All Screen articles in 5 May 2006 – Page 4
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Pope joins UK's NPA as CEO
The UK's New Producers Alliance (NPA) has named David Popeas its new CEO. Pope had been director of education at New York Film Academy UK.He also directed the shortfilm Skulls, Angels Mom and Dad andfeature film Miles FromNowhere. Pope is also an associatetutor for the British Film Institute and is ...
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Fletcher promoted to distribution head at Pathe
Pathe Entertainment has promoted John Fletcherto MD of distribution from his current post of creative director. He replaces IanGeorge, who announced last week that he was leaving Patheafter seven years to become managing director of Twentieth Century Fox UK. Also, Pathe has promoted Neil Marshall from director of sales todeputy ...
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Wild Bunch gets on board L'Amico di Famiglia
WildBunch has taken international distribution rights to Paolo Sorrentino'sCannescompetition title L'Amico di Famiglia (Friend Of The Family).The $4.3m(Euros 3.4m) comedy-drama focuses on the odd attraction between a 60-year-oldphysically repellent loan shark (Giacomo Rizzo) and apretty young girl (Laura Chiatti). It also chronicleshis friendship with local cowboy-business partner-country music fanatic (Fabrizio ...
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Klooss joins Constantin Film's production team
Reinhard Klooss has joined Constantin Film's production team with a brief to developprojects in the area of family entertainment with a focus on CGI animated feature films.Klooss comes to Constantinfrom Bavaria Pictures where he had most recently produced the animated feature Urmel Aus Dem Eis, whichwill be released by Falcom ...
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Cinema Expo to honour Warner Bros pair
CinemaExpo International announced that it will award its 2006 internationalachievement in distribution and marketing award to Warner Bros PicturesInternational's Monique Esclavissat and Con Gornell.Escalvissat serves asexecutive VP of European distribution and Gornell asexecutive VP or European marketing. They have worked on recent hits including Harry Potter and the Goblet of ...
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Rotterdam festival to curate film programme at Holland Festival
The International FilmFestival Rotterdam (IFFR) is collaborating for the first time with performingarts festival the Holland Festival.The organisations willpresent a programme of 20 films in Amsterdam from June 8-11, duringthe 59th Holland Festival (June 2-25). IFFR will curate the new film section,which will be titled Rotterdam, Holland and will include ...
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Tim Burton joines Cannes Cinefondation jury
Director Tim Burton has been added to the jury for the Cinefondation, Cannes Film Festival organizers announcedTuesday morning.Burton joins jurypresident Andrei Konchalovsky along with Sandrine Bonnaire, Souleymane Cisse, Daniel Bruhl and Zbigniew Preisner.The Cinefondation will hand out three prizeson May 26 during the festival and will also award the short ...
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Cannes announces Directors Fortnight lineup
Europe once again comes on strong amongst Cannes competitors with the Directors Fortnight sidebar boasting 11 films from the continent. In total, 22 titles were announced Tuesday morning in Paris with six films from France alone, not including co-productions in which the country is involved.The US makes the second biggest ...
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Focus takes international rights on Gondry's Rewind
FocusFeatures has acquired international rights to Michel Gondry's upcoming picture BeKind Rewind starring Jack Black.FocusFeatures International will begin sales at Cannes on Focus' third collaborationwith Gondry following Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind and Dave Chappelle's Block Party, which is on release in North America.Gondrywill direct from his own screenplay ...
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Weinstein Co buys rights on Shephard's Bosnia
TheWeinstein Company (TWC) has picked up North American, Australian and NewZealand rights to Richard Shepard's Spring Break In Bosnia, the director's second film after The Matador.Productionon the comic thriller is set to begin this summer in Europe. The film is backedby Intermedia and QED International, and QED will handle worldwide ...
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Weinstein Co buys rights on Shephard's Bosnia
TheWeinstein Company (TWC) has picked up North American, Australian and NewZealand rights to Richard Shepard's Spring Break In Bosnia, the director's second film after The Matador.Productionon the comic thriller is set to begin this summer in Europe. The film is backedby Intermedia and QED International, and QED will handle worldwide ...
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Arclight already closing deals for Un Certain Regard's 2:37
ArclightFilms will handle worldwide sales at the Cannes market for first-time Australian director Murali K Thalluri's drama 2:37, which was recently added to the Un Certain Regard line-up at Cannes.Arclighthas already closeddeals with Village Roadshow in Australia, SND in France, Manga in Spain, andCinequanon in Japan.2:37 is the interwoven story ...
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The Groomsmen
Dir/scr: Edward Burns. US. 2006. 93minsEdward Burns delivers anotherbitter-sweet romantic comedy with TheGroomsmen - but whatever freshness marked him out as a promising newcomerin The Brothers McCullen(1995) seems to have pretty much evaporated by now.What's left is anotherroutine job relying on well-established formulae, with Burns again taking leadrole and embarking ...
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The Bridge
Dir: Eric Steel. US. 2006.93mins.Somewhere between a painful human issue piece and acalculated gamble as regards its potential to touch a large audience, EricSteel's debut documentary The Bridgetreads dangerous ground.Inspired by an article in The NewYorker about the pull of the Golden Gate Bridge for would-be suicides,Steel stationed two cameras ...
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Times And Winds (Bes Vakit)
Dir/scr: Reha Erdem. Turk.2006. 110mins.Looking every inch the festival warhorse, Times And Winds,Reha Erdem's contemplativeobservation on life in a remote Anatolian village, is the kind of picture criticswill adore and film events queue for.Subdued, low key andpractically plotless - it is reminiscent of both Ki-duk'sSpring, Summer, Fall, Winter' And Spring,if ...
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Times And Winds (Bes Vakit)
Dir/scr: Reha Erdem. Turk.2006. 110mins.Looking every inch the festival warhorse, Times And Winds,Reha Erdem's contemplativeobservation on life in a remote Anatolian village, is the kind of picture criticswill adore and film events queue for.Subdued, low key andpractically plotless - it is reminiscent of both Ki-duk'sSpring, Summer, Fall, Winter' And Spring,if ...
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American Pavilion goes green with Paramount, Participant in Cannes
The American Pavilion in Cannes and Paramount's specialty divisionare teaming up to raise awareness over global warming.The initiative ties in neatly with the out of competitionscreening of Davis Guggenheim's global warming documentary An Inconvenient Truth, which Paramount's specialty divisionwill release in the US on May 26.The partners will use biodegradable ...
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Cotter joins Legendary Pictures as vp, creative affairs
Alysia Cotter has joined Burbank-based Legendary Pictures in thenewly created role of vice president of creative affairs.Cotter (pictured) will report to Legendary's chief creativeofficer Jon Jashni and assist in managing Legendary's development andproduction slate.Legendary Pictures formed a partnership with Warner Bros in 2005to co-produce and co-finance at least 25 pictures ...
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Hollywood Film Festival sets '06 dates as Oct 17-23
The 10th annual Hollywood Film Festival will take place in LosAngeles from Oct 17-23, culminating in the Hollywood Awards on the final night.Festival organisers said they plan to expand the roster of eventsthis year and will announce more details on symposiums, premieres and specialscreenings later in the year.'We are very ...
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White knight rides in to save Taiwan's oldest studio
Taiwanese businessman GouTai-chiang is acquiring a majority stake in Taiwan's oldest film studio, the Central Motion PictureCorporation (CMPC), which was facing closure following its sale to the ChinaTimes Group at the end of last year. Gou is chairman of localelectronics subcontractor Foxlink, whose clients include Apple, Microsoft andNokia, although it's ...