21 May 2013 Total Film
Blow out, one of the finest, most energetic and eclectic of that revered roster of ’70s paranoia films, didn’t actually burst onto the screen till 1981. Steeped in the weary cynicism of Reaganera America (“so you’re an ear-witness to an assassination?”), the film nonetheless draws on – and weaves a...
Blow out, one of the finest, most energetic and eclectic of that revered roster of ’70s paranoia films, didn’t actually burst onto the screen till 1981. Steeped in the weary cynicism of Reaganera America (“so you’re an ear-witness to an assassination?”), the film nonetheless draws on – and weaves a...
21 May 2013 Screen Daily
Film London Production Finance Market runs for seventh year on Oct 16-17, in association with the BFI London Film Festival. Ahead of its seventh edition in October, the Film London Production Finance Market (PFM) has announced it has partnered with Filme Rio - Rio Film Commission in Brazil. The new collaboration comes as Film London and Filme Rio...
Film London Production Finance Market runs for seventh year on Oct 16-17, in association with the BFI London Film Festival. Ahead of its seventh edition in October, the Film London Production Finance Market (PFM) has announced it has partnered with Filme Rio - Rio Film Commission in Brazil. The new collaboration comes as Film London and Filme Rio...
21 May 2013 Screen Daily
Film London Production Finance Market runs for seventh year on Oct 16-17, in association with the BFI London Film Festival. Ahead of its seventh edition in October, the Film London Production Finance Market (PFM) has announced it has partnered with Filme Rio - Rio Film Commission in Brazil. The new collaboration comes as Film London and Filme Rio...
Film London Production Finance Market runs for seventh year on Oct 16-17, in association with the BFI London Film Festival. Ahead of its seventh edition in October, the Film London Production Finance Market (PFM) has announced it has partnered with Filme Rio - Rio Film Commission in Brazil. The new collaboration comes as Film London and Filme Rio...
21 May 2013 The Hollywood Reporter
0 0 0 0 0 Email Print Comments Getty Roadshow CEO Gregg Basser will take a seat on the board of the Hong Kong production and distribution company co-founded by veteran producer Bill Kong. Village Roadshow Entertainment Group Asia (VREG Asia) has partnered with Hong Kong production company Irresistible Films, to join the company in producing films...
0 0 0 0 0 Email Print Comments Getty Roadshow CEO Gregg Basser will take a seat on the board of the Hong Kong production and distribution company co-founded by veteran producer Bill Kong. Village Roadshow Entertainment Group Asia (VREG Asia) has partnered with Hong Kong production company Irresistible Films, to join the company in producing films...
21 May 2013 Screen Daily
Production companies to adapt Frans Gunnar Bengtsson’s bestseller. Zentropa and Nordisk Film have teamed up to produce an adaptation of international bestseller The Long Ships from 1945. Translated into 24 languages, Frans Gunnar Bengtsson’s novel centres on Red Orm, one of the most heroic figures during the 10th century, who embarks on a journey...
Production companies to adapt Frans Gunnar Bengtsson’s bestseller. Zentropa and Nordisk Film have teamed up to produce an adaptation of international bestseller The Long Ships from 1945. Translated into 24 languages, Frans Gunnar Bengtsson’s novel centres on Red Orm, one of the most heroic figures during the 10th century, who embarks on a journey...
21 May 2013 Deccan Chronicle
It is really quiet inside the Kinfra campus in Thiruvananthapuram on Friday morning. Driving through the green interiors one can spot a small hill opposite the Vismaya Studio that leads to a quiet house. Hopping out of the house and through the front yard are four little children, actors of a new Malayalam film called Summer Holidays....
It is really quiet inside the Kinfra campus in Thiruvananthapuram on Friday morning. Driving through the green interiors one can spot a small hill opposite the Vismaya Studio that leads to a quiet house. Hopping out of the house and through the front yard are four little children, actors of a new Malayalam film called Summer Holidays....
21 May 2013 San Francisco Chronicle
CLEVELAND (AP) — City officials in Cleveland are asking residents for patience while the filming of a big-budget movie ties up traffic...
CLEVELAND (AP) — City officials in Cleveland are asking residents for patience while the filming of a big-budget movie ties up traffic...
