All Screen articles in 20 January 2008 – Page 7
-
News
Luc Besson partners on $17m environmental Boomerang project
Luc Besson has partnered with photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand and luxury brands group PPR for a $17m (Euros 11.5m) film project provisionally entitled Boomerang. The film is set to be released on June 5, 2009 to coincide with World Environment Day.EuropaCorp will distribute the film on a worldwide day-and-date release and ...
-
News
Park Circus strikes UK theatrical deal with Arrow Films
UK distributor Park Circus Films has signed a deal to represent the Arrow Films catalogue theatrically in the UK and Ireland.Arrow's 160-plus title catalogue includes films such as Cinema Paradiso, The Millionairess and Rififi.Park Circus is the UK 's leading theatrical distributor of classic films. IT has similar deals in ...
-
News
China's box office up by 26% with localfilms holding steady
China's total box office gross reached $458.63m (RMB3.33bn) in 2007, a 26% increase on the previous year, marking the fifth year in a row that box office has risen by more by then 20%. The figures were announced on Friday (Jan 11) by the Film Bureau under China 's State ...
-
News
Chinese movie web-sites join forces against piracy
Fifty Chinese movie web-sites have jointly established the 'China Alliance of Legitimate Movie Web-sites' as a disciplinary alliance which aims to provide legal movies online and stop offering pirated movies. Initiated by Copyright Protection Center of China (CPCC), Movie Copyright Protection Association of China (MCPAC) and online movie provider www.quacor.com, ...
-
News
Local market share for German and Swiss films drops in 2007
The German and Swiss cinemas saw their local market shares shrink dramatically in 2007, according to provisional year-end figures. After the euphoria of 2006 when German films had posted a market share of 23% thanks to such films as Perfume - Story Of A Murderer and football documentary Deutschland. Ein ...
-
News
Then She Found Me, Autism take audience honours at Palm Springs
Helen Hunt's first outing as director Then She Found Me won the Palm Springs International Film Festival's (PSIFF) Audience Award for best narrative feature as the event came to a close on Jan 13.Tricia Regan's Autism: The Musical earned the Audience Award for best documentary feature. The FIPRESCI award For ...
-
News
Atonement, Sweeney Todd win best picture Golden Globes
No film dominated the 65th Golden Globes last night [Jan 13] as the Hollywood Foreign Press Association spread its largesse across a wide field in a drastically truncated news announcement due to the ongoing writers strike.
-
News
Legend produces legendary international grosses in fifth weekend
Just as Will Smith's character repels hordes of infected assailants in I Am Legend, so the Warner Bros release has fended off wave after wave of competitors to maintain its status as the number one international film.Despite solid performances by National Treasure: Book Of Secrets, Alvin And The Chipmunks, Bee ...
-
News
The Bucket List tops domestic box office with $19.5m weekend
Warner Bros' The Bucket List, which stars Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman as terminally ill men who take the road trip of a lifetime,expanded wide and climbed 22 places to the top on an estimated $19.5m.The weekend haul raised the tearjerker's running total after three weekends to $20.9m and demonstrated ...