All Screen articles in 7 November 2005 – Page 5
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New Films strikes three-picture deal with Highland Myst
Continuing its thrust into filmmaking, Los Angeles-based New FilmsInternational will co-produce three projects from writer-director Jon Keeyesand his producing partner Brandon Baker through Keeyes' Highland MystEntertainment.New Films will retain all worldwide distribution rights to theprojects, which kick off with Keeyes' previously announced thriller Living& Dying, whichwrapped recently in Dallas and ...
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TriStar takes English-speaking world on Wedding Daze
TriStar Pictures has picked up worldwide rights inEnglish-speaking territories to the romantic comedy Wedding Daze.Media 8 is selling the rest of the world at AFM on itsco-production with Handprint Entertainment that takes place during a marriageceremony.Jeff Pollack, Benny Medina, Jane Berliner and Sammy Lee areproducing the project, which is out ...
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Lesher to head up Paramount Classics
Endeavor partner John Lesherhas been hired to head up Paramount Classics in a move that Paramount isexpected to officially announce this week.Lesher has been one of several contenders linked with the job in recent monthsas the tenure of former co-chiefs David Dinerstein and Ruth Vitale lookedincreasingly shaky.The appointment of the ...
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Damon's Foresight Unlimited deals in Captivity
Mark Damon'sproduction and distribution company Foresight Unlimited has closedmulti-territory sales on its first feature Captivity starring Elisha Cuthbert.Damon has concluded deals with TFI for France, FilmAuro for Italy,Al Munteanu and SquareOne for Germany, and New World Film for Spain.Roland Joffe directed the project, which shot at the Moscow-basedMosfilm Studios and ...
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Canada's Cianciotta leaves Capri Releasing
Tony Cianciotta has leftToronto-based Capri Releasing, the 18-month old distribution company of whichhe was founding president. A spokesperson confirmed Cianciotta resigned threeweeks ago but the company has issued no announcement. His name has been removedfrom the company website while Robin Smith, who was operations manager, is nowlisted as general manager. ...
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Campfires Burning at Celluloid Dreams
Underlining its growing appetite for upscale English-language fare,Paris-based Celluloid Dreams is taking up sales duties on US road movie CampfiresBurning, the debut feature from Mary Sweeney. The $5 million feature, shootingnext summer for delivery in 2007, will be shot by Diego Vignatti Martinez (BattleIn Heaven) and cast by Johanna Ray ...
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Celestial, Image pact on Shaw Brothers titles
Hong Kong's CelestialPictures has signed a long-term deal with Image Entertainment for US andCanadian video distribution of 30 titles from its Shaw Brothers library. Titles covered by the dealinclude martial arts classics such as The Shadow Boxer, Heaven And Hell and The Magic Blade, along with a range of other ...
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Initial boards Revolution sci-fi thriller Next
Graham King's Initial Entertainment Group has fulfilled itspromise to bring buyers product outside the company's new deal with Warner Brosand boarded Revolution Studios' sci-fi action thriller Next.Initial is offering international rights to the film, which willbe released by Revolution partner Sony Pictures in the domestic market, andwhich has Nicolas Cage ...
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Chang boards Korean war epic Christmas Cargo
Terence Chang is teaming upwith Korean production company Blue Storm and sales agent Cineclick Asia toproduce $20m Korean war epic Christmas Cargo. Chang, who is John Woo'spartner in Lion Rock Productions, will executive produce the project. BlueStorm president Bae Yong-kook will produce in association with Cineclick Asiamanaging director Suh Young-joo. ...
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Myriad boards Edie Sedgwick biopic Factory Girl
Myriad Pictures has picked up all international rights to GeorgeHickenlooper's Edie Sedgwick drama Factory Girl with Sienna Miller attached to play thelead and Guy Pearce in talks to star as Andy Warhol.Shooting is expected to being next month in New York andShreveport, Louisiana, with Holly Wiersma and Richard Galub serving ...
