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All articles by Sandy George – Page 9
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NewsFilmart: Film adaptations help integrate cultures
Indian investment banker-turned-novelist Chetan Bhagat said the Indian film industry is only recently becoming more active in adapting books for screen, but that shoudl grow as India’s independent film production sector grows.He noted that in India, commerical films are driven by the audience’s desire for escapism, formulaic stories and stars, ...
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NewsFear spreads for StudioCanal
EXCLUSIVE: StudioCanal has sold Sundance Film Festival title In Fear to Umbrella for Australia and New Zealand at Filmart.
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NewsAustralia’s movie convention moves to October
Move will highlight Christmas line-up and is hoped to attract new international delegates.
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NewsDutch thriller Taped sells to Japan
EXCLUSIVE: New Select has acquired Japanese rights to the Dutch thriller Taped from Australian sales agent Odin’s Eye Entertainment at Filmart.
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CommentA new animal kingdom
One family-friendly title at Filmart features Gregory Popovich sharing the spotlight with dozens of rescued cats and dogs.
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NewsJim Gillespie to direct Take Down
Radiant Films International has signed on to represent the teen thriller Take Down, to be directed in the UK later in the year by I Know What You Did Last Summer director Jim Gillespie, from a script by Ransom writer Alexander Ignon.
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NewsJust Like A Woman selling well for Doc & Film
EXCLUSIVE: Company also strikes deals for Berthe Morisot, Tenderness, Violette.
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NewsChinese hits may have trouble travelling
Filmart panel explores selling and branding of Chinese-language films.
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NewsTen Asian projects in Filmart’s ACE line-up
Ten producers and feature films from the region are among the 16 currently attending the third Hong Kong co-production lab held by Ateliers du Cinéma Européen (ACE) during Filmart.
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NewsFilms Boutique makes Haneke doc sales
EXCLUSIVE: Michael H Profession: Director sells to Australia, Taiwan, Canada and beyond.
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NewsAustralian delegation returns to China
An official delegation of Australian film producers, bureaucrats and film service company representatives are heading to China for the third round of formal meetings in four years.
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NewsAustralia earmarks $21m for incentives
The Australian government this week put aside $21m (A$20m) to attract high-budget international film production, but exactly how it is going to be used will not be known until the industry has been consulted, which may be a few weeks.
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Cambodia's Sotho lines up Om-Tuk, Last Reel
Filming wraps in a few days in Cambodia on the international co-production Om-Tuk which Australian writer/directors Amiel Courtin-Wilson and Michael Cody are producing alongside Phnom Penh-based Kulikar Sotho.
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NewsKing's Speech producers grab autobiography
The true story of how a poor five-year-old Indian boy was separated from his mother, adopted by an Australian family, then found her 25 years later, is to be made into a film by See-Saw Films producers Emile Sherman and Iain Canning.
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NewsSapphires sweeps Australia's AACTA Awards
Comedy drama The Sapphires dominated the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) Awards, hosted Wednesday night [Jan 30] in Sydney by actor Russell Crowe.
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NewsAustralian box office up on 2011; down on 2010
The people of Australia spent $1,173.2m (A$1,125.5m) on cinema tickets in 2012, a 2.8% increase on the previous year but about $7.6m (A$7.3m) less than they spent in a record-breaking 2010.
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NewsScreen Australia backs Thornton, Ayres projects
Screen Australia is to invest in five new feature films, three of which are from the proven directors Warwick Thornton (Samson And Delilah), Tony Ayres (The Home Song Stories) and Kriv Stenders (Red Dog).
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Screen Australia backs comedies in latest funding round
Australian writer/directors Cameron and Colin Cairnes and producer Julie Ryan have scored development money from Screen Australia for their next picture, crime comedy They Shoot Hostages, Don’t They?