All Screen articles in 17 April 2009 – Page 2
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NewsIl Divo leads nominations for Italy's Donatello awards
Paolo Sorrentino’s Il Divo has scooped 16 nominations for Italy’s top film honours, the David of Donatello Awards. The film beat Matteo Garrone’s Gomorrah, which picked up 11nominations.
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Italian film industry tomake donation toearthquake victims
Italian exhibitors Anec and Anem and Anica, the country’s film industry body, will donate the national gross box office ticket sales from April 23 to people affected by theearthquake that hit the country earlier this week.
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NewsMuezzin world premiere to open Crossing Europe Film Festival
The 6th Crossing Europe Film Festival, held in Linz on April 20-26, will open with the world premiere of Sebastian Brameshuber’s documentary, Muezzin.The documentary focuses on several young muezzins, the people chosen by a mosque to lead the call to prayer, as they prepare for the preliminary rounds of a ...
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NewsThe Works International to handle sales of La Prima Linea
The Works International has picked up the world sales rights to Italian thriller La Prima Linea (The Front Line). It has acquired the film in conjunction with sales agency QuickfireFilms.
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Screen Australia to back war movie Beneath Hill 60
Screen Australia today announced it would back $5.7m (A$8m) war movie Beneath Hill 60, the only feature to secure the federal government agency’s backing this month.
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Pony Canyon sells Amalfi, Nodame Cantabile to Asia
Japanese international sales outfit Pony Canyon has closed pre-sales with two Asian buyers for Fuji TV titles Nodame Cantabile The Movie and Amalfi.
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KOFIC selects 29 screens for Artplus Cinema programme
The Korean Film Council (KOFIC) has announced that it is providing $795,000 (KW1.08bn) towards the 29 screens that it has selected for its Artplus Cinema Network funding scheme for this year. The sum will be split according to how many seats each screen has and whether or not they are ...
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Wolverine producer applies for Screen Australia funding
As the X-Men Origins: Wolverine publicity machine kicked into gear today, one ofthe producers on the film, Seed Productions, confirmed that it has applied for taxpayer fundingthrough Screen Australia.
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Other Angle picks up rights for Bus Palladium and Les Beaux Gosses
Other Angle Pictures, the new Paris-based sales company, has picked up the international rights to Bus Palladium and Les Beaux Gosses.
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NewsMedia 8 heads to Cannes Marche flush with Cash
Media 8 Entertainment has taken on worldwide rightsahead of Cannes next monthto Immortal Thoughts Productions’ psychological thrillerCashstarring Sean Bean.
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San Francisco Bay Area projects vie for SFFS/KRF Filmmaking Grant
The San Francisco Film Society and The Kenneth Rainin Foundation have announced the 12 finalists and four honorable mentions for the initial $35,000 SFFS/KRF FilmmakingGrant.
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Worldwide - Ponyo in international waters
Having grossed more than $164m locally for distributor Toho last year, animation legend Hayao Miyazaki’s latest children’s animation Ponyo On The Cliff By The Sea started a major international run in France on April 8 after dipping its toes in the water with a successful smaller Italian run.Although sharing elements ...
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NewsHollywood's foreign policy: producers looking increasingly to international locations
On the eve of the annual Locations Trade Show in Los Angeles (April 16-18), Screen reports on why US producers are looking beyond their borders to international locationsmore than ever before.
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International - Pulling a fast one
The weird and the wonderful were up against the fast and the furious in the week’s international box-office chart as PPI’s Monsters Vs Aliens was pitted against UPI’s Fast & Furious, both vying for the number one slot.Despite grossing $30.3m, Fast & Furious was unable to claim pole position, as ...
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Distribution - Market Report - France
French and US films have long vied for dominance at the French box office. In 2008, there were 52 US films or co-productions in the top 100. France produced 43 films in the top 100 for the year, only two of which were co-productions: Babylon A.D. (with the US) and ...
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Distribution - Market Report - Italy
French films took a 3.6% slice of the total Italian market in 2008, behind films from US and Italy which together accounted for 90.7% of the 2008 box office revenue. UK films took a 2.6% market share.Last year, only six non-US, non-Italian films made it into Italy’s top 100. They ...
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Distribution - Market Report - Italy - Marketing 'You have to do more to get noticed'
What are the major innovations in theatrical marketing in Italy’Stefano Massenzi, Lucky Red: There has been more attention to in-theatre promotion. Advertising has become extremely expensive and you try to go for your audience first and then if you have more money you build out. The internet has become very ...
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NewsCanadian locations fight stronger competition
The world may be in an economic crisis but you would not know it looking at the latest statistics coming from the Vancouver film and television industry. Hollywood’s northernmost suburb recently posted some jaw-dropping production statistics.
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