Screen
14 Apr 2011
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Chow steps into cinema business in mainland China
Bingo Group plans joint venture with Shanghai’s CineChina. -
EFP selects candidates for Producers On The Move in Cannes
25 producers to participate in 12th edition, including first producer invited from Albania. -
Artificial Eye takes on Cannes selection Days of Grace
Midnight out of competition selection is directed by Mexico’s Everardo Gout. -
Bergman week lines up speakers including author Henning Mankell
Bergman Week plans Family Snapshots theme for 2011. -
Cameron Richardson joins The Last Beat
Shawn Andrews and Virginie Ledoyen round out the key cast in Bohemia Group and writer-director Robert Saitzyk’s love triangle project. -
Cannes Cinefondation/Shorts jury adds Gayet, Hausner, Porumboiu and Rodrigues
Director Michel Gondry heads the jury. -
Cannes Critics Week includes Snowtown, The Slut, Take Shelter
Seven features selected; French special screenings will bookend the event (May 12-20). -
Cannes jurors to include Olivier Assayas, Jude Law
Jurors also include directors Mahamet Saleh Haroun and Johnnie To. -
Cannes' new Electrolux Agora to host ceremonies, dinners
New Cannes top-tier sponsor Electrolux will create a new “Agora” pavilion near the Palais for official events of the 2011 festival. -
Cannes unveils Competition, Out of Competition, Un Certain Regard line-ups
Competitors include Almodovar, Ceylan, Dardennes, Kawase, Kaurismaki, Malick, Miike, Ramsay and more. -
Directors Fortnight selections include new films from Antoniak, Téchiné, Runarsson
Twenty five titles selected for busy line-up, including six debut films and the first indigenous Palawanon film. -
Dujardin and Lellouche to direct The Two-Timers
Comedy will be comprised of different segments also directed by Kounen, Hazanavicius, Cavaye. -
Egypt's Microphone wins Golden Tulip in Istanbul
Other prize winners include Our Grand Despair, A Useful Life, and Hair. -
Elephant Eye takes on world rights to Wasted Youth
New York-based Elephant Eye Films has acquired worldwide rights to Greek drama Wasted Youth. -
Festival Scope offers past work from Cannes emerging talents
Also, Festival Scope will offer Critics Week and Fortnight titles online for industry professionals from May 22. -
Filmax takes sales rights to No Rest For The Wicked
Warner Bros will release the Enrique Urbizu thriller in Spain this autumn -
First Beijing festival to open with The Lost Bladesman
Festival to show more than 160 films. -
From Cannes to Cape Town
CMG plans a Cape Town trip giveaway in Cannes in support of Zambezia. -
Galter and Marais share Linz’s Crossing Europe Award
Lluís Galter’s Caracremada and Pia Marais’ At Ellen’s Age [pictured] shared the Crossing Europe Award in this year’s European Competition in the Austrian city of Linz at the weekend. -
German funds back new projects from Vincent Perez, Cate Shortland, Jos Stelling
Three German funds invest over $25m in new projects from Vincent Perez, Cate Shortland, Jos Stelling and others -
Hermann named CEO of Copenhagen Film Festivals
He replaces Jorgen Ramskou who recently joined radio company 24/7. -
Hot projects on Screenbase
New additions to Screen’s European Film index include an adaptation of David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas, as well as an Italian remake of Werner Herzog’s The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser starring Vincent Gallo. -
IFP, Lincoln Center announce strategic union
The new collaboration relocates IFP’s signature programme – Independent Film Week – to The Film Society Of Lincoln Center’s Elinor Bunin Monroe Film Center and means joint programming during the New York Film Festival. -
Kaplanoglu, Teoman and Özge projects supported by new German-Turkish fund
New films by Semih Kaplanoglu, Seyfi Teoman and Asli Özge are among the first supported by the German-Turkish Co-Production Development Fund with a total of €100,000. -
Ken Loach to start The Angels' Share shoot on April 25
Bittersweet comedy will be shot in Glasgow and Edinburgh. -
Kevin flies the British flag in Cannes
Hopes are high for the return of Lynne Ramsay. -
Knifer wins debut competition at Cyprus Film Days
Yiannis Economides’ project named best film; Radu Muntean’s Tuesday, After Christmas picks up jury prize award -
Latido take international rights to Chinese Take-away
Spanish outfit Latido Films has picked up international sales rights to Sebastian Borensztein’s successful comedy Chinese Take-away, starring Ricardo Darin, which will make its international premiere at the Cannes market. -
Matthew Kreuzer to join Kaleidoscope Home Entertainment
He previously worked at Revolver, Contender and Universal. -
Nine films selected for Cannes Shorts Competition
Directors include Edgerton, Holst, Tazaki and Vroda. -
NonStop takes on Dutch thriller Loft
NonStop Sales has taken on international rights to Dutch thriller Loft by director Antoinette Beumer. -
Oliver Schmitz leaves directors chair on Russendisko, replaced by screenwriter
Berlin-based production house Black Forest Films has changed directors in the middle of shooting the film adaptation of Wladimir Kaminer’s bestseller Russendisko. -
Paris-based Umedia builds production slate, rebrands as Urban
Umedia, the Paris based international sales and co-production outfit launched in 2004 by Frédéric Corvez, is expanding into production and theatrical distribution - and is being rebranded in the process. -
Rachel Griffiths' feature debut among new projects backed by Screen Australia
13 projects receiving development funding, including films from Bruce Beresford, John Curran and Gregor Jordan. -
Selling a city
Morgan Spurlock finds a town with a sense of humour…and an asking price. -
Udo on the go
Udo Kier talks about his seven new film and TV roles, including playing a wedding planner in Lars von Trier’s Cannes competitor Melancholia. -
Vamp-ing at Alvernia
Touring the sci-fi cool spaces of Poland’s booming Alvernia Studios. -
Well Go USA secures private equity backing from Brock Capital
The North American distributor of the Ip Man franchise announced the multi-million financing as it prepares to release Legend Of The Fist: The Return Of Chen Zhen on Apr 22. -
Yellow Affair takes on sales for Swedish thriller Gone
Mattias Olsson and Henrik JP Åkesson direct the story of a kidnapped woman.
