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  • Reviews

    Kicking & Screaming

    2005-05-10T00:00:00Z

    Dir:Jesse Dylan. US. 2005. 93mins.WillFerrell's comic talents are used to very variable effect in Kicking &Screaming, a haphazard family comedy that attempts to combine kid-friendlyhumour with something a bit edgier for youngish parents. It's the kind of safefamily film that sometimes finds a surprisingly large audience, and Ferrell'sgrowing star power ...

  • Reviews

    Kicking And Screaming

    2005-05-10T00:00:00Z

    Dir:Jesse Dylan. US. 2005. 93mins.WillFerrell's comic talents are used to very variable effect in Kicking &Screaming, a haphazard family comedy that attempts to combine kid-friendlyhumour with something a bit edgier for youngish parents. It's the kind of safefamily film that sometimes finds a surprisingly large audience, and Ferrell'sgrowing star power ...

  • Reviews

    The Longest Penalty In The World (El Penalti Mas Largo Del Mundo)

    2005-05-10T00:00:00Z

    Dir:Jesse Dylan. US. 2005. 93mins.WillFerrell's comic talents are used to very variable effect in Kicking &Screaming, a haphazard family comedy that attempts to combine kid-friendlyhumour with something a bit edgier for youngish parents. It's the kind of safefamily film that sometimes finds a surprisingly large audience, and Ferrell'sgrowing star power ...

  • Reviews

    Three Dollars

    2005-05-10T00:00:00Z

    Dir: Robert Connolly.Aus. 2005. 119mins.Based on an award-winning 1998 Australian novel, ThreeDollars is about a good, honest man utterly unable to compromise hisintegrity. David Wenham is sensitively intelligent in a role that requires himto bravely suffer a variety of modern economic tortures, from sacking andbetrayal to bankruptcy and destitution.Made with ...

  • News

    German gov't to launch Euros 90m film fund

    2005-05-11T04:00:00Z

    The German government is tocreate a venture capital fund with a total volume of Euros 90m to support theGerman film industry over the next three years.The funding instrument wasthe result of discussions between a specially convened working group of theFederal Chancellery and the Finance Ministry (ScreenDaily, May 4 2005). Itfollows ...

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    Romero's Dead to world premiere at CineVegas

    2005-05-10T00:00:00Z

    George ARomero's Land Of The Deadwill receive its world premiere as the closing night picture at the upcomingCineVegas Film Festival in Las Vegas on Jun 18.Romero will also receive thefestival's 2005 Vanguard Director Award from Atmosphere Entertainment chairmanMark Canton, who produced the picture with Peter Grunwald and Bernie Goldmann.Horror fans ...

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    Sharon Stone signs for Eslinger's Cannes project

    2005-05-10T00:00:00Z

    Sharon Stone has signed on tostar in Ryan Eslinger's When A Man Falls In The Forest, one of 18projects by young filmmakers beingshowcased in the inaugural Cannes sidebar L'Atelier du Festival."I think that Ryan Eslingeris enormously talented and I look forward to our collaboration," Stone said ina statement.The star added ...

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    Howard to receive Musuem of Moving Image salute

    2005-05-10T00:00:00Z

    Ron Howard will be honoured by New York's Museum of the Moving Image atits 21st annual black tie salute on Dec 4, when friends andcolleagues will present highlight footage from the filmmaker's career."Ron Howard has played an essential role in the world of the moving image since he was a ...

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    Sales execs board Chartier and Devlin's Voltage Pictures

    2005-05-10T00:00:00Z

    Nadine de Barros and EricChristenson have joined Nicolas Chartier and Dean Devlin's fledgling sales andfinancing outfit Voltage Pictures as sales executives.The former Crystal Sky and Tentpole Pictures executives come aboard as Voltageheads into its first Cannes market with a strong slate of titles boasting suchtalent as Julie Delpy, Elisha Cuthbert, ...

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    Cheung steps up in Celestial hierarchy

    2005-05-11T00:00:00Z

    Hong Kong's CelestialPictures has promoted international sales chief Gordon Cheung to the newposition of executive vice president, acquisitions & distribution. In his new role, Cheung willoversee Celestial's new movie productions, content acquisition and thedistribution of new film content. The company, which owns and distributes the760-title Shaw Brothers library, is currently ...

