All Screen articles in 30 March 2005 – Page 2
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Goldwyn buys domestic rights to Charm School
Samuel GoldwynFilms has acquired North American rights to Randall Miller's romantic comedy MarilynHotchkiss Ballroom Dancing & Charm School, which screened in the Premieres strand at Sundance thisyear.Samuel Goldwyn Films plans a late summer 2005 release forthe star-laden ensemble, which tells the story of a widower's promise to find adying man's ...
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Nair begins The Namesake for Searchlight
Principal photography hasbegun in New York and Calcutta on Fox Searchlight's drama The Namesake, which Mira Nair is directing from the novel of thesame name by the Pulitzer Prize winning author Jhumpa Lahiri.The story follows the trialsand tribulations of a boy and his parents as they relocate from Calcutta to ...
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Barbieri to direct Em for LA-based Freedom Films
Actor turnedproducer Brian Presley's LA-based production company Freedom Films hasannounced its first two projects, the dramas Em and El Camino, which are both scheduled to startfilming this summer.The tragicromance Em will bedirected by Tony Barbieri, and produced by Presley, Johnny Martin of MartiniFilms, and Ted Melfi of Goldenlight Films, with ...
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Turtles are back in CGI animated feature film
Imagi Serviceshas signed animation veteran Kevin Munroe to write and direct a newCGI-animated feature-length version of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.This is thefirst feature project to revisit the global Turtles brand since 1993, when NewLine released Stuart Gillard's live-action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III in the US.Munroe is currently inpre-production on ...
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2nd annual Syracuse fest in US has international flavour
A total of 126 independent features from 23 countries areset to screen at the second annual Syracuse International Film and VideoFestival (SIFVF), which runs from Apr 28-May 1 in New York.Features include Rainbow, Gao Xiasong's Chinese drama exploring the repercussions of theJapanese invasion, Teco Benson's Nigerian feature Six Demons, and ...
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Sin City
Dirs: Robert Rodriguez,Frank Miller. US. 2005. 124mins.In translating FrankMiller's Sin City series of graphic novels from one artistic medium toanother, co-director Robert Rodriguez - who felt so strongly about sharingcredit with the author that he resigned from the Directors' Guild of Americawhen they balked at dual acknowledgment - delivers what ...
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Valiant effort for UK animation at Easter box office
UK animation hopeful Valiant had to settle forfifth place in the UK box office charts over the Easter holiday weekend.The first CGI feature to be made in the UK put in acreditable performance - considering the warm weather and stiff competition -taking $2m (£1.1m) including $253,788 (£136,020) of previews.With schools ...
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Guess Who beat Bullock to the top of the box office
The broad appeal of Sony'scomedy Guess Who packed too muchof a punch for Warner Bros' poorly received comedy sequel Miss Congeniality2: Armed And Fabulous at the Easter weekend,opening top of the North American charts on an estimated $21m.Ashton Kutcher and BernieMac's banter in the loose remake of 1967's epochal Guess ...
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Guess Who wins US Easter box office battle
The broad appeal of Sony'scomedy Guess Who packed too muchof a punch for Warner Bros' poorly received comedy sequel Miss Congeniality2: Armed And Fabulous at the Easter weekend,opening top of the North American charts on an estimated $21m.Ashton Kutcher and BernieMac's banter in the loose remake of 1967's epochal Guess ...
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Hustle, 2046 tie at Hong Kong Film Awards
This year's Hong KongFilm Awards was a straight tie between Stephen Chow's Kung Fu Hustle and WongKar Wai's 2046, with eachwinning six prizes. Kung Fu Hustle took home the top honour of best film and the bestsupporting actor award for Yuen Wah. It also swept the awards for best actionchoreography, ...
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Robots tops international box office with $17.1m haul
Fox International's animatedfeature Robots pipped Hitch to the post as the number one international title of the weekend as it grossed an estimated $17.1m on 5,179 screens in 41 territories to raise its early international running total to $44.2m.The picture opened top in Australia on $1.9m on 387 screens (the ...
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Fonda to star in Leduc's El Cobrador
A string of internationalproduction outfits have come together to finance the next film by Mexicandirector Paul Leduc (Frida, Naturaleza Viva)ElCobrador - In God We Trust, which stars Peter Fonda, isproduced by veteran Mexican producer Berta Navarro (Cronos, The Devil'sBackbone, Cronicas) through her Salamandra Productions outfit.It is backed by Pedro andAgustin ...
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Wild Bunch pair win Serbian funding
The SerbianMinistry of Culture has announced the winners of this year's film fundingcompetition, with two films backed by France's Wild Bunch receiving state aid.In total, fourprojects were awarded funding. They are:Mamarosh, by writer/director Momcilo Mrdakovic and a co-production with Cinears(Serbia), Yalla Productions and Wild Bunch (France);Charleston And Vendetta (Carlston Za ...
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Spike Lee readies Brazilian music documentary
Spike Lee is to turn documentarian for his next venture behind the camera. Lee is to direct Fusion, a music picture being billed as the director's answer to Buena Vista Social Club.The picture, which will go before the cameras in late May and early June, is a highly polished coverage ...
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MTV, A Film strike Asian film deal
MTV and leading Dutchdistributor A Film have struck a wide-ranging licensing and co-branding dealcovering Asian films.The deal sees MTV in theNetherlands and Flanders buy rights to a slate of some 50 Asian genre titlesfrom A Films and has the music channel adopt Asia Mania, a home entertainmentlabel spanning the catalogues ...
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Congeniality 2, Robots lead family prospects for Easter
Family and lighthearted faredominate the international weekend as Hollywood's international distributiondivisions try to maximise the global opportunity presented by Easter weekend.Warner Bros PicturesInternational opens the comedy sequel Miss Congeniality 2: Armed AndFabulous day-and-date inapproximately 13 markets this weekend, including Germany on Mar 24, and the UKand Spain a day later.Strong ...
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Fox names Glotzer vp of digital media
Matthew Glotzer has beenappointed to the new post of vice president of digital media at Fox FilmedEntertainment (FFE).Glotzer, who most recentlyserved as vice president of VOD and business development, will be responsiblefor developing content distribution channels across new and emerging technologyplatforms, and will also pursue long-term initiatives with major IT, ...
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Maysles to get lifetime award at Chicago doc festival
Veteran documentarian AlbertMaysles will collect the inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award at the ChicagoInternational Documentary Film Festival (CIDF), which runs from Apr 1-10.More than 100 documentariesincluding 15 world premieres, will screen at the event, including JoeBerlinger's profile of Nazi doctor Heinrich Gross in Gray Matter, and Mark Wexler's portrait of his ...
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300 features, tributes to Buscemi, McDowell at Philadelphia
More than 300 features andshorts from 42 countries will screen at the 2005 Philadelphia Film Festivalwhen it runs from Apr 7-20, including eight world premieres, 10 North Americanpremieres and 13 US premieres.Titles include Gregg Araki'sMysterious Skin, Todd Solondz's Palindromes, and the late Theo Van Gogh's final picture, Cool!Festival strands includeWorld ...
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