![The Brightest SunScreen[Courtesy HKIFF]](https://d1nslcd7m2225b.cloudfront.net/Pictures/274x183/3/5/0/1448350_thebrightestsunscreencourtesyhkiff_312678.jpg)
Small MPU – Page 1354
-
News
Fireworks, Goldwyn buy US on UK's Greenfingers
Fireworks Pictures and Samuel Goldwyn Films have reteamed to jointly acquire US rights to Greenfingers, the British comedy starring Helen Mirren and Clive Owen.The film, which world premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival last September, will be distributed through IDP, the distribution joint venture between Fireworks, Samuel Goldwyn and ...
-
News
Australia goes to Meet The Parents at Christmas
UIP's Meet The Parents has become one of the biggest Christmas hits of the year in Australia after its powerful performance on December 26.The Ben Stiller-Robert De Niro comedy took $700,000 from 256 screens, pushing its seven day gross up to January 1 to $3.9m. December 26 is regarded as ...
-
News
Barry Levinson, Intermedia stike first-look pact
The true-life story which inspired the classic novel Moby Dick is the first project in an exclusive first-look deal announced on Friday between uber-indie Intermedia and Barry Levinson and Paula Weinstein's US production outfit Baltimore/Spring Creek Pictures.The partners are working on an adaptation of Nathaniel Philbrick's National Book Award-winner, In ...
-
News
Cool And Crazy opens Tromso arctic festival
The world premiere of Norsk Film's musical documentary Cool And Crazy opens this month's Tromso International Film Festival.Belgium's Thomas Est Amoureux closes the Norwegian event, located 200 miles north of the Arctic circle and the country's most attended festival. This year's edition, which runs January 16 to 21, will be ...
-
News
Berlin Children's Festival readies global line-up
Films from the US, Italy, Iran and Spain are understood to be joining titles from the UK and Scandinavia in next month’s Children’s Film Festival sidebar at the Berlin International Film Festival.Italy’s RAI Trade is representing Il Cielo Cade, which won the Giffoni Film Festival in July. Camera d’Or winning ...
-
News
Terence Davies in tune with Sunset Song adaptation
Writer-director Terence Davies is eyeing an adaptation of the classic Scots novel Sunset Song to follow his critically acclaimed film of Edith Wharton's book The House Of Mirth.The 1932 book, the first part of Lewis Grassic Gibbon's A Scots Quair trilogy, centres on Chris Guthrie, a proud young woman whose ...
-
News
Germany's e-m-s buys into two more media outfits
German DVD company e-m-s new media, the publicly-listed concern which bought into film rights trader Advanced Medien in December, has taken stakes in TV production house AZAWAKH and multimedia company get.Dortmund-based e-m-s has taken a 30% interest in AZAWAKH to develop formats for exploitation on TV and DVD. Named after ...
-
News
Spain's Canal hits 1 million pay-TV subscribers
Grupo Prisa's Spanish pay-TV operation Canal Satelite Digital has racked up 1.05 million subscribers.The figure is nearly double that of rival Via Digital's 630,000, a lead some attribute to four year-old Canal Satelite's ready-made subscriber base through pay platform Canal Plus. The 10-year-old sister service now boasts 1.85 million subscribers.Via ...
-
News
Winchester, Wind Dancer seal three-year deal
Wind Dancer Films, the US-based production company behind What Women Want and hit sitcom Home Improvement, has cemented its relationship with UK/US production and sales outfit Winchester Films.The two companies have struck an overall three-year development and co-production deal on a new slate of pictures. Winchester will provide development funds ...
-
News
Cast Away No 1 but Traffic flies high $14.9m
USA Films' critical favourite Traffic opened on a high in its first weekend of wide release.The Steven Soderbergh picture secured the highest screen average in the top ten - $9,991. Taking the number three spot, the film grossed $14.9m from 1,510 theatres.That result surpassed the expectations of many who had ...
-
News
Hollywood stars face off European upstarts
New European stars face off against Hollywood screen legends in the best actor race for the Academy Awards this year.At time of going to press, Tom Hanks had been named Best Actor by the New York Film Critics Circle for Cast Away, while Michael Douglas was given the same nod ...
-
News
DVD future has Vegas video conference in a spin
How to exploit the potential of DVD divided delegates at this week's Las Vegas Video Software Dealers' Association after Blockbuster Video pushed for creating a rental window for the format.Blockbuster, which recently begun trials of video-on-demand (VoD) movies, aims for the move to allow time for DVDs to be available ...
-
News
Harry Potter adds Character
Character Group, the UK-branded goods manufacturer buffeted last year by disappointing sales of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace merchandising, is set to return to the film sector on Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone.The company confirmed press reports on Monday that it is in talks over the UK distribution of ...
-
News
Indian film business signs biggest music contract
Music company Saregama India has signed the biggest ever music contract with the Indian film industry, striking a $6m accord with leading production company Puja Entertainment.Saregama, formerly named the Gramophone Company of India, takes the music rights to the next five films from Puja, one of the top Hindi film ...
-
News
Spain's San Sebastian appoints festival manager
Leading Spanish film event the San Sebastian International Film Festival has named Mikel Etxagibel as its general manager.Etxagibel will work alongside incoming festival director Mikel Olaciregui, who replaces Diego Galan this month. Etxagibel, 48, comes to the festival from the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, where he had been assistant director ...
-
News
Swedish Oscars return Lukas Moodysson's insult
Lukas Moodysson, the director who showed his appreciation when he won the Swedish Oscars for Show Me Love by giving the audience the finger, has controversially missed getting a best film nomination this year for Together.Instead, Roy Andersson's Songs From The Second Floor was heavily nominated, securing nominations for best ...
-
News
Forman & Zaentz together again for Goya biopic
Director Milos Forman and producer Saul Zaentz are to reteam for the third time on a new film about the life and times of Spanish painter Francisco Goya. The previous collaborations between the two, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (1975) and Amadeus (1984), both won Academy Awards for Best ...
-
News
Hindi mogul arrested
In the biggest scandal to hit the Hindi cinema in recent years, police have arrested leading film financier Bharat Shah under the Organized Crime Act. Police swooped as part of investigations into links between the Karachi based underworld and the makers of the film Chori Chori Chupke Chupke - a ...
-
News
Japan's Wowow secures 2.6 million subscribers
Japanese satellite service Wowow has broken the 2.6 million subscribers barrier.The broadcaster recorded 1.7 times more new subscriptions in December than in the same month the previous year. Wowow is expected to benefited from the highly-publicised launch of digital broadcast satellite services on December 1. The company recruited 42,708 subscribers ...
-
News
Industry figures to attend UK Production Show
Robert Jones, head of the Premiere Fund at UK film body The Film Council, Working Title's Debra Hayward and Universal Pictures' Graeme Mason are some of the names appearing at the Production Show's Movie Day on March 14.Other industry insiders appearing at Olympia in London include Scala Productions' Nik Powell, ...