All News articles – Page 4723
-
News
Movision, Spice Factory step in to rescue The River King
UK-based production and financing companies Movision and SpiceFactory have stepped in to join Myriad Pictures as co-financiers onsupernatural murder mystery The River King, which is due to begin production in Canada later thismonth.The film is the latest to be rescued after the UK tax clampdownlast month left it on the ...
-
News
FINLAND
While Brother Bear and the local hit Dog Nail Clipper stayed on top of the Finnish chart this weekend, the two new releases on third and fourth, Something's Gotta Give and the homemade WW2 drama Beyond The Front Line, both had much better screen averages but fewer prints.Veteran actor and ...
-
News
GERMANY
Although the Ben Stiller/Jennifer Anniston romantic comedy Along Came Polly opened with the Top 15's best screen average ($6,384) and sold almost 400,000 tickets in its four days, this was not enough to unseat Scary Movie 3 from the top spot.The genre parody saw its gross slip 50% week-on-week but ...
-
News
Spanish industry gets political
For full Spanish production listings click HERESpanish cinema has a long history of broaching social issues. Recent hits Take My Eyes (Te Doy Mis Ojos) and Mondays In The Sun (Los Lunes Al Sol) are examples of films tackling hot topics such as domestic abuse and unemployment. Pedro Almodovar touches ...
-
News
ITALY
Filmauro's Italian coming-of-age tale, Che Ne Sara' Di Noi (literally, What will become of us) opened on a high at number four at the Italian box office last weekend, grossing $997,007 from 171 screens.The picture, which was directed by Giovanni Veronesi and co-scripted by Veronesi and the film's lead actor, ...
-
News
Las Palmas lines-up 30 projects for market
The Las Palmas International Film Festival is gearing up forits fifth annual edition (March 12-20), and is set to host the second annualEuroForum Co-Production Market where more than 30 new projects will bepresented from 10 different countries.Honorary award recipients Mia Farrow and Omar Shariff areamong the stars expected to turn ...
-
News
French directors call for curbs on film print numbers
About 200 filmmakers have signed an open letter in Frenchdaily Le Monde calling for a limit tothe number of prints sent out to theatres on a film's release.Among the signatories were members of the Agence Pour LeCinema Independant Et Sa Diffusion (ACID) including Chantal Akerman, CedricKlapisch, Bertrand Tavernier, Nicolas Philibert, ...
-
News
Stillking opens Cape Town production office
Prague based production service company Stillking Films hasopened an office in Cape Town, South Africa.The move highlights the growing importance of South Africaas an international film location. Stillking is the Czech Republic's topproduction services company, working on films such as The Bourne Identity (Universal), Shanghai Knights (Disney), Van Helsing (Universal), ...
-
News
...as Cape Town studio drafts in Hollywood designer
Scott Carter, whodesigned the Disney sound stages in the US, has been chosen to designDreamworld, Cape Town's film studio complex."We went toHollywood and got the best man we could find," says Mike MacCarthy, oneof the directors of the DreamWorld consortium along with producer Anant Singhwho is chairman of the group.Carter ...
-
News
Disney looks to UK tax funds to support distribution costs
Walt Disney Studios isbelieved to be the latest Hollywood major to tap a UK tax-based fund tounderwrite their distribution costs.The studio is finalizing apact to licence about eight films to the Timeless Releasing scheme devised byUK tax financier Future Film in a deal understood to be worth up to £200m.The ...
-
News
Malaysia cranks up local production
Malaysiais poised to become the second largest film producer in South East Asia, thanksto an increasing number of pictures being churned out by local producers.Twoof the biggest producers in Malaysia are planning to increase film output thisyear: Metrowealth has set to make 11, up from six last year, while TayanganUnggul ...
-
News
Minghella, Rickman back UK launch of Stellar Network
Jude Law, Anthony Minghella and Alan Rickman are lending their names to the Stellar Network, the starry New York networking organisation which is opening its doors in London.Other boardmembers from across film, theatre and television include director Peter Kosminsky, playwright and screenplay writer David Hare, showbusiness journalist Baz Bamigboye and ...
-
News
UK Film Council offers digital projection funding for film clubs
The UK Film Council has launched a £500,000 National Lottery funded initiative to boost access to films in areas without a local screen.Film clubs and local film societies, community groups and mobile film exhibitors are to apply to the digital fund for non-theatrical exhibition. The organisations can secure up to ...
-
News
Walden denies Kidman link to Narnia
Walden Media has denied widespread rumours that Nicole Kidman is poised to take a major role in the forthcoming The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe.Early this week, several New Zealand newspapers - including The New Zealand Herald, The Sunday Mail and The Dominion Post - reported that Kidman spent ...
-
News
FRANCE
The top two films at the French box office traded places last week with three week old hit comedy Podium shooting back up to number one from second position knocking last week's winner The Crimson Rivers: Angels Of The Apocalypse down a notch.Podium has garnered 2.6 million admissions so far ...
-
News
Austrian region launches Euros 1.5m fund
Austria's Land of Styria and the city of Graz havejoined forces to provide an annual Euros 1.5m for the creation of the CineStyria Film Commission & Film Fund.Introducing the new regional body at this week's Diagonalefilm festival in Graz, managing director Enrico Jakob explained that CineStyria intends to be 'a ...
-
News
Something's Gotta Give closes in on $100m international
The romantic comedy Something'sGotta Give added an estimated $8.3m from 2,400 screens at the weekend,raising its international cumulative total to $91.1m.Released internationallythrough Warner Bros, the picture grossed $6.9m in European markets for a $64.6mregional total there.It has amassed $18.5m in theAsia-Pacific region and $8m in Latin America.
-
News
Passion stays top, races past $200m in second weekend
Newmarket Film's ThePassion Of The Christ streaked past $200m in its second weekend, holding onto top spot and adding an estimated $51.4m for $212m.Newmarket president BobBerney said Mel Gibson's picture fell only 39% - a very strong hold bearing inmind releases of this scale typically fall 50% in their second ...
-
News
Universal's Along Came Polly scores table-topping Mexico bow
Universal's romantic comedy AlongCame Polly grossed an estimated $8.2m from 1,600 sites in 14 markets through UIP at theweekend to raise its international running total to $24.3m.The highlights were a firstplace $1m bow in Mexico from 233 sites including previews and second place inGermany on $2.9m from 469.The picture remained ...