Hlynyur Palmason’s Icelandic drama has sold to the UK/Ire, Spain and Greece.
Jan Naszewski’s New Europe has closed a number of high-profile deals for Hlynyur Palmason’s Godland, which premiered in Cannes Un Certain Regard.
Curzon has taken rights for UK/Ireland, with A Contracorriente buying Spain, Scanorama for Baltics, Vertigo Media for Hungary and One from the Heart for Greece.
Previously confirmed sales were to France (Jour2Fete), Benelux (Imagine), Poland (New Horizons Association) and Australia/New Zealand (Palace).
“Godland is a breathtaking piece of cinema filled with intelligent and subtle reflections on politics, art, history,...
Jan Naszewski’s New Europe has closed a number of high-profile deals for Hlynyur Palmason’s Godland, which premiered in Cannes Un Certain Regard.
Curzon has taken rights for UK/Ireland, with A Contracorriente buying Spain, Scanorama for Baltics, Vertigo Media for Hungary and One from the Heart for Greece.
Previously confirmed sales were to France (Jour2Fete), Benelux (Imagine), Poland (New Horizons Association) and Australia/New Zealand (Palace).
“Godland is a breathtaking piece of cinema filled with intelligent and subtle reflections on politics, art, history,...
- 5/27/2022
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
The film is Icelandiic director Hlynur Palmason’s third film following ‘Winter Brothers’ and ‘A White, White Day’.
New Europe Film Sales has boarded Icelandic writer/director Hlynur Palmason’s Godland, a feature that was shot in Iceland under the radar in 2021 and has today been confirmed for Cannes’ Un Certain Regard.
New Europe also sold the director’s first two features, Winter Brothers and A White, White Day, as well as his latest short Nest, which premiered at Berlinale 2022.
Godland is set in the late 19th century, when a young Danish priest (Elliott Crosset Hove) travels to a remote...
New Europe Film Sales has boarded Icelandic writer/director Hlynur Palmason’s Godland, a feature that was shot in Iceland under the radar in 2021 and has today been confirmed for Cannes’ Un Certain Regard.
New Europe also sold the director’s first two features, Winter Brothers and A White, White Day, as well as his latest short Nest, which premiered at Berlinale 2022.
Godland is set in the late 19th century, when a young Danish priest (Elliott Crosset Hove) travels to a remote...
- 4/14/2022
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
Directors Orri Jonsson and David Horgdal Stefansson and producer Anton Mani Svansson are in the research phase for the film, currently titled A Deal With Chaos.
A new documentary feature about the late Icelandic composer Johann Johannsson was introduced at the Stockfish film festival’s industry days in Iceland.
Directors Orri Jonsson (Grandma Lo-Fi) and David Horgdal Stefansson and producer Anton Mani Svansson are in the research phase for the film, currently titled A Deal With Chaos, and have been gathering archive material for more than two years. The team hopes to begin shooting new interviews soon, and expects the...
A new documentary feature about the late Icelandic composer Johann Johannsson was introduced at the Stockfish film festival’s industry days in Iceland.
Directors Orri Jonsson (Grandma Lo-Fi) and David Horgdal Stefansson and producer Anton Mani Svansson are in the research phase for the film, currently titled A Deal With Chaos, and have been gathering archive material for more than two years. The team hopes to begin shooting new interviews soon, and expects the...
- 4/4/2022
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
Another Olympics in the books! After a whopping 109 medal events, the 2022 Winter Olympic Games came to an end with a dazzling Closing Ceremony on Sunday, Feb. 20, at Beijing's National Stadium, a.k.a the "Bird's Nest." History was made several times over the past two weeks during the Olympics. Elana Meyers Taylor won the bronze medal for two-woman bobsleigh, marking her fifth medal overall and making her the most decorated Black athlete of any Winter Olympics and the most decorated female Olympic bobsledder of all time. She served as Team USA's flagbearer at the Closing Ceremony, after missing out on the honor at the Opening Ceremony Feb. 4 after contracting Covid-19. In addition to...
- 2/20/2022
- E! Online
It takes an introspective piece like Snowpiercer Season 3 Episode 4 to remind us that survivors never survive alone.
They live with the ghosts of those they've lost, the memory of the trauma they endured, the guilt of what they had to do to survive.
Melanie's "return" might not be the resurrection some were hoping for, but her presence in the minds of Alex and Wilford is an impactful one, made more meaningful by her continued absence in real life.
Of course, if we're going to discuss survivors, we should start with the Last Survivor, Asha of the Nuclear Nest.
