All Screen articles in 30 March 2005 – Page 2
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Meditation expert sets up LA production company Pippala
Productionexecutive Tinker Lindsay and meditation expert Peter Russell are kicking offtheir new Los Angeles-based development and production company PippalaProductions with the spiritually themed Becoming Buddha.The partnershave completed the screenplay and secured initial development funding on theproject, which is currently out to directors, investors, and other key players."The projectrequires a special ...
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Weinstein Company names first 13 movies on domestic distribution slate
As Harvey and Bob Weinsteinride out their contractual term as Miramax co-chairmen under the Disneyumbrella, they have already finalised at least 13 films to be released undertheir new venture The Weinstein Company.While the brothers areobliged to oversee all the unreleased Miramax titles in the pipeline untiltheir departure on Sept 30, ...
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Disney and Weinsteins reach agreement on divorce
After months of publicnegotiations and anguish, Disney and Miramax topbrass announced yesterday [29] that Harvey and Bob Weinstein will leave theDisney fold when their contracts expire on Sept 30 to set up an integrated media company, tentatively titled TheWeinstein Company.In a conference call with reporters that revealed littleby way of ...
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Weinsteins announce departure
Bob and Harvey Weinstein are to leave Miramax, the company they founded 25 years ago.In a statement today, Disney and the Weinstein's confirmed the long-awaited decision. The Weinsteins will stay at Miramax on a non-exclusive basis until September 30 but will begin work immediately on a new as yet unnamed ...
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Disney, Miramax announce divorce
Following protractednegotiations, Disney and Miramax top brass announced yesterday [29] that Harveyand Bob Weinstein will leave the Disney fold when their contracts expire onSept 30 to set up a fully integrated media company, tentatively titled The WeinsteinCompany.In a conference call with reporters that revealed little by way of newdevelopments, Disney ...
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Family titles win international audiences over Easter
Family titles enjoyed strongturnouts internationally over the Easter weekend, led by 20th CenturyFox's Robots, which opened in 12 new territories to hold onto secondplace.Robots enjoyed new number one launches in Australia, taking$1.9m (A$2.5m), and Argentina, where over 140,000 bought tickets over theweekend for a $0.33m (pesos 0.95m) gross. It also ...
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Live And Become (Va, Vis Et Deviens)
Dir.Radu Mihaileanu. Fr-Is-It-Bel. 2005. 153mins.Highlyemotional but massively overlong, director Radu Mihaileanu's Live And Becometackles a burning issue of our time, the search for identity. Here he follows ablack Ethiopian Christian over the course of 20 years, from when, aged nine, heescapes amid a convoy of Falasha Jews being flown to ...
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Fortissimo takes on sales for Berlin winner U-Carmen
Fortissimo Films has acquired worldwide distribution rights (outsideof South Africa) to U-Carmen eKhayelitsha, Mark Dornford-May's adaptation of the Carmen opera, which won the Golden Bear at this year's Berlin International Film Festival.Nelleke Driessen, Fortissimo co-managing director, and NicoleMackey, senior vice president international sales, saw the film in Berlin. Mackey said, ...
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Weinstein Co reveals debut slate
As Harvey andBob Weinstein ride out their contractual term as Miramax co-chairmen under the Disney umbrella, their main focus must now surely lie with the inauguralslate for their new venture, temporarily called The Weinstein Company.While the brothers are obliged to oversee all the unreleased Miramax titles inthe pipeline until their ...
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Duck Season flies off with Mexican Oscars
FernandoEimbcke's Duck Season (Temporada de Patos) has won 11 Ariel awards atMexico's Oscar-equivalent ceremony. Eimbcke, who made his directorial debut with the work, wentinto the night with 12 nominations and took home best film, director, actor andactress along with best screenplay (for Eimbcke himself), cinematography,music, sound, art design, best first ...
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European indie players move into profit
Three European independentfilm outfits - Germany's Constantin and the UK's Civilian Content and Metrodome- unveiled positive financial results for 2004 this morning (March 30).Leading German producer anddistributor Constantin Film announced 2004 net profits of $9.1m (Euros 7m) onrevenues of $319.8m (Euros 246.9m). This compared with a net loss of $12.8m(Euros ...
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Me And You And Everyone We Know
Dir/scr: Miranda July.US. 2005. 95mins.Performance/video artistMiranda July takes a captivating jump into the almost-mainstream with Me AndYou And Everyone We Know, a neighbourhood character study set in LosAngeles. Her sparse approach to drama puts the film squarely in theexperimental category, but she follows a traditional linear narrative withconverging storylines which ...
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