All Editorial articles – Page 8
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NewsWerc Werk Works to back Jill Sprecher's latest
Werc Werk Works, the independent production and finance outfit behind Todd Solondz’s Life During Wartime, will produce and fully finance The Convincer, the latest film from Jill Sprecher (13 Conversations About One Thing)
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NewsOdd Lot Int'l sells B-Girl to Screen Media in North America
Odd Lot International has sold North American rights to its drama B-Girl to Screen Media Films and closed a raft of key international sales.
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NewsMiddle East Int'l Film Festival unveils 33 narrative, doc Black Pearl contenders
The Middle East International Film Festival’s (MEIFF) new executive director Peter Scarlet has hailed a “stong slate” of films at next month’s event that draws from established and emerging Middle Eastern and North African talent.
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NewsAlliance signs Canadian output deal with Apparition
Alliance Films has signed a Canadian output deal with Bob Berney and Bill Pohlad’s new distribution outfit Apparition, which opened its doors in August.
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NewsChristoph Waltz to play villain opposite Seth Rogen's Green Hornet
Christoph Waltz, in the running for Oscar consideration for his star turn in Inglourious Basterds, will play the villain in The Green Hornet.
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NewsTyler Perry scores second North American number one debut of 2009
Tyler Perry pulled of his second number one launch of the year as Tyler Perry’s I Can Do Bad All By Myself opened top through Lionsgate on an estimated $24m.
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NewsFinal Destination on top overseas with $17.3m weekend haul
The Final Destination led Hollywood’s overseas box office charge with a $17.3m haul from approximately 2,900 screens in 28 territories through Warner Bros Pictures International and independent distributors for a $55.25m running total.
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NewsHausner's Lourdes sells to Palisades in the US
Philippe Bober’s CoProduction Office has closed a raft of deals on Jessica Hausner’s Lourdes, which earlier this week won the FIPRESCI Award in Venice.
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NewsLebanon, Colin Firth take top Venice honours
Lebanon, directed by Samuel Maoz and set largely inside a tank stranded inside enemy territory on the first day of the Lebanon War in June 1982, has won the Venice Film Festival’s Golden Lion for Best Film.
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NewsUS buyers cautious as Toronto's first weekend ends
A stong reaction and best actor prize for Colin Firth place Tom Ford’s A Single Man in the vanguard of hot titles that are expected to inject life into an otherwise muted first few days for US buyers in Toronto.
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NewsAmanda Crew, Adrianne Palicki join Myriad's Breaking The Girl
Santa Monica-based Myriad Pictures has set Amanda Crew and Adrianne Palicki to star in Jamie Babbit’s thriller Breaking The Girl.
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NewsIFC Films acquires US rights to Last Stop 174
IFC Films has picked up US rights to Last Stop 174, which premiered here a year ago and was Brazil’s foreign-language Oscar contender.
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NewsVallée lines up Café De Flore for Item7
Jean-Marc Vallée, director of Toronto closing night film Young Victoria, is preparing production on Café De Flore with Montreal-based start-up production house Item7.
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NewsEric Canuel to direct My Oma for January Films
Bon Cop, Bad Cop director Erik Canuel has signed to direct My Oma for Toronto-based January Films.
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NewsGrondin signs for Le Bomin’s Insoupconnable
Quebecois actor Marc-Andre Grondin is set to star alongside French actress Laura Smet in Gabriel Le Bomin’s second film Insoupconnable for Paris-based Films Oblige and StudioCanal.
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NewsKimmel, Bigger Boat and GreeneStreet board Mourning After
Sidney Kimmel Entertainment, A Bigger Boat and GreeneStreet Films have acquired Obsessed screenwriter David Loughery’s supernatural thriller pitch Mourning After.
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NewsRainn Wilson, Ellen Page, Liv Tyler join Super for Ted Hope
Rainn Wilson will reunite with Juno star Ellen Page and Liv Tyler for producer Ted Hope’s This Is That on the comical superhero project Super.
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NewsInglourious Basterds to cross $100m overseas this weekend
Inglourious Basterds looks well placed to cross $100m overseas this weekend although retaining the box office crown will be tricky with major launches for District 9, Sorority Row and X-Men Origins: Wolverine.
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NewsAlessandro Nivola, Abigail Breslin shoot Janie Jones for Unified, Absurda
Shooting is underway in Iowa on the drama Janie Jones starring Alessandro Nivola, Abigail Breslin and Elizabeth Shue.