Layton's ability to convince the train to vote for New Eden depended on her selling them on the vision. It's a fragile lie, considering how many are privy to the truth and made even more so by Asha's tenuously braced sanity.
Asha: How I got here. I don't think I was worth saving.
They live with the ghosts of those they've lost, the memory of the trauma they endured, the guilt of what they had to do to survive.
Melanie's "return" might not be the resurrection some were hoping for, but her presence in the minds of Alex and Wilford is an impactful one, made more meaningful by her continued absence in real life.
Of course, if we're going to discuss survivors, we should start with the Last Survivor, Asha of the Nuclear Nest.
Layton's ability to convince the train to vote for New Eden depended on her selling them on the vision. It's a fragile lie, considering how many are privy to the truth and made even more so by Asha's tenuously braced sanity.
Asha: How I got here. I don't think I was worth saving.
- 2/15/2022
- by Diana Keng
- TVfanatic
For Chloe Guy, the age of 15 has been nothing if not memorable.
So far in 2021, the young actress has overcome an on-set injury, been announced as the youth winner of the Carmen Duncan Scholarship, and begun shooting a film in Mexico.
The international production is her focus for the moment, with the teenager honing her craft alongside Jamie Foxx, January Jones, and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau in Nick Cassavetes’ upcoming crime thriller God is a Bullet.
Guy plays the kidnapped daughter of vice detective Bob Hightower (Coster-Waldau), who ends up quitting the police force and confronting the satanic cult responsible for taking his child and murdering his ex-wife.
Cassavetes adapted the script from Boston Teran’s novel of the same name.
With this being her largest role to date, Guy described her experience on set as being part of “one massive family”.
“All the cast and crew take very good care of me,...
So far in 2021, the young actress has overcome an on-set injury, been announced as the youth winner of the Carmen Duncan Scholarship, and begun shooting a film in Mexico.
The international production is her focus for the moment, with the teenager honing her craft alongside Jamie Foxx, January Jones, and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau in Nick Cassavetes’ upcoming crime thriller God is a Bullet.
Guy plays the kidnapped daughter of vice detective Bob Hightower (Coster-Waldau), who ends up quitting the police force and confronting the satanic cult responsible for taking his child and murdering his ex-wife.
Cassavetes adapted the script from Boston Teran’s novel of the same name.
With this being her largest role to date, Guy described her experience on set as being part of “one massive family”.
“All the cast and crew take very good care of me,...
- 7/23/2021
- by Sean Slatter
- IF.com.au
Ventana Sur, which wrapped Friday, was, on many counts, quite extraordinary. With Buenos Aires, the market’s normal location, still under Covid-19 lockdown, Latin America’s biggest movie mart-meet spread out film screenings over five cities in two continents – Madrid, Mexico City, Bogotá, São Paulo and Santiago de Chile – complemented by digital screenings for the rest of the world. Following, five takes on that bold gambit and the market itself, organized by Argentina’s Incaa Film Institute and the Cannes Marché du Film and Festival:
It Was Remarkable – But Did It Work?
Ventana Sur’s five city spread marks a revolution. But did it work? Global attendance held stable at 2,957 participants from 61 countries. 188 online screenings, complimented by 118 theatrical screenings, and the loss of a single on-site event in Buenos Aires, sparked a dramatic increase in non-Argentine attendees with delegates rocketing up to 78% in Europe to 546, 49% in the U.S. to 110 and 185% to 134 in Mexico,...
It Was Remarkable – But Did It Work?
Ventana Sur’s five city spread marks a revolution. But did it work? Global attendance held stable at 2,957 participants from 61 countries. 188 online screenings, complimented by 118 theatrical screenings, and the loss of a single on-site event in Buenos Aires, sparked a dramatic increase in non-Argentine attendees with delegates rocketing up to 78% in Europe to 546, 49% in the U.S. to 110 and 185% to 134 in Mexico,...
- 12/5/2020
- by John Hopewell and Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
In a now firmly established Ventana Sur tradition, Film Factory Ent., one of the Spanish world’s premiere sales agents, has announced a new sales rights pick-up on the market’s final day: Italian-Argentine psychological horror movie “El Nido” (“Nest”).
With “Nest” now in post-production, Film Factory will present a first promo at 2021’s Cannes Film Market.
The feature debut of Italy’s Mattia Temponi, and produced by Rome-based Alba Produzioni and Buenos Aires’ 3C Films Group, “Nest” turns on Sara, 18, from an upper class family and Ivan, a middle-aged volunteer, both locked inside a shelter during a quarantine.
