All Screen articles in 3 April 2009 – Page 2
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Sundance and Skoll announce Stories of Change recipients
The Sundance Institute and Skoll Foundation have announced the final five grant recipients of the Stories Of Change: Social Entrepreneurship In Focus Through Documentary initiative.The initiative is a three-year partnership to create a total of ten documentaries highlighting social entrepreneurship as a way of meeting the challenges of contemporary times.The ...
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The Boat That Rocked to open Danish film festival CPH:PIX
The Boat That Rocked will open CPH:PIX, Denmark's new international feature film festival which runs from April 16 to 26. Richard Curtis will introduce the film together with actors Bill Nighy and Nick Frost. The festival will screen over 180 new films from across the world, with the complete programme ...
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Minister'sfunding comments heighten fears for Scottish film
Scottish Culture Minister Michael Russell has stated that there is unlikely to be any additional government funding for Scottish film production in the near future. Russell was appointed Culture Minister in February and one of his priorities is overseeing the troubled merger of Scottish Screen and the Scottish Arts Council ...
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Canadian Telefilm to set new standards for film investment
Canadian film and TV financing agency Telefilm Canada has advised producers it is implementing new standards for its selective investments in the English market starting with 2009-2010. The new measures will incorporate 'Best Practices' into its Canada Feature Film Fund (CFFF) decisions that concentrate on identifying target audiences and developing ...
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Waltz With Bashir producer boards Turkish project
Razor Film is to produce Turkish filmmaker Asli Özge's next feature film Asphyxia (working title). The Berlin-based production house was co-producer on Ari Folman's Oscar-nominated Waltz With Bashir. Speaking at the German - Turkish Delight Co-Production Meeting in Berlin, Razor Film's Roman Paul revealed that he met Özge at the ...
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Boyle to chair Shanghai film festival jury
The Shanghai International Film Festival (SIFF) has announced that Danny Boyle will chair the international jury at the upcoming 12th edition of the festival (June 13-21). Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire had its China premiere in Beijing yesterday (March 26) and the film is opening on more than 1,000 screens this weekend. ...
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ShoWest Triumph Award for directing to go to Kathryn Bigelow
Hollywood's top female action director Kathryn Bigelow will receive the ShoWest Triumph Award For Outstanding Direction in Las Vegas on April 2.Bigelow's latest film The Hurt Locker, an Iraq-set thriller about abomb disposal unit that stars Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie and BrianGeraghty, will open through Summit Entertainment on June 26.Her ...
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Local heroes - the hitmakers in key territories
Screen looks at local film-makers helping drive the box office in key international territories.GERMANYGerman cinema-owners look forward to packed screens when a new film from comedy director Michael ‘Bully’ Herbig is on the release schedule. Constantin Film is opening his next film, Wickie The Mighty Viking, in September. Promotion has ...
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Opinion: the troubled star system in the tabloid era
If movie stars are what sells movies, movies might be in trouble. The coverage of celebrities not just in the tabloids but in the mainstream media and the unregulated online universe has now become so relentless that any actor who steps out of line in public runs the risk of ...
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Small wonder - are straight-to-TV deals on the rise'
This year's MIPTV (through April 3) will take place in the midst of very turbulent times in both the film and TV industries. In early March, UK broadcaster ITV shed 600 jobs. Its smaller rival Five announced around the same time it would be making around a quarter of its ...
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Joe Dante on the set of The Hole
The Hole isn't Joe Dante's first 3D film but it might as well be. In 2002, the director was hired by Florida-based amusement park Busch Gardens to shoot a 25-minute ride film entitled Haunted Lighthouse. 'They called it 4D,' says Dante. 'The film was 3D and then they threw stuff ...
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TVE's commitment to Spanish film
Television Espanola (TVE) is one of the first ports of call for Spanish producers and one of Europe's leading buyers of third-party titles. Last year, the public free-to-air broadcaster screened 98% of all Spanish films shown on local television. Highlights included Pedro Almodovar's Volver (3 million viewers) and Vicente Aranda's ...
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Showtime for Coco
Gad Elmaleh's French comedy Coco has rocketed to the top of the international chart after a strong debut in France, Belgium and French-speaking Switzerland. Coco is the directorial debut of Elmaleh, a popular actor and comedian who also stars in the title role. The film revolves around Coco, a self-made ...
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In Focus: What has Almodovar done to deserve this'
Pedro Almodovar's 17th feature, Broken Embraces, has been poorly received by Spanish critics and opening weekend figures have suffered. But is the territory's most famous auteur critic-proof' Barry Byrne looks at the evidence.At the end of Pedro Almodovar's Broken Embraces, blind movie director Mateo Blanco (played by Lluis Homar) tells ...
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UK producers Rachel Robey and Al Clark find a better place
A film production course in Nottingham in 1998 proved serendipitous for Rachel Robey and Alastair Clark. They met there, fell in love, got married and set up a production company called Wellington Films.Robey and Clark made a name for themselves in 2006 with Paul Andrew Williams' low-budget thriller London To ...