All Screen articles in 13 November 2009 – Page 2

  • The Man From London
    News

    UK welcomes Harry Brown, The Man From London in Germany

    2009-11-13T11:10:00Z

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

  • Helena Bonham Carter
    News

    New cast announced as The King’s Speech starts shooting

    2009-11-13T10:59:00Z

    Helena Bonham Carter, Jennifer Ehle, Guy Pearce, Derek Jacobi and Michael Gambon have joined the cast of Tom Hooper’s historical drama The King’s Speech, which started shooting today (November 13).

  • Clive Owen
    News

    Wide Pictures picks up major US titles for Spain

    2009-11-13T10:17:00Z

    Spanish distributor Wide Pictures had a busy AFM taking distribution rights to several major US films, including Robert Redford’s The Company You Keep and David Schwimmer’s Trust, starring Clive Owen.

  • The Third Man
    News

    Optimum/Pinewood to manage StudioCanal’s British film archive

    2009-11-12T23:59:00Z

    Optimum Releasing is taking over management of StudioCanal’s British Library Archive, including early Hitchcock films, as part of a series of initiatives aimed at protecting British film heritage.

  • Paju
    News

    Park Chan-ok's Paju to open 39th Rotterdam film festival

    2009-11-12T14:23:00Z

    The International Film Festival Rotterdam has announced that Park Chan-ok’s second feature, Paju, will open the 39th edition on January 27.

  • Joaquin Padro
    News

    Spain's Rodar Y Rodar to make English-language comedy

    2009-11-12T14:15:00Z

    Barcelona-based production outfit Rodar Y Rodar is set to produce the romantic screwball comedy The Barcelona Connection with the UK’s Maravilla Pictures and US-based Blue Engine Entertainment.

  • Machete.
    Features

    Pragmatism and optimism at AFM

    2009-11-12T14:10:00Z

    It has been a gruelling year for the independent sector but last week’s American Film Market delivered a much-needed jolt of energy to the industry, with buyers quick to snap up top-end product. Jeremy Kay takes the temperature in Santa Monica

  • Michael Jackson's This Is It
    Features

    Weekly international box office – November 13

    2009-11-12T12:11:00Z

    Screen brings you the weekly international box-office news.

  • Yash Raj Films’ Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi
    Features

    Off rollercoaster but still reeling

    2009-11-12T11:55:00Z

    Striking producers, swine flu and the recession have taken their toll on the Hindi film industry this year. Does 2010 look any better?

  • Mike Goodridge, editor Screen International
    Comment

    Rise of the new power hubs

    2009-11-12T10:42:00Z

    As Hollywood studios begin to crumble, a new breed of media company that is rooted in its local market but has an eye for the smart international deals is rising.

  • Features

    Midday Sun

    2009-11-11T11:50:00Z

    Midday Sun is a thriller about an English couple, Dan and Sarah, who move to Spain, but their son is murdered soon after they arrive and a local boy is charged and released, but then dies suspiciously in a hit and run for which Dan is wrongly blamed.

  • Features

    Animals

    2009-11-11T11:48:00Z

    A coming of age fantasy tale in the vein of Donnie Darko.

  • Features

    Bunker

    2009-11-11T11:47:00Z

    A Spanish musician is commissioned to direct the Bogota Opera House, but when he brings over his girlfriend to Bogota, she disappears.

  • Features

    Bruc

    2009-11-11T11:42:00Z

    A Catalan drummer boy retreats to the high sierra to escape Napoleon’s army, but then manages to almost singlehandedly defeat them.

  • Features

    Hitman

    2009-11-11T11:41:00Z

    A terminally ill assassin is sent on a mission to kill a Colombian drugs smuggler living in Mumbai, India.

  • Features

    There Be Dragons

    2009-11-11T11:39:00Z

    A journalist investigates Jose Maria Escriva de Balaguer, controversial founder of Opus Dei, but discovers his own estranged father’s disturbing connection to the man.

  • Features

    Betsy And The Emperor

    2009-11-11T11:39:00Z

    Tells the story of the last few years in Napoleon’s life on the island of Saint Helena where he had a relationship with a 14 year old British girl.

  • Features

    Heroes

    2009-11-11T11:37:00Z

    Tells the story of a busy executive who looks back on his childhood in the 1980s when his life was full of love and adventure.

  • Features

    Paper Birds

    2009-11-11T11:35:00Z

    A film that narrates the adventures of a group of dirt-poor Spanish vaudeville performers in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War.

  • Features

    Verbo

    2009-11-11T11:34:00Z

    A dark thriller exploring the difficult life of a troubled teen.