Outside, a virus rages, turning people into savage and irrational beasts. But Sara and Iván seem safe in their “nest” until Sara begins to show signs of infection and slowly transforms. Ivan is left with the question of what to do? Should he kill her? And how can he survive with no chance of escape?...
With “Nest” now in post-production, Film Factory will present a first promo at 2021’s Cannes Film Market.
The feature debut of Italy’s Mattia Temponi, and produced by Rome-based Alba Produzioni and Buenos Aires’ 3C Films Group, “Nest” turns on Sara, 18, from an upper class family and Ivan, a middle-aged volunteer, both locked inside a shelter during a quarantine.
Outside, a virus rages, turning people into savage and irrational beasts. But Sara and Iván seem safe in their “nest” until Sara begins to show signs of infection and slowly transforms. Ivan is left with the question of what to do? Should he kill her? And how can he survive with no chance of escape?...
- 12/4/2020
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
There's no denying that Covid-19 has done a lot to our regularly scheduled entertainment.
Shows have been postponed, series finales have been delayed, and there have been many curious casualties that have fallen under the Coronavirus ax.
But there is also a silver lining, in that we get to see some programming this fall that would have either aired earlier or not at all on US broadcast.
neXt is one of those shows that got juggled around. The limited series was originally scheduled to run during the summer, but with a full series ready to go and other shows only slowly getting back to business, it was saved for fall, and folks, I think you're going to like it.
The Fox original follows a Silicon Valley pioneer named Paul LeBlanc, who built a fortune and legacy on the world-changing innovations he dreamed up. Ignoring and alienating those around him with his passion for work,...
Shows have been postponed, series finales have been delayed, and there have been many curious casualties that have fallen under the Coronavirus ax.
But there is also a silver lining, in that we get to see some programming this fall that would have either aired earlier or not at all on US broadcast.
neXt is one of those shows that got juggled around. The limited series was originally scheduled to run during the summer, but with a full series ready to go and other shows only slowly getting back to business, it was saved for fall, and folks, I think you're going to like it.
The Fox original follows a Silicon Valley pioneer named Paul LeBlanc, who built a fortune and legacy on the world-changing innovations he dreamed up. Ignoring and alienating those around him with his passion for work,...
- 10/6/2020
- by Carissa Pavlica
- TVfanatic
San Sebastian’s Nest program for student short films seeks out filmmakers from schools around the world, inviting them to screen their films in a dedicated competition at the Spanish festival.
Students are also invited to participate in discussions and masterclasses given by industry professionals. Each year, the section jury, together with the students, chooses the winning film which is awarded the Nest best short film award, sponsored by Orona Fundazioa.
Nest is organised in collaboration with the Tabakalera International Centre for Contemporary Culture.
2020 Nest Student Short Film Competition
“Catdog,”
Two kids – teen sister Rachana, her more timorous brother – wreak minor mayhem with games – letting loose kittens, or the brother pretending to be a dog, put on a leash by his sister. But their teacher single mother plans to send the brother away. An atmospheric take on the enclosure of childhood, shot with an aura of a slightly sinister fairy tale,...
Students are also invited to participate in discussions and masterclasses given by industry professionals. Each year, the section jury, together with the students, chooses the winning film which is awarded the Nest best short film award, sponsored by Orona Fundazioa.
Nest is organised in collaboration with the Tabakalera International Centre for Contemporary Culture.
2020 Nest Student Short Film Competition
“Catdog,”
Two kids – teen sister Rachana, her more timorous brother – wreak minor mayhem with games – letting loose kittens, or the brother pretending to be a dog, put on a leash by his sister. But their teacher single mother plans to send the brother away. An atmospheric take on the enclosure of childhood, shot with an aura of a slightly sinister fairy tale,...
- 9/21/2020
- by Jamie Lang, Emilio Mayorga and John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
It’s been 10 long years since Sean Durkin directed his first feature film, the chilling Martha Marcy May Marlene. His only directing gig in the interim was a four-episode British series called Southcliffe. But now he’s returned with The Nest, a film suffused with the same sense of dread and claustrophobia that marked his feature debut, even if the narrative this time lacks the same focus.
While Durkin got a breakout performance from Elizabeth Olsen in the earlier movie, here he gets some of the finest work in the careers of both Jude Law and Carrie Coon. They play Rory and Allison O’Hara, a couple with two kids–a teen girl named Sam (Oona Roche) and shy grade schooler Ben (Charlie Shotwell)–who uproot themselves from America back to Rory’s native England. The father has gotten a lucrative job offer at a firm he previously worked for.
