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Rockwell, Roberts to star in The Winning Season for Gigi, Plum
New York-based Gigi Productions and Plum Pictures have attached Sam Rockwell, Emma Roberts and Rob Corddry to star in the comedy The Winning Season, set to begin shooting in October in the New York region.James Strouse will direct The Winning Season from his original screenplay about a washed-up divorcee basketball ...
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Hanks to receive gala tribute at Film Society Of Lincoln Center
Tom Hanks is next in line to receive the Film Society of Lincoln Center's gala tribute and will be guest of honour at a special event on April 27, 2009.Hanks becomes the 36th recipient and follows in the footsteps of Jane Fonda, Robert Altman, Martin Scorsese, Shirley Maclaine, Federico Fellini, ...
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Focus, Coens have career best openings with Burn After Reading
Fuelled by high profile world and North American premieres at Venice and Toronto, Focus Features scored its first number one launch and the Coen Brothers enjoyed the best debut of their careers as Burn After Reading opened top of the charts on an estimated $19.4m.The all-star ensemble dark spy comedy ...
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Mamma Mia! leads international with $17.5m weekend for UPI
Universal films ruled the roost at the weekend led by an estimated $17.5m haul for Mamma Mia! from 4,296 sites in 44 territories through UPI that took the musical adaptation over $300m.The film opened top in France on $2.4m and Belgium on $1m, as well as in French-speaking Switzerland on ...
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Slumdog Millionaire takes prestigious audience prize at Toronto
Click on film name's to see reviewDanny Boyle's Mumbai-set Slumdog Millionaire won the Cadillac People's Choice Award as the Toronto International Film Festival wrapped its 33rd edition on Saturday. The award comes with a cash prize of $14,000 (C$15,000).Accepting the award on behalf of Boyle, actress Freida Pinto saluted Mumbai, ...
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Mamma Mia! set to surge past $300m with France, Mexico openings
Universal UPI's smash stage adaptation Mamma Mia! is set to lead the international weekend again. The musical blockbuster has reached $288.6m and will cross $300m this weekend, driven by six launches that include France, French-speaking Switzerland and Belgium on September 10 followed by Hong Kong a day later and Mexico, ...
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IFC Films takes domestic rights on Levring's Fear Me Not
IFC Films has picked up North American rights to Kristian Levring's Danish drama Fear Me Not, which received its word premiere in Toronto's Contemporary World Cinema section last weekend.Ulrich Thomsen stars as a man whose mood begins to swing violently after he undertakes clinical trials for an anti-depressant drug.Levring wrote ...
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Santaolalla to receive lifetime achievement award at LALIF
Gustavo Santaolalla will receive the GABI Lifetime Achievement at the Los Angeles Latino International Film's (LALIFF), which runs from September 12-19.The Oscar winning composer of Brokeback Mountain and Babel also co-wrote the festival's opening night film Cafe De Los Maestros, a tango documentary directed by Miguel Kohan that gets its ...
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Vivendi buys domestic rights to Tribeca premiere Tennessee
Vivendi Entertainment has paid low seven figures for all domestic rights to Lee Daniels Entertainment's Southern drama Tennessee starring Mariah Carey that premiered at Tribeca in April.Aaron Woodley directed the story of two brothers who travel from New Mexico to Tennessee to find their estranged father. Carey plays an aspiring ...
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Chicago Film Festival stages galas for Christmas Tale, Happy-Go-Lucky
The 44th Chicago International Film Festival, which runs this year from October 16-29 and has announced its gala screenings will be Arnaud Desplechin's Christmas Tale and Mike Leigh's Happy-Go-Lucky, both of which premiered in Cannes, and Gavin O'Connor's Pride And Glory, which received its world premiere in Toronto earlier this ...
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National Society Of Film Critics sets annual voting meeting for Jan 3
The National Society Of Film Critics will stage its 43rd annual voting meeting for the best films from 2008 on January 3, 2009 at Sardi's in New York City. Results will be announced later that evening.Sixty-three members are eligible to vote on any film that opens in the US during ...
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Andy Tennant to direct Chasing Harry Winston for Universal
Universal Pictures has acquired rights to The Devil Wears Prada author Lauren Weisberger's novel Chasing Harry Winston and attached Andy Tennant to direct.Mandalay Pictures will produce the story of three young women who vow to change their lives over the course of a year.Gina Wendkos will adapt the screenplay, which ...
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Philippe Martinez is back with Cinepro Pictures, directing film
Former Bauer Martinez chief Philippe Martinez has resurfaced with Tampa Bay, Florida-based Cinepro Pictures and commenced principal photography on thriller The Stream Experiment starring Val Kilmer, Armand Assante and Eric Roberts.Martinez himself is directing and producing from a screenplay by Rob Malkani about six people trapped in a Turkish bathhouse. ...
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Allen's Vulcan to partner with Infinity on Nine Mile Falls
Vancouver-based production company Infinity Features has partnered with Paul G Allen's Vulcan Productions to produce Deb Caletti's young adult novels as a series of films titled Nine Mile Falls.Infinity's Rob Merilees and Vulcan's Michael Caldwell are producing and Allen, Jody Patton and Richard Hutton are serve as executive producers.The five ...
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Wang's Princess to receive free release on YouTube in US
Magnolia Pictures will distribute Wayne Wang's The Princess Of Nebraska as a free release on YouTube's recently launched internet platform YouTube Screening Room on October 17.The release of The Princess Of Nebraska ties in with Magnolia's theatrical release of Wang's companion film A Thousand Years Of Good Prayers on September ...
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Coens start A Serious Man shoot for Focus, Working Title
After Burn After Reading premiered in Venice and Toronto and is set for US release tomorrow, Joel and Ethan Coen have started production this week for A Serious Man.The Focus Features and Working Title Films production is shooting on location in Minnesota.The Coen brothers are writing, directing and producing. Executive ...
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Online distributor IndiePix launches Shakespeare collection
New York-based IndiePix, an internet-based distributor (on demand and DVD) of independent films, has launched its latest collection: 10 Shakespeare adaptations.The 10-film collection includes Laurence Olivier's Henry V (1944), Hamlet (1948) and Richard III (1955) plus Bollywood adaptations Maqbool and Omkara.'Shakespeare is on the curriculum in schools and colleges throughout ...
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Mill Valley Film Festival to open with Religulous, Bees
Religulous and The Secret Life Of Bees will open and American Violet starring Alfre Woodard and Israeli drama Lemon Tree will close the 31st Mill Valley Film Festival, which runs from October 2-12.The festival will pay tributes to Woodard, Swedish actress Harriet Andersson and screenwriter Eric Roth, who wrote the ...
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Magnolia picks up worldwide rights to Diary Of A Mad Black Man
Magnolia Pictures has picked up worldwide rights to Tim Alexander's feature directorial debut Diary of A Mad Black Man.The story uses a series of vignettes to explore the nature of relationships between black men and the stereotypes and resentment that lurk within.Magnolia President Eamonn Bowles called it a 'firecracker of ...
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New Line options How To Be Single for Flower Films to produce
New Line Cinema has optioned Liz Tuccillo's best-selling novel How To Be Single and will produce with Nancy Juvonen and Drew Barrymore's Flower Films.Tuccillo is a former writer for Sex and the City and co-wrote the book He's Just Not That Into You, which was also acquired and produced by ...