Small MPU – Page 817
-
News
Meltdown drops 50% in US but still holds top position
Ice Age: The Meltdown held on to top spot and became the first release of2006 to cross $100m after an estimated $34.5m haul raised the domestic tally to$116.4m after ten days.The animated family sequelremained the dominant picture across the globe following a staggering $93mperformance in the international marketplace that raised ...
-
News
Ice Age sets industry and animated records around the world
Fox International's IceAge 2: The Meltdown generated one ofthe biggest international weekends of all time with an astonishing estimated$93m haul on 8,216 screens that raised the international running total to$156m.The animated romp scored anumber of new industry and distributor records as it sailed to the top in allits territories, led ...
-
News
Cast finalised for Spyglass/Rogue comedy Balls Of Fury
George Lopez and Maggie Qhave joined Dan Fogler and Christopher Walken in Spyglass Entertainment'scomedy Balls Of Fury.Production is scheduled tobegin next month on the story of an underground table tennis player recruitedby the FBI for a secret mission.Ben Garant is directing froma screenplay he co-wrote with Thomas Lennon. Rogue Pictures ...
-
News
MDM backs projects from Kirghizia and Georgia
Newfeature films from Georgia and Kirghizia are among 16 projectsbacked with a total of more than $3.15m (Euros 2.6m) by the Leipzig-basedregional film fund MDM in its latest round offunding.Productionsupport of $242,410 (Euros 200,000) was awarded to Kirghiz-born director Marat Saralu's fourth feature Songs From TheSouthern Seas, which will be ...
-
News
Khrzhanovsky's 4 takes top prize at Budapest's Titanic festival
Russian director Ilya Khrzhanovsky received theBreaking Waves Award, the grand prize at the 13th Titanic BudapestInternational Film Festival, for his film 4.Khrzhanovsky received the award from AndrasBozoki, Hungarian minister for culture, at a gala ceremonyApril 8 that concluded with a screening of French director Jacques Audiard's The Beat That My ...
-
News
Casino Royale to wrap in Czech Republic in late May
Director Martin Campbell is scheduled toconclude principal photography on Casino Royalein the Czech Republic at the end of May. The final shots will take place in Czech spa town Karlovy Vary, which will double as Montenegro. Bond franchise holders EON Productions are workingwith MGM and Columbia Pictures on the ...
-
News
Vanessa Redgrave to head Sarajevo's new documentary jury
Veteran British actressVanessa Redgrave will be the jury president of thenew Regional Documentary Competition at this year's Sarajevo Film Festival(SFF) (August 18-26).The 'Heart ofSarajevo' award for best documentary - with a prize of $3633 (Euros 3,000)- will be awarded to the best film in the festival's Regional DocumentaryProgramme selection and ...
-
News
Fox launches theatrical and DVD business in Russia
TwentiethCentury Fox International is establishing a theatrical and home entertainmentventure in Russia.Michael Schlicht, founder of leading Russiandistributor Gemini Film, will serve as managing director of Fox's new Russianbusiness.GeminiFilm's Russian office, which had been Fox's partner in Russia for morethan a decade, will now become Twentieth Century Fox Russia, and all ...
-
News
Working Title, Tiger Aspect plan May 15 start for Bean II
Working Title Films, in association with Tiger Aspect, will startprincipal photography for Bean II onMay 15.Rowan Atkinson will star in the sequel, which is directed by Steve Bendelack from a screenplay by Robin Driscoll and Hamish McColl based on a story by Simon McBurney.TV veteran Bendelack made his feature film ...
-
News
Monaco's Film and Literature Forum honours OSS 117
The fifth International Film and Literature Forum wrapped in Monaco on Sunday withMichel Hazanavicius' OSS 117 taking the topprize for best cinematic adaptation.The retro-styled film, which also had its premiere during the event,stars Jean Dujardin in the role of a special agentwho takes himself a bit too seriously. The film ...
