All Screen articles in 7 November 2005 – Page 7
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Pathe, Reason team on Apted's football documentary
Pathe Pictures and LA-based ReasonPictures are teaming up for Michael Apted's new feature documentary aboutfootball around the world. The film will feature sixintertwining stories in what Pathe calls a "moving examination of the socialimpact of the game across the world."It is currently inproduction, with footage already shot in South Africa, ...
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Lions Gate international sales soar before AFM
Riding high on Saw II's one-two punch following record North American and UK weekendlaunches that generated $31.7m and $3.8m respectively, Lions Gate FilmsInternational has announced a slew of major territory sales on three otherhorror pictures heading into AFM.The company has closed sales on most territories for James Isaac'swerewolf feature Skinwalkers ...
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Fortissimo adds The Bridge to AFM slate
Fortissimo Films has pickedup worldwide rights outside North America to documentary The Bridge, which marks the directing debut of former studioproduction executive Eric Steel. Filmed at the Golden GateBridge in San Francisco, the documentary examines the stories of the people whochose to commit suicide by jumping from the bridge in ...
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Middle East companies unite to acquire, finance films
Anew strategic alliance has been created in the Middle East between Dubai'sFront Row Entertainment, Lebanon's Shooting Stars and the Kuwait NationalCinema Company (KNCC). Thethree outfits will partner to jointly finance and acquire independent film. Ina statement, the companies said they were "committed to working proactivelywith the ministry of information in ...
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City Screen co-founder steps down after 16 years
Tony Jonesis leaving the City Screen arthouse chain he co-founded 16 years ago.He wants toconcentrate on developing the Cambridge Film Festival, although he will alsocontinue to programme the Arts Picturehouse in Cambridge and to act as afreelance consultant.CityScreen has developed into the UK's largest chain and has been a champion ...
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Scorsese, Kiarostami to teach workshops in Morocco
Martin Scorsese and Abbas Kiarostami will teach filmmakingworkshops in Morocco as part of an educational initiative between the TribecaFilm Institute and the Marrakech International Film Festival Foundation.Sixteen Moroccan and New York film students will participate inthe Marrakech/Tribeca Filmmaker Exchange set to take place from Nov 6-20 inconjunction with the fifth ...
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Indie thriller shoots in Oxford and London
UK-based Cat's Paw Productions hasstarted production on low-budget independent film Framed on location in Oxfordand around London. Shooting started on September 28 and will continue throughNovember 6. Jon Kirby (Jack of Diamonds,Requiem)is directing, with Crispin Manson and Matthew Stradling producing and Stephan Evans(Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, The Mother) ...
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Indie thriller shoots in Oxford and London
UK-based Cat's Paw Productions hasstarted production on low-budget independent film Framed on location in Oxfordand around London. Shooting started on September 28 and will continue throughNovember 6. Jon Kirby (Jack of Diamonds,Requiem)is directing, with Crispin Manson and Matthew Stradling producing and Stephan Evans(Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, The Mother) executive ...
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Horizon sources new supplier in Stadium
Rob Straight's Vancouver-based Horizon Entertainment has signed a dealwith Randy Purcell's Stadium Entertainment under which the partners will bringfour to six new pictures to world markets in 2006.The alliance will announce in due course their upcoming roster of English-languagetitles and promise pictures with worldwide appeal, name cast and globallyrecognisable directors.Horizon ...
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Rizvi, Merrill Lynch finance recapitalisation of ICM
US talent agency ICM has recapitalized as part of its expansionstrategy in a deal financed by Connecticut investor Suhail Rizvi's RizviTraverse Management and Merrill Lynch's Asset Based Finance Group.Terms of the deal remain confidential. What is known, however, is thatthe deal will allow agency chief Jeff Berg to develop ICM's ...
