All Screen articles in 25 September 2005
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UK animator wins Cartoon D'or with Jo Jo
UK animator MarcCraste has won this year's Cartoon D'or for his dark 12-minute short Jo JoIn The Stars at theCartoon Forum co-production market held in Denmark's Kolding from September21-24.Described as"a story of love, self-sacrifice and jealousy played out against ablack-and-white world that is both nightmarish and hauntingly beautiful", JoJo In ...
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Czech Happiness rules over San Sebastian
Something Like Happiness (Stesti) has won top honoursat the San Sebastian International Film Festival, taking the Golden Shell forBest Picture and the Best Actress award for Ana Geislerova.The Czech Republic-German co-production was directed byBodhan Slama and is centred around a young girl in a working class Czech townwhose boyfriend has ...
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French Oscar choice sparks Gallic rumblings
The choice of Christian Carion's World War Idrama Merry Christmas as thecountry's submission to the foreign language category of the Oscars has sparkedintense debate in France. On September 19, support body the CNC announcedthat a seven member selection committee had chosen Merry Christmas. The film, however, had yet to sell ...
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Focus has Dream for North America
Focus Featureshas picked up North American rights to Peter Cattaneo's Opal Dream and plans a 2006 release for the familypicture, which was previously known as Pobby And Dingan. It will have itsworld premiere in the Dinard Festival Of British Film from Oct 6-9.Sapphire Boycestars in the film as a young ...
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Italian veterans line-up ambitious new projects
While the Italian filmindustry continues to grapple with a two-year financial crisis, the country'susual suspects are lining up ambitious new pictures. These include RenzoMartinelli, director of local special effects-heavy picture Vajont, whois currently shooting a film about terrorism entitled Il Mercante di Pietre(literally, The Precious Stones Merchant). The film is ...
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Flightplan
Dir:Robert Schwentke. US. 2005. 93mins.Germandirector makes a promising US debut with Flightplan, a taut suspensethriller that gets good use out of its transatlantic airliner setting and, fora while at least, produces some real emotional resonance too.Withthe very selective Jodie Foster starring, the Imagine/Touchstone productionshould be capable of strong box office ...
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Narnia set for royal world premiere in London
TheChronicles of Narnia: The Lion,The Witch and The Wardrobe is tohave its world premiere in London on December7 as the 2005 Royal Film Performance in aid of theCinema and Television Benevolent Fund.The film will screen in thepresence of HRH The Prince of Wales and The Duchessof Cornwall at the Royal ...
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Miramax veteran Dickinson to head PMK/HBH London
Influential publicity firmPMK/HBH has announced that James Dickinson will head its new London office.Dickinson had been Director of International Publicity at MiramaxInternational, a post he departs today.Dickinson will start his newjob as VP, Group Account Director at PMK/HBH's London office on October 3. Hewill be charged with establishing the London ...
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UK MEDIA Desk organises co-production forum
The UK MEDIA Desk, withsupport from the UK Film Council and the EU's MEDIA Programme, is organising aco-production forum to be held during the London Film Festival. The one-daysummit, entitled Co-production Express, will be held October 25.The programme will offercase studies of recent UK-European co-productions Dear Wendy, Only Human,Merry Christmas, ...
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Glickman names Pisano COO and president of MPAA
Former SAG chief executiveofficer and top studio executive Robert Pisano has been named chief operatingofficer and president of the MPAA.From Oct 1 Pisano willassume daily operating responsibility for all domestic and international MPAAoperations other than Washington DC-based external and governmental affairs.Based in the MPAA's LosAngeles offices, he will report to ...
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Swiss select Hiver as Oscar candidate
Greg Zglinski's featuredebut Tout Un Hiver Sans Feu hasbeen selected as Switzerland's entry for the race for the Foreign LanguageOscar.According toSwitzerland's Federal Office for Culture (BAK), Zglinski's film was chosen"for its broad cinematic staying power, its universally valid language,its sensitive mise-en-scene, its convincing screenplay and its cinematographywhich conveys a wonderful ...
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Gregorian gets evp stripes at Warner Bros TV Group
Lisa Gregorian (pictured), a Warner Bros veteran of 19years, has been appointed to the new role of executive vice president ofworldwide marketing at Warner Bros Television Group.Gregorian willwork with the studio's internal television marketing teams and televisionnetworks and stations worldwide to maximise promotional opportunities forstudio properties.Her marketingteam will support and ...
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Orr joins Independent Film Sales in charge of acquisitions
Andrew Orr has joinedLondon-based Independent Film Sales as the executive in charge of acquisitionsand business affairs. Orr previously held asimilar position at The Works, where he worked on films including Bend ItLike Beckham, Whale Rider, and MySummer of Love. Luc Roeg and Ana Ayesta headIndependent Film Sales, which is affiliated ...
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Warner's Factory opens in Italy, closes in on $200m
With no realistic contender in sight Charlie And The ChocolateFactory looks set tocontinue ruling international waters as it bears down on $200m.The family picture launches inItaly on Sept 23 through Warner Bros Pictures International (WBPI); it currentlystands at more than $180.3m including Roadshow territories.Warner stablemate Dukes Of Hazard opens in ...
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Spirit Awards raise budget ceiling to $20m
Nominations forthe 2006 Independent Spirit Awards will be unveiled on Nov 29 ahead of theawards show on Mar 4 2006.Film Independentexecutive director Dawn Hudson announced that nomination guidelines have beenmodified this year to raise the budget ceiling to $20m for all eligible titles,following controversy last year over the eligibility of ...
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Polychrome, Sundance pick up US rights to Love, Ludlow
Polychrome Pictures has picked up North American home video andcable and Sundance Channel has acquired pay cable rights from Washington SquareFilms to Adrienne Weiss' comedy Love, Ludlow.Polychrome is a joint venturebetween New York-based Lightyear Entertainment and Los Angeles-based BellaVicEntertainment, and the picture will be released in North America in December ...
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Hard Times (Malas Temporadas)
Dir. Manuel MartinCuenca. Sp. 2005. 115mins.Three sets of outsidersin Madrid, characters on the fringe of the accepted norm whether by choice orcircumstance, approach a crisis in the nicely-modulated and finely-acted HardTimes, Manuel Martin Cuenca's follow-up to The Weakness Of The Bolshevik.Despite its defiantly sombretone, it should find a solid audience ...
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Forbidden winner of San Seb's In Progress prize
Brazil's EProibido Proibir (Forbidden To Forbid) has won the Films In Progress 8(Cine En Construccion) award at the San Sebastian International Film Festival,a prize which carries over Euros $400,000 in completion funding.Directed byJorge Duran, Forbidden was one of seven finalists selected out of 60entries to screen in front of industry ...
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Singapore exhibition market opens up
Singapore's box office is set for a shake-up following an openingup of the exhibition market which allows films to be played on more screensthan ever before.Until recently, filmsacquired by local exhibitor-cum-distributor Cathay had been excluded from the cinema circuits operated by its rivals Shaw,Golden Village and Eng Wah. Thanks to ...
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Enlightened By Fire (Iluminados Por El Fuego)
Dir:Tristan Bauer. Arg. 2005. 100mins.Sometimesa film has more value as a national pain relief than as a quality piece ofcinema. Such is certainly the case with Enlightened By Fire, the firstArgentine commercial film to take on the subject of the Falklands/Malvinas war,and to deal with the traumas of the young ...