All Screen articles in 7 November 2004 – Page 4
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It's all gone UK, US for Pete Tong
Rapidly building areputation for its innovative approach to commercially-oriented low-budget filmmaking,the UK's Vertigo Films has secured suitably unusual UK and US distributiondeals for its Toronto title It's All Gone Pete Tong.Vertigo has partnered withdistributor Redbus in the UK for a hefty 300-screen release next April. The twocompanies will collaborate on ...
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Dutch distribs press ahead with Van Gogh release plans
The Dutch distributors ofmurdered director Theo van Gogh's latest film, 06/05, are pressing aheadwith plans to release it in the next two months.06/05, which deals with the assassination on Dutchpolitician Pim Fortuyn in 2002, was finished just before van Gogh was shot andstabbed yesterday by a 26-year old Moroccan with ...
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MKB readies Shiri 2 and mega-budget Kang action flick
A sequel to Shiri anda new action film by the director of Shiri and record-breaker Tae GukGi give Korean sales company MKB plenty of leverage on what is its marketdebut.The company emerged from the merger earlier this year of production houses KangJegyuFilms and Myung Films which were acquired by local ...
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As It Is In Heaven (Sa Som I Himmelen)
Dir/scr: Kay Pollak.Sweden-Denmark. 2004. 130minsSweden's entry in theforthcoming Academy Awards, As It Is In Heaven is an accomplishedcrowd-pleaser, and surely a front runner for this year's Film Most Likely To BeRemade By Hollywood.A tragi-comic musical romancethat shamelessly but efficiently tugs the heartstrings, the determinedlymiddle-brow offering represents a comeback for veteran ...
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Frozen
Dir: Juliet McKoen.UK-Den. 2004. 90minsWintry and melancholic, writer-director Juliet McKoen'sdebut feature is a mood piece, exploring loss and obsession. Despite somestarkly beautiful imagery, it's a strangely cumbersome affair which soon beginsto sink under the weight of its own symbolism.McKoen has an eye for apoetic shot but is dragged down by ...
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US' Millennium strikes deal with producer Haft
Avi LernerC;s MillenniumFilms has signed a five-picture production deal with veteran producer StevenHaft, whose credits include Dead PoetsC; Society, Tigerland and Emma.The non-exclusive agreementprovides his Haft Entertainment with funds to attach talent and producepictures with foreign distribution through MillenniumC;s Nu Image. Titles areexpected to be in the $15m-$45m range."We are ...
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Plague to start with Barker, Armada
CliveBarker's Midnight Picture Show label (MPS) and Armada Pictures are teaming upto produce the horror picture Plague, which is set to begin shooting inFebruary 2005.Barker,Jorge Saralegui and Tim O'Hair will produce and Armada's Chris Sievernich andMatt Milich will serve as executive producers with MPS's Joe Daley and AnthonyDiblasi and D ...
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2046 leads Golden Horse nominations
Wong Kar-wai's 2046 came outas the favourite after nominations yesterday for Taiwan's 41stGolden Horse film awards.The romantic fantasy was nominated in eightcategories including best film, best actor (Tony Leung Kar-fai), best actress (ZhangZiyi), best cinematography, best art direction, best costume, bestmusicand best sound.But surprisingly,there was no nomination for Wong himself.Three ...
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Media Asia shares begin trading in Singapore
Hong Kong's Media Asia,producer of the Infernal Affairs trilogy, began trading on the SESDAQ ofthe Stock Exchange of Singapore yesterday (Nov 3). The IPO attracted strong interest from both institutions and small private investors. The retail tranche was eventually 23 times subscribed.After the first day of trading the shares were ...
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Kaplan named as US rep for Romanian studio
Monella Kaplan, who recently served as associate producer on Edison, has been named US representative ofKentauros Studios and Production, the new Romanian full-service productionfacility backed by a group of international investors.Kentauros, which will accommodate features, television andcommercial shoots, has aligned itself with such industry partners as Italy'sPanalight/Panavision, Phillip Tellez Construction ...