-
News
Demme's Neil Young film takes prize at Denmark's NATfilm
Denmark's NATfilmfestival wrapped Sunday with its audience award going to Jonathan Demme's concert film NeilYoung: Heart of Gold. The film gets a prize of about $20,560 (17,000 Euro)for Danish theatrical distribution support. The award also includes a TV deal withlocal public broadcaster DR. TV5MONDE-Critics' award, which carries a prize ...
-
News
Buenos Aires festival kicks off with Rosell's Sofabed
The eighth Buenos AiresInternational Festival of Independent Cinema (BAFICI) will kick off tonightwith plans to show 342 features and 145 shorts from 49 countries.The city-financed BAFICI is Argentina's biggest film event in terms of numbers of screenings andcinema-goers (last year's attendance was 184,500), besting the nationallyfinanced Mar del Plata Festival, ...
-
News
Assyriska wins top prize at Beverly Hills Film Festival
NuriKino and Erik Sandberg's human rights documentary Assyriska: A National TeamWithout A Nation won the 6th AnnualBeverly Hills International Film Festival's (BHFF) Golden Palm Award.EugenioCappuccio's Verso La Luna Con Fellini (TowardsThe Moon With Fellini) won best foreignfilm, while Patrick Warburton won the best actor prize for The CivilisationOf Maxwell Bright ...
-
News
Iacono crosses from Sony TV to local language movies
Seekingto bolster its local language activities, particularly in growth areas likeRussia and India, Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group (CTMPG) has named PeterIacono senior executive vice president of local language productions.Iacono (pictured) will report directly to and work alongside CTMPG vice chairman Gareth Wigan onthe local language slate, which to date ...
-
News
Joffe leaves Media 8 for vp job at QED International
BeverlyHills-based international sales, financing and production company QEDInternational has appointed Tatyana Joffe as vice president of internationaldistribution.Joffemost recently served as vice president of international distribution at Media 8Entertainment where she oversaw the international department as well aslicensing and sales for half the world including most of Asia, Eastern Europeand the ...
-
News
Those Happy Days has world premiere, then wins audience prize at LA French Film Festival
ThoseHappy Days (Ces Jours Heureux), the second feature film from Eric Toledano and OlivierNakeche, won the audience choice award at the tenth annual City Of Lights, CityOf Angels (COLCOA) French Film Festival in Los Angeles which closed on Sunday.Thefilm, which had its world premiere at COLCOA, stars Jean-Paul Rouve as ...
-
News
Focus, Korea's LJ team to develop Julia Mullock story
FocusFeatures has teamed up with Korea's LJ Film to develop the epic drama The JuliaProject (working title), about an Americanwoman who became the wife of the last crown prince of Korea.Focusand LJ's new US arm will co-produce and co-finance the project, which is set tobegin production late this year and ...
-
News
O'Shea hired to run Odd Lot's new international sales arm
LosAngeles-based production and finance outfit Odd Lot Entertainment is launchinga foreign sales division and has appointed former Media 8 senior vice presidentof worldwide distribution Brian O'Shea (pictured) to oversee it.OddLot International (OLI) will be based at Odd Lot's new Culver City site andwill handle films from Odd Lot Entertainment and ...
-
News
Weinstein Company picks up Dragon Tiger Gate
TheWeinstein Company (TWC) has picked up all English-speaking territories toWilson Yip's martial arts action thriller Dragon Tiger Gate.Basedon a well known Hong Kong comic book The Gate Of Dragon And Tiger, the picture follows three young martial arts masters fromthe back streets of Hong Kong who team up to fight ...
-
News
Focus takes on worldwide rights to Iraq documentary
FocusFeatures has acquired worldwide rights to Patricia Foulkrod's documentary TheGround Truth: After The Killing Ends,which premiered at Sundance. The company plans to release it later this year.Thepicture recounts the experiences of six American men and women who served inIraq and chronicles their recruitment, training, combat and traumatichomecoming.TheGround Truth was produced ...