All Screen articles in 26 May 2006 – Page 4
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NonStop Sales gets Irreverent Media slate
Stockholm-basedinternational sales agent NonStop Sales has struck a multi-picture deal withVancouver-based Irreverent Media Ltd.The slate deal includes TheBestRestaurant in the World. Ever, starring Bruno Ganz with THINKFilm to distribute in Canada; TheLight-house starring Kevin Zegers,Ryan Reynolds, Henry Czerny and Ewen Bremner; and mockumentary Gay Like Me', also with THINKFilm. The ...
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Jodorowsky plans new film King Shot
Alejandro Jodorowsky, theoriginator of the midnight movie, has a new film planned, entitled King Shot.He describes the project as somethingof a metaphysical spaghetti Western that could star his fans and friends NickNolte and Marilyn Manson. Producer Pieree Spengler is developing.Jodorowsky is in Cannestoday for Cannes Classics screenings of 1971's El ...
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Hawke. Finney and Tomei sign to Lumet film
Oscar-winning director Sidney Lumet is moving aheadwith new thriller, Before The Devil Knows You're Dead. London-based Capitol Films revealed at Cannes that isfinancing and selling the project.Lumet (whose credits include such acknowledgedclassics as Network, Dog Day Afternoon and Twelve Angry Men) is currently putting together a heavyweight cast. Already attached ...
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Ledger and Williams join Haynes' Dylan project
Hot off their Academy Awardnominations, Heath Ledger and Michelle Williams have both joined thestar-studded cast of I'm Not There,Todd Haynes' $25m portrait of Bob Dylan that finally starts shooting inMontreal this July.Ledger, who replaces ColinFarrell, will be one of six top-flight actors to play the iconicsinger-songwriter in his different life-guises. ...
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Films Distribution takes rights to new Leopold film
Fran'ois Yon's FilmsDistribution has taken worldwide rights to Wolfsbergen, the latest feature fromhighly acclaimed Dutch director Nanouk Leopold (whose Guernsey screened in the Quinzaine last year.) The new film --a kaleidoscopic drama about four generations of a family -- re-unites severalof the stars from Oscar-winning Character.The cast is headlined by ...
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Irvine Welsh to direct The Man Who Walks
Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh is to make his directorial debuton TheMan Who Walks.The $3.7m (£2m) productionwill be made for his own company4way Pictures and is an adaptation ofthe 2002 novel by fellow Scottishauthor Alan Warner, who also wrote MorvernCallar. Producer Catherine Aitken iscurrently in Cannesfinalising finance.A blackly comic road moviethriller,the ...
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PolyBona readies Sky Fighters release in China
China's Beijing PolyBona hasscheduled a June 23 theatrical release for Gerard Pires' Sky Fighters, one offour French titles recently acquired by the company which is stepping updistribution of foreign films.The air force thriller willbe premiered at the upcoming Shanghai International Film Festival (June 17-25)before receiving a wide theatrical release across ...
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Oliver Stone unveils World Trade Center footage in Cannes
The first nerve-crunching 20minutes of Oliver Stone's World Trade Center were screened before the 20th-anniversary screeningof Platoon on Sunday night to astrong response from a packed Salle Debussy in Cannes.The footage laid out themorning of September 11, 2001, from the point of view of John McLoughlin(Nicolas Cage), a Port Authority ...
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TV producer Red to make film debut with Mark of Cain
Nicola Shindler's UKtelevision drama production outfit Red Production Company is to venture intofeature film production. Red, whose TV credits include Queer as Folk and Clocking Off, will make its big-screen debut with The Mark OfCain, a hard-hitting film aboutBritish soldiers' experiences in the Iraq War. Shooting starts this month inTunisia ...
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Caetano film cleans up in first competition stampede
In the first buying stamped for a competitiontitle at the Cannes market this year, Wild Bunch has concluded a raft of dealson Adrian Caetano's Buenos Aires 1977(Cronica De Una Fuga).The Weinstein Company took North American, NewZealand and Australian rights while Japan's Comstock Org and the UK's Momentumalso picked up the ...
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Verhoeven's Black Book continues shoot in Israel
Paul Verhoeven's wartimeepic Black Book, recently sold toEureka for Korea, is now in the final part of its marathon shoot.Verhoeven, producer San FuMaltha, writer Gerard Soeteman and other colleagues invested an extra $382,770(Euros 300,000) of their own money to enable Verhoeven to take the project toIsrael.He is currently on locationin ...
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Martial arts heaven as Jackie and Jet star together for first time
Going under the secretive working title of Untitled J& J Project, the project is being lined up for a 2007 start and isbeing sold here by Arclight Films.Based on a classic Chinese legend, thestory follows a teenager who gets transported to ancient China after hesteals a mystical staff from a ...
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Field and Al Ali named artistic directors for Dubai festival
The DubaiInternational Film Festival has unveiled new artistic directors for 2006, MasoudAmralla Al Ali and Simon Field, who will program films from the Arab andnon-Arab worlds respectively. Al Ali is basedin Abu Dhabi and is the artistic director of the UAE Cultural Foundation andthe founder of the Emirates Film Competition; ...
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Edinburgh festival adds documentary award
TheEdinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) has announced special plans forits 60th festival, to be held August 14-27.Thefestival is launching a new award for best documentary feature, which willcarry a cash prize. TheEIFF is programming a special 1970s retrospective this year. They Might BeGiants: Other Voices from the New American Cinema ...
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London Film Festival plans 50th anniversary events
As the Times bfi London FilmFestival prepares for its 50th anniversary (October 18-November 2), plans areunderway for a series of celebratory events.These will include a specialscreening under Nelson's column in Trafalgar Square as well as the largest surprisefilm screening, showing simultaneously in 50 venues across the city. There arealso expected ...
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Shane and Romano plan $120m Buddha biopic
Producers Michel Shane andAnthony Romano have boarded Indian billionaire Bhupendra Kumar Modi'slong-gestating biopic about the life of Buddha.In addition, Modi hasoptioned the rights to Vietnamese monk Thich Nhat Hanh's book about Buddhism, OldPath White Clouds, on which the$120m Buddha will be based.Shane and Romano, whoexecutive produced I Robot and CatchMe ...
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Southland Tales
Dir/scr: Richard Kelly. US. 2006. 140mins.Maybe SouthlandTales, Richard Kelly's long-awaited follow-up to cult sleeper Donnie Darko,will work as a multimedia project with publishing, music industry and websitetie-ins; it certainly doesn't hang together as a film. Multi-genre film-makingis always a challenge, and this futuristic black comedy musical thriller,larded with facile high-school ...
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Shortbus
Dir/scr: John Cameron Mitchell.US.2006. 102mins.A film thatshows three men having no-holds-barred group sex while bawling out The Star-Spangled Banner at the top oftheir lungs is not going to delight the US censors - but John CameronMitchell's follow-up to Hedwig And The AngryInch has plenty to offer the rest of us. ...
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X-Men: The Last Stand
Dir: Brett Ratner. US. 2006. 105mins.Brett Ratner perfunctorily signs off on one of current cinema'smost credible comic-book series with X-Men:The Last Stand, a pulpy action ride that will satisfy teenage audiences butfails to stand up to its immediate predecessor in terms of dramatic cohesion.Compensationcomes in the form of fiery pyrotechnics ...