All Screen articles in 9 March 2005 – Page 4
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Ruby Dee takes lead in New Zealand's Number 2
Filming began yesterday (Thursday March 3) on New Zealandcomedy/drama Number 2 after last month's false start due to the death ofOssie Davis, husband of the film's lead Ruby Dee. The acting pair (pictured), have been passionate advocatesof social and racial justice. They were key players in the 1963 March onWashington ...
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Pathe pre-sells Pluto, Henderson to Spain
In a sign of recovery in theSpanish market, Pathe Pictures International has pre-sold Neil Jordan's BreakfastOn Pluto and Stephen Frears' Mrs Henderson Presents to localdistributor Vertigo.Pathe also sold the twotitles to Lusomundo for Portugal, along with closing a host of deals on KayPollak's Academy Award-nominated As It Is In Heaven. ...
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Shugrue's Envoy starts mission in Vietnam
Industry veteranJ Edward Shugrue has set his sights on developing the exhibition anddistribution circuit in Vietnam after announcing a new venture, Envoy MediaPartners, which aims to develop the entertainment business in underservedinternational markets.Shugrue, the former president of Loews Cineplex International and longtimepresident of Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International, is partnered ...
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First Independent takes US rights to Edmond
Gary Rubin's FirstIndependent Pictures (FIP) has acquired all US and Canadian rights to Edmond, the all-star screen adaptation of David Mamet's picaresquetale of self-discovery.Wild Bunch has international rights on the project, which recently wrapped and is directed byStuart Gordon. In Berlin the film was sold to Tartan Films for the ...
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MPAA hires new corporate communications vp
Kori Bernards has been appointed vice president ofcorporate communications at the Motion Picture Association of America and willbe based in the company's Encino offices.Bernards mostrecently served as senior advisor to Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi and alsoworked as communications director for the Democratic Congressional CampaignCommittee.A publicrelations veteran of more than 12 ...
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Twisted, Lions Gate follow Saw with Catacombs
Following onfrom the hugely successful 2004 horror hit Saw, Twisted Pictures and Lions Gate Filmsannounced yesterday (Mar 1) that the first project in their nine-picture dealwill be called Catacombs.Principal photography is set to start in Bucharest,Romania, on Mar 7 on the project, which stars Shannyn Sossamon and Alecia Moore- aka ...
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British film scripts get Lottery cash injection
Scripts involving AsifKapadia, Sarah Gavron and Christopher Smith, director of current UK horror hit Creep,have won funding from Government-backed support body the UK Film Council.Kapadia, who won two BAFTAawards in 2003 for his directorial debut The Warrior, is developing Bushidowith £27,500 from the council's development fund. Jeremy Bolt and Paul ...
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UK Government urges BBC to support local films.
The UK Film Council haswelcomed the Government's Green Paper on the review of the BBC's Royal Charter,which urges the BBC to show British films to wider audiences.The paper, an outline of pointsfor consultation before a more concrete set of proposals is published in aWhite Paper later this year, calls for ...
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US comic Cho finishes her first fiction feature Bam Bam And Celeste
Salty Featuresand Cho Taussig Productions have wrapped principal photography on comedianMargaret Cho's first feature, Bam Bam And Celeste.Based on a screenplay by Cho and directed by her longtimecollaborator Lorene Machado, the picture stars Bruce Daniels, Alan Cumming,John Cho, Kathy Najimy, and Danny Hoch and follows two people on a road ...
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King's Game leads Danish Bodil awards
Nikolaj Arcel's King's Game, which scooped a host ofawards in January at the Danish filmacademy awards, took the top prize at the Bodils, the Danish Association ofFilm Critics' awards, on Sunday 27 February 2005The Bodil awardsBest Danish Film: King'sGame (Nikolaj Arcel)Best Actor: Mads Mikkelsen ( Pusher II - With Blood ...
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here! picks up worldwide rights to April's Shower
here! Films has picked upworldwide distribution rights to Trish Doolan's romantic comedy April'sShower (pictured), which is scheduled forrelease in the US in May.Written, produced anddirected by Doolan, April's Showerscentres on two best friends whose secret affair from years ago comes to thefore when Alex throws April a bridal shower.Doolan stars ...
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Media Luna announces EFM sales
Cologne-based Media Luna Entertainment has announced anotherraft of deals signed at the recent European Film Market in Berlin.Theatrical and video/DVD rights were picked up by Salzgeber& Co. for Claes Lilja's documentary Beyond Vanilla, while WVT Overseasbought Christopher Munch's drama The Sleepy Time Gal for Bulgaria,Romania and Moldova, and the UK's ...
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Foreign films spent $267m in Ontario last year, says OMDC
Foreign-producedfeature films spent $267m (C$331m) in Ontario in 2004, a nearly 140% increaseover the previous year's $112m, according to numbers released Wednesday by theOntario Media Development Corporation (OMDC), the provincial agency thatadministers tax credits and local services. The increase isless a harbinger of things to come than an indication of ...
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Von Trier drops the dead donkey
Lars Von Trier has bowed to pressure from animal rightsorganisations and cut scenes of a butchered donkey from his forthcoming Manderlay.Previously, actor John C. Reilly quit the set of the film in outrage at the killing.In a letter to the protesting animal rights organisationsvon Trier stated: "To have the dead ...
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Gordon leaves Stratus to focus on sole producing career
Mark Gordon is leavingStratus Film, the company he and Bob Yari co-founded in 2003, to focusexclusively on his producing career. Under the terms of theamicable split, Gordon and Yari will remain jointly involved in existingStratus projects that are in various stages of development and pre-production. These include The PaintedVeil starring ...
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The Ballad Of Jack And Rose
Dir/scr: Rebecca Miller. US. 2005. 111mins.An extremely emaciated Daniel Day-Lewis sets the tonefor Rebecca Miller's eerie family drama The Ballad Of Jack And Rose as aman who rails against the inhumane consumerist world while encroaching cancerforces him to push his teenage daughter into modern society.He's seething with anger and has ...
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SPAIN 3 March
Distributor Filmax is looking to benefit from the multipleOscar wins of Clint Eastwood's Million Dollar Baby. The film has alreadybeen seen by more than 1 million spectators in Spain, where it had earned Euros6.5m pre-Oscars after its fourth weekend, making it the highest-grossing ofEastwood's recent films to premiere in Spain. ...
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