All Screen articles in 4 February 2006 – Page 4
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Film London launches low-budget film scheme
Screen agency Film London has announced a new low-budgetfilm scheme in the UK,Microwave, which will fund ten low-budget films in the next three years. Each project can get up to $133,000 (£75,000) cash funding through FilmLondon (including some BBC support), and film-makers can also raise additionalsupport up to a total ...
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Celluloid Dreams starts sales for The Elementary Particles
French sales agent CelluloidDreams has kicked off sales on Berlin Competition entry The Elementary Particles, with Lucky Red picking up the Oskar Roehler-directed title forItaly, ABC/Cinemien taking Benelux, Ekaterinburg Art weighting in for Russia and HollywoodClassics coming on board for the Czech Republic and Slovakia.Based on Michael Houellebecq's worldwide bestseller ...
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Nina's Journey wins Sweden's best film award
The Swedish film awards served up a night of surprises in Gothenberg.Lena Einhorn's Nina's Journey,was the unexpected winner of Best Picture and Best Screenplay honours.Among the favourites, seven-times nominated Bjorn Runge's Mouth to Mouth received just one Guldbagge, while Swedish Oscar nominee Josef Fare's Zozo took two. Nina'sJourney, based on ...
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Paramount hires Poku for international marketing post
Former Focus Features director of publicity Dee Poku has joinedParamount's rebranded specialty division as vicepresident of international marketing.Poku (pictured) will relocate from New York to Los Angeles andreport to division chief John Lesher."Dee's relationships in the international marketplace, aswell as her incredible talent and filmmaker relationships, make her an idealchoice ...
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Lucy Liu thriller goes international via Lionsgate
Hot on the heels of itsSundance acquisition of dirty bomb thriller Right At Your Door, Lionsgate has bought international rights to theheist thriller Devil To Paystarring Lucy Liu.Lionsgate Internationalpresident Nick Meyer will commence sales at Berlin next week on the Echo LakeProductions and Intellectual Properties Worldwide (IPW) project.Echo Lake's Doug ...
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New Spanish film festival to be held in June
International buyers of Spanish featureshave a new event to mark on their calendars: the Spanish Film Screenings ofMadrid, to be held June 18-20.Dubbed "Madrid de Cine,"themini-market will fill the hole left by the cancellation of the Spanish FilmScreenings of Lanzarote.It will offer a more central and accessiblelocation for international travellers, ...
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New projects for NoDream Cinema and Mantarraya Producciones
NoDream Cinema, headed up byMexico's Carlos Reygadas, and Jaime Romandia's Mantarraya Producciones are upping their collaboration to back fourupcoming projects, all budgeted around the $500,000 mark.New projects by Reygadas and Amat Escalante (Los Bastardos) are joined by A Mexican Story, by Russia's Artur Aristakisian, and a directorial debut by Spain's ...
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Marilyn Manson to direct, star in Lewis Carroll feature
Rocker Marilyn Manson will attend Berlin'sEuropean Film Market to present his directorial debut to buyers - $4.2m ( 3.5m Euros) Phantasmagoria - The Visions Of Lewis Carroll,in which Manson will play the author of Alice In Wonderland.With French sales agent Wild Bunch on board - WB partnerAlain de la Mata ...
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LA marketing firm BD Fox & Friends to launch film sales division at Berlin
Hollywood-based entertainment advertising and marketing firm BDFox & Friends will launch a sales division at the European Film Market inBerlin next week.The inaugural slate will feature six titles comprising fourcompleted projects: Michael Parness’ dysfunctional family comedy MySuicidal Sweetheartstarring Tim Blake Nelson and Rosanna Arquette; Tony Elwood’s thriller ColdStorage; JetEller’s alien ...
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Atmosphere, Platinum team up on Killing Demons
Atmosphere Entertainment's Mark Canton and Platinum Studios chiefScott Mitchell Rosenberg are teaming up to develop a film of Platinum's graphicnovel Killing Demons.Ascreenwriter will be announced shortly to adapt the story of a man whodedicates his life to tracking down the supernatural creatures that slaughteredhis family when he was a child.Canton ...
