All News articles – Page 4370
-
News
Harry Potter tops flat 2005 Singapore box office
Amid double-digit declineacross most key international markets, Singapore witnessed a marginal rise in 2005 box office takingsby 0.88% to $74.7m (S$121.4m) despite a drop of 6.9% in cinema admissions to14.8 million.Prior to 2005, thecity-state had been enjoying an average of 7.7% per annum growth in box officetakings and a 4.3% ...
-
News
Metallica director Sinofsky to make a documentary about Tommy Lee
Documentary maker BruceSinofsky is following up Metallica: Some Kind Of Monster, which he made with Joe Berliner, with a film aboutthe infamous heavy metal musician Tommy Lee.The as-yet-untitled projectis scheduled to begin shooting this spring. Lee's manager and Sanctuary MusicArtists Management chief executive officer Carl Stubner is serving as executiveproducer ...
-
News
Shochiku adds four dramas to busy Berlin slate
In addition to its upcomingsamurai films, Japan's Shochiku has added four new dramas to its international sales slate,which it will be launching at the upcoming European Film Market in Berlin.Heading the slate is thelatest film from prolific cult director Takashi Miike, Big Bang Love, Juvenile A, which will receive its ...
-
News
Boberg buys Liberty, launches Liberation Entertainment
Mediaentrepreneur Jay Boberg, with the financial backing of media and communicationsprivate-equity firm Clarity Partners, has acquired Liberty InternationalEntertainment and is relaunching it as Liberation Entertainment.The acquisitionincludes a sizeable library of more than 250 features, as well as episodictelevision and music concert programming.Boberg willserve as chairman and chief executive officer of ...
-
News
The programme for Berlin's Kinderfilmfest and 14plus is finalised
A diverse programme offilms has been finalised for Berlinale's Kinderfilmfest and 14plus. Of the twenty-one films chosen, fourwill have their world premieres. These include two German films Hänsel und Gretel (Hansel and Gretel) by director Anne Wild and GernotRoll's Der Räuber Hotzenplotz (The Robber Hotzenplotz) a film from India, Doodh ...
-
News
Danish box-office takings down just 1.85%
Danish box office takings for 2005 were $125m(103,230,809 Euros), a drop of 1.85% on 2004's record year. This slight declinebucks the trend for the box office across Europe which saw all territories substantiallydown such as Germany with an 18.1% drop and Spain down by 12.7%. Local films did extremely well ...
-
News
Netherlands' box-office takings fall by 12.7%
The Netherlands may haveseen year-on-year box office fall in line with much of Europe but local titlessaw an admissions gain. The territory as a wholewitnessed box office fall 12.7% from $187.1m (Euro 154.1m) in 20004 to $163.4m(Euro 134.5m) in 2005. Admissions slipped 11.2% from 23 million to 20.5million. The year ...
-
News
Cripps to head Paramount's international distribution arm
UIP president and chiefoperating officer Andrew Cripps is to head up Paramount's internationaltheatrical distribution operation.The first major appointmentto the division is a coup for Paramount chairman Brad Grey and his team in thewake of the studio's agreement with Universal in splitting off from their jointinternational distribution venture UIP.Sources confirmed the ...
-
News
Noeltner's CMG signs on to represent Moriah Films
Cinema Management Group (CMG) has signed up as the exclusiveinternational sales agent for the Simon Wiesenthal Centre's documentary filmproduction unit Moriah Films.CMG will bring two new Moriah productions to Berlin as well asMoriah's previous Oscar winning documentaries, 1997's The Long Way Home and 1981's Genocide.Ever Again, which explores the resurgence ...
-
News
Dimension snaps up remake of Piranha
Dimension Films has snapped up US and all English-speaking rightsto Intellectual Properties Worldwide (IPW), Atmosphere EntertainmentMM/Relativity Media and Wild Bunch's horror project Piranha.Negotiations are underway for Chuck Russell to direct from ascreenplay he adapted from Joe Dante's 1978 cult classic.In Russell's version a series of earth tremors unleashes a schoolof ...
-
News
Quebec critics name Violence best international film of 2005
Quebec's film criticsassociation, L'Association quebecoise des critiques de cinema (AQCC), has named David Cronenberg's A History OfViolence as the best international filmof 2005.The other finalists wereJean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne's L'enfant, Michael Haneke's Cache,Lodge Kerrigan's Keane and AngLee's Brokeback Mountain. It'sthe second major Canadian critical accolade for the film; In December, ...
-
News
Dalton leaves Australian Film Commission for ABC
The Australian governmentagency with responsibility for developing features has to go in search of a newchief executive now that Kim Dalton has been made director of television atpublic broadcaster the ABC. The Australian FilmCommission (AFC) has only just appointed Chris Fitchett to head filmdevelopment, a division that spends about $12.8m ...
-
News
Robert Altman to receive honorary Oscar
Robert Altman will receive an honorary Oscar at the 78th AcademyAwards on Mar 5.Altman, currently in post production on his ensemble GarrisonKeillor adaptation A Prairie Home Companion, has never won an Academy Award.However the 80 year-old has earned five best director nominations for M*A*S*H,Nashville, The Player, Short Cuts and Gosford ...
-
News
Media Asia appoints Chong as CEO
Media Asia has appointedJohn Chong as chief executive officer of the company following the retirementof previous CEO Jerry Liu. Chong co-founded Media Asiain 1995 and previously held the position of executive deputy chairman and wasan executive director with responsibility for film production, marketing anddistribution. Media Asia said in astatement that ...
-
News
Peter Morris voted in as new chairman of BAFTA/LA
Peter Morris has been voted in as BAFTA/LA's new chairman alongwith a new officer and five new members to the board of directors.The newly elected Board will make its first public appearance atthe 12th Annual BAFTA/LA Tea Party on Jan 15 at the Park Hyatt Los Angeles.Morris replaces outgoing chairman ...
-
News
Louisiana movie studio to be established in Baton Rouge
In a move that will bringNew Year cheer to Louisiana officials in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, realestate developer The Celtic Group is planning to revive an abandoned BatonRouge facility and turn it into a film studio.The new Celtic Media Centreis being developed by Celtic, Baton Rouge and Los Angeles-based ...
-
News
TLA buys domestic rights to Paige's gay comedy Say Uncle
TLA Releasing has acquired North American theatrical and homeentertainment rights to Peter Paige's feature directorial debut Say Uncle and plans a June release followed by DVDroll-out in the autumn.Say Unclestars Paige as a naive gay painter pining for his recently relocated godson whois targeted by a neurotic woman as a ...
-
News
Canadian luminaries call for quotas to be returned to local television
ProminentCanadian actors and other representatives of the Canadian performers guildACTRA are calling on their fellow citizens to demand action on the culturalfront as the nation heads into a federal election on January 23. Wendy Crewson,Fiona Reid, RH Thompson were among the speakers at a press conference today. 'It is ourculture ...
-
News
Green named vp of distribution at NYC-based Emerging Pictures
Josh Green has been namedvice president of distribution for New York-based Emerging Pictures, where hewill act as a sales agent and producer's representative.On pictures where EmergingPictures acts as a distributor-for-hire for theatrical release, he will planand manage the distribution campaigns.Green previously served asEmerging's director of marketing and business development after ...
-
News
Esclavissat, Gornell get executive vp promotions at WBPI
In two key promotions forWarner Bros Pictures International (WBPI), Monique Esclavissat has been namedexecutive vice president of European distribution and Con Gornell has beennamed executive vice president of European marketing.Both senior executives moveup from their previous posts as senior vice presidents in their respectivedivisions.Esclavissat is responsible for regional supervision of ...