All Screen articles in 9 October 2006 – Page 3
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Midori, Noble sign agreement for Scandinavia
An exclusiverepresentation agreement has been signed between Scandinavian distribution company Noble Entertainment and Ontario's Midori Multimedia inall media for the territory of Scandinavia.The deal includes projecttracking, acquisitions and co-production activities with a focus on Asianproductions. Acquisitions will behandled from Noble Entertainment's headquarters in Stockholm by Per Samuelsson, SaraSöderberg and AlbertAvramovic. ...
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Argentinian director Eduardo Mignogna dies at 66
AcclaimedArgentinian director and writer Eduardo Mignogna died today of cancer in BuenosAires. He was 66.Mignognashot eight multi-awarded feature films and was also a published writer and arenowned TV director. His filmssuch as Sol de Oto-o (Autumn Sun), La Fuga(The Escape), Cleopatra, El Faro (The Lighthouse), Flop and most recently El ...
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51st Valladolid line-up announced
Fifteen feature films willcompete for the top Golden Spike Award at this year's 51st International FilmWeek of Valladolid, Spain, also known as Seminci (Oct 20-28).Last year's Golden Spikewinner, Matias Bize's In Bed (En LaCama), has been selected to represent Chile in the nominations to the foreign-language Oscar.Bize will sit on ...
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Outfest to honour Regent Media, 25 years of films about AIDS
Outfest's annual Honours gala in Los Angeles on Oct 13 willbenefit the Outfest Legacy Project for LGBT Film Preservation.The event will pay tribute to Regent Media and 25 years ofcreative films about AIDS, specifically the landmark television drama AnEarly Frost (1985) alongwith creators Ron Cowen and Daniel Lipman.Outfest and the ...
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Film Independent announces participants in 2006 Producers Lab
Film Independent has announced the participants in its annual ProducersLab, which runs in Los Angeles for seven consecutive weeks starting on Oct 16.The participants are: Greg Corbin (Senor Vasquez And The HolyDonut); Sarah DiLeo (BlessMe, Ultima); ScottFoster (Crystal Messiah);Jasmine Jaisinghani (SuperMacho); Charlotte Pai and Ben Wagner (Baja); Sean Shodahl and ...
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Fry to host BAFTA/LA's Britannia Awards on Nov 2
Comedian, author and filmmaker Stephen Fry will host the 2006BAFTA/LA Cunard Britannia Awards on Nov 2 at The Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotelin Los Angeles.Fry, who has hosted the Orange British Academy Film Awards inLondon for the past five years, will be joined at the LA event by presenters HalleBerry, ...
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Beach gets Rising Star award at 18th Palm Springs festival
The 18th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival (PSIFF)will honour Adam Beach with the Rising Star Award at its annual awards gala onJan 6, 2007.Beach will next be seen alongside Ryan Phillippe, Jesse Bradford,Barry Pepper and Paul Walker in Clint Eastwood's Iwo Jima epic Flags Of OurFathers. Paramount willrelease the ...
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Hong Kong's Innotion to launch CG feature at AFM
Start-up Hong Kong animationstudio Innotion is launching what it describes as the world's first CG bearmovie, Tonki Bear, at upcomingmarkets including MIPCOM and the AFM. The English-language film,which is scheduled for release in spring 2007, is aimed squarely atinternational markets and has no recognisable Asian elements. With a budget of ...
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US to remake Brazil hit If I Were You
USA'sClifford Werber Productions and Brazil'sTotal Entertainment will produce the English language remake of the romanticcomedy If I Were You (Se Eu FosseVocê), the most successful Brazilian film of the year. Produced by Total, inassociation with Lereby, Fox Film do Brasil and Globo Filmes (the film arm ofleading Brazilian broadcaster Globo ...
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Franka Potente to play Pope Joan
Germany's FrankaPotente is to play the lead in Volker Schloendorff's long-gestating adaptationof Donna Cross' novel Pope Joan.Cross'bestseller tells the story of Johanna von Ingelheim, who succeeded in enteringthe highest ranks of the Roman clergy disguised as a man and was elected Popein 853 - a story the Vatican claims is ...
