All Screen articles in 26 May 2007 – Page 6
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Cronenberg swarms to executive produce Woodley's Drone
David Cronenberg will executive-produce horror Drone, the next film by Aaron Woodley (being pre-sold in Cannes by Global Cinema Group.) The film is being produced by Joel B. Michaels and Garth H. Drabinsky.Drone, written by Jon Felson and Rusty Gorman, is based on a short story by TC Boyle. It ...
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Night Bus drives to UK and Korea
Italy's Intramovies has sold Night Bus (Notturno Bus) to ACMEInternational Investments for the UK with theatrical release through Maiden Voyage Pictures and to K& Entertainment for South Korea.A debut film by Davide Marengo, Night Bus is an action comedy starring Giovanna Mezzogiorno and Valerio Mastrandrea. Producers are Maura Vespini and ...
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A Mighty Heart
Dir: Michael Winterbottom. US. 2007. 108 mins Michael Winterbottom has become a master at relating dramatic true stories in a documentary style. He brings a typical intelligence and urgency to A Mighty Heart, the 2002 case of the kidnap and execution of American journalist Daniel Pearl. The star casting of ...
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BIG Media rides with Jingle Ma's Playboy Cops
Hong Kong's BIG Media Group is joining forces with mainland Chinese digital cinema operator Time Antaeus to co-produce Jingle Ma's next project Playboy Cops.Chinese actor Chen Kun and Hong Kong's Shawn Yue are set to star in the $2.2m action comedy which is scheduled to start shooting at the end ...
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Double Edge comes on board for King Of Fighters
Taiwan's Double Edge Entertainment has boarded King Of Fighters: The Movie which it will jointly finance and produce with Japan's Micott & Basara and Arclight Films/Easternlight Films.Bobby Sheng, CEO of the Los Angeles and Taipei-based production and finance outfit, will produce alongside Axis Entertainment's Joseph Chou and Convergence Entertainment's Tim ...
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Arthouse takes North American DVD rights to Cartier-Bresson box
Arthouse Films has acquired North American DVD rights to the Henri Cartier-Bresson double DVD box set, featuring five films by the master photographer and several documentaries on his life and work.The deal was struck with French sales company MK2's head of sales Mathilde Henrot by David Koh, head of acquisitions ...
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Paranoid Park
Dir/scr: Gus Van Sant. US-Fr. 2007. 85mins.Gus Van Sant is such a consummate filmmaker, so in love with the visual and aural texture of the medium, that it's difficult at first to pinpoint the niggling problem with Paranoid Park, his most experimental feature to date. It's not that Van Sant ...
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Buyers take Control of Becker's hot Corbijn title
Becker International has closed several deals for Anton Corbijn's hot Director's Fortnight opener Control. The new territories sold are Japan (Style Jam), Scandinavia (Atlanta), Brazil (Daylight), Poland (Gutek), Croatia (Continental Films), and Russia (Maywin Media). US negotiations are ongoing.The existing distributors already in place for the Ian Curtis biopic are ...
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Sony poised to pounce on The Band's Visit
Sony Pictures Classics is reportedly poised to take North Americanrights excluding French-speaking Canada to Eran Kolirin's Un Certain Regard hit The Band's Visit. The Israeli-French film follows an Egyptian police band that gets stranded in Israel after they arrive for a ceremony and end up befriending the local villagers.Bleiberg Entertainment ...
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Maths murders add up for Filmworks partners
Odeon and Sky have announced The Oxford Murders, from cult director Alex de la Iglesia and starring Elijah Wood and John Hurt, as the second release under their new joint venture Odeon Sky Filmworks.Based on Guillermo Martinez's award winning novel, Oxford Murders sees Hurt and Wood star alongside each other ...
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Cillian Murphy joins Bounty in hot 9 slate
Cillian Murphy is poised to star in $9.4m dark comedy Perrier's Bounty, scripted by Mark O'Rowe and directed by Ian Fitzgibbon. A co-production between Stephen Woolley and Elizabeth Karlsen's Number 9 Films and Alan Moloney's Parallel, the film will shoot in Spring 2008. Intandem is handling sales.Perrier's Bounty is one ...
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Sony picks up North America on Long Good Friday remake
Sony Pictures Entertainment has acquired rights to North America and several other significant territories to Handmade's US-based remake of British gangland classic The Long Good Friday.Screen International revealed last week that the Classic UK gangster film The Long Good Friday is to be re-made, it was confirmed in Cannes, with ...
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Fortissimo fires up Wong Kar Wai's Ashes sales
Wong Kar Wai's Ashes Of Time Redux is proving to be a hot seller at Cannes with Fortissimo Films closing deals with Germany's Splendid, Brazil's Imagem Filmes and Svensk Filmindustri for Scandinavia, among other territories. Poland's Monolith, Turkey's D Productions and Romania's Media Rights have also snapped up Wong's reworking ...
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Chow's Star rises with Columbia collaboration
Columbia Pictures Film Production Asia (CPFPA) has sealed a multi-picture production collaboration with Hong Kong filmmaker Stephen Chow's The Star Overseas. The two companies, which previously collaborated on Chow's hit action comedy Kung-fu Hustle, will work together on a series of niche films featuring emerging Asian talent both above and ...
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Niki Caro uncorks Vintner's Luck
Niki Caro (Whale Rider) will direct a screen adaptation of The Vintner's Luck. Caro scripted with Joan Scheckel from the New Zealand novel of the same name by Elizabeth Knox. The cast is led by Jeremie Renier (The Child), Gaspard Ulliel (Young Hannibal), Vera Farmiga (The Departed), Maria Ruiz (Summer ...
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Buyers fall for Arsenal's Timber
Yarek Danielak's Arsenal Pictures has completed multiple territory sales on horror title Timber Falls, one of the first films in the four-picture deal with producer Arnold Rifkin.Rights have gone to Germany (Ascot), the UK and Scandinavia (Scanbox), Mexico (Gussi), Brazil (Playarte), and the Middle East (Phars).'We're very happy to be ...
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Atlantic berth for Sundance director Toa Fraser
Alan Harris, the ex-head of finance for Grosvenor Park, has several new projects in his slate at Atlantic Film Group, the UK-based company he runs with Nicole Dade.The first new film to shoot will be New Zealand director Toa Fraser following up his Sundance hit No. 2 with a project ...
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Distant Horizon takes North American rights to Flash Point
Anant Singh's Distant Horizon has acquired North American rights to Hong Kong martial arts film Flash Point from Mandarin Films. This latest collaboration between director Wilson Yip Wai-shun and actor Donnie Yen, follows a cop and his undercover colleague trying to take down a ruthless gang of triads in 1997 ...
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Pearce, Neill and Beresford on Reliant Pictures International roster
Reliant Pictures International headed by London-based managing director Penny Wolf has been meeting with buyers at its inaugural Cannes to introduce a diverse slate featuring projects with Guy Pearce, Sam Neill and Bruce Beresford.Pearce and Neill are about to begin shooting alongside Miranda Otto on the Australian thriller How To ...
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Sam Neill joins Daybreakers cast
Sam Neill has joined Ethan Hawke on the cast of Lionsgate's upcoming vampire thriller Daybreakers, which is set to begin filming in Australia in July. The story takes place in 2017 as of a clandestine group of vampires discovers the key to saving the human race from a ...