All Screen articles in 25 Oct 2012 – Page 6
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NewsFlight to receive Chicago fest’s Founder’s Award
Top brass at the 48th Chicago International Film Festival will present the award to director and Chicago native Robert Zemeckis at the closing night ceremony on Oct 25.
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NewsIDA announces documentary nominees
The 28th International Documentary Association Awards are set to take place on Dec 7 at the Directors Guild in Los Angeles.
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Australia’s SPAAMart unveils line-up of seven projects
The Diary Of Jimmy Porterfrom veteran director Nadia Tass, Hard Option from Paul Goldman and supernatural thriller The Fear Of Darkness, which sees Chris Fitchett back in the directors’ chair after several decades, are among the seven features to be presented at SPAAMart.
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NewsTLA Releasing, Tugg strike LGBT pact; Wolfe takes Petunia
TLA Releasing has struck a deal with web-based elective theatrical platform Tugg to bring LGBT films to theatres across the country kicking off with screening tours of Oliver Hermanus’ Cannes Queer Palm D’or winner Beauty and Terracino’s Elliot Loves.
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NewsSarah Bemand joins Margaret as account director
London-based creative agency Margaret hs expanded its team by adding Sarah Bemand as Film PR Account Director.
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NewsLevelK dives into fishing documentary The Last Ocean
LevelK has boarded sales for New Zealand filmmaker Peter Young’s The Last Ocean.
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NewsSerkis and Cavendish's Imaginarium takes on The Bone Season, Animal Farm
The Imaginarium, the new London-based performance capture studio founded by Andy Serkis and Jonathan Cavendish, has secured film rights to the book series The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon as well as the rights to George Orwell’s classic Animal Farm; Serkis will direct and star in the latter.
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FeaturesAlex Gibney
Screen talks to Oscar-winning documentary maker Alex Gibney about new film Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God, about paedophilia in the Catholic Church, which yesterday picked up the Best Documentary prize at the London Film Festival.
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NewsGibney’s Catholic Church abuse doc finds brave suitors in Italy, Ireland
EXCLUSIVE: Italian distributor Feltrinelli takes aim with LFF-winning documentary about paedophilia in the Roman Catholic Church and plans live debates with clergy.
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NewsTinker, Tailor’s Iglesias named Film Composer of the Year
Alberto Iglesias picked up the main prize at the World Soundtrack Awards for his work on The Monk, The Skin I Live In and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.
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NewsVince Vaughn to receive Starz Film Festival’s John Cassavetes Award
The honour is presented annually “to an individual who has made a significant contribution to the world of filmmaking.”
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NewsMasquerade hits 10m admissions at Korean box office
CJ Entertainment’s historical drama Masquerade [pictured] has clocked up over 10 million admissions, becoming the seventh Korean film to pass that benchmark at the local box office.
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NewsPremiere Entertainment Group lines up The Police doc for AFM
EXCLUSIVE: Bob Yari, Norman Golightly and Brett Morgen are the producers on Can’t Stand Losing You, which is based on the memoirs of the British rock band’s guitarist Andy Summers.
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Johnny Lin partners with Ted Field, Stan Lee on The Guardian Project
Taiwanese businessman and head of Studio Solutions Group Lin is partnering with veteran producer Field and comic book icon and POW! Entertainment head Lee on NHL enterprise and Lin also announced he is teaming up with Field and others on Trauma Records 2.
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NewsParanormal 4 rules US box office with $30.2m debut
Horror returned to the top of the North American charts over the weekend as the prevailing genre franchise stormed to the top through Paramount. Overall box office for the top 12 releases climbed approximately 12% against the same period last year when Paranormal Activity 3 opened top on $52.6m.
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NewsBollywood icon Yash Chopra dies aged 80
Indian director, producer and studio head Yash Chopra died today in Mumbai where he was being treated for dengue fever. He was 80 years old.
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NewsParanormal 4 edges out Taken 2 to rule international arena
UPDATED: Paramount Pictures International (PPI) reported on Sunday (21) that Paranormal Activity 4 launched day-and-date with the number one North American weekend on a confirmed $26.2m, narrowly beating EuropaCorp’s thriller on $25.4m through Fox International. Meanwhile The Impossible has become the biggest release of the year-do-date in Spain on $25.5m ...
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Tokyo International Film Festival gets underway
The 25th Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) opened on Saturday night (Oct 20) with the world premiere of 3D extravaganza Cirque Du Soleil: Worlds Away, executive produced by James Cameron.