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First sales for Golden Shell winner Half Moon
The Match Factory hasconcluded its first deals for Bahman Ghobadi's Golden Shell winner Half Moon, with sales to GolemDistribution (Spain), Providence Filmes (Brazil) and Cinemien (Netherlands,Belgium), while negotiations are underway for the UK, Scandinavian and LatinAmerican territories.In addition to winning theGolden Shell ex aequo, Half Moon hadreceived the San Sebastian ...
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Martel's third film Headless Woman to shoot next March
Acclaimed Argentiniandirector Lucrecia Martel is set to shoot her third film La Mujer Sin Cabeza (The Headless Woman) next March.Lita Stantic Produccioneswill finance the $2m film in co-production with Pedro and Agustin Almodovar'sEl Deseo in Spain and the support of the National Film Institute (Argentina).Both Stantic and El Deseo were ...
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Nonstop Sales secure Exit
International sales agent NonStop Sales has secured both salesand distribution rights for the Peter Lindmark-directed Swedish thriller Exit.Exit stars MadsMikkelsen, who previously appeared in KingArthur and is set to appear in the Bond film Casino Royale (released Nov 17), and Alexander Skarsgard, who wasin Kill Your Darlings. Lindmark's previous films ...
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Saban returns to production with virtual studio for family entertainment
Haim Saban andSaban Entertainment Group (SEG) have launched a virtual studio to develop,produce and market family projects.Saban and SabanCapital Group chief creative officer Joel Andryc head the venture and willleverage their financial and creative contacts to develop the enterprise.'I amthrilled to return to my roots and focus on developing media ...
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FACT welcomes new Director General Kieron Sharp
The Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT) has announced the appointment of Kieron Sharp as its new DirectorGeneral. Sharp has a 30-year law-enforcementbackground, most recently as Head of Specialist Crime Operations at the City ofLondon Police Service where he headed major crime investigations andsurveillance operations, among other duties. He is a ...
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Polanski to preside over competition jury at Marrakech
The sixthMarrakech International Film Festival, which will take place from Dec 1 to 9, hasannounced that Roman Polanski will be the president of this year's competition jury. Thefestival which takes place under the patronage of Morocco's King Mohammed VIwill also feature a retrospective focus on Italian cinema.Polanski will presumably come ...
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CMG to rep international on Buster Keaton collection
EdwardNoeltner's ambitious international sales house Cinema Management Group (CMG)has bolstered its AFM slate with all international theatrical and DVD rights tothe Buster Keaton Collection.The collectionincludes all 12 of the silent comedy master's features from the 1920s, as wellas 18 shorts and two specials including Vernon P Becker's 1968 documentary TheGreat ...
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Five new features for Brazil's Conspiracao Filmes
Conspiracao Filmes, theBrazilian production outfit behind Andrucha Waddington's House Of Sand and local hit Two Sons Of Francisco, has announced aslate of five features for 2007/08.The first project, Right On! (PodeCrer!),is currently in post production for release early next year. Directed by ArthurFontes, the film is a coming-of-age story about ...
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Mandate signs doc specialist Jones for Boomerang
Documentarymaker Sam Jones is embarking on his narrative feature directorial debut Boomerangfor Mandate Pictures.Boomerang tells of a young man's attempt to reclaimhis life from his controlling parents, and is based on a screenplay by JamesMottern.Bona FideProduction partners Albert Berger and Ron Yerxa, whose credits include LittleMiss Sunshine, Election andCold Mountain, ...
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Pathe holds worldwide rights to The Diving Bell And The Butterfly
Pathe Pictures International has announced that itwill be selling the worldwide rights to French-language feature film TheDiving Bell and the Butterfly, whichis based on the best-selling memoir by Jean-Dominique Bauby. Principal photography began on the film on Sept 4 in France under thedirection of Julian Schnabel, director of Basquiat and ...