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New Films turns producer on The Mermaids Singing
LosAngeles-based distributor New Films International is moving into productionwith the announcement that it is co-producing an adaptation of Lisa CareyC;sromantic novel The Mermaids Singing starring Jessica Lange,Neve Campbell and Evan Rachel Wood.New FilmsInternational will retain all worldwide distribution rights to the $10mproject, which is due to begin filming in Eastern ...
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Eurocine takes on international sales rights to El Rey
VenerableFrench sales and production house Eurocine has picked up international salesrights on El Rey, the Colombiansubmission for the foreign-language Oscar.Thefilm documents the origins of the drug-cultivation in 1940s Colombia, the USpolitical intervention that initially supported production and the origins oftrafficking when the political winds changed.El Rey is directed by Jose ...
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Myriad takes worldwide rights to true-life drama Dark Matter
Myriad Pictures has picked up worldwide rights in all mediato the true-life drama Dark Matter starring Meryl Streep,Greg Kinnear and Chinese star Liu Ye, who stars in Chen Kaige's ThePromise .Filming is scheduled to begin in spring 2005 in Utah andChinese opera director Chen Shi-Zheng will make his feature directorial ...
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Summit teams with Constantin on Goldie Hawn, Impact Pictures pics
PatrickWachsberger's Summit Entertainment arrives at AFM with Goldie Hawn'sdirectorial debut, a new Impact Pictures video game adaptation and Tom Tykwer'sPerfume cast andready to go.Hawn's AshesTo Ashes and Impact's DOA:Dead Or Alive are backedby Bernd Eichinger's Constantin Film and continue the long relationship betweenConstantin and Summit.Ashes ToAshes is being producedby Hawn's ...
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Dragon launched as first production services company in China
Underlining the growinginterest in China as a production location, the country's first productionservices company Dragon Studios was launched this week at the AFM.The company, which aims toprofessionalise and rationalise the Chinese industry, is a joint venture between Santa Monica andBeijing-based producer Peter Loehr, Er Yong, one of China's top line ...
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Capitol seals two-picture deal with Constantin for Slevin, Dust
Capitol Filmsclosed some high profile territorial deals on the eve of AFM on its ganglandthriller Lucky Number Slevin after the news that Bruce Willis and Morgan Freeman had joinedthe cast.Constantin Filmbought the Paul McGuigan-directed film for Germany in a two-picture packagealong with Robert Towne's Ask The Dust starring Colin Farrell ...
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Southwick, CDI team up for international business
BradSouthwickC;s Southwick Pictures anddistributor Chris Davis International have teamed up to produce and distributepictures worldwide, kicking off with five projects at AFM.Leadingthe slate are the $1m horror titles Final Curtain and Perfect Face, which areboth in pre-production and are currently out to casting.FinalCurtain takes place in a small town where ...
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Stiles cast opposite Butler in Content International's Burns
Julia Stiles is to playRobert Burns' muse in Burns,ContentFilm International's story of the legendary Scottish poet.The US actress, whosecredits include The Bourne Supremacy and Mona Lisa Smile, willplay Jean Armour, the woman that the roistering 18th century bardeventually married.The cast includes GerardButler as Burns and Brian Cox, John Hannah, James ...
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Hotel Rwanda booked into Spain, other territories, by Lions Gate
Lions Gate Films International has announced a raft of sales on HotelRwanda, Terry George'sToronto Audience Award winning drama starring Don Cheadle.Thepicture has sold to On Pictures in Spain, LNK for Portugal, Audio Visual forGreece, Shaw Renters for Singapore, Eagle Films for the Middle East, Box OfficeEntertainment for Thailand and New ...
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Moviehouse debuts four new titles led by Blinded
Blinded, a thriller starring acclaimed UK actor PeterMullan, heads a quartet of new titles that London-based MoviehouseEntertainment is screening as market premieres at the AFM.Blinded, which played in the British Gala section of theEdinburgh International Film Festival, is billed as exploring the darker sideof jealousy, passion and sexual desire. It ...