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29 Nov 2012
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All Musicians Are Bastards
Dir/scr: Heleri Saarik. Estonia. 2012. 90mins -
Demons
Dir/scr: Ain Mäeots. Estonia. 2012. 118mins -
eOne boards UK rights to Destroyer
EXCLUSIVE: Ealing Metro International has secured a UK deal with distributor Entertainment One for upcoming Falklands War film Destroyer, starring Paul Bettany and Matthew Goode. -
Rotterdam reveals first competition titles
The 42nd International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) has announced the first seven films selected in its Hivos Tiger Awards Competition 2013. -
Tarak Ben Ammar buys private Egyptian TV channel ONTV
Deal part of strategic plan to build North African, Egyptian and European media network aimed at Arab-language audiences. -
Unifrance launches third edition of online film festival
Curzon On Demand, iTunes, Vudu and good!movies among 19 platforms partnering with festival running Jan 17 to Feb 17 2013 -
Wenders and Loach sign Creators' Petition
Wim Wenders, Bela Tarr, Ken Loach [pictured] and Paul Laverty are among nearly 16,000 names from the European film industry who have so far signed a Creators’ Petition arguing for the safeguarding of authors’ rights. -
WFTV Awards 2012: Screen International / Broadcast Photo Booth
The Sky WFTV Awards returned for its 22nd year to celebrate the UK’s best women in film and television of 2012. This year Screen International teamed with Broadcast to make the ceremony even more enjoyable! We’ve collected the photos you took at our photo booth for you to browse, keep and share. -
“3D revolution has not happened yet”
The challenges of working in 3D and the future of the format have been put under the spotlight at Belgium’s 3D Film Mart. -
AbelCine adds Codex Onboard S recorders
Purchase of the recorders [pictured] aims to support productions using the new digital cameras that generate high-resolution raw data. -
Academy extends deadline for paper ballot vote request
Since the organisation announced it would introduce electronic voting for the first time this year, some members have been confused about their options. -
Al Clark lines up trio including Stephan Elliott comedy
Producer Al Clark is working on an untitled comedy with director Stephan Elliott, a pairing that previously created The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert, one of the best-known Australian films ever made. -
Aldamisa takes international on Sundance premiere Inevitable Defeat
Aldamisa International has acquired director George Tillman’s The Inevitable Defeat of Mister and Pete, set for its world premiere at next month’s Sundance festival, for international sales. -
Amazing Cat wins Primer Corte prize
The fourth Ventana Sur market in Buenos Aires has named The Amazing Cat Fish (Los Insólitos Peces Gato) winner of its Primer Corte section for films still in post production. -
AMC, Indomina Releasing to partner on LUV
Sheldon Candis’ Sundance 2012 drama will open on Jan 18 and play exclusively at nationwide AMC locations through the AMC Independent programme. -
Amour sweeps European Film Awards
Michael Haneke’s Amour picked up the four top prizes at the 25th European Film Awards in Malta, on a night when Shame and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy each scored a brace of trophies. -
AMPAS to fete Almodovar in London
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is to celebrate the career of Pedro Almodóvar with “an intimate retrospective” on Dec 13 at London’s Curzon Soho Cinema. -
Ang Lee: possessed by film
The BAFTA and Oscar-winning director looked back at his career at Sunday’s BAFTA A Life in Pictures event. -
Argo gets Palm Spring award
Argo is to get the Ensemble Performance Award at next month’s Palm Springs International Film Festival. -
Bafta Crew initiative calls for applications
A new training and networking scheme for upcoming British film and TV talent outside London is now open for applications. -
Bournemouth to host FX and animation festival
Organised by The International VFX Hub, the festival aims to highlight the British visual effects and animation work -
Brave, Ralph, Guardians top Annie nominees
