All Screen articles in 6 August 2007 – Page 5
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Italian Film Festival UK plans leading ladies retrospective
The Italian Film Festival UK is planning a retrospective dedicated to the leading ladies of Italian cinema. The Signore & Signore season will run Sept 27 to Nov 29 in London, Glasgow and Edinburgh. The programme will cover more than four decades of films in a range of styles. The ...
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Roma Khanna to leave CHUM for NBC Universal International
Roma Khanna has been named president, Global Networks and Digital Initiatives, at NBC Universal International, based in London. She takes up the new position on Sept 17 after leaving Canada 's CHUM Television, where she was co-head and senior vice president of content. She will report to Peter Smith, president ...
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Miller's Secret to close Montreal World Film Festival
Claude Miller's Un Secret will have its world premiere as the Closing Night film of Official Competition at the 31st Montreal World Film Festival on September 3, the festival announced today. The director and leading actress Cecile de France will be in attendance.Adapted from the awarded-winning novel by French novelist ...
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PPI crosses $1bn gross mark in its first year of operation
Powered by the overseas success of Shrek The Third and Transformers, Paramount Pictures International (PPI) has crossed $1bn.Shrek The Third has crossed $400m and is already the biggest animated release of all time in Russia ($23m). It registered the biggest opening weekend in history in five territories including Poland and ...
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London Film Festival to open with Cronenberg's Eastern Promises
After world premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival in September, David Cronenberg's Eastern Promises will serve as the opening-night gala at the London Film Festival on Oct 17.The Canada-UK co-production for Kudos and Serendipity Point stars Viggo Mortenson as a London-based Russian mobster who crosses paths with an innocent ...
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Kent companies form new Film Syndicate
The new Kent Film Syndicate will launch with a screening of locally shot Ruby Blue from Medb Films.Producer Elaine Wickham and writer/director Jan Dunn shot the drama Ruby Blue, starring Josiane Balasko and Bob Hoskins, in Ramsgate and surrounding areas.The Syndicate will host the preview screening on Friday in Ramsgate. ...
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Van Sant's Paranoid Park and Bernal's Deficit added to TIFF line-up
Gus Van Sant's Paranoid Park and Gael Garcia Bernal's Deficit will have their North American premieres at the Toronto International Film Festival. The two films, both screening in the Vanguard programme, were announced today along with the balance of the Real to Reel documentary programme and additional Midnight Madness titles ...
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Financial challenges for future of Locarno festival
On the eve of the 60th edition of the Locarno International Film Festival, the future of the event's financial standing is in the headlines. Speaking to the Swiss daily newspaper Tagblatt, Locarno's artistic director Frederic Maire explained: 'We must increase the budget to around $9.1m (11m CHF). We hope that ...
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Goteborg to host posthumous 50-film Bergman retrospective
As the film world remembers Ingmar Bergman, the Goteborg International Film Festival has reiterated its plans to host a Bergman retrospective during its 31st event, Jan 25-Feb 4, 2008.About 50 of the director's features will be screened during the fifth Bergman week Jan 24-29. Goteborg has a long history with ...
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UKFC P&A Fund backs French hits La Ve En Rose and Tell No One
The UK Film Council's Prints & Advertising Fund has announced it latest round of supported projects. They are: $307,980 (£151,606) to Icon for Olivier Dahan's La Vie En Rose $225,056 (£110,774) to Revolver Entertainment for Guillaume Canet's Tell No One $203,146 (£100,000) to Pathe for Laurent Tirard's Moliere $10,158 (£5,000) ...
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Locarno: nurturing the new
For its 60th anniversary edition, the Locarno International Film Festival (August 1-11) is underlining its strengths as an event of discovery. Geoffrey Macnab reports. Now in its 60th year, the Locarno international film festival is one of the oldest and grandest festivals in the world.Its open-air Piazza Grande screenings are ...
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UK financier to set up joint venture with Shanghai Film Group
Chinese state-owned Shanghai Film Group Corporation (SFGC) is setting up a joint venture with UK-based finance house Nations Trust to invest in film production, post-production and an animation production centre, SFGC president Ren Zhonglun confirmed today. The two sides had quietly signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in February to ...
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Korean ad agency Hancomm launches content fund
Korean advertising agency Hancomm, a subsidiary of Korea 's 16th-ranked conglomerate Hanhwa Corp, has announced a $13m fund for cultural content - 70% of which will be used for films. The fund will also invest in television dramas and performances. Among others joining the fund are Hanhwa Venture Capital Corp, ...
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Bollywood star Dutt sentenced to six years in prison
The Hindi film industry was reeling on Tuesday afternoon (July 31) following the news of actor Sanjay Dutt's prison sentence on the final day of the on-going Mumbai bomb blasts case. The judge sentenced the popular 48-year-old actor to six years 'rigorous imprisonment' for possessing arms and ammunition (a 9mm ...
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Korea's Jang Hyuk joins Dance Of The Dragon cast
Korean sensation Jang Hyuk and Singapore actress Fann Wong have joined Jason Scott Lee in the cast of Easternlight Films' inaugural project, Dance Of The Dragon, which began shooting today in Singapore. In his first English-speaking role, Jang (last seen in Korean smash hit Windstruck) plays a Korean country boy ...
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Australian Film Institute Awards shortlists 15 films
Fifteen films are in the running for the Australian Film Institute Awards, which will be held in Melbourne on December 5 and 6, with Oscar-winner Geoffrey Rush hosting. The films that have already been released are Burke & Wills, Clubland, Gone, Irresistible, Like Minds, Lucky Miles, Noise, Razzle Dazzle, Romulus, ...
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Italian master Michelangelo Antonioni dies at 94
Iconic Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni died at his Rome residence Monday evening, news reports from Rome said today. He was 94 years old. Born on September 29, 1912 in the town of Ferrara in the Eastern Emilia Romagna region, Antonioni was one of Italy's most influential directors. The director of ...
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Korean film exports down by 57% in first six months
Korean film exports in the first half of the year dropped by 57% compared to the same period in 2006, according to figures from the Korean Film Council (KOFIC). In total, 148 films were sold to 45 countries for a total of $7.48m in the past six months. The decrease ...
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Screen, Hollywood Film Festival re-team for Hollywood World Award
Screen International is teaming up for the fourth consecutive year with the Hollywood Film Festival and the Hollywood Awards to present the Hollywood World Award, a prize for the best in world cinema which will be presented at the Hollywood Awards ceremony at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills ...
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Summit hires Friedman, Matosich in senior business affairs positions
Summit Entertainment has appointed David C Friedman executive vice president and general counsel and named Andrew Matosich executive vice president of business affairs.Friedman most recently served as executive vice president, corporate transactions and deputy general counsel for Paramount Pictures and offers a broad range of experience in film financing, acquisitions, ...