All Screen articles in 5 May 2004 – Page 2
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Global takes on White Countess, Therese Raquin
Peter Elson's foreign salesand distribution outfit Global Cinema Group has picked up two new titles forCannes in the form of Merchant Ivory's Chinese romantic drama The WhiteCountess and an adaptation of EmilZola's classic revenge tale Therese Raquin.The acquisitions follow theannouncement earlier this week (Screendaily Apr 27) of Global's jointfinancing, production ...
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Moneypenny expands into SA, NZ
Financial services company Moneypenny, which has been anintegral part of Australia's film industry for 25 years, is expanding intoSouth Africa and New Zealand within the next few months.Principal Jane Corden (pictured) relocates to Capetown for 12 monthsfrom late June - one of her first tasks will be to find a ...
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Tarnation
Dir:Jonathan Caouette. US. 2004. 88mins.Alreadysomething of a myth in the world of US independent film, Tarnation wasmade on Apple's I-Movie programme for a total budget of $218.32 according to itsfilm-maker Jonathan Caouette. Screened at the Sundance Film Festival in theexperimental and often overlooked Frontier section, the film was immediately amagnet ...
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Sundance names 13 projects for summer labs
Projects from Thailand andSouth Africa are among 13 represented in the Sundance Institute's annual Junefilm-makers and screenwriters labs, which run from May 25-Jun 24 under theauspices of the Feature Film Programme's year-round series of workshops and events.The labs offer emergingdirectors and screenwriters a chance to develop new work under the ...
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Valenti urges Congress to adopt piracy strategy
Outgoing MPAApresident Jack Valenti presented a five-point anti-piracy plan to Congressyesterday (29), urging legislators to foster stronger links between government,intelligence agencies and America's international partners.Testifyingbefore the senate appropriations committee's sub-committee on commerce,justice, state and the judiciary, Valenti called for greater FBI funding andtraining and a higher awareness of enforcement issues ...
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Warner Bros UK chief quits to head up Aegis Media.
Nigel Sharrocks, the head ofWarner Bros' UK distribution arm, is leaving the film business to head up media buying groupAegis Media.Sharrocks, whose pre-Warnerbackground is in advertising, will be the new chief executive of the company inthe UK and Ireland, replacing Mark Craze, who left this month.Meanwhile Josh Berger, executive vice ...
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German animation industry reaches new heights
At the recent Cartoon Moviefinancing market in Babelsberg, German animation producers were feelingparticularly bullish. Of the 14 countries present with projects, Germany wasrepresented with eight of the 40 projects - after France and Spain - and was alsoa co-production partner on the Danish studio A.Film's The Ugly Duckling& Me.Moreover, in ...
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Doughty, Carver complete cast of Aryan Couple
Casting onAtlantic Film and Mairis Film's second world war drama The Aryan Couple has been completed with the arrival ofKenny Doughty and Caroline in the title roles.Directed by John Daly, the picture centres on a Jewishindustrialist who is forced to turn over his vast empire to the Nazis to payfor ...
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Istituto Luce beefs up its international production slate
Italy's Istituto Luce is beefing up its internationalproduction slate with several high-profile co-productions, including AbelFerrara's Go Go Tales and Brad Mirman's The Shadow Dancer withHarvey Keitel and Giancarlo Giannini.French production outfit, Euro American, has boarded GoGo Tales, a Euros 5m comedy set in a night-club, which is being produced byIstituto ...
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Calm before next weekend's monster storm
With Van Helsing set to open in 40 territories or so next weekend, it looks like being a quiet weekend for major openings in key territories across the world.Scooby-Doo 2 is scampering towards $100m at the international boxoffice and Warner Bros Pictures International executives will be looking toKorea and Russia ...
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Brooks scouting locations in India
American comic actor Albert Brooks is currently in Delhifinalising locations for his next untitled film.Brooks, who is planning a very "Bollywood" type of film, butwithout the song and dance elements, is keen to hire an Indian actress to actopposite him.Brooks told ScreenDaily.com, "I am looking forward toshooting this comedy film ...
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Italy's Cinecitta and Roma studios in first ever collaboration
Brian De Palma's upcoming movie, The Black Dahlia,will start shooting this summer at Cinecitta Studios and Roma Studios, markingthe first ever collaboration between Italy's two biggest studios.An adaptation of James Ellroy's classic noir novel, TheBlack Dahlia is set in 1940s Los Angeles and tells the story of two copswho investigate ...
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Justice enters new orbit with Lunar
MatthewJustice, the producer who has headed production activities at the successful UKfinancier Invicta Capital, is to strike out on his own.Justice istaking full control of the production company ICL Films that he set-up forInvicta which he joined in late 2001. Renamed as Lunar Films, the company willcontinue to plough the ...
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Mean Girls opens top of the class for Paramount on $25m
With one week to go beforeUniversal's Van Helsing kicks off the summer season, Paramount's high schoolsatire Mean Girls strutted its stuff in fine style, opening top on anunexpectedly high estimated $25m.The strong bow shunted 20thCentury Fox/New Regency's Man On Fire into second place and eclipseddisappointing debuts by New Line's Line's ...
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Along Came Polly reaches $80m for UIP
The romantic comedy Along Came Polly has passed $80m at the international boxoffice according to latest information from UIP executives and still has fivecountries to go.Meanwhile StrikeEntertainment's horror remake Dawn Of TheDead added $2.4m through UIP at the weekend to raise itsinternational running total to $11.9m, excluding $10.1m in the ...
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My Bollywood Bride set for May shoot in Mumbai, Los Angeles
Jason Lewis ofSex And The City fame is set to star in My Bollywood Bride, a cross-culturalromantic comedy and co-production between Indian production house Dream TeamPictures and former investment banker Brad Listermann's Nevada-based HisKarmaProductions.My Bollywood Bride centres on a former windsurfer turned adventurenovelist who meets a holidaying Bollywood star in ...
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Nicholson heads list of CineVegas honourees
Jack Nicholson, Sean Penn, Robin Wright Penn, Holly Hunter,David Lynch, Wim Wenders, Julian Schnabel, Dean Stockwell and Bruce Conner willbe honoured at the upcoming CineVegas Film Festival 2004, which runs from Jun11-19.Nicholson will receive the Marquee Award recognising "the artisticexcellence, professional accomplishment and dedication to cinema by an actor ordirector ...
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Filming underway on Shoreline's ensemble production Marilyn Hotchkiss
Filming has begun in Los Angeles on RandallMiller's comedy drama Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing And Charm School,which stars Robert Carlyle and an ensemble cast including Marisa Tomei, JohnGoodman, Mary Steenburgen, Donnie Wahlberg and Danny DeVito.Carlyle plays a man who embarks upon anadventure when he tries to help another fulfil his ...
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Spanish cinema on ambassadorial mission
The Spanish film producers body FAPAE wants to open special film officesin Spain's embassies and consulates around the world, starting next year, aspart of new proposed measures to promote their industry.FAPAE president Pedro Perez said the offices would co-ordinate differentinstitutions involved in domestic production, from the Ministry of Culture tothe ...
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Hector wins top awards at Malaga festival
The Seventh Malaga Film Festival's top award has gone to Hector, with AdrianaOzores also taking Best Actress for her part in the Gracia Querejeta-directedmovie about a young boy who has to choose between living with his aunt or hisfather in Mexico after his mother dies.The Jury Prize went to the ...