All articles by Jeremy Kay – Page 1498
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Reiner sets out for space on self-discovery mission
Veteran director Rob Reiner, whose romantic comedy Alex & Emma kicked off the fourth Maui Film Festival this week, has hinted that his next film may be a parable of self-discovery set in space.The embryonic project, which is tentatively titled Imagine, would centre on an astronaut who undergoes a life-changing ...
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Global Film Initiative acquires first films for US distribution
The Global FilmInitiative, the US-based charitable foundation dedicated to the promotion ofcross-cultural understanding through cinema, has acquired five films for itsdistribution and education programmes.The filmsinclude Rashid Masharawi's drama Ticket to Jerusalem, about a Palestinian filmprojectionist's struggle to screen a film in Jerusalem's Old City,and Adoor Gopalakrishnan's drama Shadow Kill, which ...
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John Dahl to receive alumnus medal from AFI
Film-maker JohnDahl will receive the 13th Franklin J Schaffner Alumni Medal on Jun 12honouring the 'extraordinary creative talents' of a graduate of theAmerican Film Institute (AFI) Conservatory.Dahl, whosecredits include The Last Seduction, Rounders and Red Rock West, graduated from the Conservatory in1982.He will collect the award at a ceremony atHollywood's ...
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Bruce Almighty strikes down records in Brazil
BruceAlmighty sentinternational records tumbling over the weekend with a string of number oneopenings for Buena Vista International (BVI), grossing $6m to raise its non-UScumulative score to $13.7m.In Brazil thecomedy took a mighty $1.5m from 241 screens, scoring the eighth biggestindustry bow ever, the biggest comedy opening and the second biggest ...
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Taiwan welcomes Phone Booth for Fox, X2 hits Egypt
Fox International's thriller Phone Booth opened in Taiwan over the weekend on$241,000 from 70 screens.The film ranked second in themarket and contributed to the film's $1m international haul from 407 screens.It now has a $14.5m cumulative score.Elsewhere for Fox, 28 Days Later opened number two in Germany andAustria, grossing $1.1m ...
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Kanin wins Kieser Award
Fay Kanin, the EmmyAward-winning American screenwriter who shared an Oscar nomination for thecomedy Teacher's Pet with herlate husband Michael Kanin in 1958, has received the second Kieser Award.Kanin will collect her honour,which is bestowed on writers whose work promotes greater human understandingand appreciation, at the annual Humanitas luncheon. The first ...
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Higgins joins Intermedia as senior vp of corporate communications & publicity
Dennis Higginshas joined Intermedia as senior vice president of corporate communications andpublicity, where he will oversee all the company's corporate branding andsupervise film publicity.Higgins willalso liaise with distributors of Intermedia's films and work with Intermedia'sMunich-based parent company Internationalmedia on its international marketpositioning. "Intermedia is a growing company and getting someone ...
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New-look Oscar season takes shape
With the new-look,compressed awards season looming on the horizon the last two industry bodieshave set dates for their 2004 ceremonies.The Producers Guild OfAmerica (PGA) will stage its event on Jan 17 at the Century Plaza Hotel in LosAngeles.The new timeframe is aprestigious one for the PGA, falling as it does ...
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Revolution, Sony set Hellboy for prime summer 2004 slot
Revolution Studios announced today (Jun 6) that its comic bookadaptation Hellboywill be released through Columbia Pictures on Memorial Day 2004, a prime summer release slot in late May which has seen launchdates in the past for blockbusters from ET to the new Star Wars trilogy.Based on the Dark Horse comic ...
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Anger burns up the box office with $8.4m for CTFDI
Anger Management scored a couple of record openings for stars AdamSandler and Jack Nicholson as the comedy grossed $8.4m on 3,000 internationalscreens over the weekend, raising its total to $29.1m.Opening in 18 territoriesthe highlights included a number two bow in the UK behind The MatrixReloaded, where Anger Management took $2.8m ...
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Reloaded breaks all-time Japanese opening record
The Matrix Reloaded scored an industry record opening of $18.5m in Japanover the weekend, including previews, as the Warner Bros sci-fi sequel raisedits international total to an estimated $300m.The remarkable Japanese bow(Yen 2.2bn) from 632 screens included the territory's biggest ever previewgross of $7.5m (Yen 892m) from advanced screenings on ...
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Echelon ties up with Newmark for domestic theatrical push
LA-based EchelonEntertainment has formed a domestic theatrical alliance with NewmarkEntertainment to support independent films with aggressive print andadvertising packages.The partners will start withthe offbeat comedy Nobody Knows Anything, which stars an ensemble castincluding Mike Myers, Janeane Garafalo and Virginia Madsen.Newmark/Echelon willguarantee producers full theatrical distribution along with cash for prints ...
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Geoff Stier joins Valhalla as head of production
Veteran producerGeoff Stier has joined Gale Anne Hurd's Valhalla Motion Pictures asproducer and the company's head of production.Stier willoversee development and production of a slate of film and television projectsincluding comic book adaptation The Punisher for Artisan and super heroine project Flux for Paramount.He will reportdirectly to Valhalla chairman Hurd.'Geoff ...
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2 Fast 2 Furious smashes in at number one
Universal Pictures scoredits second number one bow in three weeks as 2 Fast 2 Furious roared to the top of the table on an estimated$52.1m.The street racing sequel wasthe only new entry to break into a top 10 that contains four $100m-plus films,two of which have grossed more than $200m.Overall ...
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Koch Lorber signs multi-picture video/DVD deal with Empire
DVD label Koch Lorber Filmshas signed an exclusive multi-film deal with Manhattan-based Empire Picturesthat includes the license of US home video rights to eight films.Titles include PatriceChereau's erotic drama Intimacy and Diane Kurys' romantic period drama Children Of The Century starring Juliette Binoche.The parties also agreed onan output deal for ...
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BAFTA/LA ups its fellowship funds at UCLA
BAFTA/LA hasincreased its fellowship at the UCLA School of Theatre, Film and Television tohelp the school reach its $1m funding target for next academic year.Each yearBAFTA/LA sponsors a UK student studying film and television at UCLA and thepledge was announced at a special breakfast yesterday (Jun 3).In a statementBAFTA/LA chairman ...
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Lorenzo Soria elected new president of HFPA
Lorenzo Soriahas been elected president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA)for 2003-04.Soria has been amember for 14 years and writes for Italian daily newspaper La Stampa and weeklynews magazine L'Espresso.He will presideover the HFPA's 61st Golden Globe Awards, which will take place in Los Angeleson Jan 25 2004.The new ...
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Streep, Quaid, Latifah win gay and lesbian honours at Outfest
Meryl Streep,Dennis Quaid and Queen Latifah are among those receiving the third annualScreen Idol awards for their portrayal of gay, lesbian, bisexual ortransgendered roles in feature films at this year's Outfest, the LA gay andlesbian film festival which is this year in its 21st year.Organisers hopeto present the accolades at ...
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Cinecitta lines up workshops for US film students
The Cinecitta Studios inRome will host three film-making workshops this summer in association with LosAngeles' USC school of Cinema-Television, to run from Jul 7-Aug 15.The credited courses willcover aspects of production, the links between Italian and American cinema andscreenwriting. This is the second consecutive year that Cinecitta is stagingthe course.Students ...
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Zarpas joins Evolution Management to build production slate
Former Scott Free co-president Chris Zarpas was today (Jun 4)named manager of management and independent production company EvolutionManagement.Zarpas will focus on Evolution's writer and director client baseand help develop the company's production slate.He most recently had an overall producing deal with televisionstudio New Dominion Pictures and prior to that was ...