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All articles by Screen staff – Page 108
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Hollywood writers talks break down
The prospect of a Hollywood writers strike was heightened after talks between the Writers Guild of America (WGA) and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers failed to reach agreement on a new contract.Talks ended last night with the sticking point appearing to be over payments to writers on ...
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UK cinema chain Odeonto hostevent with The Who
UK cinema chain Odeon, Universal Pictures and Arts Alliance Media ('AAM') are to host the premiere of Amazing Journey: The Story of The Who including a live link-up with band members.Thefilm will be screened exclusively at selected Odeoncinemas on Monday 5th November at 6.30pm. Band members Pete Townshend and Roger ...
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Fortissimo acquires Black White + Gray
Fortissimo Films has acquired worldwide rights toJames Crump's documentary feature Black White + Gray: A Portrait Of Sam Wagstaff & Robert Mapplethorpe.The film, which premieredat Tribeca and opened theatrically in New York to critical acclaim,chronicles the unlikely friendship between art collector and curator Wagstaff and controversial photographer Mapplethorpe.Their story brings ...
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$2m White Lightnin' begins shooting in Zagreb
Shooting has begun in Zagrebon UK commercials director Dominic Murphy's $2m debut featureWhite Lightnin'.The filmhas been able to use the UK tax credit,qualifying as a British movie despite beingan Americanstory shooting in Croatia and the US.Thestory of Appalachian mountain dancerJesco White was written bythe founders of Canadian hipster magazine Vice,Shane ...
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Gems from the festival season: our picks for hot films and talent from the summer and autumn
LOCARNO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVALAudience award winner: Death At A Funeral, Frank Oz's low-budget (for him) farce about dirty doings at an English funeral, had Swiss audiences falling off their seats. International distribution is assured - the film has MGM behind it. Verve will be releasing it on behalf of MGM ...
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LFF hosts groundbreaking digital distribution event
The London Film Festival is hosting a groundbreaking forum looking at the digital distributionfor independent film-makers.Power To The Pixel, at the National Film Theatre on Friday October 26, has gathered together some of the leading experts in the field.Speakers include veteran indie producer andpresident of Emerging Pictures,Ira Deutchman; Withoutabox founders ...
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Raeburn ready to shoot adaptation of Afrikaans bestseller
Michael Raeburn is to direct an adaptation of Marlene van Niekerk's Afrikaans tragicomic novel Triomf.Raeburn and Malcolm Kohl have collaborated on the screenplay set during the 1994 first post-apartheid general election in South Africa and focusing on a family from the white underclass.The film stars Lionel Newton, Obed Baloyi, Vanessa ...
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Wang takes Golden Shell at San Sebastian
Wayne Wang's A Thousand Years of GoodPrayers picked up best film Golden Shell at SanSebastian. Click here to see review.The film - adapted from a short story by Chinese writer Yiyun Li - also earned the best actor prize for Henry O.Nick Broomfield was named best director for his Iraq ...
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Future shorts launches television service.
Short film label Future Shorts is to launch a television service through online platform Joost.The service starts this week showing shorts and music videos as well as interviews and coverage of films events.Future Shorts was founded in 2003 and offers a platform for film-makers in 25 countries.
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Films from Attenborough, Freedman and Ruzowitzky open Ghent
The 34th edition of the Ghent International Film Festival is to feature three opening films on October 9.They are:The European premiere of Richard Attenborough's Closing the RingStefan Ruzowitzky's The Counterfeiters (Die Faelscher) Paul Freedman's Sand And SorrowClosing the Ring, starring Shirley Maclaine, Christopher Plummer, Neve Campbell and Mischa Barton, opens ...
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Studios should back both high-definition DVDformats, says report
Hollywood studios who fail to support both of the leading formats for next-generation DVD could be making an expensive mistake, according to a study.Analyst Screen Digest suggests that by 2011 both Blu-Ray and its rival HD DVD will have established a strong foothold in the European and US markets.Blu-Ray may ...
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UK Film Councilgives $1m backing to Kidulthood follow-up
Noel Clarke, director of cult UK film Kidulthood, is to direct his first feature Adulthood, with $1m (£520,000) backing from the UK Film Council's New Cinema Fund. Adulthood, written, directed and starring Clarke follows up on the first film's story.Adulthood is produced by George Isaac and Damian Jones for Cipher ...
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UK Film Council gives $1m backing to Kidulthood follow-up
Noel Clarke is to direct his first feature Adulthood, a follow-up to cult UK film Kidulthood which he wrote and starred in.The film received $1m (£520,000) backing from the UK Film Council's New Cinema Fund. Adulthood, written, directed and starring Clarke follows up on the story of the first film ...
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Russian box office to double in five years - report
Russian box officewill more than double over the next five years, according to a report from analyst Dodona Research.The study, Cinemagoing Russia, predictsthe 2006gross of US$412mwill top $850m by2011.The driving force will be multiplex building, tied to the boom in retail developments in the country. Shopping mall owners are themselves ...
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The Times BFI 51st London Film Festival programme announced
This year's Times BFI 51st London Film Festival's programme boasts seven world premieres among films from 43 countries.The event opens on Oct 17 with the UK premiere of David Cronenberg's Eastern Promises starring Viggo Mortensen and Naomi Watts, with Wes Anderson's eagerly awaited The Darjeeling Limited closing the festival on ...
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Superman producer Pierre Spengler plans Luchadores 5
Spengler, who produced the live-action Superman films, returns to the comic book genre with Luchadores 5, the first of a 12-picture slate based on titles from graphic novel publisher Les Humanoïdes Associes/Humanoids.Former Humanoids chief executive F. Alexander Ciger, who is also Spengler's producing partner in Clubdeal, will produce.The live-action adaptation ...
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We Are Together finds a home Down Under
Rialto Distribution has acquired the theatrical and home video rights for documentary feature, We Are Together (Thina Simunye) for both Australia and New Zealand.The deal was negotiated by Rialto's CEO, Kelly Rogers and by Annie Roney from ro*co films international on behalf of the producers, Rise films.Rialto's Rogers said, 'We ...
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Stockholm Festival reveals early details of 170-film programme
The 18th Stockholm International Film Festival has revealed the first details of what will beits 170-film line-up.Jarret Schaefer's Chapter 27, centring on John Lennon's murderer Mark David Chapman, Driving with my Wife's Lover, the feature debut from Korean director Tai-sik Kim and The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, the award-winner ...
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Principal photography starts on Abraham's Point
Mackenzie Crook makes his debut as a leading man in writer/director Wyndham Price's dramatic comedy which features Joseph Millson (Casino Royale), newcomer Mariah Gale and Harriet Walter (Atonement, Babel, Sense and Sensibility). A tale of redemption, the feature marks the leading debut of Crook, well know for roles in TV's ...
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Bernal to star in Moodysson's English-language debut Mammoth
Mexican actor Gael Garcia Bernal is to star in Lukas Moodysson's Mammoth, the controversial Swedish writer/director's first English language feature.Mammoth is a drama centering on the domestic dynamics of a couple, their child and Filipino nanny. It is in final casting and pre-production.Moodysson, whose previous work includes Fucking Amal (Show ...