All United States articles – Page 1422
-
News
Verhoeven signs to direct The Thomas Crown Affair 2
Paul Verhoeven has signed on to direct The Thomas Crown Affair 2 for MGM.The development broke when the film-maker mentioned the project on the Dutch radio show Met Het Oog Op Morgen.Also known as The Topkapi Affair, the story is based on Eric Ambler's novel The Light Of Day about ...
-
News
Complex teams with Dubai-based Big Deal Pictures for Blackline films
Christian Johnston's Complex Films has teamed up with LA and Dubai-based Big Deal Pictures to create action franchise The Blackline International Trilogy.The films are based on actual events involving private military corporations and will kick off with Blackline: The Beirut Contract, in which a private operatives are sent to rescue ...
-
News
Complex teams with Dubai-based Big Deal Pictures for Blackline films
Christian Johnston's Complex Films has teamed up with LA and Dubai-based Big Deal Pictures to create action franchise The Blackline International Trilogy.The films are based on actual events involving private military corporations and will kick off with Blackline: The Beirut Contract, in which a private operatives are sent to rescue ...
-
News
Dokument buys domestic rights to Bornhak's 8 Miles High
New US independent Dokument Films has acquired all North American rights to Achim Bornhak's biopic 8 Miles High (Das Wilde Leben). Dokument is a subsidiary of Illinois-based MPI Media Group.MPI's vice president of acquisitions and development Greg Newman negotiated the deal with Andreas Rothbauer of Beta Cinema and the company ...
-
News
Frankel fills top communications role at The Weinstein Company
Former Rainbow Media communications chief Matthew Frankel has joined The Weinstein Company (TWC) in the newly created role of chief communications officer and senior vice president of corporate affairs.Frankel will start in TWC's New York offices on Nov 26 and initially work alongside Sarah Rothman, the Weinsteins' head of corporate ...
-
News
Dodona sees 50% digital conversion by 2013, pushed by 3D
Half of the world's cinema screens could be digital by 2013, according to predictions from Dodona Research. A total of 4,627 screens have been converted as of September 2007, representing about 5% of the global total. Dodona analysts estimate that the potential market for digital cinema equipment could be $8bn.Report ...
-
News
Munyurangabo wins international competition at AFI FEST
Lee Isaac Chung's Munyurangabo was named AFI FEST 2007's winner of the grand jury prize for international feature competition.Andreas Mol Dalsgaard's Afghan Muscles and Nina Davenport's Operation Filmmaker shared the International documentary grand jury prize.The shorts jury prize went to Nash Edgerton's Spider, while a special award for best animated ...
-
News
Sony's first Indian production Saawariya is a smash
Sony Pictures' first Indian production Saawariya delivered a mighty debut in India through Sony Pictures Releasing International, where it took an estimated $14.4m from 754 screens.But that was not enough for it to beat Indian number one - Om Shanti Om - which took in about $17m in IndiaOverall Saawariya ...
-
News
Bee Movie takes over top spot at US from American Gangster
DreamWorks-Paramount's Bee Movie climbed to the top of the North American charts at the weekend as it traded places with Universal's crime saga American Gangster.Bee Movie added an estimated $26m through Paramount for $72.2m after two weekends, while Gangster raised its total after the same amount of time by $24.3m ...
-
News
Sony finalises multi-territory deal on sci-fi thriller District 9
Sony Pictures Entertainment has finalised its deal for the Peter Jackson-produced sci-fi District 9, taking North American rights and 'a significant number of foreign territories, including all English speaking territories'.Sony began negotiations with the film's financier and worldwide sales agent QED International during the recent AFM in Santa Monica.Jackson will ...
-
News
Aviva My Love wins audience choice award at NY Israel Film Festival
Shemi Zarhin's Aviva My Love won the 22nd Israel Film Festival in New York's (IFF) Panavision Audience Choice Award for best film on November 8.The film-makers receive one month's use of the $60,000 35mm Panavision camera package to use on their next film within two years.Aviva My Love won six ...
-
News
Fries Film Group acquires worldwide on Surviving Evil
Fries Film Group has acquired worldwide rights to Terence Daw's upcoming horror film Surviving Evil.The UK/South African co-production is set to begin shooting in February 2008 and centres on a group of documentary film-makers marooned on a deserted island in the Philippines where they encounter a fearsome creature.Daw wrote the ...
-
News
Fox takes out MGM/UA's Lions For Lambs in 46 territories
Ratatouille's five-week reign would appear to be at an end as the film begins to wind down and Fox International launches the anti-war film Lions For Lambs in approximately 46 territories.Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures International's Ratatouille has amassed $377.5m and executives will expect solid holdover business to propel the ...
-
News
In focus - American film market - Mixed fortunes at 'subdued' AFM
The first big play in Hollywood's slide towards an all-out strike in 2008 inevitably cast a pall over the American Film Market (AFM). As the world's buyers and sellers descended on Santa Monica last week, the big question was whether the disgruntled writers would go on strike for the first ...
-
News
Roman Polanski's story to get big screen treatment
Amadeus Pictures has lined up Polanski, an unauthorised story about the life of Roman Polanski that is set to begin filming in Belgium, Poland and the US in January 2008.Amadeus CEO Damian Chapa will direct from his own screenplay, and will also produce and play Polanski's Polish producer friend Eugene ...
-
News
Moser named vice president for new Participant TV division
Participant Productions has launched a television division and hired John Moser to serve as vice president.Moser will oversee the conception, development and production of original programming that will follow the company's goal of creating commercial and socially relevant entertainment.He will report to Participant president Ricky Strauss. He most recently served ...
-
News
Monte Cristo closes pre-sales on Japanese horror End Call
Monte Cristo Entertainment has closed pre-sales on its Japanese horror title End Call, which is scheduled for a February 2008 shoot in Tokyo.Rights went to South Korea (KoreaScreen), and the Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia (Parkit Films & Television).Chilean martial arts film Kiltro starring Marko Zaror has sold to the UK ...
-
News
Palm Springs to honour Jerry Weintraub, Juno at awards gala
The 19th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival (PSIFF) will honour Jerry Weintraub with the Patron Of The Arts Award presented by the Screen Actors Guild Foundation.Weintraub will receive the award at the festival's awards gala on January 5, 2008. The festival will also honour Juno with the Chairman's Vanguard ...
-
News
Image extends North American DVD deal with Criterion to 2013
Image Entertainment has extended its exclusive North American video distribution deal with Criterion and will continue to release the Criterion Collection until July 31, 2013.The agreement replaces the one dated August 1, 2005, and grants Image exclusive distribution rights over all video formats, including kiosk-based DVD-burning initiatives.Criterion retains broadcast and ...
-
News
12 films make the cut for animated feature Oscar
Twelve features have been submitted for consideration in the animated feature film category for the 80th Academy Awards.The 12 submitted features are: Alvin And The Chipmunks, Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film For Theaters, Bee Movie, Beowulf, Meet The Robinsons, Persepolis, Ratatouille, Shrek The Third, The Simpsons Movie, Surf's ...