All Screen articles in 11 February 2003
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Grosvenor Park launches new tax scheme
Aiming to create a rival to Inside Track, the groundbreaking fund bankrolling such titles as Girl With A Pearl Earring, Canadian-UK financier Grosvenor Park has launched First Choice, a similar tax write-off scheme offering 30% of budgets.Grosvenor Park chief Don Starr aims to raise $41m-$82m (£25m-£50m) from investors for the ...
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Spain's Tesela readies three new films
Spanish production company Tesela is preparing three new feature films including the next project from Argentinean veteran Adolfo Aristarain (Common Places).The films are the first new projects following Achero Manas' Noviembre (now in post-production with an eye to a Cannes release) since Grupo Prisa-backed Plural Entertainment bought out 80% of ...
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Tele-Muenchen ups German feature production
Herbert Kloiber's Tele-Muenchen will step up its German-language feature production as a way of filling the gap left by the bursting of the Neuer Markt bubble."We are currently speaking with all independent producers and talents we didn`t have a chance of working with in the past because they ...
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Iceland's youngest film-maker readies gay football feature
Iceland's youngest, yet most prolific, filmmaker Robert Douglas is preparing his third feature film, Off Side, which has been put on the fast track after Ingvar Thordarson (101 Reykjavík) stepped in as co-producer along with director-producer Julius Kemp. The latter also produced Douglas' two previous low-budget digital features, The Icelandic ...
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Pelzer named studio manager at Ealing
Ealing Studios has appointed Jeremy Pelzer as studio manager.Pelzer, who previously acted a consultant to the historic studio, will be responsible for increasing the profile and awareness of Ealing within the film, television and media industries. He will oversee the studio's current $82m (£50m) revamp on a day-to-day basis.Pelzer managed ...
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Trust takes on international sales for Details
Denmark's Trust Film Sales will be handling international sales of the Swedish film Details, the highly anticipated new film from writer-director Kristian Petri. The film has been tipped for a slot in Cannes - if it is finished in time - and is based on a play by Sweden's provocative ...
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Momentum joins in Fortissimo's Camp
Camp, the musical romp set in a summer camp star school, has been snapped up for the UK by Momentum Films. Momentum scored after beating off competition from numerous rival bidders and is believed to have paid a "near mid-six figure sum." Momentum, senior vice president of acquisitions Sally Caplan ...
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Likely buyer named for Odeon Cinemas
A likely buyer appears to have emerged for Odeon Cinemas, after reports earlier this month that the UK's largest cinema chain was being put on the auction block by owner Cinven.According to a report in the UK's Sunday Telegraph, investment bank WestLB is in advanced negotiations to acquire the circuit ...
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Giannini, Roth to star in Taviani brothers' Dumas project
Italian heartthrob Adriano Giannini (Swept Away) and Argentina's Cecilia Roth (All About My Mother) are set to star for the Taviani brothers in Luisa Sanfelice, an ambitious Italian feature film and miniseries, Rome-based producer Cattleya announced in Berlin.Originally planned only as a miniseries, Cattleya, which is producing for Germany's Victory ...
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Local film rocks Spanish box office
Effects-laden, cartoon-inspired Spanish feature film Mortadelo & Filemon - The Big Adventure achieved the top grossing opening weekend ever for a local title this weekend in Spain, earning Euros 5.1m from 325 prints through distributor Warner Sogefilms.Sogecine-Sogepaq, co-producer and sales agent on the Euros 8m film, also closed a ...
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Metro Tartan takes UK rights on Black And White
Metro Tartan, the UK distributor, has picked up Black And White, an Australian period drama by director Craig Lahiff. The film focuses on a real life 1958 trial of an Aboriginal man, framed by the police for the rape of a young girl. Made by Duo Art and Nik Powell's ...
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Bergman's TV drama heads for the big screen
Svensk Filmindustri (SF) has notched up a raft of sales for Saraband, a TV drama from legendary Swedish director Ingmar Bergman that has now become a hot theatrical property.The film was sold to Metro-Tartan for the UK, where the distributor recently re-released and has done good business with the previously ...
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Good Bye, Lenin! heads Bavaria's sales
German sales outfit Bavaria Film International has done strong business on Berlin competition film Good Bye, Lenin!. Deals were closed on the spot with France's Ocean Films and Japan's Gaga Communications. It is in negotiations with distributors from the US, UK, Spain and Italy. Ahead of today's Oscar ...
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Arte reassures film-makers of continued investment
Jerome Clement, (pictured) head of Arte, the Franco-German cultural channel, has plenty to crow about as he makes an annual good-will mission to the Berlinale. Arte was an investor in no less than twenty festival films, including four in main competition. These are Wolfgang Becker's already hot Good Bye Lenin!, ...
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France's Rezo expands into international sales arena
Celebrating its tenth year in existence, French producer and distributor Rezo films will now move into international sales. The process will begin with the 23rd film from Eric Rohmer, Triple Agent. The film, which begins shooting in March in Paris is budgeted at Euros 4m and will be sold and ...
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Jack Valenti brings anti-piracy campaign to Berlin
MPAA president Jack Valenti reiterated his anti-piracy campaign in Berlin, when he addressed the opening of the European Film Finance Forum and also met German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder to discuss the issue."There is a menace in this world that threatens not only the Americans but every creative community ...and that's ...
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Danish duo create five-for-one animation plan
Danish producer-distributor Angel Films has joined with Anders Morgenthaler's TV-Animation in a new production outfit Five For One, which plans to produce five digital animated children's features. Using a new specially designed computer software and Dogme-like production principals they intend to make the five films for the price of one. ...
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IMAX to add three new sites in China
Toronto-based large format operator IMAX is to open three new theatres in China, expanding the country's number of IMAX theatres to eight by 2005.The new developments - in Beijing and South Chinese city Dongguan - come just six months after IMAX officially launched in the territory with a Chinese and ...
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UIP's Rougier takes top job at TFM
Jean-PaulRougier has been named managing director of TFM, the stand-alone joint Frenchdistribution outfit launched by TF1 and Miramax Films in May 2002. Miramax COORick Sands and TF1 chairman and CEO Patrick Le Lay made the announcement today(Feb 10). Rougier most recently served as CEO at UIP, where he was also ...
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Summit/IS takes on Jewison's The Statement
Summit Entertainment hasacquired international distribution rights to Norman Jewison's nextpicture The Statement starringMichael Caine, Jeremy Northam and Tilda Swinton. Sony Pictures Classics (SPC)has domestic rights to the film.Set to start shooting in Europeon March 17, The Statement isbased on Brian Moore's novel and was scripted by Ronald Harwood, who hasbeen ...