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Global Showbiz Briefs: European Film Awards, Bollywood, Karlovy Vary, MPA Pitch Competition, Core Media & More

By NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor | Tuesday April 23, 2013 @ 9:00pm PDTTags: Cut-Uncut Festival, European Film Awards, Global Showbiz Briefs, Karlovy Vary International Film Festival

European Film Academy To Honor Comedy
Amour was the big winner at last year’s European Film Awards, and that was no joke. But the European Academy will add a bit of humor to the proceedings in 2013 with a new prize for European Comedy. The award is designed to “pay tribute to a genre which has proven that it is able to unite and entertain audiences across Europe and beyond,” the EFA said. Some of the top-grossing films and crowd-pleasers that have crossed European borders of the past few years have been local comedies including Intouchables and Welcome To The Sticks. A special committee will select three nominees from across Europe and the winner will be voted for by the full membership. The EFA also said today that it is relaunching prizes for European Sound Designer and European Costume Designer. The 26th European Film Awards will take place in Berlin on December 7.

Cut-Uncut Festival To Screen Censored Bollywood Films
A new film festival in New Delhi will celebrate scenes from Bollywood movies that have been deemed too racy for Indian viewers. According to AFP, the Cut-Uncut Festival is an attempt by the ministry of information and broadcasting to bolster a new, more open-minded approach to cinema. Until recently, long kissing scenes, nudity and scenes of rebellion against the government could all be censored, an official told the news agency. “We want to be more liberal, stop enforcing the old rules and instead recognize artistic endeavor,” the person said. The festival runs from April 25-30 and kicks off with a screening of the classic Karma starring Himanshu Rai and Devika Rani, whose onscreen kiss – the first in a Bollywood film – was cut in 1933. Documentary The Final Solution, about Hindu-Muslim religious rioting, will also be shown after it was previously banned. Bollywood is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year with India the country of honor at May’s Cannes Film Festival. READ MORE »

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Michael Haneke’s ‘Amour’ Sweeps European Film Awards

By NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor | Saturday December 1, 2012 @ 1:39pm PSTTags: Amour, European Film Awards, Michael Haneke

The 25th European Film Awards were held this evening in Malta with Michael Haneke’s Amour taking the best picture, director, actor and actress honors. Going in, the Cannes Palme d’Or winner led the nominations with six nods. The categories it did not win were screenwriting, which went to Tobias Lindholm and Thomas Vinterberg for The Hunt, and cinematography which was scooped by Sean Bobbitt for Shame. Helen Mirren and Bernardo Bertolucci were also on hand to receive the European Achievement in World Cinema and the Lifetime Achievement awards, respectively. Apart from the prizes, the lively ceremony included a marriage proposal, a liberal use of the f-word and a video comparing Hollywood movies to junk food. The EFAs are the European equivalent of the Oscar, “Or, as they call them in America, ‘The What?’,” host Anke Engelke quipped. The awards are handed out by the European Film Academy and honor only films hailing from Europe. Below is a full list of winners:

EUROPEAN FILM
Amour, dir Michael Haneke (Austria/France/Germany)

DIRECTOR
Michael Haneke for Amour

ACTRESS
Emmanuelle Riva in Amour

ACTOR
Jean-Louis Trintignant in Amour

SCREENWRITER
Tobias Lindholm & Thomas Vinterberg for The Hunt
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‘Amour’ Dominates European Film Noms

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Saturday November 3, 2012 @ 12:56pm PDTTags: Amour, European Film Awards

Michael Haneke’s Cannes Palme d’Or winner Amour leads nominations for this year’s European Film Awards with six nods including best picture, director, actor, actress and screenplay. The story of an elderly couple confronting the wife’s declining health will vie for best film with the French blockbuster The Intouchables directed by Olivier Nakache & Eric Toledano, Steve McQueen’s Shame, Thomas Vinterberg’s The Hunt, Christian Petzold’s Barbara and Paolo & Vittorio Taviani’s Caesar Must Die.  The Hunt and Shame had five nominations apiece. Nominations were announced today. The awards ceremony will take place December 1.

Complete list of nominees follows:

EUROPEAN FILM
AMOUR, dir Michael Haneke (Austria/France/Germany)
BARBARA, dir Christian Petzold(Germany)
CAESAR MUST DIE, dirs. Paolo & Vittorio Taviani (Italy)
INTOUCHABLES, dirs. Olivier Nakache & Eric Toledano 
(France)
THE HUNT dir Thomas Vinterberg (Denmark)
SHAME, dir Steve McQueen (UK)

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European Film Awards Nominations Set

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Saturday November 5, 2011 @ 9:31am PDTTags: European Film Academy, European Film Awards, In A Better World, Le Havre, Melancholia, The Artist, The King's Speech

The European Film Academy unveiled its nominations this morning for the European Film Awards. Winners will be announced during a December 3 ceremony in Berlin. Here are the noms:

EUROPEAN FILM 2011
THE ARTIST, France
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: Michel Hazanavicius
PRODUCED BY: Thomas Langmann & Emmanuel Montamat

LE GAMIN AU VELO (The Kid with a Bike), Belgium/France/Italy
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne
PRODUCED BY: Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, Denis Freyd & Andrea Occhipinti

