All Screen articles in 26 May 2007 – Page 7
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Inferno prepares dog story remake with Richard Gere
Los Angeles-based Inferno Distribution is gearing up for a September shoot on the English language remake Hachiko: A Dog's Story with Richard Gere attached to star.Bill Johnson and Jim Seibel's financing, production and sales company acquired remake rights to the 1987 Japanese drama Hachiko Monogatari from Shochiku and is financing ...
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Graham King extends realm with GK Film
Graham King, Oscar-winning producer of The Departed, Blood Diamond and The Aviator, has launched a new production company GK Films. At the same time, he has signed a three-year extension of his overall production deal with Warner Bros Pictures and extended his production deal with Johnny Depp's Infinitum Nihil.The new ...
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Revolver takes rights to Luchetti's Brother
Voracious UK distributor Revolver has taken rights to That My Brother is An Only Child, the Un Certain Regard title directed by Daniele Luchetti.The film was acquired from Think Film.Revolver has also picked up documentary Chavez, by actor Diego Luna, about the illustrious career and turbulent life of Mexican boxing ...
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Tilda Swinton joins Connery as Edinburgh festival patron
Tilda Swinton has been named a patron of the Edinburgh International Film Festival, joining Sean Connery, the festival has announced in Cannes.Swinton said: 'It is a sincere thrill for me to accept the honour the great Edinburgh International Film Festival does me by asking me to be a patron. Edinburgh ...
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Cinemavault closes deals for Outsourced
Cinemavault has closed multiple territory sales here on John Jeffcoat's comedy Outsourced.Telemunchen has rights for German-speaking Europe to the story starring Josh Hamilton as a novelty product salesman who travels to India to train his replacement.Cinemavault also closed deals in: Australia (Starz), South Africa (Nu Metro), India (PVR Cinemas), Romania ...
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Italy moves into CGI with Winx Club's Lost Kingdom
Italy is moving en force into CGI animation with a Euros 25m feature based on the hugely successful original animated TV series Winx Club produced by Rainbow, RAI Cinema and RAI TV.Winx Club the Secret of the Lost Kingdom, present at the Cannes market has had multiple sales including Independent ...
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Inmoa kicks up Bright Star and Get Some
Korean importer/distributor Inmoa Entertainment has picked up Bright Star from Pathe Pictures International and Get Some from Summit Entertainment.Thomas Kim, president of international business at Inmoa, said he picked up Bright Star because 'it's directed by Jane Campion, who does love stories well, and it stars Ben Whishaw from Perfume: ...
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Medb Films strikes three-picture Target deal with Brenda Blethyn project
Target Entertainment has signed a three-picture deal with Jan Dunn and Elaine Wickham's UK-based Medb Films. Target's Alison Rayson will executive produce the films, which Dunn will direct and Wickham will produce.The first under the deal is The Calling, Dunn's story about a university student who suddenly decides to become ...
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Madman picks up six including Flight Of Red Balloon
Distributor Madman Entertainment has picked a slew of titles in Cannes for Australia/New Zealand distribution.Madman has struck deals for Hou Hsiao-Hsien's Un Certain Regard opener Flight Of The Red Balloon along with Albert Lamorisse's classics Le Ballon Rouge and Crin-Blanc, all from Films Distribution.Also, Madman bought Bleiberg Entertainment's UCR title ...
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AV Pictures' crocodile thriller Black Water sells widely
Buyers are swarming round crocodile thriller Black Water, being sold by AV Pictures. Buyers snapping down on the film are The Works (UK), Brazil (PlayArte), Indonesia & Malaysia (Ram Indo), Middle East (Falcon Films), Philippines (Pioneer), Thailand (J-Bics) and Turkey (Horizon International) have also bitten on the film. Deals had ...
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Socially-conscious cinema to be promoted by Cinema Verite
Cinema Verite, a major new initiative to promote socially-conscious cinema, was launched in Cannes yesterday at a press conference attended by Queen Noor Of Jordan and Bianca Jagger among others.The company, founded and managed by Paris-based documentary film-maker Joel Soler, will encompass a year-round foundation, a film fund and an ...
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Endgame to produce A Chorus Line documentary
Jim Stern's Endgame Entertainment will produce and finance the documentary Every Little Step: The Journey Of A Chorus Line about the making and revival of the Broadway hit.Stern and Adam Del Deo will co-direct and produce and WMi is handling worldwide rights here on A Chorus Line's famously tumultuous career. ...
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XXY
Dir: Lucia Puenzo. Arg/Sp/Fr. 2007. 91 mins The familiar agonies of adolescence are given a fresh slant and a perceptive treatment in XXY, a quietly impressive first feature from novelist and documentary maker Lucia Puenzo, daughter of The Official Story (1985) director Luis Puenzo. Refusing to sensationalise the subject of ...
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UK's Jowell kicks off South African treaty with news of Skin production
UK Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, Tessa Jowell was in Cannes to declare the new UK/South Africa film co-production treaty operational.The first film under the new treaty will Skin, produced by Anthony Fabian and Margaret Matheson, which will shortly go into production. Jowell also talked about plans ...
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Myriad previews Dario Argento's long awaited The Third Mother
Journalists got the first glimpse of the graphic trailer of Italian horror master Dario Argento's long-awaited film The Third Mother, the final chapter of The Mother of Tears trilogy, in Cannes. The film has its market debut for international sales handled by Myriad Pictures.Italy's Medusa produced Mother (in post), and ...
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Rebel State lines up rapper Kano for Black Market
UK producers Rebel State Films, headed by Anthony Alleyne and Rachel McClelland, are in Cannes to discuss their slate of four films with potential co-producers.The first project set to shoot is Black Market, written and to be directed by Alleyne, with 28 Weeks Later star Idris Elba and rapper Kano ...
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The Works works Buscemi's Interview
The Works UK Distribution has taken all UK rights to Steve Buscemi's Interview, which stars Buscemi and Sienna Miller. Cinemavault is handling sales. The project is Buscemi's fourth as a director and it played in Sundance and Berlin.The drama follows a fading political journalist who has to interview a popular ...
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Taviani Brothers' Lark Farm flies to RAI Trade
Italian sales company RAI Trade has added the Taviani's latest film, The Lark Farm, to its Cannes slate.The film, which played in Berlin, is the latest effort from Paolo and Vittorio Taviana, who won the Palme d'Or in 1977 for My Father, My Master and a special jury prize in ...
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Garage
Dir: Lenny Abrahamson. Ir. 2007. 85 mins.Calling Garage a 'small' film would be true enough, but the Hope diamond, all things considered, is awfully small as well. Both, in any case, are gems. The second feature of director Lenny Abrahamson, following his well-received debut film Adam & Paul, which won ...
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Storm rises for Santiago Parra's Guadalupe
Storm Entertainment has acquired worldwide sales on Guadalupe, Santiago Parra's tale of two scientists who investigate the apparition of the Virgin Mary of Guadalupe in Mexico.Pedro Armendariz stars alongside Ivana Mino and Aleix Albaredo. The Versatile Group of Hollywood is also representing the feature, which shot in Spain and Mexico.