The View from Abroad: Screen Daily in 60 Seconds

by Martha Fischer Mar 10th 2006 // 8:00PM

Notable among American films debuting in foreign territories this weekend are The Pink Panther, bowing on hundreds of screen across France, Germany, and Australia, and The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, which is moving on to China after a tremendously successful release in Japan. Poor Tristan Isolde, meanwhile, will stagger into Spain and New Zealand, hoping that somewhere on earth, people won't have heard how bad it is.

Catalina Sandino Moreno, an Oscar nominee for Maria Full of Grace, will lead an multi-national cast in The Heart Of The Earth, a Spanish-UK-Portugal co-production set to begin shooting in Spain and Portugal later this month. The story is yet another of those inspired-by-real-events, this one about an uprising at a British-owned silver mine in 18th century Spain. Among Moreno's costars will be Brits Sienna Guillory and Hugh Dancy, as well as Cuba's Jorge Perugorría.

One of the increasingly rare children's book adaptation not being done by Walden Media is Aussie Unjoo Moon's version of The Wicked, Wicked Ladies In The Haunted House. Written by Pulitzer-winner Mary Close, the book, aimed at a grade-school audience, is "a suspenseful ghost story cum mystery in moody, atmospheric prose that blends dark magic and a dry wit occasionally reminiscent of Roald Dahl." Moon hopes that the film will be shot by Oscar winning Memoirs of a Geisha lensman Dion Beebe, to whom she happens to be married.

Canada's own Walk of Fame is exploding with stars: it was announced recently that Pamela Anderson, Brendan Fraser, Eugene Levy and Robert Goulet are 2006's honorees, and will be inducted at a June ceremony. Surely Eugene Levey never imagined he's be lucky enough to one day share a stage with both Pam Anderson AND Robert Goulet.

Tags: Brendan Frasier, BrendanFrasier, Canadian Walk of Fame, cinematical, Eugene Levy, EugeneLevy, film, foreign films, foreign release, movie, Pamela Anderson, PamelaAnderson, Robert Goulet, RobertGoulet, Screen Daily

400 Screens, 400 Blows - Picking Vicky (3 days ago - 5 Comments)
Review: City of Ember (3 days ago - 5 Comments)
Review: The Express (2 days ago - 0 Comments)
Review: Nights in Rodanthe (16 days ago - 12 Comments)
Review: Lakeview Terrace (23 days ago - 5 Comments)

Advertise with Cinematical. (Learn more)

Other Weblogs Inc. Network blogs you might be interested in:

Japanese hardware sales, Sept . 29 - Oct. 5: Tomorrowland edition Weekly Webcomic Wrapup thinks brevity is the sole of wit Space Oddity: Lord British pays $30 million for trip to International Space Station	13 Great Free Backup Programs for Windows, Mac, and Linux On the cutting edge of geolocation with Mozilla Labs' Geode Firefox for Windows Mobile images surface
Study shows 43% of college women prefer Macs Reminder: Talkcast tonight at 10 Eastern Get into the Halloween spirit with a screen saver	Entrepreneur's Journal: Supercharge your website with search engine optimization (SEO) McCain stock: Invest in the high-tech value chain Molex Obama stock: Cardinal (CAH) delivers on health care promise
Deals: Gift card with Dead Space, B2G1 at Toys R Us and more Soulja Boy calls out Xbox Live gamers Activision calls in the budget Secret Service	Clarkson doesn't hate all American cars, recommends CTS-V for the Stig What recession? Daimler adding 1,000 to payroll next year GM/Cerberus talks over full ownership of GMAC
The Best of Big Download: October 6-12 Yep, more BlizzCon Blizzard looking to "monetize" Battle.net in the future	Jaguars 24, Broncos 17: What Goes Around Comes Around Packers 27, Seahawks 17: Quarterback Family Tree Tomfoolery, Kornheiser Style Eagles 40 49ers 26: Donovan McNabb No Longer Embarrassed