All News articles – Page 5193
-
News
Korean debut wins Hamburg's Golden tesafilm reel
Korean director Kim Dae-Seung's first feature film Bungee Jumping Of Their Own has won the Filmfest Hamburg's 'Golden tesafilm Reel' audience award against competition from 10 other first-time filmmakers. Filmfest director Josef Wutz announced that more than 25,000 admissions were registered for the 148 screenings of the 81 films in ...
-
News
UK's Scala Productions boards TSP's Seagull
The UK's Scala Productions has boarded English-language Spanish production The Seagull, in development at Barcelona start-up TSP.Spaniard Enrique Gabriel (Fading Memories) will direct the "Mediterranean adaptation" of the Chekhov play, which was co-scripted by TSP founders Eva Baro and Antoni Sole. The $12m film is being prepped for a 2002 ...
-
News
Shortlist announced for Comedy Shorts initiative
The UK's First Film Foundation and the Paramount Comedy Channel have announced the shortlisted scriptwriters and directors in the Comedy Shorts Initiative 2001. Four scripts and five directors have been shortlisted from a total of more than 700 submitted scripts and showreels The judging panel, which currently includes Bruce Robinson, ...
-
News
Chicago festival honours Sigourney Weaver
Signourney Weaver is to receive a lifetime achievement award during this year's Chicago International film festival, at a gala evening hosted by Bill Kurtis of A & E television. "We're thrilled to have Sigourney Weaver as our lifetime achievement award recipient," said festival director Michael Kutza. "She is truly a ...
-
News
Ellender named MD of Freemantle Int'l
David Ellender has been named managing director of Fremantle International Distribution, which distributes programming throughout the world. He comes to Fremantle from Universal Studios Television Distribution, where he was also managing director.At his new post, Ellender will be accountable for managing and developing all aspects of the company, including the ...
-
News
Germany to get UK comedy TV adaptations
UK television comedy series Hale And Pace and drama series Reckless are being adapted by the German production arm of UK broadcaster Granada. Called Granada Produktion fuer Film und Fernsehen, the company aims to establish itself in the German market, through local adaptations of comedy and TV movies. Granada ...
-
News
Optimism emerges from industry gloom
A sector by sector look at the industry's financial prospects after the impact of the Sept 11 events and the threat of economic slowdown. To be published over the next few days. Part 1: broadcast TV. Abstracted from the weekly edition of Screen InternationalThree weeks on, and like the rest ...
-
News
Sweden's Film I Vast to sponsor Goteborg festival
Sweden's successful regional fund, Film I Vast has become the new backer of the Nordic Film Award at the Goteborg Film Festival. The award was instigated in 1989 by local newspaper Goteborg Posten, and has been known as the GP's Nordic Award, but from next year's 25th edition it will ...
-
News
Shine pair re-teams for Oz-UK Love's Brother
Jane Scott and Jan Sardi, the producer and writer of Australian hit film Shine, are teaming up again for the romantic comedy Love's Brother, except that this time it will also be Sardi's directorial debut. Great Scott Productions' producing partner in the official Australian/UK co-production is Sarah Radclyffe Productions.A substantial ...
-
News
Distrib newcomer ThinkFilm calls Time Out for US
ThinkFilm, the fledgling North American distributor that was set up recently by a team of former Lions Gate executives, has acquired US rights to Venice-winning French title L'Emploi Du Temps (Time Out), the second feature film by Human Resources director Laurent Cantet.Since the Toronto film festival some ten companies have ...
-
News
A taste for French films
In recent months French productions have found a lucrative niche at the box office of The Federal Republic of Yugolslavia (FRY), which consists of the republics of Serbia and Montenegro, successfully competing with both Hollywood blockbusters and local productions.One reason for this trend is the fact that since the end ...
-
News
Catch 23 secures credit facility with Comerica
Catch 23 Entertainment, the LA-based production company founded by financier Robert B Sturm, has completed a multi-million dollar credit facility with Comerica Entertainment Group, a division of Comerica Bank Of California.The proceeds from the facility will provide Catch 23 with additional film financing and development capital and will be used ...
-
News
Inch'Allah Dimanche wins top Marakesh award
Inch'Allah Dimanche by Franco-Algerian director Yamina Benguigui was yesterday (Oct 2) named best film at the end of the first Marakesh film festival. The film is the story of a family of Algerian immigrants in 1960s France.The jury rewarded two other films: Andanggaman by Ivory Coast director Roger Gnoan M'Bala ...
-
News
Hedwig to open Stockholm film festival
John Cameron Mitchell's Hedwig And The Angry Inch will open the competition at the Stockholm International Film Festival, which focuses on new and innovative cinema. Other competitors include Henry Bean's The Believer and Richard Parry's South West Nine, from the producers of Human Traffic. Todd Solondz's Storytelling has a slot ...
-
News
Garland leaves Universal Studios Networks
Tony Garland has left Universal Studios Networks (USN), where he was president, in order to concentrate on other interests.The long-anticipated move sees Bibiane Godfroid become the unchallenged head of channels and services within the Canal Plus Group, the film and TV arm of Vivendi Universal.In a statement, the company said ...
-
News
Italy's Mifed boosts its international appeal
As it attempts to recover ground lost to supporters of the rival London Screenings, Mifed has announced an increase in the number of premieres and films screening at the market, as well as several innovations including a convention on international relations, a VIP Lounge and a new market award.Mifed organizers ...
-
News
Fantasy over for Japan's Square film business
Following the US flop of its first feature, the CGI animation Final Fantasy, game maker Square Co. has announced its exit from the film business. The company expects to record a $83m (Y10 billion) net loss for the current fiscal year, ending in March. Expecting big box office from Final ...
-
News
Constantin/Propaganda joint venture folds
ProCon Pictures LLC, the joint venture launched by Germany's Constantin Film and US production studio Propaganda Films to share the development, financing, production and exploitation of international cinema and TV projects has folded.The joint venture, which was established at the beginning of May 2000 had aimed to produce three to ...
-
News
Production division is latest Kinowelt casualty
Cash-strapped Kinowelt Medien's production arm Kinowelt Filmproduktion has become the latest victim of the German media group's radical programme of restructuring.Redundancy slips have been handed out to all of the production arm's employees as well as to co-managing director Ulrich Limmer, whose contract would have been up for renewal at ...
-
News
Pliny Porter named production head at Fireworks
Pliny Porter has joined CanWest-owned FireWorks Pictures as head of production and development. He will work with CanWest Entertainment chairman and CEO Jay Firestone and Fireworks president Daniel Diamond in growing the company's production and development activities. He joins the company, which is enjoying current success with Rat Race and ...