All Screen articles in 9 October 2006 – Page 4
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Australia's award season kicks off
Australia's award season kicked off this week withnominations announced for both the Inside Film Awards and the Film CriticsCircle of Australia Awards. The people's choice IF Awards revealedtheir nominations on Oct 4. The three films up for best film are: Kenny, a low-budget, privately financeddocumentary-style drama made by debut director ...
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Celestial signs deals with Australian duo
Hong Kong-based CelestialPictures has sealed separate deals with Australian broadcasters SBS and Pan TVfor distribution of its Shaw Brothers library. Public broadcaster SBS haslicensed free TV rights to a package of Shaw Brothers films, including The 36th Chamber Of Shaolin, Come Drink With Me and The Magic Blade. The deal ...
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Sweden's Astoria cinema chain goes into receivership
Sweden's second-largest cinema chain, Astoria Cinemas, has gone intoreceivership. The chain has applied for anadministration order, but CEO Mattias Nohrborg is said to be attempting a reconstructionof the company.Nohrborg went to court afterthe Swedish Film Institute had earlier this week asked the bailiff to cash in a$9.8 million debt from ...
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Sitges line-up announced
Terry Gilliam, Joe Dante,Paul Verhoeven, Darren Aronofsy and Brad Anderson are a few of the directorsexpected this year at the upcoming 39th edition of the InternationalFilm Festival of Catalunya (Oct 6-15), better known as Sitges.The popular genre event willopen with Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth then give way to a ...
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AFM to screen 589 films, launches online resource
The 27th AFMwill open next month with a record 589 films, organizers said yesterday [IOct 4],an increase of 10% over last year.The numberincludes 54 titles playing in official selection at AFI Fest, and a record 384market premieres.AFM managingdirector and Independent Film & Television Alliance executive vicepresident Jonathan Wolf said the ...
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Avex Asia appoints Koo to head production arm
Avex Asia, the Hong Kong-based subsidiary of Japan's Avex Group, has established a film production armto be headed by former Applause Pictures executive Esther Koo. Koo, who has been named headof film development, will be responsible for generating film productions in Hong Kong, China, Korea and Japan. Based in Hong ...
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BFI announces opening program for Southbank
The British Film Institute(BFI) has announced the opening program of the refurbished National FilmTheatre, which is set to reopen as BFI Southbank on 1 Feb, 2007. The opening season willinclude a restored print of Luis Bunuel's Los Olvidadosand a special run of Distant Voices,Still Lives, including an onstage presentation by ...
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UK cracks down on film piracy
A Scottish man has beenjailed and more are awaiting trial in a nationwide crackdown on film piracy inthe UK. The initiative is a partnership between local TradingStandards agencies, the Federation Against CopyrightTheft (FACT) and police.On Oct 2, Brent and HarrowTrading Standards Service working with Metropolitan Police and FACT targetedblack-market DVD ...
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Raindance to host Sean Lennon's Friendly Fire
Sean Lennon will present his"conceptual feature" Friendly Fire atthe 14th Raindance Film Festival in London. The screening - previously asurprise -- will be held Saturday Oct 7 at 3:45at London's Cineworld Shaftesbury Avenue. Lennon will present Friendly Fire and then participate in a Q&A after the screening.The film is tied ...
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Canana finishes first picture Cochochi in Mexico
Canana, the new Mexicanproduction company founded by Gael Garcia Bernal, Diego Luna and Pablo Cruz,has wrapped the six-week shoot of its first film Cochochi in co-production with Donald K Ranvaud's Buena OndaLtd.The movie, about Mexico'snative Raramuri Indians, was co-financed by LA-based Alcove Entertainment whoseprincipals Robin Fox and Amina Dasmal are ...
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Development package lures Mediterranean documentary makers
Registration hasopened for Greenhouse, a development program funded by the European Union forMediterranean documentary film makers. The project wasorganised by The New Israeli Foundation for Cinema and Television, Turkey's Ankara Cinema Foundation, The CzechRepublic's Institute of Documentary Film and VOF Appel & Honigmann - The Netherlands.The incentivetargets film-makers ...
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Delirious
Dir: Tom DiCillo. US. 2006. 107mins.Neither a spoof of the celebrityindustry nor an earnest appraisal of what this industry is all about, TomDiCillo's Delirious is anintermittently amusing rags-to-riches lark about a small time paparazzo and hishandsome sidekick who ends up a screen star. DiCillo aims his gently pointedbarbs at pop ...
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Un Crime
Dir: Manuel Pradal. France. 2006. 110mins.Manuel Pradal,whose 1997 debut film Marie Baie DesAnges won universal plaudits, has unwisely decided to attempt a full-scalefilm noir for his third film. Set in NewYork City, Un Crime stars thenormally superb Emmanuelle Beart and Harvey Keitel, but there's littleconvincing chemistry between them, and even ...
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Un Crime
Dir: Manuel Pradal. France. 2006. 110mins.Manuel Pradal,whose 1997 debut film Marie Baie DesAnges won universal plaudits, has unwisely decided to attempt a full-scalefilm noir for his third film. Set in NewYork City, Un Crime stars thenormally superb Emmanuelle Beart and Harvey Keitel, but there's littleconvincing chemistry between them, and even ...
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Fortissimo picks up worldwide rights to Guest's Consideration
Fortissimo Films has picked up worldwide rights excludingNorth America and the UK to Christopher Guest's upcoming comedy For YourConsideration.The picture, which received its world premiere at Toronto inSeptember, takes a tongue-in-cheek swipe at the Hollywood Awards season.Fortissimo will offer to buyers at the AFM next month and the picture will ...
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Reitman to direct Page, Cera in Mandate's Juno
Ellen Page and Michael Cera have signed to star in MandatePictures' coming-of-age comedy Juno, which Jason Reitman (Thank You For Smoking) is preparing to direct based on ascreenplay by Diablo Cody.Page, who made a revelatory breakthrough in Hard Candy, will play a quick-witted teenager whoselife takes a bizarre turn when ...
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Mark Jay starts shooting Dolphins in Brighton
Writer/directorMark Jay has started filming his debut feature, Dolphins, in Brighton, UK.Themovie is a teenage love story set in Brighton's custom-car culture and stars Emmerdale's Karl Davies, FootballFactory's Frank Harper, Popcorn's Layke Anderson and sees UK hip-hop singer Roots Manuva inhis first screen role.Jay haspreviously made music videos, documentary films ...
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Vantage picks up horror script Details, Blum to produce
Paramount Vantage has made a preemptive purchase of Dan Kay'shorror screenplay Details.Detailsis based on a short story by China Mieville and centres on a man who searchesfor his missing daughter who uncovered a demonic force that only she could see.Jason Blum of Blumhouse Productions will produce andSteven Schneider and Ian ...
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Joe Wright honoured with Hospital award
UK film-maker Joe Wright was honoured for his "outstanding creativecontribution" in the medium of film at the inaugural Hospital Awards.Joe Wright directed thecritically acclaimed Pride and Prejudicestarring Keira Knightley,which received four Academy Awards nominations and three BAFTA nominations, oneof which Wright won for most promising newcomer. Wright's next feature is ...
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Peace Arch hires Herne, picks up four new titles
Peace Arch Entertainment Group has acquired US and internationalrights to four new features and hired Mary Herne as executive vice president ofinternational television and home entertainment.The projects include Melanie Orr's domestic violence drama Harm'sWay starring KathleenQuinlan, and psychological thriller The Stillborn, which stars Lukas Haas as a father wholost his ...