All Screen articles in 24 June 2007 – Page 5
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Matt Brown promoted to evp, international, at SPHE
Matt Brown has been promoted to executive vice president - international at Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (SPHE).Former Coca-Cola Company senior manager Simon McDowell has joined as senior vice president and general manager, Europe, and will report to Brown.Brown will be based in Los Angeles and manage SPHE's international business including ...
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MGM signs Goldsmith-Thomas to production deal
MGM has signed producer Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas to an overall production agreement through her Goldsmith-Thomas Productions.Goldsmith-Thomas was a partner at Revolution Studios for seven years and her credits include the recent release Perfect Stranger, Mona Lisa Smile, and Maid In Manhattan.Headquartered in New York, Goldsmith-Thomas and current vice president of development ...
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Michael Apted will direct third Narnia picture in 2008
Michael Apted will direct Walt Disney Pictures/Walden Media's The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader.The third instalment in the children's fantasy franchise is scheduled to begin filming in January 2008 in time for release on May 1, 2009.The second episode, The Chronicles Of Narnia: Prince Caspian, will ...
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Marc Forster set to direct Bond 22 for Eon, Sony, MGM
Marc Forster will direct the 22nd James Bond film, producers Michael G Wilson and Barbara Broccoli announced today with Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) and MGM.Forster, who directed the 2006 release Stranger Than Fiction for Sony and the upcoming adaptation The Kite Runner for Paramount Vantage and Participant Productions, will start ...
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Terence Davies among finalists in Northwest's Digital Departures
Northwest Vision + Media has named the 12 finalists in its Digital Departures micro-budget film-making initiative. Three teams will be selected to each make a $500,000 (£250,000) feature film in the next 14 months. Other partners on board for Digital Departures include Liverpool Culture Company, the UK Film Council and ...
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UCI Italia buys 10 cinemas from Cinestar Italia
UCI Italia, a division of the Odeon & UCI Cinema Group, has signed a pact to acquire 10 cinemas from Cinestar Italia. The sites include 104 screens. The deal means that UCI Italia adds cinemas in Mestre, Pordenone, Ferrara, Reggio Emilia, Andria, Molfetta, Messina, Piacenza, Como & Alessandria. Odeon and ...
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PiFan to open with For Eternal Hearts and close with Kala
Korea 's Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival (PiFan) announced the line-up for its 11th edition today. The festival will open with the world premiere of Korean director Hwang Qu-dok's For Eternal Hearts - a love story that travels through time, and close with the international premiere of Indonesian director Joko ...
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Spanish cinemas shut in protest against proposed film law
Nearly all of Spain 's cinemas closed last night in protest against a proposed film law, which includes a 25% screen quota of Spanish and European films. As many as 93% of country's 4,053 movie screens remained dark, according to the Federation of Spanish Cinemas, FECE, which organized ...
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Bangkok finalises international competition line-up
The Bangkok International Film Festival (July 19-29) has unveiled its full international competition lineup, including three prize winners from Cannes: Lucia Penzo's XXY (which won Critics Week), Edge Of Heaven by Fatih Akin (which took the screenwriting Palme d'Or) and MarjaneSatrapi and Vincent Parronaud's Persepolis (joint winner of the Jury ...
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Australian distributor Kojo to launch with 4 Months, 3 Weeks
Kojo Pictures is launching itself into Australian theatrical distribution with a very high-profile title: Palme d'Or winner 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days. The abortion-themed story from director Cristian Mungui is likely to go into cinemas by October and will first screen at the Melbourne International Film Festival next ...
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Hjerdt takes audience prize at Toronto 's Worldwide Short Film Festival
Swedish filmmaker Jorgen Hjerdt won the $5000 Telus Audience Choice Award as the 13th Canadian Film Centre Worldwide Short Film Festival (WSFF) wrapped on Sunday. In all 10 awards and over $116,000 (C$125,000) in cash and prizes were presented. The C$10,000 Bravo! FACT Award for Best Canadian Short Film went ...
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India's CCL, Deepak Nayar launch talent search
India 's Century Communications Ltd (CCL) and producer Deepak Nayar have launched an internet-based film competition portal, www.filmaka.in, designed by established filmmakers to discover emerging talent in India. The site has been launched following the success of www.filmaka.com. The huge number of films submitted by Indian filmmakers to the global ...
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Japan's Movie-Eye lines up Nightmare Detective sequel
Japanese producer-distributor Movie-Eye Entertainment unveiled its production and distribution slate at a press conference in Tokyo yesterday, which includes a sequel to Nightmare Detective, to be again directed by Shinya Tsukamoto. Tsukamoto and star Ryuhei Matsuda were on hand to answer questions about the second instalment in the series, which ...
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Global Universal Film Group signs production deal with Hands Free
LA-based Global Universal Film Group, a subsidiary of LitFunding Corp, has signed a deal with Hands Free Entertainment's production team of James Paul and Cory Hudson.Global is scheduled to become a publicly traded company once it has been spun off from LitFunding.Paul and Hudson will assist Global in producing a ...
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Fox Licensing & Merchandising pacts with Walden Media
Walden Media has appointed 20th Century Fox Licensing & Merchandising as its worldwide licensing agent for its future films.The deal will cover upcoming releases such as The Dark Is Rising, Nim's Island, City Of Ember, and The Tortoise & The Hippo.The abovementioned titles will be distributed by Twentieth Century Fox ...
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National Board Of Review to announce annual awards on Dec 5
The National Board of Review of Motion Pictures (NBR) will hold its annual awards gala on Jan 15, 2008 in New York.NBR members will screen more than 250 films for awards consideration this year and will announced the honourees on Dec 5.The NBR recently awarded $55,000 in student grants to ...
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Garcia, Quinn, Washington serve as LAFF honorary chairs
Andy Garcia, Aidan Quinn and Kerry Washington will serve as honorary festival chairs for the 2007 Los Angeles Film Festival, which kicks off on Jun 21.Garcia will host the opening night event and screening of Kasi Lemmons' Talk To Me.Washington and Quinn will announce the winners of the Target Filmmaker ...
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Glover, Basset, Stiles line up to climb Gospel Hill
Danny Glover, Angela Basset, Julia Stiles, Simon Baker, Adam Baldwin and The RZA have singed on to the political drama Gospel Hill from newly launched Deco Entertainment.The Los Angeles-based company is fully financing the project, which began shooting in South Carolina last week.Giancarlo Esposito makes his directorial debut based on ...
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Academy ranks swell with 115 new invited members
The Academy Of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences has invited 115 artists and executives to swell its membership ranks as voting members in 2007.Membership policies adopted by the Academy in 2003 to limit the number of new members would have allowed 150 new members this year but various branch committees ...
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Bernstein promoted to senior vp, production, at Universal
Scott Bernstein has been promoted to senior vice president of production at Universal Pictures, effective immediately.Since Bernstein joined the studio in 2004 he has overseen such projects as last summer's hit The Break-Up and Accepted. He is currently supervising Hellboy 2, which recently began production in HungaryBergstein previously served at ...