All Screen articles in 15 July 2008 – Page 2
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Jason Constantine promoted to acquisitions chief at Lionsgate
Jason Constantine has been promoted to president of acquisitions and co-productions at Lionsgate, filling the void left by former incumbent Peter Block.Constantin is an eight-year veteran of the company and will report to Lionsgate co-COO and motion picture group president Joe Drake.He will continue to oversee the tracking and acquisition ...
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Sundance names six musicians selected for Composers Lab
The Sundance Institute has unveiled the six musicians selected for its Composers Lab that runs from July 22-August 7 in Sundance, Utah.This year's Composers Lab Fellows are Matt Cartsonis, T Griffin, iZLER, JJ Lee, Vivek Maddala and Nicholas Pavkovic.During the two-week Lab, Fellows take part in workshops and creative exercises ...
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Lara Thompson leaves Sony for top acquisitions job at E1
Lara Thompson has left her role as senior vice president of worldwide acquisitions at Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group (SPWAG) to join Canadian film and TV company Entertainment One (E1) in the same capacity.Thompson started work on July 14 and will assess and acquire properties in all the company's territories ...
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Film Movement acquires US rights to Lanner's Eldorado
Film Movement has acquired US rights to Bouli Lanners' bittersweet Belgian-French road movie Eldorado.The story centers on a vintage car dealer who befriends a potential burglar and takes him on a trip to visit his parents. Eldorado won the FIPRESCI Quinzaine award at Cannes this year.Film Movement president Adley Gartenstein ...
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Kate Hudson joins all-star ensemble of musical Nine
Kate Hudson has joined Daniel Day-Lewis, Nicole Kidman, Marianne Cotillard, Penelope Cruz, Judi Dench and Sophia Loren on the cast of The Weinstein Company's Broadway musical adaptation Nine.Rob Marshall is directing the story, loosely based on Federico Fellini's 1963 classic 8 1/2, as a harried film director who balances the ...
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McCaul named as Irish general manager for Paramount
Paramount Pictures International (Ireland) has announced the appointment of Niamh McCaul as general manager.Since 2002, McCaulhas been managingdirector ofEclipse Pictures, Ireland's largest independent film distribution company.He wasinstrumental in the successful Irish releases of The Magdalene Sisters, The Passion of The Christ, La Vie En Rose, and Irish titles such as ...
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PPC set to release Ramchand Pakistani in India
Indian distributor Percept Picture Company (PPC), which made history earlier this year by acquiring Indian rights to Pakistani film In The Name Of God (Khuda Kay Liye), is set to also release US-Pakistani co-production Ramchand Pakistani in India. After successful screenings at the Tribeca and Seattle film festivals, director Mehreen ...
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Japan's Movie-Eye Entertainment ramps up US releases
Japanese producer-distributor Movie-Eye Entertainment has unveiled its 2008-2009 line-up, which has a strong emphasis on foreign acquisitions. A total of 30 films were announced, comprising 24 foreign titles and six domestic releases.The eight titles slated for the remainder of 2008 include Tarsem-directed fantasy The Fall (Sept), Hilary Swank starrer P.S. ...
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Richard Becker leaps back into Australian distribution
After selling off his family name last year, Richard Becker has re-emerged as an Australian distributor using the same name and with Female Agents as his first film.The new Becker Film Group acquired Jean-Paul Salome's drama -- about a five-woman commando unit that parachutes into occupied France in 1944 -- ...
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Red Cliff grosses $26m in opening weekend
John Woo's war epic Red Cliff swept across five Asian territories in its opening weekend and set new box office records in China and Korea.The two-hour film was released on Thursday (July 10)in mainland China, Korea, Taiwan andHong Kong, and on Friday in Singapore, andhas grosseda total of around $26.04m ...
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Hancock rules international, but Mamma has sensational launch
Sony's Hancock continued to rule the roost despite another excellent weekend for Paramount's Kung Fu Panda that pushed it well over $200m and a sensational launch for Universal Mamma Mia!Sony Pictures Releasing International's (SPRI) superhero saga Hancock starring Will Smith stayed on song following last weekend's July The Fourth weekend ...
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Universal's Hellboy II soars above Hancock at domestic box office
Universal's gamble to acquire the Hellboy franchise after Revolution Studios released the 2004 original got off to a good start as Hellboy II: The Golden Army launched at number one on an estimated $35.9m.Sony's Hancock slipped to second place while New Line's classic adventure tale Journey To The Centre Of ...
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Terribly Happy wins Karlovy Vary Crystal Globe
This year'sKarlovy Vary Crystal Globe has been won by Danish film Terribly Happy (Frygtelig Lykkelig).Henrik Ruben Genz's adaptation of an Erling Jepsen novel took the $30,000 top prize at the Czech spa town's Thermal Hotel grand hall.The $20,000 Special Jury Prize was awarded to Indonesian director Nan T. Achnas' The ...
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Sundance Documentary Program announces 16 grant recipients
The Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program has announced the 16 film projects that will receive a total of $512,500 in grants as well as creative support from the Sundance Documentary Fund.Grants are announced twice a year and submissions are judged on their approach to storytelling, artistic treatment and innovation, subject ...
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Czechs producers place hopes in German production-rebate model
With runaway productions finding better conditions further east, Czech producers are switching their hopes from tax rebates to German-style production rebates. Representatives of the Czech Audiovisual Producers Association (APA) revealed 2007 numbers to reporters at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. Foreign producers spent $142.4m (CZK 2.1bn) in the Czech ...
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Rothwell, Hill, Walker among pitchers for BritDoc
The BritDoc festival, which is gearing up for its third edition July 23-25, has selected the 12 projects to pitch live for funders at the Big Pitch session.The 12 projects are:Donor 150, dir. Jerry Rothwell About one sperm donor's many children.Breaking China, dir. Sarah McCarthy About Universal's creation of a ...
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The Mummy 3 not yet approved for Chinese release
It seems that havingChinese elements in a filmdoes not necessarily result inan easy green light from the Chinese censors. Universal Pictures' summer blockbuster The Mummy: The Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor may be yet another film to face censor troubles in China.The film was originally slated to be released in ...
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Sasha Buehler moves from SquareOne to Constantin
Film and TV veteran Sasha Buehler is to join Constantin Film's acquisitions and licensing team from Oct 1 after spending the past three years as head of acquisitions for Munich's SquareOne Entertainment.American-born Buehler started her career in the industry in 1990 with news production at broadcaster ProSieben, later working for ...
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Locarno Swiss Cinema Day to include Luftbusiness
Three new Swiss films will have their world premieres during the Swiss Cinema Day at this year's Locarno Film Festival, while Russian director Kirill Serebrennikov's Yuri's Day (Yuriev Den) will screen in the International Competitiion.The Swiss Cinema Day, which will be held by the festival in cooperation with the Federal ...
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Rome changes include new name: International Film Festival of Rome
The Rome Film Fest's recently appointed president Gian Luigi Rondi has announcedsome significant changes to the event as it heads into its third year.The changes include sweeping away elements that differentiated the young city-oriented 'festa' from the Venice Film Festival and other major international film festivals. For example, Rome's populist ...