All Screen articles in 29 Sept 2011 – Page 6
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NewsNew Zealand submits its first film for Foreign Language Oscar race
New Zealand has picked Samoan-language feature The Orator (O Le Tulafale) to represent the country, the first submission ever from New Zealand. Plus submissions from South Africa and Uruguay.
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CommentRise Of The Gatekeeper Brands
As consumers embrace new ways of finding and watching movies, independent distributors need to make sure that audiences know their brand.
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NewsCountries of former Yugoslavia choose Oscar candidates
Serbia goes for crowdpleaser period piece Montevideo, Slovenia opts for high-brow art with Silent Sonata, Macedonia selects Karlovy Vary prizewinner Punk’s Not Dead, Bosnia delves back into war with Belvedere, and Croatia chooses rural comedy 72 Days.
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NewsUPDATED StudioCanal announces €150m slate financing deal
Pan-European major StudioCanal has announced a three-year, €150m slate financing deal with London-based private fund Anton Capital Entertanment [ACE], bringing its total production and acquisitions budget for the period to €500m.
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CommentTearjerker trailer of the week
Getting weepy in advance of Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close.
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NewsSingapore overhauls film and media funding structure
Singapore’s Media Development Authority (MDA) has announced that it will be streamlining its funding schemes from 46 to five, effective immediately.
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NewsUK distributor Cooltura launches with focus on Polish films
New UK distributor Cooltura — an offshoot of the London-based Polish weekly magazine of the same name — is launching to handle Polish movies in the British marketplace.
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NewsRobert De Hoog to star in Muldowney's Love Eternal
Shooting has begun on the Irish/Luxembourg/Dutch/Japanese coproduction which is based on the Japanese novel Loving The Dead.
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NewsSierra/Affinity to handle key sales on Robert Zemeckis’ Flight
Nick Meyer is understood to have cut a deal with Paramount to pre-sell a handful of major territories on the live-action film starring Denzel Washington, in a development that further underscores the ability of the independent market to support prestigious commercial fare.
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NewsTokyo announces new jury members including Kees Kasander, Fan Bingbing
Ed Pressman already confirmed as jury president.
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NewsSPC takes all US rights to Where Do We Go Now?
Nadine Labaki’s film recently claimed the Cadillac People’s Choice Award in Toronto and will represent Lebanon in the foreign language Academy Award race.
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NewsGKIDS picks up US rights to Chico & Rita
Director Fernando Trueba and illustrator and designer Javier Mariscal’s film premiered at Telluride and played in official selection in Toronto.
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NewsUniversal, Cross Creek Pictures sign distribution pact
The first project to go under the three-year deal will be Rush, the in-production F1 drama co-financed by Cross Creek and Exclusive Media Group that marks the first project financed outside the studio system that Ron Howard is directing in 25 years.
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Inferno, Breaking Glass strike US deal over 5 Star Day
Danny Buday’s debut feature stars Cam Gigandet and Jena Malone and will open in theatrically through Check Entertainment on Nov 2 followed by VOD roll-out two days later and DVD in the first quarter of 2012.
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NewsPaolo Ferrari steps down as president and MD, Warner Bros Italy
He will be replaced by Barbara Salabè, who joins Warner Bros from Stage Management.
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NewsFormer Columbia executive, Chaplin champion Mo Rothman dies
Mo Rothman, the respected international film producer and distributor whose career spanned for more than 60 years has died following a long battle with Parkinson’s disease.
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News13 projects selected for Connecting Cottbus co-production market
East-West co-production market Connecting Cottbus gets underway on Nov 3.