Secretly Greatly
Dir: Jang Cheol-soo. South Korea. 2013. 123mins Director Jang Cheol-soo’s second hotly-anticipated spy feature has relatively little in common with his widely acclaimed debut Bedevilled (2010), but...
View ArticleProjects by Greenaway, Lungin and Germanika at 5th Moscow Co-Production Forum
New projects by Peter Greenaway, Pavel Lungin and Valeria Gai Germanika are among 18 feature films selected to be pitched at the fifth edition of Moscow Business Square’s Co-Production Forum. This...
View ArticleSummer In February
Dir: Christopher Menaul. UK. 2013. 93mins There is something engagingly watchable about the impressively mounted Summer In February, a lush and elegantly staged melodrama that – despite its...
View ArticlePalm Springs ShortFest announces star-studded line-up
Work featuring Cate Blanchett, Elle Fanning, Ian McKellen, Alan Rickman, Emma Thompson and Hugo Weaving will be on show at the 2013 Palm Springs International ShortFest & Short Film Market, set to...
View ArticleLevel K ignites Rocket sales
Kim Mordaunt’s Tribeca and Berlinale winner The Rocket has been snapped up in the UK and Middle East among others. Level K has secured sales of Mordaunt’s debut, following buzz from Tribeca....
View ArticleBarroso labelled "dangerous" for European culture
The European film industry and European Commission (EC) at loggerheads over the question of the “cultural exception”, as director Costa-Gavras and The Artist actress Bérénice Bejo weighed in to the...
View ArticleMiss Christina
Dir: Alexandru Maftei. Romania. 2013. 100mins This adaptation of a novel written some 80 years ago by Mircea Eliade, one of Romania’s best known authors and philosophers, turns the heavily atmospheric...
View ArticleSadie Frost, Emma Comley launch production company
EXCLUSIVE: Blonde to Black Pictures kicks off with psychological drama Buttercup Bill. Sadie Frost and Emma Comley are launching London-based production outfit Blonde to Black Pictures. The company’s...
View ArticleDomestic
Dir/scr.: Adrian Sitaru. Romania. 2013. 85mins More than anything else, this looks like a counter experiment aimed at complementing Adrian Sitaru’s debut feature Hooked. While his earlier film was...
View ArticleEFA masterclass to spotlight animation
The European Film Academy’s masterclass will this year will focus on animation. Held by author, designer and director Andreas Hykade, the EFA Master Class 2013 Animation Today will be dedicated to...
View ArticleOdessa reveals competition line-up
Fredrik Bond’s The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman among the 11 films competing for the Golden Duke award at the 4th OIFF. The Odessa International Film Festival (July 12-20) has unveiled the...
View ArticleSwan Lake leaps into 3D
St Petersburg’s Mariinsky Theatre staged the first ever 3D live ballet, filmed using James Cameron’s ground-breaking technology as seen in Avatar, and Peter Colley pulled on his 3D glasses to check...
View ArticleVue Entertainment sold for $1.5bn
Vue Entertainment is to be sold by private equity group Doughty Hanson for £935m ($1.5bn). The UK and Ireland exhibitor is to be acquired by Canadian investment companies OMERS Private Equity and...
View ArticleNFTS launches Lord Attenborough NFTS Charitable Fund
The fund, which will go towards offering more scholarships and improved teaching facilities at the NFTS, was announced at a gala dinner held in honour of the veteran British actor-director in London...
View ArticleFinancier not guilty in Revolver case
CORRECTED: UK financier and actor found not guilty of harassment. Michael Coleman, a financier and actor who made a number of abusive calls to staff at UK production company Revolver and CEO Justin...
View ArticleBFI hosts launch of Bradford, Bollywood film school collaboration
BFI hosts launch of Bradford-Whistling Woods International Film School. Figures from the UK and Indian film industry gathered at the British Film Institute (BFI) in London yesterday for the official...
View ArticleFilm tax avoidance scheme closed
A film tax avoidance scheme which routed profits of a tax advisory business through employee benefit trusts has been closed by a tribunal. HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) challenged tax deductions of...
View ArticleSundance Channel expands to DirecTV Latin America
September launch will make Sundance Channel available for the first time in seven Latin American countries. AMC-Sundance Channel Global has secured an agreement with DirecTV Latin American to launch...
View ArticleOpen Road bites into Chef
Open Road Films will release the Jon Favreau comedy over Mother’s Day Weekend on May 9, 2014. Aldamisa Entertainment is financing and introduced the project to international buyers in Cannes. Robert...
View ArticleVision launches ancillary sales
The worldwide sales company announced on Monday [10] its DVD and VoD label, formalising an expansion that has been operational since April. Among Vision Films’ digital channels are Dish Network, iN...
View Article
