All articles by Geoffrey Macnab – Page 110
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NewsGaumont boosts 'France' export
EXCLUSIVE: Gaumont has struck multiple sales on Vive La France by Michael Youn, starring Jose Garcia and Michael Young and billed as “a crazy, extremely funny and politically incorrect postcard of France.
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NewsUK deal for Johnny Cash doc
EXCLUSIVE: Wide House has closed a UK theatrical deal for Johnny Cash doc My Father And The Man In Black with Ballpark Film Distributors.
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NewsBaetens reads The Verdict
The Verdict is produced by Peter Bouckaert for Eyeworks Film & TV Drama.
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NewsSoda blasts off with art label
The company is to be run by curator/producer Elena Hill, who will work closely with Soda principals Eve Gabereau and Ed Fletcher.
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NewsNew Czech film fund launched
The new Fund is expected have approximately €8m ($11m a year) at its disposal; this year’s EFM contains screenings of several Czech productions and coproductions, including IFFR Tiger winner My Dog Killer [pictured].
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NewsOpen Reel debuts at EFM
Italian sales company was founded last November by Cosimo Santoro and has already built up a catalogue of more than 25 titles.
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NewsMauritius launches 30% film tax incentive
EXCLUSIVE: Island nation also plans to sign co-production treaties.
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NewsKaurismaki partners with Yellow Affair
EXCLUSIVE: Company is selling Mika Kaurismaki’s The Girl King.
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NewsAutlook sails with Pirate Bay doc
EXCLUSIVE: TPB-AFK screens in Berlin Panorama and will also be made available free online.
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NewsWide smiles with Carbone film
Wide Management has added a new title to its roster, Daniel Patrick Carbone’s Hide Your Smiling Faces.
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NewsMatch Factory strikes deal for Snow in Paradise
EXCLUSIVE: Control editor Andrew Hulme makes his directorial debut.
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NewsMads Mikkelsen saddles up for Zentropa Western
EXCLUSIVE: Zentropa is again saddling up with Mads Mikkelsen. The Danish powerhouse production company is hatching its first Western, which sales company TrustNordisk is launching at the EFM.
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NewsBuyers swim to Reel Suspects’ Vanishing Waves
Matteo Lovadina’s Paris-based sales outfit Reel Suspects has confirmed a raft of deals on its new sci-fi melodrama Vanishing Waves.
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NewsFilm Factory ties knot with Three Many Weddings
Spanish sales outfit Film Factory Entertainment has snapped up worldwide rights to Three Many Weddings (Tres Bodas De Mas), the new romantic comedy from Javier Ruiz Caldera (Ghost Graduation).
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NewsuConnect and Celluloid Dreams strike partnership
uConnect, the sales arm of Belgian powerhouse uMedia, has struck a multi-film partnership with French sales outfit Celluloid Dreams ahead of the European Film Market.
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NewsLanthimos, Martel, Nyholm scoop Rotterdam’s CineMart prizes
Established art house directors Yorgos Lanthimos and Lucrecia Martel won cash prizes as International Film Festival Rotterdam’s 30th coproduction market CineMart announced its prizes last night.
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FeaturesAgnieszka Holland, Burning Bush
The Polish director talks to Geoffrey Macnab about her three part drama series for HBO Europe.
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NewsMedia Luna scales Matterhorn in first wave of Rotterdam deals
Mid-way through the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), details of the first pick-ups and sales have emerged.
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NewsHungarian Film Week cancelled after 47 years
The war of words between the Hungarian Film Fund and Bela Tarr, president of the Hungarian Filmmakers’ Association, is continuing following the cancellation of Hungarian Film Week for the first time since 1965.
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FeaturesHigh street blues
HMV and Blockbuster have gone into administration in the UK, yet the physical sale of DVDs is still a viable market. Geoffrey Macnab looks at the implications for distributors and what the future could hold.