All Screen articles in 25 February 2006 – Page 2
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Capote, Syriana get key pre-Oscar openings
Sony Pictures Releasing International (SPRI) launches its Oscarcontender Capote inits first major markets this weekend.The picture, which is nominated for five Academy Awards includingbest picture, director and actor, opens in Australia on Feb 23, followed a daylater in the UK, Spain and Brazil.Fun With Dick And Jane, currently on more ...
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Asian trio join forces for Black Night omnibus
Japan's Movie-Eye Entertainment has joined forces with Thailand's Five Star Production and Hong Kong's Filmko Entertainment in producing a $2.5m pan-regional horror thatfeatures some of the hottest Asian talents. Black Night,unveiled today at the Bangkok Film Market, is an omnibus film with threesegments. Each 30-minute story stands on its own ...
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Absolute Wilson
Dir/scr: Katharina Otto-Bernstein. US-Ger. 2006.105mins.Absolute Wilsonmight not be not be quite 'absolute' in the sense of 'definitive', but Katharina Otto-Bernstein's documentary is certainly anexhaustive introduction to the life and work of Robert Wilson, American theatrevisionary extraordinaire.The Texan-borninnovator has worked at a frenzied pace since his arrival on the avant-gardetheatre scene ...
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Michael Winterbottom options controversial memoirs
Fresh from the controversy ofhis Berlinale Silver Bear winner The Road To Guantanamo,prolific British director Michael Winterbottom is setto tackle an equally contentious project. Winterbottomrevealed this week that his company Revolution has optioned Murder In Samarkand, the memoirs of Craig Murray, the former UK Ambassador to Uzbekistan. Comedian Steve Coogan ...
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BBC earmarks more than $500m for UK cinema
The BBC has announced a substantial increase inits intended film production and acquisition budget. All of the proposed investments are subject tothe favourable settlement of the current licence fee negotiations but the broadcaster says its new plans could mean an investment of $522m (£300m) to British film over its ...
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IIF lines up production and distribution slate
Rome'sItalian International Film (IIF) is lining up an ambitious new production anddistribution slate, which includes historical epic The Inquiry starring Dolph Lundgren andMax Von Sydow.Italiandirector Giulio Base recently wrapped production onthe $10m (Euros 8.5m) action-thriller, which is set three years after thecrucifixion of Jesus Christ and sees Roman Emperor Tiberius ...
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Audiard's film wins top prize at Lumiere Awards
Jacques Audiard's The Beat That My HeartSkipped took home the Best Picture prize at France's Lumiere Awards Tuesday. The awards are the local equivalentof the Golden Globes, voted on by members of the foreign press working in France.With ten nominations, Beat is a favorite for top prizes at theupcoming Cesar ...
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Menzel ready to shoot on long-awaited King of England
Jiri Menzelwill begin filming his long-awaited film IServed the King of England on March 9th. German actress Julia Jentsch, who won numerous awards for her performance in thetitle role in Sophie Scholl, which isup for an Oscar, is starring along with Czech actor OldrichKaiser. The film is based on the ...
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Golden Bear winner finds more buyers
Jasmila Zbanic's Golden Bear winner Grbavica has been picked up byVentura Film for theatrical release in Germany later this year, while Switzerland's Trigon-Filmplans to release the mother-daughter drama in the aftermath of the Bosnian warthis autumn.TheAustrian-Bosnian-German-Croatian co-production will be opened by Polyfilm in Austria next week on March 3 with ...
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Vitus
Dir: Fredi M Murer. Switz. 2006. 120mins.From an opening that suggests a feelgoodchildren's fantasy, Vitusturns into a much odder confection - an intelligent, spiky, sometimes movingcomedy-drama with a satirical eye turned on the Swiss bourgeoisie.Directed by Helvetic veteran Fredi M. Murer, best known for his 1985 Alpine Fire, Vitusis an ...
