Berlin news – Page 107
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NewsLinklater wins Berlinale Camera
The festival presented the award to the Before Midnight director at the film’s international premiere on Monday [11].
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NewsDiego Luna readies third feature
Diego Luna is set to start shooting his third feature Mr Pig within the next month.
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NewsBanana shoots for Robert Capa biopic
The film, Capa In Israel, is to be directed by Eduardo Rossoff and scripted by Robert Butler.
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NewsGriffiths' Illuminations readies busy slate including Duane Hopkins' Bypass
Bypass, backed by the BFI and Film I Vast, is being produced by Third Films in Newcastle and is due to shoot in March.
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NewsEye On Films goes to Brasil
EoF now has over 80 partners, among them 45 festivals and 39 distributors.
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NewsIpso Facto gains Nothing to Lose
Christine Alderson’s UK production company Ipso Facto has snapped up remake rights to Pieter Kuipers’ thriller Nothing To Lose from Dutch production outfit Pupkin Films.
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NewsConstantin acquires Status Quo film; sequel greenlit
First major territory deal secured for the upcoming UK action comedy; greenlight for a sequel in India.
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NewsMetrodome takes on The Liability as Revolver falters
Sales outfits and producers look for new buyers for films on Revolver’s slate.
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NewsDogwoof closes EFM deals
UK sales outfit Dogwoof Global has closed all-rights deals for The Ridge with Domma Inc. Japan, and deals for Eugene Jarecki’s The House I Live In with Madman for Australia, Tour de Force for Norway and The Culture Business for Italy.
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NewsO'Neill, Fastnet launch distrib Wildcard
EXCLUSIVE: O’Neill departs IFB to launch theatrical distribution outfit; strikes partnerships, deals at the EFM.
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NewsStudioCanal secures Traitor sales
EXCLUSIVE: Bucking the trend in a tough Berlin market, StudioCanal has closed significant pre-sales on new John Le Carré adaptation Our Kind Of Traitor.
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NewsPaloma Faith to star in punk drama
EXCLUSIVE: Platinum-selling singer to star in feature from Wellington Films and Zentropa Sweden.
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NewsSilver's Cannes swansong
EXCLUSIVE: Cannes Film Festival is likely to be Aviva Silver’s final appearance as head of the MEDIA unit before moving to a new position within the European Commission (EC).
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NewsRossellini joins Carriere project
Actress and film-maker Isabella Rossellini is collaborating with legendary screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrier (The Artist and the Model) on a new project.
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NewsHope spreads for Seidl
Buyers are continuing to beat a path to Paradise since the final instalment of Ulrich Seidl’s trilogy Paradise: Hope screened in Berlinale’s Competition earlier this week.
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NewsFuWorks kicks off Dutch football doc
The “total football” exploits of the celebrated Dutch team of the 1970s are to shown on screen in a new feature documentary being put together by San Fu Maltha’s Fu Works.
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NewsIron Sky producers talk US plans
EXCLUSIVE: Blind Spot Pictures, the Finnish outfit behind cult hit Iron Sky, has revealed further details of what is likely to be its first US project, Jeremiah Harm.
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NewsSchell and Adorf cast as Marx and Engels
Veteran actors Maximilian Schell and Mario Adorf have been cast in a new feature as philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.
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NewsPirate Bay doc gets online boost
Controversial feature documentary The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard (about the notorious file sharing website) has been watched by half a million people since its premiere in Berlin on Friday [Feb 8].