21 May 2013 Screen Daily
Fox Star Studios is financing Anurag Kashyap’s next directorial project, Bombay Velvet, a period drama starring Ranbir Kapoor and Anushka Sharma. Produced by Mumbai-based Phantom Films, the film is the first in a planned trilogy written and directed by Kashyap. The first film, scheduled to start shooting in July for release at Christmas, is the...
Fox Star Studios is financing Anurag Kashyap’s next directorial project, Bombay Velvet, a period drama starring Ranbir Kapoor and Anushka Sharma. Produced by Mumbai-based Phantom Films, the film is the first in a planned trilogy written and directed by Kashyap. The first film, scheduled to start shooting in July for release at Christmas, is the...
21 May 2013 Screen Daily
Production companies to adapt Frans Gunnar Bengtsson’s bestseller. Zentropa and Nordisk Film have teamed up to produce an adaptation of international bestseller The Long Ships from 1945. Translated into 24 languages, Frans Gunnar Bengtsson’s novel centres on Red Orm, one of the most heroic figures during the 10th century, who embarks on a journey...
Production companies to adapt Frans Gunnar Bengtsson’s bestseller. Zentropa and Nordisk Film have teamed up to produce an adaptation of international bestseller The Long Ships from 1945. Translated into 24 languages, Frans Gunnar Bengtsson’s novel centres on Red Orm, one of the most heroic figures during the 10th century, who embarks on a journey...
21 May 2013 Screen Daily
uConnect’s Peter Rogers [pictured] to replace outgoing chair, Bankside’s Stephen Kelliher. Peter Rogers has been appointed as the new chair of UK trade association Film Export UK. He replaces outgoing chair, Bankside’s Stephen Kelliher. Rogers currently heads up uMedia’s London based sales and finance dvision uConnect. He was formerly at Lakeshore...
uConnect’s Peter Rogers [pictured] to replace outgoing chair, Bankside’s Stephen Kelliher. Peter Rogers has been appointed as the new chair of UK trade association Film Export UK. He replaces outgoing chair, Bankside’s Stephen Kelliher. Rogers currently heads up uMedia’s London based sales and finance dvision uConnect. He was formerly at Lakeshore...
21 May 2013 The Hollywood Reporter
0 0 0 0 0 Email Print Comments Fifteen winners will be flown to Beijing to receive a $1,000 cash award, with the seven awardees in the short-film category also shooting their entries during their stay. HONG KONG – Seven aspiring US directors will be heading to Beijing to shoot short films as part of an award they secured in a scriptwriting...
0 0 0 0 0 Email Print Comments Fifteen winners will be flown to Beijing to receive a $1,000 cash award, with the seven awardees in the short-film category also shooting their entries during their stay. HONG KONG – Seven aspiring US directors will be heading to Beijing to shoot short films as part of an award they secured in a scriptwriting...
21 May 2013 The Independent
Actress Amanda Abbington - the long-term partner of Hollywood star Martin Freeman - has called it "mean" and upsetting that her bankruptcy woes went public. The Mr Selfridge star, who is set to appear with Freeman in a new series of BBC1 detective drama Sherlock, was declared bankrupt earlier this year over a £120,000 tax bill. The 39-year-old,...
Actress Amanda Abbington - the long-term partner of Hollywood star Martin Freeman - has called it "mean" and upsetting that her bankruptcy woes went public. The Mr Selfridge star, who is set to appear with Freeman in a new series of BBC1 detective drama Sherlock, was declared bankrupt earlier this year over a £120,000 tax bill. The 39-year-old,...
21 May 2013 China Daily
Japanese director Takashi Miike got the final week of the Cannes film festival off to an explosive start on Monday, with big budget cop thriller "Shield of Straw" a sharp contrast to the more intense, intimate movies screened so far. Typically for Cannes, where critical passions run...
Japanese director Takashi Miike got the final week of the Cannes film festival off to an explosive start on Monday, with big budget cop thriller "Shield of Straw" a sharp contrast to the more intense, intimate movies screened so far. Typically for Cannes, where critical passions run...
