All Screen articles in 9 June 2006 – Page 2
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F For Film on board for Fresh Air
French sales company F For Film has acquired CannesCritics' Week title Fresh Air by Hungary's Agnes Kokcis.The film shows the difficult relationship between a mother and herteenage daughter and was well-received in the Cannes sidebar.Fresh Air is produced by KMH and won the best debut film awardearlier this year at ...
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China pulls The Da Vinci Code
In an unprecendented move, China's Film Bureau has decided to withdraw Sony's The Da Vinci Code from theatres.Ron Howard's blockbuster broke box-office records for an international film when it opened three weeks ago, taking $13m.The withdrawal of the film is believed to have been ordered by the China Film Bureau.More ...
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China pulls Da Vinci Code to protect local films
Chinese state-owneddistributors China Film and Huaxia Film Distribution are pulling The Da Vinci Code from all movietheatres across China starting June 9 in order to prepare for the upcoming "localfilm protection month".The two companies sent an urgentnotice to all cinema proprietors yesterday (June 7) demanding them to pull thefilm in ...
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Canada's fledgling Delphis unveils multiple Cannes sales
Delphis Films has sold fourterritories on Andrei Kravchuk's foreign-language Oscar submissionTheItalian, one of a clutch of titlesthe Montreal-based sales company has sold out of Cannes.The recently launched Delphissigned theatrical and DVD deals with Fidalgo for Norway, Kamras for Finland,Cine Video y TV for Mexico and Multivision for Bulgaria. The company ...
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Indian producers guild protests Da Vinci ban
India's Film and Television Producers Guild has asked the seven Indian stateswhich have banned the The Da Vinci Codeto reconsider their decision. The guild has written to thegovernments of the seven out of 29 states that have either banned or suspendedthe film, specifying how it was cleared by the censor ...
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Zac Reeder named head of acquisitions at MarVista
Zac Reeder (pictured) has been appointed to the newly created position ofhead of acquisitions at MarVista Entertainment as the company seeks to fill itshome entertainment and international distribution pipelines.Reeder will oversee both theatrical and television pick-ups for worldwidedistribution and reports to production and distribution chief Michael D Jacobs.Prior to MarVista, ...
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UK Stars Of Tomorrow 2006
Screen International unveils today its 2006 Stars Of Tomorrow, a comprehensive round-up of the hottest new talent in the UK film industry.Published in this week's Screen International, the annual talent survey highlights the brightest actors, directors, writers, producers and behind-the-scenes talent in the UK. More than 40 new names are ...
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Vigne starts shooting Jean De La Fontaine
Cesar-award winning director Daniel Vigne hasbegun shooting Jean De La Fontaine in Paris and France's Sarthoise region.The film boasts an all-star cast including LorantDeutsch, Philippe Torreton, Sara Forestierand Jean-Claude Dreyfus and is written by Jacques Forgeas.The Cineteve/France 2 Cinema production willbe released by Rezo Films locally and shoots throughlate July.Set ...
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Ruby Red Chequer finishes UK shoot
Writer/director Jan Dunn and producer Elaine Wickhamof Medb Films have completed shooting for theirsecond feature film, Ruby Red Chequer.The project stars Bob Hoskins, JosianeBalasko and Jody Latham in the story of a Britishwidower who falls for his foreign neighbour. The 19-day shoot started in Kent on May 10.Dunn says the ...
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Wild Bunch racks up $16m-$18m of Cannes sales
With 11 films scattered throughout the Cannes officialselection, France's Wild Bunchwracked up between $16m and $18m worth of sales during the recently closedmarket.Lou Ye's controversial Chinese competitionentry Summer Palace was sold to thirteen territories with the US's Palm Picturesin final negotiations. Other distributors taking the film include Japan's Movie Eye, ...
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Half of Zentropa up for sale to employees
Asthey both celebrated their 50th birthdays in May, Lars von Trier and Peter Aalbaek Jensenhave given a lot of thought to the future of Zentropa,the Danish film production company they founded in 1992.Withtheir five associate partners, von Trier and Jensenhave decided to sell half of the company to directors and ...
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Wolfhound hunts down Cannes sales
Leading Russian producer and distributor Central Partnershiphas announced pre-sales for two of its high-profile projects: the $12m Slavicfantasy Wolfhound and $10m sci-fi Paragraph 78.Both were sold following an official sales launch, includingsome footage, to more than 120 distributors at Cannes.Before the festival SPI International had acquired allrights to Wolfhound for ...
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Alba joins Eckhart in GreeneStreet's Bill
Jessica Alba has replaced Lindsay Lohan opposite Aaron Eckhart in GreeneStreet Films'upcoming comedy Bill, which is set to begin principal photography on Jun 8 in and around St Louis.Greenestreet's John Penotti and Fisher Stevens are producing Bill with Matthew Roland, with Tim Williams serving as executive producer.Lohan stepped aside due ...
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Puerto Rico shoot kicks off for Maladies Of Love
Donald Ranvaud's Buena Ondahas unveiled Maldeamores (Maladies Of Love), the first film from thefund set up by its parent company IFC and the Puerto Rico Film IndustryDevelopment Corporation.The film, which iscurrently in production, stars Luis Guzman among other Puerto Rican actors in aseries of darkly humorous stories about the quest ...
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Peter Taylor returns to head SPRI UK
Peter Taylor has rejoined Sony Pictures Releasing International(SPRI) as managing director of the UK Office.Taylor will report to Paul Smith, president of worldwideoperations at Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group, and assumes the dutiesheld by Richard Napper, who is leaving after seven years to pursue fresh challenges.Taylor most recently served at ...
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KOFIC to support overseas filmmakers
The Korean Film Council(KOFIC) is launching an initiative to offer funds to overseas Korean filmmakersthrough three support programmes - Low Budget Production Support, a ScriptContest and an Independent Film Contest.Overseas ethnic Koreanfilmmakers, such as Korean-Chinese Zhang Lu and Korean-American Grace Lee, haverecently enjoyed a rising profile. Zhang's GrainIn Ear premiered ...
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Nair's Namesake to open New York's IAAC festival in Nov
Mira Nair's The Namesake will open the Indo-American Arts Council's 6th IAAC FilmFestival in New York on Nov 1.Adapted from Jhumpa Lahiri's book of the same name, TheNamesake charts the upsand downs of an Indian family transplanted to Boston, and stars Kal Penn, Tabu,Irfan Khan, Jacinda Barrett and Zuleikha Robinson ...
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Laura Hardman rejoins Cornwall Film Festival
LauraHardman has rejoined the Cornwall Film Festival as festival director aftertaking maternity leave during the 2005 event. The festival, in its fifthyear, will move its main venue to Falmouth's Princess Pavilion. This year's event will be heldfrom November 16-19 at various Falmouth locations including the National Maritime Museum and University ...
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New US distributor Teton buys rights to Shadowboxer
TetonFilms has picked up domestic rights to Lee Daniels Entertainment's noir drama Shadowboxer starring Cuba Gooding Jr and Helen Mirren. Tetonhas earmarked a Jul 21 release through Freestyle Releasing on Daniels'directorial debut about two assassins who take pity on a pregnant hit and runaway with her. VanessaFerlito, Macy Gray and ...
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Berk re-elected as president of Hollywood Foreign Press Association
Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) members re-electedPhilip Berk as president for the 2006-07 session at the group's annual electionmeeting on Tuesday.Berk has belonged to the association for 30 years and is servinghis sixth term as president. He writes for FilmInk in Australia and Galaxie inMalaysia.Mahfouz Doss was re-elected vice president, ...
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