All Screen articles in 25 Nov 2010 – Page 11
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NewsFilm industry teams up with Childnet for anti piracy guide
Film body The Industry Trust for IP Awareness has partnered with the charity Childnet International to fund the free guide ‘Music, Films and the Internet,’ which aims to highlight the implications of children downloading illegal entertainment.
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NewsNew film studio opens for business in Bristol
The Bottle Yard is the largest dedicated production facility in the South West region of the UK; the studio aims to attract overseas productions.
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NewsDue Date arrives top at UK box office
Warner Bros.’ Due Date took the spoils at the UK box office over the Nov 5 - 7 weekend.
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NewsLionsgate and Icahn set shareholder battle for Dec 14
If all that has taken place between Lionsgate and Carl Icahn were made into a film, this would be the nerve-shredding finale. After nearly two years of broadsides, intrigue and bitter reprisals, the corporate foes have set the annual shareholders meeting for December 14.
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NewsHFPA to present De Niro with Cecil B DeMille Award
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association will present Robert De Niro with its Cecil B DeMille Award at the Golden Globes in January.
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NewsSunrise to bring Turgenev play Fortune's Fool to big screen
Sergei Bespalov’s production, financing, worldwide sales and distribution company Sunrise Entertainment will adapt Ivan Turgenev’s play Fortune’s Fool into a feature.
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NewsVanguard strikes deal with Kung Fu Panda's John Stevenson
Vanguard Films CEO John Williams has closed an overall producing-directing deal with Kung Fu Panda co-director John Stevenson.
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NewsHartnett to star for Joffe in Corsan's Singularity
Josh Hartnett has been set to star in Roland Joffe’s epic romantic adventure Singularity for Corsan as the film kicks off production today [8] in Australia.
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NewseOne acquires UK rights for Harlin's 5 Days Of August
eOne has won a bidding war at AFM for UK rights to Renny Harlin’s political drama and action film 5 Days Of August.
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NewsTim Firth to write screenplay for Working Title's Eurovision project
The Calendar Girls writer has replaced Dan Mazer on the project, which is being produced with Damian Jones.
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NewsNew Austrian incentive FISA backs 5 films with €1m
Peter Payer’s Where Is Little Manuela is one of five projects to be supported by Austria’s new film financing incentive Film Location Austria.
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NewsTron: Legacy to close Dubai Film Festival
Disney’s 3D adventure film will round off the festival, which runs from 12-19 December.
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NewsDavid Barron to develop feature version of Bulldog Drummond
The Harry Potter producer is teaming up with Australian company Fork Films to develop a feature based around fictional character Bulldog Drummond who apppeared in the novels by Herman Cyril McNeile.
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NewsWarner Bros unveils $160m Leavesden expansion
Warner Bros. will announce on Wednesday [10 Nov] the completion of its purchase of UK-based Leavesden studios and unveil plans for a $160m (£100m) re-building and expansion programme.
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NewsHigh Fliers gets the point of Needle for UK as Lightning closes sales
Lightning Entertainment has sold John V Soto’s Australian horror film Needle to a raft of territories including the UK where High Fliers will distribute.
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IMAX Corp names Takaya general manager Japan
IMAX Corporation has appointed Kiyoto Takaya to the newly created position of general manager of Japan, effective from November 1.
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NewsDue Date drums up $22m for Warner Bros overseas
Due Date dominated the Hollywood releases overseas thanks to an estimated $21.5m launch on 4,000 screens in 36 countries that went out day-and-date with North America.
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NewsHigh prices, high ambition at bustling AFM 2010
A handful of marquee titles shone as sales agents and acquisitions teams offered differing views from a busy if not always hyper-productive market that saw the cautious return of Japanese buyers.