All Screen articles in 15 May 2009 – Page 7
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NewsStrand Releasing to Drool all over US
Strand Releasing has acquired all North American rights to Nancy Kissam’s Slamdance romantic comedy Drool starring Laura Harring.
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NewsKaleidoscope picks up The Heavy
Kaleidoscope Home Entertainment has acquired UK rights to The Heavy from London-based Parkland Pictures, the sales, distribution and production company.
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Tiger8 and Wuxi launch $150m fund to take Chinese films global
Tiger8 Media and Wuxi Jinyuan Industry Investment And Development Company have launched a $150m (€74m) fund dedicated to financing and producing features in China for worldwide distribution.
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NewsNadel and Federer square up in new Jose Luiz Lopez-Linares doc
Tennis titans Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer, yesterday (May 17) doing battle on the court in Madrid, will be the focus on a new crossover documentary by Jose Luiz Lopez-Linares.
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NewsQuebec producers unite to stimulate coproduction
Seven Quebec-based independent film producers are uniting to push the cause of Quebec as an international coproduction partner and lobby the Canada government to lower the barriers to potential foreign co-production partners.
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FeaturesCannes Gallery
ScreenDaily brings you the latest pictures from the 62nd Cannes Film Festival.
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NewsPepper, Preston and Lafevre join the cast of Casino Jack
Barry Pepper, Kelly Preston and Rachelle Lafevre will join Kevin Spacey on the thriller Casino Jack, which set to begin shooting on May 23 in Toronto.
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NewsMagnet Relesing takes on US rights to Warlords
Magnolia Pictures’ genre arm Magnet Releasing has bought North American rights to Peter Ho-Sun Chan’s historical war epic Warlords. It stars Jet Li, Andy Lau and Takeshi Kaneshiro.
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NewsGooding, Martinez line up for John Eyre's The Last Warrior
Cuba Gooding Jr, Olivier Martinez and Sergio Peris-Mencheta are in final negotiations to star in John Eyres’ $15m (€11m) post-apocalyptic action film The Last Warrior.
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NewsAlta Films picks up Map Of The Sounds Of Tokyo for Spain
Spanish director Isabel Coixet’s Cannes competition title Map Of The Sounds Of Tokyo has been sold to Alta Films for distribution in Spain.
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NewsUK's Film4 unveils debuts from Chris Morris and Joe Cornish
Film4 has a slate of new projects in development including feature directorial debuts from Chris Morris and Joe Cornish.
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NewsWestEnd closes deals on Nakata's Chatroom
WestEnd Films has completed a number of sales on teenage thriller-drama Chatroom.
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NewsToronto's Cinemavault drives international sales of Trucker
Toronto-based Cinemavault has closed international sales on Plum Pictures’ drama Trucker, which stars Michelle Monaghan as a truck driver who is reunited with her estranged son.
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NewsUK's F&ME joins sci-fi comedy Iron Sky
London-based Film and Music Entertainment has boarded Blind Spot Pictures’ Iron Sky as co-producer.
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NewsThailand's Five Star turns Macabre for first international pick up
Thailand’s Five Star Entertainment has picked up Asian rights to horror film Macabre, marking the first time the Bangkok-based studio has handled a non-Thai film.
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NewsThe Match Factory acquires three Christian Wagner titles
Further ramping up its library, German outfit The Match Factory acquired three films by German writer-director Christian Wagner.
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NewsMatch Factory sells Ajami in UK and France
Match Factory has concluded two major deals on Ajami, the film that will close this year’s Cannes Quinzaine later this week.
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NewsProvocateur Von Trier remains true to form with Antichrist
As ever, provocateur Lars von Trier is stirring strong emotions on the Croisette. Depending on which newspapers you read, his new Competition title Antichrist is either a six-star special or a “big fat art film fart”.