All Screen articles in 7 November 2006 – Page 4
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Momentum buys sci-fi movie Tomo from Becker
Momentum Pictures has boughtUK rights to Paul Catling's science fiction movie Tomo from Becker International. The film, which has beendeveloped and will be produced by Matthew Justice, is based on the short filmof the same name which won the international short film prize at the 2004Sundance Film Festival.The deal was ...
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Volver, Babel bookend Goa International Film Festival
Pedro Almodovar's Volver will open the 37th International FilmFestival of India Goa which runs from Nov 23 to Dec 3. Alejandro GonzalezInarritu's Babel is the closingnight film.Films from 40 countries willbe screened in the "Cinema Of The World" section and the festival will featureretrospectives of the work of actor Javier ...
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Others and Volver lead European Film Awards noms
German hit The Lives Of Others, which was controversially snubbed by both Berlin and Cannes, has won six European Film Award nominations including those for film, director and screenwriter. The only other title with six nods was Pedro Almodovar's widely loved Volver. Both films are considered frontrunners for this year's ...
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Celluloid banks on Asian directors, strikes studio deals
Paris-based sales andproduction outfit Celluloid Dreams is to handle sales on Camera D'Or winnerNaomi Kawase's new feature, provisionally titled Mogari No Mori. The film, in post-production and likely to be vyingfor a place in official selection in Cannes, is about an old man saying goodbyeto his dead widow. This old ...
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TWC buys North American rights to Klaus Barbie doc
The Weinstein Company (TWC) has bought North American rights fromWild Bunch to Kevin MacDonald's upcoming Klaus Barbie documentary My Enemy'sEnemy.My Enemy's Enemy investigates the legacy of the former Gestapo commander known as'The Butcher Of Lyon' who terrorised Lyon and the surrounding region fromNovember 1942 to August 1944.The project follows Barbie ...
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Strand buys two for North America from Fortissimo
Strand Releasing has pickedup North American rights to two films from Fortissimo Films - ApichatpongWeerasethakul's Syndromes And A Century and Tsai Ming-liang's I Don't Want To Sleep Alone. Both films, which played in competition at theVenice Film Festival and at Toronto, were commissioned as part of the City OfVienna's New ...
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Six Sales sells titles to Beverly Hills, Quality in Latin America
Madrid-based sales outfitSix Sales has sold Latin American rights to Beverly Hills Enterainment for itsnew CGI animated feature Noah's Lark. The film is directed by LA-based Raul Garcia, whose previous creditsinclude Aladdin, through new company Kandor Graphics. Itwill be ready for delivery in 2008.Six Sales is also doing aroaring trade ...
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AFM Internet problems continue to frustrate sellers
As Internet outagescontinued to frustrate AFM attendees, market organizers said that no decisionhad been made about compensating exhibitors for their headaches.After Internet outagethroughout the Loews for most of Thursday, there was spotty access on Fridayand another outage on Saturday from 8:30 am until after 3 pm. The Loewscontinued to blame ...
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Revolver signs AFM deals for Zoo and Tell No One
UK distributor RevolverEntertainment has announced several key acquisitions for its 2007 releaseslate, with two new titles acquired here at AFM: Guillaume Canet's Tell NoOne (Ne Le Dis A Personne) fromEuropaCorp and Robinson Devor's Zoofrom ThinkFilm.Tell No One, based on Harlan Coben's novel, is a French-languagethriller starring Canet with Kristin Scott ...
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Scott Walker: 30 Century Man
Dir: Stephen Kijak. UK. 2006. 90mins.A great enigma of modern music sheds a few layers ofopacity in Stephen Kijak's revealing documentary Scott Walker: 30 Century Man. With a challenging new record recently issued, thereclusive, sporadically active American-born singer is seen at close quarters,while collaborators and assorted music notables, including executive ...
