All Screen articles in 5 May 2005 – Page 3
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Depp, Initial, Heyday team on Hornby adaptation for Warner
Johnny Depp, Graham King and David Heyman are to produce NickHornby's latest novel A Long Way Down for Warner Bros, the studio announced yesterday [2].King will produce for InitialEntertainment Group, Depp for his production company Infinitum Nihil, andHeyman for Heyday Films. Kevin McCormick is overseeing the project for WarnerBros.Initial, which ...
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Malaga savours Spanish Tapas
Ensemble comedy-drama Tapas was the surprise winner of the best film, best actress and thepublic's prizes at the eighth annual Spanish Film Festival of Malaga(April 22-30), with other top awards split among higher-profile contenders 20Centimeters, Heroine and Ants InThe Mouth.Tapas was also the biggest hit at Malaga's three-dayMarket Screenings, attended ...
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Kingdom Of Heaven
Dir: Ridley Scott. US.2005. 143mins.After indulging in whatmust have almost seemed like guerilla film-making with 2003's character drama MatchstickMen, director Ridley Scott wades back into the epic breach with KingdomOf Heaven, a massive-scale historical drama sporting a reported $110mbudget. Though damaged irreparably by a sluggish first hour-plus, it remains alavish ...
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Weisbein's Green Room takes on two for Mr Mudd
PierreWeisbein's nascent sales and production company Green Room Pictures will cometo Cannes with two films it will represent for Mr Mudd, the LA-based productioncompany run by Lianne Halfon, John Malkovich and Russell Smith.Weisbein will beselling worldwide rights on Historya, a powerful drama based on Gary Soto's novel BuriedOnions which followsLatin ...
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Fortissimo tunes into The Night Listener
FortissimoFilms is to handle worldwide sales outside of North America forTheNight Listener, the recently wrapped film adaptation of Armistead Maupin'sbestselling drama, directed by Patrick Stettner and starring Robin Williams andToni Collette.FortissimoFilm's co-chairmen, Michael J. Werner and Wouter Barendrecht who receiveco-producercredits,completed the deal with UTA, which represent theproducers Hart Sharp Entertainment, ...
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Strand gets US to Tribeca favourite Simon from Fortissimo
Strand Releasinghas picked up North American rights from Fortissimo Films to Eddy Terstall's Simon, the story of a gay man and a straightman whose lifelong friendship is challenged when one of them faces a terminalillness.The picture,which received its North American premiere at Tribeca last week, was theofficial Dutch entry for ...
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Pinewood, Ealing lead London Plus production drive
Pinewood Shepperton andEaling Studios head a group of UK studio facilities and post productioncompanies that have teamed to launch London Plus, a consortium that aims toboost production activity in London and south east England.The affiliated companies aim for producers to use London Plus asa single entry point for arranging to ...
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Death knell tolls for German media funds
German media funds look set to be put out of business thisweek because of a proposed tightening up of tax fund legislation by FinanceMinister Hans Eichel.Eichel's plans to curtail tax breaks for media investmentfunds will be hugely painful for US producers. They will also be "acomplete catastrophe for the German ...
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Quinta to release Chromophobia in France
Quinta Distribution will release Cannes closing film Chromophobia in France, Quinta president Tarak Ben Ammarconfirmed last week. The company also has world rights to the film directed byMartha Fiennes; Ammar is also producer on the film. The film stars Martha's brother Ralph Fiennes and his EnglishPatient co-star Kristin Scott-Thomas. Alsoon ...
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Vue swallows Ster Century's UK and Ireland circuit
The consolidation of the UK exhibition industry continuedapace last week as Vue Entertainment announced its acquisition of the SterCentury UK & Ireland circuit, comprising seven cinemas.The combined circuit will have 49 multiplexes with 496screens.Tim Richards, CEO of Vue said: "These high qualitycinemas perfectly complement Vue's current circuit of 42 cinemas ...
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Menemsha to sell Midnight Movies in Cannes
Stuart Samuels'documentary Midnight Movies, which screens in official selection in thefestival, is among four market premieres that Neil Friedman's Los Angeles-basedMenemsha Films will offer to buyers at Cannes.Midnight Moviescharts the rise of the late-night film craze that started with AlejandroJodorowsky's El Topo atthe Elgin Theatre in New York in December ...
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Black Sheep leaps into Icon's arms
NZ Film has pre-sold six territories including the UK to BlackSheep, a first film from New Zealand aboutkiller sheep, ensuring the film will go into production this year. Icon hasacquired UK, Australian and New Zealand rights to writer/director JonathanKing's debut comedy horror. Jiants has taken rights in Thailand,Singapore and Malaysia.The ...
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New Line International boasts 10 new films to presell
New Line International has unveiled a powerful new slate for itsdistribution partners and Cannes buyers which boasts directors as varied as JanDe Bont, Todd Field and Shekhar Kapur and stars ranging from Bruce Willis, JackBlack and Samuel L Jackson to Kate Winslet and John Cusack.The studio's president of worldwide distribution ...
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Linklater to serve up Fast Food Nation for HanWay
It must be one of thehardest books to adapt into a feature film: a sprawling, non-fiction expose ofthe fast food industry, encompassing exploited immigrants, teenagers skippingschool to work in restaurants and the impact on agriculture and the global environment.But Eric Schlosser'sbestselling Fast Food Nation iscoming together as a Traffic-stylefilm to ...
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XXX leads in international, but Hitchhiker's soars
The first day-and-date launch of the year propelled XXX: TheNext Level (theinternational title of the film, as opposed to XXX: State Of The Union in North America) to the top of theinternational charts over the weekend, but the estimated $15m gross on 4,800prints in 64 territories was a disappointing result ...
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...while Hitchhiker's trounces XXX in US
Spyglass Entertainment's adaptation of The Hitchhiker's GuideTo The Galaxy opened topof the North American charts through Disney over the weekend on a estimated $21.7m, whileSony/Revolution's XXX: State Of The Union was a crashing disappointment in third place on $13.7m.Of more significance, however, was the fact that box office fellfor the ...
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Love rules at Italy's Donatellos
Second-time director PaoloSorrentino's mafia tale The Consequences of Love has won five David di Donatellos, Italy's Oscars,including best film, best director, best screenplay and best actor, beating outmulti-nominated contenders Sacred Heart and Manuale D'Amore.The Consequences of Love tells the story of a 50-year-old Italianbusiness man who lives on his own ...
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Chinese Peacock struts off with Udine prize
Chinese director Gu Changwei's Peacock was voted the top prizewinner by audiencesat the 7th Far East Film Festival (FEFF) in Udine, Italy.The FEFF, which ranks as a leading European showcaseof popular Asian cinema, also presented runner-up prizes to the stylish teenagedrama Kamikaze Girls byJapanese director Tetsuya Nakashima and comedy Someone ...
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Nordisk to embark on Johnny pre-sales at Cannes
Copenhagen based Nordisk Film International Sales isto open pre-sales at Cannes for UK-Irish-Danish co-production Johnny Was. The violent thriller, set in the underworld of London,stars Vinnie Jones and will shoot in London and Ireland. The $4.4m film is produced by Affinity, Borderline,Revolver and Nordisk Film. It is directed by Mark ...
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Hitchhiker's Guide a bestseller in US movie theatres
Spyglass Entertainment's adaptation of The Hitchhiker's GuideTo The Galaxy opened topof the North American charts through Disney over the weekend on a estimated $21.7m, whileSony/Revolution's XXX: State Of The Union was a crashing disappointment in third place on $13.7m.Of more significance, however, was the fact that box office fellfor the ...