All articles by Geoffrey Macnab – Page 109
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NewsStewart Mackinnon's Headline grows with busy slate, new Edelman partnership
Stewart Mackinnon’s London and Newcastle-based film and TV production outfit Headline Pictures (the outfit behind Quartet and The Invisible Woman) has confirmed details of a groundbreaking new strategic partnership
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NewsHolland Film Meeting, NPP launch with upbeat mood despite film funding questions
Sister event Netherlands Film Festival opened with Nono, The Zig Zag Kid [pictured]; River Phoenix’s last film finally unveiled.
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NewsStevan Riley talks about James Bond doc Everything or Nothing
Director talks how he found out Bill Clinton was a Bond fan, and how Skyfall director Sam Mendes questioned Daniel Craig as 007.
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FeaturesAndrew Macdonald
DNA Films co-founder Andrew Macdonald has just completed one of his most ambitious films yet, Dredd 3D.
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NewsDNA talks future of Dredd trilogy
DNA Films boss Andrew Macdonald has given further details about the screenwriting plans for the next installments in the Dredd trilogy.
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NewsAmr Waked ramps up Zad slate
Company in talks with Egyptian distributor for Winter Of Discontent; hoping to put Ahmed Maher’s In Which Land You Die into production next summer.
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NewsTakeshi Kitano considers making a third Outrage movie
Takeshi Kitano, the Japanese director/star of hardboiled yakuza thriller Outrage Beyond (sold in Toronto by Celluloid Dreams), is contemplating a third Outrage movie.
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NewsGFM Films board Australian animation Stonerunner
EXCLUSIVE: British company working for the second time with FG Film Productions.
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Bela Tarr: Hungarian Film Fund 'unacceptable and illegitimate'
Hungarian director [pictured] responds to confirmation that the Film Fund - run by Andy Vajna - was to take over the property of the Motion Picture Public Foundation of Hungary.
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NewsExperts welcome new Venice market but suggest some improvements
Pascal Diot to expand digital video library in 2013.
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CommentSusanne Bier on 'the beauty of romantic comedy'
Cancer-themed movies tend to be grueling and very heavy affairs. Oscar winning Danish director Susanne Bier’s crowdpleaser Love Is All You Need is surely one of the only forays into the genre that can be labeled a romantic comedy.
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NewsSwipe takes UK rights to Tu Seras Mons Fils
EXCLUSIVE: During the Venice market, Frank Mannion’s production, sales and distribution outfit Swipe has confirmed it will handle the UK release of Gilles Legrand’s French wine-themed drama Tu Seras Mons Fils, which is about a family running a vineyard in Bordeaux.
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Wadjda director vows to keep working in Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia’s first female film director Haifaa Al Mansour, whose debut feature Wadjda was enthusiastically received in Venice, has made an outspoken plea for women’s rights in her homeland.
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NewsEurimages confirms Canada and Israel in talks to join fund; Gulf countries could follow
Roberto Olla, executive director of Eurimages (The Council of Europe’s film fund) has again raised the possibility that Eurimages will become a fund “that goes beyond the geographical limit of Europe.”
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NewsSwipe Films boards Winter Of Discontent
EXCLUSIVE: Company to handle international sales for Ibrahim El Batout’s film centred around the Arab Spring.
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NewsVenice kicks off today with boosted industry attendees
Festival opens with mixed-to-positive critical response to Mira Nair’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist.
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NewsVenice's new market to include promo of Agnes B's debut, footage from new Carlos Sorin film
The newly launched Venice Film Market (Aug 30-Sept 3) has announced that it is to show promo reels and footage from selected films.
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NewsClip filmmakers respond to Russian ban of film
Russian Ministry of Culture accused the Rotterdam winning film of being child pornography.
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FeaturesTaxing times
The UK has a popular film tax credit and newly boosted investment schemes. But are controversial tax avoidance stories hurting film finance? Geoffrey Macnab reports
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FeaturesThe UK public funding boom
Are we in a golden era for public film funding? The UK is stumbling through a prolonged recession and yet the film industry has seemingly emerged largely unscathed from the ongoing cuts. Geoffrey Macnab analyses where the cash is headed.