All Screen articles in 9 February 2007 – Page 6

  • News

    The Works books Venus into more territories

    2007-02-08T17:19:00Z

    UK-based sales company The Works International has started the EFM with several new sales on Roger Michell's Bafta- and Oscar-nominated Venus starring Leslie Phillips and Peter O'Toole.The latest deals are to Hexagon for Japan, Ecofilmes for Portugal, Ster-Kinekor for South Africa, Cine Video y TV for Mexico, MC Films for ...

  • News

    ContentFilm on board for William H Macy's directorial debut

    2007-02-08T16:57:28Z

    William H Macy will make his directorial debut with Keep Coming Back, to star Salma Hayek, Mos Def, Steve Buscemi and Macy himself. ContentFilm International has international sales rights, with CAA handling North America. Rachel Rothman, Tucker Tooley and Dan Keston are producing. The coming-of-age story, written by Will Aldis, ...

  • Reviews

    Hannibal Rising

    2007-02-08T16:57:00Z

    Dir: Peter Webber. US. 2007. 121mins. Call it audacious, foolhardy or both, but Hannibal Rising, the prequel about Hannibal Lecter's origins dispenses with the stylish suspense of Silence Of The Lambs and Red Dragon/Manhunter and the campiness of Hannibal to portray the cannibalistic serial killer as an avenging angel of ...

  • News

    Rai Trade's Caravaggio heads to Japan with Tokyo Theatres

    2007-02-08T16:44:00Z

    On the eve of the European Film Market in Berlin, Rai Trade has announced an eyecatching Japanese deal on its new title, Angelo Longoni's Caravaggio. On the basis of the rushes, Tokyo Theatres have picked up all rights to the biopic, which tells the story of the troubled but brilliant ...

  • News

    MySpace film competition launched

    2007-02-08T16:07:00Z

    MySpace launched its Mymoviemashup competition to open doors for new talent with a presentation, panel discussion and Big Lebowski-themed party last night at Bloomsbury Bowling Lanes in London. The $1.9 million (£1m) feature film project is a partnership between MySpace, Film4 and Vertigo Films, and has the support of Shooting ...

  • News

    20 features selected for Sundance grants

    2007-02-08T15:47:00Z

    The Sundance Institute Documentary Film Programme has announced its second round of grants for 2006 with 20 feature-length documentaries receiving a total of $600,000. The grants were selected by a committee of human rights experts and film professionals from more than 300 global projects. 'The films funded in this round ...

  • News

    Richard Branson to star in global warming awareness expedition

    2007-02-08T15:22:00Z

    Arctic and Antarctic explorer and environmental campaigner Will Steger has begun production on the documentary Baffin Island Expedition '07: The Explorers featuring famed Mount Everest mountaineer Ed Viesturs, Richard Branson and his son Sam. The project marks the launch of the newly established Will Steger Foundation's Global Warming 101 education ...

  • News

    Avanzit buys out Notro Films

    2007-02-08T15:12:00Z

    Spanish distributor and producer Notro Films has been acquired by media company Avanzit. Notro founding partner Jose Maria Irisarri, former CEO and current advisor of TV powerhouses Globo Media and Grupo Arbol, has been named executive president of Avanzit's media filial. Notro - which was launched in September 2004 by ...

  • News

    Nordisk invests in Maipo with view to European expansion

    2007-02-08T14:57:00Z

    Danish major Nordisk Film has purchased a major stake in Oslo-based production house Maipo Film & TV-Produksjon. Set up in 2000 by Norwegian producer Dag Alveberg, who has produced 15 features, Maipo has backed 10 films and a television series - including the Oscar-nominated Elling, by Petter Næss - to ...

  • News

    Stars announced for Kim Ji-woon, Yim Pil-sung features

    2007-02-08T14:44:00Z

    Cineclick Asia has announced top-tier casting locked for two of its pre-sales films, Kim Ji-woon's The Good, the Bad, and the Weird and Yim Pil-sung's Hansel and Gretel, both from new production house Barunson. Cannes director Kim Ji-woon's film has three top-of-the-line stars to play the main heroes in the ...

