Catching Fire adds $93m int'l
Catching Fire held on to its box office crown with ease as an estimated $92.5m through 79 Lionsgate International markets boosted the running total after two full sessions to $276.4m. Thor: The Dark...
View ArticleBaltic Event hands out five awards to best projects
Producers from Lithuania, Romania, Denmark and Finland were the recipients of five awards presented at the Baltic Event’s Co-Production Market (Nov 26-29). This year’s Screen International Best Pitch...
View ArticleThe Hunger Games: Catching Fire retains top spot at UK box office
Lionsgate’s sequel takes estimated $9.2m (£5.6m) to hold onto the top spot for the second consecutive week; Fox’s Philomena becomes Stephen Frears’ best-ever UK performer at $16.1m (£9.8m). Posting a...
View ArticleVentana Sur boosts Cannes' LatAm presence
The presence of Latin America films in Cannes has grown by 40% since 2009, when Ventana Sur was created by INCAA (Argentina’s film institute) and Marché du Film/Festival de Cannes. This is one of the...
View ArticleThe Great Gatsby, The Rocket lead AACTA nominations
Other best film nominations include Dead Europe, Mystery Road, Satellite Boy and The Turning. Scroll down for full list Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby and Kim Mordaunt’s The Rocket lead the...
View ArticleDoha's Ajyal fest wraps with youth jury awards
Inaugural youth festival in Doha hosts industry forum where experts stressed importance of local content. The Doha Film Institute’s first Ajyal Youth Film Festival ended on Saturday night a number of...
View ArticleIn Bloom takes Tokyo Filmex prize
Other winners include Harmony Lessons and Ilo Ilo. Directors Nana Ekvtimishvili and Simon Gross’ In Bloom was awarded the grand prize and $6,830 (Y700,000) at the closing awards of the 14th edition of...
View ArticleIn Bloom takes top prize at Tokyo Filmex
Other winners include Harmony Lessons and Ilo Ilo. Directors Nana Ekvtimishvili and Simon Gross’ In Bloom was awarded the grand prize and $6,830 (Y700,000) at the closing awards of the 14th edition of...
View ArticleThe Great Beauty wins Tallinn's EurAsia Grand Prix
Sorrentino’s Cannes hit wins at Tallinn’s Black Nights Film Festival. Paolo Sorrentino’s The Great Beauty (La Grande Bellezza) was awarded the $13,500 (€10,000) EurAsia Grand Prix in the main...
View ArticleCatching Fire rules US on $75m
As expected Catching Fire maintained control of the North American charts despite a superb first wide weekend from Disney’s animation Frozen. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire boosted its running total...
View ArticleRags & Tatters Egyptian box office hit
Egyptian independent production Rags & Tatters has grossed an impressive $30,000 following a two-week run in Egyptian cinemas. The film was originally slated to run for only one week. Local...
View ArticleSong From the Forest
Dir/scr: Michael Obert. Germany. 2013. 96mins An immersive delight as it follows globe-trotting American musicologist Louis Sarno as he tracks down soon-to-be-lost musical traditions, the elegantly...
View ArticleDave Gibson to head New Zealand Film Commission
Dave Gibson, one of the country’s most high profile producers, has been appointed chief executive of the New Zealand Film Commission. Gibson replaces Graeme Mason who took up his new role at Screen...
View ArticleRegev named CEO at Jerusalem Cinematheque
She replaces Alesia Weston, who left the post after less than one year. After several troubled years at the Jerusalem Cinematheque, the temporary Board of Directors has hired Noa Regev as its new CEO,...
View ArticleRags And Tatters lights up Egyptian box office
Egyptian independent production Rags And Tatters has grossed an impressive $30,000 following a two-week run in Egyptian cinemas. The film was originally slated to run for only one week. Local...
View ArticleUK edges closer to China co-production treaty
SCREEN FILM SUMMIT: International panel talks China opportunities, but warns about tough US market. A UK-China co-production treaty is edging closer to reality, a British Film Institute executive told...
View ArticleUK works closer to China co-production treaty
SCREEN FILM SUMMIT: International panel talks China opportunities, but warns about tough US market. A UK-China co-production treaty is edging closer to reality, a British Film Institute executive told...
View ArticleEvent cinema will be 'saviour'
SCREEN FILM SUMMIT: Event cinema will be the “saviour of cinema”, according to Curzon Artificial Eye CEO Philip Knatchbull, and Lionsgate UK’s CEO Zygi Kamasa, who called it “the future of cinema”....
View ArticleDaniel Radcliffe, Kill Your Darlings
Given the gap between first auditioning for the role and the completion of the film, Kill Your Darlings could almost be considered a passion project for Daniel Radcliffe. Having auditioned in 2009,...
View ArticlePeter Possne leaves Sonet Film
Peter Possne, CEO and producer at Sweden’s Sonet Film is to leave the company after 29 years. Possne, who was one of the founders of Sonet Film in 1984, said he wanted “to do something else with my...
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