All Screen articles in 30 October 2006 – Page 3
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Echo Bridge adds three new titles to AFM sales slate
Massachusetts-based Echo Bridge Entertainment has added threetitles to its AFM slate of seven pictures -- the thriller Memory, horror story Hatchet, and the action comedy Fifty Pills.Memorystars Billy Zane, Ann-Margaret, and Dennis Hopper and takes place in the worldof medical research.Robert Englund stars in Hatchet, which centres on a group ...
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Rotterdam's Hubert Bals Fund backs 24 projects
The Hubert Bals Fund of theInternational Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) has granted a total of $444,180(Euros 353,000) to 24 film projects and initiatives from developing countries. Grants for script andproject development went to established film-makers including Paraguay's PazEncina and Romania's Cristian Mungiu. Post-production funding went tofilm-makers including Brazil's Paulo Caldas ...
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The Queen leads BIFAs nominations
Stephen Frears' TheQueen leads thenominations for the ninth British Independent Film Awards (BIFAs), nominated inseven categories including Best British Independent Film, Best Director andBest Actress for Helen Mirren. Kevin Macdonald'sThe Last King Of Scotland and Shane Meadows' This Is England each followed with six nominations.Other multiplenominees included Ken Loach's Cannes ...
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Tartan takes UK rights to Broomfield's Ghosts
Tartan Films has taken UKdistribution rights to Nick Broomfield's Ghosts, which has its UK premiere tonight at the LondonFilm Festival after screening at San Sebastian. Ghosts is Broomfield's second fiction feature; he is alsoknown for his documentaries including Kurt And Courtney and Aileen: Life And Death Of A Serial Killer. ...
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EFP plans new film showcase in three cities
Following such initiativesas Shooting Stars in Berlin and showcasing young European filmmakers in KarlovyVary, European Film Promotion is planning a new series of screenings under thebanner of Picture Europe! The Best of European Cinema to highlight nationalbox-office hits from across Europe.The new initiative willscreen European films in three European capitals ...
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Lightning takes on psychological thriller Killing Floor
Los Angeles-based Lightning Entertainment has picked upinternational sales on recently completed psychological thriller The KillingFloor.Lightning will commence sales at AFM on the picture, which countsAvi Arad and Doug Liman as executive producers and was produced by EdenWurmfeld.Gideon Raff wrote and directed the story set in the Manhattanpublishing world where a ...
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EFP's Shooting Stars head to Seville
European Film Promotion willbring its touring Shooting Stars programme to Spain's Sevilla Festival de Cine (Nov3-11) for the second year.A group of eight of the 21European Shooting Stars (first presented at the Berlinale) will come to Sevilleto present their film and meet local press and audiences. The participants are:Hungary's Gabriella ...
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Japan still on outer edge of pan-Asian market
Japan may be Asia's largest box office territory, and currently one ofthe region's most active producers, but it's still only a peripheral player inthe developing pan-Asian market, according to speakers at a TIFFCOM seminar onTuesday. Reliance on a huge domesticmarket, language barriers, cultural differences and historical antipathies haveall contributed to ...
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MarVista moves into theatrical with Sasquatch Dumpling Gang
Los Angeles-based TV programming production and distribution houseMarVista Entertainment is moving into the theatrical arena with the acquisitionof all international rights excluding the UK and Canada to The SasquatchDumpling Gang.MarVista will introduce the project to buyers at AFM inSanta Monica next month. Company president Michael Jacobs said the venture wasthe ...
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Matt Williams launches film development fund Wind Dancer
Matt Williams, who produced What Women Want and created the hit TV show Roseanne, has launched the feature developmentcompany Wind Dancer Films.Backed by private equity investors through a deal brokered byMerrill Lynch, Wind Dancer Films will develop 12 to 15 features in the $15m to$30m range over the next three ...
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Nina's Heavenly Delights to close LA Fusion festival
Ray Yeung's comedy Cut Sleeve Boys and Ashish Sawhny's documentary HappyHookers are among theline-up of the 4th Annual Fusion: the Los Angeles LGBT People of Color FilmFestival.The event will kick off with a selection of international shortsand closes with the US Premiere of Pratibha Parmar's romantic comedy Nina'sHeavenly Delights.The festivalincludes ...
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Vue plans charity preview for Casino Royale
UKexhibitor Vue Entertainment is organising a charity fundraiser tied to therelease of Casino Royale.Thenew James Bond film will play in previews at 36 Vue cinemas across the UK onNov 15, two days before its general release. More than 12,000 tickets will beavailable for the promotion, which will sell tickets at ...
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Canadian performers seek mediation in contract talks
Canadian film and TVperformers guild ACTRA today applied for labour mediation following two days ofnegotiation toward a new independent production agreement with Canadianproducers. According to ACTRA, veteranactor and lead bargaining team member Gordon Pinsent walked out on the talkswhen representatives from the Canadian Film and Television ProductionAssociation (CFTPA) and the ...
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Inferno picks up international rights to Bella
Los Angeles-based Inferno Distribution has picked up internationalrights to the romance Bella, which won the Peoples Choice Award following its world premiereat Toronto last month.Inferno will commence sales at AFM next week on AlejandroMonteverde's tale of self-discovery. ICM is representing domestic rights.Eduardo Verastegui and Tammy Blanchard star as a football ...
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Asian Pacific VoD channel ANYTIME signs five-year deal with Indian Online Broadband
Leading Asian-Pacific region VoD channel ANYTIME has signed afive-year distribution deal with India's largest broadband provider India OnLine Broadband Limited.Four million homes in Mumbai and Delhi will have access to ANYTIMEVoD's movie channel and interactive games channels by March 2007.The ANYTIME VoD movie channel will be the exclusive provider ofHollywood ...
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TWC to place anti-smoking PSAs on DVD of Clerks II
The Weinstein Company (TWC) has become the first company to insertanti-smoking public service announcements in DVDs in which smoking is depicted.The move follows a request sent last month to the leading studiosby 41 US attorneys-general.The December release of Clerks II will contain an anti-smoking ad createdby the American Legacy Foundation ...
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Almodovar's Volver wins Hollywood World Award
Pedro Almodovar's Volver won the Hollywood World Award sponsored by Screen International, at the Hollywood Film Festival's HollywoodAwards gala on Oct 23.The film's star Penelope Cruz accepted the award on Almodovar'sbehalf and read a note of thanks from the film-maker. Oliver Stone's World Trade Center won the Hollywood Movie of ...
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European film agencies call for speedy action on digital cinema
Many of Europe's filmagencies have released a joint statement to the European Commission inadvocating the growth of digital cinema in Europe. The national film agenciessaid: 'The directors of Europe's national film agencies (the EFADs) considerthat digital cinema represents a major challenge for the whole of the Europeanfilm industry, especially in ...
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THINKFilm acquisition adds domestic arm to Bergstein group
Los Angeles-based entrepreneur David Bergstein has slotted in the latestpiece in his vision for an international entertainment group with theacquisition of THINKFilm.Bergstein bought UK-based Capitol Films in January and will marrythat company's extensive overseas relationships and involvement on bigger budgetprojects with THINKFilm's domestic connections and steadfast reputation as oneof the ...
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Hirschfield to receive 2007 ASC Presidents Award
Gerald Hirschfeld will receive the 2007 American Society of Cinematographers(ASC) Presidents Award in recognition of his exceptional contributions to thecraft.The presentation will take place at the 21st Annual ASC OutstandingAchievement Awards celebration in Los Angeles on Feb 18, 2007.Hirschfeld's credits include Diary Of A Mad Housewife, Young Frankenstein,Fail-Safe, and CottonComes ...
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