All Screen articles in 12 May 2008 – Page 7
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Horizon picks up worldwide sales on Taking The Face
Vancouver-based Horizon Motion Pictures has added Portuguese bullfighting documentary Taking The Face to its Cannes slate.Horizon will represent worldwide sales excluding Portugal on Juliusz Kossakowski and Matthew Bishop's investigation into Portugal's love-hate relationship with the sport.Shot in HD over the 2007 season, the film includes action footage and interviews with ...
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Ellen Page signs on for Jane Eyre with Ruby, BBC
Ellen Page, hot off her Oscar nomination for Juno, is set to take the title role in a new adaptation of Jane Eyre for BBC Films and Alison Owen's London-based Ruby Films.'She put a whole different complexion on Jane Eyre,' Christine Langan at BBC Films told ScreenDaily.com.The projects are out ...
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Aubry promoted to vp, theatrical marketing, at Regent Releasing
Jonathon Aubry has been promoted to vice president, theatrical marketing, at Regent Releasing, the US independent distributor which is owned by Paul Colichman and Stephen P Jarchow's Regent Entertainment.Aubry, who was formerly director, marketing and corporate communications, at Regent Entertainment, will report to Mark Reinhart, general manager, west coast operations ...
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New York's NewFest bookended by Tru Loved, Were The World Mine
Stewart Wade's Tru Loved will open the 20th annual New York Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Film Festival (NewFest) on June 5, and Tom Gustafson's Were The World Mine will close it ten days later on June 15.Tru Loved is the story of a teenage girl raised by lesbian mothers ...
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Akin's Heaven wins top honours at Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
Fatih Akin's The Edge Of Heaven won the best juried fiction feature award at the tenth annual Miami & Fort Lauderdale Gay & Lesbian Film Festivals over the weekend.Guido Santi and Tina Mascara's Chris & Don: A Love Story about the love affair between Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy won ...
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Filmax International acquires international rights to Invitation Only
Spanish outfit Filmax International has acquired the international sales rights excluding Asia, Germany and Poland and the distribution rights for Spain for the Asian horror production Invitation Only directed by Kevin Ko.Filmax International will present a promo of the film, which is currently in post production, at Cannes and will ...
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Ninja Assassin gets extra $2.7m from DFFF
James McTeigue's martial arts action film Ninja Assassin has become the first project this year to be awarded support from the German Federal Film Fund (DFFF) over and above the prescribed 'cap' of Euros 4m.An advisory committee, which is convened when applications are made for support over $6.1m (Euros 4m) ...
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Harrelson, Morton, Malone line up for Moverman's The Messenger
Woody Harrelson, Samantha Morton, Jena Malone and Eamonn Walker have now joined Ben Foster in Oren Moverman's The Messenger.The film will start shooting May 20, and marks the directorial debut of I'm Not There and Jesus' Son veteran writer Moverman. Alessandro Cameron wrote the story and co-wrote the screenplay with ...
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High Point gears up for The Race with Grand Pictures
High Point Films has taken on international rights for Irish family feature The Race, currently in pre-production.Andre F Nebe, who directed the award-winning short Tricky Fingers, will direct. Michael Garland and Paul Donovan of Grand Pictures (Nic Roeg's Puffball) will produce with Germany-based Martin Hagemann of Zero Fiction will co-produce.Colm ...
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Intandem takes on sales for Dan Ireland's Jolene
London-based Intandem Films has added US drama Jolene to its slate ahead of Cannes.Dan Ireland (The Whole Wide World) directed and international art dealer Riva Yares produced for Arizona-based Next Turn Productions.Dennis Yares wrote the script inspired by EL Doctorow's short story Jolene: A Life, about a young woman who ...
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Thierry Potok takes over management of Germany's VIP
Former Studio Babelsberg boss Thierry Potok has taken over the management of the German private media fund VIP Medienfonds from Peter H. Riedel 'with immediate effect.'Riedel had come to VIP last September as a successor to Dirk Specht, but his contract had from the outset been only temporary in nature ...
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Elle Driver adds Anna, Painless, Changing Sides to slate
Gearing up for its first Cannes, Elle Driver has added a series of new films to its slate. For its debut Cannes outing, the company boasts 4 Nights With Anna; a story of obsessive love from director Jerzy Skolimowski which will open Directors' Fortnight.Meanwhile, currently in pre-production are Juan Carlos ...
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Weber reteams with Julia Roberts, Dennis Lee for Birds
After working together on Fireflies In The Garden, Senator Entertainment's Marco Weber, actress Julia Roberts and writer-director Dennis Lee are set to be reunited for an adaptation of Brad Kessler's novel Birds In Fall.Roberts and her production outfit Red Om Films came with the project to Senator Entertainment Inc., who ...
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Wedge invents Hugo Cabret with GK, Nihil, Warner Bros
Chris Wedge, who previously directed Ice Age, has signed on to direct The Invention Of Hugo Cabret for Graham King's GK Films, Johnny Depp's Infinitum Nihil and Warner Bros.John Logan, who worked with King on The Aviator and also on a forthcoming animated project for Gore Verbinski, will adapt the ...
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Anchor Bay brought under the auspices of Overture Films
Home entertainment company Anchor Bay Entertainment has been brought under the auspices of its Starz stablemate Overture Films.Anchor Bay had been part of Starz Media, the television production, syndication and animation unit that in turn is wholly owned by John Malone's Liberty Media. Anchor Bay president Bill Clark will now ...
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Wales plans first international film and music fest Soundtrack
The Film Agency For Wales is planning the country's first international film and music festival to be held in Cardiff in November. The Soundtrack festival will replace the Cardiff Film Festival. Its focus will be on film music, and Danny Boyle will headline the first festival by giving a ...
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Yim joins animation house Imagi in Hong Kong
Former Media Asia executive Cora Yim has joined Los Angeles and Hong Kong-based animation house Imagi as director of marketing and strategic planning with immediate effect. She was formerly senior manager of acquisitions and marketing at Hong Kong-based Media Asia. In her new role she will report to Imagi co-CEO ...
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Marvel suits up for new raft of superhero movies
Bouyed by the triumphant worldwide release of its self-financed production Iron Man this weekend, Marvel Studios yesterday unveiled its release slate through 2011.A new raft of popular comic book characters - sometimes appearing in unison - will be brought to the big screen by Marvel using the same business template ...
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Sony lands on Moon for English-speaking markets
Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group (SPWAG) has picked up all English-speaking rights to Liberty Films' sci-fi thriller Moon starring Sam Rockwell.Independent Film Company will handle all other territories on the title, which marks the feature directorial debut of commercials director Duncan Jones of Liberty Films and was shot at the ...
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Universal sinks teeth into Medieval vampire story
Universal Pictures has picked up the speculative script The Knights Templar from Adam Torchia and Justin Stanley.The story takes place during the Middle Ages as the eponymous group of Crusaders and guardians of the Holy Grail comes under attack from a vampire army.The project is currently out to directors. Russia's ...