  • News

    Pursuit of Happyness set to blitz international box office

    2007-02-08T14:35:00Z

    The Pursuit Of Happyness is well on its way toward $100m following last weekend's dominant performance, and Sony Pictures Releasing International (SPRI) executives will hope to sustain momentum with launches in 22 new markets this weekend. The Will Smith drama had amassed $71.1m as of Feb 5 and, while the ...

  • News

    Wind Dancer to develop two new comedy projects

    2007-02-08T14:08:00Z

    US-based production house Wind Dancer Films has hired writers for the first two features unveiled in its recently announced development fund. Bear Aderhold and Tom Sullivan will write Fear Less, a comedy about the most fearful man on earth, who loses all his inhibitions following a freak accident. The writers ...

  • News

    The Cinema Guild signs marketing, promo deal with Eurocinema

    2007-02-08T13:58:00Z

    US video-on-demand service Eurocinema has signed an exclusive deal with leading documentary, foreign and independent film distributor The Cinema Guild. New catalogue titles include Frederic Fonteyne's French tale of love and betrayal Gilles' Wife, Per Fly's Danish family drama The Inheritance, and Agust Gudmundsson's Icelandic murder story The Seagull's Laughter. ...

  • News

    Screen's Mike Goodridge takes ICG international journalist prize

    2007-02-08T12:43:00Z

    Screen International and ScreenDaily.com's US editor Mike Goodridge has been named international journalist of the year at the 44th annual ICG Publicists' awards in Los Angeles. Top film honours went to Fox's publicity team for Borat and TV prize to ABC/Touchstone for Ugly Betty. Other awards were the ICG President's ...

  • News

    Women in Film and Television launch Workline

    2007-02-08T12:29:00Z

    The organisation Women in Film and Television has launched a free and confidential employment advice website and helpline, Workline. The organisation has been offering support and information to women who are employers, employees and freelancers in the UK industry since 1990. This new service is accessible to all who require ...

  • News

    120 features, 180 shorts to screen at Mar del Plata

    2007-02-08T12:15:00Z

    The 22nd Mar del Plata International Film Festival (March 8-18) has announced its line-up.In his fifth and final year as Argentina's main festival director Miguel Pereira told Screen the event is increasing its focus on Latin America's emerging talents with a new cash award of $50,000 for the best film ...

  • News

    Wild Bunch declares war on Dieter Kosslick

    2007-02-08T08:40:00Z

    After a slow burn of increasing upset with Berlin festival director Dieter Kosslick, French sales, financing and distribution outfit Wild Bunch has declared that it is boycotting the EFM and declaring a 'period of sanction' on its films in future Berlin competitions.The company has cancelled its market stand and, in ...

  • News

    'Explosion of creativity' driving global boom, says Universal co-chief

    2007-02-08T07:16:00Z

    An 'explosion of creativity' in the international market has transformed the global film economy, according to Universal Studios co-chairman David Linde.'A remarkable creative cross-pollination' had meant studios were now working in a diverse market with vital interests stretching from small local films to blockbusters, he told yesterday's Screen International European ...

  • News

    Korea's Core Studio picks up Singaporean Untold Beauty

    2007-02-08T04:38:00Z

    Korean sales agent Core Studio has picked up worldwide sales rights for Singaporean writer-director Roy Lim's horror film Untold Beauty from Rebel Production Pte Ltd. France's Wild Side Films acquired French-speaking territories for the film at last year's Asian Film Market, making it the first ever pre-sale of a Singaporean ...

  • News

    Singapore's Royston Tan to direct musical drama

    2007-02-08T04:21:00Z

    Singapore's most celebrated writer-director Royston Tan, whose previous credits include 15 and 4:30, will next turn his hand to a musical drama, 881, which is scheduled to start principal photography on March 1. Major Singapore players are joining forces to back the new $653,000 (S$1m) production, including Tan's long-term producer ...