All Screen articles in 22 Mar 2012 – Page 2
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NewsChow Yun-fat to star in Wong Jing’s Shanghai
Chow Yun-fat is set to star in Grand Shanghai a big-budget Chinese gangster thriller to be directed by Wong Jing.
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NewsProducer/writer/director recoupment is hot topic as industry gathers for BAFTA Film Policy Review debate
Panelists touch on producer/writer/director recoupment, commercial value of British films and Review’s lack of attention on sales companies.
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NewsKim to lead post-merger Lionsgate sales force at Cannes
As uncertainty continued to swirl over the fate of international sales staff following Lionsgate’s acquisition of Summit, Screendaily has learned that Helen Lee Kim will stay on through the market and head a team handling titles from both the Lionsgate and Summit slates.
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NewsLorax scores biggest US launch of year-to-date on $71m
Universal’s estimated opening weekend delivered by far the most resounding debut of the year-to-date as Dr Seuss’ The Lorax demolished the competition to maintain the first quarter’s hot pace at the box office.
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NewsWBPI continues fantastic Journey on $14.7m, beats War
Journey 2 swept to an international $184.5m tally following a weekend haul from more than 6,600 screens in 52 territories – just enough to nose ahead of chief rival This Means War from Fox on $14.1m.
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NewsLocarno's Carte Blanche to focus on Mexico
Now in its second year, Locarno’s Carte Blanche will shine the light on Mexican films in post production.
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NewsWiggin launches content protection service
UK media law firm Wiggin is launching a new content protection partnership, Incopro, aimed at helping media companies to tackle piracy.
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NewsFortune Cookies to shoot at Elstree Studios
The low budget cross cultural comedy is being partly financed via crowdfunding.
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NewsIndependent swoops on NFTS duo
EXCLUSIVE: “Exceptional year” for NFTS directors sees duo signed early by Independent Talent; United Talent also takes on graduate.
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PGA names Susan Sprung associate national executive director
Sprung previously served as special counsel at the law firm of O’Melveny and Myers in Los Angeles and before that she was an associate at Barrett Smith Shapiro Simon and Armstrong in New York.
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NewsBFI Southbank launches Made In Britain season
The first installment will kick off in April, with a focus on female directors from the UK.
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NewsSundance Channel launches in Romania, expands in other Euro markets
AMC Networks’ Sundance Channel is making its debut in Romania; expands service in Hungary and Belgium.
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Universal, Hasbro sign deal for Ouija thriller
Brian Goldner and Bennett Schneir will produce for Hasbro alongside Michael Bay, Brad Fuller and Andrew Form of Platinum Dunes and Jason Blum of Blumhouse Productions.
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NewsCinedigm, New Video to jointly release The Invisible War
The partners have acquired North American rights to Kirby Dick’s winner of the Sundance US Documentary Audience Award earlier in the year.
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NewsBeaufoy, Buffini, Watkins among speakers at Page to Screen Festival
UK festival to host preview screening of Salmon Fishing in the Yemen; Beaufoy in conversation with novelist Torday.
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NewsPaolo Ferrari named president of Rome’s Cinema Foundation
The founding partners of Rome’s Cinema Foundation voted on Monday (Mar 5) four to one in favour of Ferrari, ending a fierce political struggle that waged for two months.
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Mass Hysteria prepares shoot on action thriller The Boiling Point
The project is set to go before camers in Manitoba in late spring and tells of a gangster sent to kill an informer who used to be his girlfriend.
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NewsLipSync boards Murphy's Blood, Athale's Wasteland
The Soho based post production house will provide equity investment and post services for Murphy’s second feature.