Pixar’s Brave, Disney’s Wreck-It Ralph and DreamWorks Animation’s Rise of the Guardians got the most mentions in the nomination list for this year’s Annie Awards, presented by the International Animated Film Society, or ASIFA-Hollywood. -
Breaking Dawn – Part 2 heads for the history books
Lionsgate International’s franchise finale could overtake the $430.9m mark set by The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 by the end of its third session to become the biggest in the series outside North America. -
Breaking Dawn Part 2 holds on in sluggish US session
Traditionally the post-Thanksgiving weekend is a slow one and so it proved to be as Lionsgate’s Twilight finale held on to number one spot in its third weekend, adding an estimated $17.4m to reach $254.6m. -
BSkyB's Turner Laing to deliver MipTV speech
Sophie Turner Laing, managing director of entertainment, news and broadcast at BSkyB, is to deliver a keynote speech at MipTV 2013. -
Cathay to unleash Red Numbers in Feb 2013
Cathay-Keris Films announced at ScreenSingapore this week that Singaporean film Red Numbers will be released February 22, 2013. -
CineMart's Boost! projects include films from Lipkes, Edkins, Stoll
Projects by Michel Lipkes (Mexico) [pictured] and Teboho Edkins (South Africa) have been added to the Boost! selections for Rotterdam CineMart this year. -
Claude Lanzmann to receive Berlin’s Honorary Golden Bear
Claude Lanzmann, the French documentary film-maker behind Shoah, is to be awarded the Honorary Golden Bear for lifetime achievement at the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival. -
Cloud Atlas, Huntsman, Pi make Oscar FX shortlist
The Academy has announced the 10 visual effects contenders for the prize before visual effects branch members consider who will become the five nominees. -
Code Name: Geronimo
Dir: John Stockwell. US. 2012. 90mins -
Creative Scotland boss Andrew Dixon quits
The head of Scotland’s arts funding body is stepping down following a critical attack on the organisation. -
Deadfall
Dir: Stefan Ruzowitzky. US. 2012. 95mins -
DeHaan joins next Spider-Man
Dane DeHaan is joining the cast of the next instalment of The Amazing Spider-Man. -
Disney signs with Netflix for US
Disney has signed a multi-year licensing deal that will make Netflix the exclusive US subscription TV outlet for first-run live action and animated features from the Walt Disney Studios starting in 2016. -
Documentary Oscar shortlist unveiled
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has unveiled its shortlist of 15 films in the running for this year’s Documentary Feature Oscar, among them Bully (pictured), The House I Live In and Searching for Sugar Man. -
Dubai axes three Syrian films from official selection
Dubai and Cairo film festivals remove films by pro-Bashar al-Assad filmmakers from line-ups. -
EC backs Euro VOD festival in China
The European Commission is backing the first EU Film Festival Online (EUFF) in China. -
EC's Cinema Communication debate dominates Rendez-Vous in Berlin
CNC president Eric Garandeau and the German Federal Film Board board member Peter Dinges are criticial of EC’s plan. -
Ed Clarke reteams with Paul Webster at Shoebox Films
Pair worked together at Kudos; Shoebox’s first production is Steve Knight’s Hummingbird. -
Eleven live-action shorts advance in Oscar race
A tie in the nominations balloting resulted in 11 films being shortlisted. One hundred and twenty-five pictures originally qualified in the category. -
eOne takes North American rights to Cuban Fury
The distributor negotiated with StudioCanal for Big Talk’s rom-com starring Nick Frost, Rashida Jones, Chris O’Dowd, Ian McShane and Olivia Colman. -
Epilogue takes top prize at Tokyo Filmex
Amir Manor’s Epilogue was awarded the grand prize and $8,500 (Y700,000) at the closing awards of the 13th edition of Tokyo Filmex (Nov 23-Dec 2). -
Filming wraps on David Frankel’s One Chance
Comedy biopic One Chance, starring James Corden as Britain’s Got Talent winner Paul Potts, has wrapped filming. -
Film's place in the queue
The role of cinemas in a digital world was one of the main points of discussion at the annual conference of the Europa Cinemas Network. Melanie Goodfellow reports -
French film industry protests 3% VAT hike on cinema tickets
VAT on cinema tickets set to rise to 10% at the beginning of 2014. -
Future Cinema: "There’s a certain momentum now"
