All News articles – Page 2800
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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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NewsMona Fastvold to make feature directorial debut with Sleepwalker
Fastvold’s [pictured] film is one of five films to be supported by the Norwegian Film Institute.
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NewsHot projects on Screenbase
Yasmin Paige has been lined up to star in British drama Chicken while Fernando Trueba is preparing his upcoming feature La Reina De Espana.
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NewsWar Witch wins audience award at Cambridge Film Festival
32nd edition of the UK’s third-longest running film festival ran Sept 13-23.
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NewsEuropean premiere of Jakimowski's Imagine to open Warsaw Film Festival
28th edition runs Oct 12-21 and will screen 200 features and shorts from 55 countries.
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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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NewsHou’s The Assassin to start shooting in October
Taiwanese filmmaker Hou Hsiao Hsien downplayed speculation that the $14.5m martial arts drama, which stars Japan’s Satoshi Tsumabuki along with Chang Chen, would be effected by Japan-China political tension.
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NewsBela Tarr to lead new three-year doctoral level film programme
Lecturers lined up for Film Factory include Tilda Swinton, Gus Van Sant, Aki Kaurismaki and Apichatpong Weerasethakul.
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NewsUK, Brazil ink co-production treaty
UK signs film and TV co-production treaty with rising power Brazil.
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NewsMinds Eye, Red Sky, Moving Pictures board Avalon
Canada’s Minds Eye Entertainment, Red Sky Entertainment and Moving Pictures Media will produce the live-action fantasy book adaptation Avalon: Web Of Magic [pictured].
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NewsWell Go USA swoops on North American rights to The Thieves
Choi Dong-hoon’s South Korean heist thriller was a summer smash in its home country where it reportedly generated more than 10m admissions – the first film to do so since tsunami action film Haeundae three years ago.
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NewsFirst Time Fest launches in New York in March 2013
Co-founders Johanna Bennett and Mandy Ward of First Time Fest (FTF) said industry experts and select members of the public will judge 12 finalists from a potential pool of thousands.
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NewsWinkler Films options The Empty Glass
J I Baker will adapt the thriller screenplay from his novel about conspiracy theories surrounding the death of Marilyn Monroe.
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NewsSpain's APPA calls for new tax breaks for foreign producers
At the San Sebastián Film Festival, a new proposal has come forward for the Spanish cinema sector to overcome difficulties due to the financial crisis.
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NewsSpanish producers association controversially suggests new finance system
Pedro Pérez, president of producers association, asks government that “cinema finances cinema.”
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NewsFilm District moves up thriller release Dead Man Down
The film will now open on Mar 8 2013 after FlimDistrict initially selected Apr 5 2013.
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NewsDistribution round-up: Film Movement acquires Broken
Film Movement has acquired North American rights to Rufus Norris’ Critics’ Week opener, while The Cinema Guild has swooped on US rights to Museum Hours and Freestyle Digital Media will release Amphibious (pictured) in North America.
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NewsLionsgate grows borrowing base with $800m facility
The new five-year revolving credit facility replaces the studio’s previous $340m deal.
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NewsTaiwan enters Touch of the Light for Oscar consideration
Wong Kar Wai presents Chang Yung Chi’s debut feature; Fortissimo handles sales.