All Screen articles in 7 November 2005 – Page 2
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Ogden on top for Irish Film And Television Awards
Perry Ogden and Terry George took two awards each at the annual Irish Film and Television Awards ceremony held in Dublin. Perry Ogden took the best film award and the breakthrough award for Pavee Lackeen, while Terry George picked up both best director and best script for Hotel Rwanda.The awards ...
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Wolf Creek proves weekend winner in Australia
Wolf Creek hasbecome the first Australian film to open at number one in its first weekendsince Ned Kelly in 2003. And it hasbecome only the second Australian film with an R+18 rating to go to the top ofthe charts. Writer/directorGreg McLean's horror debut grossed $0.9m (A$1.224m) from 151 screens for ...
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Canada's Atopia sells A Silent Love to Desert Mountain in US
Pascal Maeder's Canadianproduction and sales company Atopia is finalising a US DVD deal with DesertMountain Media for Federico Hidalgo's comedy drama A Silent Love. Vanessa Bauche and NoelBurton star in the story of a Montreal professor and a Mexican woman who meetthrough an online dating service and learn that the ...
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Wild Bunch continues roaring trade on Arctic doc
Paramount Pictures has addedFrance to its collection of territories acquired on National Geographic'sArctic documentary Call Of The North, while Shochiku has won a ferocious bidding war for Japanese rights,according to sales company Wild Bunch."I don't know if it'sbecause of the penguins," Wild Bunch's Vincent Maraval says of the hugeinterest the ...
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Concorde, Notro, Gussi among buyers for Myriad's Beethoven
Myriad Pictures has closed a raft of sales at the AFM on AgnieszkaHolland's romance Copying Beethoven starring Ed Harris and Diane Kruger.Rights have gone to Concordefor Germany, Notro for Spain, Gussi for Mexico and Lumiere for Benelux, as wellas Star TV for Asia and Jaguar for airlines.As previously announced, deals ...
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Celluloid to sell Eltringham's east Berlin 60s comedy
Celluloid Dreams' everexpanding English-language slate continues to swell. Yesterday at the AFM,Celluloid confirmed it is to handle international sales on Mrs Ratcliffe'sRevolution, the bittersweet newBritish comedy from Leslee Udwin's Assassin Films.Bille Eltringham (This IsNot A Love Song, The Long Firm) willdirect from a screenplay by Peter Straughan and Bridget O'Connor. ...
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Chicken Little opens mighty with $40.1m weekend
Buena Vista's CG-animated romp Chicken Little soared to an estimated $40.1m number onedebut over the three-day weekend, ahead of Universal's Gulf War drama Jarheadon $28.8m.Meanwhile, Lions Gate and Twisted Pictures' horror sequel SawII dropped two places tothird on $17.2m for a superb $60.5m domestic running total that has alreadyovertaken the ...
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Core Studio unveils Yoichi Sai gangster thriller
Start-up South Koreanproduction and sales outfit Core Studio has unveiled its slate for 2006, whichincludes the first Korean production from Japanese-Korean director Yoichi Sai (Quill, Blood And Bones).The project, which has theworking title Double Casting, isbased on a popular manga about a gang boss who poses as his dead twin ...
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Weinstein Co snatches SPL
The Weinstein Company hasacquired rights for North America, the UK and Ireland to Hong Kong actionthriller SPL.Arclight Films is sellingthe film which stars action veterans Sammo Hung, Donnie Yen and Simon Yam alongwith up-and-coming wushu star Wu Jing. Directed by Wilson Yip (Bullets OverSummer), the film premiered at thisyear's Toronto ...
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Film Messenger beams Pusan winner to Lighthouse
Singapore's LighthousePictures has acquired its first Korean film by snapping up Pusan winner TheUnforgiven from Korea's FilmMessenger.The debut feature of YoonJong-bin who also has a role in the film, The Unforgiven examines the dehumanising effect of Korea'smandatory two-year military service. The independent productionpicked up three major awards at the Pusan ...