Future Cinema founder Fabien Riggall talks to Screen about the developments Future Cinema has made over 2012, including their recent Secret Cinema production of The Shawshank Redemption which attracted over 13,500 people. -
Gabriela Tagliavini ready to shoot The Anatomist’s Secret
The Italian director of Ladies’ Night and Without Men has lined up her next project, a drama based on Argentinian author Federico Andahazi’s book about the 16th century surgeon who discovered the clitoris. -
Glasgow Film Theatre set for renovation
The Glasgow Film Theatre is slated to undergo a $2.6m (£1.6m) renovation project that will allow for growth of the city’s film festival. -
Goodbye Morocco
Dir/scr: Nadir Moknèche. France-Belgium. 2012. 98mins -
Hitchcock: Psycho path
The film-makers behind Hitchcock talk to Michael Rosser about bringing the iconic director ? and one of his most famous works ? back to the big screen -
Hitting close to home
Lionsgate UK has had a banner year led by The Hunger Games - but the distributor is also committed to backing British film. Wendy Mitchell talks to CEO Zygi Kamasa [pictured] -
Honours for Zaoralova
From officer to knight. -
India's PVR Cinemas buys out Cinemax
Indian exhibitor PVR Cinemas has acquired a 69.27% stake in rival Cinemax to create India’s largest cinema chain. -
Isaac, Clarke sign for Monahan's Mojave
Oscar Isaac and Jason Clarke have signed to star in Atlas Independent’s thriller Mojave, written and to be directed by William Monahan [pictured]. -
Jill Tandy joins Universal Pictures International
Tandy to assume commercial affairs role primarily across local language productions and will continue to work for Inside Pictures in reduced role. -
jOBS acquired by Canada’s Remstar
Montreal-based Remstar Films is to distribute the Steve Jobs biopic in Canada; Entertainment One will handle rights in all media for the film outside Quebec. -
John Hawkes
John Hawkes talks to Jeremy Kay about tackling two of US cinema’s biggest taboos in The Sessions. -
Lau to be Filmmaker in Focus at HKIFF
Hong Kong director Andrew Lau will be the Filmmaker in Focus at next year’s edition of the Hong Kong International Film Festival (HKIFF). -
Leaders of the pack
With a host of contenders now screening for awards voters, the front runners are becoming clearer. Jeremy Kay reports -
Les Arcs industry events to focus on VoD, Bullhead
Two-day programme runs within the co-production village. -
Les Arcs unveils Work in Progress titles
Upcoming titles from Lech Majewski and duo Ben Rivers and Ben Russell are among the 12 films to be showcased in the Work in Progess section of the Les Arcs European Film Festival. -
LipSync Post expands audio services
The facility has purchased an Avid C|24 control surface with Pro Tools|HDX software as well as a range of plug-ins and peripherals for an additional 5.1 suite. -
London's Empire Cinema first to offer Dolby Atmos
The Empire cinema in London’s Leicester Square will be the first in the UK to bring Dolby Atmos audio technology to audiences, starting December 13 with Ang Lee’s Life of Pi. -
LoveFilm launches on Wii
LoveFilm is to launch on Nintendo’s Wii console today (Dec 4), bringing the Amazon-owned VOD service into eight million homes across the UK. -
Matthew McConaughey
Matthew McConaughey overcame his fear of stripping to create the memorable Dallas in Steven Soderbergh’s Magic Mike. Wendy Mitchell talks to the actor, who is having a career boom playing a whole gang of outlaws. -
Metrodome acquires period drama Summer in February
EXCLUSIVE: Dan Stevens, Dominic Cooper, Emily Browning and Hattie Morahan star in UK drama about a love triangle in an artists’ colony. -
Metrodome promotes Simon Weavers
Metrodome Distribution has promoted Simon Weavers to head of DVD sales. -
Microwave’s Lilting, starring Ben Whishaw, underway in London
Ben Whishaw, Cheng Pei Pei star in London-set love story produced by Microwave and Dominic Buchanan in association with Stink Films, BBC Films, SUMS. First image from set exclusive to Screen. -
Mike Figgis to chair Capri, Hollywood Festival
The 17th iteration will take place across the Isle of Capri from Dec 27-Jan 2. Writer and archeologist Valerio Massimo Manfredi will serve as president of the festival. -
Move over, Sideways
A special toast to You Will Be My Son. -
Nativity 2: Danger In The Manger!
