All Berlin articles – Page 236
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Artificial Eye kicks off Berlin with buys of Let It Rain, Julia
UK distributor Artificial Eye has struck a two-film deal with Studio Canal for all UK rights to Let It Rain and Julia.Agnes Jaoui's Let It Rain (Parlez - Moi De La Pluie) stars Jaoui, Jamel Debbouze and Jean-Pierre Bacri. The story follows a rising politician who visits the countryside with ...
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Primer Piano buys Wood's La Buena Vida for Argentina
Madrid-based sales outfit Latido has confirmed a number of new pre-sales on La Buena Vida, the new film from fast-rising Latin-American auteur AndresWood (Machuca.) Just prior to Berlin, deals were concluded for the film with Argentina (Primer Piano), ex-Yugoslavia (MCF) and Greece (AMA). A number of other territories are pending ...
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Studio Babelsberg announces intentions to back US studio slate
Studio Babelsberg has revealed plans to invest '$500m or more' in a slate of features by an as-yet-unnamed US major studio to secure more Hollywood productions coming to shoot at the studios.Last year the production centre had hosted such big budget productions as Speed Racer, Valkyrie and The International and ...
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Jinga adds Exodus, Hush Your Mouth and Blue Star slate
UK-based sales company Jinga Films has added two new titles to its slate for the EFM. Jinga is now handling international sales on Penny Woolcock's Exodus and Tom Tyrwhitt's Hush Your Mouth.Jinga is also handling films previously sold by Blue Star Movies, including Evilenko starring Malcolm McDowell, Hermano starring Emir ...
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Mortensen, Damon, Penn among players in activism doc
Ed Noeltner's Cinema Management Group is commencing sales here on the social activism documentary The People Speak featuring Viggo Mortensen, Matt Damon and Sean Penn.Based on Howard Zinn's book A People's History Of The United States, the two-hour film chronicles key developments in the US told from the perspective of ...
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Blayze Collins-Perucchetti replaces Giles in acquisitions at Tartan
Tartan Films has appointed Blayze Collins-Perucchetti as its new head of acquisitions. She replaces Jane Giles, who recently departed Tartan after four years to become head of content at the British Film Institute. Acquisitions were also previously under the eye of Laura De Casto, who left as managing director of ...
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Kragh-Jacobsen readies costume drama about Chopin
Fresh from his political thriller What No One Knows, which is screening in Berlin'sPanorama, Danish auteur of Soren Kragh-Jacobsen is looking to make a costume drama about the composer Chopin. The film, which has the working title Incognito C, will be produced by Lars Bredo Rahbek at Nimbus Film. It ...
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Pathe goes deep for The Descent 2 with Celador
Pathe International is starting pre-sales here at the EFM for The Descent 2. Shauna MacDonald and Natalie Mendoza will reprise their roles.The Descent's director Neil Marshall and producer Christian Colson will produce the sequel for UK-based production outfit Celador.Jon Harris, who edited The Descent as well as Stardust and Layer ...
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Quiet Chaos (Caos Calmo)
Dir: Antonello Grimaldi. Italy. 2008. 110 mins.'Write about what you know' goes the old dictum - so contemporary Italian scripters mostly write about city-dwelling, media-savvy middle-class people like themselves. But at least in Quiet Chaos our hero, TV executive Pietro Paladini, is doing something more original than having a mid-life ...
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Burt Reynolds starts shoot for A Bunch Of Amateurs
Shooting started February 2 on A Bunch Of Amateurs, starring Burt Reynolds, Imelda Staunton and Derek Jacobi.The UK comedy is being sold by Odyssey internationally, with Cinetic handling US rights.Director Andy Cadiff is shooting for six weeks in London and on The Isle Of Man. David Parfitt (Shakespeare In Love) ...
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Films Distribution expands lineup with four genre movies
France's Films Distribution has unveiled a new slate of four genre movies heading into the EFM.In what the company calls a diversification of its line up, the new films are: Ruiflec: The Village Of Shadows directed by Fouad Benhammou and starring Sara Forestier about a group of young people trapped ...
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Dutch Oscar entry Duska being sold by Cinemavault
Cinemavault will introduce buyers here to the Dutch foreign language Oscar submission Duska as well as a trio of new documentaries.Sylvia Hoeks won the best supporting actress award at the Netherlands Film Festival for her performance as a cinema cashier in Jos Stelling's dark comedy.Cinemavault vice president of acquisition Michael ...
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Bier, Bonnaire drop out of Berlinale competition jury
As the Berlinale kicks off today, its competition jury has been cut from eight to six people as Susanne Bier and Sandrine Bonnaire have dropped out of jury duty.Danish director Bier has had to go to the US unexpectedly to work on her next film. 'The bags were already packed, ...
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Rezo Films takes Sundance grand jury prize winner River
France's Rezo Films has acquired international rights to Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner Frozen River. Sony Pictures Classics is handling US distribution on Courtney Hunt's first feature.Set in a real-life smuggling zone on a Native American reservation between NY State and Quebec, the film is the story of two women ...
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David Mackenzie's Spread seduces Kutcher, Leigh
Ashton Kutcher will play a serial LA womanizer in Spread, the first US movie from Scottish auteur David Mackenzie who was in competition at Berlin last year with Hallam Foe. Jennifer Jason Leigh plays a lawyer who is ditched by Kutcher's character in the film which is set to start ...
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Trust closes first deal on Rotterdam hit Jamil for Greece
Fresh from picking up a Tiger award in Rotterdam last week, Trust FilmSales' Go With Peace Jamil has clinched its first international sale. The bloody thriller, set in Copenhagen's close-knit Arab community, has gone to Seven Films for Greece.The deal comes as Trust arrives in Berlin for its first market ...
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Keanu Reeves joins cast for Rebecca Miller's Private Lives Of Pippa Lee
Alan Arkin, Monica Bellucci, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Keanu Reeves have joined the cast of Rebecca Miller's drama The Private Lives Of Pippa Lee.Robin Wright Penn stars as the title character, a serene New York-based mother and wife whose former wild life rears its head after her elderly husband embarks on ...
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First Look takes domestic rights to Buy Borrow Steal
First Look Studios has acquired domestic rights to Eric Styles' comedy Buy Borrow Steal starring Heather Graham as a woman hell-bent on becoming pregnant.The company has set a spring release in Los Angeles following the world premiere at the 25th Miami International Film Festival. Beatrix Wesle and Solveig Langeland's Atrix ...
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Celluloid Dreams takes on Sundance audience favourite The Wackness
As the Berlin EFM gets under way, Celluloid Dreams has announced it is to handle international sales of the Sundance Dramatic Audience Award Winner The Wackness. Click here to see review.Written and directed by Jonathan Levine, The Wackness stars Ben Kingsley,Josh Peck, Famke Janssen, Mary Kate Olsen, Olivia Thirlby and ...
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UK's Formosa Films to follow Clubbed with Twenty8k
Formosa Films, the UK production company behind Clubbed, is planning its second feature film, Twenty8k, to shoot in autumn 2008.Formosa, founded by producer Martin Carr and director Neil Thompson, has raised half the funding for Twenty8k, which is written by Geoff Thompson.The thriller will follow a young Asian journalist who ...