All Screen articles in 25 September 2006 – Page 5
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Philippe Cardon promoted at Warner Home Video
Philippe Cardon, Warner Home Video executive vice president and general manager forEurope Middle East and Africa, has been promoted to Warner Home Video president, international.Cardon, in the newly created post, will have responsibilityfor all Warner Home Video titles outside the US, except Canada. The heads of the regional offices for ...
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Rio festival to host 300 films and new industry events
The Rio International FilmFestival, which kicks off Thursday (Sept 21) and runs until Oct 5, hasannounced a line-up of more than 300 films from 60 countries. The festival, sponsored bythe City of Rio, the Secretary of Culture, Riofilmeand Petrobras, aims to provide a world platform fornew Latin American cinema as ...
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John Hurt signs on for de la Iglesia's Oxford Murders
John Hurt will take aleading role in Spanish director Alex de la Iglesia'sin-the-works English-language thriller Oxford Murders.Hurt will play an Oxford University professor embroiled in the investigation of a series of murdersseemingly linked by mathematical symbols. The story is based on anaward-winning novel by the Argentinean writer Guillermo Martinez.The estimated ...
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Prague (Prag)
Dir: Ole Christian Madsen. Den.2006. 92mins.Danish film-maker Ole Christian Madsen plunges onceagain into the darker recesses of marital life for Prague, a powerful drama in which his strong direction and the overwhelmingperformances that he draws smooth over some of the script's inconsistencies.Madsen, whose earlier drama Kira's Reason (2001) dealt with ...
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Death Of A President
Dir. Gabriel Range. UK. 2006. 93mins.The blurring of reality and fiction takes anintriguing step sideways in Death Of APresident, a mock documentary that posits the assassination of George WBush and the political shockwaves such an event would surely generate. Nosurprise, the film, which world premiered at Toronto and won the ...
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Bangkok's World Film Festival spreads Banquet
The 4th World Film Festivalof Bangkok will open on October 11 with a gala premiere of Feng Xiaogang's The Banquet. The 13-day festival, ashowcase of contemporary Asian and world cinema, will screen more than 70 filmsfrom 30 countries at three venues in Bangkok. Eight films have beenselected for competition, including ...
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Asia feasts on Feng Xiaogang's Banquet
Chinese director FengXiaogang's $20m The Banquet had astrong four-day opening weekend across Asia, grossing $8.5m from five territories.The lavish $20m costumedrama, loosely based on Hamlet and starring Zhang Ziyi and Daniel Wu, recentlypremiered out-of-competition at Venice and opened across Chinese-speaking territories on Sep 14. The film has already becomethe highest-grossing ...
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Blue Valentine wins $1m Chrysler Film Project contest
Derek Cianfrance has won the 2006 Chrysler Film Projectscreenplay competition for his project Blue Valentine.Cianfrance will receive $1m towards financing the story of acouple that breaks up and meets up ten years later only to fall in love again.Lynette Howell is producing along with Jamie Patricof and Alex Orlovskyof Hunting ...
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