Dir/scr: Debbie Isitt. UK. 2012. 105mins -
PGA unveils documentary feature nominees
The winner will be announced at the Producers Guild Of America’s (PGA) 24th Annual Producers Guild Awards on Jan 26. -
Picturehouse ties with MyMovies
Digital agency MyMovies has joined with UK cinema chain Picturehouse to become the exclusive content provider for Pictureshouses.co.uk. -
Pinto, Apted, Barreto among Dubai film festival jurors
The Dubai International Film Festival has announced the juries for its Muhr competition strands, which include actress Freida Pinto, Brazilian filmmaker Bruno Barreto and UK director Michael Apted. -
Presidential campaign
After a strong US debut, Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln is set for its international roll-out. Ian Sandwell assesses the global box-office record of cinema’s most successful director -
Rave on
As Warp Films marks its 10th anniversary, founder Mark Herbert [pictured] speaks to Wendy Mitchell about the iconoclastic UK company’s decade of growth -
RealD ties with Bulgaria’s largest exhibitor
New deal will begin with the installation of RealD 3D on 44 Kino Arena screens. -
Ric Roman Waugh to direct Relativity's Tipping Point
Waugh will also rewrite the sci-fi thriller based on an original screenplay by Todd Stein. -
Rotterdam names Dutch co-pro titles
Film projects from the Netherlands have been selected for CineMart 2013, including new titles from veteran director Alex van Warmerdam and Kauwboy [pictured] director Boudewijn Koole. -
Russian government to save Lenfilm
Lenfilm, one of Russia’s oldest film studios, has been saved from bankruptcy by the Russian government. -
San Sebastian to celebrate animation and Oshima
Animation and the work of Nagisa Oshima, the Japanese director behind Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence, are to feature as part of the next San Sebastian Festival. -
Sapphires heads nominations for AACTA awards
This year’s standout box office hit The Sapphires, is up against Burning Man, Lore and Wish You Were Here for the crown of best film in the AACTA (Australian Academy Cinema Television Arts) Awards, to be presented at the end of January in Sydney. -
Satellite Award nominees named
Les Miserables, Lincoln and Silver Linings Playbook are among the big nominees for the International Press Academy’s 2012 Satellite Awards. -
Shell wins top Turin prize
Scott Graham’s directorial debut has been named Best Film at the 30th Turin Film Festival. -
Skyfall biggest ever film at UK box office
James Bond’s 23rd adventure has become the highest grossing film of all time at the UK box office, overtaking Avatar. -
Skyfall shoots back to the top of the UK box office
Latest Bond mission on brink of overtaking Avatar as the all-time champion; Breaking Dawn - Part 2 becomes eOne’s biggest film ever; Ben Wheatley’s critically acclaimed Sightseers opens with $342,000 (£213,014) from 92 sites. -
So Undercover
Dir: Tom Vaughan. US. 2012. 96mins -
Summit Entertainment acquires rights to Breed
Chase Novak aka Scott Spencer wrote the novel and Summit has hired Burr Steers to write and direct the horror thriller. David Heyman and Jeffrey Clifford of Heyday Films will produce. -
Sundance reveal premiere line-up
Joshua Michael Stern’s Steve Jobs biopic, Alex Gibney’s Wikileaks documentary and Stoker, the English-language debut of Park Chan-Wook, are among a dynamic Sundance Premieres and Documentary Premieres line-up. -
Sundance shorts unveiled
The Sundance Institute has unveiled a line-up of 65 short films - including new projects from Albert Maysles and Morgan Spurlock - to screen at next month’s Sundance Film Festival. -
Supernova unveils first Sing-Cambodia co-production
Singapore production company Supernova Media announced the first Singapore-Cambodia co-production at the on-going ScreenSingapore conference. -
