All Screen articles in 9 June 2006 – Page 4
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UK producers plan remake of The House On Straw Hill
New London-based production company De Naray Sothcott Entertainment plans to shoot its first featurethis summer. The project is a $1.5m remake of 1975 British horror film The House On StrawHill. Bob Keen, who has worked asa crewmember on Hellraiserand Dog Soldiers, will direct. Jonathan Sothcott and Constantine de Naray will ...
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Arts Alliance upgrades UK digital screens to JPEG2000
Digitalcinema services company Arts Alliance Media (AAM) has upgraded all 50 QuVIS servers installedduring Phase 1 of the UK Film Council's Digital Screen Network to be JPEG2000compatible. Thisbrings the network in line with the new standards being adopted by the DigitalCinema Initiative, a consortium of Hollywood studios. Disney'sThe Wild has ...
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UK's Firefly plans film about Beslan tragedy
UK production company Firefly Films is developing a feature film about the2004 Beslan School tragedy. The tentative budget is planned at about $9.4m (£5m) and alate 2007 or early 2008 shoot is planned in Europe. Screenwriter Richard Lasser is developing the script and a director will bebrought onto the project ...
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Khan Kluay becomes Thailand's top animated film
Thailand's first3D animated feature Khan Kluay has emerged as thecountry's biggest animation of all time, grossing $1.96m (75m baht) on 60screens in Bangkok alone in less than three weeks of release. The $5m surprisehit is about a young elephant who saves the Kingdom of Thailand while on a dangerous quest ...
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Bruce Everett joins Pinewood Shepperton
Pinewood Sheppertonhas appointed Bruce Everett as strategy director for post production. Everett, who previouslyserved as managing director of London-based St Anne's Post, will work with thePinewood Shepperton team to bring in new post production business."Bruce brings a wealth ofexperience in all forms of post production and we are looking forward ...
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Clerks II
If it ain'tbroke, milk it, as they say in Hollywood. So why did New Jersey homeboyKevin Smith wait all of 12 years before returning to the successfulsmall-town-buddies formula of his cult debut, Clerks' True, Smith has done stridentvariations on the theme - Mallrats -and lame spin-offs - Jay and Silent ...
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Kinowelt books strong sales at Cannes
Kinowelt International had a busy Cannes market selling packages from its back catalogue aswell as finding customers for its new acquisitions.Head of World Sales Stelios Ziannis reported that theFassbinder Collection was sold to Finland, while another package of films by Fassbinder and Adlon were pickedup by pay TV for Israel. ...
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The Omen
Dir: JohnMoore. US. 2006. 106 minutes.More thanany other genre, horror film remakes can hew extremely closely to the plot ofthe original. Such is certainly the case with The Omen, John Moore's retread of director Richard Donner's 1976 chiller about the devil incarnate that also triesto by and large replicate much ...
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Zombie to direct Halloween picture for Dimension
Cult horror filmmaker Rob Zombie will make an original Halloween feature for Dimension Films with ascheduled release in October 2007.Miramax Films will co-finance development with Dimension, andMalek Akkad of Trancas International will produce.Zombie will write the screenplay, direct and serve as musicsupervisor and will also produce alongside Akkad.Dimension sources said ...
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Celluloid Dreams racks up robust Cannes sales
Frenchsales label Celluloid Dreams has reported a "robust" Cannes on its bulging slate, ledby the newly-announced English-language remake of Michael Haneke'sFunny Games starring Naomi Watts. Thefilm, which will be released in the UK by co-producer TartanFilms, was snapped up by a raft of eager buyers including Germany's X-Verleih,Lucky Red in ...
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TWC's CG-animated Igor is big seller at Cannes
The Weinstein Company's (TWC) international chief Glen Basner hasreported lively business at the Cannes market, adding that the companyvirtually sold out on Exodus Film Group's CG-animated comedy Igor.Basnersigned key deals with Momentum in the UK, Aurum in Spain, TF1 in France, andConstantin in Germany and Switzerland.Sales were also concluded with ...
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IFC plans unrated US theatrical release of Rated
IFCFilms is planning a limited US theatrical release for Kirby Dick's censorshipdocumentary This Film Is Not Yet Ratedand in a fitting snub to the powers that be will not submit it to the MPAA fora rating.Thedistributor plans a Sept 1 launch in New York and Los Angeles and will expandbeyond ...
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Raindance jury to include Lou Reed and Judi Dench
The London-based Raindance Film Festival has lined up jury members for its 14thevent. Raindance jurors will include musicians Lou Reed and Marky Ramone, actors Parminder Nagra and Judi Dench, Touching The Void director Kevin Macdonald, Requiem For a Dream cinematographer Matthew Libatiqueand photographer/video director/film-maker AntonCorbijn. This year's Raindance will run ...
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Break-Up beats X-Men at US box office
Universal's The Break-Up was the surpriseleader at the North American box office this weekend, opening in top spot aftera dramatic second-week drop by Fox's X-Men: The Last Stand.With Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn starring asa bickering couple, The Break-Up grossed an estimated $38.1m from 3,070theatres (for a strong average of ...
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IFC buys El Aura, Family Law for US
IFC Entertainment has added two titles to its day-and-datedistribution funnel IFC First Take - the Argentinian films The Aura and Family Law - which it acquired from Paris-based CelluloidDreams.Fabian Bielinsky's The Aura centres on a shy taxidermist who accidentally kills a criminal on a hunting trip andadopts the man's scheme ...
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Da Vinci strong, Poseidon mixed in international arena
The Da Vinci Code maintained its grip on theinternational marketplace this weekend, while X-Men: The Last Stand slidand Poseidon had mixed fortunes in its first major-territory launches.The Da Vinci Code's estimated $52m gross from 11,625screens in 84 markets kept the Holy Grail adventure from Sony PicturesReleasing International (SPRI) ahead of ...
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Genius gets US DVD rights to 16 children's titles from BKN
Genius Products has secured exclusive US DVD distribution rightsto 16 classic children's properties from BKN Home Entertainment. The slate will roll out from September 2006 into 2007 and includesa CG all-animal version of A Christmas Carol in December, preceded by a limitedtheatrical release in November through SD Entertainment.Other titles include ...
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