All Screen articles in 22 Mar 2012 – Page 14
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NewsGlobal box office surged 3pc to record $32.6bn in 2011
Annual statistics released by the Motion Picture Association Of America (MPAA) confirm China as the second biggest market outside North America behind Japan and reveal that the record $22.4bn international gross accounted for 69% of worldwide revenues.
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NewsHunger Games advance ticket sales close to Twilight, Clash in UK
EXCLUSIVE: Cineworld reports around 22,000 advance ticket sales for Lionsgate blockbuster; exhibitors upbeat but not bowled over ahead of film’s first previews tonight [22].
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NewsBSAC conference tackles topics including VOD, decline in UK co-productions
Speakers include Stephen Garrett [pictured], Ben Roberts, Mark Herbert and Josh Berger.
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Parts & Labor, Ocean Size to make Dirty White Boy
Michael K Williams from The Wire is set to star as the late hip-hop artist Ol’ Dirty Bastard (aka Russell Jones). K5 International is financing the project and will handle all worldwide sales.
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NewsExclusive Media reports torrent of business on Undefeated
This year’s best documentary Oscar winner has sold to Dogwoof in the UK, Madman in Australia and CDC in Latin America, among others.
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NewsLionsgate awaits destiny as The Hunger Games begin
International preview: The independent community will be willing the studio on as it launches the first of what it hopes will become a teen franchise across most of the world this weekend.
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NewsMacLennan Affair, Two Graves among winners at HAF
Derek Tsang and Jimmy Wan’s The MacLennan Affair took the HAF Award for a project originating in Hong Kong at the closing ceremony of this year’s Hong Kong Asia Film Financing Forum (HAF).
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NewsEros acquires international rights to Tezz
India’s Eros International Media has acquired international distribution rights to upcoming action thriller Tezz, directed by Priyadarshan.
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NewsHot projects on Screenbase
Gerard Depardieu will star in French thriller Miserere and the Film Agency For Wales will support Dominic Murphy’s Cassy and Jude.
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CommentShort buzz
Worm (Matt Wilkinson+Emily Leo+Bert&Bertie+Richard Van Den Bergh) = packed BAFTA screening room.
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FeaturesChina in the spotlight at Filmart 2012
The potential of mainland China’s booming film market may have lured many visitors to Hong Kong Filmart (March 19-22), but the present reality in this region are the trends of localisation and the growth of Asian TV.
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NewsEuropean Commission's plans for Creative Europe under scrutiny
The European Commission’s (EC) proposal for a new Creative Europe programme to replace the current Culture, MEDIA and MEDIA Mundus programmes from 2014 has come under criticism from German politicians and representatives of the German arts and media world.
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NewsEcotopia named best film at Ankara Film Festival
Yüksel Aksu also won the Best Director award at the festival for Ecotopia.
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NewsCinedigm/New Video take US rights to SXSW hit Citadel
Cinedigm and New Video have jointly taken US rights to Citadel, the winner of the audience award at SXSW’s Midnighter section.
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NewsLondon 2012 film plans include Ramsay's The Swimmer, Kapadia's The Odyssey
Olympics shorts — including one by Mike Leigh — to premiere in Edinburgh on June 24 before screening in London; Woolcock, Temple and Eyre projects also planned.
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NewsBarbara leads nominations for Germany's Lola Awards
Christian Petzold’s Berlinale competition film Barbara has received eight nominations for this year’s German Film Awards, known popularly as the Lolas, which will be presented in a gala ceremony at Berlin’s Friedrichstadtpalast on April 27.
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Universal, Hurwitz & Schlossberg Productions sign first-look deal
The two-year agreement with Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg comes as the studio prepares to release American Reunion, the latest American Pie episode that was written and directed by the pair.
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NewsThe Associates PR company to close
Six months after the death of its founder Richard Larcombe last August, London-based film PR company The Associates is to close its doors.
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NewsHunger Games hits target with $19.8m in midnight grosses
Lionsgate said on Friday morning (23) this was the highest non-sequel North American midnight performance in history and the seventh biggest of all time, beating among others The Dark Knight’s $18.5m score back in July 2008.