While Durkin got a breakout performance from Elizabeth Olsen in the earlier movie, here he gets some of the finest work in the careers of both Jude Law and Carrie Coon. They play Rory and Allison O’Hara, a couple with two kids–a teen girl named Sam (Oona Roche) and shy grade schooler Ben (Charlie Shotwell)–who uproot themselves from America back to Rory’s native England. The father has gotten a lucrative job offer at a firm he previously worked for.
- 9/17/2020
- by Don Kaye
- Den of Geek
In a major reboot of its pix-in-post strands, which in turn forms part of a new streamlining, the San Sebastian Film Festival, the highest-profile film event in the Spanish-speaking world, has launched two new pix-in-post showcases, Wip Latam and Wip Europa.
Wip Latam replaces Films in Progress, launched in 2003 as a joint venture with the France’s Toulouse Latin America Film Festival. It will be endowed with a $33,000 cash prize, the Egeda-Platino Industry Award, adjudicated by Spanish rights collection society Egeda and carrying the name of Egeda’s annual Platino Awards.
The award’s announcement comes after an agreement sealed in February 2020 for the San Sebastian Festival to collaborate in the launch of a Platino Industria forum in the run-up to the Platino Awards.
Wip Europa takes the place of Glocal in Progress, focused on movies made in minority European languages in Europe, but now open up to features from all of Europe,...
Wip Latam replaces Films in Progress, launched in 2003 as a joint venture with the France’s Toulouse Latin America Film Festival. It will be endowed with a $33,000 cash prize, the Egeda-Platino Industry Award, adjudicated by Spanish rights collection society Egeda and carrying the name of Egeda’s annual Platino Awards.
The award’s announcement comes after an agreement sealed in February 2020 for the San Sebastian Festival to collaborate in the launch of a Platino Industria forum in the run-up to the Platino Awards.
Wip Europa takes the place of Glocal in Progress, focused on movies made in minority European languages in Europe, but now open up to features from all of Europe,...
- 5/25/2020
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
One of Sundance’s most stunning break-outs in the past decade was Martha Marcy May Marlene, Sean Durkin’s remarkably crafted, psychologically deft exploration of an upstate New York cult starring Elizabeth Olsen. After nearly a decade, the director finally returns to the festival with his feature follow-up The Nest, another exquisitely mounted drama that revels in letting minute character details slowly become elucidated as Durkin puts trust into his audience to pick up the pieces along the way. In peeling back the layers of a fractured family and the soulless drive for wealth, the emptiness underneath is patently revealed, so much so that it backs itself into a heavy-handed corner.
Set in 1986, the O’Hara family seemingly enjoy their nice life in a New York suburb. Rory (Jude Law) and Allison (Carrie Coon) raise their children Benjamin (Charlie Shotwell) and Samantha (Oona Roche)–Allison’s daughter from a previous...
Set in 1986, the O’Hara family seemingly enjoy their nice life in a New York suburb. Rory (Jude Law) and Allison (Carrie Coon) raise their children Benjamin (Charlie Shotwell) and Samantha (Oona Roche)–Allison’s daughter from a previous...
- 1/27/2020
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Maze Runner: The Death Cure wins weekend; Forever Young passes $100m.
Source: Amir Khan Productions
‘Secret Superstar’
Secret Superstar shot to the top of the Chinese box office in the week of Jan 22-28, while Maze Runner: The Death Cure narrowly won the weekend and Forever Young hit $100m.
Bollywood superstar Aamir Khan’s Secret Superstar stole the weekly crown with $40.4m for $69.6m after 10 days. The coming-of-age story about a young girl who dreams of becoming a famous singer reunites Khan with his Dangal co-star Zaira Wasim. Already China’s second highest grossing Indian film after its first weekend, it’s now one of the top grossing non-Hollywood foreign films although it’s still a long way off from Dangal.
Former champion Forever Young, featuring an A-list cast toplined by Zhang Ziyi, dropped to the second place but still held well with $28.2m for $101.2m after 17 days.
Fox’s young adult adventure Maze Runner: The Death Cure came in third...
Source: Amir Khan Productions
‘Secret Superstar’
Secret Superstar shot to the top of the Chinese box office in the week of Jan 22-28, while Maze Runner: The Death Cure narrowly won the weekend and Forever Young hit $100m.
Bollywood superstar Aamir Khan’s Secret Superstar stole the weekly crown with $40.4m for $69.6m after 10 days. The coming-of-age story about a young girl who dreams of becoming a famous singer reunites Khan with his Dangal co-star Zaira Wasim. Already China’s second highest grossing Indian film after its first weekend, it’s now one of the top grossing non-Hollywood foreign films although it’s still a long way off from Dangal.
