Screen
09 June 2011
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Arte France Cinema boards latest Carax, Reygadas pictures
Carax feature set to star Denis Lavant; Arte also backing -
Latido secures spate of key sales deals
Spanish outfit Latido Films has sold several key titles to leading territories, including comedy hit Chinese Take-Away to Ascot Elite for Germany and to Archibald for Italy. -
Apichatpong Weerasethakul to head Orizzonti jury at Venice
Thai director competed at Venice in 2006 -
Bille August returns to Denmark to direct The Passion Of Marie
Two-time Palm d’Or winner to direct in Denmark for first time in more than 30 years. -
British Council names Briony Hanson as Director Film
Hanson spent 10 years working at The Script Factory. -
Charities on board for Scott Free's Movie Mogul scheme
Movie Mogul scheme part of Life In A Day’s UK marketing campaign -
China’s Shimao strikes deals with Dolby and Christie on digital and 3D cinemas
China’s first 4K projectors to be installed. -
Colin Brown steps down as British Film Commissioner
Division recently moved from UK Film Council to Film London. -
Co-operative Group renews funding for UK Youth Academy
The Co-operative Group extends funding to British Youth Film Academy until 2014 -
Debra Hayward to launch Monumental Pictures
Working Title’s President of UK Production will officially step down in September; new outfit will have first-look deal with the company -
Eros International announces $25m first week for Ready
Film is released worldwide by Eros in association with Waves Cinemas’ Ponty Chadha -
Fernando Meirelles’ 360 first English language production to tap Austrian incentive
The €11m project shot in Austria last month -
French animation films seen by 34.5 million people worldwide from 1999-2010
In Annecy for the first time, Unifrance releases 12-year study on performance of French animation films at foreign box office -
French directors and distributors protest Harry Potter premiere
8,000 people expected for massive Deathly Hallows event screening on July 12 -
Future Films to get out of post-production business
Buyer sought for operations formerly known as Pepper Post. -
Good Pitch Europe includes new projects from Woolcock, Anderson
The 2011 Good Pitch Europe has announced the projects selected for its October event dedicated to supporting socially conscious documentaries. -
Jane Eyre, Midnight In Paris bookend Karlovy Vary
Line-up for the Czech festival includes 14 world premieres across three feature competitions -
Kaleidoscope takes UK rights to BBC Earth's One Life
Daniel Craig [pictured] narrates the nature documentary. -
Le Havre to open Sarajevo Film Festival
Kaurismaki’s The Man Without A Past screened at Sarajevo in 2002 -
Legendary Entertainment, Huayi Brothers form Hong Kong joint venture
Legendary East to make two major English language films per year, to be distributed by WB and Huayi Brothers. -
LoveFilm expands digital service in Germany with PlayStation 3 deal
Titles available include Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest -
Media Luna New Films adds four new titles
Films by Hong Kong filmmaker Scud and Finland’s Riamo O. Niemi are among four new titles acquired by Media Luna New Films for international distribution. -
Michael Kaplan
Screen talks to the famed costume designer who has worked on Fight Club, Blade Runner, Flashdance, Burlesque and Mission: Impossible 4. -
More reasons to love Jonathan Demme
The director once again proves his great interview skills in Aruba. -
Paris Project co-production platform unveils July 2011 line-up
Canadian Denis Coté [pictured], UK’s Daniel Mulloy and Hungarian Agnes Kocsis among those seeking co-production partners at event running July 4-7 -
Peccadillo Pictures launches UK tour of new label
UK distributor Peccadillo Pictures launches POUT, a selection of new lesbian and gay titles to screen in upcoming UK tour -
Rotterdam becomes a partner for new film festival in Curacao
New four-day event will start in March 2012. -
Schumacher, Spielhoff promoted as Haslam leaves HanWay
Following CEO Tim Haslam’s departure from HanWay Films last week, company Chairman Jeremy Thomas has announced two senior appointments at the London-based sales company. -
Shanghai International Film Festival opening night
The stars were out for the opening night of the Shanghai International Film Festival (Saturday, June 11) -
Sky makes £600m UK content pledge
Sky has revealed it spent £380m on UK-originated programming in the year to July 2011 and plans to boost investment to £600m a year by 2014. -
SPWA picks up world rights to Detention
Apocalyptic fantasy-horror-sci-fi-teen-rom-com directed by Joseph Kahn -
Tirza takes top award at Portugal's Festroia
Other awards go to Turkish drama Hair and Icelandic dark comedy Mamma Gogo. -
Trinity acquires This Must Be The Place for UK
UK indie scoops rights to Sorrentino crime-drama from Pathe
