All Screen articles in 10 January 2013 – Page 5
-
NewsRotterdam’s Bright Future line up announced
First or second-time filmmakers are behind 74 feature length titles in the Bright Future section of the International Film Festival Rotterdam.
-
NewsFilmNation reports $469m box office in 2012
CEO Glen Basner hailed “tremendous” figures as he announced on Wednesday [9] the overall grosses for all FilmNation films during the last calendar year.
-
NewsTom Hassell named Cinedigm vp of theatrical distribution
Hassell will be responsible for all aspects of theatrical distribution for Cinema Corp, whose recent slate includes Arthur Newman, Violet And Daisy and The Invisible War.
-
News
Mary Bacarella succeeds Deborah Person as SIFF managing director
The long-time Space Needle executive starts in her new role on Feb 1 and will lead the organisation in tandem with artistic director Carl Spence.
-
News
Entertainment lobby issues statement on Biden meeting
Vice-president Joe Biden met with representatives from the MPAA, NATO, IFTA, the DGA and the National Cable & Telecommunications Association in Washington DC on Thursday [10] to discuss gun violence in the wake of last month’s massacre at a Connecticut primary school.
-
-
NewsSky and Canal+ take The Bridge to bilingual co-production
Sky has greenlit its co-produced version of Scandinavian drama The Bridge, which it claims will be the first bilingual drama project made by broadcasters in France and the UK.
-
NewsGaumont finds homes for The Brats ahead of Paris RDV premiere
Company will also launch popular comedienne Reem Kherici’s directorial debut picture Paris or Perish (Paris à Tout Prix) [pictured] at the Unifrance meeting.
-
NewsYash Raj Films to co-produce three with Dibakar Banerjee Productions
India’s Yash Raj Films (YRF) has announced a three picture co-production deal with Dibakar Banerjee Productions. The studio describes the deal as part of what “promises to be a long term strategy”.
-
CommentFirst photo of Gyllenhaal, Fassbender and Gleeson in Frank
Filming began in New Mexico this week on Frank and the first image shows Michael Fassbender between Maggie Gyllenhaal and Domhnall Gleeson in the iconic mask.
-
NewsArgo wins best picture at Critics’ Choice Movie Awards
The Broadcast Film Critics Association’s (BFCA) 18th awards in Santa Monica also honoured Daniel-Dawy Lewis for best actor and Jessica Chastain for best actress.
-
NewsBFI launches Vision Awards to back UK producers with up to £2.5m over next two years
BFI Film Fund head Ben Roberts notes new relaxed eligibility criteria will encourage more breadth of producers to apply.
-
NewsLives of Others producers reunite with Schweighöfer for third directorial outing
Wiedemann & Berg Film, producers of Oscar-winning The Lives Of Others, are to be reunited with actor-producer-director Matthias Schweighöfer for his third directorial outing Vaterfreuden later this year.
-
NewsLevelK takes rights to Best Man Down
The international rights to Ted Koland’s debut feature have been picked up by Danish sales company LevelK.
-
News5 Broken Cameras takes top prize at Cinema Eye awards
Detropia wins two prizes at the New York ceremony; Bully wins audience award.
-
NewsBusan reports 177% location boost
The Busan Film Commission (BFC) has announced 24 feature films and 37 other works of visual media shot on location last year in South Korea’s second city for a total of 698 days - up 177% year-on-year. Feature films included CJ Entertainment’s summer sci-fi thriller Deranged and Showbox’s mega box ...
-
NewsLincoln leads Oscar nominations
Lincoln leads the pack of Oscar nominees announced today, with 12 nods. Life of Pi follows closely with 11, then Les Misérables and Silver Linings Playbook with eight each, and Argo with seven.
-
CommentAcademy Award nominees: the verdict
Academy members have come up with a boisterous selection of nominees that tips its hat to the populist vote – the Holy Grail for the Academy these days. But there are some whopping omissions, not the least of which is a complete shut-out for The Dark Knight Rises.
-
News
Berlin unveils Generation line-up
The Berlin Film Festival has released it full line-up to focus on children and young people in cinema – Generation – and includes 31 world premieres.
-
NewsGael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna collaborate on shorts
Canana founders Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna are to each direct a short, both of which are connected.