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Goldview sells Camus to North America
Japan's Gold View has soldNorth American rights to Who's Camus Anyway', directed by Mitsuo Yanagimachi, to LarryMeistrich's Film Movement. The film, which screened inthe Director's Fortnight section at Cannes this year, follows a group ofstudents in Tokyo making their first movie. The director's first film in morethan a decade, it ...
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European Film Awards announced in Seville
The European Film Academy (EFA) announced the nominations for theEuropean Film Awards 2005 at the Seville Film Festival last night.The 1,600 EFA Members will now vote for the winnerswhich will be presented during the Awards Ceremony in Berlin on December 3.The nominations are:EUROPEAN FILM 2005Brothers directed bySusanne Bier (Denmark/UK/Sweden/Norway)For ...
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IAC, Sequence Film pick up worldwide sales on Teresa
UK-based sales company IAC Films and its sisterproduction company Sequence Film have taken on worldwide sales and distribution(outside Spain) for Ray Loriga's Teresa.The Lolafilms production, produced by Andres VicenteGomez, stars Paz Vega, Geraldine Chaplin and Leonor Watling in the story of St.Teresa of Avila.IAC is also selling Lolafilm's The Feast ...
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Ryna is runaway winner at Geneva festival
RuxandraZenide's Ryna triumphed at the 11thannual Cinema Tout Ecran in Geneva.TheSwiss/Romanian co-production picked up the best film and Fipresci prizes.Rynais the story of a 16-year-old girl, brought up as a boy by her despotic father,and now searching for her mother. Kim Novak Never Swam In Genesaret's Lakeby Sweden's Martin Asphaug ...
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Optimum takes UK rights to Tommy Lee Jones debut
Optimum Releasing has acquired all UK rights toTommy Lee Jones' directorial debut The Three Burials Of Melquiades Estradafrom EuropaCorp. The western was a critical hit at Cannes whereit won best actor for Tommy Lee Jones and best screenplay for GuillermoArriaga.Screen's review says the drama recalls SamPeckinpah, taking a bittersweet view ...
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Baldwin named CEO of UK production outfit Storitel
Bob Baldwin (pictured) has been named CEO of UK-basedproduction company Storitel, which also announced that it has established afeature film development fund to provide initial capital for UK and foreignprojects. Storitel is now in pre-production on twothrillers: Fragile Edge and Leona's Revenge.Fragile Edge, written by mountaineering expert Matt Dickinson, is ...
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Adept screenwriters join UK programme
Aristahas announced the eight screenwriters selected for its Adept 3 screenwritingprogramme, funded by Skillset (and the UK Film Council), the MEDIA Programmeand Arista's Writer Scholarship Fund.Thenine-month programme supports MA screenwriting graduates who haven't yet made afeature film.Thechosen writers are AndrewBernhardt, Fiona Birkbeck, Lucy Floyd, Helen Jacey, Phil Nodding, BerylRichards, Neil ...
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Stockholm promising 160 films in vintage year
The 16th StockholmFilm Festival (November 17-27) is boasting 160 films from 40 countries.The festival is the only one in the Nordic region with membership of theFIAPF, and an international jury of film critics from the FIPRESCI.Eighteen films will compete inthe international competition section of the festival. The festival also includessections ...
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Dream picks up international on Sorry, Haters
Dream Entertainment has picked up international rights fromCinetic Media to Jeff Stanzler's psychological thriller Sorry, Haters starring Robin Wright Penn.The InDigEnt production was produced by Stanzler, Jake Abraham,Karen Jaroneski and Gary Winick, and received its world premiere at Toronto.The post-9/11 tale stars Penn as an anxious professional whoselife takes a ...
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Betafilm sells Genghis Khan project to Hopscotch, LNK, Lumiere
Early on in the AFM, Germansales outfit Beta is doing a roaring trade with Mongol - Part One, Sergei Bodrov's new feature about the hirsute andbloodthirsty warrior leader Genghiz Khan. The film, which has juststarted shooting with Tadanobu Asano in the central role, has now gone to Hopscotch in Australia/NewZealand, ...