All Screen articles in 22 Mar 2012 – Page 12
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NewsDeals round-up: Freestyle travels down The Road
Meanwhile XLrator Media will release We The Party, Film Movement has acquired Teddy Bear, The Cinema Guild samples Step Up To The Plate and Wrekin Hill has acquired Sundance premiere The End Of Love.
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NewsLord Puttnam offers seven-point plan for 'copyright rehabilitation'
Speaking at the launch of the Film Distributors’ Association Yearbook today, Lord Puttnam offered “a recipe for copyright rehabilitation”, including a “search function code of ethics.” His speech also touched on proposals around EU licensing rights.
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Hell Baby calls Darko Entertainment, Principato-Young
The partners will produce the horror comedy starring Rob Corddry and Leslie Bibb as an expectant couple who move into a haunted house in New Orleans and hire a Vatican exorcist.
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NewsJim Underwood lands top digital job at SPHE
The incoming evp of worldwide digital and commercial strategy will report to Sony Pictures Home Entertainment president David Bishop and assumes oversight of all transactional digital business worldwide.
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Chloe Moretz named CinemaCon Female Star Of Tomorrow
The actress will receive her honour at the CinemaCon Big Screen Achievement Awards on Apr 26.
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Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry to open Hot Docs
Alison Klayman’s well regarded documentary will receive its Canadian premiere at the festival on Apr 26.
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China’s NCM says Yes to movie remake of Japanese TV hit
Beijing-based New Classic Media has partnered with Japan’s Fuji TV Network to co-finance and co-produce the Chinese film remake of 1991 hit Japanese TV drama 101st Marriage Proposal.
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Singapore’s Clover Films sets six-picture slate
Singapore’s Clover Films is gearing up to release a slate of six productions before the end of the year, as it responds to growing demand in Singapore and Malaysia for locally-produced films.
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NewsGolden Scene picks up Vulgaria
Hong Kong’s Golden Scene is handling international sales on Pang Ho Cheung’s Vulgaria, which is screening in this year’s HKIFF.
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NewsKadokawa picks up Japanese rights to Marley
Kadokawa Pictures has acquired all Japanese rights to Kevin Macdonald’s Bob Marley documentary Marley from Fortissimo Films.
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NewsHuman Rights Watch Film Festival to open with UK premiere of The Island President
16th edition of the festival opens tomorrow in London this and runs to March 30.
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Inception Media Group adds five to library
The Santa Monica-based company has acquired North America distribution rights to a quintet of old and new titles that will be made available across multiple platforms including VoD and digital.
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IFTA, PGA prepare for LA conference season
Eli Roth will give the keynote address at the 13th annual IFTA Production Conference on Apr 20 in Beverly Hills, one of three prominent conferences set to take place in Los Angeles in the next three months.
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NewsInaugural Argentine Film Festival in London to deliver Chinese Take-Away
Sebastian Borenzstein’s box office hit will open the UK festival, which runs April 19-22.
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NewsCMG snares sales rights to heist thriller Get Lucky
Gateway Films and Atlas Independent are producing the film, currently in post. Atlas retains North American rights.
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NewsSPWA takes US and Canadian ancillary to The First Time
Jonathan Kasdan’s teen romance premiered at Sundance and was produced by Friends With Benefits’ Martin Shafer and Liz Glotzer.
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NewsMarcia Gay Harden signs on Get A Job for CBS Films
Dylan Kidd directs the tentatively titled multi-generational comedy about four college graduates who try to face up to the realities of adulthood.
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NewsObituary: Tonino Guerra, pillar of postwar Italian cinema
The Italian screenwriter whose work helped define postwar Italian cinema died on Wednesday (21) after battling an ongoing illness. He was 92.
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NewsSierra/Affinity adds Emperor epic to sales slate
Matthew Fox, Tommy Lee Jones and rising Japanese actress Eriko Hatsune star in the political thriller with romantic undertones set around the time of the Japanese surrender during the second world war. Sierra/Affinity will handle international sales while CAA represents North American rights.