![The Brightest SunScreen[Courtesy HKIFF]](https://d1nslcd7m2225b.cloudfront.net/Pictures/274x183/3/5/0/1448350_thebrightestsunscreencourtesyhkiff_312678.jpg)
Small MPU – Page 25
-
News
Sony Pictures Classics acquires US rights to Whatever Works
Sony Pictures Classics has acquired US rights from Wild Bunch to Woody Allen's Whatever Works, the director's first feature shot in New York since 2004's Melinda And Melinda. Ed Begley Jr stars in the romantic comedy alongside Patricia Clarkson, Larry David and Evan Rachel Wood. Sony ...
-
News
Korean films boost exports but lose local market share
The Korean Film Council (KOFIC) has reported that export figures for Korean films bounced up 40% year-on-year to total $20.54m, based on minimum guarantees, ending a freefall that started in 2004. Although, the sum still falls short of the $30.9m worth of exports in 2003, it is higher than the ...
-
News
Chinese New Year box office up by 30% in mainland China
The 2009 Chinese New Year holidays ended on Sunday (Feb 1) with outstanding box office results in mainland China. The one-week holiday took in around $29.2m (RMB200m) in box office receipts, which is a 30% increase on the same period in 2008. Around 15 films were on release during the ...
-
News
Intermedia turns on Box for TV entry
Indie film giant Intermedia is launching into TV with the acquisition of a 24.9% stake in Box TV, the start-up production house run by former Channel 4 executive Gub Neal.Intermedia will provide Box with working capital and development funds and has an option to increase its shareholding. The sales, financing ...
-
News
Cheung, Tang Wei set to star in Crossing Hennessy
Hong Kong singer Jacky Cheung and Chinese actress Tang Wei have been lined up to star in Crossing Hennessy, the second film from Ivy Ho, which she is directing for Hong Kong-based Irresistible Films. Ho, formerly a scriptwriter with credits including Ann Hui's July Rhapsody, made her directing debut last ...
-
News
Number of buyers at EFM increases year-on-year by almost 40%
The number of international buyers attending this year's European Film Market (EFM) at the Berlinale is set to increase by almost 40% year-on-year. While a total of 1,073 attended the EFM's 2008 edition, this year's market has 1,474 buyers from 60 countries accredited (as of Feb 2, ...
-
News
UK 's Intandem to handle worldwide sales for The Kid
International sales and film finance house, Intandem Films, is to handle worldwide sales for The Kid , an adaptation of the novel by Kevin Lewis. Nick Moran (Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels) who made his directorial debut with Telstar, will direct and Tin House Films will produce. The film ...
-
News
Sundance winner Push lands at Lionsgate
Lionsgate has won the battle for North American distribution rights to Lee Daniels' Sundance winner Push: Based On The Novel By Sapphire and has tied up with Tyler Perry's 34th Street Films and Oprah Winfrey's Harpo Films for the release.The company acquired the rights from Smokewood Entertainment Group in a ...
-
News
Dutch indie theatres embrace digital cinema withAAM deal
Dutch independent chain the Amsterdam Booking Company (ABC)has signed a digital cinema rollout deal with Arts Alliance Media (AAM)to convert 68 screens in 20 theatres. It is the first virtual print fee (VPF) funded rollout in the Netherlands but the move may prove more significant for other reasons.AAM will hope ...
-
News
IFC Films acquires US rights to Rupert Wyatt's The Escapist
IFC Films has acquired US rights to Rupert Wyatt's The Escapist which had its world premiere at Sundance 2008.The film, which stars Brian Cox, Joseph Fiennes, Dominic Cooper and Damian Lewis, had previously been picked up by the beleagured THINKFilm but was freshly available when that company hit financial troubles.It ...
-
News
Wuthrich promoted to lead international home video, digital at Warner
Jim Wuthrich has been promoted to president of international home video and digital distribution at Warner Bros.In his newly created post Wuthrich will report to Warner Home Video president Ron Sanders and Warner Bros Digital Distribution president Thomas Gewecke and work closely with the international territories to grow the home ...
-
News
John Carpenter to direct The Ward for Echo Lake, A Bigger Boat
John Carpenter will direct the psychological thriller The Ward starring Amber Heard that Glen Basner's Film Nation will introduce to buyers at EFM this week.Echo Lake Productions and Peter Block's A Bigger Boat are collaborating on the story of a young woman in a mental institution who is plagued by ...
-
News
Melissa Anderson joins New York Film Festival selection committee
Film critic Melissa Anderson has joined The Film Society Of Lincoln Center's Richard Pena and Kent Jones and critics Scott Foundas and J Hoberman on the selection committee to choose the New York Film Festival's 2009 slate.Anderson has been a film critic in New York since 2000, when she began ...
-
News
Chris Pine named ShoWest Male Star Of Tomorrow
Chris Pine, who plays the young Captain Kirk in JJ Abrams' summer release Star Trek, will be the ShoWest Male Star Of Tomorrow when the Las Vegas event runs from March 30-April 2.Pine has also lined up a starring role in the viral outbreak thriller Carriers. His credits include Smokin' ...
-
News
What Lies Beneath won't lie down
Spookily, 20th Century Fox's What Lies Beneath resurfaced at the top of the UK box office chart for the second time in its five-week run this weekend, clawing back the lead it lost last weekend to another Fox release, Bedazzled. The Harrison Ford-Michelle Pfeiffer picture took $1,156,243 (£811,997) from 365 ...
-
News
TV veteran Poul to direct CBS Films' romantic comedy Plan B
Alan Poul is in final negotiations to direct the romantic comedy Plan B, the first planned release from CBS Films that will star Jennifer Lopez.Shooting is set to begin in May with a theatrical release set for January 2010. The story follows a woman who goes through the process of ...
-
News
Tim Johnson to join UK's Field Fisher Waterhouse
Media and communications partner Tim Johnson is to join Field Fisher Waterhouse LLP from SJ Berwin next month. He will head up the firm's cross-practice Media Group. Johnson's appointment follows the decision by SJ Berwin to close its four-partner UK media division, which was headed up by Johnson. He has ...
-
News
ODEON and UCI group to have 50 3D screens in UK by end March 2009
The Odeon and UCI group has added 19 new screens in preparation for the opening of Bolt 3D on February 6. Another 11 will be added in March of this year in time for the release of Monsters Vs Aliens. The digital expansion will see the Odeon Group with 53 ...
-
News
UK 's Jinga Films acquires Terry Marcel's Hawk The Hunter
Jinga Films, the UK based sales company, has acquired Hawk The Hunter , director Terry Marcel's follow up to his 1980s cult hit, Hawk The Slayer. Tom Hardy (Bronson) is on board for the $10,000,000 sword and sorcery saga and is to play Hawk. Producer Andrew Growcock of Westwood Productions ...
-
Reviews
The 6th Day
Dir: Roger Spottiswoode. US. 2000. 124 mins.Prod co: Phoenix Pictures. US dist: Columbia Pictures. Int'l dist: Columbia TriStar. Exec prods: Daniel Petrie Jr, David Coatsworth. Prods: Mike Medavoy, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jon Davison. Scr: Cormac Wibberley, Marianne Wibberley. DoP: Pierre Mignot. Prod des: James Bissell, John Willett. Eds: Mark Conte, Dominique ...