All Screen articles in 3 June 2007 – Page 5
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Peace Arch starts US distribution arm under Balsam
Peace Arch Entertainment is setting up a US theatrical distribution division to be headed by the Canadian company's president of US distribution Mark Balsam. First release for the new Peace Arch Releasing division will be Tom DiCillo's Sundance premiere Delirious, which will open in New York City on Aug 8. ...
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Warner's Dark Knight shooting sequences in IMAX
Director Christopher Nolan is shooting four sequences from the forthcoming Batman franchise picture The Dark Knight using IMAX cameras, according to the giant-screen company. While the reformating of conventional feature films into IMAX is commonplace, IMAX says the move is 'unprecedented' and marks 'a revolutionary integration' of 35mm and 15/70 ...
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Sony challenges Disney's Pirates box-office record figures
Walt Disney Co has released final box office figures for the opening of Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, producing a slightly increased six-day worldwide total of $404m. At the same time, however, Sony, distributor of this month's earlier global blockbuster Spider-Man 3, has raised doubts about some of ...
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THINKFilm confirms more Cannes deals on Oxford Murders
THINKFilm International has announced its flurry of deals from Cannes. Alex de la Iglesia's thriller The Oxford Murders, now in post-production, closed further territories including Germany (Koch Media), Brazil (Imagem), Eastern Europe (Paradise MGN, Vision and Pro-vision), the Middle East (Front Row), Greece (Audiovisual) and Hong Kong (CMC). Un Certain ...
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Coach 14 books healthy sales during first Cannes
At its first Cannes, Coach 14 steamed ahead with healthy sales on four of its titles.Project El Rey De La Montana, by Gonzalo Lopez-Gallego concluded pre-sales with the UK's Optimum, Madman in Australia and New Zealand, Eureka Pictures in Korea, France's WildSide and Canada's Seville Pictures.The US, Switzerland, Germany and ...
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Senator continues Weinstein relationship with four more titles
German producer-distributor Senator Film has consolidated its close working relationship with The Weinstein Company (TWC) by acquiring another four titles from the US independent during last week's Cannes festival. The quartet of acquisitions are headed by Michael Moore's 'out of competition' film Sicko and include Rian Johnson's romantic comedy The ...
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Concorde picks up 4 Months and Band's Visit for Germany
Germany's Concorde Film has picked up Romanian director Cristian Mungiu's Golden Palm winner 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days from Wild Bunch and will release the film theatrically in German cinemas later this year. Among Concorde's other acquisitions from Cannes include Israeli filmmaker Eran Kolirin's Un Certain Regard hit The ...
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Rebellion: The Litvinenko Case (Bunt: Delo Litvinenko)
Dir/scr: Andrei Nekrasov. Ger. 2007. 113mins.A political hot potato dropped into the Cannes official selection at the last moment, Andrei Nekrasov's Rebellion: The Litvinenko Case is likely to spark more news stories than it answers questions.The highly polemical film covers the political context behind the lethal poisoning in London last ...
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Producers close in on Miramax deal for Boys Are Back In Town
The producers of the Australian/UK co-production The Boys are Back in Town are in negotiations to pre-sell US rightsto Miramax on the project, which is Australian director Scott Hicks' first film shot in Australia since hit Shine. Australian producer Tim White, of Southern Light Films, would not comment when contacted ...
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Transilvania competitors include 4 Months, 3 Weeks
Twelve films are set to compete for the grand prize at this year's Transilvania International Film Festival, among them Cristian Mungiu's Palme d'Or winner 4 Months, 3 Weeks And 2 Days. This year's festival, which opens Friday, will also feature the world premiere of Nae Caranfil's The Rest Is Silence, ...
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Cannes Grand Prix winner The Mourning Forest to air on Japanese TV
Cannes' newly crowned Grand Prix winner The Mourning Forest (Mogari No Mori) will air on Japanese public broadcaster NHK on May 29, five days before its June 3 theatrical release in Japan. Though the broadcast was planned before the film's win, the great amount of additional press combined with NHK's ...
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Little Film Company takes on rights to Satanas
The Little Film Company has acquired worldwide rights from Dynamo & Rionegro Producciones to Andres Baiz' thriller Satanas. Rodrigo Guerrero (Maria Full Of Grace) produced the film, which stars Damian Alcazar, Marcela Mar and Blas Jaramillo in a story that explores the ripple effect of misguided actions on a group ...
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Pirates reaches $156m domestic, $245m international
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End ended the four-day North American holiday weekend with an estimated domestic gross of $156m, a new record for the Memorial Day weekend. And distributor Buena Vista issued a new international figure of $245m (including estimates for Monday), pushing the film's worldwide total ...
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Calle Santa Fe
Dir: Carmen Castillo. Chile-Fr-Bel. 164mins.Beginning as a reconstruction of the October 1977 police shooting of Chilean underground Marxist leader Miguel Enriquez, Calle Santa Fe is a long but ultimately compelling documentary both celebrates the anti-Pinochet resistance and subjects it to testing questions. These are made all the more incisive and ...
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We Own The Night
Dir/scr: James Gray. US. 2007. 105mins.A self-conscious evocation of the crime and punishment police thrillers that were once a speciality of Sidney Lumet, We Own The Night is an average B-movie with delusions of grandeur. Transparent plotting and dubious moral grand-standing are the main drawbacks in a film that lacks ...
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Quality and diversity ensure it was a Cannes to remember
Special occasions always provoke unrealistic expectations but Cannes rose to the challenge of a landmark 60th festival with a programme that had distinction in abundance.Opening with Wong Kar Wai's underwhelming My Blueberry Nights was still a statement of intent, underlining the belief that auteur-cinema matters and that the festival was ...
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Flashpoint acquires remake rights to Hong Kong's Phoenix
LA-based Flashpoint Entertainment has acquired the English-language remake rights to Hong Kong action comedy Enter The Phoenix from JCE Movies. Flashpoint's Andrew R. Tennenbaum, whose credits include The Bourne Identity and The Bourne Supremacy, will produce the remake. The original film, produced in 2004 by JCE's Jackie Chan, Albert Yeung ...
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Secret Sunshine (Miryang)
Dir: Lee Chang-dong. S Kor. 2007. 133mins.An uncompromising experiment in how much suffering a soul can take, both on screen and in one's cinema seat, Lee Chang-dong's follow-up to the critically-acclaimed Oasis makes for an original but ultimately gruelling two-and-a-quarter hours' viewing. This contemporary, twisted parable of Job is impressive, ...
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The Last Mistress (Une Vieille Maitresse)
Dir: Catherine Breillat. Fr-It. 2007. 114minsSeasoned provocatrice Catherine Breillat puts a predictably louche spin on the costume drama genre in An Old Mistress, her adaptation of an 1851 novel by Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly. Well known for her sexually explicit and intellectually confrontational dramas such as Romance and Anatomy Of Hell, ...