Also opening this weekend is ‘Hypnotic’, ‘Sisu’, ‘Full Time’ and ‘Master Gardener’.
Disney’s The Little Mermaid is aiming to make a splash in cinemas this weekend as the live-action remake opens in 732 locations.
Halle Bailey stars as a young mermaid desperate to experience life above water. The Little Mermaid was directed by Rob Marshall while Melissa McCarthy, Jonah Hauer-King, Davey Diggs and Javier Bardem round off the rest of the cast.
Marshall directed 2018 Disney remake Mary Poppins Returns which scored an impressive £8.2m in the UK’s widest-ever opening at the time, with 740 locations. The 1989 animated version of The...
Disney’s The Little Mermaid is aiming to make a splash in cinemas this weekend as the live-action remake opens in 732 locations.
Halle Bailey stars as a young mermaid desperate to experience life above water. The Little Mermaid was directed by Rob Marshall while Melissa McCarthy, Jonah Hauer-King, Davey Diggs and Javier Bardem round off the rest of the cast.
Marshall directed 2018 Disney remake Mary Poppins Returns which scored an impressive £8.2m in the UK’s widest-ever opening at the time, with 740 locations. The 1989 animated version of The...
- 5/26/2023
- by Ellie Calnan
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Global Screen has sealed a fresh round of deals on the 3D-animated feature My Fairy Troublemaker, about a mischievous, rookie tooth fairy who gets stuck in the world of humans on her first mission.
In a key territory deal the animation has sold to France (Kmbo) and recently also secured sales to Benelux (In the Air), Israel (Lev Cinemas), Austria (Constantin Film), Switzerland (MovieBiz), Hungary (Vertigo Media), Slovakia/Czech Republic (Bohemia Motion Pictures) and Greece (Zinos Panagiotidis).
The film follows the adventures of the fairy who ends up befriending a 12-year-old girl, who is having a hard time adjusting to a new life in the city. The fairy promises to magic the girl back to her beautiful garden, but things do not go to plan, sending the duo on a race against time to get back home.
Caroline Origer directs from a screenplay by Silja Clemens and based on an idea from Maite Woköck.
In a key territory deal the animation has sold to France (Kmbo) and recently also secured sales to Benelux (In the Air), Israel (Lev Cinemas), Austria (Constantin Film), Switzerland (MovieBiz), Hungary (Vertigo Media), Slovakia/Czech Republic (Bohemia Motion Pictures) and Greece (Zinos Panagiotidis).
The film follows the adventures of the fairy who ends up befriending a 12-year-old girl, who is having a hard time adjusting to a new life in the city. The fairy promises to magic the girl back to her beautiful garden, but things do not go to plan, sending the duo on a race against time to get back home.
Caroline Origer directs from a screenplay by Silja Clemens and based on an idea from Maite Woköck.
- 9/9/2022
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Global Screen has closed a raft of presales for 3D-animated feature film “My Fairy Troublemaker,” and will present new scenes to buyers at Berlin’s European Film Market.
The film has been sold to U.K. and Ireland (Signature Entertainment), Australia and New Zealand (Rialto), Spain and Portugal (Big Picture Films), Italy (Koch), Scandinavia (Selmer Media), Poland (Kino Swiat), Cis (Silver Box), Ukraine (Ufd), Baltics (Garsu Pasaulio), former Yugoslavia (Karantanija), Bulgaria (Pro Films), Middle East (Gulf Film), South Korea (Big Film), Malaysia (Suraya) and Vietnam (Lightening McQueen).
In the film, Violetta, a cheeky fairy, smuggles herself into the human world. By chance, she meets a 12-year-old girl, Maxie, who feels lost in the city and whose biggest wish is to return to the countryside. The two of them strike a secret deal. But things turn upside down and they find themselves in a race against time to set things right.
The film has been sold to U.K. and Ireland (Signature Entertainment), Australia and New Zealand (Rialto), Spain and Portugal (Big Picture Films), Italy (Koch), Scandinavia (Selmer Media), Poland (Kino Swiat), Cis (Silver Box), Ukraine (Ufd), Baltics (Garsu Pasaulio), former Yugoslavia (Karantanija), Bulgaria (Pro Films), Middle East (Gulf Film), South Korea (Big Film), Malaysia (Suraya) and Vietnam (Lightening McQueen).
In the film, Violetta, a cheeky fairy, smuggles herself into the human world. By chance, she meets a 12-year-old girl, Maxie, who feels lost in the city and whose biggest wish is to return to the countryside. The two of them strike a secret deal. But things turn upside down and they find themselves in a race against time to set things right.
- 2/11/2022
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
The Eurimages Fund is supporting 28 features.
European support body Eurimages has selected 28 features for a total of €6.1m ($6.9m) funding, including new works by Robert Guédiguian and Jim Sheridan.
French filmmaker Guédiguian – who has directed 21 features since 1981 including his most recent, Venice 2019 selection Gloria Mundi – receives €470,000 for France-Canada co-production Bamako Twist.
Ireland’s Sheridan, who has been nominated for six Oscars across his career since his breakthrough debut feature My Left Foot, receives €280,000 for Ireland-uk-France documentary In Absentia, co-directed with Colm Quinn. The documentary looks into the murder of French producer Sophie Toscan Du Plantier in Ireland, in December 1996.
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European support body Eurimages has selected 28 features for a total of €6.1m ($6.9m) funding, including new works by Robert Guédiguian and Jim Sheridan.
French filmmaker Guédiguian – who has directed 21 features since 1981 including his most recent, Venice 2019 selection Gloria Mundi – receives €470,000 for France-Canada co-production Bamako Twist.
Ireland’s Sheridan, who has been nominated for six Oscars across his career since his breakthrough debut feature My Left Foot, receives €280,000 for Ireland-uk-France documentary In Absentia, co-directed with Colm Quinn. The documentary looks into the murder of French producer Sophie Toscan Du Plantier in Ireland, in December 1996.
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- 6/5/2020
- by 1101321¦Ben Dalton¦26¦
- ScreenDaily
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