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Bedford, Geronimo form production joint venture
New York-based BedfordEntertainment and Belfast-based Geronimo Productions have formed a jointventure, Mick 'n' Mack Productions, to produce a slate of feature films to beshot in Northern Ireland and the UK.The slate of eight films, tobe shot over the next two years, will have individual budgets of $1 million to$20 million. ...
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Festival heads Scottish Bafta contenders
AnnieGriffin's ensemble comedy Festivalheadsthe contenders for this year's BAFTA Scotland Awards with six nominations including best film. Writer/directorGriffin's feature debut took its inspiration from Robert Altman'sNashville and casts a jaundiced eye over the agonyand the ecstasy of theannual arts Festival in Edinburgh.GabyDellal's On A Clear Day starringPeter Mullan has received ...
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Festival heads Scottish Bafta contenders
Annie Griffin's ensemble comedy Festivalheadsthe contenders for this year'sBAFTA Scotland Awards with six nominations including best film. Writer/directorGriffin's feature debut took its inspiration from Robert Altman'sNashville and casts a jaundiced eye over the agonyand the ecstasy of theannual arts Festival in Edinburgh.GabyDellal's On A Clear Day starringPeter Mullan has received ...
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Blue Star CEO Maggi steps back to set up financing outfit
European production andsales company Blue Star Movies has announced that Pietro Dioni and IreneMasiello have taken over as managing directors, overseeing day-to-dayoperations of the business, while former CEO Pete Maggi will assume the titleof Chairman and kick start his new financing company, Movie Finance.Movie Finance, an equityfund to be launched ...
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Momentum, Aurum buy The Hoax for UK and Spain
UK distributor MomentumPictures and its Spanish sister company Aurum Producciones have acquired threefilms for release in 2006: Lasse Hallstrom's The Hoax for the UK and Spain, Mark Neveldine and BrianTaylor's Crank for Spain, andGavin Hood's Tsotsi for the UK.Momentum's vice president of acquisition Lara Thompson spearheaded all threedeals.The Hoax, currently ...
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Hyde Park to sell Warner Independent's Astronaut Farmer
Warner Independent Pictures has appointed Hyde Park Internationalexclusive sales agent on the Polish brothers' drama Astronaut Farmer starring Billy Bob Thornton, VirginiaMadsen and Bruce Dern.Currently in production and directed by Michael Polish from ascreenplay he co-wrote with his brother Mark, Astronaut Farmer centres on a retired astronaut whobuilds a rocket ...
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Aja signs on to Gold Circle, Craven, Rogue horror
HotFrench horror director Alex Aja has signed to direct The Waiting, a supernatural horror thriller that is being puttogether by Gold Circle and Wes Craven and set to open in North America throughRogue Pictures in March. MandatePictures is handling international sales on the Gold Circle Films andCraven/Maddalena production about a ...
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Asterix conquers AFM ahead of world premiere
Inadvance of its world premiere at the AFM on Friday, M6's Euros22m animatedfeature Asterix And The Vikingshas been selling widely. Thecartoon about the doughty, magic potion-swilling Gauls has gone to Germany(RTL). Eastern Europe (SPI), Spain and Portugal (Lusomundo), Scandinavia (ABSvensk), Greece (Rosebud), Turkey, Brazil, Switzerland and Indoneisa.Adaptedfrom the 1967 Asterix ...
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2929 sells Soderbergh's six to France, Japan, Italy
Celebrating its firstanniversary at AFM, 2929 International is reporting brisk sales on its slate ofsix Steven Soderbergh features commissioned earlier this year by 2929Entertainment chiefs Todd Wagner and Mark Cuban.Headed up by the small townmystery Bubble, the package ofotherwise as yet untitled pictures that Soderbergh will make over the next ...
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The Myth (Sen Hua)
Dir. Stanley Tong. HK-China.2005. 118mins.The Myth is a misfire from three stalwarts of the martial arts genre: JackieChan, his long-time collaborator, director/screenwriterStanley Tong, and co-scenarist Wang Hui-ling,screenwriter of Crouching Tiger, HiddenDragon. An enthusiastic attempt at the Indiana Jones model, it has neither the pace, the tone nor the dialogue to ...