Taken 2 takes EuropaCorp back to black
First half-year net profit of $15.5m (€12m) is highest company has recorded in a full fiscal year since flotation in 2007. -
The Baytown Outlaws
Dir: Barry Battles. US. 2012. 99mins -
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Dir: Peter Jackson. US. 2012. 170mins -
Tinker Bell And The Secret Of The Wings
Dir: Peggy Holmes. US. 2012. 75mins -
Tribeca launches interactive workshops
The Tribeca Film Institute (TFI) has announced a new US workshop series, Tribeca Hacks, designed to bring together content creators and technology specialists to increase understanding and broaden participation in the field of interactive storytelling. -
Truth About Lies starts shoot
Principal photography has begun in New York City on independent feature The Truth About Lies. -
Twilight franchise finale rules international on $49m
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 stands on the cusp of $450m following a third dominant weekend through Lionsgate International and has become the biggest of the five-film franchise outside North America. -
Two new Indian films to be shot in London in 2013
The Mayor of London Boris Johnson announced the news as he met with top film and TV producers in Mumbai. -
UK government confirms 25% TV tax credit, £6m pool for training; Ireland extends relief to 2020
UK government promises to match industry training funding up to £6m; Irish government extends film and TV tax credit to 2020, -
Ukrainian cinemas face closure over “music tax”
Ukrainian cinemas are facing the threat of closure over government plans to charge them royalties for the use of music in films. -
Ventana Sur launches fourth year with new Producers Network
More than 500 films on offer; 1,844 industry professionals to attend the Buenos Aires-based market. -
Ventana Sur: Brazil offers finance 'role model'
Brazil continues as a role model of film finance in Latin America, according to panellists during the second day of Ventana Sur (Dec 1), the fourth edition of which is underway in Buenos Aires, Argentina. -
Vertigo acquires BIFA-nominated Strings
Vertigo Films has acquired BIFA and Raindance-nominated teen drama Strings from first time film-maker Rob Savage. -
Wallen quits Yellow Bird; Fernandez named CEO
Mikael Wallen is stepping down as president of Yellow Bird, the Swedish production company behind the original version of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. -
War Witch triumphs at Camerimage
Kim Nguyen’s War Witch won the coveted Golden Frog at the Plus Camerimage festival, beating Leo Carax’s Holy Motors. -
Website tackles problem of licensing film scores for TV
TV productions that want to use film scores can tap into a new website that aims to avoid potentially tricky licensing issues. -
Why Sightseers is the British film of the year
Ben Wheatley’s dark comedy isn’t just a brilliant viewing experience, it’s also an example of the British indie film world working well together. -
XLrator takes American Mary for US
XLrator Media has acquired all US rights to horror thriller American Mary and plans to release the film on its new Screamfest label next autumn. -
Yash Raj Films to produce Kapur's Paani
India’s Yash Raj Films has announced that it will produce Shekhar Kapur’s long-gestating passion project Paani. -
Zero Dark Thirty takes NY critics award
The New York Film Critics Circle (NYFCC), the first of the US critics groups to announce their annual awards, has named Zero Dark Thirty Best Picture and its director Kathryn Bigelow Best Director. -
Zero Dark Thirty tops NBR awards
Zero Dark Thirty has scored a hat trick at the National Board of Review (NBR) awards, taking the best film prize, best director for Kathryn Bigelow and best actress for Jessica Chastain.
