All Screen articles in 28 April 2007 – Page 5

  • News

    American Pavilion rebrands as AmPav: The Pavilion At Cannes

    2007-04-24T00:25:00Z

    Entering its 19th year as the Criosette's full-service hospitality and business centre, the American Pavilion has been rebranded as AmPav: The Pavilion At Cannes.'The perception of The Pavilion was that we were being exclusive in our membership, when in fact we're pleased that more than 40% of our membership is ...

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    New animation studio Animation Lab gets set for Bunch

    2007-04-24T00:15:00Z

    Animation Lab, the recently announced Jerusalem and Los Angeles-based studio launched by Jerusalem Venture Partners, has announced its first project.Pre-production is underway on The Wild Bunch (working title), the first of six CGI features that Animation Lab plans to put into production over the next eight years.Jim Ballantine, whose credits ...

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    Sundance annual summer Labs unveil projects, participants

    2007-04-23T23:45:00Z

    The Sundance Institute has announced the 13 projects for its annual June Directors and Screenwriters Labs, which run at the Sundance Resort in Utah from May 28-Jun 28.The selected projects include: The Cavanaughs (US) by John Morgan (co-writer/director) and Meg LeFauve (co-writer); Circumstance (US/Iran) by Maryam Keshavarz (writer/director); Cold Souls ...

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    Berri's latest wins audience award at LA's COLCOA

    2007-04-23T23:26:00Z

    Claude Berri's Hunting And Gathering starring Audrey Tautou and Guillaume Canet was presented with the 2007 City Of Lights, City Of Angels (COLCOA) Audience Choice Award.'This year's festival is the most successful in the history of COLCOA,' festival director and programmer Francois Truffart said of the event, which ran from ...

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    Waitress wins narrative award at Sarasota Film Festival

    2007-04-23T23:17:00Z

    Adrienne Shelly's final film Waitress won the narrative competition award and Benjamin Niles' Note By Note: The Making Of Steinway L1037 took the documentary prize as the Sarasota Film Festival closed at the weekend.Each award carried a $5,000 cash prize for the film-makers. Olivier Meyrou's Beyond Hatred received a special ...

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    Emperor Motion Pictures appoints Ng as sales chief

    2007-04-23T11:48:00Z

    Former Celestial Pictures executive Alan Ng has joined Hong Kong-based Emperor Motion Pictures (EMP) as assistant general manager, distribution. Ng, who will report directly to EMP chief executive Albert Lee, will oversee the company's growing distribution team. However he is not a direct replacement for Ricky Tse, who left the ...

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    Fortissimo picks up worldwide rights to Pleasure Factory

    2007-04-23T05:25:00Z

    Fortissimo Films has taken on worldwide sales rights to Thai writer-director Ekachai Uekrongtham's Singapore-set drama Pleasure Factory, which has been selected for Un Certain Regard as the only South-East Asian feature in Cannes ' official selection this year. Ekachai, whose directorial debut was the critically-acclaimed Beautiful Boxer, is a Singapore ...

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    H20 picks up two in advance of Cannes

    2007-04-23T05:00:00Z

    H2O Motion Pictures has picked up international rights to Ashley Baron Cohen's black comedy Poor Things starring Shirley MacLaine and Olympia Dukakis.The Los Angeles-based company has further bolstered its Cannes slate with the drama Feel, which is being directed by music video director Matt Mahurin.Poor Things, which is currently shooting ...

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    Moviehouse and Revolver on board for documentary Taking Liberties

    2007-04-23T04:00:00Z

    Moviehouse Entertainment is taking on sales for documentary Taking Liberties, with all UK rights going to Revolver Entertainment. Chris Atkins, a longtime producer for Richard Jobson, wrote and directed the project for S2S Productions. Nicky Moss produced and also negotiated the Revolver deal. The film is described as 'a hilarious ...

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    Black Book star Carice van Houten moves on to Dorothy Mills

    2007-04-23T04:00:00Z

    Dutch actress Carice van Houten is playing the lead role in a new psychological thriller by Agnes Merlet, with a working title of Dorothy Mills. The French-Irish coproduction will be Merlet's first feature since her 1997 award-winning biography Artemisia. The film will shoot in Ireland this summer. Van Houten is ...

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    Disturbia wards off two other thrillers opening in North America

    2007-04-23T03:14:00Z

    Paramount's thriller Disturbia held on to the top spot for the second weekend in a row in a weekend that saw four new releases breaking into the top 10.The film added an estimated $13.5m for $40.7m, one place ahead of New Line's thriller Fracture with Anthony Hopkins and Ryan Gosling, ...

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    BVI's Wild Hogs leads lacklustre international weekend

    2007-04-23T03:05:00Z

    John Travolta and his biker friends in Wild Hogs roared up to the top of the international charts over the weekend as an estimated $11.5m haul from 3,046 screens in 38 territories raised the overseas tally to $43.5m.The comedy opened through Buena Vista International (BVI) at number one in a ...

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    Dygra teams with Fantastic Films to market animated movies

    2007-04-22T21:02:00Z

    Spanish animation producer Dygra Films has signed an agreement with the LA-based distributor Fantastic Films International to exclusively market its titles worldwide.The deal begins with the upcoming feature, The Spirit Of The Forest, sequel to Dygra's 2001 hit, The Living Forest. 'This agreement is a large leap in the ...

  • Reviews

    Spider-Man 3

    2007-04-22T20:12:00Z

    Dir: Sam Raimi. 2007.US. 140mins.The financial reasons for making Spider-Man 3 require no explanation; the artistic reasons are a little harder to discern. Taking some inspiration from Superman 3, director Sam Raimi has chosen to explore the dark side of his superhero. Burdening Peter Parker/Spider-Man with endless personal issues and ...