All Screen articles in 28 October 2005 – Page 4
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Mrs Henderson, The Libertine lead BIFA nods
Stephen Frears' Mrs Henderson Presents and Laurence Dunmore's The Libertine lead the 2005 British Film Award (BIFA) nominations,announced today in London. Each ofthose films scored eight nods, followed by seven for Fernando Mereilles' TheConstant Gardener.Other films leading the pack are Michael Winterbottom'sA Cock and Bull Story, with fivenominations, including his ...
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Wild Bunch unveils $145m pan-Euro joint venture
French sales and financingoutfit Wild Bunch has unveiled a new $145m joint-venture dedicated to acquiringand co-producing feature films. The joint-venture will also release the films througha new pan-European distribution network that Wild Bunch is setting up. At the same time, Europeanmedia fund Iris Capital has increased its investment in Wild ...
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Village Roadshow takes on December Boys...
Village Roadshow has takeninternational sales rights to DecemberBoys, the feature starring Daniel "Harry Potter" Radcliffe that goes intoproduction before the end of the year.Roadshow Film Distributors,as part of this new deal, will also co-distribute the coming-of-age dramalocally alongside Becker, which is the production company behind the film.Village Roadshow does notcommonly ...
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Brief Encounters unveils shorts festival line-up
The 11th Brief Encountersfestival in Bristol has announced a line-up of more than 200 short filmsfor this year's event, which runs November 23-27 at the Watershed Media Centre.The programme includes filmsfrom 25 countries during the five-day event. More than £10,000 will be awardedin prizes. Film highlights include MartinMcDonagh's Six Shooter, ...
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Daldry, Dornford-May partner on South African pics
Golden Bearwinner Mark Dornford-May (U-Carmen eKhayelitsha) and Oscar-nominated director StephenDaldry (The Hours, Billy Elliot) are to partner on a series of three new films in South Africa.The firstfeature, already in post-production, is tentatively titled Son of Man (aka Jezile). This is an extension of award winningglobal theatre success Yiimimangaliso - ...
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A Woman In Winter
Dir/scr: Richard Jobson.UK. 2005. 100mins.Once pitched as "Solarismeets Last Year At Marienbad",A Woman in Winter is a soulful,metaphysical love story that exhibits the same virtues and shortcomings aswriter/director Richard Jobson's critically admireddebut feature 16 Years Of Alcohol.Jobson's third feature also makes the most of its modestbudget, adopting a radical, digital ...
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The Legend Of Zorro
Dir: Martin Campbell. US.2005. 126mins.Family matters take up as much time as swashbucklingin the belated sequel - reuniting Antonio Banderasand Catherine Zeta-Jones with director Martin Campbell, but missing co-starAnthony Hopkins - to 1998 adventure romp TheMask Of Zorro. The sequel recreates some of the enjoyable Saturday matineeaction that helped turn ...
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Fortissimo takes on world sales for House Of Sand
Fortissimo Films is to handleworld sales outside of Brazil and North America for Conspiracao Filmes' The House Of Sand,directed by award winning Brazilian director AndruchaWaddington. Waddington's Me You Them won a Special Mention in theUn Certain Regard sidebar of the Cannes film festival in 2000 and the CrystalGlobe at Karlovy ...
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MPA fears UNESCO ruling may lead to film quotas
The 15th annual Beaune Film Forum wrapped on Sunday after aweekend rife with discussion and debate surrounding Thursday's UNESCO vote onthe Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of CulturalExpressions.The UNESCO decision, opposed by only the United States and Israel, givesmember states the ability to promote and ...
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Video Island extends rental deal with Tesco
Online DVD rental service Video Island has extended its partnership with UK retailer Tesco.com for at least two more years. Tesco.com launched its DVDrental service, which is powered by Video Island, in March 2004. The extended partnershipalso covers digital downloading of filmed entertainment content and other newinitiatives.Video Island runs the ...
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Nina's Heavenly Delights cranks up in Glasgow
ScionFilms and Priority Pictures have announced the start of production on Nina's Heavenly Delights. The filmstarted shooting October 3 in Glasgow. Nina's Heavenly Delights marks the feature filmdebut for director Pratibha Parmar,who also is producing the film. Andrea Gibb (Afterlife, Dear Frankie)wrote the script, about a Glaswegian family running an ...
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Irish industry bolstered by flurry of winter shoots
The Irish production sectorhas experienced its most difficult year since its resurgence in 1993 - but the hopenow is that a flurry of year-end shoots will help remove some of the tarnish.Several live-action featureprojects are set to go before the camera in the next couple of months, amongthem The Front ...
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Forsaken Land wins top prize in Bangkok
The Forsaken Land, from Sri Lankan director Vimukthi Jayasundara, picked up the bestpicture award at the 3rd World Film Festival of Bangkok on Sunday night (Oct 23).The best script award wentto Peruvian feature Days Of Santiago,directed by Josue Mendez, while best art direction went to Russian directorIlya Khrzhanovsky's 4. The ...
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Disney signs up to Cinea's anti-piracy plan
Heralding a significantdevelopment on the awards season horizon, Disney has become the first US majorto adopt Cinea's anti-piracy technology.The studio will send out itsscreener DVDs for awards contenders Shopgirl and The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Lion, The WitchAnd The Wardrobe on discs encryptedby Cinea.The discs can only beplayed on Cinea's ...
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Stop motion animation rules international box office
Fired by seven openings and a strong UK hold, DreamWorksInternational's Wallace & Gromit added an estimated $15.8m on 3,72 sites in 32 marketsthrough UIP over the weekend for a $63.7m international running total.Aardman's animated romp dropped a mere 31% in its secondweekend in the UK to stay top on $8m ...
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Focus hires Timothy Collins as vp business affairs
TimothyCollins has joined Focus Features as vice president of business affairs,effective immediately.Collins will be based in Los Angeles and his duties will include negotiatingtalent deals for Focus and Rogue titles. He reports to Focus' senior vice presidentof business affairs Howard Meyers.He most recently served as MGM's director of businessaffairs and ...
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AFC appoints Fitchett as acting development chief
The Australian FilmCommission (AFC) has announced that it won't appoint anyone to the influentialposition of director of film development until early next year and hasappointed two people to fill the gap until then. Independent writer/producerChris Fitchett will act in the role from October 31, and Lori Flekser, aproject manager at ...
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Weinsteins secure $490m equity backing
Harvey and Bob Weinsteinhave slotted into place a major piece of the financing jigsaw behind theirfledgling company with today's announcement of a $490m private placement ofequity.Ever since the brothers unveiled plans for The Weinstein Company (TWC) earlierthis year ahead of their split from Miramax, speculation has centred on theprovenance of ...
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