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Samantha Horley promoted as Lumina expands
Samantha Horleyhas been promoted to managing director of London-based Lumina Films and willnow take a stake in the company, parent company International Film Collectiveannounced. Horley had been head of sales since September 2004 after previoussales positions at Myriad Pictures, Summit Entertainment and Polygram Films. Also, the companyhas expanded by adding ...
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Japan's Style Jam picks up sales, remake rights to Seven Days
Japan's Style Jam haspicked up international sales and remake rights to comedy drama, Seven DaysOf Assistant Manager Tsubakiyama,which is scheduled for a wide release in Japan on Nov 18.Produced by Be Wild,the film is about a fat, bald middle manager who passes away, but gets thechance to return to earth ...
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Equinoxe takes Canadian rights to I'm Reed Fish
Following on a US deal withNetflix's Red Envelope, I'm Reed Fish has now gone to Equinoxe Films for Canada.The deal was negotiated byCAA's Roeg Sutherland and Brian Kavanaugh Jones, as well as SubmarineEntertainment's Josh Braun, on behalf of Squared Foot producer Bader Alwazzan.Marie-Claude Poulin negotiated the deal on behalf of ...
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Shochiku buys Closing The Ring from Content
Shochiku hastaken Japanese rights to Richard Attenborough's Closing The Ring, in a deal here at the AFM withContentFilm International.ContentFilm also has closed deals on the film with Hopscotch in Australia, TeleMunchen in Germany, Alliance Atlantis/Odeon in Canada, A-Film in The Netherlands, Lusumundo in Portugal, Monolith in Poland, Gussi in Mexico, ...
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Basinger-starrer sells to Optimum, Manga, Square One
Voltage Pictures has closed key territories at AFM on the upcomingKim Basinger thriller While She Was Out which has Guillermo del Toro serving as executive producer.Rights have gone to Optimum in the UK, Manga Films in Spain, andSquare One in Germany. Sales chief Nicolas Chartier also reported stronginterest from Japan ...
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Seville strikes flurry of deals for Bon Cop, Bad Cop
Seville International hasbooked the first eight foreign deals for Canadian hit Bon Cop, Bad Cop here at the AFM.The film has gone toAlphaville for Brazil, Future Films for Scandinavia, RTL Televizio for Hungary,J-Bics for Thailand, D Productions for Turkey, Tandem for Bulgaria, MG for theformer Yugoslavia and Lizard Trade for ...
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Actress/director Adrienne Shelly found dead in New York
Actress, writer and directorAdrienne Shelly was found dead in her New York City apartment on Wednesday inan apparent suicide. The Medical Examiner has not ruled on the official causeof death.Shelly, 40, was known forher roles in Hal Hartley's 1989 The Unbelievable Truth and 1990 Trust and she recently appeared in ...
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Italian exhibitor pulls Miami Vice in release window row
Italian Multiplex Association ANEM has removed all copies of Miami Vice from Italian theatres in a row over DVD release windows.The action follows complaints raised yesterday by the country's entertainment trade organisation Agis about the gap between the UIP film's theatrical and DVD releases.President of ANEM Carlo Bernaschi told Screendaily.com ...
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Wide takes on sales for Kavaite's Ecoute Le Temps
Paris-based Wide Managementhas added Alante Kavaite's Ecoute Le Temps to its line up going into the AFM. The Lithuanian film stars EmilieDequenne, Ludmila Mikael and Mathieu Demy and will be premiered at the AFIFest. US remake rights have been sold to Joe Dante with Edouardo Rodriguezattached to direct. Robert Rodriguez ...
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Rowlands and Deneuve sign on for Persepolis
Gena Rowlands and CatherineDeneuve have signed on to the voice cast of the English-language adaptation ofIranian author Marjane Satrapi's award-winning autobiographical comic books Persepolis and Persepolis 2.The animated feature iscurrently in production in France and will be released through Sony PicturesClassics in North America. Deneuve will voice the role of ...