All Screen articles in 4 May 2007 – Page 4
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Spider-Man 3 makes record-breaking opening
Spider-Man 3 grossed a sensational estimated $29.15m in its first day in 16 international territories on May 1, eclipsing the opening day results of the first two episodes in the same territories. Ten of the territories (eight Asian, seven European and Egypt) generated record opening or single day marks, ...
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Screenwriters Festival to take centre stage in industry debate
This year's International Screenwriters Festival falls at a critical time in the history of writers.The event, which runs from July 3-6 in the UK town of Cheltenham, has quickly established itself as a major event in the industry calendar.Last year the event, backed by Screen International, attracted such leading figures ...
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New Zealand mourns death of film-maker Brad McGann
New Zealand has lost one of its most promising film-makers with the death of Brad McGann. Just 43, he had been fighting cancer for some years.McGann directed the international hit In My Father's Den in 2004.The film won ine awards at the New Zealand Screen Awards in 2005 including ...
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Media 8 picks up four including Eichmann, hires Anisi
Media 8 Entertainment will arrive in Cannes with four new titles for sale, including the historical drama Eichmann starring Thomas Kretschmann, Franka Potente, Troy Garity, and Stephen Fry.The company also announced that Tannaz Anisi has joined as vice president of international distribution and will jointly handle Media 8 sales alongside ...
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Pierre Weisbein joins Goldcrest as evp of sales
Pierre Weisbein, the former head of sales at StudioCanal and Senator International, has joined Goldcrest Films International as executive vice president of sales.Weisbein, who most recently served with his own company Green Room Pictures, will lead the company's new films division as it builds its inaugural slate. Goldcrest plans to ...
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Picturehouse launches open casting calls for American Girl movie
Picturehouse will stage a series of open casting calls at American Girl Place shops in Los Angeles, Chicago and New York in the first two weeks of May for eight-12-year-old roles in its upcoming American Girl adaptation Kit Kittredge: An American Girl Mystery.Abigail Breslin will play Kit Kettredge, a resourceful ...
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Montreal World Film Festival to premiere Dansereau's Brunante
The Montreal World Film Festival will screen the world premiere of Fernand Dansereau's Brunante, the festival announced today. The film reunites the director and his favoured actresss Monique Mercure in a sequel 40 years after their original 1966 film Ce N'est Pas Le Temps De Romans. As well, the MWFF ...
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Warner Bros takes worldwide rights to 11th Hour
The Warner Bros fold has picked up worldwide rights to the Leonardo DiCaprio-produced eco-doc 11th Hour in a pre-emptive move ahead of the film's world premiere at Cannes.Warner Independent Pictures (WiP) will handle the domestic release while Warner Bros Pictures International (WBPI) will release around the world.Leila Conners-Petersen and Nadia ...
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New German sales agent to launch in Cannes with So Long, My Heart
New German sales agent to launch in Cannes with So Long, My Heart!The Munich-based Avalon Entertainment Group has launched a sales arm that will be attending the Cannes Market with its first acquisition, So Long, My Heart! (Wir Werden Uns Wiederseh'n), the second feature by the directorial duo of Stefan ...
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Italian exhibitors say recent report 'gives wrong idea of market'
The Italian exhibitors body (Anec) has a bone to pick with Italy's National Statistical Institute (Istat) over the conclusions of a recent report analyzing 'cultural consumer trends' that indicates the nation's cinema-going public is diminishing.The report, released late last week, looked at all forms of entertainment from television to museums ...
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Arthouse Films launches screening series at New York's 5 Ninth
Arthouse Films and the partners of 5 Ninth restaurant in New York's meatpacking district have launched a new film salon and screening series called the Film Salon at 5 Ninth.The series will start on Monday nights in May, focusing on films by and about artists.The evenings will include screenings, food, ...
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Producer Ahrenberg plans US remake of Sophie's World
Translated into 54 languages, and selling 35 million copies worldwide,Norwegian author Jostein Gaarder's novel, Sophie's World, which wasfilmed to limited success by Norwegian director Erik Gustavson in 1999,will now become a bigger-budget English-language project.Swedish producer Staffan Ahrenberg, who worked on Phillip Noyce's TheQuiet American (2002) and executive-produced Zandalee and Johnny ...
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Moviehouse takes on sales for Slingshot's debut feature Sugarhouse
UK-based sales company Moviehouse Entertainment has taken on international sales for Sugarhouse (formerly known as Sugarhouse Lane), the first feature from new digital studio Slingshot Studios.Gary Love makes his feature debut with the urban thriller based on co-screenwriter Dominic Leyton's play Collision.Ashley Walters, Andy Serkis and Steven Macintosh star. Arvind ...
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Stray Dog takes best film at Cine PE - Festival do Audiovisual
Stray Dog (Cao Sem Dono) is the big winner of Cine PE - Festival do Audiovisual, one of the most important and prestigious Brazilian film festivals. The event, basedin Recife (the sunny Northeast of the country), awarded as best film the drama about a guy in the middle of an ...
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$80m investment fund to cashflow UK tax credit
An $80m (£40m) investment fund has been set up to cashflow the new UK tax credit.The Limelight Fund is offering producers who qualify for the incentive finance on what it says is a competitive terms.UK producers David Parfitt and Christopher Figg are amongst the scheme's designers and sit on Limelight's ...
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First Pakistani film to shoot in India opens on home turf
The first ever Pakistani film shot entirely in India, Javaid Fazal's The Return, was released on April 27 in its home country, where it played to packed houses over the first three days. Producer Shoab Alam said that the entire music and post-production work was also completed in Mumbai. He ...
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German regional fund backs 18 projects with $6.8m
The fifth outing of The Wild Soccer Bunch franchise, an adaptation of Thomas Mann's novel Buddenbrooks and a TV remake of the classic The Bridge are among 18 projects awarded a total of $6.8m (Euros 5m) by the Munich-based regional fund FFF Bayern in its latest round of funding. The ...
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MPAA changes Hip Hop rating from R to PG-13
The Motion Picture Association of America's ratings review board has revised the rating for THINKFilm's The Hip Hop Project from an R to a PG-13.The eight-member panel voted six to two in favour of the change, citing the upcoming release's 'positive images and inspiring message'.'This motion picture is a call ...
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Sony consolidates international production under Schindler, Wigan
Building on its longstanding ties to the foreign local language community, Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) is launching its International Motion Picture Production Department.Deborah Schindler, who since 2005 has run the East Coast motion picture production and development operation for Columbia Pictures, is promoted to president of the new division and ...
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Lakeshore reorganises, hires Deckter, promotes Burke. Longmuir
Lakeshore Entertainment chairman and chief executive officer Tom Rosenberg and president of worldwide marketing and distribution David Dinerstein have announced wide-ranging changes at the Los Angeles-based production, financing and sales company.Former Arclight Films president of international sales and Morgan Creek International vice president Jonathan Deckter arrives as senior vice president ...