All Screen articles in 29 May 2009 – Page 10
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NewsNick Broomfield’s A Time Comes released online
British director Nick Broomfield is releasing his new film on direct action, A Time Comes, available for free online.
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NewsUniversal Pictures promotes Niels Swinkels
Niels Swinkels has been promoted to senior vice president, distribution, Europe, Middle East, Africa (EMEA) for Universal Pictures International.
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NewsMomentum poised to pick up new Mike Leigh project
UK distributor Momentum Pictures is understood to have picked up Mike Leigh’s untitled new project from Focus Features International.
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NewsUp soars for third-best opening in Pixar history
Disney Pixar’s Up shot to the top of the North American box office chart this weekend, opening with an estimated gross of $68.2m.
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NewsPortugal's Pantheon picks up Kinatay and Milk Of Sorrow
Portuguese distributor Pantheon has picked up Filipino filmmaker Brillante Mendoza’s Kinatay and this year’s Berlin Golden Bear winner The Milk Of Sorrow by Peru’s Claudia Llosa.
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NewsNorthern Screen Agencies create talent resource
Screen Yorkshire, Northern Film & Media and Northwest Vision + Media have launched an online database showcasing crew, facilities, creative and digital talent from across the North.
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NewsLionsgate, Paul Haggis reunite on The Next Three Days
Lionsgate has set Paul Haggis to direct the thriller The Next Three Days after acquiring remake rights to the 2008 French release Pour Elle from Wild Bunch and Fidelite Films.
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NewsStephen Gilula, Nancy Utley named Fox Searchlight presidents
Stephen Gilula and Nancy Utley’s leadership of Fox Searchlight has been formalised with their promotion to presidents following the departure last March of Peter Rice.
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NewsCatherine Hardwicke and Emile Hirsch board Overture's Hamlet
Catherine Hardwicke will reunite with Emile Hirsch in a contemporary adaptation of Hamlet for Overture Films.
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NewsLocarno to honour producer Martine Marignac
France’s Martine Marignac will receive the Raimondo Rezzonico Prize for Best Independent Producer at the Locarno International Film Festival in Augus
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NewsKorea’s CJ CGV expands arthouse film programme
Leading Korean exhibitor CJ CGV is establishing a specialty films team and expanding its “Movie Collage” arthouse film programme from seven to ten screens.
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NewsFinecut finds new homes for A Brand New Life
Korean sales agent Finecut has announced a slew of deals closed during Cannes, including the sale of Ounie Lecomte’s A Brand New Life to Cineart for Benelux and Filmhouse for Mexico, among other territories.
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NewsScorpio East, RAM to co-finance Tong’s Kidnapper
Singaporean filmmaker Kelvin Tong is set to direct a suspense thriller, Kidnapper, which will be co-financed by Singapore’s Scorpio East Pictures and Malaysia’s RAM Pictures & PMP Entertainment.
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NewsTsar, Public Enemies bookend Moscow Film Festival
Russian director Pavel Lungin will chair the jury at the 31st Moscow International Film Festival, where competition films include Waldemar Krzystek’s Little Moscow and Duncan Jones’s Moon.
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NewsWarp Films and Film4 to shoot zombies at The Big Chill
Warp Films and Film4 are offering Big Chill festival-goers the chance to appear as extras in Chris Boyle’s I Spit on Your Rave.
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NewsDanny Boyle takes film rights to Mehta’s Mumbai set novel
Slumdog Millionaire director Danny Boyle is set to return to Mumbai after acquiring the rights to Suketu Mehta’s novel Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found.
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NewsItaly's Eagle Pictures swoops on six new titles
Italy’s Eagle Pictures has added six films to its slate of commercial but eclectic fare.
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NewsMax Films rolls on Aubert’s A L’Origine D’Un Cri
Principal photography has begun on Robin Aubert’s A L’Origine D’Un Cri for Roger Frappier and Luc Vandal of Montreal-based Max Films. The $3.9m film shoots until July 12 in the Montreal region and the north coast of the St. Lawrence River.
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NewsLionsgate teams up with Jose Padilha, Braulio Mantovani on Agent In Place
Jose Padilha and his Elite Squad screenwriter Braulio Mantovani are teaming up on the action thriller Agent In Place for Lionsgate.