All Screen articles in 9 February 2007 – Page 4
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IFC takes domestic rights to Day Night Day Night
IFC Entertainment has acquired North American rights to Julia Loktev's drama Day Night Day Night and will release through its theatrical and cable day-and-date platform IFC First Take on May 9.The story centres on a young woman who arrives in New York on a mysterious mission of extreme social importance. ...
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Celluloid Dreams acquires Emotional Arithmetic
Celluloid Dreams has acquired international rights to Emotional Arithmetic, it was announced today (Friday) in Berlin. The movie, produced by Triptych Media and BBR Productions, directed by Paolo Barzman and starring Susan Sarandon, Christopher Plummer, Gabriel Byrne, Roy Dupuis and Max von Sydow is currently in post-production.Acquisitions and sales executive ...
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Vallee to direct Queen Victoria picture for King, Scorsese
Initial Entertainment Group's Graham King and regular collaborator Martin Scorsese have announced the follow-up to their Oscar nominated crime thriller The Departed, lining up a portrait of the early years of the life of Queen Victoria.The partners will serve as producers on The Young Victoria, with Jean-Marc Vallee of C.R.A.Z.Y. ...
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Kruger named MC at 60th Cannes
Diane Kruger will act as Mistress of Ceremonies for the 60th Cannes Film Festival.Kruger, who has made France her adopted home, will oversee the opening and closing ceremonies this coming May. The actress is best known to international audiences for her roles in Troy, National Treasure and 2005's Cannes selection ...
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United 93 named best film by London critics
United 93 has been named best film and Paul Greengrass best director by the London Film Critics' Circle.But it was The Queen which dominated, winning best British film, best British director for Stephen Frears, best screenwriter for Peter Morgan and best British actress for Dame Helen Mirren. Forest Whitaker ...
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Moviehouse takes on Selim's Sweetland
London-based Moviehouse Entertainment has taken on sales for Ali Selim's Sweetland Sweetland is a love story in the 1920s US, when a mail-order bride arrives from Norway to start her new life. The ensemble cast features Alan Cumming, John Heard, Alex Kingston, Ned Beatty, Elizabeth Reaser and Tim Guinea. The ...
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Lionsgate and Twisted team up for REPO!
Lionsgate and Saw franchise creator Twisted Pictures have announcedtheir next collaboration, teaming up on the horror tale REPO! TheGenetic Opera.Lionsgate president of international sales Stephanie Denton will showbuyers here a 12-minute promo-reel created by director Darren LynnBousman at a special event to be announced.Denton, president of acquisitions and co-productions Peter ...
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Glue picked up by Picture This!
Picture This! Entertainment has picked up North American rights from Lumina Films to first-time director Alexis Dos Santos' film Glue: Historia Adolescente En Medio De La Nada (Adolescent Story In The Middle Of Nowhere). The comedy-drama traces the coming-of-age antics of three bored small-town teenagers and stars Nahuel Viale Munoz, ...
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F&ME moves into UK distribution with Maiden Voyage
Prolific UK production house Film and Music Entertainment (F&ME) is entering into the distribution business with a new joint venture with London-based distributor Maiden Voyage Pictures. The companies will back the distribution business 50/50, and will release F&ME co-productions as well as third-party acquisitions, including those with F&ME's network of ...
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Frears, Morgan and Sheen reunite for The Damned Utd
The team behind Oscar-nominated The Queen will reunite for a project based on controversial 1970s English football manager Brian Clough, said producer Christine Langan, who recently joined BBC Films from Granada. Stephen Frears will direct The Damned Utd, while Peter Morgan is currently writing the screenplay adapted from David Peace's ...
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Cry Of The Owl picked up by Myriad
Myriad Pictures has picked up worldwide sales on the upcoming UK-Canadian Patricia Highsmith adaptation Cry Of The Owl starring Sarah Polley and David Morrissey. Jamie Thraves adapted the screenplay and will begin filming in Canada in June. Julia Sereny of Canada's Sienna Films and MACT Production's Antoine de Clermont-Tonnerre will ...
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Contender strikes UK deal for Weirdsville
Contender Entertainment Group has taken all UK rights from Shoreline Entertainment for Weirdsville. The black comedy recently opened the Slamdance Film Festival. Pump Up The Volume and Empire Records veteran Allan Moyle directed. Nicholas Tabarrok of Darius Films produced and Morris Ruskin of Shoreline executive produced. Weirdsville follows two slackers ...
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Trust ramps up international sales with Bier, Troell films
Oscar-nominated Danish director Susanne Bier (After The Wedding) is to make an international drama about a Holocaust survivor. Julius - the project's working title - is about a former prisoner at notorious death camp KZ who moves to Israel. Here, his past eventually catches up with him. The producer of ...
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New Korean buyer Inmoa launches at Berlin
New Korean importer/distributor Inmoa Entertainment has made its market debut at EFM this week. Thomas Kim, former acquisitions director at major Korean importer I Vision, has teamed up with Isaac Kwon, chief executive officer of IT venture Inmoa Communications, to set up this entertainment division. Kim, whose previous pick-ups include ...
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Gaumont previews Leclerq sci-fi feature in Berlin
Gaumont has announced a $12 million first feature from director Julien Leclercq.Chrysalis, is a science-fiction action thriller set in Paris in the year 2020 about two people with nothing in common: an innocent girl looking for her lost memories and a cop forced to pay for his.The cast includes Albert ...
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Cineclick sells rights to two features in Berlin
Cineclick Asia has closed deals on Berlinale competition film Tuya's Marriage to Italy and Forum title Ad Lib Night to Japan. Italy's Lucky Red president Andrea Occhipinti signed with Cineclick managing director Young-joo Suh after viewing a rough cut tape of Wang Quan-an's Tuya in Rotterdam. 'It was a discovery ...
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Reviews
La Vie En Rose (La Mome)
Dir: Olivier Dahan. Fr-UK-Czech Rep. 2006. 140mins.The biopic is a genre that the French film-makers have rarely shown much aptitude for, being the kind of (usually costly) project the British and Americans do better. But producer Alain Goldman and writer-director Olivier Dahan largely succeed with La Vie En Rose, a ...
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Features
United States - Mountain men
Paul Hardart had been working in Los Angeles for nine years when he decided to move back to New York and set up Adirondack Pictures with his brother Tom.In Los Angeles, Paul created and co-ran (with Claudia Gray) Universal Focus, the specialty division of Universal Pictures. He also founded Universal's ...
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Production - The view from Ireland
When The Wind That Shakes The Barley picked up the Palme d'Or at Cannes last May it was the start of an undeniably upbeat year for the Republic of Ireland's film industry. Ken Loach's film, set and shot in and around Cork, showcased Ireland's locations to an international audience and ...
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Industry moves
Chorot steps down as Gaumont CEOGaumont co-CEO Franck Chorot has stepped down from his post. Chorot will continue to work with the French major as an in-house producer as well as working on co-productions. Following a stint as the head of UIP France, Chorot returned to the Gaumont fold in ...