All Screen articles in 8 August 2005 – Page 2
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BSkyB in talks to acquire UK cinemas
UK satellite giant BSkyB isreportedly in talks to buy six UGC multiplex theatres from US private equityfirm The Blackstone Group.Sky chief operating officerRichard Freudenstein is said to be spearheading the talks, with a bid rumouredto be around £30m, according to Broadcast magazine.Sky reportedly plans to usethe cinemas as part of ...
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Imax signs eighth US cinema deal of 2005
IMAX Corp. and SaltLake City-based LHM Group have signed an agreement to install one of itsgiant-screen cinema systems at the Jordan Commons Megaplex in the city.The 17-screen complexis the highest-grossing in Utah. The deal will see an existing 70mm auditoriumretrofitted as an IMAX facility; it should be operational by Autumn ...
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Jeremy Thomas readies Royle's Director's Cut
Britishproducer Jeremy Thomas, who picks up the Locarno Film Festival's prestigiousRaimondo Rezzonico award today, has revealed further details of what looks setto be his second film as a director.The Director's Cut is an adaptation of NicholasRoyle's novel. Royle has already written a draft of the screenplay and Thomashopes to shoot ...
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Stoned
Dir: Stephen Woolley. UK.2005. 102mins.Veteran UK producerStephen Woolley makes an accomplished directorial debut with Stoned, anabsorbing portrait of Brian Jones, the founding member of The Rolling Stones,and the events surrounding his death on July 2, 1969. Rich in period atmosphereand music, the film possesses the same knowing style and historical ...
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Mimmo Rotella to head Venice's Orizzonti jury
Italian artist Mimmo Rotellawill head the jury of Venice's Orizzonti competition, the Biennale hasannounced.Milan-based Rotella, who isone of Italy's leading contemporary artists, will be joined on the jury bySpanish writer-director Isabel Coixet, whose latest film, The Secret Life OfWords, with Tim Robbins and Sarah Polley, opens Orizzonti out-of-competition. Italian actor ...
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Montreal unveils full competition line-up
Iranian filmmaker MohsenMakhmalbaf's Sex And Philosophy andveteran Canadian director Claude Gagnon's Kamatakiare among 22 titles selected for the 29th Montreal World Film Festival's Competition. Other world premieres includeSwiss filmmaker Simon Aeby's six-territory coproductionThe Headsman;Bosnia-Herzegovina-Croatia title Go Westfrom Ahmed Imamovic; Jocelyne Saab's Duniaand UK hostage drama Red Mercury,directed by Roy Battersby, ...
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Newsday's Seymour to chair NY Critics Circle
New York Newsday critic Gene Seymour will take over as chairman ofthe New York Film Critics Circle (NYFCC) this year as the group prepares tounveil its award winners on Dec 12.Over the years the group has demonstrated a hit-and-missrecord as an Oscar bellweather, and members' sensibilities are less commercialand more ...
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North African countries launch Maghreb promotional body
Filmmakers from Tunisia, Algeria and Moroccohave joined forces to launch Maghreb Cinemas, an international promotional bodyfor the three countries' film industries.The initiative was unveiled during this year's Open Doorsworkshop in Locarno where 25 filmmakers from the Maghreb region presented newfeature projects to potential production partners from Western Europe.Maghreb Cinemas will ...
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Shortlist narrows in search for new Locarno director
With less than a week to go beforeLocarno's board makes a decision on the successor to Irene Bignardi as thefestival's artistic director, the news on the festival grapevine is that thechoice will be between two names: Jean Perret, director of the Nyon DocumentaryFilm Festival "Visions du Reel", and Frederic Maire, ...
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Higuchi named head of licensing at Constantin
Yoko Higuchi has been promoted to the post ofhead of licensing at Munich-based Constantin Film.She will work closely with Constantin's CEO Fred Kogel onall licensing and sales activities and also oversee international acquisitionsin tandem with Kogel and Herman Weigel.Over the past two years, Higuchi played a key role in theacquisition ...
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Dellal readies On A Clear Day follow-ups
British filmmaker Gaby Dellal, whose film On A Clear Dayscreened to an enthusiastic response at the Locarno Film Festival at theweekend, is to team up with producers Dorothy Berwin and Sarah Curtis on asecond project. The new film, again to be scripted by Alex Rose, has theworking title Excess Baggage. ...
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Universal lures Scott for Book Of Leo
Seann William Scott, currently riding high following lastweekend's number one launch of The Dukes Of Hazzard, is being lined up to star in the comedy BookOf Leo for Universal Pictures.The project is being put together by Marc PlattProductions and Scott and Graham Larson's Identity Films, which both have termdeals with ...
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Riviera
Dir/scr:Anne Villaceque. Fr. 2005. 94mins.Emotionaldysfunction, repressed sexuality and Southern sunshine make a potentlydisturbing combination in Riviera, second feature by French directorAnne Villaceque. In her 2000 debut Petite Cherie, Villaceque establishedtroubled female sexuality as her key theme, and she returns to it with avengeance in this subtly intense portrayal of a ...
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Picturehouse unveils senior marketing team
Bob Berney's fledgling NewYork-based distribution company Picturehouse has consolidated its marketingteam by fusing former staff members from both Newmarket Films and Fine Line Features.As previously announced, Marian Koltai-Levine and Dennis O'Connor will head upthe department as executive vice presidents of marketing, while Nina Baron joins as seniorvice president of national ...
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London hosts shoot of Pfeiffer/Heckerling project
Principal photography isunderway in London on Amy Heckerling's $27m romantic comedy I Could Never BeYour Woman starring MichellePfeiffer.Paul Rudd and Tracey Ullmanalso star in the story of a successful businesswoman who encounters nothing butstress in her love life.Fred Willard and Mel Smithalso feature in the cast and there are cameos ...
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The Great Raid
Dir: John Dahl. US. 2005.130mins.The inherent messiness ofarmed combat gets a full and solemn workout in director John Dahl's detailed,solidly staged World War II liberation flick The Great Raid, anold-fashioned movie of stark moral clarity that will appeal to hardcore genrefans and flag-waving American patriots, but not likely make a ...
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Sydney festival poised for major overhaul
The SydneyFilm Festival (SFF) is to hold a major review of its activities, including areassessment of it dates and venues.The movefollows news that both president Cathy Robinson and general manager JenniferNaughton have stepped down. "The festival has to finditself a position of prominence in the hectic international film festivalcalendar, and ...
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Secuestro Express
Dir/scr: JonathanJakubowicz. Venez-US. 2005. 86mins.The debut feature fromVenezuelan-born 26 year-old Jonathan Jakubowicz, Secuestro Express is abold warts-and-all chronicle of a commonplace kidnapping on the brutal streetsof Caracas. Shot on digital video and filled with the kind of flash kineticenergy which will get him noticed on the world map, the film ...
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IndieWIRE, Emerging Pictures team up on Undiscovered Gems
New York-based indieWIRE and distributorEmerging Pictures have partnered up to take undistributed filmsto cities across the United States.The Undiscovered Gems venture will bring six to 10 titles from indieWIRE'sannual list of the best undistributed films to at least 12 cities nationwide.The official selection of films chosen for syndication will be ...
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Music producer Nicolo launches distribution venture
Grammy Award-winningmusic producer Joe Nicolo has teamed up with a group of entrepreneurs to launch Kindred Media Group.Backed by private equity, the new distribution venturewill handle domestic and international rights on projects and will be headed upby new media entrepreneur Jeffrey D Erb, who founded the business-to-businesstechnology company precision Media, ...
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