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All articles by Staff reporters – Page 23
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Inside Pictures announces final 14 participants
Inside Pictures, the UK Film Council's film business training programme run by Qwerty Films (previously Kuhn & Co) has announced its 14 successful participants for its second annual intensive training programme. Fourteen participants were chosen from over 250 applications through a committee selection process and a shortlist of interviews. ...
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Cast set for Nine Queens remake
Recent Oscar nominee John C.Reilly (Chicago) and Mexican actor Diego Luna (Y Tu Mama Tambien) are pairing up for the English-language remake of Nine Queens (Nueve Reinas), the Argentinian heist film that marked the directorial debut of Fabian Bielinsky. To be re-titled Criminal, the remake will also star Maggie ...
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Sony Pictures TV Int'l promotes Mike Wald
Mike Wald has been promoted to senior vice president, Worldwide Pay Television at Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI), it was announced by Peter Iacono, Executive Vice President, Sales, SPTI, to whom Wald reports. Wald, who has held the post of vice president of Worldwide Pay Television at SPTI since November ...
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Matthew Glotzer promoted at 20th Fox TV Distribution
Matthew Glotzer has been named vice president, Video On Demand and Business Development, Twentieth Century Fox Television Distribution, it was announced by Jamie McCabe, Senior Vice President, Worldwide Pay Per View and Video On Demand. Glotzer will be based at the company's headquarters in Los Angeles.Glotzer has been with the ...
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Liz Hurley to star as Method killer
Elizabeth Hurley has been signed as the lead actress in Method, a thriller for Andrew Stevens' company Trademark Entertainment. Hurley will be promoting the film during the Cannes film festival this month. The film will be offered for sale at the Cannes market and is available in all ...
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BVITV names Maigret vice president, portfolio development
Buena Vista International Television (BVITV) has appointed Philippe Maigret as vice president, portfolio development, it was announced by Tom Toumazis, senior vice president and managing director, BVITV EMEA. Maigret will be based in London and report directly to Toumazis. Maigret will focus on optimising the value of the BVITV ...
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Carver appointed senior vice president at Screen Gems
Benedict Carver has been promoted to senior vice president, acquisitions and co-productions for Screen Gems, it was announced by Clint Culpepper, president, Screen Gems. Carver oversees worldwide acquisitions for Screen Gems and for the Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group (CTMPG). He also initiates co-financing ...
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Father Amaro ordained by Mexican press awards
Mexican blockbuster The Crime Of Father Amaro has won four Silver Goddess awards from the Mexican Press Association, Pecime. Now on its 33rd edition, these are the second most prestigious awards after Mexico's Oscars, the Ariel.Carlos Carrera's priest scandal drama went home with the awards for Best Picture, Director, Cinematography ...
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Mexico's production activity intensifies
Despite a challenging economic climate, a raft of new film companies are suddenly launching in Mexico - all hoping to hit the big time with their new projects.Many have been spurred on by the kind of success seen by local blockbuster El Crimen Del Padre Amaro. The new outfits are ...
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Wallace launches film rep outfit with Capitol as client
Ronna Wallace, the seasoned independent production and acquisitions executive associated with such companies as Samuel Goldwyn and Stratosphere as well as Live Entertainment during its film financing heydey a decade ago, has launched her own film rep company, Eastgate Pictures.Under the new banner, Wallace will serve as producer's rep on ...
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Post-production monopoly challenged in Argentina
A new major post production facility will launch in August in a bid to challenge the monopoly of leading facility Cinecolor in Argentina. The new lab, called LACSA, aims to bring down the prices set by Cinecolor which has forced major and local distributors to deeply reduce their local ...
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Co-production quartet hatched at Buenos Aires conference
European and Latin American participants at the second annual AL-Invest conference forged four co-productions during the event, organised by Brussels-based Jose Luis Escudero of Intercommunicacion, Belgium.The meeting between European and Latin American producers, that coincided with the 5th Buenos Aires International Film Festival of Independent Cinema, matched around 30 European ...
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Vivendi buries Hollywood ambition
Media giant Vivendi Universal ended months of speculation yesterday by confirming that it was bowing out of the US entertainment industry and selling-off subsidiary Universal Entertainment Networks.Indicating that a post-restructure Vivendi would focus on telecoms and French television, Vivendi Universal chief executive Jean-Marie Fourtou told shareholders the company was talking ...
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Mauritania's Waiting For Happiness wins at Buenos Aires
Films from as far afield as Mauritania, Thailand and Belgium took home the top prizes at the Buenos Aires Fifth International Film Festival of Independent Cinema.Mauritania's Waiting For Happiness by director Abderrahmane Sissako won best picture while director Apichatpong Weerasethakul of Thailand's Blissfully Yours was named best director. In a ...
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Miravista boards two Brazilian projects
Miravista, the joint co production venture between The Walt Disney Company Latin America and Telefonica Spain's Admira, has boarded two Brazilian projects currently in post, 1972 and O Caminho Das Nuvens (A Walk In The Clouds). According to Miravista manager Fernando Lagier, who is based in Disney's regional headquarters in ...
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Distant Horizon to bring black comic book hero to the screen
Targeting the growing hip-hop and urban market, Distant Horizon, the international film financing, production and distribution company headed by Anant Singh, announced its plans to adapt urban-underground comic book Brotherman for the big screen. Rights for the comic were bought from Atlanta-based publisher Flipbook Communications.Based on the series of ...
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Cannes' Un Certain Regard to add lustre
The Cannes Festival's Un Certain Regard sidebar is taking on the allure and scale of a fully-fledged festival to rival discovery events like Locarno or Rotterdam.The Cannes selectors today completed their selection with the addition of Argentinian director Pablo Reyero's La Cruz Del Sur (sold by F For Film). Previously ...
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El Bonaerense director unveils Argentinian slate
Pablo Trapero, the Argentinian director of acclaimed police drama El Bonaerense, unveiled the new slate of his fledgling production house Matanza Films at the Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival.Leading the slate is his third film Familia Rodante which he hopes to shoot in August and September. " This was ...
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Mexican production company buys into arthouse cinema
New Mexican film production company INDIFilms has bought a major stake in arthouse cinema Cinefrancia in Mexico City. INDIFilms, run by Juan Carlos Blanco and his wife Mitzuko Villanueva, currently has three films in pre-production, both written and to be directed by Blanco. Villanueva will take over the day to ...
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Buenos Aires Lab announces subsidy award winners
Buenos Aires Lab, the film workshop launched by the Buenos Aires Independent Film Festival with the co-operation of the Fundacion Antorchas of Argentina and the Hubert Bals, Goteburg, Rockefeller and Ford foundations, announced the winners of subsidy awards at the festival (April 16 to 26).The Hubert Bals fund rewarded ...