All Screen articles in 26 May 2004 – Page 4
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Cannes winners list
CANNES 2004: OFFICIAL SELECTION PRIZESPalme d'OrFahrenheit 9/11 Dir:Michael MooreGrand Prix Du JuryOld Boy Dir: Park Chan-wookBest actressMaggie Cheung (pictured) in CleanBest actorYagira Yuya in Nobody KnowsBest directorTony Gatlif for ExilesBest ScreenplayAgnes Jaoui and Jean-Pierre Bacri for CommeUne ImageJury prize (jointly)Irma P Hall for The LadykillersandTropical Malady Dir:Apichatpong WeerasethakulCamera d'Or for ...
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Wellspring picks up The Brown Bunny
One year after The Brown Bunny stamped its indelible markon Cannes, Vincent Gallo's controversial picture has found a partner inWellspring.The US distributor picked up all North American rights and plansan Aug 27 release in New York and Los Angeles followed by a nationwide rollout.DVD and video are scheduled for release ...
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Politics sways Cannes as 9/11 takes Palme d'Or
Politics were in the air from the beginning of the Cannesfestival and it closed on a distinctly political note with the Palme d'Orawarded to Michael Moore's anti-George Bush documentary Fahrenheit 9/11.In bestowing their top honour on a clearly surprised Moore, Quentin Tarantino's jury overlooked the fact that his unfinished film ...
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Italy's Gam Film lines up slate of international films.
Gherardo Pagliei, the Italian co-producer behind CriticsWeek Italo-Moroccan contender ACasablanca Les Anges Ne Volent Pas, is lining up an ambitious slate ofinternational films.Pagliei's Rome-based Gam Film is to produce veteran Chileandirector Alejandro Jodorowsky's next movie, KingShot. The director, whose credits include 1970 cult movie El Topo and surreal 1989 picture ...
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Ontario enhances production tax credit
The government of Ontario has made life a littleeasier for film and television producers as it handed down its 2004 budget.Although its production tax credit (OFTTC) remains unchanged at 20% of eligiblelabour costs, those costs will not be reduced by the amount of equityinvestment from Canadian government film agencies. This ...
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South Korea's With Cinema takes two from Trust Film Sales.
South Korea's With Cinema has bought a pair of pictures fromDenmark's Trust Film Sales.After a fierce bidding contest it secured ThomasVinterberg's Dear Wendy, scripted byLars von Trier, and the animated puppet drama Strings. It also bought Kevin Spacey's $25m Bobby Darin biopic Beyond The Sea from Media 8 and Marriage ...
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China's summer film blackout
Hollywood films are set to lose hugepotential box office revenues in China this summer due to an officialseven-week 'blackout' slapped on foreign films in cinemas between mid-June andAugust.Spiderman 2, Harry Potter 3 and Shrek2 will be pushed back to August release dates, after film executives hadpainstakingly negotiated prime-time summer release ...
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TLA picks up Godforsaken, The Last Great Wilderness for video
TLA Releasing has acquired North American home entertainmentrights to Pieter Kuijpers' award-winning Dutch crime drama Godforsakenand David Mackenzie's Scottish comic mystery The Last Great Wildernessand plans to release both under its International Film Festival DVD/VHS label.These are the third and fourth films picked up by TLA at Cannesfollowing Srdjan Karanovic's ...
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Dear Frankie
Dir:Shona Auerbach. UK. 2004. 105minsItis unfortunate, but Dear Frankie is a perfectly good film that tells astory which has been seen too many times before. It is the eternal search ofthe child for a missing parent, accompanied by poverty and a curmudgeonlygrandparent with a heart of gold.Thatsaid, Dear Frankie, which ...
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House Of Flying Daggers
Dir/scr: ZhangYimou. Chi-HK. 2004. 119minsBeyond a doubt the mostvisually ravishing film on offer at Cannes this year, Zhang Yimou's return tothe sword-fighting genre - following last year's Hero - mixes action,romance and a touch of dance to uneven but often thrilling effect.Acquired by Sony PicturesClassics in the US, the film ...
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Film Sales Company reports brisk business in Cannes
Andrew Herwitz'sFilm Sales Company has reported a successful first foray into foreign sales atCannes, sealing deals on a number of titles.All rights to Nimrod Antal's Hungarian hit and Un Certain Regardentry Kontroll were sold to ICA Projects in the UK, Lady Films in Italyand Tiberius Films in Germany.As previously reported, ...
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Katapult signs Verhoeven's Blackbook
KatapultFilms, the Los Angeles-based sales agency headed by Thomas Mai and JoniSighvatsson, is to handle international duties on Blackbook, the newfilm by Dutch master Paul Verhoeven.The project has been a hot property forseveral months as rumours have swirled as to which of many possible projectsVerhoeven will shoot first. The action ...
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2046
Dir/scr: Wong kar-wai. HongKong. 2004. 128 minsThe title may suggest aspace age drama but Wong Kar-Wai's long-awaited 2046 proves to be anelaborate, languorous continuation of In The Mood For Love that revisitsthe Tony Leung character as he once again struggles with the impermanence andimpossibility of true love. The restraint and ...
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Van Helsing passes $100m with Troy close behind
Universal's Van Helsing passed $100m at the internationalbox office on May 19 and should do more solid business this upcomingweekend, where the one to watch will be Warner Bros' Troy.Wolfgang Petersen's star-studded epic has amassed $66m in internationalticket sales following last weekend's simultaneous release in 47 markets andexecutives can expect ...
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Venice gets its own Directors' Fortnight section
In another sign of change, the Venice festival will boastits own Directors' Fortnight section this year.The section is to be headed by journalist and Courmayeurprogrammer Giorgio Gosetti with the backing of the Italian DirectorsAssociation. Gosetti will resign from his post as head of promo agencyAudiovisual Industry Promotion from the end ...
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Dagur Kari directs Grown Up People
Icelandic filmmakerDagur Kari, who charmed audiences and critics alike with his unusualmultiple-award winning debut Noi Albinoi,started shooting his new film Grown UpPeople (Voksne Mennesker) this week in Copenhagen.Kari graduated fromthe National Film School of Denmark, but this will be his first Danish film -and it will be in black and ...
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Croisette witnesses rebirth of the salesman
Cannesmay have been slim pickings for American buyers, but business was refreshinglybrisk for the rest of the world.Pre-sellswere particularly buoyant, with international buyers snapping upmodestly-budgeted pictures in commercial genres such as Summit's The Alibi and The Dark, Nu Image/Millennium's Edison,Focus' Assault On Precinct 13 andEuropa's Revolver. With budgets kepttight and ...
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Mifed proposes compromise
With the tide of industryopinion possibly beginning to flow against it, Mifed's chief executive CarloBassi yesterday put forward a proposal for autumn markets to alternate betweenMilan and Los Angeles."It is impossible to go onwith this battle between us and the AFM," said Bassi. "Our proposal makeseconomic sense as it reduces ...
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Cineclick ties up Kim Ki-duk financing
South Korean director Kim Ki-duk's latest project 3-Iron has secured a co-financing dealfrom Japan's Happinet equal to 50% of the film's budget.Sales agent Cineclick Asia says that a deal has also beencompleted with France's Pretty Pictures which, together with Japan, means that80% of the budget is covered.Kim's previous two filmshave ...
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Motorcycle revs up embattled Cannes
Last month, festival programmer Thierry Fremaux promised thatCannes 2004 would be a festival of Confirmations and Discoveries. TheFestival's reputation depended on it after widespread criticisms of the eventin 2003. It has been touch and go at times but the competition titles have justabout delivered on his promise.Walter Salles' stirringly compassionate ...