All Screen articles in 9 June 2006 – Page 3
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Zauner promoted to vp, Asia sales, at Fox TV Distribution
Brendan Zauner has been promoted to vice president of sales forAsia for Twentieth Century Fox Television Distribution.Zauner,who has held the post of director of sales for Asia sincejoining the company in May 2003, will remain in the company's Australianoffices in Sydney. He will continue to report to Richard Samuels, senior ...
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Rezo strikes 12 Cannes pre-sales on Canada's Belle Bete
Paris-based sales companyRezo Films has announced Cannes pre-sales on 12 territories for Quebecois titleLa Belle Bete, Karim Hussain'sadaptation of the Marie-Claire Blais novel. The film, co-produced byMontreal-based companies Equinoxe Productions and Screen Machine, has dealswith United Home Entertainment for Thailand and Vietnam, California Filmes for Brazil, Odeon for Greece ...
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Kigali crosses C$1m at Quebec box office for Equinoxe
Eight weeks into itsrelease, Robert Favreau's Rwandan genocide drama A Sunday In Kigali (Un Dimanche A Kigali) is the first Quebecois film of 2006 to pass theC$1m ($900,000) benchmark at the local box office. Shot on location in Rwanda,the film stars veteran Quebec star Luc Picard and Senegalese actress FatouN'Diaye. ...
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6/6/06 launch proves record-breaking for Fox's Omen
Twentieth Century Fox's The Omen has scored the biggest ever Tuesdayopening in US box office history with an estimated $12.6m take.Studio chiefs released the satanic horror remake on Jun 6 -or 6/6/06 - reflecting the numeric representation of the devil that isreferred to in the film.In an ironic twist of ...
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Carolina Herrera starts new film awards with UK's NFTS
Fashionbrand Carolina Herrera New York is launching its new 212Innovation Awards, with the first year to focus on film.Thedesign company is working with the National Film and Television School in the UK for the awards, with support fromthe UK government's Arts & BusinessNew Partners scheme.The competitionis open to aspiring film-makers ...
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Pathe's busy Cannes led by Loach's Barley
Ken Loach's The Wind That Shakes TheBarley came away from Cannes with the Palme d'Orand a slew of sales for Pathe Pictures International.Pathe sold rights to Cinequanon for Japan, Triangel Film for Sweden, Shani Films for Israel, Dongsoong Art Center for South Korea, Best Film for Poland, Ster-Kinekor for South ...
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TWC picks up Korean action title City Of Violence
The Weinstein Company (TWC) hasacquired all North American rights to Korean action film The City Of Violence, directed by Ryoo Seung-wan. Known for martial artsfantasy Arahan and last year'sDirector's Fortnight entry Crying Fist,Ryoo also stars in The City Of Violence,alongside martial arts choreographer Jung Doo-hong.Jung plays Tae-soo, a Seoul police ...
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Re-Cycle
Directed by Danny & Oxide Pang. HongKong/Thailand 2006. 108 mins.ThisLin Sinjee vehicle is a calling card for the FarEastern special effects industry, creating a persuasively dark Alice Through the Looking Glass parallel universe with shadesof Terry Gilliam, Spirited Away and What Dreams May Come. Butthemoody fright-power of the Pang brothers' ...
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Miramax develops US satire Homeland Insecurity
MiramaxFilms is developing the satirical comedy Homeland Insecurity with the former editor-in-chief of The Onion RobertSiegel.Basedon a screenplay by Siegel, the project will be produced by David Miner and 3Arts Entertainment, and follows two ordinary Arab-Americans who get mistakenfor terrorists while on a business trip to Texas.Miramax'sdirector of production David ...
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Deals flurry for Darclight on Hood Of Horror
ArclightFilms' genre imprint Darclight Films concluded a raft of sales in Cannes on thehorror-comedy package Snoop Dogg's Hood Of Horror.Dealsclosed with Presidio in Japan, Tiberius in Germany, Dutch Film Works inBenelux, Gulf Films in the Middle East, and MFI in Thailand.Directedby Stacy Title, Snoop Dogg's Hood Of Horror comprises three ...
