All Berlin articles – Page 258
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Lionsgate and Twisted team up for REPO!
Lionsgate and Saw franchise creator Twisted Pictures have announcedtheir next collaboration, teaming up on the horror tale REPO! TheGenetic Opera.Lionsgate president of international sales Stephanie Denton will showbuyers here a 12-minute promo-reel created by director Darren LynnBousman at a special event to be announced.Denton, president of acquisitions and co-productions Peter ...
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Moviehouse takes on Selim's Sweetland
London-based Moviehouse Entertainment has taken on sales for Ali Selim's Sweetland Sweetland is a love story in the 1920s US, when a mail-order bride arrives from Norway to start her new life. The ensemble cast features Alan Cumming, John Heard, Alex Kingston, Ned Beatty, Elizabeth Reaser and Tim Guinea. The ...
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La Vie En Rose (La Mome)
Dir: Olivier Dahan. Fr-UK-Czech Rep. 2006. 140mins.The biopic is a genre that the French film-makers have rarely shown much aptitude for, being the kind of (usually costly) project the British and Americans do better. But producer Alain Goldman and writer-director Olivier Dahan largely succeed with La Vie En Rose, a ...
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Jentsch cast as Girl In The Cafe
Silver Bear-winning actress Julia Jentsch (Sophie Scholl - The Final Days), who appears in Jiri Menzel's Competition film I Served The King Of England this year, has been cast opposite Jan Josef Liefers (Knocking On Heaven's Door) in the German version of Richard Curtis' The Girl In The Cafe.The Egoli ...
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The Works books Venus into more territories
UK-based sales company The Works International has started the EFM with several new sales on Roger Michell's Bafta- and Oscar-nominated Venus starring Leslie Phillips and Peter O'Toole.The latest deals are to Hexagon for Japan, Ecofilmes for Portugal, Ster-Kinekor for South Africa, Cine Video y TV for Mexico, MC Films for ...
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Wild Bunch declares war on Dieter Kosslick
After a slow burn of increasing upset with Berlin festival director Dieter Kosslick, French sales, financing and distribution outfit Wild Bunch has declared that it is boycotting the EFM and declaring a 'period of sanction' on its films in future Berlin competitions.The company has cancelled its market stand and, in ...
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'Explosion of creativity' driving global boom, says Universal co-chief
An 'explosion of creativity' in the international market has transformed the global film economy, according to Universal Studios co-chairman David Linde.'A remarkable creative cross-pollination' had meant studios were now working in a diverse market with vital interests stretching from small local films to blockbusters, he told yesterday's Screen International European ...
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Weinstein sells key territories on 1408 ahead of EFM
The Weinstein Company (TWC) international president Glen Basner has closed a raft of deals on Mikael Hafstrom's horror film 1408 ahead of the European Film Market.Rights have gone to Senator (Germany), Paramount (UK), TFM (France), West Film (Russia), EEAP (Eastern Europe), Imagem (Latin America), Taewon (South Korea), and Village Roadshow ...
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Schoukroun leaves Capitol for sister company THINKFilm
Eve Schoukroun will leave her post as head of sales at Capitol Films to become head of international for sister company THINKFilm International. Los Angeles-based entrepreneur David Bergstein acquired London-based Capitol in January 2006 and New York-based THINKFilm in October 2006, but the two companies have announced that they will ...
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Ealing strikes European deals for Carmen Electra project
Ealing Studios International, the new sales arm of Ealing Studios, has licensed UK comedy I Want Candy in three key territories prior to the film's market premiere at the EFM. Square One Entertainment took German theatrical rights, while Revolutionary Releasing has taken rights for Eastern Europe excluding the CIS. Buena ...
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First Look pushing Untitled Larry Charles Project at EFM
First Look International (FLI) chief Stuart Ford is lining up meetings with buyers at the European Film Market to discuss Larry Charles' anticipated follow-up to the global smash Borat: Cultural Learnings Of America For Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakstan.Charles is currently roaming the world shooting Untitled Larry Charles Project, ...
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Dresdner Kleinwort explores European 'fund of funds'
Having pumped more than $4.6bn into a variety of Hollywood slate deals in the past two years, German bank Dresdner Kleinwort is now looking at Europe to see whether a similar co-financing structure could enable a portfolio of European films from different production sources. The bank's New York-based media and ...
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Fortissimo to sell LIVE! worldwide
Fortissimo Films is handling worldwide sales rights excluding North America for Academy Award-winning director Bill Guttentag's LIVE! which is produced by Mosaic Media Group. A satire on the modern obsession with reality TV, the film follows an ambitious TV network executive played by Eva Mendes (Training Day, Hitch), who wants ...
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Optimum picks up Rocket Science
Optimum has taken UK rights to Jeffrey Blitz's Rocket Science, which won the Directing Award - Dramatic at Sundance 2007.Charles Schreger, president of programming sales for HBO Enterprises, struck the deal for the HBO Films project with Optimum's managing director Will Clarke.Spellbound director Blitz makes his fictional debut with the ...
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Wild Bunch takes on sales for new Morgan Spurlock documentary
While continuing brisk sales on Laurent Tirard's Moliere, which has been acquired by Spain 's Golem, Pathe in the UK, Bim in Italy and Australia 's Hopscotch; Wild Bunch has unveiled its line up for the upcoming Berlin festival with several new projects in the pipeline. First is the new ...
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Summit tempts EFM buyers with Lindsay Lohan, Tarsem
Leading LA production, financing and sales outfit Summit Entertainment arrives in Berlin with a slate of new pictures led by Lindsay Lohan thriller I Know Who Killed Me, Berlin Generation 14Plus entry The Fall, Sundance award winner Once, and the previously announced John Woo epic Red Cliff. 360 Pictures' I ...
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NonStop Sales picks up rights for Darling
Just prior to the European Film Market in Berlin, Stockholm-based international distributor, NonStop Sales, has picked up all rights for Darling, Swedish director Johan Kling's feature debut, which won the Nordic competition at Sweden's Göteborg International Film Festival. 'The film will open domestically on Friday (Feb 9) through Svensk Filmindustri,' ...
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Original version of Lost In Beijing to screen at EFM
The production and sales companies behind Berlin competition title Lost In Beijing say they plan to screen the original version of the film at the European Film Market, rather than the modified version that was approved yesterday by China 's censors. French sales outfit Films Distribution issued a statement today ...
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Warner Bros to release The Red Baron in Germany
The German arm of US major Warner Bros has picked up Niki Muellerschoen's $23.3m (Euros 18m) English-language production The Red Baron for release in Germany this autumn. Billed as Germany's most expensive new production in 2006 and one of the most lavish in German history, The Red Baron stars up-and-coming ...
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Because I Said So
Dir: Michael Lehmann US. 2007. 100mins. Diane Keaton leads a multi-generational female ensemble in Because I Said So, a mostly frothy and predictable romantic comedy that occasionally gets serious on subjects including mother-daughter relationships and even female sexuality. The cast and viewpoint could be enough to pull in a fairly ...