All Screen articles in 26 May 2006 – Page 8
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News
Abu-Assad's follow-up to Paradise Now lands at Focus
Focus Features has picked up worldwide rights to Hany Abu-Assad's follow-upto Paradise Now.Abu-Assad pitched the as-yet-untitled contemporary drama to Focus and iswriting the screenplay. Senior vice president of production Kahli Small issupervising development for production president John Lyons.Paradise Now earned an foreign language Academy Award nominationthis year and picked up ...
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Focus takes rights to next film from Hany Abu-Assad
Focus Features has picked upworldwide rights to Hany Abu-Assad's follow-up to Paradise Now.Abu-Assad pitched theas-yet-untitled contemporary drama to Focus and is writing the screenplay.Senior vice president ofproduction Kahli Small is supervising development for production president JohnLyons.Paradise Now earned a foreign language Academy Award nominationthis year and picked up a string ...
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MK2 takes Lau and Mak's Confession
Hong Kong's Media Asia Distribution haspre-sold all French-speaking rights to Andrew Lau and Alan Mak's ConfessionOf Pain to France's MK2.Infernal Affairs star Tony Leung Chiu-wai willstar in the $8-10m project which is scheduled to start shooting in June forpan-Asian release during Christmas 2006. Takeshi Kaneshiro (Perhaps Love,House Of Flying Daggers) ...
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Reviews
Poison Friends (Les Amitis Malefiques)
Dir: Emmanuel Bourdieu. Fr. 2006. 103mins.The theme of young male friendship gets a vigorousthough hardly ground-breaking workout in PoisonFriends, French screenwriter Emmanuel Bourdieu'ssecond directorial outing, which opened Critics' Week at Cannes. Though theprotagonists are already at university, this still qualifies as a coming-of-agemovie, which (not for the first time) shows ...
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Ireton promoted to president and representative director of Warner Japan
William Iretonhas been promoted to president and representative director of WarnerEntertainment Japan.Ireton assumesbroad oversight of all of the studio's business activities in Japan, a remitthat encompasses theatrical and home entertainment operations, consumerproducts, online and emerging distribution technologies.He will reportthrough executive vice president of international Richard Fox to chairman andchief operating ...
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Producers Guild of America sets date for January 20 awards
The 2007 Producers Guild of America's awards ceremony will take placein Los Angeles on January 20.The annual event will be staged at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza inCentury City on Jan 20.Nominations will be announced on January 4.