Small MPU – Page 1655
-
News
Minghella promotes location Romania
Ever since director Anthony Minghella finished his shoot of Cold Mountain, he's been asked one question repeatedly by fellow directors: what's it like to shoot in Romania.The $80m Civil War epic starring Nicole Kidman, Renee Zellweger, Jude Law shot late last year in the Carpathian mountains of Romania's Transylvania. Speaking ...
-
News
South African films to be feted at FESPACO
Thirteen South African films will be screened at FESPACO, Africa's longest-running festival. Held in Ouagadougou, the capital city of Burkina Faso, the 18th edition of the festival runs Feb 22 - March 1.Six of the 13 films have been selected for official competition at FESPACO. These include: Amandla (Lee Hirsch), ...
-
News
European broadcasters called on to increase film funding
German broadcasters have been called on to double their financial contribution to the German Federal Film Board to bring them into line with the cinema owners' annual payments of Euros 21m.In a declaration on the revision to the German Film Funding Law (FFG), the four German exhibitor trade ...
-
News
European Film Market closes with flurry of deals
The European Film Market came to a close with a flurry of last-minute deals.One of the most notable deals was MK2's sale of Claude Chabrol's competition film The Flower Of Evil to Wanda Films for Spain and Portugal - two territories which because of the pay-TV crisis have been ...
-
News
Kosslick reflects on his second Berlinale
As the Berlinale drew to a close with the out of competition screening of Gangs Of New York, festival director Dieter Kosslick for one was happy.With the threat of war being declared on Iraq at the back of people's minds during the festival, Kosslick observed that the festival's motto ...
-
News
German media fund takes 'hands on' approach
Private German media fund Cinerenta is to become more "hands on" in the development and production of the features it finances - moving away from the previous strategy of coming onboard projects developed by other producers."We are to become more involved in development and are expanding our production department in ...
-
News
Belgrade festival announces line-up
The 31st Belgrade International Film Festival will be held from Feb 28 until Mar 9 featuring films that have participated at major world festivals in the past year.The selection is divided into six programmes and will feature some 90 movies, including Chicago, The Man Without A Past, Rabbit-Proof Fence, ...
-
News
Spain's 42nd Street boards Kill, God Will Forgive
Spain's 42nd Street Productions has boarded new Cuban-Spanish co-production Kill, God Will Forgive (Mata, Que Dios Perdona). The film, produced by Paco Millan and Eduardo Benitez of Seville-based Omnibus Pictures, is a dark tale of impossible love between cousins from director Ismael Perdomo. Shooting starts in September with co-production from ...
-
News
Odeon closes animation production division
Odeon Film has closed its animation production arm in the wake of a decision to concentrate in future on live action production for film and television.In a statement, the Munich-based company stated that "animation rights already acquired are to be exploited by way of licensing or through the passive participation ...
-
News
Summit scores foreign sales on Chuck & Buck
Summit Entertainment has lost little time concluding the first international sales on Miguel Arteta's Chuck & Buck, striking deals with theatrical distributors from Germany, France and South Africa within days of securing the international sales rights to the digital video feature at last week's Sundance Film Festival.Highlight Communications will now ...
-
News
AFI, AFMA team for internships at AFM
The American Film Institute(AFI) and AFMA are teaming up to establish an internship programme focusing onpackaging and selling feature films; the programme, which is exclusivelyavailable to AFI Conservatory Producing fellows, will run during the AmericanFilm Market which starts this week.The interns will be placedwith production and distribution companies with offices ...
-
News
Nancy Silverstone promoted to acquisitions vp at Starz Encore
NancySilverstone has been promoted to vice president, program acquisitions, at StarzEncore Group where she will be responsible for negotiating licensing deals withindependents and studios for first-run and library titles, library buyouts,documentary co-productions, STARZ! Pictures premieres, restoration deals andoverseeing the acquisitions budget and managing the multi-cultural acquisitionsand film evaluation departments. She ...
-
News
Zenpix launches international arm with Promark at AFM
Zenpix, the domesticdistribution joint venture between Susan Jackson and Jon Kramer's PromarkEntertainment Group, has launched an international sales arm which will seek toacquire, invest finishing funds in and distribute films in both the domesticand international markets.Jackson will work withPromark's vice presidents of international sales Eric Bernstein andAnnouchka Lesoeur to sell ...
-
News
Bahman Naraghi joins Intermedia as COO
Bahman Naraghihas been named chief operating officer (COO) of Intermedia Film Equities USAand in his new role will oversee all Intermedia's business operations andfinance activities. He will report directly to Moritz Borman, chairman and CEOof the company.Naraghi joinsIntermedia after a stint as executive vice president of Miramax Films where hewas ...
-
News
Winterbottom's World wins Berlinale
Michael Winterbottom's In This World was the surprise winner of the Berlinale Golden Bear, beating off competition from favourites The Hours and The 25th Hour.Winterbottom's digitally-shot semi-documentary tale of an asylum seeker's journey from Afghanisatan to London also received the Peace Film Prize and the Prize of the Churches of ...
-
News
Daredevil is the year's first blockbuster
Ben Affleck in a tight oxblood suit completely outclassed thecompetition as Fox's Daredevil opened top of the charts on an estimated $43.5m. Based on the1960s Marvel comic book, Affleck stars as blind lawyer Matt Murdock who slipsinto the costume at night to become a feared vigilante. Jennifer Garner playsthe love ...
-
News
Amen shines at France's Lumieres
Costa Gavras' heavily Cesar-nominated Amen picked up France's Lumiere award this weekend for best film of 2002. The Lumieres, which are the French equivalent to the Golden Globes in the US, are voted on by foreign journalists working in France.Jean Rochefort won the best actor prize for his role ...
-
News
Aurora provides a ray of hope in Australia
Every cinema-producing country is always abuzz about which up-and-coming writers and filmmakers are worth watching. Cate Shortland is one of Australia's. Her script, More Than Scarlet, was one of four chosen from a field of 40 for last year's inaugural Aurora intensive scriptwriting workshop."I suddenly found myself in a room ...
-
News
South Korean cinema risks becoming a victim of its own success
If the signals emerging from the South Korean film world these days seem a bit contradictory, it may be because the industry is on the brink of a transformation. Despite producing numerous award-winning films and an amazing 47% local market share in 2002, Korean cinema finds itself facing a host ...
-
News
New Latin American combo goes on shopping spree
A pan-Latin American buying consortium of independent distributors is gearing up for the American Film Market, having quietly launched late last year in reaction to the increasing appetite amongst Hollywood studios to buy all rights in the region.The consortium - named Entertainment Consortium Ltd - is composed of Gussi in ...