All Screen articles in 18 February 2007 – Page 8
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Voltage initiates buyers into The Tribe
Voltage Pictures has taken international rights to Jorg Ihle's action horror movie The Tribe. Sales chief Nicolas Chartier described the project as a cross between Predator and Lost and already closed deals ahead of the market with Flashstar in Brazil and Prosieben.Sat for German TV. The Tribe centres on a ...
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Wild Bunch seals deals with Picturehouse, Magnolia, Goldwyn
Wild Bunch may have broken off official relations with the Berlinale and set up shop in a jerry-built cabin, but the French sales powerhouse has had its best EFM ever, including three US deals.Morgan Spurlock's untitled documentary has been an especially hot seller. UK rights have now gone to Optimum, ...
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Eros signs three-year deal with Bollywood producer Venus
Eros International has signed a three-year output deal with Bollywood production company Venus. All Venus films for the next three year will be co-produced with Eros.Eros will keep copyrights for distribution across all formats. Two films are already in development with directors Abbas Mastan (Humraaz) and Priyadarshan (Garam Masala).Venus was ...
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Senator boards Falorni's Heart
Germany 's Senator Film has boarded Luigi Falorni's fiction feature debut Heart Of Fire as co-producer and acquired German distribution rights. Based on Senait Mehari's bestselling autobiography Heart Of Fire, the film follows her experiences serving in the Eritrean Liberation Front and witnessing the horrors of a guerrilla war. The ...
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UK Film Council Development Fund backs BBC Films trio
The UK Film Council's Development Fund is backing several new projects with BBC Films.They include Coram Boy,adapted from the novel by Jamila Gavin, with Alison Owen and ScottRudin producing and the project out to directors now. The story isabout two orphans in 18th-century England. The funding is for $135,145(£69,291). The ...
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Lionsgate strikes US, UK and Australia deal for BBC's Earth
Lionsgate has acquired the US, UK and Australian distribution rights for BBC Worldwide's documentary feature Earth.The 90-minute documentary project, shot in 35mm and HD, has been in the works for five years and is due for an autumn 2007 release. The film looks at the influence of the sun on ...
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Top Italian directors demand say in appointment of RAI cinema chief
Italy's top directors, including Bernardo Bertolucci, Gabriele Muccino, Dario Argento, Gianni Amelio, Ferzan Ozpetek, Paolo Virzi, Paolo Sorrentino and 116 others have written an open letter to RAI Cinema's board of directors asking to be taken into consideration in the naming of a new RAI Cinema director.The request follows the ...
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Grandville teams with Bender and Bartkowiak for 818
Producers Dan Shepherd and Justin Williams of UK-based Grandville Pictures are teaming with Lawrence Bender (An Inconvenient Truth, Kill Bill) and his producing partner Karen Barber for Los Angeles-set action comedy 818 (working title). Andrzej Bartkowiak, the Polish-born cinematographer on Speed and The Devil's Advocate who has directed Doom and ...
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Grandville teams with Lawrence Bender for 818
Producers Dan Shepherd and Justin Williams of UK-based Grandville Pictures are teaming with Lawrence Bender (An Inconvenient Truth, Kill Bill) and his producing partner Karen Barber for Los Angeles-set action comedy 818 (working title).Andrzej Bartkowiak, the Polish-born cinematographer on Speed and The Devil's Advocate who has directed Doom and Cradle ...
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Colin Salmon takes lead in Games Men Play
Colin Salmon has signed on to star John Akomfrah's UK drama Games Men Play.Lincia Daniel will produce the film, about the story of a basketball coach who discovers he has a son and has to grapple with a gangster to save his life.Screen West Midlands is backing and the film ...
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Future Shorts moves into distribution
UK-based short film outfit Future Shorts is launching a distribution division, and partnering with LoveFilm for digital downloads. The new DVD division will launch its first titles in May 2007, available at Future Shorts events, the company's website and traditional retail stores. DVDs will cover multiple genres, including fiction, documentary, ...
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Prasad to direct Cohn's remake of Yellow Handkerchief
Indian-born filmmaker Udayan Prasad will direct and William Hurt and Maria Bello star in producer Arthur Cohn's remake of Japanese classic The Yellow Handkerchief, it was announced today at a press conference in Tokyo. The $15.5m remake moves the story's locale from Hokkaido to Louisiana in the late 1940s. Production ...
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Sunshine, Departed win top prizes from US Writers Guild
Michael Arndt and William Monahan have won top honours at the Writers Guild of America's (WGA) simultaneous annual awards nights in Los Angeles and New York on Sunday night.Arndt took the original screenplay prize for the comedy Little Miss Sunshine, while Monahan won the adapted screenplay category for crime thriller ...
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Night At The Museum returns to top of international charts
Night At The Museum returned to the top of the international box office ranking this weekend. The sturdy Ben Stiller comedy grossed an estimated $13.7m from 4,800 screens in 43 markets, bringing its running international total to an impressive $230.8m. It opened at number one in ...
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Norbit rules at US box office
The resurgent star power of Oscar-nominee Eddie Murphy droveParamount's Norbit straight to the top of the North American box officechart this weekend with a plus-size estimated gross of $33.7m. TheDreamWorks-produced comedy more than doubled the take of the weekend'sother new wide release, MGM/Weinstein prequel Hannibal Rising. Norbit - in which ...
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Buyers go gaga for Estonian Lotte From Gadgetville
Buyers are going gaga for Estonian animated feature Lotte From Gadgetville. Midway through the EFM, the film - aimed at pre-school kids in the 3-to-8 age range - Lotte has now sold to 15 territories for theatrical. Lotte, on Sola Media/Atrix Film's EFM slate, has gone to Finland (Filmkempaniet), Poland ...
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Schafer's gay and lesbian film doc finds buyers
Andre Schafer's Here's Looking At You, Boy is tickling the fancy of buyers worldwide. Schafer's documentary, telling the story of the coming-out of gay and lesbian cinema, has sold worldwide in advance of its premiere in Panorama later this week.Amsterdam-based sales agent Sydney Neter of SND Films has closed deals ...
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Picturehouse and TWC pick up The Orphanage
Picturehouse has taken US rights from Wild Bunch to theSpanish-language horror tale The Orphanage (El Ofanato), with TheWeinstein Company reportedly taking the UK, Australia and Italy.J A Bayona is directing the Rodar Y Rodar and Estudios Picassoco-production about a woman who returns with her husband and boy tore-open the abandoned ...
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Madman signs on for In The Shadow Of The Moon
Channel 4 International has signed an Australia/New Zealand deal with Madman for documentary In The Shadow Of The Moon. David Sington's documentary about the US space programme sold to THINKFilm for North America during Sundance, where it won the world documentary audience award. The film, originally commissioned by Channel4's Hamish ...
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Hopper set to star in King horror
Dennis Hopper is in final talks to join Film Bridge International's Stephen King adaptation Dolan's Cadillac. Hopper will play a crime boss who kills a woman to prevent her from testifying against him in a murder trial and is subsequently pursued by the woman's vengeful young husband. Production is set ...