Berlin news – Page 144
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NewsTrust’s hot Revenge
Scandinavian sales powerhouse TrustNordisk has revealed details of more EFM deals. The Revenge, directed by Susanne Bier (pictured), has gone to Spain (Golem) and Poland (Vivarto)
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Pyramide International knows what buyers want
Pyramide International has closed several deals for Italian director Silvio Soldini’s eighth feature What More Do I Want (Cosa Voglio Di Piu), which had its world premiere in the Berlinale Special section.
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Perfect Circle signs up to Blind Spot werewolf picture
Vancouver’s Perfect Circle Productions has boarded AJ Annila’s new project Human as co-producers with Blind Spot Pictures.
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Europe should stop looking to US, says panel on indie film finance
Oscar-nominated producer Nicolas Chartier, whose Voltage Pictures was behind The Hurt Locker, has issued a stark warning that old models of financing independent films no longer work
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NewsFilm Depot snaps up Exorcism, Pyramids doc
Sergei Yershov’s Los Angeles-based Film Depot, which specialises in distribution in Russia and the CIS states, has snapped up rights to a raft of films at EFM.
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NewsMicro-budget UK horror sells to Japan, Germany
The film, which marks the debut of Welsh film-maker Marc Price, has sold to Eden Entertainment for Japan, and to MIG Film for German-speaking territories.Left is also negotiating the more substantial financing for Price’s next movie Thunderchild, a war/horror feature which will shoot in June and is being produced by ...
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NewsTreasure trove of sales for Double Edge
Taiwan-based Double Edge Entertainment has announced today a cluster of European and Asian sales, all closed at the European Film Market, on The Treasure Hunter (pictured).
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Independent, Mogador team on erotic thriller
Independent Partners Films and Mogador Films have announced plans to collaborate on a second erotic arthouse film. Rolf Peter Kahl will direct The Lost Love, and Melanie Kretschmann (Blutsfreundschaft) is already attached to star.
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NewsScreen At The Berlin Film Festival
Missed out on a daily? Catch up here with the digital edition.
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NewsMemento does brisk sales on Puzzle, Woman In The Fifth
Memento has done a roaring trade on its Berlinale slate.
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NewsStrickland Sounds out horror flick
Multi award-winning director Peter Strickland, who was in Berlin competition last year with Katalina Varga(pictured), is plotting a new Italy-set horror film.
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NewsTaxi for von Trier?
It was a meeting of heavyweights. Over the weekend, Martin Scorsese and Lars von Trier came face to face here in Berlin.
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NewsFilms Distribution locks down Cell 211 deals
Films Distribution has clinched a deal on its Spanish thriller Cell 211 with CCV for Scandinavia.
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NewsHyde Park closes sales on Cianfrance's Blue Valentine
Mimi Steinbauer’s Hyde Park International has closed a raft of deals on Derek Cianfrance’s Blue Valentine, which The Weinstein Company acquired for North America and France following its world premiere in Sundance.
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Kao joins Jackman in Wang’s Snow Flower And The Secret Fan
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation star Archie Kao has signed on as the male lead in Wayne Wang’s adaptation of Lisa See’s bestseller Snow Flower And The Secret Fan.
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NewsPere promises flexibility in Piazza Grande line-up
Locarno Film Festival’s new artistic director Olivier Pere will be more flexible in his programming for the nightly open-air programme on the town’s Piazza Grande.
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NewsEra New Horizons expands into distribution
Era New Horizons International Film Festival, the Polish event which takes place in July, has started a distribution arm, picking up six films from its 2009 festival — Steve McQueen’s Hunger, Ivan Vyrypaev’s Oxygen, Johan Grimonprez’s Double Take, Agnes Varda’s The Beaches Of Agnes, Henrik Hellstrom and Frederik Wenzel’s Burrowing ...
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Momentum, Square One take Agnosia
Filmax International has closed a pair of major territory deals on its romantic thriller Agnosia, from the producers of The Orphanage and Pan’s Labyrinth.
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NewsSummit Crownes key sales
Summit International has closed key territories on its Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts comedy Larry Crowne as buyers responded to the prospect of the pair’s first match-up since Charlie Wilson’s War.
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Shoreline sells Sympathy to US, latest Chopper saga to Germany
Shoreline has announced a pair of deals, selling North American rights to the horror film Sympathy to Breaking Glass Pictures, and German rights to Fat Belly — Chopper (Unchopped) to WVG.