All Screen articles in 13 February 2009 – Page 5
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Schmidtz Katze lines up English language thriller slate
German production outfit Schmidtz Katze Filmkollektiv (SKF) is in Berlin to look for an international sales partner for a three-picture slate of English-language thrillers. According to SKF managing director Patrick Knippel, each thriller will be budgeted at around $2.6m (Euros 2m) and the idea is to shoot them back to ...
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Wintour doc a hot issue for Elle Driver
The September Issue is flying off the shelves asParis-based sales outfit Elle Driver racks up sales on RJ Cutler's fashion documentary including a UK deal with Momentum Pictures, a French sale to Diaphana and a Japanese sale to Klockworx. NonStop has bought rights in Scandinavia and Madman in Australia. As ...
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Match Factory joins Tanovic's Cirkus
The Match Factory (TMF) will handle international sales for Oscar-winning director Danis Tanovic's Cirkus Columbia (working title) which will be his first feature to be shot in his Bosnian homeland. The adaptation of the debut novel of the same name by Croatian journalist Ivica Djikic is being prepared by Tanovic ...
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Buyers hungry for CJ's Thirst
Bucking the cautious buyer trend, South Korea's CJ Entertainment has sealed a string of pre-sales on Park Chan-wook's Thirst and Bong Joon-ho's Mother, along with effects-laden action title Haeundae. Park's vampire thriller Thirst and Bong's Mother, about a woman attempting to prove her son's innocence after he is accused of ...
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Festival titles find sales berths midway through Berlinale
French outfit Les Films Du Losange has closed a deal to take worldwide sales on Sweet Rush (Tatarak), the latest feature from venerable Polish auteur Andrzej Wajda which screens in competition on Friday. Les Films Du Losange will also be releasing the film in France through its distribution arm. Meanwhile, ...
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Protagonist seals deals on Loop, Beds
London based sales company Protagonist Pictures has sealed a two-picture deal on its Sundance hits In The Loop and Unmade Beds with Madman in Australia. Meanwhile Protagonist chief Ben Roberts said that Grindstone has bought North American rights to Tom Shankland's horror movie The Children and confirmed that IFC Films ...
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Sophie goes to Turkey for Atlas
Turkey's Horizon has picked up Leif Bristow's family film Sophie which begins shooting in Canada this week with Brittany Bristow, John Rhys-Davies, Augustus Prew and German actor Thure Riefenstein in the cast. Describing the deal with Horizon as 'the fastest in my career', Philipp Menz, of the film's sales agent ...
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Other Angle collars Bambou
New Paris-based sales outfit Other Angles Pictures has added a new title to its inaugural EFM slate, the company is to handle world rights on Didier Bourdon's new feature Bambou.Bambou stars Didier Bourdon, Anne Consigny, Pierre Arditi and Eddy Mitchell. The film is about a bank worker and his piano ...
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Negativ gets animated with Alois Nebel
Czech production outfit Negativ is venturing into feature length animation with a film version of cult graphic novel Alois Nebel, by Jaroslaw Rudis and Jaromir 99. Tomas Lunak has signed on to direct. The project, which was presented at last month's Rotterdam CineMart, has now been picked up by The ...
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3D fails to fly, says Stassen
nWave Pictures' Ben Stassen, who produced 3D feature Fly Me To The Moon, is warning that the 3D revolution has failed to materialize. While 3D films are being made and released in abundance, Stassen argues that the industry is now in 'a much longer transition phase than anybody had hoped ...
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Jaa starts shooting Ongbak 3
Thailand 's Sahamongkolfilm International has started shooting the third installment in its successful Ong Bak franchise - starring Muay Thai maestro Tony Jaa.As with Ong Bak 2, Jaa is directing and producing as well as starring in Ong Bak 3, which is shooting in Thailand for release in December this ...
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Sally Caplan to stay at the UKFC until2010
Sally Caplan hasagreed to staywith the UK Film Council which will see her stay onuntil May 2010as head of the Premiere Fund. She has been in the role since 2005.Caplan was previously president of Icon Film Distribution. Prior to that, she worked as senior vice president of acquisitions and business ...
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EU's MEDIA International funding increased by$3m for 2009
The European Commission's MEDIA International initiative has more than doubled its budget for 2009, isencouraging new approaches to distributionand will expand to include projects designed to reach new audiences. Speaking exclusively to ScreenDaily ahead of this year's MEDIA Info Day today, Aviva Silver, head of the MEDIA Unit, explained that ...
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US moviegoers get into New Line romcom
Romantic comedy He's Just Not That Into You was this weekend's top earner as a quartet of new releases produced another big haul at the US box office. The Warner/New Line romcom opened significantly better than expected, grossing an estimated $27.5m from 3,175 screens, for a per-screen average of $8,649. ...
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Benjamin Button big in international market with $31m weekend
Multiple Oscar nominee The Curious Case of Benjamin Button was the big winner at the international box office this weekend, grossing an estimated $31m from 5,126 screens in 47 markets. Taking its international total so far to $72.5m, the Brad Pitt-Cate Blanchett drama opened at number one in Spain and ...
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Slumdog's night at the BAFTAs: winners list
Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire won best film as it took seven of the 11 BAFTAs it was nominated for at the Orange BAFTA Film awards.The film also won six other awards: director for Danny Boyle, adapted screenplay, music, cinematography, editing and sound. Boyle said it felt 'amazing' to win, adding ...
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ReviewsSkirt Day (La Journee De La Jupe)
Dir/scr: Jean-Paul Lilienfeld. France/Belgium. 2009. 88mins.