All Screen articles in 19 May 2003 – Page 2
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Fortissimo strikes financing deal with Bank of Scotland
Fortissimo Film Sales has struck a new relationship with the film finance arm of Royal Bank Of Scotland (RBOS), allowing it to expand at a time when the sales market is getting tighter.The new facility is described as a 'multi-faceted financial structure,' which could evolve into a fully-fledged revolving credit ...
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United Artists strikes Korean pact
Korean mini-major Mirovision has taken an important step towards expansion of its distribution division thanks to an output deal sealed with United Artists. The unusual deal is expected to see four to five pictures per year handled by Mirovision and start with Nicholas Nickleby, Assassination Tango, Pictures Of April and ...
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Yari funds William Morris indie financing arm
Real estate tycoon Bob Yari has teamed with WMA Independent, the independent finance and packaging arm of The William Morris Agency, to form El Camino Pictures, a dedicated film financing fund for WMA packages which will be run by WMA Independent co-chiefs Cassian Elwes and Rena Ronson.The first film under ...
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Flach Pyramide on a roll with Arcand's Invasions
Denys Arcand's competition film The Barbarian Invasions (Les Invasions Barbares) has opened strongly in its native Quebec, notching C$1m in its first six days of release on a 120 print release handled by Alliance Atlantis Vivafilm, and giving a further boost to sales agent Flach Pyramide International (FPI).Indeed, Arcand's latest, ...
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Disney buys French animation Renaissance
Emerging French production house Onyx Films has scored a notable coup with the sale of its first animated project Renaissance to Buena Vista for US distribution.The deal was brokered by leading independent producer Jake Eberts. Theatrical and video release in France is to be handled by Pathe Distribution, with which ...
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Refn continues dark American vein with St John
After the successful collaboration with cult favourite author Hubert Selby Jr. on Fear X, Danish writer-director Nicolas Winding Refn is now turning to another scribe specialising in the seamier side of the American underbelly: Abel Ferrara's longtime screenwriting collaborator, Nicholas St. John.Billy's People follows a idealistic and ambitious female undercover ...
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Wong's 2046 still in Venice contention
Despite having to shift his final shooting location - either to Macao or Australia - because of SARS fears in Shanghai, Wong Kar-Wai's 2046 is still on course for a October 1 platform release in China, confirmed Fortissimo Film Sales yesterday The prospect of completion raises the possibility that Wong's ...
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Hunter S Thompson doc gets world premiere at CineVegas
The CineVegas International Film Festival in Las Vegas (June 13 to 21) will host the world premiere of Breakfast With Hunter, a feature length documentary starring the outlaw journalist Dr Hunter S Thompson. Directing by Wayne Ewing, the documentary chronicles Thompson's attempt to avoid being placed in the system by ...
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Myriad sells out on Jeepers Creepers 2
Myriad Pictures has sold out major territories on Jeepers Creepers 2, the sequel to the United Artists (UA)/American Zoetrope box office hit which was financed by Myriad and UA, which is planning to release the film in August and has also acquired four further territories - Japan, Italy, France and ...
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Shoreline picks up six
Shoreline Entertainment has acquired six completed films for international sales including UK thriller Butterfly Man starring Stuart Laing and Mamee Nakprasitte, Marley Shelton-starrer Moving Alan, and the Hungarian smash hit A Kind Of America directed by Gabor Herendi. Shoreline has also sold German home video rights to Moving August directed ...
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Kidron takes on Reluctant Matador
Beeban Kidron is to direct romantic comedy The Reluctant Matador for Myriad Pictures.Myriad is financing and co-producing the film with Charles Finch and Luc Roeg's Artists Independent Network. Momentum Pictures retains UK rights after helping develop the project. The picture, which is expected to star Ryan Reynolds and Paz Vega, ...
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Turin offers new road to Kiarostami
Former Venice chief Alberto Barbera, currently head of the National Film Museum in Turin, is lining up a complete retrospective of the works of Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami, entitled On The Roads of Kiarostami.The event will run between September 10 and October 12th in Turin. All of Kiarostami's 30 films, ...
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Italiano mambos to Icon for UK/Oz
Montreal-based Equinoxe Films has closed some key deals on its hot comedy Mambo Italiano starring Paul Sorvino, Ginette Reno and Mary Walsh. Icon Entertainment has taken the film for the UK and Australia/New Zealand, Fu Works has bought it for Benelux, Lolafilms has bought Spain and Italy and Shani Film ...
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Germany shows off Next Generation
Germany may not have had a film in competition at Cannes for ten years, but the Next Generation event has now become a regular - and popular - fixture.Organised by the Export Union, Cannes screenings showcased ten short films by students from six German film schools. In addition to the ...
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Golino, Gassmanon, Verdecchi slate
Valeria Golino (Respiro, Frida) has just finished shooting a new Italian film, entitled Prendimi E Portami Via.Written and directed by Tonino Zangardi, the film focuses on a young Roman boy who falls in love with a gypsy girl. Rodolfo Lagana' stars alongside Golino in the film, which is produced by ...
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Lucas Foster leaves Myriad
Lucas Foster, president of production at Myriad Pictures, is leaving the company 'to pursue his personal projects.' Company president Kirk D'Amico issued a statement yesterday to the effect that Foster's contract would not be renewed and that he is leaving the company immediately.Foster is currently on location in Mexico producing ...
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Myriad nets Little Fish
Myriad Pictures has acquired worldwide rights outside Australia and New Zealand to Little Fish, the second film from Rowan Woods whose debut The Boys was one of the biggest Australian hits of 1998.The film is produced by Porchlight Films' Vincent Sheehan (Mullet) and will be executive produced by Myriad president ...
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Taiwan overhauls film funding policy
Taiwan's Government Information Office (GIO) has overhauled its film funding policy in an attempt to reinvigorate local production and encourage co-productions with international partners. The Taiwanese film industry is renowned for its arthouse films - from auteurs such as Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Tsai Ming-Liang - that win awards at festivals ...
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Pippi's father heads for international seas
Everyone knows Pippi Longstocking, but few know that her father was a real person. But with Pippi's Father - Captain Charlie And The Cannibal Princess (working title) he should be at least as well known as Harry Potter by family audiences across the world. At least that is the ambition ...
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FAME targets third party pictures
Film And Music Entertainment (F&ME), the UK independent production outfit, has launched a new division to service third party pictures, including the eight co-productions that have already been lined up alongside its own in-house pictures.The new division will be headed by FAME's Sam Taylor with Sam Lavender and newly-appointed head ...