Former champion Forever Young, featuring an A-list cast toplined by Zhang Ziyi, dropped to the second place but still held well with $28.2m for $101.2m after 17 days.
Fox’s young adult adventure Maze Runner: The Death Cure came in third...
- 1/29/2018
- by Silvia Wong
- ScreenDaily
Indian singing drama wins weekend but Zhang Ziyi’s Forever Young tops week.
Source: Aamir Khan Productions
‘Secret Superstar’
Zhang Ziyi’s Forever Young fended off five new titles and climbed to the top of the chart in the week of Jan 15-21, but Indian singing drama Secret Superstar captured the hearts of Chinese audiences over the weekend.
Local drama Forever Young gained stronger traction in its second week with $49.6m for $72.8m after 10 days. It moved to the No.1 spot from Tuesday, overtaking Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle, until Secret Superstar pushed it to second place on Friday.
With an ensemble cast of Zhang Ziyi, Huang Xiaoming, Chen Chusheng, Chang Chen and Wang Leehom, the film covers four generations of Tsinghua University students over a century. It’s originally planned for the 100th anniversary of Beijing’s Tsinghua University in 2011.
Following the mega-success of last year’s Dangal, Bollywood superstar Aamir Khan returns to China with much fanfare...
Source: Aamir Khan Productions
‘Secret Superstar’
Zhang Ziyi’s Forever Young fended off five new titles and climbed to the top of the chart in the week of Jan 15-21, but Indian singing drama Secret Superstar captured the hearts of Chinese audiences over the weekend.
Local drama Forever Young gained stronger traction in its second week with $49.6m for $72.8m after 10 days. It moved to the No.1 spot from Tuesday, overtaking Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle, until Secret Superstar pushed it to second place on Friday.
With an ensemble cast of Zhang Ziyi, Huang Xiaoming, Chen Chusheng, Chang Chen and Wang Leehom, the film covers four generations of Tsinghua University students over a century. It’s originally planned for the 100th anniversary of Beijing’s Tsinghua University in 2011.
Following the mega-success of last year’s Dangal, Bollywood superstar Aamir Khan returns to China with much fanfare...
- 1/22/2018
- by Silvia Wong
- ScreenDaily
Successful applicants will be invited to participate in a script development lab.
Arclight Films has launched a development initiative, Chinalight, designed to support official Australian-Chinese co-productions.
The new initiative, which started taking submissions today (August 2), is supported by Screen Australia’s Enterprise program. It is seeking proposals from Australian talent – including writers, producers and directors – for feature film projects that can qualify as official co-productions.
Successful applicants will be invited to take part in a script development lab, where they will receive input from Chinese and Australian production partners on how to produce movies with international appeal.
Arclight managing director Gary Hamilton said: “Chinese studios have never been more willing to engage with the West both creatively and commercially, and Australia’s entertainment industry stands to reap huge gains, spearheading a new era of storytelling for global audiences.”
Hamilton, Ying Ye and Mark Lazarus recently produced Sino-Australian co-production Guardians Of The Tomb [pictured], starring Li Bingbing, Kellan Lutz and [link...
Arclight Films has launched a development initiative, Chinalight, designed to support official Australian-Chinese co-productions.
The new initiative, which started taking submissions today (August 2), is supported by Screen Australia’s Enterprise program. It is seeking proposals from Australian talent – including writers, producers and directors – for feature film projects that can qualify as official co-productions.
Successful applicants will be invited to take part in a script development lab, where they will receive input from Chinese and Australian production partners on how to produce movies with international appeal.
Arclight managing director Gary Hamilton said: “Chinese studios have never been more willing to engage with the West both creatively and commercially, and Australia’s entertainment industry stands to reap huge gains, spearheading a new era of storytelling for global audiences.”
Hamilton, Ying Ye and Mark Lazarus recently produced Sino-Australian co-production Guardians Of The Tomb [pictured], starring Li Bingbing, Kellan Lutz and [link...
- 8/1/2017
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
Australia-China co-pro 'Guardians of the Tomb' (formerly 'Nest') stars Chinese mega-star Li Bingbing..
The official co-production treaty between China and Australia entered into force in 2008. Since then, despite growing interest in working with the burgeoning film power, only a handful of official co-productions have been made. They include The Dragon Pearl, 33 Postcards.and The Children of the Silk Road (made under a Mou prior to the signing of the treaty)..
