Gerard Butler tops nine new markets with STX’s action thriller ‘Greenland’.
Gerard Butler’s latest action thriller Greenland opened top in nine of its 11 new markets at the weekend: Taiwan, Singapore, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Switzerland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
Top new territory for Greenland at the weekend was Taiwan, opening with a five-day $1.01m from 62 locations, and a 57% market share, for local distributor CatchPlay. STX – which produced and represents the film internationally – reports that this result is 77% ahead of the debut number for Butler’s Angel Has Fallen, and 174% ahead of Olympus Has Fallen.
The estimated international weekend total...
Gerard Butler’s latest action thriller Greenland opened top in nine of its 11 new markets at the weekend: Taiwan, Singapore, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Switzerland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
Top new territory for Greenland at the weekend was Taiwan, opening with a five-day $1.01m from 62 locations, and a 57% market share, for local distributor CatchPlay. STX – which produced and represents the film internationally – reports that this result is 77% ahead of the debut number for Butler’s Angel Has Fallen, and 174% ahead of Olympus Has Fallen.
The estimated international weekend total...
- 8/18/2020
- by 1100901¦Charles Gant¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
Indie titles hoping to capitalise on blockbuster absence.
UK-Ireland, opening Friday August 14
Picturehouse Entertainment heads the new titles this weekend with Shannon Murphy’s Australian comedy-drama Babyteeth in 140 locations.
The debut feature of theatre and TV drama director Murphy played in Competition at Venice last year, where Toby Wallace won the Marcello Mastroianni award for emerging actor/actress. It most recently won the top prize at the 19th Transylvania International Film Festival last weekend.
Adapted by Rita Kalnejais from her stage play of the same name, the film centres on Milla (Eliza Scanlen), a seriously ill teenager, who falls in...
UK-Ireland, opening Friday August 14
Picturehouse Entertainment heads the new titles this weekend with Shannon Murphy’s Australian comedy-drama Babyteeth in 140 locations.
The debut feature of theatre and TV drama director Murphy played in Competition at Venice last year, where Toby Wallace won the Marcello Mastroianni award for emerging actor/actress. It most recently won the top prize at the 19th Transylvania International Film Festival last weekend.
Adapted by Rita Kalnejais from her stage play of the same name, the film centres on Milla (Eliza Scanlen), a seriously ill teenager, who falls in...
- 8/14/2020
- by 1101321¦Ben Dalton¦26¦¬158¦Martin Blaney¦40¦¬1101325¦Gabriele Niola¦35¦
- ScreenDaily
Distributors welcome measure but say they still aim to release their films theatrically.
The French government passed a temporary measure on Friday (March 20) softening France’s strict media chronology as part of a larger emergency bill aimed at tackling the coronavirus pandemic and the economic fallout.
The main aim of the bill was to give the French authorities greater power to restrict movement and gatherings as the country battles to slow the spread of Covid-19, but it also included a number of measures aimed at protecting jobs and supporting the economy.
France’s exhibitors and distributors have been hard hit...
The French government passed a temporary measure on Friday (March 20) softening France’s strict media chronology as part of a larger emergency bill aimed at tackling the coronavirus pandemic and the economic fallout.
The main aim of the bill was to give the French authorities greater power to restrict movement and gatherings as the country battles to slow the spread of Covid-19, but it also included a number of measures aimed at protecting jobs and supporting the economy.
France’s exhibitors and distributors have been hard hit...
- 3/20/2020
- by 1100388¦Melanie Goodfellow¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
French cinemas vow to stay open in face of ban on gatherings of more than 100 people.
France’s exhibitors and distributors are on a white-knuckle ride as their government attempts to control and slow down the spread of coronavirus in the territory.
French prime minister Édouard Philippe on Friday announced a ban on gatherings of more than 100 people in a new measure to combat the virus. It followed hot on the heels of a decision to shut nurseries, schools and universities from Monday (March 16).
Exhibition body National Federation of French Cinemas (Fncf) said it expected its members to keep their venues up and running.
France’s exhibitors and distributors are on a white-knuckle ride as their government attempts to control and slow down the spread of coronavirus in the territory.
French prime minister Édouard Philippe on Friday announced a ban on gatherings of more than 100 people in a new measure to combat the virus. It followed hot on the heels of a decision to shut nurseries, schools and universities from Monday (March 16).
Exhibition body National Federation of French Cinemas (Fncf) said it expected its members to keep their venues up and running.
- 3/13/2020
- by 1100388¦Melanie Goodfellow¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
It’s hard to imagine a better pairing of international stars than Juliette Binoche and Edgar Ramirez. The former has given a string of stunning performances in everything from the Three Colors Trilogy to the recent Certified Copy, but I had a tinge of fear after the latter, Carlos star went Hollywood in the dull Wrath of the Titans. He’s back to more promising fare in Kathryn Bigelow‘s Zero Dark Thirty later this year, but in between, he’s got a foreign romantic drama titled An Open Heart.
We first reported on the film from Marion Laine last fall, going under the title A Monkey On My Shoulder, which is still used in some territories. After being shown to distributors on the Cannes marketplace this last spring, a teaser and the first still have finally arrived. The film follows the two as expecting couple and surgeons, then things...
