Berlin news – Page 145
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NewsBuyers still falling for Guadagnino's I Am Love
Buyers are continuing to lap up Luca Guadagnino’s I Am Love, starring Berlinale favourite Tilda Swinton, which is being sold by The Works.
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NewsWide closes further sales on Beginning To End, Gigola
French sales outfit Wide Management has closed yet more deals on its Berlinale slate.
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Mark Adams joins Screen
Screen International has appointed Mark Adams as the title’s chief film critic and reviews editor.
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NewsHrebejk, Menemsha pair up again
The prolific Jan Hrebejk whose Shameless was in Toronto and Kawasaki’s Rose opened the Panorama Special here, is set to begin his next film Innocence in Prague in the summer.
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NewsWhite Ribbon scoops German critics’ awards
Michael Haneke’s Oscar-nominated The White Ribbon took four prizes, including best film and screenplay, at the German Film Critics Association Awards last night.
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Arrow takes on Somali pirates
Arrow Entertainment has acquired worldwide rights, excluding Nordic territories, to Finnish documentary Pirates Of Somalia from Helsinki-based Hakalax Production Oy.
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Asian buyers lift Sheets with Kevin Williams Associates
Asians buyers are getting into bed with Madrid-based sales outfit Kevin Williams Associates.
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San Fu Maltha slate headed up by Westerling, Nadra, Portable Life
Prolific producer/distributor San Fu Maltha, whose Amphibious 3D is a hot seller for Celsius at EFM, has revealed details of his packed production slate.
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Karathanos reveals new projects
New films from Tadjik director Bakhtiar Khudojnazarov and Georgia’s Dito Tsintsadze are being lined up for production this year by Thanassis Karathanos of Twenty Twenty Vision and Pallas Film.
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Brazilian films snag p&a windfall
Film export agency Cinema Do Brasil is set to launch the first of two distribution grant schemes providing around $20,000 in p&a funds for the release of Brazilian films.
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Yelchin scores royal appointment
Anton Yelchin, riding high on the global success of Star Trek, has been cast opposite Milla Jovovich in Seven Arts Pictures’ period thriller The Winter Queen.
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Slippery streets of Berlin claim Star victim
The icy streets of the German capital have claimed their first victim.
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NewsIcon closes big sales on How I Spent My Summer
Icon Entertainment International (IEI) has scored big sales on its Mel Gibson-starrer How I Spent My SummerVacation about a career criminal caught by Mexican authorities who is sent to a dangerous prison and has to learn how to survive. Adrian Grunberg is directing.
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NewsIM Global and Reliance Big forge sales alliance
Stuart Ford’s aggressive US-based sales powerhouse IM Global has struck an alliance with Reliance Big to handle international sales on its films.
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Arclight harnesses Beresford's Zebras
Arclight Films is in discussions with EFM buyers on the Bruce Beresford project Zebras after picking up international sales rights.
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NewsBadge holders breathe sigh of relief as screenings ban is lifted
EFM non-buyer badge holders were relieved yesterday after a stressful couple of days in which they found themselves barred from the competition press screenings.
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NewsHaneke abandons 'old age' project
Oscar-nominated Austrian director Michael Haneke has abandoned his planned film about “humiliation and the physical deterioration of the aged” after seeing a Canadian project on a similar subject.
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NewsMK2 signs distribution deal with Israel's Orlando
MK2 has signed a distribution output deal with Israeli distributor Orlando Films.
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ContentFilm dances off with Every Little Step
ContentFilm has picked up international rights to Endgame Entertainment’s feature documentary Every Little Step, the critically acclaimed look behind the scenes at the Broadway smash A Chorus Line.
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Generation faces 2011 premiere rule
From 2011, films seeking selection for the Berlinale’s Generation sidebar, which focuses on children’s and youth titles, must be European premieres.