All Screen articles in 7 November 2007 – Page 11
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Cumming and Romijn reteam go mad for AV's Hatter
Alan Cumming and Rebecca Romijn will reunite after X2 to star in Hatter.James Killough wrote the script and will make his feature film directorial debut.Killough will also produce with Angad Paul; Paul's UK-based company AV Pictures is handling sales. Cumming and Romijn will play Matt Hatter and Alice Allyson in ...
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K5 International picks up sales on McCarthy's The Visitor
Germany- and UK-based K5 International has taken on world sales rights to The Visitor.Groundswell Productions and Participant Productions backed the Tom McCarthy drama, his follow-up to The Station Agent.The Visitor had its world premiere in Toronto to solid reviews. Overture Films picked up North American rights in September and plan ...
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Tuya's Marriage pulls out of Golden Horse race
Berlin Golden Bear winner Tuya's Marriage has withdrawn from Taiwan's Golden Horse Awards race. Executive producer Wang Le made the official request to the Golden Horse organisers on Wednesday, just four days after nominations were announced. The Mongolian-set drama was one of the highest profile entries set to compete at ...
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T&C, Sony Music Japan team for Japanese girl band comedy
T&C Pictures and Sony Music Entertainment Japan has begun shooting the comedy Lock And Roll Forever in Salt Lake City, Los Angeles and Japan.Chris Grismer is directing the story of an all-girl teenage band from a working class industrial city in Japan that travels to America in search of fame ...
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Oz start-up Cyan Films set to produce Auction with Ghobadi
Julie Ryan, who has produced director Rolf de Heer's films for the past decade, and new media producer Kate Croser have set up Cyan Films, a new Adelaide-based production company. One of their films, Auction, could be the first co-production between Australia and Iran. The directorial debut of Granaz Moussavi ...
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Tribeca promotes David Kwok, adds La'Bassiere and Terranova
The Tribeca Film Festival has promoted David Kwok to director of programming and added Genna Terranova as senior programmer.The festival is creating a year-round industry department, with Julie La'Bassiere coming on board as director of industry relations.Terranova and Kwok will both concentrate on core festival programming (with artistic director Peter ...
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Hallam Foe tops BAFTA Scotland nominations
Hallam Foe leads the nominations for the 2007 BAFTA Scotland Awards which will be presented in Glasgow on November 18. David Mackenzie's tale of a disturbed teenager coming to terms with the death of his mother has been nominated for Best Film, Best Screenplay, Best Actor for Jamie Bell and ...
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Hallam Foe tops BAFTA Scotland nominations
Hallam Foe leads the nominations for the 2007 BAFTA Scotland Awards which will be presented in Glasgow on November 18. David Mackenzie's tale of a disturbed teenager coming to terms with the death of his mother has been nominated for Best Film, Best Screenplay, Best Actor for Jamie Bell and ...
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Radio Free Albemuth starts shoot
Principal photography has begun on John Alan Simon's Philip K Dick adaptation Radio Free Albemuth starring Alanis Morissette.Jonathan Scarfe, Shea Whigham, Katheryn Winnick and Hanna Hall also star in the Discovery Productions and Open Pictures story about an extra-terrestrial plot to bring down a corrupt regime through the power of ...
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Lock And Roll up and running
T & C Pictures and Sony Music Entertainment Japan has begun shooting in Salt Lake City, Los Angeles and Japan the comedy Lock And Roll Forever.Chris Grismer is directing the story of an all-girl teenage band from a working class industrial city in Japan that travels to America in search ...
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German animation is highest entry to Screen's international chart
Germany's animated adventure Lissi Und Der Wilde Kaiser was the highest non-US entry into the international top 40 this weekend, taking $6.9m from 905 screens across three territories. For the full chart, click hereThe comedy, released through Constantin Film, opened to number four in the chart and enjoyed a $7,609 ...
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Southland Tales
Dir: Richard Kelly, USA, 2007, 144minsSouthland Tales, re-cut since its world premiere at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival, is apocalyptic vaudeville, as politicians, cops, Iraq veterans porn stars and an amnesiac actor scramble to fulfil or forestall conspiracies in Los Angeles, culminating in a world-ending Fourth of July. It's an ...
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Sales expert Steinman joins CAA
Film sales expert and former Sloss Law Office partner Dan Steinman has joined CAA as a film finance expert and sales agent.Based in CAA's New York office, Steinman will support the agency's growth in the film sales arena and its independent film financing business.Over the past three years, CAA has ...
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Days and Clouds (Giorni e Nuvole)
Dir: Silvio Soldini Italy/Switzerland 2007. 115 mins.The strongest of the five Italian films that received their national premieres at the Rome Film Fest, Days and Clouds (which also played in Toronto and London) is a fine piece of emotional eye-on-the-object filmmaking from homegrown auteur Silvio Soldini and regular screenplay sidekick ...
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UCLA student wins top prize at Samuel Goldwyn Writing Awards
UCLA student Jennifer O'Kieffe's dark coming-of-age story Sex And Sylvia Plath has won the 52nd Annual Samuel Goldwyn Writing Awards' $15,000 first prize. Second place and $7,500 went to UCLA's Michael Vukadinovich's comedy Buckabee and third place and a $4,000 prize was awarded to UCLA's Mark C Humphrey's satirical comedy ...
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School break and London Film Festival boost UK box office
The UK's top 20 films were collectively up 15% compared to last weekend largely due to school half-term holidays and added awareness from the London Film Festival. Over the weekend, the top 20 generated $20.3m from 4,450 screens despite only four new entrants. For the full UK chart click here.Horror ...
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Jinga Films takes on Welsford's thriller Jetsam
UK-based Jinga Films has acquired worldwide rights to thriller Jetsam.Simon Welsford wrote and directed the conspiracy thriller starring Alex Reid, Shauna Macdonald, Jamie Draven and Cal Macanich.Rosana Coutinho, Jinga's head of sales, compared the project to Chris Nolan's Following and Memento. The film had its world premiere at the Times ...
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Paramount Vantage kicks off sales slate with new Ferrell, Kentis projects
Paramount Vantage arrives at its first market as a fully operational sales entity with six fresh projects for buyers including new work from Will Ferrell and Open Water director Chris Kentis.Kentis' untitled follow-up to his 2003 worldwide hit Open Water is being lined up for a February 2008 shoot and ...
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Easternlight takes on Japanese project Sasori
Easternlight has acquired worldwide rights excluding Japan and several other Asian territories to the Japanese martial arts film Sasori.The saga about a vengeful sword-wielding woman is based on the 1970s comic books and cult film series and was the inspiration for Kill Bill.Easternlight managing director Ying Ye acquired the film, ...
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Voltage to start pre-sales on Romero's Diary sequel
Artfire Films and Romero-Grunwald Productions have greenlit a sequel to George A Romero's Dairy Of The Dead hot on the heels of the film's successful premiere in Toronto.Voltage Pictures will commence international pre-sales at AFM. Cinetic Media will handle domestic rights, as it did on Diary. The Weinstein Company snapped ...