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The international view - The big pictures
Impressive-looking 2007 box-office revenue figures have already been tarnished by questions about the profitability of the films. But there are other questions that should be concerning the industry.The North American box office generated revenues of $9.7bn in 2007 while the international arena rang in with an estimated $15.2bn to bring ...
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Dutch producers IDTV Film and Motel Films join forces
Dutch film- and television production companies Motel Films & IDTV Film have joined forces. From January 1st, two parties continued together under the name of IDTV Film.IDTV will also house its drama activities in IDTV Film. Motel Films chairmen Jeroen Beker and Frans van Gestel had concluded that in order ...
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Kings, Garage lead Irish Film & Television Awards Nominees
Kings and Garage lead the nominees for the fifth-annual Irish Film and Television Awards (IFTAs), which take place in Dublin on February 17.Kings, an Irish-language feature submitted as Ireland's first Foreign Language Oscar entry, has received 14 nominations while the multi award-winning Garage has 11 nominations. Kings and Garage were ...
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Sony signs VOD deal with Belgium's Belgacom
Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI) has signed a video on demand (VOD) agreement with Belgian telecom operator Belgacom.The deal was negotiated by Andreas Brosjo at SPTI and Ingrid De Coninck at Belgacom.Under the deal, SPTI will provide movie content from the Sony Pictures current slate as well as library titles. ...
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Gothenberg announces 450-film line-up
This year's Gothenberg International Film Festival (Jan 25-Feb 4) will comprise 450 films from 67 countries, with around 40 seminars, the Nordic Film Market andnumerous concerts.The festival will be bookended by two local films, both about brothers in conflict - Jens Jonsson's The Ping Pong King (Ping-pongkingen), competing in Sundance's ...
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Emir Kusturica launches new Kustendorf Film Festival in Serbia
Emir Kusturica has announced a new international film festival to be held in his villageDrvengrad at the mountain Mokra Gora in the Southwest of Serbia. The first Kustendorf Film Festival will be held Jan 14-21, organised by Kusturica's production company Rasta Film International and under the auspices of the Ministry ...
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Berlinale adds competitors including Mike Leigh's Happy-Go-Lucky
New films by Mike Leigh, Isabel Coixet and Amos Kollek are among another nine titles confirmed for this year's Berlinale Competition section in addition to the eight previously announced last month.The nine additions are all world premieres except for the international premieres of Kabei and Quiet Chaos:Elegy by Isabel Coixet ...
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International box office drops 22% week on week with few openers
An absence of heavy-hitting new releases could be attributable to the 22.2% week-on-week drop in the international top 40 this weekend, with the only four new entrants all failing to enter the top 30. The top 40 international films generated $208.8m from 49,452 screens for the period of January 4-6. ...
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Karlovy Vary to honour Dusan Hanak and Juraj Jakubisko
The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival has announced that its two Crystal Globe for Outstanding Artistic Contribution to World Cinema in 2008 will go to Dusan Hanak and Juraj Jakubisko.Both of the legends turn 70 in April. Both are natives of Slovakia and well regarded for their decades of work ...
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Italian box office rises 12.28% in 2007
The Italian industry is jubilant over 2007 box office results, with Italy's exhibitor organisation ANEC calling it 'one of the best in the past 20 years.' The exception is 1998 - when Titanic reigned at the box office and 118m tickets sold. According to estimates, 2007 will see 115m tickets ...
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Coach 14 takes on Berlin Panorama title Shiver
Coach 14 has announced the acquisition of Isidro Ortiz's Shiver. The Spanish horror film is produced by Fausto Producciones, Telecinco Cinema and ApuntoLapospo and stars Junio Valverde, Blanca Suarez.The action is set in a remote mountain village where a lonely teenager becomes a suspect in a series of odd events. ...
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Bac's three new projects include Amazonia, The Green Planet
Bac Films will offer three new projects at the upcoming Unifrance Rendez-Vous with French Cinema in Paris as well as screening three films. New to Bac's slate is Commis D'Office starry Roschdy Zem and directed by Hannelore Cayre. The film is produced by Dolce Vita Films and follows the 'education' ...
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Rotterdam to open with Lucia Cedron's debut Lamb Of God
The International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) has announced the 15 films competing for the VPRO Tiger Awards at this year's festival (Jan 23-Feb 3).The competition line-up includes eight world premieres; all films are first or second features. Five of the 15 have been backed by Rotterdam 's Hubert Bals Fund.Films ...
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Celluloid Dreams takes on Dennis Gansel's Sundance title The Wave
Celluloid Dreams has announced the acquisition of Dennis Gansel's The Wave. The film is a world dramatic competition entry at the upcoming Sundance Film Festival.Produced by Christian Becker of Rat Pack films and co-produced by Martin Moszkowicz of Constantin Film, The Wave tells the story of a high school teacher, ...
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TF1 debuts two new projects at Rendez-Vous
TF1 International is debuting two new projects at this week's Unifrance Rendez-Vous with French Cinema in Paris as well as world premiering two anticipated films. The new projects are School's Out by Frederic Berthe, a teen comedy billed as 'the modern-day La Boum', and Philippe Harel's sequel to 1997 hit ...
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Wild Bunch strikes Magic! with four new projects at Rendez-Vous
Wild Bunch is bringing four new projects to this week's Unifrance Rendez-Vous with French Cinema in Paris. The sales company will introduce a promo reel of Philippe Muyl's Magic!, a family film about a boy, his single mother and the healing power of the circus. Marie Gillain stars with Louis ...
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Max Von Sydow, Rachel Hurd-Wood join Solomon Kane cast
Max Von Sydow, Pete Postlethwaite, Rachel Hurd-Wood, Alice Krige and Mackenzie Crook have joined the cast of Solomon Kane, which as previously reported will star James Purefoy.Michael J Bassett will direct the Davis Film project from his own script. Samuel Hadida for Davis Films will produce with Paul Berrow's Epic ...
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Panahi, Tan among Rotterdam's Tiger Awards jurors
The International Film Festival Rotterdam has lined up its jurors for its upcoming event.The jury for the VPRO Tiger Awards Competition, for first or second feature films, is comprised of: Russian film-maker/actress Renata Litvinova, Locarno's Tiziana Finzi, Iranian director Jafar Panahi, former Dutch Filmmuseum deputy director Rieks Hadders and Singapore ...
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BAFTA unveils five foreign nominees including Lust, Caution
The Orange British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAs) have announced five nominees for its Film Not In The English Language Award. Those films are The Diving Bell and The Butterfly; The Kite Runner; The Lives OfOthers; Lust,Caution; and La Vie En Rose.
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Veterans of TF1, UGC launch new sales outfit Elle Driver
A new sales outfit will debut next week at the Unifrance Paris Rendez-Vous. Elle Driver, headed up by Eva Diederix and Adeline Fontan Tessaur has taken up residence at Stephane Celerier's Mars Distribution offices and, with help from an outside investment fund, will work 'with quality films that can travel,' ...