All Europe articles – Page 631
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FeaturesNo summer at the beach
After years of struggling to book high-profile releases during summer months, Italy finally offers a complete roster of films including blockbusters, family, horror, comedies, local and auteur-driven films between May and August. Sheri Jennings reports on distributors’ high hopes riding on this Italian summer.
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CommentThe romance of remakes
It’s easy to scoff at remakes but only if you don’t understand that a US remake will be seen by millions more around the globe than a non- English language original, Mike Goodridge argues.
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NewsLily Sometimes to close Cannes Directors Fortnight
Fabienne Berthaud’s film stars Diane Kruger and Ludivine Sagnier.
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NewsWinter in Wartime producers get rights to Dutch novel Gimmick!
N279 Entertainment has acquired the rights to Dutch author Joost Zwagerman’s novel Gimmick!, set in the late 1980s.
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Fintage House, mediapeers announce strategic partnership
Part of the alliance will let Fintage House support mediapeers extending their user base. The companies will also work together on new web-based services for buyers and sellers.
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Ashes and Blood, Oceans take honours at Athens Francophone Film Festival
Jean-Paul Gaultier, Jane Birkin, Nana Mouscouri, Antoine de Caunes, Benoit Magimel, Anne Consigny, Riad Sattouf, Francois-Xavier Demaison among French delgation.
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NewsEric Khoo, Eduardo Antin, Lisandro Alonso to lead Locarno juries
Singaporean film-maker Eric Khoo (My Magic) will be president of the five-person International Competition jury.
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NewsFrench-Italian thriller Amer takes top prize at Copenhagen's CPH PIX
Audience award went to Copti and Shani’s Ajami.
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NewsWar drama The Blacks wins Linz’s Crossing Europe Award
Crossing Europe Award for Best European Documentary goes to Erik Gandini’s Videocracy.
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NewsThe Hedgehog takes audience award at COLCOA
Henri-Georges Clouzot’s Inferno takes critics award at City of Lights City of Angels in LA.
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NewsIcelandic industry has a few disruptions, but some short-term upside, to volcano's eruption
Icelandic film industry reports little disruption from last week’s volcanic eruption, with local crews busy assisting foreign news crews; Baltasar Kormakur shoots volcanic footage to potentially use in his new viking epic.
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NewsLa Zona reveals cast for its Spanish political thriller 23-F
Leading Spanish actors Juan Diego, Paco Tous, Fernando Cayo and Mariano Venancio will head up the cast for the political thriller 23-F about a failed military coup in Spain.
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NewsUdine honours Johnnie To, set to open with Sophie's Revenge
The Far East Film Festival (FEFF) in Udine, Italy, kicks off its 12th edition today with a line up which includes 24 international premieres out of some 50 new titles from nine different Asian countries.As a special “pre-inaugural event” Johnnie To was on hand to present Vengeance, released in Italy ...
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NewsPathe takes international on Gnomeo & Juliet
Kelly Asbury is directing the 3D animated fantasy comedy, produced by Elton John’s Rocket Pictures.
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Paramount Germany unveils first local pickup, German funds pay out over €10m in support
Tim Fehlmann’s post-apocalyptic thriller 2016 – Das Ende der Nacht has been unveiled as Paramount Pictures Germany’s first local pickup.
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NewsPhilco Films to produce three major Stanley Kubrick projects
Philco Films is set to make three films based on scripts by the late legendary film-maker Stanley Kubrick: Civil War drama Downslope; Scarlett Johansson-starrer Lunatic At Large, and a TV series called God Fearing Man about a renowned bank robber.Downslope will be a massive $100m project set during the American ...
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FeaturesFestivals cope with ash cloud chaos
Festivals on both sides of the Atlantic had to scramble to re-organise events in light of the volcanic travel chaos; Cannes says it will watch “the evolution of the situation.”