All News articles – Page 3765
-
News
San Sebastian selects projects for Cinema in Motion
The San Sebastian International Film Festival has revealed the four films that will compete in the fourth edition of Cinema In Motion, which highlights key projects from the Maghreb region and developing Arabian countries.This year's selected projects are Lebanese director De Gaulle Eid's Chou Sar' (Lebanon-France-Palestine); Najwa Najjar's Pomegranates And ...
-
News
Revolver and Metrodome sign deals for Film London micro-budget features
Film London has announced that the first two completed features produced through its Microwave micro-budget film-making scheme have secured theatrical distribution. Metrodome has acquired Eran Creevy's Shifty for the UK, Ireland and Eastern Europe (Romania, Czech Republic, Poland, Ukraine, Croatia, Slovak Republic and Slovenia). The urban thriller charts 24 hours ...
-
News
UK Film Council awards distribution support to 13 films
The UK Film Council's Prints and Advertising Fund has announced funding to support the distribution of 13 films. The P&A funding is aimed at promoting art-house, foreign and classic films to give audiences more choice.Revolver Films received $312,314 (£170,000) for The Wackness, Jonathan Levine's offbeat drama starring Ben Kingsley.The funding ...
-
News
Pinewood Shepperton boasts big jump in half-year profits
The UK's Pinewood Shepperton studios has recorded a 31% year-on-year increase in half-year pre-tax profitsto $6.7m ($3.8m).Revenues rose 19% to $39.9m (£21.7m) with revenues from film up 20% to $23.8m (£13m).The studios have hosted the 007 film Quantum Of Solace and other major shoots, including Richard Curtis's The Boat That ...
-
News
Venice off to a strong start
The 65th Venice Film Festival kicked off Wednesday night with a warm reception for the Coen Brothers' dark comedy Burn After Reading.To see day one report click hereTo see buzz films click hereThe out-of-competition film assured a star-studded opening night for Venice with principal cast George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Tilda ...
-
News
In Focus: Australia's New Holland Pictures
New Holland Pictures launched in 2004 with the ambitious - for Australia - aim of producing three films a year.Four years on, and the company that was set up as a joint venture between leading Dutch film company Idtv Film and Australian producers Mark and Cathy Overett is proving that ...
-
News
Film Focus: The Descent 2
Getting to the set of The Descent 2 somewhat surprisingly does not require a trip underground. Like the 2005 original, the sequel shot mostly in caves recreated on studio sets - this time for a 40-day shoot at London's Ealing Studios with some location work in England and Scotland (the ...
-
News
3D film-maker warns of difficulty in cracking US market
Producer-director Ben Stassen has warned that the US remains a tough market to crack for independent 3D films.'It's a David and Goliath battle,' Stassen commented in the wake of thebelow par US performance of his film, kids' animated tale Fly Me To The Moon. Click here for review.The 3D film ...
-
News
Norrie leaves Capitol to become head of international at Salt
The Salt Company has appointed James Norrie as head of international.Norrie was previously head of sales at Capitol Films and previously worked at Icon International.Salt, recently relaunched from the previous sales incarnation Lumina Films, is part of the International Film Collective.The company's directors and founders are Samantha Horley, Robert Bevan ...
-
News
Maya takes US theatrical and DVD for Talento De Barrio
Maya Entertainment has acquired the US theatrical and DVD rights to Jose Ivan Santiago's gangster drama Talento De Barrio starring reggaeton superstar Daddy Yankee.The film opens in select markets on September 19 and tells of a young man from the Puerto Rican barrios whose past catches up with him after ...
-
News
6.5 Minutes In Tel Aviv wins best of festival award at Palm Springs
Mirey Brantz' Israeli entry 6.5 Minutes In Tel Aviv won the 2008 Palm Springs International ShortFest's Best Of Festival Award as the seven-day event came to a close on August 27.As Best of Festival winner, Brantz becomess eligible to submit his film for Oscar consideration.Marcal Fores' UK submission Friends Forever ...
-
News
here! Films takes domestic on De Fleur's Queen Raquela
here! Films has acquired North American rights to Icelandic film-maker Olaf De Fleur's The Amazing Truth About Queen Raquela.Sister company Regent Releasing will distribute the film in select cities this autumn starting with New York and Los Angeles on September 26.The Amazing Truth About Queen Raquela centres on a transsexual ...
-
News
UPIE kicks off Blu-ray strategy with day-and-date launch of Hulk
Universal Pictures International Entertainment (UPIE) kicks off its international Blu-ray strategy on October 13 with the day-and-date launch of The Incredible Hulk on the high definition format and DVD.The company's Blu-ray release platform will reach the UK, Australia, France, Germany, Russia, Japan, Spain, Mexico, Italy and Brazil this year.Up to ...
-
News
Shroder to direct mythological movie for SCI FI in Romania
Ricky Schroder is to direct Hellhounds, an original movie for the US SCI FI Channel which will shoot on location in Romania from Aug 31 to Sept 19.The film is an international co-production between Canada's Muse Entertainment and Romania's SC Studiourile Media Pro. Muse's Michael Prupas is executive producing alongside ...
-
News
Fictitious documentary on Tropic Thunder goes onto iTunes
DreamWorks has uploaded a companion piece to Tropic Thunder on iTunes that chronicles the fictitious cast and crew's struggle to film the movie with the movie in Paramount-DreamWorks' recent action comedy release.The mockumentary Rain Of Madness stars Jay Baruchel, Jack Black, Steve Coogan, Robert Downey Jr, Bill Hader, Nick Nolte ...
-
News
Brian Owens named artistic director at Nashville Film Festival
Brian Owens has been hired as artistic director of the Nashville Film Festival, which is gearing up for its 40th anniversary celebrations from April 16-23, 2009.Owens previously served as artistic director of the Indianapolis International Film Festival, which he founded in 2003.During his tenure he expanded the festival's programming to ...
-
News
Burn After Reading opens Venice Film Festival
Venice kickedoff last nightwith the galapremiereof the Coen Brothers' Burn After Reading.George Clooney and Brad Bitt brought some A-list star power to the red carpet for the opening. To see Screen's review of the film click here.More big names are expected to arrive forthe traditionally glitzy opening weekend, which will ...
-
News
Survival Song takes Red Chameleon award at CinDi fest
The 2nd Cinema Digital Seoul Film Festival (CinDi) closed with a screening of Yu Guangyi's Survival Song, which won the International Directors Jury's Red Chameleon award yesterday (Aug 26). The jury, led by Korean Chinese director Zhang Lu, praised the film for 'continually shooting even in extremely limited light to ...
-
News
Fortissimo adds Food, Inc. to its Toronto line-up
Fortissimo Films has acquired documentary feature Food, Inc., which is set to receive its world premiere at the upcoming Toronto Film Festival. Produced and directed by Robert Kenner (PBS documentary series The American Experience), the film examines the American food industry and how conditions within the US borders affect the ...
-
News
In Focus: The awards season
Between last September and December, studios and independents unleashed 42 prestige English-language films on domestic audiences. On paper it was a bumper Oscar-qualification season which featured titles from Tim Burton, David Cronenberg, Sidney Lumet, the Coen brothers, Paul Thomas Anderson, Ridley Scott, Robert Redford and Mike Nichols.But 2008 is a ...