All Screen articles in 13 March 2009 – Page 2
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Zelenka's The Karamazovs named Best Film at Czech Lions
Petr Zelenkawas the big winner at this year's Czech academy awards, taking home three Lions for his film The Karamazovs at the March 7 ceremony. In addition to winning Best Film and Best Director, the adaptation of Dostoevsky's play was also named Best Feature by Czech film critics.The Karamazovs was ...
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Romanian CNC awards $4.4m in funding
The Romanian National Film Centre (CNC) has announced approximately $4.4m in funding for film projects and productions, including $3.3m for feature film production.The single largest grant was $405,000 for Tuesday After Christmas by Radu Muntean (Boogie, The Paper Will Be Blue). Producer Multimedia Est presented the project at Rotterdam's CineMart ...
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Fellini screenwriter Tullio Pinelli dies aged 100
Screenwriter Tullio Pinelli who co-wrote a string of FedericoFellini's greatest works including Oscar awarded films The Road (La Strada), Nights of Cabiria and 8 ½ has died in Rome at the age of 100.Pinelli would have turned 101-years-old in June and was the lastsurvivor of the group of four writers ...
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Antoniazzi's Small Fish to open Austria's Diagonale
Marco Antoniazzi's feature debut Small Fish (Kleine Fische) will open this year's Diagonale - Festival of Austrian Cinema (March 17-22) in the Styrian capital of Graz.This will be the first edition of the annual showcase of Austrian cinema under the new artistic director Barbara Pichler after she took over the ...
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Ursula Meier's Home is big winner at Swiss Film Prizes
Ursula Meier's Home was the big winner at this year's ceremony for the Swiss Film Prizes which were presented for the first time in a gala event in Lucerne on Saturday evening (March 7).Meier's film, which had its world premiere at last year's Cannes Film Festival and is represented internationally ...
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Cast lined up for African American version of Death At A Funeral
Screen Gems, Sidney Kimmel Entertainment and Chris Rock have rounded out the cast on their American remake of the 2007 UK film Death At A Funeral.Joining Rock, who is starring, producing and co-writing the screenplay, are Loretta Devine, Ron Glass, Danny Glover, Regina Hall, Martin Lawrence, James Marsden, Tracy Morgan, ...
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Menon, Keenan launch India-US consultancy Nuclear Mango
Hot on the heels of the Academy Awards and commercial success of Slumdog Millionaire, Bollywood producer Govind Menon and US independent executive William Keenan have launched the Indian-US production consultancy Nuclear Mango.Based in Los Angeles, New York and Mumbai, Nuclear Mango's core business will be the strategic packaging of creative, ...
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Deepa Mehta's Heaven On Earth to open Tongues on Fire Film Festival
The eleventh edition of the Tongues On Fire Film Festival opens with Deepa Mehta's Heaven On Earth starring Preity Zinta at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) on March 6 2009. Heaven On Earth deals with the issues of immigration, isolation and domestic violation. The screening is ...
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Archibald Enterprise Film picks up The Milk Of Sorrow for Italy
Independent Italian distributor Archibald Enterprise Film has picked up Claudia Llosa's Berlin Golden Bear winner The Milk Of Sorrow from German sales agent The Match Factory. In a separate deal, Milan-based Officine Ubu has taken distribution rights to Michael Winterbottom's drama Genova from HanWay. Genova stars Colin Firth as an ...
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Award winning Burma VJ picked up by Oscilloscope and Dogwoof
Zurich-based sales agent First Hand Films has concluded deals for the UK and US for Anders Ostergaard's award-winning festival favourite Burma VJ - Reporting From A Closed Country with Dogwoof for the UK and Oscilloscope Laboratories for the US.The US deal was negotiated by Josh Braun of Submarine and Esther ...
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$10.8m Italy-Canada co-productionof true life death row story
Italian production company Just Us Production will team with Canada's Caramel Films Production on a $10.8m (Euros 8.5m) English language Italy-Canada co-production. Based on a true-life death penalty story, the film has the working title Just Us Derek Rocco Barnabei. It will shoot in both Tuscany and Canada from July ...
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Sally Hawkins opens UK's Birds Eye View Film Festival
The fifth Birds Eye View Film Festival(BEV) kicked off in London last night with Golden Globe winner Sally Hawkins on hand to open proceedings at the British Film Institute. The opening night showcased a selection of UK & international shorts, including Sam Taylor-Wood 's BAFTA nominated Love You More and ...
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Medusa comes on board as Cinecitta looks to digital future
Cinecitta Studios has merged three existing post structures under the umbrella name Cinecitta Digital Factory and distributor Medusa has taken a minority share in the project. The post facilities being merged and rebranded are Cinecitta Digital, Cinecitta development lab and Cinecitta's sound unit. Giuseppe Basso, Managing Director of Cinecitta Digital ...
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Indian multiplexes lower ticket prices to counter downturn
Indian multiplex operators are slashing ticket prices in an attempt to keep admissions steady during these delicate economic times. Several leading chains are reducing prices from 20%-50% with a variety of reduced rates based on location, day of the week and the timing of shows. Most of the reductions are ...
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San Francisco to offer $100,000 in prizes at 52nd festival
Prize money at the 52nd San Francisco International Film Festival will amount to more than $100,000 this year,organisers said as they announced the documentary and new directors competition entries for the April 23-May 7 event.Winning documentaries will be eligible for $60,000 in awards, with$25,000 going to best investigative feature, $20,000 ...
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Japan - Oscar winner hits home
In the first weekend since its Oscar win for best foreign-language film, Departures rose to number one at the Japanese box office, after re-entering the top 10 during the previous week in eighth place.Distributor Shochiku expanded the film's extended run from 95 screens to a large-scale 189-screen re-release following the ...
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Zack Snyder: filming the unfilmable of Watchmen
The January courtroom battle between Warner Bros, which was the lead studio backing the new movie Watchmen, and Twentieth Century Fox, the studio which claimed it still had distribution rights to the property under a 1994 turnaround agreement with producer Larry Gordon, threatened to derail what promises to be one ...
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Opinion: Eastern promisesin the long term
At the recent FICCI Frames conference in Mumbai, Anand Mahindra, a leading industrialist and recent entrant to the film business, said he was convinced India's economy would recover more quickly than other major economies for two reasons.First, he believes India has a great strength in its agricultural sector, which is ...
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Technology's transformation of the film business
A dance floor in Indonesia is not the most likely place for a US seller and a German buyer to negotiate an acquisition deal. Yet with the transformation of the film business due to cellphones, PDAs (personal digital assistant) and other mobile devices, anywhere is valid as a place to ...
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International - Tattoo drums up business
Sweden-Denmark co-production The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (aka Men Who Hate Women) debuted as the highest new entry in Screen's international chart for the post-Oscar box-office weekend.The film reached number 13 after it opened through Nordisk in its home territories on a combined 266 screens, taking $1.8m in Sweden ...