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Son Of Man
Dir: Mark Dornford-May. S Afr. 2006. 86minsThe second collaboration between Mark Dornford-May and Cape Town theatre collective Dimpho Di Kopane- their first was Berlinale Golden Bear winner U-Carmen eKhayelitsha- Son Of Man is a stirring fusion ofthe New Testament with African folklore, dance and choral numbers that resultsin a politically ...
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It's Winter (Zemestan)
Dir: Rafi Pitts. Iran 2005.86mins.Rafi Pitts' remarkable It's Winter is one of those films that forces you to rethink your preconceptions about Iraniancinema. Although recognisably in a taut, austereIranian mould, the film feels new in several ways. Its central figure is notjust an anti-hero but is abrasively unsympathetic; its narrative ...
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Isabella
Dir: Pang Ho-cheung. HK-Chi. 2006. 109mins.Although it deals with corruption and features asuspended cop as its hero, Pang Ho-cheung's Isabella is no gritty action drama. Noris it a political piece, despite being set on the eve of Macau's return toChinese hands after 400 years of Portuguese rule. And while it ...
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Thailand's M Pictures takes trio from Nu Image
Thailand's M Pictures has acquired three titles from Nu Imageat the Bangkok Film Market, including DayOf The Dead, the remake of George A Romero's classic horror.The company has also snappedup action titles End Game, directedby Andy Cheng, and Isaac Florentine's Undisputed2, which are both set to open in Thailand later ...
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Puccini For Beginners
Dir/scr: Maria Maggenti. US. 2006. 82mins.Woody Allen famously observed that the greatadvantage of being bisexual was that it doubled your chance of a date on aSaturday night. Maria Maggenti's second feature, thesexual screwball farce Puccini For Beginners, appends the template of Allen's romanticcomedy landmark, Annie Hall, to thefluid, destabilising sexual ...
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SRO seals France, Australia deals on Girls Will Be Girls
SRO Pictures has secured distribution deals in France andAustralia for Richard Day’s cultcomedy Girls Will Be Girls.Eagle Entertainment has picked up DVD rights for Australia and NewZealand, and Optimale will handle theatrical and DVD rights in France, Monaco,Dom-Tom (French overseas territories), Andorra, French-speaking Switzerland,and French-speaking Belgium.Girls Will Be Girls was ...
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Georgia Lee's Red Doors sold to Imagine in Australia
Imagine Entertainment has picked up Australian and New Zealandrights to Georgia Lee’s RedDoors from ForwardEntertainment.As previously announced, Polychrome will release the picture inMay in the US. The story follows a dysfunctional Chinese-American family withthree overachieving daughters. Tzi Ma, Jacqueline Kim, Elaine Kao, KathyShao-Lin Lee, Freda Foh Shen, and Rossif Sutherland ...
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Paramount specialty arm buys thriller script from Pastor brothers
Paramount's evolving specialty division has bought the speculativescript to Alex and David Pastor's post-apocalyptic thriller currently known asThe Untitled Pastor Project.Alex Pastor will direct thestory of four friends trying to escape a viral pandemic in the American Westwho discover they pose a greater danger to each other than the virus. ...
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Wellspring closed as TWC, Genius announce restructure
US independent distributor Wellspring appears to have been shutdown this week as parent company Genius Products announced a strategiccorporate shift.Genius, which acquired Wellspring last year and later in the yearcompleted a deal with The Weinstein Co (TWC) whereby TWC gained a controllinginterest in Genius, said TWC would handle Wellspring's theatrical ...
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Hungarian admissions at lowest level in 11 years
In contrast to Hungary'sbooming production industry, theatrical business looks quite grim. Local boxoffices saw 10.8 million admissions in 2005 - just over three million feweradmissions than in the previous year. Sales fell to $43.2m (HUF9.1bn)Indeed 2005 saw the lowest admissions in 11 years. In thepast five years, admissions have dropped ...
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