All Middle East articles – Page 157
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Jodie Whittaker goes to South Africa for Turner's White Wedding
Jann Turner has started a South African shoot for White Wedding, her feature film debut.The romantic road movie is shooting across South Africa from Johannesburg and Durban to the Eastern Cape and Cape Town.Jodie Whittaker, who starred in Venus and St Trinian's, takes the lead opposite South African veterans Kenneth ...
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Yellow Bird flies for 13 more Mankell thrillers
While in production with the $16.8m (Eu10.7m) Millennium Trilogy from the late Swedish author Stieg Larsson's novels, Swedish production outfit Yellow Bird has financed a package of 13 Henning Mankell thrillers, which will begin shooting at Ystad in southern Sweden during the summer.Swedish actor Krister Henriksson will star as detective ...
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Ascot Elite adds to slate with Swiss sci-fi thriller Cargo
Zurich-based Ascot Elite Entertainment has unveiled a raft of new acquisitions, including the first ever Swiss science-fiction thriller Cargo by feature debutants Ralph Etter and Ivan Engler.The acquisition of rights to all German speaking territories are for: the action thriller The Tournament, starring Robert Carlyle, Ving Rhames, Kelly Hu and ...
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Screen South, Skillset launch co-production producer scheme
Screen South and Skillset, in partnership with Cine Regio and sales association Film Export UK, are launching the new Cine-Euro Co-Production Training Programme.The nine-month programme will help 8 UK producers develop, market, finance and seek partners for European co-productions. The 12 events, including one-to-one consultations and training seminars start in ...
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Borgerding named CEO of Abu Dhabi Media Company
Edward Borgerding has been named chief executive officer of The Abu Dhabi Media Company, the media and entertainment conglomerate based in the capital of the United Arab Emirates (UAE).The announcement was made by company chairman Mohamed Khalaf Al-Mazrouei.Borgerding most recently had his own private equity firm in London and recently ...
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Fliegauf, Puiu and Carrito serve onLocarno juries
Film directors Benedek Fliegauf (Hungary), Cristi Puiu (Romania) and Albertina Carri (Argentina) are have been recruited as members of two official juries at this year's Locarno International Film Festival (August 6-16).Fliegauf, who won the Filmmakers of the Present competition Leopard last year for Milky Way and will be the subject ...
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Marcich promoted to president, MD for MPA's EMEA branch
The Motion Pictures Association (MPA) has promoted Christopher Marcich to president and managing director for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA).Marcich is a 13-year-veteran of MPA's EMEA arm, most recently serving as senior vice president and managing director.He assumes the new title immediately and reports directly to MPA president ...
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Transsiberian co-producer Universum boards Lippel's Dream
Universum Film, co-producer/distrubutor of Brad Anderson's thriller Transsiberian, has boarded its first German-language project, Lars Buechel's Lippel's Dream (Lippels Traum) which begins shooting in Morocco's Ouarzazate today.The co-production between Ulrich Limmer's Collina Film, Universum Film, Bayerischer Rundfunk, B.A. Produktion, and Buechel's own production outfit element e, is based on Paul ...
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Tom Stern teams up with Russian director Pavel Lungin
Director Pavel Lungin is in the midst of filming on Ivan The Terrible And The Metropolitan Philip (working title) about Russia's first czar, Ivan IV.Russian Film Business Today reports that American cinematographer Tom Stern is DOP of the film. Stern is known for his work on American Beauty, Mystic River ...
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Croatia makes $9.2m awards to film
Croatia's Ministry of Culture and Croation National Television have finally announced $9.2m in awards after seven months.The funding includes support for 10 features with between them take $6.4m of the $9.2m total.The features are:In The Wonderland (U Zemlji Cudesa)(director: Dejan Sorak, production companu: Interfilm.) $893,617 Children's Kingdom (Djecje Carstvo) (Branko ...
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Finnish Film Foundation backs seven features
The Finnish Film Foundation has allocated $2.9m (Eu1.9m) production support for seven new features, including four local films, a co-production with Estonia and two Scandinavia ventures.Produced by Riina Hyytiä for Dionysos Films, Johanna Vuoksenmaa's One Foot Under (toinen jalka haudasta) is the story of a 35-year-old man told he has ...
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Quiet Chaos dominates Donatello nominations
Rome-Domenico Procacci's Fandango-produced Quite Chaos starring NanniMoretti and directed by Antonello Grimaldi leads the race for the David of Donatello awards, with eighteen nominations.Quiet Chaos, which was presented at Berlin and features a cameo with Roman Polanski has performed well at the local box office earning $8.8m (Euros 5.2m) in ...
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Unifrance's Menegoz defends bodyagainst damning report
A report commissioned by the foreign affairs ministry has sent shockwaves through the French film industry since it was first leaked to French daily Le Figaro last week.The report, commissioned in October 2007 and handled by theMedia Consulting Group, examined Unifrance's missions over the period of 2005-2007 and found that ...
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High school Die Welle opens strong for Constantin with $3.5m
Germany's Die Welle was the highest non-US entry into the international top 40 this weekend with a $3.5m take, falling just shy of the top 10.The top 40 films generated $188.2m across 46,679 screens for the period of March 14-16.For the full international chart, compiled by Len Klady, click here.Die ...
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French hit Ch'tis to run at London's Cine Lumiere
Pathe UK is releasing French hit Bienvenue Chez Les Ch'tis exclusively at London's Cine Lumiere from April 1-24.The comedy, which has clocked up a mammoth $103.5m after three weeks on release, proved a surprise hit at the French box office after taking more than 5m admissions in its first week ...
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On-demand market could hit $1.1bn in 2012
On-demand media could generate revenues of $1.1bn by 2012 in the US and Europe, according to a new report from Screen Digest.That will include $665m of new revenue and the rest replacement for DVD spending.Screen Digest noted that the on-demand market 'has the potential not only to revolutionise how consumers ...
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Nu Boyana expands with new city streets sets
Outside sets re-creating streets of London, Paris and Berlin are being planned next year to join the 2.5 kilometres of New York streets currently in construction at Sofia's Nu Boyana Film Studios.Speaking exclusively to ScreenDaily.com on the studio lot at the weekend, Nu Boyana's CEO and Chairman David Varod said ...
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Croatia joins EU's MEDIA Programme
Croatia has become the first candidate country to join the European Union's (EU) MEDIA 2007 programme - the support programme for the region's audiovisual industry.European Commissioner for Information Society and Media, Viviane Reding, on Monday signed a Memorandum of Understanding that allows Croatia to participate in the programme with Ambassador ...
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Negativ wins record Czech government backing for Alois Nebel
A new project from producer Pavel Strnad (Something Like Happiness, Year Of The Devil) has received a record $946,000 (CZK 15m) in financing from the Czech state film fund for a new project, comic book adaptation Alois Nebel.The move may signal a change in the way the state funding body ...
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Industry objects to European Commission's online content plans
Key elements of the European Commission's (EC) proposals to promote content online have come under fire from a host of industry representatives and associations across Europe.The strength of objections became clear as responses to a public consultation on the Commission's proposals were published.The UK Film Council criticised the Commission's overall ...