All Screen articles in 9 March 2004 – Page 5
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Von Trier completes Manderlay casting
Lars von Trier has rounded out the cast for Manderlay, the second film in his USA trilogy after Dogville, with a contingent of US stars.Danny Glover and John C. Reilly join the new leading lady Bryce Dallas Howard as well as Lauren Bacall, Jeremy Davies and Chloe Sevigny, who return ...
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Darclight readies Beowulf, Possession
Arclight genre label Darclight has announced that two films are about to go into pre-production.The supernatural thriller Possession, adapted from Peter James's novel, and Beowulf - Alien Meets Braveheart, inspired by the 9th Century Beowulf poem, both involve the UK's Spice Factory and film financier Movision Entertainment.The UK/Canadian co-production Possession ...
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Duval to retire from UK film censor BBFC
British Board Of Film Classification Director Robin Duval is to retire in August after five and a half years at the helm.Duval oversaw the Board's first major public consultation exercise resulting in the Classification Guidelines published in September 2000. The Board now classifies 14,000 titles a year - up from ...
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Mueller poised to take over as Venice artistic director
Former Locarno and Rotterdam festival director Marco Mueller is poised to be crowned artistic chief of the Venice Film Festival, during a Biennale board meeting that will take place today (March 4) at 5pm.Venice organisers said on Thursday that several names are still in the running, although according to local ...
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Art Port, Summit strike first deal on Down In The Valley
Art Port Inc. has acquired Japanese distribution rights toDown In The Valley, the dark thrillerstarring Edward Norton and Evan Rachel Wood, from Summit Entertainment. Thedeal, concluded at AFM, marks the first deal between the two companies.The deal was closed between Art Port president & CEOJunichi Matsushita and Summit president and ...
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Gothika starring Cruz opens top in Spain for CTFDI
The horrorpicture Gothikastarring local star Penelope Cruz opened top in Spain at the weekend on $2.5mon 262 screens through Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International(CTFDI).The decent debutwas part of a $4.1m weekend haul for the picture, which raised itsinternational running total to $23.9m.Elsewhere, thedrama Big Fishgrossed $2.7m for a $19m running ...
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Irish exhibitors clamour for Passion prints
Irish distribution company Eclipse Pictures, which is handling the Irish release of The Passion Of The Christ for Icon UK, has had to secure an additional 10 prints for the Irish release, such is the demand for the picture from exhibitors.Of the 60 prints now available, approximately 50 will play ...
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Walk On Water is joint Roadside/Goldwyn domestic buy
RoadsideAttractions and Samuel Goldwyn Films have jointly acquired North Americanrights to Eytan Fox's political thriller Walk On Water.The picture, a hit at Berlin this year, is the follow-upto Fox's worldwide success, Yossi And Jagger.The story centreson an Israeli assassin who goes undercover as a tour guide in order to trackdown ...
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New Spanish distributor starts to build slate
New Barcelona-based distributor ABL Augusta has closed its first two all-rights acquisitions for Spain with Morgan Spurlock's hit Sundance documentary Super Size Me and Takashi Miike's Japanese thriller One Missed Call.Veteran executive Adolfo Blanco launched ABL after leaving his position as director of distribution at DeA Planeta in January. His ...
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Chinese box office to triple within five years
China is forecast to be the fast growing cinema market in the Asia Pacific region over the next five years according to a new report, Cinemagoing Asia Pacific by Dodona Research.Chinese box office is expected to more than triple to reach $380m by 2008, compared to $120m last year. The ...
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Bellochio's latest joins Kahn at Wellspring
Followingyesterday's news that it has acquired all US rights to Cedric Kahn's Berlintitle Red Lights (FeuxRouges), New York-basedindependent Wellspring has taken US rights to Italian director MarcoBellocchio's Good Morning, Night (Buongiorno, Notte).The deals forboth pictures were negotiated by Wellspring's head of acquisitions MarieTherese Guirgis and head of theatrical distribution Ryan ...
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Ebeling, Behring complete management buyout of MCOne
Sven Ebeling and HagenBehring, co-chief executive officers of Media Cooperation One (MCOne), one ofGermany's largest independent video and DVD distributors, have completed amanagement buyout of the company.Ebeling and Behring,co-founders and shareholders of MCOne, last month acquired the remainingmajority shares of the company previously owned by DBI, the equity division ofDeutsch ...
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Japan's Movie Television files for bankruptcy protection
Japan's Movie Television, a leading seller of Hollywood films and TV programmes to Japanese TV, has filed for protection from its creditors after its debts climbed to $345m (Y38bn) at the end of January.Launched in 1984, Movie Television acquires broadcasting rights to TV series and films from five major studios ...
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Forman to receive lifetime award from San Francisco
Milos Formanwill receive the Film Society Award for Lifetime Achievement in Directing atthe 47th San Francisco International Film Festival, which runs from Apr 15-29.The Award willbe presented by Danny DeVito on Apr 22 at a black tie gala in honour of Formanand Oscar winning actor Chris Cooper, who will receive ...
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Italian film set for Euros 70m emergency funding
Culture Minister Giuliano Urbani is to present on Friday an emergency decree to the Italian Parliament to pour extra funds into the local cinema industry, after the Italian bank that manages the film industry's funds announced that its coffers are almost emptyAccording to Italian financial daily Il Sole 24 Ore, ...
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Channel 4, Senator play the blame game
UK broadcaster Channel 4 has defended itself against legal proceeding from Senator Films over its closure of its stand alone film unit FilmFour, saying that it made a claim first against the German company.Senator, which had an output deal with FilmFour, filed a lawsuit this week against Channel Four for ...
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Scary 3 has a monster opening in Germany
Scary Movie 3 enjoyed a massive $7.4m number one bow in Germany on626 screens through Buena Vista International (BVI) at the weekend for thebiggest release of the year there so far this year.It was also the biggest everbow opening for a Miramax production and contributed to a $12m weekend haulfrom ...
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10% more buyers at this year's AFM than last year, says market
Total attendance at thismonth's AFM climbed by 5% to 7,212 compared to 6,834 last year, while thenumber of buyers rose 10% from 1,309 to 1,434, organisers said yesterday (2).There were 642 registeredcompanies compared to 598 last year and the number of individual exhibitorsrose from 3,419 in 2003 to 3,672, a ...
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Return Of The King adds $11m to bring gross to $663.1m
On the weekendthat The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King won all 11 of the Oscars for which ithad been nominated, Peter Jackson's trilogy finale leapfrogged 2001's HarryPotter And The Sorcerer's Stone to become the second biggest international picture of all time.It added $11mfrom 3,148 screens in ...