All Screen articles in 26 May 2006 – Page 7
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Film Four, Intermedia on board for Baghdad Blog
FilmFour andIntermedia will work together on a feature film adaptation of Baghdad Blog, written by Iraqi architect Salam Paxabout his daily life in Baghdad before, during and after the invasion.Snowcake director Marc Evans will direct, withRoss Klavan, who wrote Tigerland, adapting the script. Scott Kroopf andOllie Madden will produce for ...
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...and delivers in US with $77m debut
The Da Vinci Code opened powerfully in NorthAmerica this weekend with a gross of $77m, making it the first of the year'ssummer blockbusters to live up to expectations. Unlike Da Vinci's massive $147m internationaltake, the domestic gross - from 3,735 screens, for a $20,616 per-screen average- broke no all-time records ...
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Volevo Solo Vivere
Dir: Mimmo Calopresti. It. 2006. 82mins.Mimmo Calopresti'shomage to the almost 6,000 Italian Jews who died in Hitler's death camps, and the 837 who returned alive, Volevo Solo Vivere spins amoving story out of sensitively sifted and edited archive material.The archives used are thoseof the Shoah Foundation's Institute For Visual History ...
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Princess
Dir: Anders Morgenthaler. Den. 2006. 80mins.It's a sometimes dazzling curio rather than afully-fledged achievement, but Anders Morgenthaler'sadult animation Princess is certainlyone of the more attention-grabbing items on the Cannes menu this year. Kickingoff Directors' Fortnight, this tale of vengeance in the Danish porn underworldresembles the sort of grim material usually ...
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Moviehouse takes on sales for Jerusalema
London-based salesoutfit Moviehouse Entertainment has boarded the new South African film Jerusalema, by writer-director Ralph Ziman.The film is based on realevents and is set in contemporary Johannesburg. It tells of the rise and fallof a notorious Robin Hood gangster figure Lucky Kunene.Jerusalema began shooting onMay 8 and continues for 10 ...
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Shepperton Studios set to host Pullman film
The new UK tax credit looksto have already paid dividends, luring New Line's $150m adaptation of PhilipPullman's His Dark Materials: The Golden Compass away from the Czech Republic to Shepperton Studiosjust outside LondonThe prospect is bound toprovide a major boost to the British studio sector following a lengthy periodof uncertainty ...
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Optimum takes UK rights for seven features
UK distributor Optimum hasacquired UK rights to seven new features.The distributor has come onboard FilmFour's Brick Lanedirected by Sarah Gavron, which will start shooting in June. Also in the pre-productionstage, Optimum has taken Day of the Dead, a horror film directed by Steve Miner for Nu Image/Millennium Films.From Europa Corp, ...
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UK's Warp X unveils first six low-budget features
FilmFour, the UK FilmCouncil's New Cinema Fund, Screen Yorkshire, EM Media and Optimum Releasinghave announced the first projects planned for their low-budget studio Warp X. The first film to be shotfor Warp X will be Travels With My Virginity, a comedy about a teenager hitchhiking in ruralFrance in 1978. The ...
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Fast Food Nation
Dir: Richard Linklater. US. 2006. 116mins.The American Dream is full of shit but everyone stillwants a slice of it in Fast Food Nation,an uneven attempt to pick the dramatic meat from the bones of Eric Schlosser's2001 non-fiction bestseller. Following the multi-story template established by Traffic, it traces the food chain ...
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London Film Focus will feature a dozen world premieres
A dozen world premieres are among around 40 filmsscreening at this year's London UK Film Focus (LUFF). The third edition of the event runs from June 26-29,attracting distributors from around the world to see UK product. Among the titles likely to pique the curiosity of thebuyers are Life & Lyrics ...
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La Tourneuse De Pages
Dir: Denis Dercourt. Fr. 2006. 83mins.While it tries to wedge itself inbetween the caustic social commentary of Claude Chabroland Michael Haneke's notion of past guilt hauntingthe Western bourgeoisie, Denis Dercourt'spsychological thriller La Tourneuse De Pages sadly has neither the wit nor thedepth to play in such a lofty league.Dercourt takes ...
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Giordana plans Franco-Japanese co-production
Best of Youthdirector Marco Tullio Giordana's next picture will be a $7m-$10mFrench-language adaptation of cult author Amelie Northomb's period novel, Mercure.''The story centres on a girl disfigured by abomb who mustn't see the reflection' of her own faceFabrizio 'Mosca of Rome-based Titti Film willproduce, having previously worked with the director ...
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Firth, Weisz and McKellen sign on for The Colossus
Colin Firth, Rachel Weisz, Ian McKellen and Susan Sarandonhave signed on to star in The Colossus for director Sean Mathias.Katselas Films' political thriller is based on AnnHarries' novel Manly Pursuits. Lisa Katselas, who previously worked on RichardIII and MrsDalloway,will produce. Mathias co-wrote the screenplay with Myer Taub. The story follows ...
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McTiernan confirmed to direct Deadly Exchange for Film Bridge
John McTiernanhas been confirmed to direct the thriller Deadly Exchange,about a terrorist who infiltrates the US to hunt down the FBI agent that killedhis family.Ellen Wander'sUS-based Film Bridge International is selling rights here to the jointproduction with Anthony J Ridio Productions, and is overseeing financing.Production is setto being in Louisiana ...
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Manchevski's love story Bones lands at Bavaria
Bavaria Film International has taken worldwide rights toMilcho Manchevski's new picture, Bones. It is the Macedoniandirector's third feature after Dust, which opened theVenice Film Festival in 2001, and Before The Rain, which earnedan Oscar nomination and the Venice Golden Lion in 1994.Bones, which marks New York-based Manchevski's return to Macedonia,is ...
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Bauer Martinez takes new tactic with The Break-Up Guy
Bauer Martinez Studios isretooling its business plan to focus on self-generated material and plans tokick off this October with production of original comedy The Break-Up Guy scripted by David Drew Gallagher.Gallagher previously wrote BauerMartinez's upcoming Van Wilder 2: The Rise Of Taj.The romantic comedy scriptdeveloped from a pitch is the ...
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Buskin basks in equity
Rome-based sales and co-production outfit Buskin Filmhas sealed a '$20m financial partnership with Italian private funds groupMg Lab.''The deal will enable Buskin to board internationalco-productions by'investing between 10-25% of a film's budget. In future, Buskin hopes' to be able to invest upto 35% of a movie's budget.'' Buskin CEO Antonio ...
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Three Dots bask in Eternal Summer
Taiwan's Three Dots Entertainment, whichrecently launched a sales arm, has picked up international rights to LesteChen's gay youth drama Eternal Summer, starringJoseph Chang, Bryant Chang and Kate Yeung.The film, currently is shooting in Taiwan,tells the story of two schoolboys who are forced to become friends by theirteacher and then develop ...
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FilmFour backs Hillcoat's Death Of A Ladies Man
After earlier Cannesannouncements to back the next films from Michael Winterbottom and Ken Loach,FilmFour has announced another new film on its slate. The Channel 4 feature filmarm is working with Kudos Pictures, run by former FilmFour head Paul Webster,to co-finance Death Of A Ladies Man.The black comedy, with a budget ...
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Myriad takes on three for sales: Argento, Barreto, Silberling
Myriad Pictures has picked upworldwide rights to Dario Argento's English-language horror picture TheMother Of Tears, and Brad Silberling's comedy 10 Items Or Less starring MorganFreeman.The company is also sellingworldwide rights excluding Latin America and France to Bruno Barreto'sRio-set bus hijack drama 174. Filming is set to begin in Riothis autumn ...