However in the past 18 months, things have started to shift. The biggest co-pro to date, Kimble Rendall.s Guardians of the Tomb (formerly Nest), shot on the Gold Coast early last year, and gangster film Dog Fight shot in Victoria last September. Both films are now in post..
Two other projects, Pauline Chan.s My Extraordinary Wedding and Nadia Tass and David Parker.s Tying the Knot,.have been issued provisional approval but are yet to enter production.
The official co-production treaty between China and Australia entered into force in 2008. Since then, despite growing interest in working with the burgeoning film power, only a handful of official co-productions have been made. They include The Dragon Pearl, 33 Postcards.and The Children of the Silk Road (made under a Mou prior to the signing of the treaty)..
However in the past 18 months, things have started to shift. The biggest co-pro to date, Kimble Rendall.s Guardians of the Tomb (formerly Nest), shot on the Gold Coast early last year, and gangster film Dog Fight shot in Victoria last September. Both films are now in post..
Two other projects, Pauline Chan.s My Extraordinary Wedding and Nadia Tass and David Parker.s Tying the Knot,.have been issued provisional approval but are yet to enter production.
- 4/21/2017
- by Jackie Keast
- IF.com.au
Chongqing.
The extraordinary growth of the Chinese film industry has seen it emerge as a global player. The Chinese industry is looking abroad to futher its filmmaking expertise and help bring its films to an international audience. In If's first China Report, Jackie Keast examines what this means for Australia. As Hollywood and film industries across the world enthusiastically court the Chinese market, can we compete?
The film industry in China is booming. Within just a few years, China has become the world.s second largest market, predicted to eclipse the Us in less than five years..
By 2015, annual ticket sales had reached 44 billion yuan, or $USD6.78 billion — a growth of 48.7 per cent from 2014..
While 2016 saw a slowdown, annual receipts nevertheless tallied 45.7 billion yuan by year.s end.
In 2016, 27 new screens opened across China each day, bringing the country.s total close to 40,000..
Chinese real estate and entertainment conglomerate Wanda...
The extraordinary growth of the Chinese film industry has seen it emerge as a global player. The Chinese industry is looking abroad to futher its filmmaking expertise and help bring its films to an international audience. In If's first China Report, Jackie Keast examines what this means for Australia. As Hollywood and film industries across the world enthusiastically court the Chinese market, can we compete?
The film industry in China is booming. Within just a few years, China has become the world.s second largest market, predicted to eclipse the Us in less than five years..
By 2015, annual ticket sales had reached 44 billion yuan, or $USD6.78 billion — a growth of 48.7 per cent from 2014..
While 2016 saw a slowdown, annual receipts nevertheless tallied 45.7 billion yuan by year.s end.
In 2016, 27 new screens opened across China each day, bringing the country.s total close to 40,000..
Chinese real estate and entertainment conglomerate Wanda...
- 1/30/2017
- by Jackie Keast
- IF.com.au
Exclusive: Mark Lamprell’s sequel to A Few Best Men is being introduced at Efm.
Arclight Films is showing first footage to Berlin buyers on A Few Less Men, the comedy sequel to its hit A Few Best Men [pictured].
Executive producer Gary Hamilton and his team have already struck deals in Australia and New Zealand (StudioCanal), Italy (Lucky Red), pan-Eastern Europe (Modus Vivendi), pan-Middle East (Italia Films), Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador and Columbia (Eastwood Holdings), and Vietnam (Galaxy).
Producers Laurence Malkin, Tania Chambers, Share Stallings, and Gorean Films Limited produce the story based on a screenplay by Dean Craig about two friends who must transport their friend’s coffin to London after they are stranded in the Australian bush.
Mark Lamprell directed A Few Less Men and Xavier Samuel, Kris Marshall, and Kevin Bishop reprise their roles.
Arclight Films’ Efm sales slate includes psychedelic thriller Happy Birthday featuring an appearance by Aerosmith frontman Steve Tyler, and 3-D horror...
Arclight Films is showing first footage to Berlin buyers on A Few Less Men, the comedy sequel to its hit A Few Best Men [pictured].
Executive producer Gary Hamilton and his team have already struck deals in Australia and New Zealand (StudioCanal), Italy (Lucky Red), pan-Eastern Europe (Modus Vivendi), pan-Middle East (Italia Films), Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador and Columbia (Eastwood Holdings), and Vietnam (Galaxy).
Producers Laurence Malkin, Tania Chambers, Share Stallings, and Gorean Films Limited produce the story based on a screenplay by Dean Craig about two friends who must transport their friend’s coffin to London after they are stranded in the Australian bush.
