All Screen articles in 7 November 2007 – Page 10
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Magnolia's Magnet buys domestic on Vestiel's French Eden Log
Magnolia Pictures' genre label Magnet has acquired North America rights including French Canada to Franck Vestiel's sci-fi horror epic Eden Log and will release in 2008.Currently in post-production, the film is about a man who finds himself at the bottom of an underground maze and must navigate his way out.Magnolia's ...
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New buyers have a taste for Roissy's Caramel
Early in the AFM, Paris-based Roissy Films has confirmed new deals on its Cannes hit Caramel.Deals signed include Argentina & Chile (Alfa Films), Mexico (Cine Video Y TV) and India (Alliance). A deal is pending with South Korea. and Roissy is also in advanced negotiations with Japan & Taiwan.Directed by ...
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Inaugural Brit List highlights most liked unproduced screenplays
A list of the most liked and recommended unproduced screenplays in the UK and Ireland has got tongues wagging across the local film community. Compiled from a survey of 40 producers, acquisitions executives, agents, sales agents and public funders, the list has been circulating widely. It is intended to echo ...
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UK's Boulevard signs exclusive Fox deal for UMD format for PSP
Boulevard Entertainment, the UK DVD distributor, has branched out into the Universal Media Disc (UMD) format, used for PlayStation Portable, and signed an exclusive three-year UK deal for UMD releases for Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment. The deal covers new and library titles from Fox, Pathe and MGM. New releases ...
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Katapult takes sales for Paul Morrison's Little Ashes
Los Angeles-based Katapult Film Sales has boarded Paul Morrison's Spanish-English co-production Little Ashes and will commence sales here.The co-production between Factotum Barcelona, Aria Films, APT Films & Met Film just wrapped in Barcelona and stars Javier Beltran, Robert Pattinson and Matthew McNulty.The story takes place in Madrid in 1922 and ...
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Curzon Artificial Eye expands product scope with Hunt buy
Signaling its increasing appetite for mainstream fare, UK distributorCurzon Artificial Eye has taken UK rights to Helen Hunt's Then She Found Me, starring Hunt, Colin Firth, Bette Midler and Matthew Broderick.Then She Found Me is one of five new titles that Curzon Artificial Eye has picked up on the autumn ...
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Sobini launches international sales arm under Todd Olsson
Mark Amin's Sobini Films has launched a sales division and installed recent hire Todd Olsson to run it.Olsson, who previously handled sales with Mark Damon at Behaviour Films and worked at American World Pictures, among others, is at AFM to meet buyers.Sobini Films International's first projects is Damien Harris' kidnapping ...
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Lars von Trier's Antichrist pre-sells widely for Trust
Lars Von Trier, the ageing enfant terrible of European cinema, clearly hasn't lost his allure for the international buyers. His new project Antichrist isn't cast yet.It hasn't been decided where the horror picture will shoot and the financing has still to be put together but that hasn't stopped distributors from ...
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Grindstone takes North America on Left For Dead
Grindstone Entertainment Group has picked up North American rights to Sofia Films' gothic spaghetti Western Left For Dead starring Victoria Maurette.Albert Pyun's centres on a woman's vengeful quest to find her lost husband in turn-of-the-century Mexico. Michael Najjar produced and the film was fully financed by Sofia Films.Sofia's Michael Najjar ...
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TWC closes major AFM pre-sales on Richard Kelly's The Box
The Weinstein Company (TWC) has closed major pre-sales on Richard Kelly's $30m horror project The Box with Cameron Diaz, which is set to begin shooting in Boston at the end of November.Deals closed for the UK, Australia and New Zealand (Icon), South Korea (Eureka), Eastern Europe (EEAP), Greece (Odeon), the ...
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Peace Arch handles sales on Goal 3
Peace Arch Entertainment Group is to handle international sales on the football drama Goal 3 starring Kuno Becker, Alessandro Nivola and Anna Friel.The final episode in the rags-to-riches sporting trilogy follows two English players as they travel with the team to the World Cup in Germany. Director is Andrew Morahan.Peace ...
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Asian buyers eat up Show East's Le Grand Chef
Korean seller Show East has closed a raft of Asian deals on foodie drama Le Grand Chef. Among sales concluded so far at AFM, Festive Films has acquired the film for Singapore and Taiwan, Sundream Motion Pictures for Hong Kong, M-Pictures for Thailand and AOE for Malaysia. Show East is ...
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National Geographic Entertainment taps Beal as president
National Geographic Global Media (NGGM) has launched National Geographic Entertainment, an umbrella company that combines the group's film, home video, music and radio divisions. David Beal has been named president of National Geographic Entertainment, hot on the heels of Tim Kelly's appointment as NGGM president last week. Beal ...
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Scheckel joins Christie in new international business post
George D Scheckel Jr has been appointed to the new position of director of international business development of digital projection pioneer Christie's entertainment solutions business division. Scheckel will spearhead business development, identify new market opportunities for digital cinema, and develop relationships in the exhibition and distribution sectors. ...
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Celluloid sells North America, Germany on Miike's Django
Celluloid Dreams has announced the sale of Takashi Miike's western Sukiyaki Western Django in North American and German speaking territories. The North American deal was signed with Gary Hirsch of First Look Studios and brokered by Celluloid president Hengameh Panahi. Walter Rehm's Universum picked up the German speaking territory rights. ...
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Lau to produce Water Margin trilogy for Media Asia
Hong Kong filmmaker Andrew Lau, who was behind the three Infernal Affairs films, is lining up a second trilogy, this time based on the Chinese classic novel, Water Margin. Hong Kong-based Media Asia Films is backing and will sell the films, each budgeted at around $25m, with the first expected ...
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UK cinema chain Odeonto hostevent with The Who
UK cinema chain Odeon, Universal Pictures and Arts Alliance Media ('AAM') are to host the premiere of Amazing Journey: The Story of The Who including a live link-up with band members.Thefilm will be screened exclusively at selected Odeoncinemas on Monday 5th November at 6.30pm. Band members Pete Townshend and Roger ...
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Six win places on Cannes Cinefondation Residence programme
The Cannes Cinefondation Residence programme has announced its participants for the upcoming 15th session. Director Sebastien Lifshitz and his jury chose six film-makers to take part in the Resdience out of more than 140 candidates, Cannes festival organisers announced Wednesday. Four female directors and two men will work on honing ...
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Fortissimo duo to receive excellence award at CineAsia
Fortissimo Films co-chairmen Michael J. Werner and Wouter Barendrecht have been selected to be the recipients of a special CineAsia 'Award of Excellence' for their achievements in promoting Asian cinema worldwide. Barendrecht founded Fortissimo in 1991 after working as a programmer for the Rotterdam Film Festival and press officer for ...
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Daybreak signs exclusive output deal with Peter Kosminsky
Daybreak Pictures has signed an exclusive output deal with BAFTA-winning writer/director Peter Kosminsky. All projects written and/or directed by Kosminsky will now be made under the Daybreak banner.Kosminsky has previously worked with Daybreak co-executive producer David Aukin and Hal Vogel on projects including The Government Inspector and Channel 4's two-part ...