All Screen articles in 6 August 2007 – Page 2
-
News
Locarno gets 10% funding increase from Swiss government
Switzerland's Federal Office of Culture (BAK) will increase its annual support for the Locarno Film Festival by more than 10% from the current $1m (CHF 1.2m) to $1.13m (CHF 1.35m) for the next three years (2008-2010). Speaking exclusively to ScreenDaily.com after the BAK announcement, Locarno's artistic director Frederic Maire commented ...
-
News
Mia Bays joins Film London's micro-budget Microwave scheme
Film London's Microwave low-budget scheme has recruited a new production executive, Mia Bays, who takes over from Sol Gatti-Pascual. Bays recently produced Scott Walker - 30 Century Man and the Oscar-winning short Six Shooter. Microwave, which is producing 10 features with budgets under $202,000 (£100,000), is gearing up to start ...
-
News
HanWay and Celluloid Dreams brands revived as Dreamachine concentrates on library
Just three months after the splashy merger of HanWay Films and Celluloid Dreams, their joint venture company Dreamachine has now announced that the Celluloid and HanWay brands will be run as separate first-run sales and acquisition businesses in London and Paris, as they traditionally had been. The companies had sold ...
-
News
Goldfinger UK re-release draws $85,561 on one night
Continuing the strength of the UK box office, Park Circus' re-release of 1964 James Bond classic Goldfinger grossed $85,561 (£42,000) on Tuesday, July 31 as a one-night-only special presentation. The film, newly digitally restored by Lowrey Digital, showed digitally in 136 cinemas across the UK. Goldfinger was the opening film ...
-
News
London International Animation Festival to host 200+ films
The London International Animation Festival will host its fourth event Aug 21-26 at the Curzon Soho, Renoir Cinema, the Horse Hospital and the Rio Cinema.The programme includes more than 200 films over six days, including work from 28 countries. The international competitive programmes include films such as Don Hertzfeldt's Everything ...
-
News
Grierson trusts partners for new awards at Sheffield Doc/Fest
The Sheffield Doc/Fest has partnered with the UK 's Grierson Trust to launch three new UK documentary awards. The Grierson: Sheffields are in the categories of The Green Award, The Youth Jury Award and The Innovation Award. The partnership kicks off this year at the November festival, with the new ...
-
News
Carlos Saura among Spanish directors invited to San Sebastian
Iciar Bollain, Gracia Querejeta and Carlos Saura are among the Spanish directors invited to screen films this year at the upcoming 55th annual edition of Spain's Donostia-San Sebastian International Film Festival (Sept 20-29).Bollain will screen her new feature Mataharis in the official competition four years after her domestic abuse drama ...
-
News
Malaysian box-office boom continues as Transformers sets new record
Transformers has emerged as the biggest film of all-time in Malaysia, raking in a total of $4.9m (RM16.9m) as of July 29. This is the third new box-office record being set in Malaysia within a three-month period, a testament to the country's extraordinary performance in an unprecedented record-breaking year. First, ...
-
News
Sarajevo to host tribute to Ulrich Seidl
Austrian director Ulrich Seidl will be honoured with the Sarajevo Film Festival's Tribute this year. The Tribute programme includes features and documentaries Animal Love, Dog Days (Hundstage), Fun Without Limits, Jesus, You Know, Losses To Be Expected, and three Seidl segments from State Of The Nation : Austria In Six ...
-
News
Marketing: The Bourne Ultimatum
For the latest in the Bourne franchise, Universal is underlining character, story and action in its marketing. John Hazelton reports.The Bourne Ultimatum opens wide in the US on August 3 and then, much like its predecessors, rolls out internationally through August and September. Universal Pictures International (UPI) opens the film ...
-
News
Silence Is Golden tops prizes at Rushes Soho Short Festival
The ninth Rushes Soho Short Film Festival ended its week-long event last night in London, with the Ascent Media Short Film Award going to Chris Shepherd's Silence Is Golden. The runners up in that category were James Larkin's Interior Bedsit Day and Simon Ellis' Soft. The Era Animation Award went ...
-
Reviews
Underdog
Dir: Frederik Du Chau. US. 2007. 83mins.With one paw in the comic-book action genre and one in the mawkish family arena, Underdog is a lovable mutt that could have benefited from better breeding. This live-action reinvention of the 1960s cartoon works best when lightly spoofing the conventions of superhero cinema, ...
-
Reviews
Rush Hour 3
Dir: Brett Ratner. US. 2007. 91mins.No matter how fast Chris Tucker shoots his mouth or Jackie Chan flashes his fists, they can't recapture the charm of the original Rush Hour in this third installment. Almost 10 years removed from the first pairing of these mismatched cop partners, Rush Hour 3's ...
-
News
Disney serves Ratatouille to France, Spain, Benelux
Fox International's The Simpsons Movie is expected to soar past $150m in its second weekend following the record-breaking launch that has seen it race to $131m.The comedy opens in four territories this time round and should do something special in Mexico when it opens on Aug 2, given the film's ...
-
News
Montreal to fete Andres Vicente Gomez, Sophie Marceau
Spanish producer Andres Vicente Gomez and French actress and filmmaker Sophie Marceau will both be the subject of tributes at 31st Montreal World Film Festival. The festival also announced today the ten titles of its Midnight Slam! cult film programme, including world premieres of Jeb Weintrob's Scar, Laurent Courau's Predators ...
-
News
Coplan hired as vp of production at The Film Department
Former Warner Independent Pictures (WiP) executive Amanda Coplan (pictured) has been hired as vice president of production at Mark Gill and Neil Sacker's The Film Department.Coplan will be based in the company's West Hollywood offices and will report to president of production Robert Katz.Andrew Klausmeyer, John Meckler, Natalie Borlaug, Christine ...
-
Features
Industry moves
MURRELL ELECTED TO HEAD BENEVOLENT FUNDThe UK-based Cinema & Television Benevolent Fund (Ctbf) has elected David Murrell as its president. He joined the Ctbf council in 2000 and had been vice-president since last year.WAILES MOVES TO VERTIGO SALESVertigo Films has hired Michael Wailes in its head of sales post. He ...
-
News
Gary Tam: touching the sun
Composer-turned-director Gary Tarn is breaking new ground with his approach to film-making. He talks to Chris Evans about his first film, Black Sun, and the dangers of his next project. 'I had to film in Beirut through the tinted window of a bulletproof car. It was eerie, as all around ...
-
News
'Right now, there's a perfect storm in film' - Laura Fazio on film financing
The global film business is being revolutionised as billions of dollars of bank finance pours into the sector. Laura Fazio, formerly managing director and North American group head for corporate finance and origination's media industry practice, Dresdner Kleinwort, gives Richard Brass her assessment of the situationOne name close to the ...
-
News
Editorial opinion: the gathering storm
By feeding the studios' hunger to greenlight every half-baked idea they possess, financiers are surely contributing to an even bigger cataclysm, argues Colin Brown.The US film industry is just months away from another talent strike. Unless there's a dramatic breakthrough in the studios' rancorous negotiations with the Writers Guild of ...