All Screen articles in 27 Jan 2011 – Page 2
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NewsIrish Film Board appoints new CEO
Lawyer James Hickey will take over as chief executive of the Irish Film Board from Simon Perry, whose contract ran out at the end of 2010.
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FeaturesWerner Herzog
The German maverick talks about working in 3D for his new documentary The Cave of Forgotten Dreams.
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NewsGerman producer Grunert readies third project with David Mackenzie
Berlin/Hamburg-based producer Malte Grunert is to embark on a third collaboration with director David Mackenzie after being one of the producers on Perfect Sense and You Instead which have both screened at the EFM this week.
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NewsWenders' Neue Road plan his next feature to shoot in Canada
Wim Wenders’ Berlin-based Neue Road Movies, the producer of his 3D dance film Pina, is planning to shoot two films in Eastern Europe this year and preparing Wenders’ next feature to roll in Canada in 2012.
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NewsOther Angle takes on new trio
France’s Other Angle has added three films to its Berlin slate. All Our Desires, from director Philippe Lioret, is an adaptation of Emmanuel Carrère’s book, D’Autres Vies Que La Mienne, which matches Marie Gillain and Vincent Lindon as a novice and an experienced judge.
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NewsWavelength takes on doc about Robert Flaherty
UK-based Wavelength Pictures has taken on international sales rights to A Boatload of Wild Irishmen, a documentary about Robert Flaherty.
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NewsJapan's TBS has a knockout with Tomorrow's Joe
Japan’s Tokyo Broadcasting System Television (TBS) has done a slew of pre-sales on Tomorrow’s Joe, a live action feature based on a hit boxing manga from the 1960s and 70s.
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NewsKorean experts launch PIC
Korean film industry execs E.J. Cho, formerly of United Pictures, and Ji-yoon Lim, formerly of FineCut, have launched an international consulting agency for film and entertainment business, PIC (People In Communications).
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NewsIsabelle Huppert Captured by Mendoza project
French sales outfit Film Distribution will handle sales on the new Brillante Mendoza project Captured, which stars French acting legend Isabelle Huppert. The film is being produced through Swift Productions.
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NewsFinecut thrills buyers with Midnight F.M.
Korean sales company FineCut has announced a slew deals including last year’s Cannes title Bedevilled, which recently won the Grand Prix at the Gérardmer Fantastic Film Festival and sold to Distrib Films for France.
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Buyers storm The Front Line from Showbox
Korean distributor Showbox / Mediaplex has pre-sold war drama The Front Line to Showbox Media Group for UK and STG Multimedia for Thailand.
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Breslin joins Moore in Killer/Bankside's Innocence
Abigail Breslin has joined the cast of Innocence for Killer Films and Bankside Films.
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Beta Cinema books several deals for Goethe!
Beta Cinema is off to a flying start at this year’s European Film Market with sales concluded for Philipp Stölzl’s Goethe! to US distributor Music Box and Japan’s Gaga as well as to Scandinavia (Atlantic Film), the Czech Republic and Slovakia (Hollywood C.E.), Greece (Strada Films) and South Korea (Daisy ...
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NewsWeinsteins take US rights to Fiennes' Coriolanus
The Weinstein Company has acquired all US rights and pan Asian pay TV from Icon to Ralph Fiennes’ directorial debut Coriolanus, ahead of its world premiere in Berlin on Monday.
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FeaturesWim Wenders
The German director talks about his 3D film Pina, world premiering out of competition in Berlin this week, which explores the work of the renowned choreographer Pina Bausch.
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European cinema attendance a mixed bag in 2010
2010 was “a year of mixed results” for cinema attendance in Europe, according to provisional figures collated by the Strasbourg-based European Audiovisual Observatory (EAO).
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NewsBuyers struck by Sahamongkolfilm's Bangkok Knockout
Sahamongkolfilm International has done a raft of pre-sales deals on action adventure Bangkok Knockout: BKO, due for a world premiere in Berlin Feb 12.
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Cinemavault's War Games sells to Japan and Australia
Ahead of its EFM premiere, Toronto-based Cinemavault has sold paintball action-thriller War Games to Australia (Transmission), Thailand (M Pictures),the Baltics/CIS (Noviy) and Japan (Nikkatsu).
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NewsK5 takes on Nattiv's prizewinner Mabul
K5 International, the worldwide sales company based in Munich, London and LA, has picked up the rights for Israeli helmer Guy Nattiv’s second feature Mabul (The Flood).
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NewsEpic Pictures takes on Julian Richards' Shiver
Here at the EFM, Epic Pictures Group, headed by Patrick Ewald and Shaked Berensen, is handling foreign sales on Shiver, the new “woman in jeopardy” thriller from Julian Richards (The Last Horror Movie).