All Screen articles in 21 November 2005 – Page 3
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US Producers Guild to honour Eastwood, Corman
Clint Eastwood and RogerCorman will be honoured at the Producers Guild of America's (PGA) annual awardsceremony on Jan 22 2006 in Los Angeles.Eastwood, whose producingcredits include the Oscar winning Million Dollar Baby and Unforgiven, will receive the Milestone Award and Corman, whose prolific career hasspawned The Wild Angels and Deathrace3000 ...
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Brooks' Muslim comedy to world premiere in Dubai
In an unusual move, AlbertBrooks' new film Looking For ComedyIn The Muslim World will have its world premiere at the Dubai InternationalFilm festival ahead of an early-2006 US release through Warner IndependentPictures.The film, which sees Brooksbeing sent to India and Pakistan by the US Government to find out what makesMuslims ...
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Bridge opens for Fortissimo
Dutch-HK-based sales agent FortissimoFilms has reported a string of sales on documentary The Bridge, which itpicked up at AFM. Directed by Eric Steel and following the stories of peoplewho decided to commit suicide by jumping off the Golden Gate bridge in 2004,the film has already sold to Japan (Tornado), Village ...
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Water reaches watershed level at box office
Deepa Mehta's Water passed the C$500,000 ($419,000) mark this pastweekend, achieving the milestone in 10 days on 41 screens for a screen averageof approximately $7000. It was enough to earn 10thspot on the nation's box office Top Ten, a rare feat for a Canadian filmproduced outside of Quebec. That said, ...
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Blank Slate for UK ethnic minority film-makers
The UK Film Council's New Cinema Fund and b3 mediaare launching a new digital short film project to support black and ethnicminority filmmakers. The Blank Slate scheme, funded by the NationalLottery, is expected to commission eight shorts to be produced by spring 2006.Filmmakers from across the UKcan apply to make ...
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Too Good To Be True Film-makers bank on pixel sell
Following in the footstepsof a startlingly simple online marketing scheme launched this year,two UK screenwriters are raising funds online to develop theirfeature films. Screenwriters Talia Channon and Lee Curle of Lucre Films have launched PixelYourShops.com, asite based on the successful Million Dollar Homepage, developed by 21-year-old UK student Alex Tew. ...
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Hopkins to receive HFPA DeMille Award
Anthony Hopkinswill collect the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's Cecil B DeMille Awardfor lifetime achievement at the 63rd annual Golden Globe Awards on Jan 16,2006.Hopkins hasreceived six Golden Globe nominations including four as best actor for Nixon,The Remains Of The Day, The Silence Of The Lambs and Magic.He won the bestactor ...
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Australian VoD licenses Granada International films
Australianvideo-on-demand company Reeltime has signed a dealwith Granada International to license select film and television programmesfrom Granada's library.OnceReeltime launches in early 2006, the Granada content will be made available to all of its ISPpartners.Thedeal covers unspecified films and TV programmes including Prime Suspect,Cracker, 7Up and Nanny 911."Weare delighted to see ...
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Fifth annual animated feature Academy Award
The question of who will be the winner of the fifth annualanimated feature Academy Award is a hotly contested and intriguing one. Four films stand out as the frontrunners - Howl's Moving Castle, Chicken Little,Wallace & Gromit: The Curse Of The Were-Rabbitand Tim Burton's Corpse Bride - and each represents ...
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Fifth annual animated feature Academy Award
Competition to be one of just three nominees for this year'sanimated feature Oscar is stiff with such an eclectic bunch of high- budget,critically- acclaimed films - and creepy - films in the runningThe question of who will be the winner of the fifth annualanimated feature Academy Award is a hotly ...
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The British Academy prepares for 2005 awards
For an indication of how important the BAFTA film awardshave become, look no further than this year's campaign trail.The scramble for BAFTAs started inearnest on August 31, when the UK'sacademy members were emailed with details of a screening of AngLee's Brokeback Mountain, followed by a Q&A withstar Jake Gyllenhaal and ...
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BVI hits $1bn gross for 11th consecutive year
Buena VistaInternational (BVI) passed $1bn in annual tickets sales yesterday [Tuesday],marking the 11th consecutive year the distributor has achieved the distinction."We're thrilledto be able to keep this going," BVI president Mark Zoradi said. "Theinteresting thing about the theatrical business is that the shelf is emptyevery year. Through good product years ...
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India film festival to host Merchant tribute
This year's edition of the InternationalFilm Festival of India (IFFI), to be held in Goafrom Nov 24 - Dec 4, will pay a special tribute to Indian-born filmmaker IsmailMerchant who died in May this year.The retrospective will screenIn Custody, which Merchant directedhimself, and three films that he produced with James ...
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Ferrara to be honoured at Sarajevo festival
TheSarajevo Film Festival will celebrate the work of Abel Ferrara during thefestival's 12th edition, to be held August 18-26, 2006. Ferrara isexpected to attend the festival and present a selection of his films, includinghis latest feature, Mary."This courageous filmmaker makes no concessions - in hismovies as well as in the ...
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Final hopes for German media funds are dashed
German media funds are now all but dead, with the incoming government announcing it will backdate reforms to last week.Some German media fund managers had hoped to continue signing up investors until new Chancellor Angela Merkel officially begins business next week.But FinanceMinister designate Peer Steinbrueck says he intends to retain ...
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Northern Ireland enjoys a production boom
Northern Ireland is enjoying a production boom with several filmsbacked by the Northern Ireland Film & Television Commission (NIFTC) beginning shoots.Seven films are due to start principal photography between now andnext Spring start in Belfast and along the border with the Republic of Ireland.Alreadyshooting is 48 Angels, a low-budget feature ...
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Lehmann attached to direct Gold Circle's romcom
Michael Lehmannwill direct Diane Keaton and Mandy Moore in Gold Circle Films' comedy BecauseI Said So, which will bereleased domestically through Universal and is being sold internationally byMandate Pictures.Lehmann'scredits include Heathers, 40 Days And 40 Nights and The Truth About Cats And Dogs; he replaces Gillian Armstrong who waspreviously attached.Gold ...
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New film agency to be established in Wales
The Welsh Development Agency and the Arts Council of Wales(ACW) have announced plans to establish a new film agency, Ffilm Wales. Theagency will operate under the Welsh Assembly Government's new CreativeIndustries initiative.The film agency will aim to "ensure that Wales can be moreeffective in developing talent and in making feature ...
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Peace Arch announces AFM deals on new slate
Toronto-based Peace Arch Entertainment has reported strong pre-sales during AFM on the nine new titles on its slate.Momentum in the UK, itssister company Aurum in Spain and Odeon in Canada have each taken rights to theromance Delirious starring SteveBuscemi, Michael Pitt and Alison Lohman, as well all five titles from ...
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Global Film Initiative names eight features in US touring series
The Global Film Initiativehas unveiled its third annual Global Lens touring film series featuring eightfeatures and five shorts from developing-world countries.The series will screen incities across the US beginning in January through partnerships with major culturalinstitutions including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Museum of FineArts in ...
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