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Voltage picks up international on Arquette's Tripper
Los Angeles-based Voltage Pictures has picked up internationalrights to David Arquette's directorial debut, the slasher project TheTripper starring ThomasJane.Production is set to begin innorthern California in mid-February on the story of a group of weekendconcert-goers who fall prey to a maniacal killer hell-bent on finishing what hestarted years ago.Arquette co-wrote ...
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Weinstein Co acquire comedy pitch starring stand-up Cook
The Weinstein Company hasacquired the rights to develop an untitled comedic pitch with comedian DaneCook.Cook will star in theproject and produce through his production company SUperFInger Entertainment.New Wave Entertainment’s Barry Katz will also produce and his colleagueBrian Volk-Weiss serves as executive producer.“I am thrilled to be collaborating with Dane Cook ...
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Screenwriters Festival enjoys industry support at launch
TheScreenwriters Festival was launched last night in London.A packedevent of big-name supporters were told of ambitious plans for the festival,which will take place from June 27-30 in the UK town of Cheltenham.It will bea unique opportunity for writers to share experiences and ideas, said festivaldirectorand Arturi Films producer David Pearson.Screenwriterswho ...
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Film Sales Co takes on rights to Panorama title Dolls
Andrew Herwitz's The FilmSales Company has bulked up its Berlin sales slate with Israeli Filmmaker TomerHeymann's Paper Dolls, whichreceives its world premiere in the Panorama section. Herwitz is handlingworldwide rights on the picture.Claudia Levin and StanleyBuchthal produced the picture, which chronicles the life of Filipinotransvestites who enter Israel illegally to ...
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Chinese masters crank up new productions
Two of mainland China's leading film-makers - Zhang Yimou and Jiang Wen -are currently working on new projects that look set to raise considerableinterest in international markets.Following his quietdrama Riding Alone ForThousands Of Miles, Zhang Yimou is returning to the big-budget arenawith a $45m costume drama, starring Chow Yun-fat and ...
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Brokeback Mountain leads Oscar nominations
Focus Features' Brokeback Mountain confirmed its reputation as the frontrunner for this year's 78th Annual Academy Awards with eight nominations, as Hollywood's specialty divisions dominated the major categories with a raft of provocative work.Ang Lee's acclaimed drama wasnominated for best picture, director, lead actor for Heath Ledger, supportingactor for Jake ...
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ContentFilm racks up sales on Book Of Revelation
ContentFilm Internationalhas sold The Book Of Revelation,directed by Ana Kokkinos (Head On), to22 territories, one of the most robust sales performances by an unseenindependent Australian film in recent years.Distributors including TheWorks (UK), A Film (Netherlands and Belgium), Scanbox (Scandinavia) and Palace(Australia and New Zealand) signed on prior to the film ...
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Fearless storms across Asia over Chinese New Year
Fearless,the latest martial arts epic from uber-producer Bill Kong, had a strong openingweekend (Jan 26-29) across Asia over the Chinese New Year holiday grossing $7.5mfrom six territories. The film, directed by RonnyYu and starring Jet Li, Nakamura Shidou and Collin Chou, racked up a mighty $3.7m(RMB30m) in China and $1m ...
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78th Academy Award nominations
78th Academy Award Nominees: Best Picture Brokeback Mountain Capote Crash Good Night, And Good Luck Munich Best Director Ang Lee - Brokeback Mountain Bennett Miller - Capote Paul Haggis - Crash George Clooney - Good Night, And Good Night Steven Spielberg ...
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Golden Globes to introduce animated feature in 2007
Members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) havevoted to add the category of best animated feature film to next year's 64thAnnual Golden Globes.Eligible films must be 70 minutes or longer with no more thanone-quarter comprising live-action footage.If less than eight animated films qualify, the award will not behanded out ...