All Screen articles in 9 March 2006 – Page 4
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Massis, Film Source to executive produce Brazilian gay love story Copacabana
Roberto Jabor will make his feature directorial debut on theBrazilian gay romance Copacabana, Of Love And Shadows from his own screenplay.Alex Massis of Florida-based production and sales companyThe Film Source will serve as executive producer on the $5m English-languageproject, which is set to begin shooting in the autumn in Rio ...
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Madea continues to top North American box office
Tyler Perry's Madea's Family Reunion consolidated its number one ranking aheadof four top 10 openers in a typically quiet Oscar weekend at the box office.The Lionsgate release - which is written, directed,produced by and stars Perry in a big screen version of his hit stage play -added an estimated $13m ...
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Narnia enjoys spectacular $9.2m opening in Japan for BVI
The Chronicles of Narnia returned to the top of the international rankings thisweekend courtesy of a superb number one launch in Japan.The fantasy grossed an estimated $9.2m in the major market andtook $10.3m for the weekend overall to raise the international cumulative tallyto $389m.This makes Narnia the 19th biggest international ...
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California's Method Fest opens with Matzner's Dreamland
Jason Matzner's directorial debut Dreamland starring Agnes Bruckner and Gina Gershonwill open the 8th annual Method Fest festival on Mar 31 in Calabasas,California.The line-up of 22 features and 40 shorts runs until Apr 7 andincludes the world premieres of Dave Rodriguez' youth drama Push starring Chad Lindberg, Michael Rapaportand Chaz ...
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Shoreline picks up worldwide rights to kung fu comedy Babes
Shoreline Entertainment has picked up worldwide rights to HighCotton Films' kung-fu comedy All Babes Want to Kill Me from first-time filmmakers Colin Millerand Alex Cain.The story centres on a martial artist afflicted with a raredisease that makes beautiful women want to kill him.Shoreline chief executive officer Morris Ruskin negotiatedthe deal ...
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Film Independent names lineup of fellows, advisors for Directors Lab
Film Independent has chosen seven fellows for its annual DirectorsLab, which will begin its seven-week run on Mar 7.The fellows and their projects are: Jennifer Arnold (Speedway), Thomas Dean Donnelly (Bridge AndTunnel), Tamar Halpern (EzzyFish), Michael Lew (JunkyardOf Dreams), FabianMarquez (Coyote Sleeps),Minh Nguyen-Vo (Point Of Reference), Scott Prendergast (Kabluey), and ...
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Constantin subsidiary acquires rights to children's book
Just aweek after acquiring the film rights to Michael Ende'sJim Button children's classic for anEnglish language screen adaptation German producer Christian Becker has nowbought the rights to the late Max von der Gruen's 1976 children's book, The Suburban Crocodiles (Die Vorstadtkrokodile).The storyof a paraplegic boy being integrated into a children's ...
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NewsSenator Films looks set to pull cannibal film
German distributor Senator Film looks set to pull its March 9 release of Butterfly -A Grimm Love Story (Rohtenburg), after a court in Kassel granted Armin Meiwes a temporary injunction on Friday preventing the film being shown on German screens.
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Finnish films enjoying record admissions for 2006
Figures released last weekby The Finnish Film Foundation. Local titles recorded 942,795 admissions duringJanuary and February, the best opening months of the year ever in Finland forlocal product, and have already surpassed the ticket sales of all local filmsthroughout 2005 (940,000). The top release of the yearso far was Aleksi ...
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Scheffer steps into consultancy role at HBO
One of HBO's mostsenior executives Steve Scheffer is seguing into a consultancy role from hiscurrent position as president, Film Programming, Video and Enterprises.Scheffer, who hasbeen at the US cable giant since 1980 when he joined as vice president, filmprogramming, was instrumental in developing the company's film acquisition anddistribution structures. He ...
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Senator offers digital cinema copies of new films to exhibitors
German independent distributor Senator is to offer digital cinema copies of its new films to allcinemas equipped with DLP Cinema Projectors."Senator is thereby the first German film distributor to offer its completeslate of movies for digital projection," declared Managing Director BenjaminHerrmann. The announcement heralds a new era for the company,which ...
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Stefan Ruzowitzky's new feature to shoot at Babelsberg
Another film about eventsfrom the Second World War will use sound stages at Studio Babelsbergonly three months after shooting wrapped on Paul Verhoevens Black Book just before Christmas.The production centre nearPotsdam willbe host to part of the shoot for Austrian director Stefan Ruzowitzky's TheCounterfeiter(Der Faelscher)which is based on the true ...
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Lucy
Dir\scr: Henner Winckler. Ger. 2006.92mins.The second feature from German director Henner Winckler, Lucy is a psychologically lucid,beguiling portrait of teenage restriction given a startling jolt of recognitionand star-making turn by German actress Kim Schnitzer.The story examines theemotional and personal consequences of the title character, eight-month-old Lucy(Hauschild), on her emotionally ill-equipped ...
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New Zealand to keep production rebates in place
New Zealand's economic development minister Trevor Mallard hasannounced that a review of the "Large Budget Screen Production Grant"initiative has been concluded and the scheme will remain in place. Mallard also announced thatthe New Zealandgovernment has paid expenditure rebates of $16.8m (NZ$25.2m) to King Kong and $10.6m (NZ$15.9m) to The ...
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News From Home/News From House
Dir/scr: Amos Gitai. Is. 2006. 96mins.Israelis, Palestinians and others who follow MiddleEast politics closely will find little new, either conceptually or historicallyspeaking, in News From Home/News From House,the third instalment in Amos Gitai's documentarytrilogy about the Arab-Israeli conflict. But audiences around the world,especially at festivals, will appreciate the powerful feelings ...
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The Hills Have Eyes
Dir: Alexandre Aja. US. 2006. 107mins.Whether it's ironic or just emblematic of a generallack of imagination is open to debate, but everything old is new again inHollywood - or at least as it applies to the current trend of updated andrefashioned horror properties. The latest is The Hills Have Eyes, ...
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BVI's Narnia lands in its final major market of Japan
Buena Vista International (BVI) executives expect to dominate theweekend as they launch The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch And TheWardrobe in its finalmajor market of Japan on Mar 4.The children's fantasy hit already ranks as the 20th biggestinternational release of all time on $380m and along with Universal's ...
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Ask The Dust
Dir/scr Robert Towne. US. 2005. 117mins.Robert Towne returns with an evocative, nuancedadaptation of John Fante's Depression-era novel Ask The Dust, avisually lustrous and imaginatively staged film that is given piercing depth offeeling from leads Colin Farrell and Salma Hayek.Fante's autobiographical 1939 work was a dominant literaryinfluence on Towne's greatest achievement, ...
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TWC picks up Bessons's Arthur And The Minimoys
The Weinstein Company has picked up North America and all English-speakingterritories on Luc Besson's CGI-live-action adaptation of his 2003 children'sbook Arthur And The Minimoys.Freddie Highmore and Mia Farrow star in the live-action parts ofthe project, with Madonna, Snoop Dogg and David Bowie providing voices for theanimated sections.Currently shooting, the EuropaCorp ...
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Endore-Kaiser joins Paramount specialty arm as senior vp, creative advertising
Paramount's new-look specialty division has hired GuyEndore-Kaiser as senior vice president of creative advertising.Endore-Kaiser (pictured) arrives after serving three years atadvertising agency The Ant Farm, where he worked on campaigns for such titlesas Sin City and Matchpoint.'Guy's original thinking and strategic approach to creativefilm advertising are exceptional,' division president John ...