All Screen articles in 5 May 2005 – Page 2
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Skoll's Participant finds corporate and community affairs executive
Former eBaypresident Jeff Skoll's Los Angeles-based production company ParticipantProductions has named Meredith Blake senior vice president of corporate andcommunity affairs.Blake, whopreviously served as chief executive officer of the domestic violence nonprofitorganisation Break The Cycle, will help define the company's social sectoraction campaigns around the company's projects."Integral to ourmandate to make ...
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Eurimages doles out Euros 3.8m in funding
New feature projects by Otar Iosseliani (Jardins enAutomne) and Gianni Amelio (La Stella Che Non C'e) are among 12European co-productions supported with Euros 3.8m by the Council of Europe'sEurimages at its latest funding session. Amelio's La Stella Che Non C'e is an Euros 8mdrama about the dismantlement of an Italian ...
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Tapas
Dirs/scr: Jose Corbacho,Juan Cruz. Sp. 2004. 94mins.A crowd-pleasingslice-of-life set in Barcelona, Tapas weaves several stories into acharming, if slight, whole. Opening on May 13 in Spain, it looks good formedium local success, but better for international arthouse with several salesconcluded after its screening at the Malaga Film Festival last week ...
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House Of Wax
Dir. Jaume-Collet Serra.Aus-US. 2005. 120mins.Nicely balanced between comedy and terror, House Of Waxhas monster written all over it - box office, that is. It puts paid to thenotion that the irony-laden Scream and I Know What You Did LastSummer franchises had clipped the wings of mainstream teen-gore fests.North American numbers ...
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House Of Wax
Dir. Jaume-Collet Serra.Aus-US. 2005. 120mins.Nicely balanced between comedy and terror, House Of Waxhas monster written all over it - box office, that is. It puts paid to thenotion that the irony-laden Scream and I Know What You Did LastSummer franchises had clipped the wings of mainstream teen-gore fests.North American numbers ...
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xXx sequel splutters into int'l chart lead
XXx: TheNext Level took the lead on theinternational table this week.However, The Next Level's lead was marred by its relatively weak performance($15m) given its 60 plus territory release count. The action title, the firstof the summer's major day-and-date releases, saw openings range fromfirst places (including Germany and Spain) to a ...
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Cannes unveils competition screening schedule
TheCannes Film Festival (May 11-22) has unveiled the screening schedule for thefilms playing in its official selection this year.Festival watchers will scrutinise the schedule carefully tosee which films have secured strong screening slots. In recent years, most films that go on to win the Palme d'Or haveplayed in the second ...
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Star Wars beats the record
Sony Pictures Parent co: Sony CorpHoward Stringer,chairman-CEO SPE:Sony Pictures Entertainment Michael Lynton,chairman-CEO, Sony Pictures EntertainmentAmy Pascal, chairman, SPEMotion Picture GroupJeff Blake, vice chairman,SPE & president, worldwide marketing and distributionYair Landau, vice chairman,SPE & president, Sony Pictures DigitalGeoffrey Ammer, president ofworldwide marketing, SPE Motion Picture GroupBob Osher, COO, ColumbiaPictures Motion Picture ...
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Screen Producers Ireland appoints CEO, chairman
Screen Producers Ireland (SPI) has announced theappointment of a new chief executive and a new chairman following their recentAGM. DavidMcLoughlin will take over as chief executive with effect from 9 May, whileRonan McCabe has succeeded Larry Bass as chairman. SPIrepresents over 225 independent film and television production companies inIreland, working ...
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IFP/Los Angeles to rebrand as Film Independent
IFP/Los Angeleshas broken off from the IFP umbrella group and has relaunched as FilmIndependent [FIND], in a move that executive director Dawn Hudson said wouldallow the group to better serve its booming Southern California membership.FIND willcontinue to produce both the Independent Spirit Awards and the Los Angeles FilmFestival, and work ...
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German media funds reel as cabinet agrees tax overhaul
German Minister of FinanceHans Eichel held out an olive branch to the German film industry on Wednesday(May 4) after the Federal Cabinet agreed on proposed tax legislation which willclose the door to the old-style German media funds (ScreenDaily.com, May 2).Eichel said that a workinggroup convened by Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder earlier ...
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Spyglass seals four year free-TV deal in Italy with RTI
SpyglassEntertainment has signed a four-year free-TV output deal with RTI, thetelevision arm of Italian communications giant Mediaset, that will include theupcoming Memoirs of A Geisha and The Legend Of Zorro.It's another direct relationship engineered by Spyglass followingthree existing long-term TV output deals in Europe with Canal Plus in France,with ...
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Levinson, Golchan team to acquire Peau remake rights
Barry Levinson and FredericGolchan have acquired the English-language remake rights to Daniel Roby's LaPeau Blanche (White Skin), the winner of the first Canadian feature prize atthe 2004 Toronto International Film Festival.Golchan told Screen Daily thepair are planning to produce the picture and are shopping the project to USstudios. He said ...
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George, Duhamel to star in 2929's Turistas
RisingAustralian actress Melissa George, who stars in the current North Americanremake of The Amityville Horror, has signed on to play the female lead in John Stockwell'sthriller Turistas.2929 Productionsand Stone Village are teaming up on the project, which is due to beginprincipal photography in Brazil on May 25, and are currently ...
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The Joy Of Tax
ScreenInternational presents its at-a-glance worldwide guide to tax based filmproduction incentives.Click onthe links below for full PDF versions of the guide.Introduction: The Joy Of Tax Tax Incentives: Europe, Australasia andSouth Africa (Part One) Tax Incentives: Europe, Australasiaand South Africa (Part Two) Tax Incentives: North America (PartOne)Tax Incentives: North America (PartTwo)Note: ...
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Goblet Of Fire set for simultaneous Imax release
Warner Bros' Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire will be released on Imaxscreens simultaneous with the picture's conventional release on November 18,2005. It is the second film in the$2.6bn-grossing franchise to be released day-and-date with the 35mm version; Harry Potter AndThe Prisoner Of Azkaban: The IMAX Experience,released in June ...
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International filmmakers triumph at Tribeca
International filmmakers and co-productionsdominated the prizes as the fourth annual Tribeca Film Festival wrapped onSaturday night. Chinese filmmaker Li Shaoshong's Stolen Life (Sheng Si Jie) won the Founders Award for Best Narrative Feature,with Italian Pietro Reggiani receiving a Special Mention for My Brother's Summer. Netherlands-Hungaryco-production El Perro Negro: StoriesFrom The ...
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Bishop charged with integrating MGM assets into Sony
David Bishop has been named president of worldwide brandintegration strategy for Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE), effectiveimmediately. He comes to Sony from MGM where he spent 15 years, most recentlyas president and chief operating officer of MGM Home Entertainment Group. In his new post Bishop, who will be located at SPE'sheadquarters ...
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Cannes adds Hong's Cinema to competition line-up
The Cannes Film Festival hasannounced the addition of Hong Sang-soo's A Tale Of The Cinema (Geuk-Jang-Jeon) to its official selection. The film will compete forthe Palme D'Or along with the films originally announced on April 19.The latest film from the South Korean director is the storyof a man who sees ...