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Rotunda starts crime shoot in UK second city
UK production company Rotunda Films will start shooting this weekfor Lycanthropy, a feature film set in Birmingham.Kevin McDonagh (Open Window, Idol of Evil) iswriting, directing, and producing, with David Beaumont executive producing andserving as cinematographer. ITN Distribution are handling pre-sales and arelaunching the project during this week's AFM.The producers ...
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IMAX, Epic to build three giant screen theatres in Israel
IMAX Corp. and US-based EpicEntertainment have signed an agreement to install three giant-screen cinemas atmultiplexes throughout Israel. The new facilities willprogramme digitally re-mastered Hollywood films. Specific locationannouncements are pending. In a statement, Epic's Bennett Kaplan and PeterIsraelson said the company hopes to build on the success of its originalinvestment, a ...
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THINKFilm picks up worldwide rights to Beastie Boys doc
THINKFilm has picked up worldwide rights to the Beastie Boysconcert documentary Awesome; I Fuckin' Shot That and plans a spring 2006 theatricalrelease.Nathaniel Hornblower aka band member Adam Yauch directed thepicture, which features 50 difference audience perspectives from an October2004 concert in Madison Square Garden after the band handed out cameras ...
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Celluloid Dreams handles international sales on Atomised
CelluloidDreams is to handle international sales for Oskar Roehler's adaptation ofcontroversial French author Michel Houellebecq's best-selling novel Atomised(Elementarteilchen) which is currently in post-productionand may premiere at next year's Berlinale.Theco-production between Constantin Film and MOOVIE - the art of entertainment isthe first of Constantin's local in-house productions to be handled by ...
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Rezo takes on sales for Finnish martial arts movie Jade Warrior
Paris-based Rezo FilmsInternational is to handle sales on AJ Annila's Jade Warrior, the Scandinavian-Chinese co-production billed asFinland's first ever martial arts movie.Blind Spot Pictures, theFinnish co-producer of Lars Von Trier's Dancer In The Dark, is producing in association with San Fu Maltha's FuWorks in the Netherlands (Maltha's A-Films will release ...
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Perry appointed chief executive of Irish Film Board
In a widely-rumoured move, theIrish Film Board has confirmed the appointment of Simon Perry as CEO, effectiveJanuary 9 of next year.Perry, a former producer andhead of British Screen Finance between 1991 and 2000, is currently President ofAteliers du Cinema Europeen (ACE), the Paris based advanced professionaltraining initiative for European producers. ...
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Riding Alone For Thousands Of Miles (Qian Li Zou Dan Ji)
Dir: Zhang Yimou. HK-Chi-Jap. 2005. 108mins.The opening film at the Tokyo International Film Festival,Riding Alone For Thousands Of Miles isa departure for director Zhang Yimou from the big-budgetperiod spectacles he has been making of late and a return to the themes and ruralsettings some of his most-acclaimed earlier work.But instead ...
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Aardman Licenses Mobile Content In Global Deals
Aardman Animations, theUK-based company behind Wallace and Gromit, has signed a numberof deals licensing its content for mobile phone platforms. Tied to the release of Wallaceand Gromit: The Curse of theWere-Rabbit, Aardman has struck an exclusive partnership withOrange UK to cover movie downloads, wallpapers, voice tones and screensavers. Aardman has ...
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Rotterdam to host a record 30 Bals-supported titles
The upcoming Rotterdam Film Festival has selected 36 filmprojects to receive funding from the Hubert Bals Fund - as a record thirtycompleted fund-supported titles are set to screen at the festival itself (January25-Feb 5).The 36 projects, which include new works from Babak Payami,Josue Mendez, He Jianjun and Lisandro Alonso, will ...
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Foreign sales begin to dominate thinking for Korean producers
A seriesof hits have helped home-grown titles to a 58% share of the South Korea this year but Screendaily's latest production listings shows the growing importance of the international market.Squeezedprofits are forcing producers to rely on foreign sales in a way that is beginning to have a clear effect.The most ...