All News articles – Page 5023
-
News
The Tracker wins Australian critics prize
The Tracker has won best film prize at Australia's Film Critics Circle awards. Julie Ryan accepted the award, saying that Rolf de Heer, her co-producer on the film, was not just an inspiration to her but to the whole film community.Rolf de Heer had already been on stage to collect ...
-
News
MGM takes over own Canadian video distribution
MGM Home Entertainment Group is to assume all Canadian self-distribution responsibilities for video and DVD, taking over from Warner Home Video, president and chief operating officer David Bishop announced yesterday. The extension of operations will begin in April 2003 and will be headed up in Toronto by Martin Wragg, the ...
-
News
Poland's Sobocinski to receive top cinematography prize
The veteran cinematographer Witold Sobocinski is to receive the American Society Of Cinematographer's (ASC) International Achievement Award for his outstanding contribution to international cinema. Sobocinski, who was born in Poland in 1929 and has made more than 30 features mostly seen in Poland and Eastern Europe, is the first recipient ...
-
News
Sundance unveils new grant for science themed films
The Sundance Institute has announced a new grant and a $20,000 prize from the Alfred P Sloan Foundation to develop and reward films that explore science and technology. Each year a selected project from the Sundance Institute Feature Film Program will receive support from development to pre-production with year-round resources. ...
-
News
Three film funding schemes launched at British independent film awards
Fittingly for an industry experiencing a flood a new tax-based film funds, Wednesday night's British Independent Film Awards (Bifa's) saw the unveiling of the latest venture to hit the market with bold claims.Attended by actor Ewan McGregor, director Ken Loach and leading industry figures such as producer Jeremy Thomas and ...
-
News
Solid Air starts shooting in Glasgow
Shooting started in Glasgow today (Oct 30) on Solid Air, director May Miles Thomas' follow up to the Bafta-winning DV feature One Life Stand.A complex drama set in the twin worlds of litigation and high-stakes gambling, Solid Air tells the story of a compulsive gambler who comes home to his ...
-
News
South Korea's MP Entertainment launches ambitious film production fund
South Korean production/talent management company MP Entertainment has announced the formation of an ambitious $41.7m (WON 50bn) film production fund, which is expected to greatly boost its profile in the rapidly-evolving Korean industry. With capital to be provided by parent company J&C Holdings, MP Entertainment intends to devote $16.7m to ...
-
News
Kamchatka selected as Argentina's Oscar contender
Argentina has submitted Marcelo Pineyro's Kamchatka to compete for a best foreign film Oscar. Kamchatka beat strong contenders led by Carlos Sorin's Historias Minimas, Adolfo Aristarain's Lugares Comunes and Pablo Trapero's El Bonaerense. Trapero's gritty police drama played successfully in Cannes' Un Certain Regard while Lugares Comunes and Historias Minimas ...
-
News
Box office bells ring for Greek Wedding in Australia
Australia has become the latest territory to be conquered by indie-sensation My Big Fat Greek Wedding, according to co-producer Gold Circle Films.The romantic comedy, directed by Joel Zwick and distributed in Australia by Roadshow, launched straight into number one at the Australian box office over the weekend, grossing $1.9m (A$3.4m) ...
-
News
Michael Haneke wins Vienna city award
Austria's filmmaker Michael Haneke (The Piano Player, Funny Games) was awarded the 'Golden Decoration" for services to the city of Vienna at a ceremony in the Austrian capital's City Hall on October 28 (Monday).'It is thanks to Michael Haneke that Austria today enjoys the reputation of being an exciting film ...
-
News
Green, Knibbs join board of UK's Film Council
Nigel Green, joint managing director of Entertainment Film Distributors, and Stephen Knibbs, senior vice president of UCI Cinemas, have joined the board of UK support body the Film Council.The council, which administers around£50 million a year in public money, was criticised for not having a distributor or an exhibitor on ...
-
News
Jackass star Knoxville boards Grand Theft Parsons
Fresh off his number one box office hit, Jackass - The Movie, Johnny Knoxville has signed to the comedy, Grand Theft Parsons. Inspired by a true story, the MTV comedy daredevil will play road manager Phil Kaufman, who steals the body of Gram Parsons and races down to the Joshua ...
-
News
Metro Tartan acquires Secretary
UK independent Metro Tartan Distribution has acquired local rights to Sundance festival sensation Secretary (pictured) by Steven Shainberg.The film, which features Maggie Gyllenhaal as a woman who enters a sado-masochistic relationship with her demanding lawyer boss (James Spader), was originally sold by the UK's Alibi Films. Lion's Gate picked up ...
-
News
FilmFour's Motorcycle Diaries shoots across Latin America
Walter Salles' The Motorcycle Diaries has started shooting in Argentina. The film stars Gael Garcia Bernal (Y Tu Mama Tambien, Amores Perros) as the young Che, rising young Argentinean actor Rodrigo de la Serna (Same Love, Same Rain) as Alberto and Mia Maestro (Frida, Hotel, Timecode) as Chichina Ferreyra. Shooting ...
-
News
Cinerenta and Babelsberg sign co-operative agreement
John Boorman's SFX-laden, family fantasy feature Knight's Castle may benefit from a cooperative agreement concluded this week between German private media fund Cinerenta and Studio Babelsberg Motion Pictures for Cinerenta's Media Fund VI to be dedicated exclusively to projects produced in the Berlin-Brandenburg region. Introducing the joint initiative, Cinerenta's COO ...
-
News
A major setback for Australia's Film Finance Corp.
Film Finance Corporation (FFC) chair Geoff Levy today released a three-paragraph media statement that must be one of the most ill-considered and misleading the organisation has ever issued. It announced that the search had resumed for a new chief executive, arguably, the most important job in Australia's film industry. But ...
-
News
Michael Koelmel released on bail
Kinowelt co-founder Michael Koelmel is back on the streets after being released on bail early Wednesday afternoon after spending the past two nights in a prison cell.Despite the negative headlines, brothers Rainer and Michael are still sticking to their plans to take over the core assets of their bankrupt media ...
-
News
Bauer consortium selected as negotiating partner for KirchMedia
The bidding consortium of German publisher Heinrich Bauer Verlag and the HypoVereinsbank has been selected by the creditors committee of the insolvent KirchMedia to enter into exclusive negotiations for the take over of the media concern which includes the private broadcasters ProSieben, SAT.1, Kabel 1 and the former KirchGroup's film ...
-
News
Portugal's national film institute in crisis
The vice president of Portugal's national film institute ICAM abruptly resigned last weekend, launching accusations that ICAM could default on outstanding debt worth upwards of Euros 30m.In a three-page letter sent to the Ministry of Culture and cited in all of the country's major newspapers, the former vice president Jose ...
-
News
Emperor's Wife prepares to shoot
Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Max Beesley head the cast of The Emperor's Wife, an adult fairy tale directed by Julien Vrebos, which goes into production on Friday Nov 1. The cast also includes Spanish actresses Rosana Pastor, recently seen in Land And Freedom, and Leticia Dolera of The Other ...