Screen
23 Aug 2012
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MPM Film picks up Venice titles Mold and A Month in Thailand
EXCLUSIVE: MPM also announces Italian sale of Mold to Nanni Moretti and Luigi Musini’s Sacher Distibuzione for Italy. -
AMC Theatres, Fever Productions to release horror film Smiley
The exclusive partnership means a limited Oct 12 national roll-out for Michael Gallagher’s film through the theatre chain’s AMC independent platform on 28 screens in 14 markets such as New York and Los Angeles. -
Archstone boards My Awkward Sexual Adventure
Sean Garrity’s comedy world premieres at Toronto next month. -
'aving a Bubble
FrightFest day one brings the laughs with the world premiere of Cockneys Vs. Zombies. -
BAC to handle international sales for Kormakur's Toronto premiere The Deep
WME to handle US rights on the Icelandic true-life drama/thriller. -
Bier, Cavani, Nair join Venice Days' Women's Tales project
Susanne Bier, Liliana Cavani and Mira Nair are joining in Venice Days’ new Women’s Tales showcase.The three-day event (Aug 30-Sept 1) is to support women filmmakers. The programme will include screening of four short films by Zoe Cassavetes, Lucrecia Martel, Giada Colagrande and Massy Tadjedin.Q&A sessions with those filmmakes will also now include Cavani, Nair and Bier. A group photoshooot is planned with major women filmmakers from Italy, including Maya -
Brave hits its target as it topples Ted at the UK box office
Disney/Pixar’s latest shoots an estimated $8.1m (£5.2m) debut, including previews; Bourne Legacy records second highest opening of franchise. -
Circus Road take on omnibus Tbilisi, My City
Glen Reynolds and Zac Reeder’s Circus Road Films has boarded international sales for David Agiashvili’s Tbilisi, My City. -
Clip filmmakers respond to Russian ban of film
Russian Ministry of Culture accused the Rotterdam winning film of being child pornography. -
Cohen teams with Focus World to unleash The Attack
As previously reported exclusively on Screendaily, Cohen Media Group will handle the North American theatrical and DVD release of the Toronto-bound special presentation. -
Digital Vision offers film archive workflow solution Vintage Cloud
Digital Vision has unveiled Vintage Cloud, a new semi-automated film digitization workflow. -
Documentary Unstoppables to continue filming at London Paralympic Games
The team behind the documentary Unstoppables, about the Spanish Paralympic cycling team aka the Pirates Team, will be filming at London’s 2012 Paralympic Games, which kick off this week.For full production credits visit -
Fast And Furious 6 to start Glasgow portion of shoot next week
Shoot will involve around 250 local and out of town crew members and is set to last for a few weeks. -
Film Movement acquires North American rights to Clandestine Childhood
Film Movement has acquired North American rights to Clandestine Childhood (Infancia Clandestina), the debut feature from Argentina’s Benjamin Avila. -
Film4.0's Scene Stealers winners led by The Brothers Lynch, Luke Aherne
New competition from Film 4’s digital arm includes £5,000 development grant. -
First titles unveiled for Viennale's 50th edition
There are only two months to go before the Viennale’s 50th edition opens on October 25 and festival director Hans Hurch and his team have already revealed some of the titles selected for this year’s lineup. -
FrightFest 2012 roundup: news, reviews, blogs and interviews
Screen presents our roundup of Film4 FrightFest interviews, blogs, reviews and more. -
Garage Screen team up with Rotterdam for new film programme
Deconstructing Cinematic Realities will run in Moscow’s Gorky Park from Aug 30-Sept 16. -
Global Screen picks up TIFF world premiere Lunarcy! and Montreal world premiere The Weekend
Company will also handle Danquart’s Run, Boy, Run! which has begun shooting. -
Hammer launches YouTube channel
Production company Hammer, the company behind The Woman In Black and Let Me In, has launched a dedicated YouTube channel to promote the company’s new films as well as restored classics from the lauded Hammer library to stream online. -
Horrible Histories film in the works
The producers of Horrible Histories are in talks to produce a full-length feature film spin-off of the CBBC show. -
