All Screen articles in 07 June 2012 – Page 15
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NewsThe Avengers reaches $400m at North American box office
Marvel Studios’ superhero mash-up has crossed the threshold in a record 14 days after adding $6.2m on Thursday to reach $402m. It is now Disney’s biggest worldwide release of all time and the industry’s sixth biggest in history.
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UPI Australia, Screen Corporation seal first-look deal
Universal Pictures International Australia has signed a first-look distribution deal with James M Vernon’s Screen Corporation for Australia and New Zealand.
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Anthony Bourdain adaptation headed for big screen
Maggie Monteith’s LA-based Dignity Film Finance has unveiled a development slate of four films led by Joshua Michael Stern rom-com Closer To Fine.
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Film4 launches short film competition
Film 4 is launching Scene Stealers, a creative talent search under its innovation banner Film4.0.
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Paradigm to represent Smokewood Entertainment
The agency has signed for representation Precious producers Sarah Siegel-Magness and Gary Magness as well as Bobbi Sue Luther and their Smokewood Entertainment label. Paradigm will handle North American rights to Siegel-Magness’ directorial debut Long Time Gone.
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Cross Creek Pictures to back Todd Field's The Creed Of Violence
The filmmaker is set to direct his first feature since 2006 drama Little Children when he adapts the novel of the same name by Boston Teran. Universal will distribute in the US through its deal with Cross Creek.
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Lightning closes deals on Jungle, 25th Reich
EXCLUSIVE: Lightning Entertainment has closed a raft of pre-sales on Andrew Traucki’s thriller The Jungle and licensed German and Japanese rights on Australian sci-fi The 25th Reich.
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NewsAbu Dhabi launches 30% production rebate
EXCLUSIVE: Abu Dhabi’s twofour54 and the Abu Dhabi Film Commission are launching a production rebate from September 1, marking the first major incentive scheme in the Middle East.
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Bona Film Group boosts credit facility to $80m
China’s Bona Film Group has increased its revolving credit facility with Bank of Beijing from $15.8m (RMB100m) to $79m (RMB500m), which it will use over the next two years for content production.
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Metrodome, AB slayed by Guillotines
Hong Kong-based We Distribution has sealed further deals on Andrew Lau’s action thriller The Guillotines, which has gone to the UK (Metrodome), French-speaking Europe (AB Droits Audiovisuels), Italy (Minerva Pictures) and India (WEG).
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Now, Forager sells for New Europe; company adds Distance
EXCLUSIVE: Warsaw-based New Europe Film Sales has sold Rotterdam selection Now, Forager: A Film About Love and Fungi
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Lumiere animates sales on Phantom Boy
Benelux distributor Lumiere’s new sales arm, Lumiere International Sales, is at its first Cannes Market with a promo of its first major project.
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Pictures Dept picks up Aoyama project
Japanese production and sales outfit Pictures Dept has picked up worldwide rights to Shinji Aoyama’s upcoming adaptation of Shinya Tanaka’s award-winning novel Dog Eat Dog (Tomogui).
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Atlas bears Stephen King thriller A Good Marriage
EXCLUSIVE: Atlas International has added Stephen King adaptation A Good Marriage to its Cannes slate.
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NewsDupieux and Bernard unveil footage from Wrong Cops
Quentin Dupieux and producer Gregory Bernard of Réalitism Films are in Cannes drumming up finance for the director’s third film Wrong Cops starring Marilyn Manson and Marc Burnham.
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NewsSebastian Silva, Daniel Radcliffe boost Killer Films slate
EXCLUSIVE: Killer Films principals Christine Vachon and Pamela Koffler are in the midst of their busiest ever production cycle and have funnelled a number of prestige titles into the market this week.
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NewsBuska crowned by Kaurismaki
EXCLUSIVE: Rising Swedish actress Malin Buska has been crowned as the lead in Finnish director Mika Kaurismäki’s Kristina of Sweden, stepping into the shoes of Swedish screen legend Greta Garbo, who played the part in US director Ruben Mamoulian’s 1933 Queen Christina.
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NewsMuyl heads to China for Butterfly remake
French director Philippe Muyl is heading to China for a Mandarin-language feature inspired by his 2002 film The Butterfly (Le Papillon), which was a huge hit with Chinese audiences
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NewsSvensk introduces buyers to Marie Kroyer
EXCLUSIVE: Svensk’s sales arm SF International has sold Bille August’s new feature Marie Krøyer to Greece (Hollywood) and to CIS (Cinema Prestige).