All Screen articles in 3 December 2006 – Page 4
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Sundance unveils competition section lineups for 2007
Hailing a wider global perspective in American film-making and a compelling array of international work, Sundance festival director Geoff Gilmore unveiled the 64 Independent Film and World Cinema documentaries and dramatic films that will play in competition in the 2007 event, which runs from Jan 18 to 28.'American film-makers are ...
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Half Nelson dominates New York's Gotham Awards
Ryan Fleck's inner citydrama Half Nelson dominated IFP's16th Annual Gotham Awards last night [Nov 29].The picture won bestfeature, breakthrough director for Fleck and breakthrough actor for ShareekaEpps, who tied with Babel's RinkoKikuchi. Half Nelson was releasedearlier this year in North American through THINKFilm.Alejandro GonzalezInarritu's Babel also won bestensemble acting honours ...
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Nordisk buys 50% stake in DVD company Substanz
Nordisk Film recently bought 50% of production companySubstanz. The Copenhagen-based production company has specialized in transferringold documentary bits of Danish people's everyday lives to the DVD format. The concept hastaken off with the public, with Substanz selling 330,000 DVDs in Denmark and Norway in two years. The company isin the ...
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UK shoot starts for BBC and HBO sci-fi comedy
The shoot for Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel has started in the UK and will run through mid-January at Pinewood Studiosand on location.Anna Faris stars alongsideBritish comedians Chris O'Dowd, Marc Wooton and Dean Lennox Kelly.Gareth Carrivick isdirecting from a script by Jamie Mathieson.Neil Peplow and Justin Smithare producing with ...
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This Is England wins BIFA Best Film
Newcomers caused a fewsurprises at the ninth British Independent Film Awards(BIFAs) in London Wednesday night, with Red Road's Tony Curran and Kate Dickie taking the best actingprizes over more established names including Peter O'Toole and Helen Mirren.No single film swept the tophonours -- Shane Meadows' This Is Englandwon Best British ...
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Sundance unveils Premieres, Spectrum, Midnight sections
Sundance organisers unveiledthe upcoming Premieres, Spectrum, New Frontier, Park City at Midnight and Fromthe Sundance Collection programmes today [Nov 30].HBO-BBC co-production Longfordstarring Jim Broadbent and SamanthaMorton is the closing night film, while the US premiere of Sarah Polley'sdirectorial debut Away From Herstarring Julie Christie is named the Salt Lake City ...
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Breen named senior vp of marketing at Fox International
Kieran Breen has beenpromoted to senior vice president of marketing at Twentieth Century FoxInternational.Reporting to co-presidentsTomas Jegeus and Paul Hanneman, Breen will develop and supervise strategicmarketing plans of all Fox releases overseas and will oversee the Los Angeles,regional and field marketing operations.He recently moved to LosAngeles and previously served as ...
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Bangkok festival ends contract with FFM
The Tourism Authority ofThailand (TAT) has terminated its contract with Film Festival Management (FFM),the US consulting firm that TAT hired for managing theBangkok International Film Festival (BKKIFF), as a result of a considerablebudget cut.The budget for the nextedition (January 26 - February 5, 2007) has been cut back to $3.6m ...
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Powell named vp, marketing, for Samuel Goldwyn, Roadside Attractions
Nathan Powell has joined Samuel Goldwyn Films and RoadsideAttractions as vice president of marketing.Powell will be based in the New York offices of IDP, the marketingand distribution arm of Samuel Goldwyn Films and Roadside Attractions, and willreport to IDP president Michael Silberman.'We are delighted and fortunate to have Nathan's talents ...
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Anderson lines up starry cast for Filmax's Transsiberian
Ben Kingsley, WoodyHarrelson, Samantha Morton, Kate Mara and Eduardo Noriega are set to star inBrad Anderson's upcoming thriller Transsiberian for Spanish mini-studio Filmax Entertainment.The film, a co-productionwith Germany's Universum Film GmbH, is budgeted at $15m-$20m. Shooting will getunderway December 11 in such far-flung locations as Beijing, Russia andLithuania.The story follows ...
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Eros and ANYTIME agree deal to distribute Hollywood content in India
Bollywood studio Eros International has formed an investment deal worth up to £2.1m with Singapore based ANYTIME, a leading supplier of Video-on-demand, to distribute Hollywood movies on digital platforms throughout India.Subject to final due diligence, Eros will take a minority stake in ANYTIME, which counts 4 major Hollywood studios as ...
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IFC, Red Envelope team to acquire An Unreasonable Man
IFC Entertainment and RedEnvelope Entertainment have jointly acquired North American rights fromSubmarine Entertainment and William Morris Independent to the documentary AnUnreasonable Man.The film, which was recentlyshortlisted for the 2007 documentary feature Oscar, will open on Jan 31 2007through IFC's multi-platform division IFC First Take, which to date hasreleased 16 films.Henriette ...
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The Artist's Cinema is designed to focus on the increasing importance of cinema exhibition for contemporary artists. It's a collaboration to construct, programme and run a cinema for artists film and
The commissions are produced by Frieze Projects (a public arts commissioning opportunity for artist's) and LUX (a charity which exists to promote and support artist's movingimage work) in collaboration with the Independent Cinema Office. Five artists were commissioned by LUX and Frieze projects to make short 35mm films. The films ...
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56 foreign-language films qualify for Golden Globes
Fifty-six foreign-language films have qualified for consideration in the 64th Golden Globes race.
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McAvoy and Minghella on Orange Rising Star jury for Bafta
BAFTA has announced the jury for this year’s Orange Rising Star Award.
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Sunshine , Nelson lead Spirit Award nominations
IFC Films led the Film Independent 2007 Spirit Award nominations with nine nods including three for American Gun.Fox Searchlight earned seven nominations, five of them for Little Miss Sunshine including feature, director for Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, and supporting male nods for Alan Arkin and Paul Dano.First Look Studios ...
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Greenaway plans doc and game after Nightwatching
Peter Greenaway is preparingJ'Accuse, an 80-minute featuredocumentary and a computer game to complement his new film Nightwatching, which recently finished shooting in Poland and Wales (and is being sold internationally by ContentFilm.)Both the doc and thecomputer game are being produced by Amsterdam-based Submarine, run by FemkeWolting and Bruno Felix. The ...
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Argentine actor Darin to direct The Signal
Ricardo Darin, Argentina's most renowned actor, announced he willdirect his first film, The Signal, a film-noir set in 1950s Buenos Aires.The Signal, based on Eduardo Mignogna's 2002 best-seller novel, wasready to begin shooting this December, but Mignogna died on Oct 6.The $2.5m Argentinian-Spanish co-production between Pablo Bossi'snew company Pampa Films, ...
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TWC makes promotions, hires Noble in international unit
Glen Basner has bolstered the international ranks at The WeinsteinCompany (TWC), announcing three promotions and a new hire.Michael Rothstein has been promoted to senior vice president of internationalsales and distribution; Paula Woods has been promoted to senior vice presidentof international publicity; and Jonathan Kier moves up to vice president ofinternational ...
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Hong Kong revs up for first ever drive-in
Hong Kong may be losing its only dedicated arthouse theatre,but is about to gain its first ever drive-in cinema.Located on the Kowloon side of Victoria Harbour, the drive-in will officially open with the premiere of TakashiShimizu's horror film The Grudge 2 onDec 7. It will have one screen at opening, ...