Hot projects on Screenbase
Sylvie Testud will star in Diane Kurys’s drama Pour Une Femme while Thomas Arslan is currently shooting German western Gold [pictured]. -
Hot projects on Screenbase
Roman Polanski is preparing his new film Venus In Fur, while Catherine Deneuve will star in Dans La Cour. -
Inaugural Finnish Film Affair to host world premiere of When Heroes Lie
Finland’s first-ever industry showcase set to take place Sept 25-27. -
Indican takes on 'Vicente Fernandez'
Indican Pictures has acquired North American rights to Ernest Borgnine’s final film, The Man Who Shook the Hand of Vicente Fernández. -
Kon-Tiki scores record opening weekend admissions in Norway
Norwegian directors Espen Sandberg and Joachim Rønning’s action-adventure Kon-Tiki – Norway’s most expensive feature so far, shot on a $15.7m (NOK 93m) budget – took a record number of 164,191 admissions during its opening weekend on 185 screens at all theatres in Norway. -
Lars von Trier starts 11-week shoot for Nymphomaniac
Cast includes Charlotte Gainsbourg, Stellan Skarsgard, Stacy Martin, Shia Labeouf and Jamie Bell. Sex scenes will be with body doubles and visual effects, production notes. -
León, Trapero, Rosales, Herrero will screen latest films in San Sebastian's Made in Spain
The programme includes the Spanish premiere of Sleepless Knights. -
Lord Puttnam to deliver ten-part seminar series
Australian series to focus on the changing nature of screen production and distribution in the digital era. -
Magnet takes worldwide rights to Coscarelli's John Dies At The End
The Wagner/Cuban Company’s Magnet Releasing, the genre arm of Magnolia Pictures, has acquired worldwide rights to John Dies At The End. -
Mark Gooder joins The Weinstein Company as president of acquisitions
Dan Guando and Negeen Yazdi are promoted at TWC. -
MarVista acquires three young adult features
The company has picked up telefilms Pop Star, I Kissed A Vampire and Circle Of Lies for global distribution. -
Mira Nair talks The Reluctant Fundamentalist
The filmmaker tells Screen about the pressure of opening Venice, wanting to tell a story of contemporary Pakistan and America, and preparing Riz Ahmed (and his beard). -
Norwegian companies pioneer transmission of films to cinemas via internet not DCPs
A subsidiary of Sweden’s Bonnier, Scandinavia’s largest media group, Norway’s No 1 distributor SF Norge has signed a two-year contract with UK’s Unique Digital and Bug Norway to transmit films to the theatres on the internet without the use of DCP hard discs. -
Olivier Père departs Locarno to head up Arte France Cinéma
Locarno Film Festival artistic director Olivier Père will replace Michel Reilhac who is resigning from ARTE to pursue transmedia projects. -
Paladin, 108 Media strike broad distribution partnership
Mark Urman’s New York distributor and the Toronto-based sales and distribution company will team up on North American distribution and will attend Toronto as an all-rights buyer. -
Paul Gross to leave Whizbang Films
Co-founder and partner Gross to exit at the end of August to concentrate on select projects. -
Pivotshare launches web tool for streaming video
Internet start-up Pivotshare is making available a web video tool allowing creators to monetise their content through streaming video channels that can be sent across a variety of devices. -
Pre-production starts on Rainstorm Entertainment's Without You I'm Nothing
Alfredo de Villa’s drama stars Dolph Lundgren [pictured] in the lead role. -
San Sebastian to give special award to Oliver Stone
The 60th edition of the San Sebastian Film Festival will give a special award to Oliver Stone in tribute to his career. -
Senator in talks to take over Relativity's sales operations
Berlin-based Senator Entertainment is in negotiations with Los Angeles-based Relativity Media for Senator to take over Relativity’s foreign sales operations. -
Shaun Williamson co-writing new British comedy
Williamson [pictured] also set to star in This Is Jayde: The One Hit Wonder. -
Shooting starts on IM Global’s erotic thriller Plush
Catherine Hardwicke is directing the project in Los Angeles with Jason Blum of Blumhouse producing. IM Global’s genre label Octane is financing and handles sales. -
ShortsHD announces Stars In Shorts screening programme
