All Screen articles in 4 February 2006 – Page 3
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Lightning picks up Conversations With God adaptation
Lightning Entertainment haspicked up international sales rights to Stephen Simon's adaptation of thebestselling book series ConversationsWith God and will commence sales in Berlin next week.Lightning enjoyed strongbusiness with the spiritually themed WhatThe Bleep Do We Know, which grossed more than $11m from selectinternational markets in 2005, and will be looking ...
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Dir: Toa Fraser. New Zealand. 2006. 93mins.A Fijian matriarch calls her family together for onebig party before she dies in Toa Fraser's agreeable directorial debut which hadits international premiere at the Sundance Film Festival recently before headinginto Berlin's Panorma section.No. 2,named after the house on the street where the film ...
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Police seize£500,000 of pirate DVDs in raid
AUK police force has seized more than £500,000 of pirate DVDs in a jointoperation with FACT (Federation Against Copyright Theft).Morethan 100,000 illegally-copied films, including Memoirs of a Geisha, The Chroniclesof Narnia and Munich, were found when Kent Police raided a makeshift factory inBurnt Oak, North-West London and a related facility ...
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Police seize $500,000 of pirate DVDs in UK raid
A UK police force has seized more than £500,000 of pirate DVDs in a joint operation with FACT (Federation Against Copyright Theft).More than 100,000 illegally-copied films, including Memoirs of a Geisha, The Chronicles Of Narnia and Munich, were found when Kent Police raided a makeshift factory in Burnt Oak, North-West ...
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Sleeper hit becomes Korea's third biggest ever film
Korean sleeper hit King And The Clown has clocked up morethan 8.2 million admissions, making it Korea's third biggest box office hit of all time after Taegukgi with 11.7 million admissionsand Silmido with 11 million. A month after the film'srelease, local distributor Cinema Service upped the number of screens from ...
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Czech box office at lowest level since 2001
Czech distributors knew early in the year that 2005 wouldnot be a record-breaker, but that didn't make the year's bitter figures easierto swallow. Box office admissions and sales both fell in 2005 more than 20%below 2004 level dropping to their lowest levels since 2001.Box office for the territory slipped 22.7% ...
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Czech box office at lowest level since 2001
Czech distributors knew early in the year that 2005 wouldnot be a record-breaker, but that didn't make the year's bitter figures easierto swallow. Box office admissions and sales both fell in 2005 more than 20%below 2004 level dropping to their lowest levels since 2001. December was theonly month that saw ...
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Luc Besson to attend Cinema and Literature Forum
The fifth annual International Cinema and Literature Forumis set to welcome Luc Besson this year for a roundtable on adapting works for young adults. Besson iscurrently adapting his own children's book to the big screen in the big-budget Arthur And The Minimoys. The Forum runs from April 7-9 in Monte ...
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Klimt
Dir: Raúl Ruiz. Aust-Ger-UK-Fr.2006. 129mins (Director's Cut)/97 mins (short version).There are biopics- and then there are biopics in the style of Raúl Ruiz. Anyone hoping for an easily comprehensible,fact-based ride through the life of Viennese painter Gustav Klimt(1862-1918) will be baffled by the flamboyantly discontinuous approach taken bythe prolific Chilean-born ...
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Little Red Flowers (Kan shang qu hen mei)
Dir. Zhang Yuan. China.2006. 92mins.In the droll Little Red Flowers, eccentric Sixth Generation director Zhang Yuanshapes a comically alive, delicately observed adaptation of theautobiographical novel by Wang Shuo.It plays like a Chinese Zero For Conduct:a sharply etched, emotionally precise account of an incorrigiblefour-year-child's year spent at a kindergarten boarding school.If ...
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Solo Dios Sabe
Dir/scr: Carlos Bolado. Mex-Braz. 2006. 114mins.Former editor Carlos Bolado- best known for his work on Alfonso Arau's Like Water for Chocolate - makes an overlyambitious piece with Solo Dios Sabe which, premiered inthe world dramatic competition at Sundance.Despite a promising start, itultimately proves too overextended for its own good, despite ...
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Village Roadshow expands co-production war-chest
The Village Roadshow Pictures Group (VRPG) has increased its film facilityfrom $900m to $1.4bn and extended the term of the deal until January 2011.Those close to the move said it would enable VRPG, the recentlyformed strategic alliance between Village Roadshow and Crescent Entertainment,to substantially expand its co-production capabilities.The company has ...
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Shochiku, Celluloid Dreams join forces for Hana
Japan's Shochiku and France's Celluloid Dreams have partnered to handleinternational sales of Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda's upcoming samuraidrama Hana (Hana Yori Mo Naho). Celluloid Dreams will handleEuropean sales for the film while Shochiku's international sales division handlesthe rest of the world. The deal marks the firstcollaboration between the two companies, ...
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Oscar race heralds new breed of daring financier
As befits the provocative subject-matter that characterises thisyear's Academy Awards race, the major Oscar categories are dominated by storiespartly bankrolled by a dynamic new breed of wealthy financier willing to takethe kind of production risks being increasingly outsourced by studioconglomerates.Of the five best picture nominees, Brokeback Mountain was made for ...
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MPAA names two key appointees
Lisa M Pierozzi has joined the MPAA as chief financial officer andexecutive vice president of finance and administration and will begin work inthe Los Angeles office on Feb 6.In addition, Michael Robinson becomes the new director of US anti-piracy operationsand assumed his position early last week.He will report to executive ...
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Japan's box office down by 6% according to Eiren
Japan's box office generated $1.69bn (Y198bn) in 2005, a 6% decrease from2004, according to data released by the Motion Picture Producers Association ofJapan (Eiren). This was in line with a dropin admissions from 170 million in 2004 to just over 160 million last year. Figures were more positivefrom a domestic ...
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Filmax to distribute Lauren Films' catalogue of titles
Spain'sFilmax has signed a deal to distribute Lauren Films'catalogue of titles on DVD in Spain.Starting this month, Filmax willhandle all Lauren catalogue titles and new releases. Recent titles include Beautiful Boxer andThe Importance OfBeing Ernest, while among the cataloguetitles encompassed by the dealare The English Patient, The Cider HouseRules, Life ...
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Minghella renews role as BFI chair
Director Anthony Minghella hasbeen reappointed as chair of the British Film Institute.Minghella's second three-year termtakes effect immediately."I am very happy to be able to renew my commitment to the bfi," Minghella said."These past three years have been a time of scrutiny and transition. Theorganisation is emerging from that period with ...
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Tony Grierson joins Sydney Film Festival as CEO
Tony Grierson is to leave his roleas head of distribution and finance at the NSW Film & Television Office andjoin the Sydney Film Festival (SFF) as chiefexecutive from February 16.He was executive officer of Queer Screen for the four yearsup to 1999, has worked at Beyond Distribution, and has held ...
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Tornasol Films to back new prize at Guadalajara
Spanish producer Tornasol Filmsis backing a new prize for the winning film at the two-day Ibero-American Co-Production Meeting of Mexico's Guadalajara International Film Festival (March 24-31).Tornasol will bring $302,812 (250,000Euros) to the winning film as co-producer, taking an agreed upon percentage ofthe production depending on the budget. The winner is ...