All Screen articles in 15 December 2006
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Yelmo buys out Loews' stake in Spanish theatrical chain
The Yelmo Group has bought out its partner Loews Cineplex's 50% stake in Spanish exhibition chain, Yelmo Cineplex.The joint venture between the two was signed in 1998 to ramp up Yelmo Films' theatre interests. It has since grown from 108 screens to the current 329, making it Spain's third largest ...
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Berlin World Cinema Fund receives extra funding
The German Federal Culture Foundation has agreed to extend funding for the Berlin-based World Cinema Fund (WCF) for another two years.Support will now run for 2008 and 2009, having initially been planned for just three years from 2005-2007. But there will be a reduction in contributions to $395,000 (Euros 300,000) ...
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Norwegian debut director Eva Sorhaug prepares $2.3m Lunch
Norwegian director Eva Sorhaug is working on her feature debut, the $2.3m (Euros 1.8m) Lunch.The film, scripted by Per Schreiner, who won an Amanda, the local Oscar, for The Bothersome Man has the backing of the Norwegian Film Fund which will pick up $1.5m (Euros 1.1m) of the budget.Lunch, which ...
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Senator acquires Weinstein films for Germany
German producer-distributor Senator Entertainment has acquired a package of six films from The Weinstein Company, including the latest films by Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez.'I am awfully pleased that we can release these films in the cinemas for Dimension in Germany,' commented Marco Weber, Senator's board member responsible for production ...
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Lionsgate tries Tenderness in multiple territories
Lionsgate has acquired rights in North America, UK,Australia and South Africa to GreeneStreet Films' thriller Tenderness which is directed by John Polson and stars RussellCrowe.Based on the novel by Robert Cormier, the film featuresSophie Traub as a 15 year-old dreamer who becomes embroiled with a mysteriousyoung man (Jon Foster). Crowe ...
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Golden Flower has record-breaking opening...
Zhang Yimou's Curse Of The Golden Flower grossed$12.3m (RMB96m) on its four-day opening weekend in mainland China, breaking the record for the opening of a domesticfilm. The film opened on Thursday,Dec 14 on 826 prints, jointly distributed by Hong Kong-based Edko Films, ChinaFilm Group and Beijing New Picture Films.The number ...
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Golden Flower triggers dispute in mainland China
Chinese distributor Beijing PolybonaFilm Distribution has issued an open letter accusing the local distributors of Curse Of The Golden Flower ofmonopolising China's digital cinema chains. The company claims that analleged exclusive screening agreement to screen Golden Flower for one month has blocked other domestic films frombeing released on the country's ...
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Hudson of Dreamgirls to get breakthrough performance award at Palm Springs
Jennifer Hudson, the star ofDreamgirls, will receive the BreakthroughPerformance Award at the 18th annual Palm Springs International FilmFestival awards gala on Jan 13, 2007.Hudson, a runner-up on TV's AmericanIdol, will also perform at the galaevent. The newcomer, who plays Effie White in the film, recently won a GoldenGlobe nomination for ...
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Atlantic Overseas, EuroCo set US/Hungarian co-production slate
New York-based AtlanticOverseas Pictures and Budapest-based EuroCo Productions are partnering up toco-produce a slate of films kicking off with Holocaust love story The FlowerOf The Fence starring RichardDreyfuss and Maia Morgenstern.Written by Atlantic Overseaspresident Harris Salomon and Matt Salzberg, the film tells the real story ofHerman Rosenblat who found his ...
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Warner Premiere staffs up in marketing, business affairs, production
Warner Bros Entertainment has hired key executives to staffits recently launched direct-to-DVD and direct-to-platform production armWarner Premiere. Irika Slavin has been named senior vice president,marketing; Geoff Shaevitz is vice president, production; Sean Wimmer is vicepresident, post production; Stephanie Schroeder is vice president, businessaffairs and Eva Davis is vice president, acquisitions.The ...
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AFC continues support for low-budget pictures
Two low-budget thrillers, Cactus and Cedar Boys, have received production funding from the AustralianFilm Commission (AFC), while a third film, TheBullet Boy, was promised money for post-production.Writer/director JasmineYuen-Carrucan, producer Paul Sullivan and executive producer Bryan Brown, whois best known internationally as an actor, are behind Cactus. The film tells the ...
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Dafoe joins Goldblum in Schrader's Adam Resurrected for Bleiberg
WillemDafoe has joined Jeff Goldblum in the cast of Paul Schrader's Holocaust drama AdamResurrected whichis being financed and produced by Bleiberg Entertainment.Bleiberg'schairman and CEO Ehud Bleiberg is producing the film with Werner Wirsing, headof German distributor EMS/3L. Ulf Israel is executive producer.Based onthe novel by Yoram Kaniuk, the film tells ...
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Maura to receive honorary prize at Malaga Festival
Spanishactress Carmen Maura, the early Pedro Almodovar muse and co-star of hisaward-winning Volver, will receive the honoraryMalaga Prize at next year's 10thanniversary edition of the Spanish Film Festival of Malaga (March 9-17).Maurawas the star of Almodovar's earliest films and, together with the director andco-star Antonio Banderas, first came to serious ...
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Four films dominate Goya nominations
Fourfilms, Alatriste, Volver, Pan's Labyrinth and Salvador dominated the nominations for this year's Goya Awards.Thenominees were announced in Madrid by a team led by the newly-elected presidentof the Academy, writer-director Angeles Gonzalez Sinde. The ceremony for the 21st annual edition of the awards will be held over the lastweekend in ...
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Peter Pan official sequel film rights go to British consortium
A consortium of BBC Films and the UK Film Council and Newcastle-based Headline Pictures have acquired the film rights to the official sequel to JM Barrie's Peter Pan.Geraldine McCaughrean was commissioned to write Peter Pan In Scarlet last October by London children's hospital Great Ormond Street (GOSH), which holds the ...
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Chambers takes CEO role with Australian state film agency
Tania Chambers is to become the chief executive of the News South Wales Film and Television Office (FTO), the government film agency in the Australian state that hosts the most production.She will relocate to the east coast from the opposite side of the country once she has stepped down from ...
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Lady Chatterley takes the Prix Louis Delluc
Pascale Ferran's Lady Chatterley was awarded the 64th Prix Louis Delluc on Monday in Paris. The prize is one of the most prestigious awards in French cinema and often acts as a harbinger of further trophies to come. Actor-turned-director Jean-Pierre Darroussin was awarded the Louis Delluc prize for best first ...
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Coach 14 arrives on international sales scene
Former Funny Balloons partner Pape Boye has left the company to team up with Spain's Iris Star in the creation of a new sales entity, Coach 14.Coach 14 will be based in Paris and run by Boye along with Jaume Domenech of Barcelona-based Stardis. The company will aim to work ...
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French-Algerian film wins Golden Muhr at Dubai
The thirdDubai International Film Festival (DIFF) came to an end on Sunday evening witha resplendent ceremony in the desert to announce the winners of the inauguralMuhr Awards for Arab Cinema. DjamilaSahraoui's French-Algerian production Barakat! unexpectedly took the $50,000award for feature filmmaking, followed by audience favourite Falafel, the one-night-in-Beirut drama byMichel ...
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Eragon takes off with $30.3m international haul
Eragon has ended CasinoRoyale's reign at the top of the international box office chart. The FoxInternational fantasy adventure grossed an estimated $30.3m over the weekend inits 76-territory day-and-date launch, while Sony's James Bond outing --international leader for the past four weeks -- took an estimated $21m from 64markets. Fox International ...