Berlin news – Page 147
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NewsI Phone You engages Kohlhaase
Wolfgang Kohlhaase (Summer In Berlin), winner of this year’s honorary Golden Bear, is attached as screenwriter to the Chinese-German culture-clash comedy I Phone You (working title).
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NewsAllfilm boards Screen best pitch title Rat King
Estonia’s Allfilm will co-produce Petri Kotwica’s third feature Rat King, which received the Screen International Best Pitch Award at Tallinn’s Baltic Event Co-Production Market last December.
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NewsContentFilm snares The Uncatchable Cowgirl Bandits
ContentFilm International has taken worldwide rights to The Uncatchable Cowgirl Bandits Of Nottingham, Texas from director Jess Manafort and writer Michael Tabb.
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NewsWe Distribution closes deals on Bodyguards And Assassins
World sales outfit We Distribution has closed deals for the $23 million budget Peter Chan produced Bodyguards And Assassins. Metropolitan took France and TMC took Turkey.
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NewsIrvine Welsh to direct The Magnificant Eleven
Trainspotting novelist Irvine Welsh will direct gritty UK comedy The Magnificent Eleven, a modern-day version of the classic 1960 western The Magnificent Seven in which the Cowboys are a local amateur soccer team, the Indians run a nearby Tandoori restaurant and the bandits are a group of menacing thugs run ...
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NewsMetrodome joins industry spoof
On the opening day of the 2010 European Film Market, UK distributor Metrdome picked up film industry mockumentary Just For The Record
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Peace Arch adopts Offspring
Peace Arch has acquired international sales rights to Moderncine’s Offspring: The Woman based on Jack Ketchum and Lucky McKee’s upcoming horror novel.
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NewsSingapore’s MDA takes Bait
Arclight Films has slotted financing into place on its upcoming shark-attack film Bait 3D, in the first official Australia-Singapore project since the countries signed a co-production treaty in 2007.
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NewsBodrov in town to outline plans for Mongol sequel
Russian writer-director-producer Sergei Bodrov will be in Berlin on Sunday to unveil his upcoming directing and production slate, including The Great Khan, the anticipated sequel to his Oscar-nominated 2007 film, Mongol.
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NewsF&ME embarks on biggest project yet
Film and Music Entertainment (F&ME), the London-based feature film production outfit led by Mike Downey and Sam Taylor, is embarking on its biggest project yet.
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NewsKaurismaki to make new movie in France
Finnish maverick Aki Kaurismaki is hatching a new movie in France called Le Havre. The film, a dramatic comedy about “a shoeblack who tries to save a refugee” has received script development funding from The Finnish Film Foundation.
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NewsGenz plots Terribly Happy English language remake
Henrik Ruben Genz is in talks to direct a $10-15m English language remake of his award winning Danish Oscar submission Terribly Happy.
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NewsLars von Trier readies Melancholia as pre-sales close to Russia, Poland
Lars Von Trier’s next feature Melancholia is set to start shooting in Sweden in June with Meta Foldager (Antichrist) again producing.
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NewsWild Bunch pitches Pancho, sells Zhang’s Noodle Shop
Wild Bunch is set to reteam with Emir Kusturica for his upcoming Pancho Villa biopic, which it is rumoured will star Johnny Depp.
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Perrier launches sales for Stonebrook International
Former Paramount Vantage and Odd Lot sales executive Delphine Perrier is in Berlin with a trio of projects in her new guise as president of sales at fledgling Stonebrook International.
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NewsE1 takes three from H20 for Canada
E1 Entertainment has closed a deal for Canadian rights to three films from Andras Hamori and Mark Horowitz’s H20 Motion Pictures.
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NewsNimbus reveals upcoming slate
Prolific Danish outfit Nimbus, in Berlin with competition titles Thomas Vinterberg’s Submarino and Alice de Champfleury Sun Shine (Sol Skin), has announced details of its upcoming films.
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Rezo entices buyers with The Game Of Death
Rezo Films is launching sales on its new documentary The Game Of Death from directors Thomas Bornot, Alain-Michel Blanc and Gilles Amado.
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NewsNeumann praises Berlinale’s ‘bridge building’
Germany’s Culture Minister Bernd Neumann has praised the Berlinale’s for building cultural bridges
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NewsLe Danse sets rhythm for Doc & Film
Paris-based Doc & Film International has closed further sales on the Cesar-nominated documentary La Danse,The Paris Opera Ballet.