All Screen articles in 7 November 2005 – Page 3
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Sundance Cinemas names first US arthouse multiplex site
Sundance Cinemas, the specialized theatre chain concept which wasfirst abandoned by Robert Redford's Sundance Group in 2001, then revivedearlier this year, has set its first Sundance Cinema Centre multiplex forMadison, Wisconsin in autumn 2006.The six-screen theatre will be located in the Hilldale Mall andinitial stage of renovation is due to ...
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TLA picks up US rights to James Franco's The Ape
US independent TLA Releasing has picked up James Franco'sfilmmaking debut The Ape and will release the title on DVD in spring 2006.The company plans to place the surreal dark comedy in NorthAmerican festivals, and also holds broadcast and streaming rights to the storyof a frustrated writer who shares an apartment ...
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Chris Davis adds Infection, Shock'n'Awe to slate
Chris Davis International (CDI) has added five new titles forbuyers at AFM, headed up by Filmwerks' bio-terror picture Infection from director Albert Pyun, which isclose to a domestic deal.Ron Perlman is attached to star in the $5m Shock 'n' Awe, a story of three brilliant teenagerswho test the boundaries of ...
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2929's Magnolia launches US home entertainment division
Todd Wagner and Mark Cuban have slotted in the home entertainmentpiece of their 2929 Entertainment distribution jigsaw with the launch ofMagnolia Home Entertainment (MHE).Former Miramax vice president of home entertainment Randy Wellswill head up the division, which will handle distribution for Magnolia Picturestitles, HDNet Films projects, select projects from HDNet ...
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Hanway takes on Polley, Jarrold projects to sell
HanWay Films hasacquired international sales rights to two projects in pre-production: BecomingJane from Kinky Boots director Julian Jarrold starring AnneHathaway, and Away From Her, actress Sarah Polley's feature directorial debut starringVanessa Redgrave.Becoming Jane stars Hathaway (Brokeback Mountain,The Princess Diaries) asyoung future novelist Jane Austen, who is embroiled in a passionate ...
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Silverstone, Gallo sign on for Luna's Moscow Zero
Alicia Silverstone andVincent Gallo have been confirmed as leads in $12 million psychological horrorpicture Moscow Zero, the new feature from Luna (Whore, Stranded). The film, due to shoot next month, is the firstproject from aggressive new Spanish production and sales outfit ValentiaPictures.On the first morning of theAFM, Valentia pre-sold several ...
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Hopkins, Gosling star in Fracture for New Line
Anthony Hopkins and RyanGosling have signed to star in Castle Rock's crime drama Fracture that New Line is handling worldwide.Gregory Hoblit will directthe story of an assistant District Attorney who takes justice into his ownhands after an assailant tries to murder his wife and leaves her in a coma.New Line ...
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Optimum, Madman join forces on home video front
UK distributor OptimumReleasing is teaming with Aussie distributor Madman Entertainment for a jointventure home entertainment business, Optimum Madman. Optimum Madman will acquirehome video products to be distributed both in the UK and Australia. Optimum Madman's firstrelease will be Bill Melendez'1979 animated film The Lion,The Witch and The Wardrobe. (Disney'snew live-action ...
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Pressman horror duo goes to Voltage
Voltage Pictures has picked up worldwide sales on two horrorpictures to be produced by Ed Pressman, a remake of Brian De Palma's 1973 Sisters and The Hill.Both projects are set to begin production in February 2006 throughNew York-based Pressman & Company's No Remorse genre label and will beco-financed by Grosvenor ...
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Japan's Nikkatsu snaps up Welcome To Dongmakgol
Korean major Showbox hassold drama Welcome To Dongmakgolto Japan's Nikkatsu for a sum ofaround $2m. The $5.5m film has racked upmore than 8 million admissions since its local release in August and is nowKorea's fourth biggest ever film. It was also selected asSouth Korea's entry for the foreign-language category of ...
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Taiwan's CMC rolls out Silk for market debut
Taiwanese distributor CMCEntertainment Group is attending AFM for the first time as a seller followingits recent move into production with big-budget sci-fi horror Silk. The $5m film is written anddirected by Taiwan's leading screenwriter Su Chao-pin, whose credits includethriller Double Vision and PeterChan's Three: Going Home. Su'ssecond film as director ...
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Paramount Classics goes North with nature doc
Paramount Classics has picked up US, UK and Latin American rightsto Adam Ravetch and Sarah Robertson's hot documentary Call Of The North, which follows a polar bear and a walrusover the course of five years as they battle for survival on a disappearingcontinent.The $7m National Geographic Feature Films production is ...
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Cruz, DeVito join the cast of Paltrow's The Good Night
Penelope Cruz and Danny DeVito have joined the cast of InfernoDistribution's $15m New York-set romantic comedy The Good Night.As previously announced Gwyneth Paltrow, Martin Freeman and SimonPegg star in the story of a former pop star relegated to writing advertisingjingles who lives through his dreams.Cruz will play the female lead ...
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Pan-Europeenne buys Outlander, Labyrinth
Off to a running start atthe AFM, France's Pan Europeenne has acquired French rights to Howard McCain's Outlander and Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth.The distribution company'sdeputy managing director Jean-Philippe Tirel told Screen that Pan Europeennepaid $3m for Outlander in a dealwith LA-based producer Ascendant Pictures and $600,000 for Pan's Labyrinth ...
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Blue Star takes on sales of three Cameo FJ titles
Blue Star Movies has come onboard for international sales of three films from LA-based production companyCameo FJ Entertainment: Erik MacArthur's Bottoms Up and Josef Rusnak's Victims, which are both in final post-production, and DerekCianfrance's Blue Valentine, inpre-production.Bottoms Up is a $4 million comedy starring Paris Hilton andJason Mewes in the ...
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Fortissimo's Sunflower blooms in Spain
Fortissimo Films has soldZhang Yang's San Sebastian winner Sunflower to Spain's Diorama. Starring Joan Chen andco-produced by Fortissimo, China Film and Being-based Ming Productions, thefilm portrays a Chinese family over three decades following the CulturalRevolution. It picked up awards for best director and best photography (JongLin) at this year's San ...
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Fortissimo's Sunflower blooms in Spain
Fortissimo Films has soldZhang Yang's San Sebastian winner Sunflower to Spain's Diorama. Starring Joan Chen andco-produced by Fortissimo, China Film and Being-based Ming Productions, thefilm portrays a Chinese family over three decades following the CulturalRevolution. It picked up awards for best director and best photography (JongLin) at this year's San ...
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Fortissimo's Sunflower set to bloom in Spain
Fortissimo Films has soldZhang Yang's San Sebastian winner Sunflower to Spain's Diorama. Starring Joan Chen andco-produced by Fortissimo, China Film and Being-based Ming Productions, thefilm portrays a Chinese family over three decades following the CulturalRevolution. It picked up awards for best director and best photography (JongLin) at this year's San ...
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Becker Films takes Control
Becker Films International (BFI) has picked up worldwide rights toControl, AntonCorbijn's project about the life of the late Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis.The project is currently out to casting and is scheduled to beginshooting in early 2006 in Manchester, Macclesfield and surrounding areas innorthern England.Orian Williams and Todd Eckert are ...
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Cineclick, Happinet board Barmak's Opium War
Korean sales agent CineclickAsia has picked up worldwide sales rights to Opium War, the second film from Afghan director Siddiq Barmakfollowing Osama which won aGolden Globe for best foreign-language film in 2004. The deal marks the firsttime that Cineclick has handled a non-Korean feature. The Seoul-based company willalso co-finance and ...