21 May 2013 Screen Daily
Dir: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi. France. 2013. 104mins The frothy comedy-drama A Castle In Italy (Un Château En Italie) introduces us to a main character whose flustered pursuit of happiness is meant to be adorably screwball but more often than not just proves exasperating. Director-star Valeria Bruni Tedeschi has crafted a novelistic portrait of a...
Dir: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi. France. 2013. 104mins The frothy comedy-drama A Castle In Italy (Un Château En Italie) introduces us to a main character whose flustered pursuit of happiness is meant to be adorably screwball but more often than not just proves exasperating. Director-star Valeria Bruni Tedeschi has crafted a novelistic portrait of a...
21 May 2013 Screen Daily
Dir: Ruairi Robinson. UK-Ireland. 2013. 91mins First-time Irish director Ruairi Robinson aims for a classy meld of genres with his sci-fi/zombie thriller The Last Days On Mars, and he’s certainly attracted a classy cast to the Jordan-shot project, including Liev Schreiber, Elias Koteas, Romola Garai and Olivia Williams. The tropes come on faster...
Dir: Ruairi Robinson. UK-Ireland. 2013. 91mins First-time Irish director Ruairi Robinson aims for a classy meld of genres with his sci-fi/zombie thriller The Last Days On Mars, and he’s certainly attracted a classy cast to the Jordan-shot project, including Liev Schreiber, Elias Koteas, Romola Garai and Olivia Williams. The tropes come on faster...
21 May 2013 Screen Daily
EXCLUSIVE: Terence Davies, Edwin, Puiu, Matthiesen to present upcoming productions. Scroll down for full line-up New productions from Terence Davies, Edwin and Cristi Puiu, Mads Matthiesen will be among the 17 projects presented at this year’s edition of Paris Projects running June 30 to July 3. “We received 400 projects, some 30% more than last...
EXCLUSIVE: Terence Davies, Edwin, Puiu, Matthiesen to present upcoming productions. Scroll down for full line-up New productions from Terence Davies, Edwin and Cristi Puiu, Mads Matthiesen will be among the 17 projects presented at this year’s edition of Paris Projects running June 30 to July 3. “We received 400 projects, some 30% more than last...
21 May 2013 Screen Daily
EXCLUSIVE: Carles Porta, already on board the film for four years as writer and producer, will take on directorial duties in place of Bigas Luna Antartida Productions, the Spanish production company run by producer Oscar Rodriguez has announced that production will continue on the late Bigas Luna film Second Origin. “We’re all so sorry for the loss...
EXCLUSIVE: Carles Porta, already on board the film for four years as writer and producer, will take on directorial duties in place of Bigas Luna Antartida Productions, the Spanish production company run by producer Oscar Rodriguez has announced that production will continue on the late Bigas Luna film Second Origin. “We’re all so sorry for the loss...
21 May 2013 Screen Daily
EXCLUSIVE: eOne closes multiple deals on David Cronenberg’s new thriller. eOne has closed multiple deals on David Cronenberg’s new thriller Maps to the Stars, starring Mia Wasikowska, Julianne Moore, Robert Pattinson and John Cusack. Deals have closed with Benelux (Cineart), Poland (Monolith), Scandinavia (Mis Label), Iceland (Gmight), Switzerland...
EXCLUSIVE: eOne closes multiple deals on David Cronenberg’s new thriller. eOne has closed multiple deals on David Cronenberg’s new thriller Maps to the Stars, starring Mia Wasikowska, Julianne Moore, Robert Pattinson and John Cusack. Deals have closed with Benelux (Cineart), Poland (Monolith), Scandinavia (Mis Label), Iceland (Gmight), Switzerland...
21 May 2013 Screen Daily
EXCLUSIVE: French distributor acquires rights to Adolfo Borinaga Alix Jr.’s Un Certain Regard title. France’s Equation has picked up Un Certain Regard title Death March, directed by the Philippines’ Adolfo Borinaga Alix Jr. Versatile Films is handling international sales on the film which depicts the infamous Second World War Bataan Death March,...
EXCLUSIVE: French distributor acquires rights to Adolfo Borinaga Alix Jr.’s Un Certain Regard title. France’s Equation has picked up Un Certain Regard title Death March, directed by the Philippines’ Adolfo Borinaga Alix Jr. Versatile Films is handling international sales on the film which depicts the infamous Second World War Bataan Death March,...
