All Screen articles in 30 October 2006 – Page 4

  • News

    Kinowelt acquires producer/distributor Pegasos

    2006-10-24T16:39:00Z

    After acquiring amajority stake in the license trader Intertainment earlier this year, theKinowelt Group has now continued its expansion by taking over the Cologne-baseddistributor-producer Pegasos Filmverleih und Produktion.In the deal signedin Leipzig on the eve of this year's Hof Film Days, Kinowelt has committed tocontinuing Pegasos' business exploiting rights to ...

  • News

    Fortissimo takes on sales for Children Of Glory

    2006-10-24T15:05:00Z

    Fortissimo Films has pickedup worldwide rights to the Andy Vajna-produced Children Of Glory, an action-drama setagainst the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. The film premiered in its home territorythis week during fraught celebrations of the uprising's 50th anniversary.Previously, Fortissimo'sco-managing director Michael Werner had signed on as sales and marketingconsultant on the film. ...

  • News

    Dodona predicts half of US cinemas will be digital by 2011

    2006-10-24T14:54:00Z

    Half of US cinemascreens will be Digital Cinema Initiative-compliant by 2011, according to a newreport from industry analysts Dodona Research. "The publication ofthe DCI Digital Cinema Systems specification haskickstarted the transition to digital in the United States," Dodona said. "The cost of digital cinema systemsis falling and leading circuits are ...

  • News

    Documentary programme Greenhouse Project revived

    2006-10-24T14:29:00Z

    The Greenhouse Project is back in action. Thetraining program for the development of feature-length documentaries, whichlaid dormant for the best part of the last ten months, is now registeringcandidates for its first round of seminars, to take place in January 2007 in Istanbul. Targeting East Mediterranean territories, the programmeexpects candidates ...

  • News

    Vittorio Cecchi Gori's Finmavi declared bankrupt

    2006-10-24T14:02:00Z

    In yet another blow toItalian movie mogul Vittorio Cecchi Gori's long-avowed comeback - Finmavi -Cecchi Gori's financial holding company for his media group - has been declaredbankrupt by the Rome bankruptcy court, a press release issued by theCecchi Gori Group said late Monday.Cecchi Gori vowed to battlethe decision: 'I will ...

  • News

    Wenders and Tykwer to celebrate 40th Hof Film Days

    2006-10-24T03:00:00Z

    WimWenders, Tom Tykwer and Aki Kaurismaki will be among the film-makerscelebrating the 40th anniversary of the Hof Film Days, which opens today with MarcusH. Rosenmueller's comedy Schwere Jungs.WhileWenders and Tykwer will be coming to Hof for screenings of their films Paris, Texas and Deadly Maria (DieToedliche Maria) as part of ...

  • Reviews

    Playing The Victim (Izobprzhaya Zhertvu)

    2006-10-24T00:00:00Z

    Dir: Kiril Serebrennikov. Russ. 2006. 96mins.The surprise winner of the main Cinema2006 section of the Rome Film Fest, PlayingThe Victim is an intellectual, post- modern blackcomedy that has its engaging moments but ends up feeling gratingly pretentious.With a script adapted fromtheir own stage play by the prolific Brothers Presnyakov,this second ...

  • Reviews

    Half Moon (Niwemang)

    2006-10-24T00:00:00Z

    Dir/scr: Bahman Ghobadi. Ir-Aust-Fr.2006. 107mins.Bahman Ghobadi's Half Moon, one of seven features producedas part of the Mozart's Visionary Cinema: New Crowned Hope season, is moreambitious but not as tightly knit as some of the Iranian film-maker's bestwork. A road movie, whose real theme is the unifying spirit of the defiant ...

  • Reviews

    Children Of Glory (Szabadsag, Szerelem)

    2006-10-24T00:00:00Z

    Dir: Krisztina Goda. Hung-UK. 2006. 123mins.Produced to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the1956 Hungarian Revolution, the first time that the people of an Eastern Bloccountry took up arms against the Soviet Regime, Children Of Glory is a rousing and highly effective tribute to themen and women who fought in ...

  • News

    Korean Ministry of Culture announces support plan

    2006-10-24T00:00:00Z

    In a follow-up to thesupport plan announced by South Korea's Ministry of Culture and Tourism in January, ministerKim Myong-gon announced the Film Industry Mid-to-Long-term Development Plan onMonday (Oct 23).Speaking at a joint pressconference between the Ministry and ruling Uri Party's Special Committee forKorean Film Development, Kim outlined the plan which ...