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SKE gets Yelchin, Downey for Charlie Bartlett
SidneyKimmel Entertainment (SKE) is preparing to shoot the coming-of-age story CharlieBartlett this month starring AntonYelchin, Robert Downey Jr and Hope Davis.Theproject is the latest title to join MGM's burgeoning domestic distributionpipeline and will be sold overseas through Kimmel International.DavidPermut, Barron Kidd, Jay Roach and Sidney Kimmel are producing and SKEpresident ...
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Buenos Aires 1977
Dir:Israel Adrian Caetano,Argentina. 2006. 102minsBased on a true story set in 1970s Argentina,Israel Adrian Caetano’s Bueno Aires 1977(Cronaca De Una Fuga) is a familiar story of a prison break-out told infamiliar terms.Snapped up at Cannes by TheWeinstein Company for the US, whereit opens in January 2007, and Australasia, the film ...
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Nantucket Film Festival gets political with God Spoke, Ground Truth
Politics is writ large over this month's 11th Annual NantucketFilm Festival, with Liberal commentator Al Franken and a contingent of Iraq Warveterans set to make appearances.Franken is supporting Nick Doob and Chris Hegedus' documentary GodSpoke, which chronicleshis ongoing fight against the Right Wing.The Centrepiece screening is the Iraq War documentary ...
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TWC close to three-picture deal with Zhang Ziyi
Harvey and Bob Weinstein are in negotiations with Chinesesuperstar Zhang Ziyi to star in three pictures.It is understood the deal includes a live-action version of Mulanand a remake of AkiraKurosawa's 1954 action classic The Seven Samurai. The third project remained unknown attime of writing.The brothers are likely to seek local ...
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The Break-Up
Dir: Peyton Reed. US. 2006. 107mins.Poor star chemistry and a screenplay without a first act - and not much of a final one, either - turn this highly anticipated romantic comedy starring Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Aniston into a keen disappointment. But the film has so far proved critic-proof. Thanks ...
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here! acquires worldwide rights to Brown's Race
Regent Releasing will release Russell Brown's Race You To TheBottom in early 2007after sister company here! Films acquired worldwide rights.The feature directorial debut stars Cole Williams as a gay traveljournalist who invites his female lover, played by Amber Benson, on a romantictrip to California's Napa Valley wine country.Jeremy Lelliott, Danielle ...
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Janus Films to get 50 year celebration during New York Film Festival
TheNew York Film Festival will hold a retrospective of the films released by 50year-old US specialized distributor Janus Films during its 44thedition which runs from Sept 29 to Oct 15 this year.Theretrospective will kick off with Jean Renoir's seminal La Regle Du Jeu (1939) on Sept 30 and will continue ...
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Dentsu, Mitsubishi launch $18m animation fund
Japan's largest advertising firm Dentsu and trading house Mitsubishi Corp areestablishing a $17.8m (Y2bn) investment fund to produce and distribute Japaneseanimation. The fund will be managed byDentsu subsidiary Geneon Entertainment and Mitsubishi subsidiary d-rights. Dentsu is contributing 30%,Geneon 20% and d-rights 50% of the fund which will underwrite 15 to ...
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Colossal Youth
Dir: Pedro Costa. Portugal/France/Switzerland 2006. 155 mins Without a doubt the most difficult film in this year's Cannes competition - where it provoked more walk-outs than any other film - Pedro Costa's hyper-austere Colossal Youth at least deserves some recognition and respect. While the film admittedly seems inert for ...
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Cars
Exquisitelycrafted and warmly emotional, Cars isanother dazzling display Of computer animation from the apparently infalliblepeople at Pixar, this one telling its tale with a cast of cleverly humanisedautomobiles. The commercialprospects are certainly very strong, but the company's latest comedy adventure maynot be quite as sure a thing as Pixar's track ...
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