HÆVNEN (In a Better World), Denmark
DIRECTED BY: Susanne Bier
WRITTEN BY: Anders Thomas Jensen
PRODUCED BY: Sisse Graum Jørgensen

THE KING’S SPEECH, UK
DIRECTED BY: Tom Hooper
WRITTEN BY: David Seidler
PRODUCED BY: Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, Gareth Unwin

LE HAVRE, Finland/France/Germany
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: Aki Kaurismäki
PRODUCED BY: Aki Kaurismäki & Karl Baumgartner

MELANCHOLIA, Denmark/Sweden/France/Germany
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: Lars von Trier
PRODUCED BY: Meta Louise Foldager & Louise Vesth

EUROPEAN DIRECTOR 2011
Susanne Bier for HÆVNEN (In a Better World)
Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne for LE GAMIN AU VELO (The Kid with a Bike)
Aki Kaurismäki for LE HAVRE
Béla Tarr for A TORINOI LO (The Turin Horse)
Lars von Trier for MELANCHOLIA

EUROPEAN ACTRESS 2011:
Kirsten Dunst in MELANCHOLIA
Cécile de France in LE GAMIN AU VELO (The Kid with a Bike)
Charlotte Gainsbourg in MELANCHOLIA
Nadezhda Markina in ELENA
Tilda Swinton in WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN

EUROPEAN ACTOR 2011:
Jean Dujardin in THE ARTIST
Colin Firth in THE KING’S SPEECH
Mikael Persbrandt in HÆVNEN (In a Better World)
Michel Piccoli in HABEMUS PAPAM
André Wilms in LE HAVRE

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EFA Unveils Documentary Nominees

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday October 18, 2011 @ 11:22am PDTTags: European Film Awards, Position Among The Stars

The European Film Academy has finalized its nominees in the documentary category for the 24th annual European Film Awards, which are set for December 3 in Berlin. The films will be made available to the EFA’s 2,500 members, who … Read More »

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European Film Acad Honors Stephen Frears

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Tuesday October 4, 2011 @ 1:31am PDTTags: European Film Academy, European Film Awards, Stephen Frears

Stephen Frears, director of Dangerous Liaisons and The Queen, will receive this year’s European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award. Having already received the Spanish Goya, the French César, and the British BAFTA, Frears told … Read More »

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Terry Gilliam Among EFA Short Film Noms

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Monday September 26, 2011 @ 5:31am PDTTags: European Film Awards

Fifteen short films are now nominated for the European Film Awards. This year’s final nomination was just announced at the International Short Film Festival in Drama (Greece): Terry Gilliam’s The Wholly Family. (He received the European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2001.) The … Read More »

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Global Showbiz Briefs: The Netherlands, New Zealand, Mexico, UK

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday September 13, 2011 @ 3:10am PDTTags: BAFTA Awards, European Film Awards, Latin America, Netflix, New Zealand, Paramount, Star Wars, Stephen Fry, Titanic, Top Gun

3D Conversion Of Paramount’s ‘Top Gun’ In The Works
Another blockbuster is getting the 3D conversion treatment, it seems. Top Gun, Tony Scott’s iconic 1986 film starring Tom Cruise, is being re-formatted for a possible 2012 release by Paramount. That was the word from Legend3D CEO Rob Hummel, speaking today at the International Broadcasting Convention in Amsterdam, where he presented a 4-minute clip in the new format. “I think Top Gun lends itself to 3D due to the aerial flight,” Hummel said. “You can have fun with 3D by bringing things off the screen if they are not attached to the edge of the screen.” Hummel said that the studio wanted to get Scott’s approval before proceeding, while Paramount said there had been no talk of a release date. If the redo of the blockbuster does materialize, it will be on top of 3D conversions of The Lion King, set for release later this month, Star Wars: The Phantom Menace and Titanic.

Vicki Jackways To Represent New Zealand In Hollywood
 New Zealand is reaching out to Hollywood in a bid to lure more film shoots and facilitate U.S. co-productions. Film New Zealand and Park Road Post Production are teaming on an initiative that will see Park Road’s marketing chief Vicki Jackways working to heighten New Zealand’s Hollywood presence next year when she comes to L.A. in a semi-permanent capacity. New Zealand is on Hollywood’s location map and has an established effects and post-production infrastructure. It famously served as Middle Earth for The Lord of the Rings trilogy. “Thanks to the talents and entrepreneurship of our screen industry across the country, and the backing of successive governments, New Zealand has built a remarkable reputation as a film-making culture. Los Angeles-based representation is an important next step in taking full advantage of this reputation.”
Netflix CEO: Two Years Until We See Profit In Mexico
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings estimated today that it will take two years before his firm sees any returns from Mexico. “We are going to lose money for a while … it will take a lot of subscribers to get to profitability,” he said at a Mexico City news conference to mark the launch, part of a previously announced Latin American expansion. He declined to say how many subscribers it would take to get into the black but expressed confidence that the bandwidth commonly available in Mexico, markedly lower than that common to the U.S., would be viable. Netflix will charge $8 for a monthly subscription in Mexico. Local broadcasters TV Azteca and will make some of their content available through Netflix in Mexico, he said.
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