All Screen articles in 30 October 2007 – Page 2
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Zvyagintsev wins second Zagreb honour
Andrei Zvyagintsev's Cannes entry The Banishment (Izgnanie) has taken the best feature film award at the fifth Zagreb Film Festival.The competitionincluded11 first or second films.Zvyagintsev had won the award at the inaugural edition of the festival in 2003 with Return (Vozvrascenie). The jury comprised of Slovenian director Jan Cvitkovic, Croatian ...
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Fortissimo acquires Black White + Gray
Fortissimo Films has acquired worldwide rights toJames Crump's documentary feature Black White + Gray: A Portrait Of Sam Wagstaff & Robert Mapplethorpe.The film, which premieredat Tribeca and opened theatrically in New York to critical acclaim,chronicles the unlikely friendship between art collector and curator Wagstaff and controversial photographer Mapplethorpe.Their story brings ...
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$2m White Lightnin' begins shooting in Zagreb
Shooting has begun in Zagrebon UK commercials director Dominic Murphy's $2m debut featureWhite Lightnin'.The filmhas been able to use the UK tax credit,qualifying as a British movie despite beingan Americanstory shooting in Croatia and the US.Thestory of Appalachian mountain dancerJesco White was written bythe founders of Canadian hipster magazine Vice,Shane ...
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Band's Visit scoops top honours at Turkey'sEurasia fest
Eran Kolirin's The Band's Visit, about an Egyptian police band which visits Israel for a performance, made a cross-cultural foray in the other direction when the Israeli production won best film at Turkey 's 3rd International Eurasia Film Festival on Sunday night. The film had also picked up the Tokyo ...
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Saw IV enjoys $32.1m domestic carve-up
Lionsgate's Saw IV maintained the horror franchise's grip on the Halloween season as it stormed to the top of the North American charts with a resounding $32.1m estimated launch.It still wasn't enough to stop the overall box office from slipping for the sixth consecutive weekend against the same period last ...
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Midnight Clear lands at Cinemavault for AFM
Toronto-based Cinemavault Releasing International has acquired overseas rights to Midnight Clear and Wind Man heading into the AFM.Midnight Clear will be released through Lionsgate in the US in December and stars Stephen Baldwin and Kirk B R Woller in a story about five strangers whose lives are changed by random ...
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Lust, Caution leads nominations for Golden Horse awards
Ang Lee's Lust, Caution dominated the nominations for Taiwan's 44th Golden Horse Film Awards with nods in eleven categories including Best Feature Film. Also competing for the top prize and in multiple categories are Zhang Yang's Getting Home, Tony Ayres' The Home Song Stories, Wang Quanan's Tuya's Marriage and Doze ...
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Mackiewicz to jointly spearhead Arclight sales
Liz Mackiewicz has been appointed executive vice president of worldwide distribution at Arclight Films in Los Angeles and will take charge of sales at AFM alongside company chief Gary Hamilton.Mackiewicz, who until recently served as a consultant to the company, will be responsible for evaluating projects as well as sales, ...
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Ratatouille tops again with $21.9m international haul
An estimated $21.9m haul for Ratatouille and a fourth consecutive weekend as the number one overseas film further validated Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures International's staggered release strategy at a time when the day-and-date model is becoming increasing fashionable.Several months after the Pixar film made its first foray into international ...
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Inaugural Fido Film Awards honour corgis from The Queen
The first international awards for canine stars, the Fido Film Awards, were handed out earlier today at the Times BFI London Film Festival.The corgis who appeared in The Queen took the Best In World prize as well as the honours in the Best Historical Hounds category.Comedy Canine, for romantic comedy ...
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Israel's The Band's Visit takes top prize in Tokyo
In a unanimous jury decision, Eran Kolirin's The Band's Visit (Bikur Ha-Tizmoret) was awarded the Tokyo Sakura Grand Prix at the 20th Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF). The crystal trophy was accompanied by a cash prize of $50,000. The film was the highest-rated competition entry in a local critics poll ...
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Coach 14 takes three new titles to AFM
One-year old sales outfit Coach 14 has acquired three new titles heading into the AFM. From Italy's Edoardo Winspeare comes Galantuomini. Produced by Fabrizio Mosca, the film stars Donatella Finocchiaro, Fabrizio Gifuni, Beppe Fiorello, Giorgio Colangeli, Gioia Spaziani and Mercello Prayer. It tells the story of a well-known judge returning ...
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Rome Fest sees growth in ticket sales, market presence
Organisers said they were pleased with results at Rome Film Fests's second edition, which among other goals, aims to stimulate movie going. This year's festival issued 110,000 tickets, up from the inaugural run's 102,000.As last year, prestige was also strong on Rome's roster, with Terrence Malick coming to the festival ...
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The Knot dominates China's Golden Rooster Awards
As expected, The Knotwon themajor awards at the 26th Golden Rooster Awards in Suzhou City in China, taking Best Feature Film, Best Director and Best Recording awards fromeight nominations. It wasdirector Yin Li's secondconsecutive best directorwin, following last year's honour for Zhang Side, a biopic about a Chinese revolution hero. ...
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Jason Reitman's Juno takes Best Film prize in Rome
Jason Reitman's teen pregnancy drama/comedy Juno won Rome Film Fest's Marco Aurelio Best Film Award, announced yesterday. Reitman was in Rome to accept the award, along with screenwriter Diablo Cody.The lucrative award also comes with $287,700 (Euros 200,000).'It is terrifying to bring your film to another culture where they speak ...
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Academy stands by decision to disqualify Lust, Caution for Taiwan
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences has defended its decision to reject Ang Lee's Lust, Caution as the Taiwanese submission for the Foreign Language Oscar race. When the Academy's Foreign Language Film Award Executive Committee met on Oct 11 to discuss any problematic entries, Lust, Caution was disqualifed ...
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NZ Film pre-sells The Vintner's Luck to Icon andDendy
Niki Caro's The Vintner's Luck has been pre-sold to Icon for the UK and Dendy for Australia and New Zealand. The film is Caro's next project after 2002's Whale Rider and 2005's North Country. The story follows a wine-maker in 19th century France who has an unusual relationship with an ...
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Lightning takes on Vietnamese hit The Rebel
Santa Monica-based Lightning Entertainment has picked up all non-English language rights to the Vietnamese hit The Rebel (Dong Mau Anh Hung). Charlie Nguyen's film is the largest production to come out of Vietnam and follows the exploits of a 1920s spy for the French who tires of betraying his country. ...
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Summit takes North America for Rian Johnson's Brothers Bloom
Summit Entertainment has acquired North American rights to Endgame Entertainment's highly anticipated romantic adventure The Brothers Bloom. Rian Johnson's follow-up to Brick stars Adrien Brody, Mark Ruffalo, Rachel Weisz and Rinko Kikuchi and is currently in post-production. Ram Bergman is the producer. Summit plans a 2008 release. The Weinstein Company ...
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Saw IV could show international strength in Spain, Latin America
Saw IV is expected to cast a ghoulish shadow over the international box office arena this weekend as it opens day-and-date with North America in Spain and Latin America. The fourth episode in the celebrated horror franchise opens in the key territories of Spain, Mexico and Brazil on Oct 26. ...