All Screen articles in 7 November 2008 – Page 3
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Interview: Joe Dante looks into 3D Hole
'There is a different landscape making a studio film from when I got into the business,' Joe Dante says. 'There's a lot more writers involved and a need to satisfy more people and justify costs, which leads to a lot more cooks in the kitchen. The nice thing about independent ...
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In Focus: Australia opens for film business (Part 1)
Australian producers just had to sit on the ground at Cannes this year and a queue would form,' recalls leading Melbourne film lawyer Bruce Menzies.He is only half joking. Thanks to the introduction of one of the most generous financial incentives in the world, Australian film-makers now rank among the ...
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Strand acquires US rights to Pablo Trapero's Lion's Den
Strand Releasing has acquired all US rights to Pablo Trapero's Brazil-Argentina-South Korea co-production Lion's Den, which played in competition at Cannes and has been selected as Argentina's foreign language Oscar submission.The drama follows a college student who is imprisoned after being convicted for murder and discovers she is pregnant while ...
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French blockbuster Welcome To The Sticks triumphs in Germany, Italy
Defying conventional wisdom that local comedies don't travel, Dany Boon's French mega blockbuster Welcome To The Sticks (Bienvenue Chez Les Ch'tis) is doing a roaring trade in both Germany and Italy. The comedy - released last weekend in Germany by Prokino under the title Wilkommen Bei Den Scht'is - has ...
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Samuel Goldwyn acquires US rights to American Violet
Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired US rights to Uncommon Productions' American Violet starring Alfre Woodard and newcomer Nicole Beharie following its world premiere at Telluride.Director and producer Tim Disney and his screenwriter and Uncommon Productions partner Bill Haney are meeting with international buyers at AFM.Samuel Goldwyn plans a March release ...
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Sarah Polley to direct feature documentary The Stories We Tell
Sarah Polley is setting up her feature documentary debut, The Stories We Tell, one of four projects backed under the inaugural Canadian Film Centre-National Film Board of Canada Feature Documentary Program. The program launches in January 2009. The other filmmakers are veteran Canadian documentary filmmaker John Walker, Shelley Saywell, and ...
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Magnolia takes US rights to food industry doc Food Inc
Magnolia Pictures has picked up US rights to Participant Media's and River Road Entertainment's feature documentary Food, Inc. The film world premiered at Toronto and is due to screen at the Berlinale, with a US release scheduled for the first half of 2009. Josh Braun of Submarine Entertainment negotiated the ...
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Video: Power To The Pixel - The New Exhibitors
New forms of digital distribution are asking questions about current business models.Most existing companies are wrestling to a greater or lesser extent with the challenges of finding how to move to a digital arena.But, as the Power To The Pixel conference, demonstrates, new players are entering the market with fresh ...
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Anna Faris to receive rising star tribute at Bahamas festival
Anna Faris will receive the Bahamas International Film Festival's (BIFF) Chopard Award rising star tribute on December 8.Faris recently starred in the hit Sony comedy The House Bunny and her credits include the Scary Movie series, Smiley Face and Lost In Translation.She will star next spring opposite Seth Rogen in ...
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Sundance, NHK name 12 finalists for International Filmmakers Award
The Sundance Institute and Japanese broadcaster NHK have announced the 12 finalists for the 2009 Sundance/NHK International Filmmakers Award.One recipient each from Europe, Latin America, the US and Japan will be selected by members of an international jury to receive $10,000 and a guarantee from NHK to purchase Japanese TV ...
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Cameron's Avatar set for day-date IMAX release in December 2009
James Cameron’s highly-anticipated 3D science fiction fantasy Avatar is scheduled for day-and-date release on IMAX and conventional screens on December 18, 2009. The date was announced jointly today by Twentieth Century Fox and IMAX - although the press release couched its terms by saying the two companies had ‘reached agreement ...
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UK 's F&ME secures deals to exploit catalogue across all media
Leading UK production house, Film and Music Entertainment (F&ME), has struck a series of alliances to ensure the future exploitation of its catalogue across all media. The move follows last month's announcement that their back catalogue would be handled for theatrical and DVD in the UK by indie distribution venture ...
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Hubert Bals Fund announces $464,400 for 25 projects in 19 countries
Rotterdam's Hubert Bals Fund (HBF) has announced $464,400 (Euros 362,500) in support to 25 film projects across 19 countries.The fund brings feature films and feature-length creative documentaries by filmmakers from developing countries closer to completion.Selected projects in 2008 include new films by acclaimed independent filmmakers Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Pablo Larrain, Rodrigo ...
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Deepa Mehta teams with Salman Rushdie for Midnight's Children
Deepa Mehta is lining up a feature version of Midnight's Children with author Salman Rushdie, whose masterpiece of magic realism about the birth of modern India has remained untouched by film-makers for nearly 30 years.The film-maker announced the film with Rushdie today, at the eighth annual Mahindra Indo-American Arts Council ...
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UK Investment Fund for film industry reaches£6m
The Skills Investment Fund has reached £6 million, thanks to contributions from UK films such as Quantum of Solace and The Duchess. The UK's Skills Investment Fund (SIF) has reached £6 million, thanks to contributions from films being produced in the UK. This year contributions have come from Quantum of ...
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Thriller in Manila opens Sheffield Doc/Fest 2008
Sheffield International Documentary Festival 2008 opened with the world premiere of Thriller In Manila, a documentary about boxing legend Joe Frazier. Director John Dower introduced his documentary and took part in a Q & A session after the screening.Over the next four days, the festival will host international documentary makers ...
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American Film Market: latest news
The latest news and reviews from Screen's team at the American Film Market in Santa Monica.UPDATED DAILY: AFM storiesUPDATED DAILY: AFM salesAFM buzz films and preview
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Mirovision, M to partner on Youth Is Reckless
Korea's Mirovision is partnering with M Production to produce Youth IsReckless, by Lee Myung-se, the director of the visual extravaganza M,martial arts mystery Duelists, and crime action film Nowhere To Hide.Youth Is Reckless is based on the Book of Five Rings, a classic samuraitreatise by Miyamoto Musashi, which Lee was ...
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M-Line pre-sells Kitchen to Japan's Showgate
New Korean sales outfit M-Line has pre-sold romantic drama Kitchen to Showgate for Japan.The $1.2m film is due for a February 2009 release in Korea. Starring Ju Ji-hun, from the pan-Asian TV series Princess Hour, the film follows members of a suicide club who end up in a gruesome survival ...
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Miranda Richardson to narrate Turtle's Incredible Journey
Long-gestating wildlife feature documentary The Turtle's Song, on Sola Media's slate here, has been given a name change and has recruited Miranda Richardson as narrator.The film will now be known as The Turtle's Incredible Journey. It should finally be ready in time for the Berlinale in February.Just prior to the ...