All articles by Screen staff – Page 74
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NewsChronicle sees off Woman in Black at US box office on Super Bowl weekend
Opener Chronicle scores an estimated $22m in North America as top two impress.
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FeaturesExploring their world
Highlights of the HFPA foreign-language film symposium featuring Pedro Almodovar, the Dardenne brothers, Asghar Farhadi and Angelina Jolie.
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NewsFilmEngine to set up an Asia joint venture in Taiwan
Los Angeles-based FilmEngine is to set up an Asia joint venture in Taiwan, with Taiwan’s Hsu Po-yun, founding partner of New Aspect Cultural Foundation and executive board for Federation for Asian Cultural Promotion (FACP).
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NewsOscar nominees react
Gary Oldman says the nomination is “amazing”; Hell & Back Again producer says Oscar would be “the ultimate honour.”
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NewsIndustry pays tribute to Bingham Ray
The highly regarded and beloved independent pioneer died on Monday (23) after suffering a series of strokes while attending Sundance. He was 57.
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NewsIsland President wins Hilton Worldwide LightStay Sustainability Award
The award was launched by Hilton Worldwide and Sundance Institute and includes $25,000 to the winner to be handed out at the Sundance awards ceremony.
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NewsScreen's Goodridge and Festival Scope's Henrot, Raja team to programme new Sarajevo section
The Sarejevo Film Festival has created a new section in its programme called Kinoscope and drafted in three new programmers onto its international team: Mike Goodridge from the UK, Mathilde Henrot from France and Alessandro Raja from Italy.
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FeaturesSundance 2012: key premieres
Screen profiles the hottest films across US Dramatic Competition, Documentary Competition, Premieres, World Cinema Competition and World Documentary Competition.
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Features2012 preview: world cinema
Big name directors and some ambitious local productions are in full evidence at theatres and on the film festival circuit this year.
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Features2012 preview: tentpoles
Screen previews 30 studio tentpole pictures that hope to dominate screen space across the world in 2012.
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NewsScreen staff moves: Louise Tutt becomes contributing editor, Wendy Mitchell promoted to head of content
Sarah Cooper becomes senior writer and features coordinator.
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NewsChina’s Youku signs content deal with 20th Century Fox
Deal covers 250 titles both new releases and from the Fox library.
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NewsChinese box office up by 30% in 2011
The Chinese box office total gross reached $2.06bn (RMB13 billion) in 2011, up around 30% from 2010. Compared to the 61% growth rate in 2010, the 2011 growth shows some slowdown.
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NewsLionsgate teams with Celestial, Saban Capital for Asian distribution
Lionsgate is partnering with Celestial Pictures and Saban Capital to launch an independent Asian media company focused on branded pay TV channels, content creation, and distribution across Asia.
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FilmFunds expands portfolio with Duran Duboi US acquisition
LA-based market research and production service FilmFunds has acquired the California-based company which owns a visual effects and conversion business.
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NewsPCCW, Abundance and Tomson announced new Asian talent business
Hong Kong’s telecom and media conglomerate PCCW, producer Terence Chang’s Abundance Entertainment and Tomson International Entertainment are setting up a joint venture Asian talent business, ATN Talent Management Ltd.
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FeaturesThe world on film
Pulling extracts from Screen reviews and giving a taste of the breadth of subjects and style on offer, Mike Goodridge looks at a selection of the foreign-language films submitted to the Academy this year. There’s a 3D documentary, an animated film and a 276-minute Taiwanese epic among them
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NewsOrange Sky Golden Harvest teams with T-Joy on digital content
China’s OSGH makes pact with Japan’s T-Joy.
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NewsAnnual Romanian Film Festival to open with Oscar submission Morgen
In its new home the Film Society of Lincoln Center Romanian festival will feature retrospectives of Liviu Ciulei and Radu Muntean
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NewsWarriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale leads Golden Horse winners
A Simple Life takes home three major prizes.