-bee documentary and gutsier motivational verve.One of the hot tickets ...
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UK Production Listings - January 24
UK - February 22 PRE-PRODUCTION ANASTEZSI(Sintra S.R.L. [It], Film & Music Entertainment, Mate Productions [Sp])Supernatural drama. Young violin prodigy Valerio is summoned to study at anexclusive musical academy. During his stay he learns that the academy'sworld-famous virtuoso, Baltzer, has sinister plans for him. Prods: Mike Downey,Sam Taylor, Rosanna Seregni, Mate ...