All Screen articles in 19 September 2013 – Page 5
-
NewsTaiwan submits Soul to Oscar race
Taiwan’s Ministry of Culture has selected Chung Mong-hong’s psychological thriller Soul as its official entry to the best foreign-language picture category of the Academy Awards.
-
NewsKeanu Reeves eyes Finnish thriller
EXCLUSIVE: Keanu Reeves has been approached to star in Antti J. Jokinen’s thriller The Criminal about organised crime in Finland and Russia.
-
NewsSky boards Mendes' Penny Dreadful
Sky Atlantic has boarded Showtime’s horror drama Penny Dreadful, which is being produced by Sam Mendes’ Neal Street Productions.
-
NewsCumberbatch, Knightley begin Imitation Game shoot
WWII code-breaking drama underway in UK; FilmNation handles sales.
-
NewsEFA to honour Pedro Almodóvar
Spanish director to receive European Achievement in World Cinema Award.
-
NewsIndia’s Film Bazaar launches Producers’ Lab
Film Bazaar, organised by India’s National Film Development Corporation (NFDC), is introducing a Producers’ Lab at this year’s edition of the market.
-
NewsCTE signs pacts with MVP, Universe
Pan-Asian broadcaster Celestial Tiger Entertainment (CTE) has signed exclusive output deals with Hong Kong-based producers Mega-Vision Project Workshop (MVP) and Universe Entertainment.
-
NewsMetrodome takes UK on Visitors
Submarine Entertainment has licensed UK rights for Godfrey Reggio’s Toronto special presentation Visitors to Metrodome and struck an Italian deal with Feltrinelli Films.
-
NewsSlave wins TIFF audience award
Steve McQueen’s 12 Years A Slave won the Toronto International Film Festival’s (TIFF) Blackberry People’s Choice Award in a significant development that places the hard-hitting drama among an elite club.
-
NewsThe Husband seals TIFF deals
EXCLUSIVE: XYZ Films has acquired US sales rights, The Little Film Company international sales and A71 Canadian distribution rights to Scythia Films and Phenomenal Films’ recent Toronto world premiere The Husband.
-
NewsSmurfs 2 crosses $200m int'l
China helped The Smurfs 2 soar past $200m over a lukewarm session, driving the overall weekend take to $17.6m from 13,000 screens in 70 markets through Sony Pictures Releasing International.
-
-
-
NewsF Word sells out for eOne
eOne Films International has reported a roaring trade in Toronto on No Trace Camping’s Michael Dowse rom-com The F Word starring Daniel Radcliffe and Zoe Kazan.
-
NewsWadjda to lead first Saudi Oscar bid
Haifaa Al Mansour’s acclaimed drama will contest the Academy’s foreign language race for Saudi Arabia.
-
NewsWestEnd racks up TIFF sales on Joe
WestEnd Films has closed a raft of deals on David Gordon Green’s Joe starring Nicholas Cage and Tye Sheridan on the back of its Venice and Toronto premieres.
-
NewsHFPA to honour Woody Allen
Woody Allen will receive the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s Cecil B DeMille Award at the 71st Annual Golden Globes on Jan 22, 2014.
-
NewsRoadside takes Words And Pictures
Roadside Attractions has taken US rights in Toronto to Fred Schepisi’s romance Words And Pictures starring Clive Owen and Juliette Binoche.
-
NewsJulianne Moore joins Hunger Games
Julianne Moore has joined the cast of Lionsgate’s The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Parts 1 & 2.
-
NewsNetflix to double original content spend
Original commissions are set to account for a fifth of Netflix’s content spend within the next few years.