Seven celebrity-packed films featuring Keira Knightly, Colin Firth and Judi Dench will screen starting on Sept 28. -
Sony Digital Cinema reaps rewards of early adoption of 4K
David McIntosh, Sony’s VP of Sony Digital Cinema, talks about Sony’s 4K digital projection strategy and the future of cinema. -
Stephen Gyllenhaal to direct JFK security detail film
The film will tell the stories of the Secret Service agents assigned to protect the President and is being targeted for a November 2013 release to commemorate the leader’s assassination. -
Strand Releasing takes US rights to Comes A Bright Day
Simon Aboud’s coming-of-age romance takes place against the backdrop of the robbery of a London jewellers and stars Craig Roberts of Submarine and Imogen Poots. -
Sundance Institute receives $1m Annenberg Grant
The three-year award will go towards general operating support for the Institute’s year-round film and theatre programmes. -
The Angels' Share to kick off 32nd Atlantic Film Festival
Ken Loach’s comedy [pictured] is one of five gala screenings at this year’s edition. -
The Arab British Centre unveils new week-long film season
Safar: A Journey Through Popular Arab Cinema runs Sept 21-27 at London’s ICA. -
'The best times are yet to come...'
Screen checks out the autumn theatrical schedule at the FDA Autumn Preview Show. -
The Right Kind Of Wrong starts shooting in Canada
Will Sasso, Jennifer Baxter [pictured] and Kristen Hager added to the cast. -
Toronto's IFF selects 41 features including Terence Davies' Dickinson biopic
Other projects for the OMDC International Financing Forum include Gemma Arterton thriller, Cliff Curtis’ directorial debut, Maude Lewis biopic to star Rachel McAdams and dozens more. -
Tribeca New Media Fund grantees include Lance Weiler
A total of $400,000 was given to six projects. -
Tugg platform expands Searching For Sonny release
Web-platform gives US filmgoers the chance to choose the films to play at their local theatres. -
UK actor Toby Kebbell to take lead in Lore producer's first English-language film
EXCLUSIVE: UK actor Toby Kebbell has been cast in the lead part of US director Tony Pemberton’s Buddha’s Little Finger, which is based on Victor Pelevin’s eponymous novel and marks Lore producer Rohfilm’s first foray into English-language production. -
Universal strikes home ent deal for FrightFest selection American Mary
Universal Pictures International Entertainment, Universal’s home entertainment division, has struck an all-rights deal for American Mary for a number of territories including the UK and Germany. -
Utrecht to host Focus on Turkish Cinema
Utrecht will host a Focus on Turkish Cinema event Sept 27-Oct 1 as a joint initiative of Istanbul Film Festival – Meetings on the Bridge and Netherlands Film Festival – Holland Film Meeting. -
Vamping it up
Screen takes a look at exclusive footage of Neil Jordan’s Byzantium, showcased during day two of FrightFest. -
Venice kicks off today with boosted industry attendees
Festival opens with mixed-to-positive critical response to Mira Nair’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist. -
Venice's new market to include promo of Agnes B's debut, footage from new Carlos Sorin film
The newly launched Venice Film Market (Aug 30-Sept 3) has announced that it is to show promo reels and footage from selected films. -
Visit Films closes sales on First Position, Don’t Stop Believin’
Bess Kargman’s ballet documentary First Position has gone to Artificial Eye in the UK, Eurozoom in France and Edko in Hong Kong, Visit chief Ryan Kampe announced on Monday (27). -
Whistler premieres to include Mad Ship, Blood Pressure
Whistler’s full programme to be announced Nov 1. -
Wong Kar Wai to head Berlinale 2013 jury
Director Wong Kar Wai will serve as jury president of the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival. -
Zadan and Meron to produce 85th Oscars
Film, TV and theatre producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron will produce the 85th Academy Awards for the first time. -
Zinemira announces six new Basque titles for San Sebastian
Six world premieres to vie for $25,000 prize. -
Zurich Film Festival to pay tribute to Tom Tykwer
8th edition of the festival will also present awards to Richard Gere, John Travolta and Jerry Weintraub.
