All Screen articles in 19 May 2005 – Page 2
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Wales opens up£7m film and TV fund
Wales hascalled for applications for its £7m intellectual property fund.The fund, overseen by theWelsh Assembly, will act as a gap financier for film and TV production, plusnew media and music projects. Open to international projects, the initiative aimsto attract production to Wales.Producer Linda James hasbeen appointed to the board and ...
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TFI takes world rights to Ong-Bak follow-up
French sales house TF1International has taken world rights to Tom-Yum-Goong starring Ong-BakphenomenonTony Jaa and directed by Ong-Bak's Prachya Pinkaew.Ong-Bak was a huge hit inits native Thailand and also performed well for EuropaCorp. who handled itsinternational sales. The film sold nearly 1 million tickets in France.Tom-Yum-Goong tells the tale ofa villager, ...
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Hustle and Flow to open CineVegas fest
Craig Brewer's hip-hop drama Hustle & Flow will open the 2005CineVegas Film Festival, which runs from Jun 10-18.MichaelWinterbottom's 9 Songs,Rob Zombie's House Of 1,000 Corpses follow-up The Devil's Rejects, and Gus Van Sant's Cannes competitionentry Last Days arealso among the line-up.ChristopherWalken will receive the Marquee Award following on-stage interview, while ...
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Warner Bros takes multi-territory rights to del Toro's Labyrinth
Warner Bros Pictures International has picked upSpanish and Latin American rights to director Guillermo del Toro's upcomingFranco era horror title Pan's Labyrinth.Filming is expected to begin thissummer on the co-production between Estudios Picasso and delToro, Alfonso Cuaron and Frida Torresblanco's new Spanish company OMM.Del Toro, Cuaron and Torresblanco will produce ...
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European Film Promotion elects new board
The members of European FilmPromotion (EFP) have elected a new Board of Directors at its general assemblymeeting during Cannes.The Board is composed of sixmembers and the term of office lasts for two years. Claudia Landsberger has beenre-elected as President and Christian Dorsch has been re-elected asVice-President, both ...
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Star Wars: Episode III already breaking records
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith wasalready starting to break records as its massive international release began onWednesday and continued into the weekend.According to distributor Fox International, the launch ofthe film with more than 9,000 prints in 113 markets in 104 countries outsideNorth America is the widest ...
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Spice Factory plans US invasion
In what could become an international rush ofcompanies to exploit new US tax incentives and the cheap dollar, theever-opportunistic UK-based financing outfit Spice Factory has teamed up withLA-based Cameo FJ Entertainment to create the American Independent Film Fund(AIFF).The partners aim to exploit recent US tax incentivesand claim to have raised ...
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Petit embarks on Unrequited Love shoot
Shooting hasbegun on Unrequited Love, the latest feature from cult British filmmaker Chris Petit (LondonOrbital, Asylum). Adapted from abook by Greg Dart, the film is an essay-drama exploring the links betweenunrequited love and stalking.The film is aco-production set up by Illuminations with Mediopolis in Berlin, LondonFilm,.MDM, ZDF/ARTE, YLE and the ...
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Ellis to oversee Film London fund
FilmLondon, the regional film agency for London, has beefed up its productionfunding activities by appointing Maggie Ellis as its first head of production.Ellis,previously Film London's production executive, will run the body's micro-budgetdigital feature fund. She will also oversee the agency's digital shorts schemeand work with film funds run by local ...
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Eastern promise for Egyptian Top Gun
Independent producer YoussefEl-Deeb is on a mission to break Egyptian cinema out internationally.El-Deeb's Takhayalproduction company is here with an as-yet unnamed film based around Egypt's1967 disastrous war with Israel, a project he says will have "Top Gun" elements and is intended to appeal to the youngermarket.Anotheris a biopic of the ...
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Miller, Rodriguez set for second dose of Sin
FrankMiller has already begun scripting Sin City 2, which he will co-direct withRobert Rodriguez. The project will be jointly owned by Disney and The WeinsteinCompany.Speaking at the annual distributors lunch hosted by theWeinsteins, Miller said it was too early to announce casting.However he did confirm the project will be shot ...
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Haneke's Hidden leads the race for Palme d'Or
Nobody has stumbled across a Brown Bunny. Nobody has discovered amasterpiece. That seemed to sum up the feeling about this year's competitionfilms as Cannes heads towards its last days. A sluggish edition thus far hasn't stirred the passions of some yearsand the decision to support veteran filmmakers has brought mixed ...
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International directors plan Mozart film festival
An international array ofacclaimed directors including Bahman Ghobadi, Tsai Ming Liang and ApichatpongWeerasethakul will make films for an innovative festival celebrating Mozart's250th anniversary.Unveiling plans for thefilms in Cannes yesterday, festival organisers said they will be inspired bythemes from the composer's later works, including The Magic Flute and theRequiem. Named after ...
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IFM World Releasing strikes Rapid Fear deals
Tony Ginnane's IFM WorldReleasing has struck a number of sales at the market, headed up by anall-rights deal on Geoff Cox's Australian action adventure Rapid Fear to RRS in Germany.RRS has sub-licensed videorights to Columbia TriStar Home Video and retains pay and free televisionrights.Meanwhilethe Los Angeles-based sales company has sold ...
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Hopscotch jumps on Scott's Dancer
Australiandistributor Hopscotch has invested development money into the screen adaptationof author Li Cunxin's autobiographical book Mao's Last Dancer, and will be taking its first everexecutive producer credit on the film.Cunxin wasplucked from a peasant childhood for training at Madam Mao's Beijing DanceAcademy. He made a dramatic defection to the US, ...
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Checkmate for Northam, Flanagan in St Petersburg
Fionnula Flanagan and JeremyNortham will star in the psychological thriller Checkmate, which is set tobegin production in St Petersburg on May 31.The Thelma Productionproject marks the first collaboration between international production companyBig Star Entertainment and UK-based financiers Future Films.Voltage Pictures is handlinginternational sales on the story of the enigmatic Lazarov ...
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Kuhn to chair Independent Cinema Office
Qwerty Filmsboss Michael Kuhn has become Chair of the Board of Trustees of the IndependentCinema Office (ICO), it was announced in Cannes yesterday. The ICO's othertrustees are Julia Short, M-D of Verve Pictures, and Ben Cook, Director of Lux.Set up in July2003, the ICO is funded by the UK Film ...
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Celestial's Love travels to Korea, Japan
Celestial Pictures hasscored a pair of major pre-sales on Peter Chan's musical Perhaps Love to Korea's Show East and Nippon Herald for Japan.The Hong Kong-based companyco-financed and is handling worldwide sales on the $10m film which is currentlyshooting in Shanghai. Produced by Chan's ApplausePictures and Los Angeles-based Ruddy Morgan Organisation, ...
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Comstock shells out coin for Wild Bunch's Coin
Along with sales to The Weinstein Company on Nomad and Outlander,French sales and finance house Wild Bunch has secured a financial co-producerfor Michael Civetta's Coin Locker Babies in Japan'sComstock.Comstock has come on board the surreal coming-of-agetale which stars Liv Tyler and was adapted in part by Sean Lennon, son of ...
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Toho pre-sells Shining Boy And Little Randy
Confirming the currentappetite for films about animals in Asia, Japan's Toho International haspre-sold Shining Boy And Little Randy, based on the true story of Japan's first elephant trainer, to severalAsian territories. The film has gone to GoldenScene for Hong Kong, Major Cinepictures for Thailand and Long Shong for Taiwan.In addition, ...