Published on May,21 2012 - by Variety
Rupert Everett is making his directorial debut with the Oscar Wilde biopic "The Happy Prince," in which he will star alongside Colin Firth and Emily Watson. Everett, who stars as Wilde, also penned the script for the ...
Published on May,19 2012 - by Variety
Madrid-based sales consortium Latido Films has acquired international sales rights to thriller "Thesis on a Homicide," toplining Argentinean star Ricardo Darin ("The Secret in Their Eyes"). In Hernan Goldfrid's "Homicide ...
Published on May,18 2012 - by Variety
Although Sweden has no tax incentives, a network of regional film commissions and a recent agreement specifying that between $2 million and $2.6 million of the national film fund is set aside for co-productions annually ...
Published on May,18 2012 - by Variety
A 20% tax rebate on local spend, due to take effect this summer, should boost production, with Film Center Serbia estimating annual foreign production spending to rise to $30 million a year. Serbia, a member of Eurimages ...
Published on May,18 2012 - by Variety
Jean Prewitt, president-CEO of the Independent Film & Television Alliance, is taking a cautiously optimistic view of this year's Cannes market and growing traction for the Chinese film business. "It's hard to tell ...
Published on May,16 2012 - by Forbes
Editor’s Note: The following guest post is published with the permission of its author, Edward J. Schloss, MD, (Twitter ID @EJSMD) the medical director of cardiac electrophysiology at Christ Hospital in Cincinnati, OH ...
Published on May,07 2012 - by Forbes
Put some skateboard wheels on a GorillaPod, and you have CineSkates. Clever, right? When the device debuted on Kickstarter with a $20,000 fundraising goal last summer, photographers clamored to get one of their own ...
Published on April,26 2012 - by Variety
PARIS -- Cannes Classics has unveiled its wide-ranging selection of 13 restored movies that have marked film history, from Sergio Leone's gangster pic "Once Upon a Time in America" to Roman Polanski's drama "Tess" and ...
Published on April,25 2012 - by Variety
Award-winning documentary filmmaker Anne Drew, the wife of cinema verite pioneer Robert L. Drew, died April 12 at their home in Sharon, Conn., after a long bout with lung cancer. She was 70. Anne Drew was a central ...
Published on April,24 2012 - by The Los Angeles Times
LOS ANGELES _ On a steep slope, above a retaining wall with scrawled warnings ("Stay off, Stay out, Private Property"), Colin Rich begins to unpack black bags full of cameras and gear. The warnings confirm that this is ...