All Screen articles in August 29 2014 – Page 4
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NewsMemento heads to Toronto with Marguerite
EXCLUSIVE: Paris-based sales agent to launch new film loosely inspired by “world’s worst soprano”, Florence Foster Jenkins.
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NewsHayao Miyazaki among honourary Oscar recipients
The board of governors of the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences has voted (August 26) to present honorary awards to Jean-Claude Carrière, Hayao Miyazaki and Maureen O’Hara. The Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award will go to Harry Belafonte.
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NewsExecutive trio joins Hot Snakes
Hot Snakes Media founders Eric and Shannon Evangelista have announced three key hires.
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CommentFirst look at Trash trailer
Universal Pictures International has released the first trailer from Working Title, PeaPie Films and 02 Filmes’ adventure directed by Stephen Daldry.
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NewsDrafthouse acquires Amira & Sam
The distributor has acquired US rights to Sean Mullin’s romance starring Martin Starr, Paul Wesley and newcomer Dina Shihabi. Separately, The Film Arcade and Paramount Home Media Distribution have taken Love, Rosie and Level 33 has acquired Copenhagen.
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ReviewsThe Look Of Silence
Dir: Joshua Oppenheimer. Denmark-Indonesia-Norway-Finland-UK. 2014. 100mins
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CommentFirst-look Lava trailer
A romantic volcano? Who would have thunk it? Why those sharp minds at Pixar, of course.
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FeaturesCherien Dabis, May In The Summer
Following her noted 2010 debut Amreeka, Cherien Dabis swaps small-town USA for Jordan as a New Yorker returns to her native home in the run-up to her wedding.
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NewsDavid Frankel to direct Departure
Billy Ray wrote the screenplay and Good Universe’s Joe Drake and Nathan Kahane will executive produce alongside John Middleton and Roy Lee.
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NewsUS deal for The Look Of Silence
Drafthouse Films and Participant Media have jointly acquired all US rights to Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Look Of Silence, set to premiere in Venice on Thursday (August 28). In other news, Open Road has dated Triple Nine, Millennium has acquired The World Made Straight and Lionsgate plans a Saw tenth anniversary ...
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NewsVimeo signs slew of content deals
Vimeo has expanded its library, signing deals with Drafthouse Films, Gravitas Ventures, Inception Media Group, MarVista Digital Entertainment (MVDE) and X-Treme Video, among others.
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NewsNightcrawler to close Fantastic Fest
Organisers at the tenth anniversary edition have unveiled the second wave of programming at the event, set to run in Austin, Texas, from September 18-25.
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NewsGuardians crosses $500m worldwide
Marvel Studios’ Guardians Of The Galaxy has earned $245.3m internationally and $255.2m in North America.
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NewsHFF unveils re-launch slate
The re-launched Hollywood Film Festival (HFF), now under the auspices of Slamdance co-founder Jon Fitzgerald’s philanthropic CineCause, will run from October 16-19.
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NewsGermany submits Beloved Sisters to Oscar race
Dominik Graf’s ménage-à-trois drama to compete for the Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards.
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NewsAcademy president earns Chapman College role
Cheryl Boone Isaacs has been named the Fall 2014 O L Halsell Filmmaker-in-Residence at Chapman University’s Dodge College of Film and Media Arts in Orange County.
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NewsLionsgate to re-release Saw
The studio will roll out the notorious horror film on the occasion of its tenth anniversary.
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NewsMiramax’s Drax to shoot in October
Miramax has cast Jamie Dornan of Fifty Shades Of Grey to star in Alex Aja’s psychological thriller The 9th Life Of Louis Drax.
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FeaturesBFI: Autumn festivals kick-off
British talent gathered at the BFI’s new Stephen Street Kitchen in London ahead of Telluride, Venice, Toronto and London Film Festival.