Mark Lamprell directed A Few Less Men and Xavier Samuel, Kris Marshall, and Kevin Bishop reprise their roles.
Arclight Films’ Efm sales slate includes psychedelic thriller Happy Birthday featuring an appearance by Aerosmith frontman Steve Tyler, and 3-D horror...
- 2/14/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Li Bingbing stars in Nest.
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Filming has wrapped on the largest ever Chinese-Australian co-production at Village Roadshow Studios on the Gold Coast.
The 3-D Movie, Nest, stars Chinese megastar Li Bingbing, Kellan Lutz (The Twilight Saga, Expendables 3), Kelsey Grammer (Transformers), Stef Dawson (The Hunger Games: Mockingjay), Chinese popstar and actor Wu Chun and Shane Jacobson (The Dressmaker, Oddball, Kenny).
Li Bingbing.s most recent film, Zhongkui: Snow Girl and the Dark Crystal, on which Arclight Films holds the worldwide sales rights, earned $80 million in China last year.
She is best known internatiionally for her work in Transformers: Age of Extinction, Resident Evil: Retribution and Detective Dee: Mystery of the Phantom Flame.
Nest is the largest Chinese-Australian co-production to date, with investment funding from Screen Australia and Screen Queensland, and features an award-winning team both in front of and behind the camera..
Visual FX will be created by Cutting Edge and the world renowned,...
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Filming has wrapped on the largest ever Chinese-Australian co-production at Village Roadshow Studios on the Gold Coast.
The 3-D Movie, Nest, stars Chinese megastar Li Bingbing, Kellan Lutz (The Twilight Saga, Expendables 3), Kelsey Grammer (Transformers), Stef Dawson (The Hunger Games: Mockingjay), Chinese popstar and actor Wu Chun and Shane Jacobson (The Dressmaker, Oddball, Kenny).
Li Bingbing.s most recent film, Zhongkui: Snow Girl and the Dark Crystal, on which Arclight Films holds the worldwide sales rights, earned $80 million in China last year.
She is best known internatiionally for her work in Transformers: Age of Extinction, Resident Evil: Retribution and Detective Dee: Mystery of the Phantom Flame.
Nest is the largest Chinese-Australian co-production to date, with investment funding from Screen Australia and Screen Queensland, and features an award-winning team both in front of and behind the camera..
Visual FX will be created by Cutting Edge and the world renowned,...
- 2/12/2016
- by Brian Karlovsky
- IF.com.au
Darclight, the genre-driven label of Arclight films, is handling worldwide sales of the Chinese-Australian co-production, with an international cast that also includes Stef Dawson ("The Hunger Games: Mockingjay"), Chinese pop star Wu Chun, and Shane Jacobson ("The Dressmaker"). The film has already been sold in several territories in South and Southeast Asia, as well as Australia and New Zealand. "Nest," from director Kimble Rendall ("Bait 3D"), follows a team of scientists who lose their colleague in an ancient labyrinth, and must battle a swarm of deadly, man-eating funnel web spiders — discovering the secret behind the arachnids’ power and intelligence in the process. The largest Chinese-Australian co-production to date, with investment funding from Screen Australia and Screen Queensland, the film's visual effects will be created by Cutting Edge and Oscar-winning CG concern Rising Sun Pictures ("X-Men: Days of Future Past,"...
- 2/11/2016
- by Matt Brennan
- Thompson on Hollywood
The Chinese-Australian co-pro is currently shooting in Australia.
Stef Dawson, Chinese pop star Wu Zun and Australia’s Shane Jacobson have joined the cast of 3D Chinese-Australian co-production Nest, which is currently shooting at Village Roadshow Studios in Australia.
Directed by Kimble Rendall (Bait 3D), the film also stars Li Bingbing, Kellan Lutz and Kelsey Grammer. The story revolves around a team of scientists battling a swarm of man-eating funnel web spiders to discover the secret behind their power and intelligence.
Billed as the largest Chinese-Australian co-production to date, the film has backing from Screen Australia and Screen Queensland and Beijing-based Loongs United Investment Company.
Visual effects on the film are being handled by Cutting Edge and Rising Sun Pictures (X-Men: Days Of Future Past). Arclight Films’ Darclight label is handling worldwide sales.
Stef Dawson, Chinese pop star Wu Zun and Australia’s Shane Jacobson have joined the cast of 3D Chinese-Australian co-production Nest, which is currently shooting at Village Roadshow Studios in Australia.
Directed by Kimble Rendall (Bait 3D), the film also stars Li Bingbing, Kellan Lutz and Kelsey Grammer. The story revolves around a team of scientists battling a swarm of man-eating funnel web spiders to discover the secret behind their power and intelligence.
