All Screen articles in 24 October 2013 – Page 7
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CommentWhat DO you want from a film festival?
Local audiences, industry networking, or just plain fun — all are valid reasons for choosing your film festival strategy.
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NewsGravity rules US on $31m
Gravity remained top for a third consecutive week as the latest pretender to its throne, Carrie, had to settle for a number three debut. DreamWorks’ The Fifth Estate stumbled badly in its opening session.
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NewsFox International crosses $2bn
The studio’s combined grosses for the year-to-date have crossed the $2bn milestone for the fifth consecutive year and the seventh year overall — both achievements are industry records.
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NewsGravity soars past $100m int'l
UPDATED: Warner Bros Pictures International’s astronaut thriller stayed top for the third consecutive weekend internationally as a confirmed $34.3m boosted the tally to $115.6m.
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NewsIda wins top LFF prize
Other winners honoured at the glitzy ceremony included Anthony Chen for Ilo Ilo, and Starred Up screenwriter Jonathan Asser.
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NewsDepp surprises Lee at LFF awards
Johnny Depp made a surprise appearance at the BFI London Film Festival awards to present Sir Christopher Lee with a BFI Fellowship honour.
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NewsIvanhoe boards Crazy Rich Asians
Fledgling Ivanhoe Pictures has partnered up with Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson’s Color Force on Crazy Rich Asians and will finance and co-produce the Kevin Kwan’s bestseller adaptation.
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NewsSundance Selects takes Chomsky doc
Sundance Selects has picked up North American rights to Michel Gondry’s Is The Man Who Is Tall Happy? ahead of the world premiere screening as closing night at the 2013 DOC NYC Festival on November 21.
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NewsOpen Road, IM Global partner up
The parties announced they have closed a first-look deal whereby Open Road Films will handle US distribution on select titles financed and produced by IM Global.
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NewsKurylenko joins Crowe's Diviner
Olga Kurylenko is to star opposite Russell Crowe in his directorial debut The Water Diviner, which is due to get underway in Australia on Dec 2.
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NewsLanzmann to present 'Unjust' in Berlin
Shoah director’s The Last of the Unjust focuses on Benjamin Murmelstein and his fate as the last “Elder of the Jews”.
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NewsWhite Storm to close Rome
Benny Chan’s The White Storm to close Rome Film Festival; Amit Dutta’s The Seventh Walk to close CinemaXXI strand.
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NewsAlison Owen: internet won’t kill movies
Producer Alison Owen says it is “crazy to say the internet is going to kill off movies”.
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NewsDahan slams Weinstein’s Grace of Monaco re-edit
French filmmaker tells Liberation newspaper there are two versions of Grace of Monaco - “his and mine”.
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NewsBFI, distribs reveal VOD numbers
EXCLUSIVE: What Maisie Knew outperforms A Field in England, A Late Quartet on VOD.
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NewsPower to the Pixel: Cross-Media crosses over
The Power to the Pixel’s annual Cross-Media Forum, showcasing the latest developments in multiplatform production in the digital media world over the past 12 months, unfolded at the BFI’s Southbank this week.
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NewsWeinstein talks Grandmaster cuts
Harvey Weinstein introduced The Grandmaster as the BFI London Film Festival’s surprise film and addressed the cuts made to Wong Kar Wai’s martial arts epic.
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NewsUK’s African film festivals unite
Four biggest African film festivals in the UK unite to share films and filmmakers.