All Screen articles in 7 November 2006 – Page 3
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Mortagne and Terryn get new posts at Benelux distributor Paradiso
Benelux distributor ParadisoFilm Entertainment has named Olivier Mortagne as its new head of international acquisitionsand Patrick Terryn as chief operating officer. The appointments come in thewake of Erich Engelen's departure from the company earlier in the summer. Asannounced earlier this week, Engelen has now joined A-Film.The appointment of Mortagneis seen ...
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Borat make glorious box office benefits for Fox
Sacha Baron Cohen'soutrageous faux Kazakh journalist Borat had too much chutzpah for the competition at the weekend and opened topthrough Fox on an estimated $26.4m.The result is remarkablegiven that Fox only launched the picture on 837 screens for a stunning $31,511average. Larry Charles directed.Borat's domestic resultovershadowed Buena Vista's comedy sequel ...
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Song Kang-ho gets batty with Park Chan-wook
The Host star Song Kang-ho will reteam with Park Chan-wook onhis next film Bat (workingtitle).Park and Song previouslyworked together on JSA (2000) andSympathy for Mr. Vengeance(2002).CJ Entertainment iscurrently selling Park's next film I'm A Cyborg, But It's OK and CJ will also sell Bat, a vampire movie being scripted by ...
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Media Asia assembles buyers for Feng
Hong Kong-based Media Asiahas boarded Feng Xiaogang's The Assemblyas co-producer and already sold almost all the territories it's handling on the$10m war epic.Media Asia is handling salesin South-East Asia and has sold the film to Thailand's Rose Media and Entertainment, Golden ScreenCinemas in Malaysia and Galaxy Studio in Vietnam. In ...
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GreeneStreet reunites with producer Katz on Adverbs
GreeneStreet Films (GSF) andproducer Ross Katz are partnering up to adapt Lemony Snicket novelist Daniel Handler's romance Adverbs.Katz, who worked with GSF on InThe Bedroom, approached the New York-basedcompany with the project about a series of characters who come and go in eachother's lives under an atmosphere of impending doom."We ...
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Locarno Film Festival adds international shorts competition section
The Locarno InternationalFilm Festival has a delegation in AFM prepping for next year's 60thanniversary edition which runs Aug 1 to 11, 2007.Artistic director FredericMaire, who took over from Irene Bignardi in Oct 2005, has announced that thefestival is looking to introduce an international shorts competition sectionfor the first time next ...
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Mischa Barton to star in Malice In Sunderland
The team behindMichael Radford's Flawless has reteamed with Future Films for Malice InSunderland, set to starMischa Barton.Simon Fellowswill direct the contemporary take on the Lewis Carroll classic, scripted byJayson Rothwell. The UK shoot will start in early 2007.Fellowspreviously directed 7 Seconds with Wesley Snipes and Second In Command and Til ...
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Lindsay Lohan to star in Tennessee Williams project
Lindsay Lohan will star in an adaptation of Tennessee Williams' previously unpublished play The Loss Of A Teardrop Diamond.Ellen Burstyn, David Strathairn, Chris Evans and Ann-Margret are also believed to be attached to the project, which has fast become one of the most hotly pursued titles at AFM.Brad Gilbert of ...
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Tazza: The High Rollers (Tajja)
Dir/scr: Choi Dong-hoon. S Kor. 2006. 139mins.The undisputed homegrown box-office champion of late inSouth Korea - where it took some three million admissions in its first fortnight- Tazza: The High Rollers is a gambling caper thatraces off from the word go and doesn't slow down for the next 139 minutes.Choi ...
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Seville gets pre-sale interest for Global Metal
Seville International hasmade several pre-sale deals here at the AFM for Global Metal, the follow-up to music documentary Metal: AHeadbangers Journey. The project isnow shooting.Deals have been made withAmuse Soft in Japan, Pretty Pictures in France, Europa Filmes for Brazil,Future Films for Scandinavia and D Productions for Turkey. Mikado has ...