Billed as the largest Chinese-Australian co-production to date, the film has backing from Screen Australia and Screen Queensland and Beijing-based Loongs United Investment Company.
Visual effects on the film are being handled by Cutting Edge and Rising Sun Pictures (X-Men: Days Of Future Past). Arclight Films’ Darclight label is handling worldwide sales.
- 2/11/2016
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
Twilight.s Kellan Lutz must like working in Australia as he has just joined the cast of Nest, writer-director Kimble Rendall.s 3D sci-fi thriller which will start production in Queensland this month.
That.s his second Australian gig: last month he starred in Shane Abbess. futuristic sci-fi thriller SFv1 as a drifter who teams up with military contractor Kane (Daniel MacPherson), to rescue Kane.s daughter (Teagan Croft) amid an impending global crisis.
Lutz and Kelsey Grammer (Cheers, Frasier) join the previously announced Li Bingbing in the Chinese/Australian co-production which centres on a group of scientists who discover a well-preserved mummified Emperor from 200 BC China. The plot follows the scientists as they encounter a swarm of man-eating funnel web spiders in an ancient labyrinth and strive to discover the secret behind the insects. power and intelligence.
Kellan plays Ridley, an international first responder and guide on their mission,...
That.s his second Australian gig: last month he starred in Shane Abbess. futuristic sci-fi thriller SFv1 as a drifter who teams up with military contractor Kane (Daniel MacPherson), to rescue Kane.s daughter (Teagan Croft) amid an impending global crisis.
Lutz and Kelsey Grammer (Cheers, Frasier) join the previously announced Li Bingbing in the Chinese/Australian co-production which centres on a group of scientists who discover a well-preserved mummified Emperor from 200 BC China. The plot follows the scientists as they encounter a swarm of man-eating funnel web spiders in an ancient labyrinth and strive to discover the secret behind the insects. power and intelligence.
Kellan plays Ridley, an international first responder and guide on their mission,...
- 11/8/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Re-teaming with Darclight, the company behind her most recent movie Zhongkui: Snow Girl And The Dark Crystal, Bingbing Li will next head for The Nest. She's producing and will star in the arachnophobic sci-fi thriller. Kimble Rendall (Second-Unit on the Matrix sequels, I, Robot and Killer Elite) is directing.The plot involves a team of scientists who, in order to get to the "discovery of the century", must negotiate a labyrinth of carnivorous spiders. There's always bloody something, isn't there?It's a Chinese-Australian co-production: the fourth to come about through an arrangement between Screen Australia and the China Film Co-Production Corporation since 2006. It's being touted as the biggest-budget project to come out of that deal so far, although the number isn't being specified. Given that the previous three co-productions - Children Of The Silk Road, The Dragon Pearl and 33 Postcards - amount to a combined total budget of about $60m,...
- 9/15/2015
- EmpireOnline
Kimble Rendall.s 3D action adventure The Nest, a sequel to A Few Best Men and a TV drama starring Rebecca Gibney are being co-funded by Screen Australia.
The agency is investing $3.19 million in the three projects, a remarkable economic multiplier as the combined budgets are $38.4 million.
An official Australian/Chinese co-production, The Nest tells of the discovery of a well-preserved mummified Emperor from 200 BC China, which unleashes a 2,000 year-old nightmare.
Arclight Films, which produced Rendall.s Chinese hit Bait 3D, is producing through Gary Hamilton, Ying Ye and Mark Lazarus with a Chinese partner yet to be identified.
Shooting in Australia and China is due to start in the fourth quarter with an international cast. Tait Brady.s Label is the Australian distributor.
Rendall has been developing the script since he finished Bait. "I was researching Chinese history," he tells If today on the line from Beijing.. "The Nest...
The agency is investing $3.19 million in the three projects, a remarkable economic multiplier as the combined budgets are $38.4 million.
An official Australian/Chinese co-production, The Nest tells of the discovery of a well-preserved mummified Emperor from 200 BC China, which unleashes a 2,000 year-old nightmare.
Arclight Films, which produced Rendall.s Chinese hit Bait 3D, is producing through Gary Hamilton, Ying Ye and Mark Lazarus with a Chinese partner yet to be identified.
Shooting in Australia and China is due to start in the fourth quarter with an international cast. Tait Brady.s Label is the Australian distributor.
Rendall has been developing the script since he finished Bait. "I was researching Chinese history," he tells If today on the line from Beijing.. "The Nest...
- 8/4/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
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