All Screen articles in 28 April 2005 – Page 3
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The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy
Dir: Garth Jennings. US.2005. 108mins.Douglas Adams fans don't need to panic and neither,probably, do producers Spyglass and Disney: the long-awaited movie version ofAdams' classic British sci-fi comedy - made with US money and a transatlanticcast but directed with a definite English accent by UK pop video whiz GarthJennings - preserves ...
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The Manual Of Love (Manuale D'Amore)
Dir: Giovanni Veronesi.It. 2005. 91mins.The big Italian successstory of 2005 so far, The Manual Of Love has taken over $15m in its fourweeks on release (almost double the total haul of Hitch). An episodic rom-comin the style of Love, Actually, the film is a cleverly populist littlenumber.Its all-star cast seems ...
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Scaturro is key note speaker at Large Screen Format conference in LA
AdventurerPasquale Scaturro will be the keynote speaker at this year's 9th Annual LargeFormat Cinema Association Conference, which kicks off in Los Angeles today[Tuesday] and runs until Apr 29. Theindustry forum will explore issues affecting the large format business, andincludes panel discussions, revenue generating ideas, and technicaldemonstrations. Ninelarge format 70mm screenings ...
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Star-studded World Cup doc kicks off for Film Sales Co
Production has begun on Bob Potter And Paul Doyle's footballdocumentary World Cup 2006: Dreams Of Glory, which Andrew Herwitz 's New York-basedFilm Sales Company will be representing for worldwide sales at the Cannesmarket.Herwitz has already sold UK rights to Revolver and is close toannouncing other key sales on the project, ...
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Karlovy Vary shines spotlight on Central Europe
The Karlovy VaryInternational Film Festival has unveiled the first films to play in its 2005competition line up, with a strong focus on films from Central Europe.Poland will be representedby the international premiere of director Krzysztof Krauze's biography MyNikifor, in which actress Krystyna Feldman plays the male protagonist,artist Nikifor Krynicki. A ...
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Cannes unveils Directors' Fortnight line-up
Twenty-onefilms will screen in the Directors' Fortnight sidebar of the Cannes FilmFestival, it was announced today (April 26).In hissecond year at the helm, Fortnight director Olivier Pere has pulled together aselection that includes several films from Europe with a smattering from Asia,the US, Iran and Australia. SixFrench productions or co-productions ...
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Brad Weston confirmed at Paramount
In a widelypredicted move, Brad Weston is leaving his post as co-president of DimensionFilms and joining Paramount Pictures as co-president of production.Reporting toincoming Paramount president Gail Berman, Weston will oversee the day-to-daydevelopment and production of the studio's annual slate of films and literaryacquisitions along with fellow co-president Alli Shearmur, who ...
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Oz Dollars cashes in at local box office
Local drama Three Dollarsmade a big impact at the Australian box office over the weekend.Three Dollars grossed $177,000 (A$227,747) fromjust 15 screens over the five-day holiday weekend. The Dendy/Footprint releasewas fourteenth in the chart but it was its screen average of $11,800 thatreally impressed - and has paved the way ...
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Anthony Zimmer
Dir. Jerome Salle. Fr.2005. 90mins.From the opening BernardHermann-esque chords over shots of a mysterious woman entering a train stationcarrying a bright red sack, it's clear that we are settling into a thrillerharkening back to vintage Hitchcock - with a helping of James Bond Euro-luxurythrown in for good measure. Less cliche-ridden ...
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London Film Festival announces 2005 dates
The Times bfi 49th London Film Festival has announcedits dates for 2005.Festival director Sandra Hebron said the event will takeplace from October 19 through to November 3. Currently scouting for films for this year's programme,Hebron said "Our autumn dates make us ideally positioned to premiere highprofile quality titles due ...
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TIFFG launches year-round support programme for Canadian film-makers
The Toronto InternationalFilm Festival Group has launched a year-round industry-oriented supportprogramme for Canadian filmmakers and their films. Designed to further themission of the festival's OMDC Sales Office, the new department, dubbed theIndustry Initiatives Office and headed by long-time Sales Office directorKelley Alexander, will provide programmes and services in marketing, artisticdevelopment ...
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Spanish producers unveil projects at Malaga Forum
Spanish distributor Notro Films introduced its debutco-production over the weekend, one of seven new feature films unveiled in aProjects Forum organised by the Spanish Film Festival of Malaga (April 22-30).The Notro co-production is Albert Serra's ultra-low-budget,Catalan- language Quixotic (Honor De Cavalleria). "We placed emphasis on the poetry, the atmosphere -precisely ...
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ContentFilm picks up Transamerica for international
ContentFilm International has picked up all international rightsto Duncan Tucker's road movie Transamerica, which had its North American premiere at Tribeca FilmFestival over the weekend.Transamerica received its world premiere at the Berlin International FilmFestival. ContentFilm International will represent the picture at the Cannesmarket next month where it will also be ...
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Kids TV classic Land Of The Lost gets Will Ferrell treatment
Will Ferrell is attached to star for Universal in comedyadaptation of the hit 1970s sci-fi television series Land Of The Lost to be directed by Adam McKay.Chris Henchy and DennisMcNicholas have signed on to adapt the screenplay, based on the 1973-77 NBCseries about a forest ranger and his children who ...
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China claims world's third largest film industry
China hasbecome the third largest film producer in the world following the United Statesand India, one of China's top film industry officials claimed onSaturday. China shot a record number 212 films in 2004, and cinemasnationwide reported a total box office income of $180m (Y1.5bn) said ZhangPimin, vice director of the ...
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Connelly to join Winslet in Little Children
Jennifer Connelly is in final negotiations to star opposite KateWinslet in the New Line Cinema drama Little Children, which Todd Field will direct. The story centres on a dull suburban world where parentsgroom their children for Ivy League colleges and alleviate their boredomthrough affairs and internet porn.Things take a turn ...
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Heyn, Gleasure get promotions in publicity dept at BVI
Buena VistaInternational (BVI) has promoted two of its international publicity executives,with Nina Heyn rising from executive director to vice president, and AlisonGleasure becoming director of European publicity. Heyn, who isbased in Burbank, will continue to supervise campaigns on key titles on BVI'sfilm slate, dividing her duties with vice president of ...
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Halifax, Montreal bury the hatchet over schedule clash
Film festivals in Montrealand Halifax have buried the hatchet over a scheduling conflict. The new FestivalInternational de Films de Montreal (FIFM) raised the hackles of theHalifax-based Atlantic Film Festival (AFF) by unilaterally switching the datesof its inaugural event to overlap with those of the AFF, which this yearcelebrates its 25th ...
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Italy pins hopes on Festa for box office revival
Italy is to launch its firstever promotional Festa del Cinema today, in the hope of boosting admissionswhich have been sliding rapidly since January.The Festa del Cinema willenable spectators who buy one full-priced ticket between April 25, a national bankholiday, and April 28, to buy subsequent tickets for the price of ...
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New film options on the books
This month the BBC began itsattempt to compete with Channel 4's UK book club dynamos Richard & Judy,whose book show has become the British equivalent of Oprah Winfrey. PageTurners, a new flagship BBC1 series, aims to generate buzz about books andcreate an Oprah-style sales surge.In all, 24 titles have beenselected ...