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Turtle Family (Familia Tortuga)
Dir/scr: Ruben Imaz Castro. Mex. 2006. 130mins.Turtle Family heralds Ruben Imaz Castro as the next voice from theMexican counter-current, as unconventional and challenging in his own way aspredecessors like Carlos Reygadas or Amat Escalante, if not as brazenly outrageous. His operaprima lasts 130 minutes, during which very little actually happens ...
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Frappier prepares English-language remake of La Grande Seduction
Roger Frappier'sQuebec-based Max Films, whose The Secret Life Of Happy People is screening in AFI FEST, has announced details of aslate of new English and French-language projects.First off is hisEnglish-language remake of Jean-Francois Pouliot's box-office hit La GrandeSeduction aka Seducing Dr Lewis which is being scripted by Ken Scott.Other English-languageprojects ...
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Hong Kong film festival sets new industry direction
The Hong Kong International Film Festival (HKIFF) is changing dates next year - to coincide with Hong Kong Filmart - and is undergoing a major repositioning to reflect changes in the international festival scene.Next year's HKIFF will open on March 20 and run for 18 days. The first nine days ...
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Sony goes for Untraceable starring Diane Lane
Sony Pictures has made itssecond major buy here with the acquisitionof North American and LatinAmerican rights to Gregory Hoblit's FBIcybercop thriller Untraceable starring Diane Lane.Screen Gems will release theproject in North America and SonyPictures Releasing International willdistribute in Latin America. Screen Gems president Clint Culpepper did the dealwith LakeshoreInternational, which ...
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Kimmel sells multiple territories for Death At A Funeral
Sidney KimmelEntertainment's foreign sales arm Kimmel Internationalhas closedmultiple territories on comedy Death At A Funeral starringMatthew Macfadyen, Peter Dinklage andEwen Bremner.Rights have gone to Germany(Concorde), Italy (Mikado), Spain (DeaPlaneta), Scandinavia (Scanbox),and South Africa (Nu Metro).Frank Oz directed the project aboutdysfunctional British relativeswho attend the riotous funeral of afamily patriarch. Alan ...
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Tenacious D In The Pick Of Destiny
Dir: Liam Lynch. US. 2006.97mins.Jack Black's mock-rock duo Tenacious D may be atongue-in-cheek musical enterprise but it's had enough success to justify above-the-titlebilling on The Pick OfDestiny, a sweetly raunchy slacker comedy purporting to tell the story ofthe band's early struggle for rock 'n' roll legitimacy. While the comedy is ...
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THINKFilm closes sales on three titles with distributor trio
THINKFilm is drawing stronginterest on its sales slate at AFM and has closed a number of deals on threetitles.Rights to Ripple Effect have gone to Luxor in Russia, HollywoodEntertainment in Greece, and Front Row in the Middle East.Ripple Effect stars Forrest Whitaker, who is earning rave reviewsfor his portrayal of ...
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Jinga closes Netherlands deal on Winstone-starrer Everything
At its first AFM, recentlyformed UK sales outfit Jinga has closed deals on a raft of titles.The UK-based company, run bydirector-producer-sales agent Julien Richards, Rosana Coutinho and Mike Tims,has now sold BAFTA-nominated Everything, starring Ray Winstone (The Departed) to Indie Films for the Netherlands and is fieldingoffers from the US, ...
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Trust takes on sales of Kormakur's Jar City
Danish salesoutfit Trust has taken on international sales of Baltasar Kormakur's JarCity. The film hasalready enjoyed the biggest opening in Icelandic history, racking up admissionsof over 60,000 - representing one in five of the population - since its releasein mid-October.All territoriesare open excluding Germany, where ADR has taken the rights, ...
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A Dirty Carnival (Biyeolhan Geori)
Dir/scr: Ha Yu. S Kor. 2006. 141mins.Updating the theory that war is politics pursued byother means, A Dirty Carnival arguesthat the criminal underworld is simply corporate business employing differenttools. Tracing the rise and fall of an ambitious but insufficiently ruthless Seoulthug, Ha Yu's new feature is reminiscent of Friend,Korea's best ...