All Screen articles in 08 January 2010 – Page 2
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FeaturesShorter windows reverse slump
Tighter windows and a piracy crackdown have given France’s home-entertainment market a boost, reports Tim Murray
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NewsFrench box office hit decade high in 2009
The French box office hit a high in 2009 with admissions rising by 5.7% on the previous year to 199.7m. It is a record for the decade, just ahead of 2004’s 195.5m admissions.
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NewsHigh Point boards Czech war movie Protektor
High Point Films has snapped up world sales for Marek Najbrt’s Second World War movie Protektor.
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NewsHinduja Group to invest $55m in content over next three years
The Hinduja Group, the banking group with media interests, has announced plans to invest $55m (Rs 2.5bn) in the content business over the next two to three years.
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NewsRegency Films relaunches as Raw Production London
Production company Regency Films is relaunching as Raw Production London. The company says the new name aims to reflect its “gritty, truthful films”.
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FeaturesPunk's poet lives again
Mat Whitecross’s sex&drugs&rock&rollis the latest UK film to draw on the territory’s musical heritage for inspiration. Sarah Cooper looks at how the project came together
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NewsFox takes Spanish rights to $20m action adventure Lope
20th Century Fox has picked up Spanish theatrical rights to Andrucha Waddington’s $20m Spanish-Brazilian historical epic Lope.
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FeaturesWeekly international box office - January 1
ScreenDaily brings you the weekly international box-office news.
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NewsUK enjoys Sex&Drugs; Capitalism woos Spain
ScreenDaily takes a look at the local and independent openings in key markets this week.
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FeaturesHitting a Homerun
Daniel Yun is galvanising the Singapore film community with his latest venture — Homerun Pictures. He tell Liz Shackleton how he is setting up film funds with China and Australia and launching an international sales outfit
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FeaturesAwards countdown: Profiles
ScreenDaily profiles Bright Star’s Abbie Cornish, The Hurt Locker’s Jeremy Renner and Scott Hicks, director of The Boys Are Back
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Features
A kind of homecoming
Best DirectorScott Hicks, The Boys are BackThe latest film from director Scott Hicks, The Boys Are Back starring Clive Owen, tug hard at the heart strings but without too much sentiment and manipulation. The tale about a man learning to be a better dad after the ...
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FeaturesWorking under high pressure
Best ActorJeremy Renner, The Hurt LockerTo understand what it is like to serve as a bomb-disposal technician in Iraq, The Hurt Locker’s Jeremy Renner spent a week at the National Training Center in Fort Irwin, California. Encased within the 100lb protective suit, a simple task such ...
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FeaturesPassion burns Bright
Best ActressAbbie Cornish, Bright Star“I never trained as an actor and I feel I’m always learning about myself as an actor, because each film is different and you bring what you know and adapt,” says Australia-born Abbie Cornish. Filming Bright Star for writer-director Jane Campion, Cornish ...
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NewsThe Match Factory boards Epstein and Friedman's Howl
Cologne-based The Match Factory has picked up international sales for Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman’s Howl, which will be the narrative world premiere on the first night of the Sundance Film Festival.
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NewsAlta Films picks up Oskar Santos’ El Mal Ajeno for Spain
Leading distributor Alta Films has taken Spanish theatrical rights to Oskar Santos’ hotly anticipated feature debut El Mal Ajeno, produced by director Alejandro Amenabar (pictured).
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NewsHong Kong box office rises by 6.5% in 2009
Hong Kong’s box office grew by around 6.5% to $151.93m (HK$1.18bn) in 2009, according to figures from Hong Kong Motion Picture Industry Association (MPIA).
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NewsMiklós Jancsó's So Much For Justice! to open 41st Hungarian Film Week
Sixteen new feature films will compete for the Golden Reel Award at the 41st Hungarian Film Week (Feburary 2–8) in Budapest.
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FeaturesBest Director: The storytellers
Some of the movie world’s biggest names as well as relative newcomers and a fashion designer-turned-film-maker are among the chief contenders for this year’s best director awards. Mike Goodridge assesses the field
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CommentLessons from Avatar
Mega-blockbusters such as Avatar may be extreme rarities but it serves to remind the industry that while there are big problems yet to be solved; great entertainment and storytelling remain key winning over audiences.
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