All Screen articles in 7 November 2004 – Page 5
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Artists Independent Films launches sales op with Malkovich, Cronenberg pics
John Malkovich,Nastassja Kinski and David Cronenberg are involved in projects lined up forIndependent Film Sales, the new sales division of production operation Artists Independent Films (AIF).Malkovich andKinski, clients of sister management business Artists Independent Management(AIM), are to star The Holy Beast. Erich Breuer is directing the gothic horror from his ...
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France's ARP falls for Spanish Queens
France's ARP has picked uplocal rights to star-studded romantic comedy Queens (Reinas) fromFortissimo Film Sales. The deal was struck over the phone on the eve of theAFM.The Euros4.5m film, whichcompleted its principal photography last month, is the first Spanish-languagefilm to be handled by Fortissimo. It was produced by Warner Bros' ...
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Armada sells domestic rights to teen horror pic to Lions Gate
Lions Gate Films has picked up North American distribution rightsto Armada Pictures and D H Blair Pictures' teen horror project Drive Thru, which is due to begin principalphotography in January.Armada Pictures International will begin international sales at AFMthis week on the project, which is being directed and is written by ...
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Fortissimo enters martial arts arena with Tsui's Seven Sword
Netherlands and HongKong-based Fortissimo Film Sales has picked up Seven Swords, the newfilm by celebrated Asian action director Tsui Hark.The $18m film, which is nowin production, is a return to the martial arts action-adventure genre whichTsui was instrumental in shaping earlier in has career. It is also the biggestinvestment to ...
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Genre house New Arc launches
Live action and animationgenre production house New Arc Entertainment launches at AFM with a slate ofpictures including an anthology of 13 one-hour titles from horror veteransincluding John Carpenter and George Romero.John W Hyde is named chiefexecutive officer of New Arc. Hyde is also chief operating officer of IDTEntertainment, which will ...
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Stockholm announces full festival line-up
The Stockholm International Film Festival has unveiled itsfull line-up for this year's event (Nov 18-28).The 15th anniversary of the festival sees a strong programmeconsisting of 170 films from more than 40 nations - divided into 14 sections.Half of the films in this year's competition for directorsmaking their first, second or ...
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AFM: Pathe International takes on IFC's American Gun
Pathe PicturesInternational is handling sales on IFC FilmsC; American Gun, starring Donald Sutherland, Marcia GayHarden and Forest Whitaker. IFC will distribute the film in North AmericaThe deal,announced by Pathe sales chief Alison Thompson and Jonathan Sehring, presidentof IFC Entertainment and executive producer on American Gun, marks a strengthening of the ...
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AFM: Pathe International takes on IFC's American Gun
Pathe PicturesInternational is handling sales on IFC Films' American Gun, starring Donald Sutherland, Marcia GayHarden and Forest Whitaker. IFC will distribute the film in North AmericaThe deal,announced by Pathe sales chief Alison Thompson and Jonathan Sehring, presidentof IFC Entertainment and executive producer on American Gun, marks a strengthening of the ...
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AFM: Southwick, CDI team up for international businessAFM: Southwick, CDI team up for internaitonal 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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AFM: Emperor to handle own sales slate
Hong Kong's Emperor MotionPictures (EMP) is making its debut at the AFM as a fully-fledged sales outfit,handling world sales on a busy slate of product headed by Jackie Chan actionadventure The Myth.Since rebranding last year,the production and distribution outfit has worked with Sydney-based sales agentArclight Films on select titles, typically ...
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HanWay adds Morgen, Pepe, Fulton titles to slate
HanWay Films has acquired Addiction,Inc, a nicotine docu-drama from TheKid Stays In The Picture's BrettMorgen, and Brothers Of The Head, by Lost In La Mancha's Louis Pepe and Keith Fulton.Addiction, Inc usesreal-life footage and re-constructions to tell the story of Victor DeNoble, whodeveloped a cigarette with far less health risks ...
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Russian distributor, exhibitor team to market talent abroad
Russiandistributor Michael Schlicht and Moscow based exhibitor Paul Heth have teamedup to market Russian film talent to Hollywood following their successfulbrokering of Russian blockbuster NightWatch to 20th Century Fox.The newcompany PGM (Patten Media Group) will market not only Russian productinternationally but also Russian scripts, re-make rights and talent."We thinkit's the ...
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fox21 to sponsor Slamdance Teleplay Competition
Slamdance Film Festival hasannounced the year-round sponsorship of fox21, 20th Century Fox'sboutique production, kicking off at the upcoming festival in January with theBlind Script Deal award for the winner of the Teleplay Competition Grand Prize.Slamdance set up theoriginal Teleplay Competition to discover new voices in television writing. Therecipient of the ...
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CPH:DOX unveils ambitious 2nd edition
The second editionof Copenhagen's international documentary film festival CPH:DOX, runs in theDanish capital from Nov 5-14, with higher expectations and a greater number offilms after last year's success which recorded 11,700 admissions.The Danish Producers'Association has instigated a documentary award, GoldDoc, which will be awardedto the best local films at the ...
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TF1 extends relations with Cattleya
France's TF1 is to extendits relationship with Italian producer Cattleya by handling the next twoprojects from the thrusting talent shop.It will handle the next filmby The Best Of Youth director Marco Tullio Giordano and the next film byveteran actor-director Michele Placido. Already on TF1's bulging autumn AFMslate is Cattleya's Eyes ...
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Yes
Dir/scr: Sally Potter.UK-US. 2004. 99mins.Sally Potter can never beaccused of avoiding risks. From the magnificent Orlando on down, she hassought to push back the borders of 'acceptable' film practice, allthe while engaging herself autobiographically in the most contentious socialand political issues of the day.That noteworthy and welcometradition continues with the ...
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Red Dust
Dir: TomHooper. UK-S Africa. 2004. 100mins.While itssubject matter is almost identical to John Boorman's Country Of My Skull,the feature debut from UK TV director Tom Hooper proves far superior to thebigger budgeted Berlin competition entry, delivering a tighter and better-actedthriller drama. Itproves neither controversial nor edgy, but rather plays everything ...
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Southwick, CDI team up for international business
BradSouthwick'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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Genre house New Arc launches at AFM
Live action and animationgenre production house New Arc Entertainment launches at AFM with a slate ofpictures including an anthology of 13 one-hour titles from horror veteransincluding John Carpenter and George Romero.John W Hyde is named chiefexecutive officer of New Arc. Hyde is also chief operating officer of IDTEntertainment, which will ...
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AFM: 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 ...