All Screen articles in 21 November 2006 – Page 2
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Light relief from the Globes
The Golden Globes show not only brings together the world of film and TV but it also includes categories in comedy and musical categories, one of the major differentiating features of the Globes from other awards bodies.
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We Are The World: The Golden Globes
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) was founded in 1943 under the name The Hollywood Foreign Correspondents Association by one William Mooring, a correspondent in Los Angeles for The Daily Mail in the UK.
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Red Road makes clean sweep of Scottish BAFTAs
Andrea Arnold’s film takes the major honours in Scotland to add to Cannes win.
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Red Road makes clean sweep of Scottish BAFTAs
Andrea Arnold’s Red Road has added Best Film at the Lloyds TSB BAFTA Scotland awards to its previous honours, including the Cannes Jury Prize and five BIFA nominations.
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Red Road makes clean sweep of Scottish BAFTAs
Andrea Arnold's Red Road has added Best Film at the Lloyds TSB BAFTA Scotland awards to its previous honours, including the Cannes Jury Prize and five BIFA nominations. The win was universally predicted, as was the film's easy dominance of the evening's other film prizes - Best Actress for Kate ...
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European cinemas back single digital standard
The development of digital cinema in Europe took a significant step forward with the conference of the influential Europa Cinemas network of independent theatres reaching a consensus on a single global standard."We can now say that there's total agreement that digital cinema and digital distribution worldwide should only have one ...
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Pollack, Winslet, Field join Palm Springs honours roll
Sydney Pollack, Kate Winslet and Todd Field will be honouredat the 18th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival (PSIFF) in January.Pollack will receive the Screen Actors Guild Foundation'sfirst Patron Of The Arts Award, while Winslet will collect the Desert PalmAchievement Award, and Field will receive the Sonny Bono Visionary Award.The ...
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First Look takes on domestic to Kovak from Filmax
Spain's Filmax Entertainment has sold North Americandistribution rights on English-language thriller The Kovak Box to First Look Studios.Timothy Hutton stars as a novelist in Spain for a conferencewho finds himself drawn into a string of suicides eerily similar to the plot ofone of his books. The thriller recently picked up ...
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Perfume to open Santa Fe Festival in Dec
Tom Tykwer's period thriller Perfume: Story Of A Murderer starring Ben Whishaw, Dustin Hoffman and AlanRickman will open the 7th Santa Fe Film Festival on Dec 6.Miss Potter starringRenee Zellweger is the centerpiece gala screening on Dec 8 and the event closeson Dec 10 with Roger Michell's Venusstarring Peter O'Toole.The ...
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TWC, IFC team to buy domestic rights to New Zealand's Blue
The Weinstein Company (TWC) and IFC Entertainment havejointly acquired all North American rights to Out Of The Blue, the true story of the New Zealand mass murdererDavid Gray.IFC will release the film through its First Takeday-and-date label and TWC will handle DVD roll-out through Genius Products.Out Of The Bluecentres on ...
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iDream finds buyers for Dalai Lama documentary at AFM
New London-based sales companyiDream Independent Pictures has wrapped up its first deals after the recentAmerican Film Market. The company had a lineup of fourprojects at the AFM: Kaushikagupta Ray's five-part Dalai Lama documentaryseries On Life AndEnlightenment, Antara Bharadwaj's thriller Telling Lies, ManishGupta's drama Karma Confessions And Holiand Pankaj Advani's surreal ...
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Fox, Dune renew co-financing commitment for 16 new films
Buoyed by the ongoing success of Borat and The Devil Wears Prada, Fox Filmed Entertainment (FFE) and DuneEntertainment have extended their movie co-financing deal.Dune is investing another $325m in 16 additional Fox filmsto be announced in due course. Fox retains worldwide distribution rights on alltitles. Dune originally invested $325m in ...
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AMPAS names shortlist of 16 for animated feature Oscar
The Academy Of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences (AMPAS) has announced a list of 16 films which are expected to compete for the animated feature Oscar this year. Since the category allows five nominations if there are 16 eligible films or more, 2006 could be the first year since 2002 ...
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AMPAS names 15 films on documentary feature Oscar shortlist
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced the 15 documentaries that will advance to the voting process for the 79th Academy Awards.The documentary branch screening committee viewed all 81 films that originally qualified in the category, and will now narrow the list down to the final five ...
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AMPAS names 15 films on documentary feature Oscar shortlist
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced the 15 documentaries that will advance to the voting process for the 79th Academy Awards.The documentary branch screening committee viewed all 81 films that originally qualified in the category, and will now narrow the list down to the final five ...
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AMPAS names 15 films on documentary feature Oscar shortlist
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced the 15 documentaries that will advance to the voting process for the 79th Academy Awards.The documentary branch screening committee viewed all 81 films that originally qualified in the category, and will now narrow the list down to the final five ...
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Central Partnership closes string of AFM deals
Russia's Central Partnership has announced a series of deals done at therecent AFM. Nikolai Lebedev's fantasy Wolfhound was pre-sold to Focus Filmesin Brazil, Indo-Overseas in India, Mediapro in Romania in addition to nearingdeals for the US, Western Europe and Japan. Central Partnership said it wouldscreen the full film at Berlin'sEuropean ...
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German-French funders back projects including new Denis film
Three internationalco-productions have been awarded nearly $1.28m (Euros 1m) by the German FederalFilm Board (FFA) and France's CNC at thelatest sitting of the German-French Funding Committee.The largest amount - $576,787(Euros 450,000) - was given to Peter Sehr and Marie Noelle'sGerman-French-Spanish co-production DieFrauen Des Anarchisten which will be produced by Sehr ...
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Bafta sets 2007 awards for February 11
The awards are sponsored for the tenth year in a row by mobile phone company Orange. BBC One will broadcast the event in the UK. In 2006, the awards were broadcast to 231 international territories.
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Marrakech to open with The Departed
The sixth Marrakech Film Festival will kick off on Dec1 in the Moroccan town with a screening of Martin Scorsese's The Departed. The festival will close with Mon Meilleur Ami by Patrice Leconte. Roman Polanski will head upthe jury alongside Sandrine Bonnaire, Jamel Debbouze, Maria De Medeiros, PanNalin, Yousry Nasrallah, ...