Berlin news – Page 160
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Munich's EVA to co-produce family adventure Raising Phoenix
Munich-based film and TV group Entertainment Value Associates (EVA) is to co-produce Marc Weigert's $15m family adventure project Raising Phoenix which is being produced by Weigert and Volker Engel's LA-based independent outfit Uncharted Territory.Raising Phoenix is due to go into production from April 2008, with location shooting likely to also ...
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Japan's Iseki Satoru to produce Korean epic Sharaku
Japanese producer Iseki Satoru (Battle Of Wits) has boarded epic mystery fantasy Sharaku (working title), which Park Tae-choon is directing for Korea's Studio2.0. Studio 2.0 is co-financing and handling international sales on the $8m Korean-Japanese co-production, which will be shot in Japan with a mostly Japanese cast and crew. Behind-the-scenes ...
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Films Distribution closes EFM deals on Lemon Tree
Buyers are swarming round Panorama entry, Lemon Tree. The film, being soldat the EFM by Paris-based Films Distribution, has been picked up for a number of territories following its first official screening earlier in the week. Deals confirmed include Benelux (Cineart), Switzerland (Agora), Seville Pictures (Canada), Teodora (Italy), Film Trade ...
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Downey and Taylor's F&ME launches new $1m development fund
UK-based Film And Music Entertainment (F&ME) has created a new $1m development fund, backed by private equity, EU MEDIA support and in-house financing, and is initially backing a slate of five projects for 2008. F&ME's Mike Downey is in early development with F&ME chairman Stephen Daldry on a Charles Darwin ...
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Lives Of Others producers board Leven's Lovers, Liars & Thieves
Munich-based Wiedemann & Berg Filmproduktion, which produced Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's Oscar-winning The Lives Of Others, will serve as German co-producer on Jeremy Leven's $ 30m romantic comedy Lovers, Liars & Thieves which is currently being prepared by Ilann Girard's Arsam International.The true story behind the theft of the Mona ...
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Devillers to bring western film-makers to China for genre slate
Natacha Devillers' Les Petites Lumieres is launching a project to bring Western filmmakers to China to make genre movies. Devillers is developing a slate of low-budget genre films - entitled China Syndromes - in partnership with Taiwanese producer Wendy Kuan and UK filmmaker Simon Rumley. Among the directors who are ...
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Warner Music UK buys UK rights to occult thriller Chemical Wedding
Warner Music UK has acquired UK rights to the supernatural occult thriller Chemical Wedding and has scheduled a theatrical in May.Former Iron Maiden front man Bruce Dickinson wrote the screenplay and Simon Callow stars as a Cambridge professor who wreaks havoc after he is possessed by the spirit of the ...
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X Filme International boards films from Meyjes, Fox
New features by Menno Meyjes and Eytan Fox are being lined up by X Filme International in addition to its production of Julie Delpy's The Countess which begins shooting from Feb 18 in Berlin, Saxony, and Saxony-Anhalt.The X Filme Creative Pool subsidiary will serve as German co-producer for the UK's ...
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Essential acquires worldwide rights to Stan Helsing
Jere Hausfater's Essential Entertainment has acquired worldwide sales rights from Scott Steindorff's Stone Village Pictures to the upcoming horror spoof Stan Helsing.The story is set on Halloween night when the eponymous reluctant hero and video shop clerk must save his town from the six most feared monsters in cinematic history.Writer-director ...
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Italy-Iraq co-production Flowers Of Kirkuk set to shoot for April
The Flowers Of Kirkuk, the first-ever co-production between Italy and Iraq,is to shoot in April, it was confirmed at the EFM yesterday. The film, to be directed by Fariborz Kamkari, has now received support from Regione Lazio. It is being produced by Fabrizia Falzetti's Far Out Films. Istituto Luce has ...
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Big deals heat up EFM in Berlin
Universal Pictures has bought North America and select territories on Sam Raimi's upcoming low budget horror film Drag Me To Hell as a flurry of deal-making set EFM alight.Meanwhile Momentum sealed UK rights to Sundance hit Hamlet 2 from Focus Features International in a deal estimated to be worth over ...
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Arclight Cashes In On Roger Donaldson's Bank Job
Gary Hamilton's Arclight Films has closed a raft of sales ahead of theEFM screening of Roger Donaldson's heist movie The Bank Job starringJason Statham.Deals have closed in Japan (Movie-Eye Entertainment); Germany,Austria, Luxembourg and Switzerland (Atlas); Spain (New World Films); Scandinavia (Nordisk); Portugal (Castello Lopes); Canada (Maple Pictures); Greece and ...
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The Weinstein Company, Showbox hot for Chocolate
Thai actioner Chocolate - which opened at the top of the Thai box office this week - has been gobbled up by several international distributors including The Weinstein Company which has taken North American rights. Produced and sold by Sahamongkolfilm International, the picture has also been sold to Showbox Media ...
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Roissy continues Caramel sales with Taiwan deal with Joint
Nadine Labaki's Caramel is continuing to entice buyers. The Lebanesedirector-star's crowd pleaser, which premiered in the Cannes Quinzaine last year, has sold steadily throughout the year.Here at the EFM, French company Roissy Films has announced another deal on the title. Joint Entertainment has now taken the film for Taiwan.Caramel is ...
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Ewald's Epic Pictures takes on Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer
Patrick Ewald's Epic Pictures has picked up international rights to Jon Knautz' Slamdance hit Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer starring Robert Englund and Trevor Matthews.Ewald said he was already in advanced talks with a UK distributor on the tale of a young man whose professor unwittingly causes him to confront an ...
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Maximum takes on international rights to Trouble The Water
Toronto's Maximum Films International has acquired international rights to last month's Sundance Grand Jury Prize documentary winner Trouble The Water.Tia Lessin and Carl Deal's film follows aspiring rapper Kim and her husband as they try to navigate a path to survival in New Orleans in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane ...
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Odd Lot on board for Yann Samuell's The Great Ghost Rescue
Odd Lot International (OLI) is meeting with buyers to discuss YannSamuell's upcoming children's sci-fi romp The Great Ghost Rescue.Samuell will direct from David Solomons' adapted screenplay of EvaIbboston's best seller about an uprooted ghost family who go in searchof a new home.Miriam Segal and Martin Katz will produce the live-action ...
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Bleiberg Entertainment takes on Red starring Brian Cox
Bleiberg Entertainment has taken international rights to the Sundance thriller Red starring Brian Cox, as well as spaghetti Western The Legend Of God's Gun and the Jamie Kennedy film Heckler.Red received its world premiere last month and stars Cox as a recluse who seeks justice after his dog is killed ...
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Magnolia's Magnet takes on Cocaine Cowboys 2
Magnolia Pictures' genre arm Magnet has acquired worldwide rights to Billy Corben's drug trade documentary Cocaine Cowboys 2: Hustlin' With The Godmother.Corben's follow-up to his 2006 documentary Cocaine Cowboys profiles the rise of a street dealer from California who gets in way over his head when he partners with the ...
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ContentFilm strikes UK, German deals for The Killing Room
ContentFilm International has pre-sold Jonathan Liebesman's The Killing Room to the UK (Momentum), Germany (Square One), Portugal (Lusomundo), Greece (Spentzos), The Middle East (Gulf), Brazil (Paris Filmes), Romania (Media Pro), The West Indies (Caribbean Film Services) and Croatia, Serbia and Slovenia (Continental).The high-concept suspense thriller is Liebesman's follow-up to The ...