All Screen articles in 12 June 2009 – Page 2

  • The Hangover
    News

    The Hangover rages past $100m in ten days

    2009-06-15T11:14:00Z

    The Hangover kept everyone smiling at Warner Bros as the breakout hit held on to the number one spot in its second weekend and soared past $100m in a record ten days for an R-rated comedy.

  • Tim Bevan
    News

    Tim Bevan confirmed as UKFC chairman

    2009-06-15T10:58:00Z

    Tim Bevan, co-founder and co-chairman of Working Title Films, has been appointed as chairman of the UK Film Council. He will take over from outgoing chief Stewart Till. 

  • George Ovashvili’s Georgian-Kazakh drama The Other Bank
    News

    The Other Bank awarded Grand Jury prize in Seattle

    2009-06-15T09:51:00Z

    George Ovashvili’s Georgian-Kazakh drama The Other Bank won the 35th Seattle International Film Festival’s Grand Jury Prize as Barbara Schroeder’s US entry Talhotblond took documentary honours.

  • Kyle Patrick Alvarez's Easier With Practice
    News

    Easier With Practice wins top CineVegas prize

    2009-06-15T09:27:00Z

    Kyle Patrick Alvarez’s Easier With Practice won the 11th Annual CineVegas Film Festival’s grand jury prize as the festival came to a close on June 14.

  • Looking For Eric
    News

    Spain gets 7 Minutos, Looking For Eric reaches the UK

    2009-06-15T09:00:00Z

    ScreenDaily takes a look at the local and independent openings in key markets this week.

  • Screen debate
    Features

    Delivering the goods

    2009-06-12T17:00:00Z

    With traditional film distribution in trouble, 10 industry players discuss new ways to reach audiences and make money.

  • Danny Boyle
    News

    Danny Boyle signs three-year deal with Pathe and Fox

    2009-06-12T16:08:00Z

    British filmmaker Danny Boyle has signed a three-year deal with Fox Searchlight and Pathe Pictures. Under the terms of the agreement, Fox Searchlight and Pathe will co-finance and co-produce Boyle’s projects.

  • Valhalla Rising Nicolas Winding Refn
    Features

    Nation building

    2009-06-12T15:36:00Z

    Boosted by significant pots of regional financing, thriving production hubs in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are increasingly tempting international film-makers away from London. Matt Mueller looks at what’s on offer.

  • The drug crime drama is directed by Samuel Martin and Andres Luque
    News

    Sony picks up Spanish drama Agallas amid wave of activity in Spain

    2009-06-12T13:00:00Z

    US studio Sony has taken Spanish distribution rights to Agallas from Spanish sales outfit Latido Films.

  • Neil Marshall’s historical action thriller Centurion is the first in a wave of Romans-on-the-rampage projects to go into production.
    Features

    Call of the Roman empire

    2009-06-12T12:33:00Z

    Neil Marshall’s historical action thriller Centurion is the first in a wave of Romans-on-the-rampage projects to go into production. Sarah Cooper visits the set.

  • City Of Ember
    Features

    First-class post

    2009-06-12T10:22:00Z

    The nations’ facilities are a draw for international productions, says Matt Mueller.

  • Christos Georgiou’s Small Crime
    News

    Small Crime to open Los Angeles Greek Film Festival

    2009-06-12T09:44:00Z

    The third annual Los Angeles Greek Film Festival will open on June 25 with Christos Georgiou’s Small Crime and close on June 28 with Alexis Kardaras’ Guinness.

  • Luc Besson
    News

    Besson's Cite du Cinema to open in 2012

    2009-06-12T08:19:00Z

    Luc Besson’s long-gestating studio project is kicking into high gear. The Cite du Cinema (Cinema City) project - first discussed by Besson seven years ago - will break ground this year for a planned opening in the first trimester of 2012.

  • Hong Kong director Stanley Kwan
    News

    Kwan to shoot Chinese musical in Shanghai

    2009-06-12T01:00:00Z

    Hong Kong director Stanley Kwan is gearing up to shoot Chinese-language musical Energy Behind The Heart (working title) in Shanghai, with a top-flight cast and crew including DoP Christopher Doyle.

  • Mumbai
    News

    Mumbai fest changes dates, increases prize money

    2009-06-12T01:00:00Z

    The International Film Festival of Mumbai has changed its dates and introduced a series of cash prizes totalling $200,000.

  • Lou Ye
    Features

    Chinese Stories

    2009-06-11T18:54:00Z

    Fresh off a prize win at Cannes for Spring Fever, controversial film-maker Lou Ye tells Liz Shackleton why any portrait of Chinese people in cinema also involves politics.

  • Conor Dignam  contacts
    Comment

    Made in the UK, owned by the US

    2009-06-11T18:10:00Z

    During the BBC Films drinks reception in Cannes last month, I fell into a conversation with a UK film executive who told me her private hobbyhorse was to persuade Screen International to describe films such as the Harry Potter series or Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight as “British”.

  • Andrew Sparrow
    Comment

    How to negotiate the net's legal minefield

    2009-06-11T17:57:00Z

    The future for film may be on the internet, but marketers and distributors who want to exploit it face a multitude of legal issues, says new-media lawyer Andrew Sparrow

  • Mike Goodridge
    Comment

    Millennium: a new era for Europe

    2009-06-11T17:35:00Z

    Sweden’s Millennium Trilogy could mark a watershed moment in the way producers think about scoring a pan-continental hit - and it doesn’t involve thinking about the US market

  • Sex, Parties & Lies
    Features

    The market paradox

    2009-06-11T17:11:00Z

    What does the growing conservatism among even specialist distributors mean for smaller sales agents with no obvious commercial fare and untested film-makers trying to break through?