We first reported on the film from Marion Laine last fall, going under the title A Monkey On My Shoulder, which is still used in some territories. After being shown to distributors on the Cannes marketplace this last spring, a teaser and the first still have finally arrived. The film follows the two as expecting couple and surgeons, then things...
- 8/2/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
With three selected films in the Main Comp (Yousry Nasrallah’s After the Battle, Abbas Kiarostami’s Like Someone in Love, Walter Salles’ On the Road) and one in the Un Certain Regard section (Xavier Dolan’s Laurence Anyways) you could say that French sales/production/distribution company MK2 are spoiled this year. Where buyers might want to focus their attention is the film that wasn’t yet ready and is posed for a Venice showing in Olivier Assayas’ Something in the Air (see pic above).
After The Battle by Yousry Nasrallah
Like Someone In Love by Abbas Kiarostami
On The Road by Walter Salles
A Monkey On My Shoulder by Marion Laine
Fire By Louboutin (Feu By Louboutin) by Bruno Hullin
Kinshasa Kids (Le Diable N’Existe Pas) by Marc Henri Wajnberg
Laurence Anyways by Xavier Dolan
Leadersheep (Tous Au Larzac!) by Christian Rouaud
Nuts (Ouf) by Yann Coridian...
After The Battle by Yousry Nasrallah
Like Someone In Love by Abbas Kiarostami
On The Road by Walter Salles
A Monkey On My Shoulder by Marion Laine
Fire By Louboutin (Feu By Louboutin) by Bruno Hullin
Kinshasa Kids (Le Diable N’Existe Pas) by Marc Henri Wajnberg
Laurence Anyways by Xavier Dolan
Leadersheep (Tous Au Larzac!) by Christian Rouaud
Nuts (Ouf) by Yann Coridian...
- 5/17/2012
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
In what’s sure to be one of the better onscreen duos of the next few years, Variety reports that Juliette Binoche and Edgar Ramirez will lead Marion Laine‘s A Monkey on my Shoulder. The romantic drama, written by the fairly new feature director and Anne Le Ny, centers on two surgeons in southern France “whose passionate relationship is turned upside down by an unexpected pregnancy.”
K2′s Nathanael Karmitz, who’s serving as a co-producer, called it “a melodrama dealing with universal themes,” and noted that being set in the medical world “brings a extra layer to the film that should lure international audiences.” He and I are on the same page when it comes to anticipating the pairing of these two actors. After all, Binoche has proven herself as an enormous talent over decades of collaboration with names that include Godard, Haneke, and Kiarostami, while Ramirez gave...
K2′s Nathanael Karmitz, who’s serving as a co-producer, called it “a melodrama dealing with universal themes,” and noted that being set in the medical world “brings a extra layer to the film that should lure international audiences.” He and I are on the same page when it comes to anticipating the pairing of these two actors. After all, Binoche has proven herself as an enormous talent over decades of collaboration with names that include Godard, Haneke, and Kiarostami, while Ramirez gave...
- 10/17/2011
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
MOSCOW -- The 30th Moscow International Film Festival wrapped on Saturday with twin wins for the Iranian drama "So Simple", directed by Reza Mir Karimi.
The film, which collected awards for best film from the festival and the Russian Film Critics' Guild, details the tribulations of a middle-class Iranian woman. It stars Hengameh Ghaziani, featured in last year's Iranian Toronto entry "Unfinished Stories".
"So Simple" won best film, screenplay and actress awards in February at the 26th Fajr International Film Festival, Iran's principal film forum.
At the awards ceremony, main competition jury head Liv Ullman highlighted the political undertones of the decision by taking Ghaziani's hand onstage and remarking about how two women from different cultures, "one covered and one uncovered," are standing together, and this is "as it should be."
Mexican director Rene Villarreal won best film from the Perspectives jury for "The Cumbria Connection". French director Marion Laine's "A Simple Heart" won the Special Jury Prize and best director went to Bulgarian Javor Gardev for his film "Zift".
Richard Jenkins won best actor for Tom McCarthy's American indie film "The Visitor", and the best actress award went to Margherita Buy for her role in Silvio Soldini's "Days and Clouds".
The film, which collected awards for best film from the festival and the Russian Film Critics' Guild, details the tribulations of a middle-class Iranian woman. It stars Hengameh Ghaziani, featured in last year's Iranian Toronto entry "Unfinished Stories".
"So Simple" won best film, screenplay and actress awards in February at the 26th Fajr International Film Festival, Iran's principal film forum.
At the awards ceremony, main competition jury head Liv Ullman highlighted the political undertones of the decision by taking Ghaziani's hand onstage and remarking about how two women from different cultures, "one covered and one uncovered," are standing together, and this is "as it should be."
Mexican director Rene Villarreal won best film from the Perspectives jury for "The Cumbria Connection". French director Marion Laine's "A Simple Heart" won the Special Jury Prize and best director went to Bulgarian Javor Gardev for his film "Zift".
Richard Jenkins won best actor for Tom McCarthy's American indie film "The Visitor", and the best actress award went to Margherita Buy for her role in Silvio Soldini's "Days and Clouds".
- 6/29/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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