All Screen articles in 13 July 2007 – Page 3
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UK Stars Of Tomorrow 2007: The Actors (1)
Confidence, charisma and charm characterise the hottest young actors in the UK. Patricia Dobson profiles the emerging talent. (Click on contact names for links) KHALID ABDALLAFollowing his performance as the lead terrorist in Paul Greengrass’ riveting United 93, the Anglo-Egyptian Khalid Abdalla stars in Marc Forster’s adaptation of bestselling novel ...
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Paramount Classics establishes conservation fund for Arctic Tale
Paramount Classics has established the Arctic Fund for wildlife conservation and will donate proceeds from the upcoming Jul 25 release of documentary Arctic Tale to four charities.The National Geographic Polar Fund, World Wildlife Fund, National Wildlife Federation, and Wildlife Conservation Society will each receive equal shares from a percentage of ...
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Harris, Willis join the cast of Papamichael's horror film From Within
Principal photography has started in Havre De Grace, Maryland, on Phedon Papamichael's psychological horror film From Within.Jared Harris, Amanda and Michelle Babin and Rumer Willis join the previously announced cast of Thomas Dekker, Elizabeth Rice, and Adam Goldberg.The story centres on a small ultra-religious community where residents start to die ...
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Paramount hits domestic $1bn mark in record time
Paramount Pictures has crossed the $1bn at the domestic box office in record time, propelled by Transformers' record-breaking $155.4m launch last week.The studio reached the milestone after 189 days on Jul 8 and executives project 2007 will be Paramount's highest grossing year since 1998, when it reached $1.046bn. That tally ...
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Lionsgate invests in online video site Break.com
Lionsgate has secured a strategic investment in Break.com, an online video entertainment site targeted at 18-to-34-year-old males.The partnership offers Lionsgate the chance to distribute current and upcoming films, television programming, home entertainment and other new content through Break's online channel.It also gives the studio access to Break's young talent pool, ...
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Four North American fantasy festivals form alliance
Fantasy film festivals in Montreal, Austin and San Francisco have joined forces to create the North American Fantastic Festival Alliance (NAFFA). Montreal's FanTasia, Alamo Drafthouse's Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas and Dead Channels: the San Francisco Festival of Fantastic Film will henceforth be a network to support the exhibition and ...
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Pretty Pictures strikes deal for Kenyan comedy Malooned in Zanzibar
At the 10th annual event which ended July 8, the Zanzibar International Film Festival (ZIFF) can report its first deal. France's Pretty Pictures acquired world rights (outside Africa) to Kenyan comedy Malooned directed by Bob Nyanja. Pretty Pictures also acquired the remake rights to the story, which is about a ...
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Sweden's Astoria Cinemas files for bankruptcy
Last curtain fell for Swedish cinema circuit, Astoria Cinemas - once the country's second-largest theatre chain - as part-owner and managing director (since June 8) Jonny Jergander filed for bankruptcy less than two months after distributor-exhibitor Triangelfilm, the main force behind the set-up, also went bust. 'We are all losers. ...
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4 Months stirs education controversy in France
Cannes Palme d'Or winner 4 Months, 3 Weeks And 2 Days has been at the heart of some controversy lately in France.The drama, which deals with clandestine abortion in Communist-era Romania, was also awarded the National Education Prize which is given to a Cannes official selection that has relevant artistic, ...
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TWC homes in on Chan's Invisible Target
The Weinstein Company (TWC) has picked up all rights for North America, Australia and South Africa to Benny Chan's upcoming action drama Invisible Target from Hong Kong 's Universe Films Distribution. The $8m martial arts actioner is set to open in Hong Kong, China, Singapore and Malaysia on July 19. ...
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Paramount takes UK and otherrights to How To Lose Friends
Paramount Pictures International has licensed UK, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa distribution rights for How To Lose Friends And Alienate People from Intandem Films. Intandem has also struck deals for Portugal, Benelux, CIS, Greece, Cyprus, Scandinavia and the Middle East. The total value of pre-sales so far is $4.8m. ...
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Halo-8 takes rights to documentary Your Mommy Kills Animals
Halo-8 Entertainment, the label distributed by Ryko Filmworks and Warner-Elektra-Atlantic, and taken worldwide theatrical and home video rights to animal rights documentary Your Mommy Kills Animals from Indie Genius Productions. Curt Johnson, who previously worked on Thoth, directs the project about young animal rights activists and their detractors. 'Curt Johnson ...
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Screenwriting group eQuinoxe expands into Middle East
eQuinoxe, the international mentoring association that runs workshops for screenwriters, has set up in the Middle East. EQuinoxe Arabiya is styling itself as an 'incubator' focused on mentoring Arab filmmakers and their projects. A not-for-profit offshoot of Haroun Multimedia, an animation and post-production house based in Dubai Media City, the ...
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Maire promises diversity and premieres at Locarno 2007
A 'diversity in the range of possibilities of filmmaking' is how Locarno Film Festival's Frederic Maire describes the line-up for his second festival as artistic director. The Swiss festival kicks off Aug 1 with a screening of the Japanese film Vexille by Fumihiko Sori on the Piazza Grande. 'The two ...
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UK Stars Of Tomorrow 2007:The Film-makers (3)
Patricia Dobson shines the spotlight on the UK’s best new writers, directors and producers. (Click on contact names for links) ZAM SALIMWriter-directorZam Salim is one of those prolific short-film directors who has been steadily maturing and growing in confidence. Over the past year, he has ...
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UK Stars Of Tomorrow 2007: The Film-makers (2)
Patricia Dobson shines the spotlight on the UK’s best new writers, directors and producers. (Click on contact names for links)DEBORAH HAYWOODWriter-director For a first-timer, Deborah Haywood has made an impressive short. Lady Margaret begins with a teenage girl innocently hitching a ride with two teenage boys. She fancies one of ...
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McGill's first Edinburgh programme to close with Two Days In Paris
The 2007 Edinburgh International Film Festival (Aug 15-26) will have a special focus on Cinema and the Written Word. The first Festival under new artistic director Hannah McGill will celebrate the art of screenwriting with a series of events that run across the major Edinburgh arts festivals. There will be ...
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UK Stars Of Tomorrow 2007
From actors to directors, producers to writers, Screen International introduces the brightest new hopes of the British film industry.The ActorsBritish performers are renowned around the world. Patricia Dobson profiles the hottest new names emerging from the UK’s drama schools, theatres and TV productions. - Click here for StarsOf Tomorrow ...
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Salon Films' Charles Wang dies aged 74
Charles Wang, managing director of Hong Kong-based production services group Salon Films, died from cancer last week (July 6) in a New York City hospital at the age of 74. One of Asia 's leading suppliers of production logistics and equipment, Salon Films was founded in 1958 when Wang's father ...
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Newbie quartet joins AMPAS as Governors
Eight new governors, four of them serving for the first time, have been elected to represent their branches on the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).Newcomers to the board are: Henry Winkler, actors branch; Vilmos Zsigmond, cinematographers; Richard Pearce, documentary; and Charles Fox, ...