All Production articles – Page 544
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NewsWorldview, Octane to finance and produce The Sacrament
Worldview Entertainment has joined IM Global’s Octane division on Ti West’s horror-thriller. Octane will introduce the project to international buyers in Toronto and CAA represents domestic rights.
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NewsRenee Zellweger to direct Johnny Knoxville comedy
The star will make her feature directorial debut on PalmStar Media Capital’s 4 ½ Minutes. K5 International will introduce the project to buyers in Toronto and CAA handles North American rights.
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NewsDemarest to co-finance, co-produce A Most Wanted Man
Sam Englebardt, Michael Lambert and William D Johnson’s new financier has boarded Anton Corbijn’s (pictured) contemporary spy thriller. FilmNation is handling international sales.
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NewsEchoes From The Dead starts shoot
Daniel Alfredson’s mystery drama will shoot in Cuba and Sweden.
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NewsTakeshi Kitano considers making a third Outrage movie
Takeshi Kitano, the Japanese director/star of hardboiled yakuza thriller Outrage Beyond (sold in Toronto by Celluloid Dreams), is contemplating a third Outrage movie.
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NewsRocket Pictures taps John Stevenson for Sherlock Gnomes
Kung Fu Panda director boards 3D sequel to Rocket Pictures’ hit Gnomeo & Juliet; Rocket hires Carolyn Soper to help oversee the production; production set for early 2013 with Elton John composing original songs for the feature.
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NewsConstantin launches new subsidary NADCON
German production and distribution company has teamed up with Peter Nadermann to broaden their international production base.
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Bela Tarr: Hungarian Film Fund 'unacceptable and illegitimate'
Hungarian director [pictured] responds to confirmation that the Film Fund - run by Andy Vajna - was to take over the property of the Motion Picture Public Foundation of Hungary.
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NewsBen Wheatley to shoot ‘psychedelic’ English Civil War film before Freakshift
EXCLUSIVE: In-demand director plans late September start for Film4.0 feature A Field in England starring Michael Smiley, Reece Shearsmith and Julian Barratt; Protagonist to handle sales.
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NewsCelluloid Nightmares Toronto slate includes Stage Fright
The sales partnership between Celluloid Dreams and Los Angeles-based XYZ Films – who produced Toronto 2011 sensation The Raid – will introduce buyers in Canada to a range of new genre titles.
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NewsThykier, Foldager plan Danish football feature with Barfoed
Kris Thykier’s UK-based PeaPie Films is partnering with Meta Foldager’s Meta Films to produce Denmark ‘92, about Denmark’s unlikely victory at the 1992 UEFA European Football Championship.
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NewsKorean projects head to France for CNC co-prod meeting
France’s National Cinema Centre (CNC) and the Korean Film Centre (KOFIC) join forces for Franco-Korean co-production workshop in Paris.
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NewsPulse launches distribution arm, Anna Sissons joins from Dogwoof
Anna Sissons joins from Dogwoof to kick-start development of new film division; slate to be announced in autumn 2012.
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NewsSam Worthington lines up for Connolly's The Riders
Stealth Media Group to handle international sales on UK-Australia co-production.
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NewsSpanish filmmaker wins $500k to make film with Ridley Scott and Michael Fassbender
YouTube and Emirates prize goes to The Guilt director David Victori in Venice; Michael Fassbender and Ridley Scott to act as executive producers on next film.
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NewsSwedish Film Institute backs Bergstrom's Miss Julie, Langseth's Hotel
Other projects backed include Kicki Kjellin’s feature debut and co-productions with Spain and the Netherlands.
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Wadjda director vows to keep working in Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia’s first female film director Haifaa Al Mansour, whose debut feature Wadjda was enthusiastically received in Venice, has made an outspoken plea for women’s rights in her homeland.
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NewsSarah Calderon's marketing agency strikes first partnerships
Consultancy is providing marketing strategy for Wim Wenders’ 3D film Everything will Be Fine, among others.
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NewsEurimages confirms Canada and Israel in talks to join fund; Gulf countries could follow
Roberto Olla, executive director of Eurimages (The Council of Europe’s film fund) has again raised the possibility that Eurimages will become a fund “that goes beyond the geographical limit of Europe.”
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NewsQED International boards Zac Efron rom-com
Tom Gormican wrote the Blacklist screenplay and is scheduled to begin shooting Are We Officially Dating? for TreeHouse Pictures in New York in November. QED will introduce to buyers in Toronto next week.