All Screen articles in 28 November 2005 – Page 2
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Tony Herbert debut gets up to speed
Fourweeks of principal photography has commenced on location in Dublin for SpeedDating, the debut feature of writer/director Tony Herbert,produced by John Conroy and Adrian Devane.Thefilm tells the story of speed dating addict as he approaches his 30th birthday.When an encounter leads to his being hospitalised and amnesiac, the policestart to ...
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New German culture minister offers first-day handouts
New films by Christian Petzold, Stanislaw Mucha, AndreasKleinert and Thomas Grube are among 17 projects and screenplays backed to thetune of $1.9m (Euros 1.64m) byGermany's new State Minister for Culture Bernd Neumann on his first day inoffice. The largest sum of $226,00 (Euros 225,000 was awarded toMartin Theo Krieger's Beautiful ...
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Water crosses the million mark in Canada
Only 21 days into its release, Deepa Mehta's Water has grossed C$1m ($850,000) at the Canadian box office, an impressive sum based on a release that encompasses only 33 screens. The film, distributed through Mongrel Media, was ranked number one this past weekend at several major cinemas in Toronto, Calgary, ...
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De Laurentiis turns another page of the Manual Of Love
Italianproducer Aurelio De Laurentiis is lining up a sequel to hit Manual of Love, which earned almost $17m (Euros 15m) at the local box office and was sold to15 countries worldwide.Thenew film, which is expected to be called Manual of Love, Other Stories, will once again be directed by Giovanni ...
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Dutch doc festival focuses on freedom of speech
AyaanHirsi Ali was a surprise guest at the opening of theInternational Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA). In her speech to festivalguests, the Somalian-born Dutch MP and filmmaker hailed IDFA for dedicatingthis year's event to freedom of speech and for offering a platform "tomakers of documentaries about Muslim women and the lives ...
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Sky strikes deal for Bafta events
Sky Movies has agreed a partnership with the British Academy of Film and Television Arts that will allow BSkyB to broadcast a number of BAFTA's exclusive live talent events. The first BAFTA event to be recorded will an evening with Julie Andrews.(November 28) The hour-long interview, to be hosted at ...
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Rome unveils ambitious programme for festival
Organisers of the new Rome Film Festival have unveiled an ambitious international programme with a $10m budget.Officially called "Cinema Festa Internazionale di Roma", the event is pushing itself as a high-profile international event for the public, rather thanthe industry - like the London or Tribeca festivals.The Roman challenge was the ...
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RCV picks up rights to major AFM titles
Dutchdistributor RCV Entertainment has picked up the rights for a number of newtitles at the 2005 American Film Market (AFM).Theyinclude:Next:directed byLee Tamahori with Nicolas Cage and Julianne Moore MissPotter,directed by Christ Noonan and starring Renee ZellwegerFracture: directed by Gregory Hoblit,starring Anthony Hopkins and Ryan Gosling TheTexas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning, ...
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Jakarta fest unveils biggest ever line-up
The 7th editionof the Jakarta International Film Festival (Jiffest) is set to be the biggestever with a line-up of 201 films from 35 countries in addition to workshops andmaster classes. The 10-day event (Dec 9-18),which is Indonesia's only international film festival, will open with FrenchMoroccan drama Le Grand Voyage,directed by ...
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Danes fall for their own Bridget Jones
Denmark has fallen for its very own Bridget Jones - ahit film based on a newspaper column about a frustrated single girl eating toomuch ice cream and having too few boyfriendsNynne's Diary is ruling the Danish box-office charts selling 277,000 tickets in fourweeks and the film is still shown in ...
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Danes fall for their own Bridget Jones
Denmark has fallen for its very own Bridget Jones - ahit film based on a newspaper column about a frustrated single girl eating toomuch ice cream and having too few boyfriendsNynne's Diary is ruling the Danish box-office charts selling 277,000 tickets in fourweeks and the film is still shown in ...
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European sales initiative announces first results
European Film Promotion's Film Sales Support initiative hasannounced its first sales results, with 35% of its supported features films anddocumentaries selling for local distribution after festival screenings. The initiative supports European sales agents and producersto market European film at film festivals in Latin America, East Asia, Canadaand the US. Since ...
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New $45m Borgia heads to Romania
Neil Jordan's $45m epic Borgia will shoot in Italy and Romania, the director saidin Los Angeles last week.The project, which wasoriginally configured as a $55m film to shoot in Italy and at BabelsbergStudios in Germany in 2002, was recently revitalized with Colin Farrell andScarlett Johnasson as siblings Cesare and Lucrezia ...
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Production milestone for Nigerian film industry
Productionis being planned next year for the first Nigerian film to be shot on 35mm for20 years with an adaptation of the late Ken Saro-Wiwa's novel Lemona's Tale.Johannesburg-basedCapitol International Productions' project Lemona, to be directed by Kinshasha-born Balufu Bakupa-Kanyinda, was revealed at this week's MannheimMeetings co-production market by Nigerian-born scriptwriter-producer ...
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Macedonia plans to establish national film fund
Macedonia is to set up a national film fund by the end of next year to support film-making from screenplay development through production to distribution and promotion.Speakingexclusively to Screendaily.com in Mannheim, Branko Petrovski, head of the Filmand Theatre Department at Macedonia's Ministry of Culture, explained that theproposed fund "would be ...
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Kinowelt snaps up Epsilon from insolvency
DistributorKinowelt has taken over the Munich-based film financier and licence traderEpsilon Motion Pictures GmbH and its Zurich subsidiary Epsilon Motion PicturesAG from Kirch Media's insolvency administrator Michael Jaffe.The dealis part of Kinowelt's new expansion strategy. Thecompany had cultivated a closer business relationship with Epsilon aftersigning a package deal during this ...
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Germans confirm media funds demise
The old-style media funds have at last come to the end of the road after the first cabinet under Germany's new Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel.The new Minister of Finance Peer Steinbrueck was able to keep to his plan of retaining the original cut-off point of November 11 for the changes ...
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UK Film Council renews completion funds for short film
The UK Film Council's NewCinema Fund has announced that its completion fund for short film-makers willdistribute ($90,000) £50,000 in post-production funds during 2006.The scheme, which is run byMaya Vision International, encourages short filmmakers to apply with rough cutsand receive funding for completion. Brief Encounters, theInternational Short Film Festival in Bristol, ...
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Fire set to burn in Japan, Italy and Spain
That old HarryPotter magic is back andwill continue to cast its spell over worldwide audiences this weekend as WarnerBros Pictures International (WBPI) unleashes the picture in a slew ofterritories.The fourthinstalment in the children's fantasy series exploded onto the global stage lastweekend and swept past the $100m international running total mark ...
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New joint MD at Capitol predicts bumper Berlin
The new joint managing director of London-basedCapitol Films, Nick Hill, is predicting an "incredibly busy" European Film Market in Berlin.The former chief executive of IconEntertainment was appointed last week and is feeling confident heading into his first major market in the role."We - as everybody - hope that we'll ...
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