All Screen articles in 10 April 2009 – Page 5
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Slumdog Millionaire has strong opening weekend in China
Slumdog Millionaire grossed $2.93m (RMB20m) during its first four days on release in mainland China, which marks the biggest opening for a non-US foreign filmfor the past ten years.The film was released on Thursday, March 26 with 400 film prints and more than 200 digital screens across major Chinese cities. ...
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Five US studios sign with Scrabble for digital screens in India
Indian company Scrabble Entertainment has signed a deal with five of the six US majors to deploy digital screens in India.
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IFC to handle US on Pattinson comedy How To Be via VOD platform
IFC’s VOD platform IFC Festival Direct will releaseUK comedyHow To BefeaturingTwilightstar Robert Pattinsonon April 29.
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John Hart teams with Smuggler Partners to form Smuggler Films
Veteran independent film producer John Hart has teamed up with Patrick Milling Smith and Brian Carmody of commercial and music video outfit Smuggler Partners to form Smuggler Films, a production company designed to produce content in film, theatre, television and other media.With offices in New York, Los Angeles and London, ...
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Luis Tosar joins cast of Spanish biopic Lope De Vega
Spanish actor Luis Tosar has joined the cast of Brazilian director Andrucha Waddington's historical biopic Lope De Vega about the Spanish playwright and poet. Tosar will play Frey Bernadino De Sahagun, a Franciscan missionary who wrote the first encyclopedia of the new world and The General History of New Things ...
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Finnish Film Foundation receives $6.7m funding boost
The Finnish Film Foundation will receive $6.7 million (Euro 5m) of state funding in addition to the 30% increase in production funding it received following last year's conflict with the industry. The new money was announced today (March 31) as part of a package to support the Finnish economy. Stefan ...
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Kino City plans to double 3D screens in Russia
Kino City, the Russian cinema initiative to open 122 new screens in mid-sized cities, is planning to nearly double the number of 3-D screens in the country. The company is looking to install 3-D screens and digital equipment at all of the planned Multimedia and Education Film Centres. The initiative, ...
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Elberg, Canty launch online distributions services company
Former CinemaNow executives Bill Elberg and Jessica Canty have launched VLADICast to offer a portfolio of online distribution services.Among the new company's services is GoScreening Public, which allowsany company or film-maker to build and maintain a branded VOD huband/or an ad-supported video sharing site that enables film-makers toshowcase work to ...
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Fakir Of Venice to premiere at Indian Film Festival of LA
The World Premiere of Anand Surapur’s conmen drama The Fakir Of Venice and Megan Doneman’sYes Madam, Sir bookend the seventh Annual Indian Film Festival Of Los Angeles, which runs April 21-26.
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UK Actors to give evidence to House of Lords inquiry
Quantum of Solace actor Rory Kinnear and actress Maggie Steed will give evidence to the House of Lords Communications Committee's inquiry into British film and television tomorrow (April 1). The Committee will question the pair on the prospects for the UK film and TV industries and particularly on employment and ...
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Park Circus signs deal with Sony Pictures to distribute classics
Park Circus Films has signed a deal with Sony Pictures Repertory to handle the worldwide theatrical distribution of its classic film back catalogue. It includes David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia and Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver.The deal, which does not include North America, covers 3,500 classic and modern titles from 1924 ...
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Paramount Digitaland Gaumont create Web series
Paramount Digital Entertainment (PDE) and French film company Gaumont are developing an interactive Web series to be distributed in the U.S. by MySpace. Endemol will handle worldwide distribution. Section 8, a supernatural thriller, will tell the tale of an ill-fated cast, all but one of which will be killed off ...
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Scarlet joins Middle East International Film Festival
The Middle East International Film Festival (MEIFF) has appointed Peter Scarlet, the former artistic director of the Tribeca Film Festival, as executive director. Scarlet, who resigned from Tribeca in February after six years, has been bought in to develop the MEIFF's regional and international standing. Its third session will be ...
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Coproduction Office, Katapult Film Sales merge sales business
France-based The Coproduction Office and US-based Katapult Film Sales have merged their sales business and will operate together for the first time at MIPTV.Both entities will keep their catalogues and acquisitions separate andcontinue to nurture their respective profiles and brands. Coproduction’s strength is world cinema while Katapult focuses on English-language ...
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Katzenberg tells ShoWest: '3D is great and it's here'
As expected the slow roll-out of 3D across North America and the world dominated the agenda of the opening day of ShoWest as delegates looked ahead to a gradual easing of the credit crunch and DreamWorks Animation chief Jeffrey Katzenberg flew into town to deliver a triumphant rallying cry to ...
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