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    Senator first up for Roth slate

    2000-05-09T18:56:00Z

    Germany's Senator Film has become the first international distributor to sign up to the highly anticipated package of studio-level films being put together by former Disney chief Joe Roth. The five-year deal initially gives Senator all media rights in all German-speaking territories. It is promised a minimum of six films ...

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    Tax financier Scope widens Euro goals

    2005-05-12T04:00:00Z

    Aggressive new Belgiantax-based financier Scope Invest has boarded a new slate of French-languageBelgian films led by Benoit Mariage's new untitled comedy starring BenoitPoolevoorde, set for an October shoot, and Philppe Le Guay's Du Jours AuLendemain, also featuringPoolevoorde.Meanwhile, Scope is readyto board Jan Verheyen's Gilles, a remake of Dutch family film ...

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    Tequila Gang, Media ready first-time trio

    2005-05-12T04:00:00Z

    Mexican production companyTequila Gang has joined with Spain's Media Films, the new production divisionof distributor Manga Films, to co-produce three feature films from first-timewomen directors.First up is CosasInsignificantes (Insignificant Things)by director Andrea Martinez, set to shoot next January in Mexico with probableleads Federico Luppi, Daniel Gimenez Cacho and Dolores Heredia. ...

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    Positive response for Korea's Antarctic Journal at Jeonju

    2005-05-11T00:00:00Z

    Antarctic Journal, a large-scale Korean mystery thriller set in theAntarctic Circle, provided a high profile close to the sixth JeonjuInternational Film Festival on May 6. The film receives its market premiere viaMirovision in the upcoming Cannes market.Shot in New Zealand, Journal focuses on an expedition to the South Pole thatveers ...

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    Shoreline bulks up Cannes slate with seven new titles

    2005-05-12T04:00:00Z

    Morris Ruskin's LosAngeles-based sales company Shoreline Entertainment has bulked up its Cannesslate with seven new titles.Heading up the roster isJacob Gentry's adventure-romance Last Goodbye starring Faye Dunaway, anadaptation of Patrick Kaye's novel that also stars David Carradine and will bereleased through Warner Brothers Home Video in North America.Other titles include ...

  • News

    Fortissimo Mob-ilises triad drama

    2005-05-12T04:00:00Z

    Fortissimo Films has pickedup international rights (excluding Southeast Asia) to triad thriller MobSister, directed by one of HongKong's hottest new directors, Wong Ching Po. Produced by Hong Kong'sFilmko Entertainment, the film tells the story of an innocent 16-year-old girlwho gets sucked into the world of gang wars and power struggles. ...

  • News

    High Point Gay in Amsterdam with Van Gogh

    2005-05-12T04:00:00Z

    UK sales agent High Pointhas taken over international sales duties on Tom Six's Gay In Amsterdam, billed as the first ever drama to investigate indepth the thriving gay scene in the Netherlands' most vibrant city. HighPoint has also taken rights to the last two films by controversial filmmakerTheo Van Gogh, ...

  • News

    Latido bangs Cuba drum

    2005-05-12T04:00:00Z

    Sales consortium Latido haspicked up worldwide rights to Viva Cuba the second film from director Juan Carlos Cremata Malberti, whose debutfeature Nada+ premiered in theQuinzaine in 2002.A fable-like story of twochildren who run away from home, Viva Cuba is the first production from Nicolas Duval and Eric Brach's Quad, the ...

  • Reviews

    The Longest Penalty In The World (El Penalti Mas Largo Del Mundo)

    2005-05-11T00:00:00Z

    Dir. Roberto Santiago.Sp. 2005. 101mins.A very local comedy withstrong remake potential, The Longest Penalty In The World has provedthis year's Spanish box office hit to date taking more than $6.5m.Although perhaps tooanchored in Madrid to travel past Spanish-language territories, that'sconversely Penalty's greatest strength - this could be remade more thanonce ...

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    Kusturica spells out judging criteria for Cannes festival

    2005-05-11T00:00:00Z

    The Cannes competition titles will be judged on purelyaesthetic grounds rather than box-office potential, said jury president EmirKusturica. It's astatement that sets the tone for this year's genre-focussed and auteur-richfestival. Kusturica promised the festival would "hit the heights" by going backto the value judgements that he says have marked out ...