All Screen articles in 23 January 2009 – Page 2
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Sundance favourite Humpday scores worldwide deal with Magnolia
Magnolia Pictures has paid above mid-six figures for worldwide rights to Lynn Shelton's crowd-pleaser Humpday, which attracted intense interest and drew offers from at least five bidders following its world premiere on Friday (January 16).Josh Braun and Kevin Iwashina of Submarine concluded the deal with Magnolia's Tom Quinn and Eamonn ...
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FeaturesPalestinian territories - bearing fruit
Najwa Najjar has first-hand experience of the Middle Eastern conflicts that inspired her debut narrativefeature, Pomegranates And Myrrh.
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Chandni Chowk takes $6.8m in India in first weekend for Warner
Warner Bros Pictures International's Bollywood release Chandni Chowk To China opened day-and-date in 30 markets at the weekend in the studio's widest release for a Bollywood film in India and North America.The film grossed $6.8m including previews in India from 1,319 screens and drew approximately 4.9million admissions. In North America ...
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Andre Des Rochers named partner at Gray Krauss LLP
New York-based law firm Gray Krauss LLP has promoted Andre Des Rochers to partner as several of the firm's attorneys attend Sundance as production counsel and counsel to 12 films in the festival.Leading the firm's Sundance team are named partners Jonathan Gray and Evan Krauss. Gray, who founded the firm ...
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Departures, Revanche take top prizes at Palm Springs Film Festival
Gotz Spielmann's Austrian foreign language Oscar submission Revanche was awarded the FIPRESCI prize for best foreign language film of the year as the The 20th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival came to a close on January 19.Natar Ungalaaq received the FIPRESCI Award for best actor for his performance in ...
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IFC broadens VOD initiative with South By Southwest
IFC has broadened its video on demand initiative in a partnership with the South By Southwest Film Festival that will broadcast five films from March's festival simultaneously on the IFC Festival Direct platform.The line-up includes Joe Swanberg's latest drama Alexander The Last, which will receive its world premiere at the ...
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Sony stumps up $2m for domestic rights to Black Dynamite
Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquistions Group has paid what is believed to be in the region of $2m for all North American rights to Scott Sanders' blaxploitation homage Black Dynamite.The division and Black Dynamite's sales agent Endeavor Independent finally closed the festival's first all-night negotiation at about 6am today [January 19] ...
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Reality check needed on film finance procedures and projections
It is not meaningful or helpful to assert that Canada or a particular US state is more attractive than South Africa, the UK, or any other popular location, that’s according to two Australians whose business it is to assist producers to secure financial incentives across the world.‘Circumstances, including financing plans, ...
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Universaland Focus Features Internationalstrike dealwith Cattleya
Universal Pictures will acquire a minority stake in leading Italian film production company Cattleya, and in a separate agreement, Focus Features International and Cattleya will partner to develop, co-produce and distribute Cattleya films the companies announced today. The deal with Cattleya is the first time a major U.S. studio has ...
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Khlebnikov, Schipper, Ottinger and Lom premieres at Berlinale Forum
World premieres of new films by Boris Khlebnikov, Sebastian Schipper, Ulrike Ottinger and Petr Lom have been confirmed as the Berlinale's Forum section finalises its 2009 line-up of 48 films from 31 countries. Russian filmmaker Khlebnikov's Help Gone Mad about the adventures of a Byelorussian migrant coming to Moscow to ...
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Fortissimo complete French distribution deal for Marley
Fortissimo Films has finalised a deal for Wild Side Films to handle French rights to the Jonathan Demme documentary feature Marley. Wild Side, the specialised distribution company owned by Wild Bunch, will co-distribute on all media platforms in France with La Pacte Films. The film will be produced and directed ...
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IFC picks up US rights to I'm Gonna Explode
IFC Films has picked up US rights to Canana Films' madcap Mexican drama I'm Gonna Explode (Voy A Explotar) and will push the film out later this year through its Festival On Demand VOD platform.Gerardo Naranjo's film will screen in Berlin next month and charts the exploits of two mischoevous ...