![[Clockwise from top left]: 'The Voice Of Hind Rajab', 'A House Of Dynamite', 'Jay Kelly', 'After The Hunt', 'The Smashing Machine'](https://d1nslcd7m2225b.cloudfront.net/Pictures/274x183/1/7/0/1459170_veniceawards_837515.jpg)
Large MPU – Page 3948
-
Reviews
Two Brothers (Deux Freres)
Dir: Jean-Jacques Annaud. Fr-UK 2004. 109minsAlong with Roman Polanski and Luc Besson, Jean-Jacques Annaud is one of the few France-based directors who can shoot an international production in English that will be screened worldwide.Sixteen years ago his film The Bear, about the life and adventures of its titular hero in ...
-
News
UK production sector weathers the storm
Government crackdowns on UK tax relief earlier this year may have cast uncertainty over the production sector - and led to the high-profile collapse of productions such as John Madden's Tulip Fever - but the UK is as busy as it was at this time during its record year last ...
-
News
Whore goes to US through Screen Media
Screen Media Films haspicked up North American rights from Dolores Pictures to Maria Lidon's Whore, starring Daryl Hannah, Denise Richards and Joaquimde Almeida.Whore will get its USpremiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York in May, where it plays in thefeature competition. The company is planning a theatrical release ...
-
News
WBITD renews multi-year deal with Nine Network
Australia's NineNetwork has renewed its multi-year free television output deal with Warner BrosInternational Television Distribution (WBITD).The dealcontinues a long-standing programming distribution relationship and involvesfree television rights to the studio's current and upcoming television series,features, animation and library titles."Our programmes, such as Friends, ER, Without A Trace and Two And A ...
-
News
500,000 admissions for Italian film without a distributor
An Italian film without theatrical distribution entitled Il Natale Rubato (The Stolen Christmas) has become a sensation, after it emerged that the self-financed picture has already racked up a massive 500,000 admissions in Italy on an "underground" exhibition circuit.While a recent report revealed that 30 Italian films are currently in ...
-
News
Sunshine gets first foreign bows in Australia, Taiwan
Focus Features' EternalSunshine Of The Spotless Mind kickedoff its international run in Australia at the weekend with a record bow for aCharlie Kaufman picture that produced $416,000 from 60 screens and eighthplace.The romance claimed thebiggest per-screen average of the top 10 on $6,937. Released through VillageRoadshow, it grossed $518,600 overall ...
-
News
Anschutz reorganises film companies under Weil, Granat
Philip Anschutz hasreorganised his film interests with the creation of Anschutz Film Group (AFG),a Los Angeles-based holding company that will serve as parent to subsidiariesWalden Media and Bristol Bay Productions, formerly known as CrusaderEntertainment.Attorney David Weil, who forthe past year has served as Anschutz's chief advisor on film investments, joinsfrom ...
-
News
Donnie Darko gets director's cut world premiere at Seattle fest
Newmarket Films willpremiere the director's cut of Richard Kelly's surreal love story and cult hit DonnieDarko at the upcoming Seattle FilmFestival on May 29.The acclaimed picture starsJake Gyllenhaal, Jena Malone and Drew Barrymore and was originally released in2001, gaining popularity through video and cable platforms and eventuallybecoming a midnight special ...
-
News
BVI ups Broberg, Vassallo in Sweden, Spain
Buena Vista International (BVI) has made two key executive promotions in Spain and Sweden. Eric Broberg has been promoted to senior vice president and general manager of BVI Sweden. In this role, Broberg, who has run BVI's Swedish office since 1992, will supervise all of the distributor's activities throughout ...
-
News
L'Apres-Midi opening for Critics' Week
L'Apres-midi de Monsieur Andesmas is set to open the 43rd annual Critic's Weeksidebar at the Cannes Film Festival on May 13.The first feature from director Michelle Porte is adaptedfrom a text by legendary French author Marguerite Duras. Porte was a longtimecollaborator of the writer prior to Duras' death in 1996.Set ...
-
News
Festival faces up to showbiz strike threat
France's striking showbiz workers have threatened to disrupt next month's Cannes Film Festival to draw attention to their cause.A group representing the workers, the 'intermittants du spectacle', released a statement on Thursday saying they intended to create an occupation committee for the Cannes Film Festival. They are protesting against government ...
-
Reviews
13 Going On 30
Dir: Gary Winick. US 2004. 97minsA female take on the 1988 hit Big, 13 Going On 30 concerns an insecure 13-year old girl who longs to be a grown up, convinced that adulthood confers automatic popularity, success and happiness. With the help of a little magic dust, she gets her ...
-
News
Cannes unveils competition line-up
Below is a list of 18 films selected for competition for the 57th Cannes Film Festival.More details to follow shortly.Shrek 2 - Andrew Adamson, Kelly Asbury, Conrad Vernon (USA)The Ladykillers - Joel et Ethan Coen (USA)Woman Is The Future Of Man (Yoja-nun Namja-ui Miraeda) - Hong Sang-soo (South Korea)The Life ...
-
News
BELGIUM 21 April
Warner Bros' Taking Lives swiped the lead spot from The Passion Of The Christ just one week after Mel Gibson's international hit launched. The psychological thriller, which sees Angelina Jolie as an FBI agent called in to aid Montreal police track down a serial killer, claimed pole position opening on ...
-
News
Cannes Competition and Un Certain Regard line-up
MAIN COMPETITIONOpening film (Out Of Competition): Bad Education Pedro Almodovar (Spain)Closing film (Out of Competition): De-Lovely Irwin Winkler (USA)In CompetitionShrek 2 - Andrew Adamson, Kelly Asbury, Conrad Vernon (USA)The Ladykillers - Joel and Ethan Coen (USA)Woman Is The Future Of Man - Hong Sang-soo (South Korea)The Life and Death ...
-
News
NEW Slimline Cannes hides its surprises in the detail
Cannes' competition holds few surprises in that the line-up has been widely predicted. But it contains a number of innovations and presents a genuinely diverse panoply of film-making around the world.In the spirit of small is beautiful, the number of films in main competition has been cut from 23 last ...
-
News
Cannes artistic director explains his selection
Interview with Cannes artistic director Thierry Fremaux - abstracted from today's Cannes festival press statement.In 2004, the Cannes Festival Official Selection is composed of feature films presented in three categories: Competition, Out of Competition, Un Certain Regard. The Official Selection also includes the short film competition and film school competition ...
-
News
UK/IRELAND 21 April
New releases had little impact on the UK/Ireland chart this week as the top three remained unchanged from last week.Scooby-Doo 2 held up well as school holidays came to a close slipping just 13% week-on-week.Columbia's 50 First Dates also held up seeing a small 14% against its opening weekend (excluding ...
-
Reviews
Turn Left, Turn Right (Xiang Zuo Zou, Ziang You Zou)
Dirs. Johnnie To, Wai Ka-Fai. Hong Kong, 2003. 102mins.Softer compared to some of Johnnie To's recent fare like PTU, the latest offering by the prolific Hong Kong director is firmly planted with one foot in the West and the other in the East. Warner Bros Pictures first Chinese-language film Turn ...
-
News
Slimline Cannes hides its surprises in the detail
Cannes' competition holds few surprises in that the line-up has been widely predicted. But it contains a number of innovations and presents a genuinely diverse panoply of film-making around the world.In the spirit of small is beautiful, the number of films in main competition has been cut from 23 last ...