Latest Berlin news – Page 178
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NewsSheridan Smith dances with Debbie Isitt comedy
EXCLUSIVE: In-demand UK actress to star in belly dancing comedy set to shoot in June; producers are Marc Samuelson and Nick Jones; Bankside sells.
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NewsWestEnd rises to Midnight Sun
EXCLUSIVE: Jesse Eisenberg, Diane Kruger and Emile Hirsch to star in 1940s drama due to shoot this summer.
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NewsFiennes, Mikkelsen close in on Our Kind of Traitor
EXCLUSIVE: Schedules permitting, Ralph Fiennes and Mads Mikkelsen will join $35m-budgeted John Le Carre thriller due to shoot this summer; Smiley’s People being readied for 2014.
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NewsFilmNation brings The Imitation Game to EFM
EXCLUSIVE: Glen Basner and his sales team will introduce The Imitation Game to buyers at the EFM. Benedict Cumberbatch is attached to star in the drama, which CAA represents for US rights.
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NewsLionsgate UK falls for Mister Smith's Love, Rosie
EXCLUSIVE: Mister Smith has inked the first deal for upcoming rom-com Love, Rosie, set to star Sam Claflin and Lily Collins.
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NewsFinecut bolsters slate ahead of EFM
EXCLUSIVE: Pickups include Hong Sang-soo’s Berlinale Competition title Nobody’s Daughter Haewon.
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NewsKoch takes Red Dawn for UK
EXCLUSIVE: Koch Media inks first saturation release in UK for MGM’s Red Dawn.
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NewsStarting gun fires on Danny Trejo's Bullet
EXCLUSIVE: Shoot underway in Los Angeles on thriller sold in Berlin by SC Films.
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NewsRupert Friend, Ben Mendelsohn locked into prison drama
EXCLUSIVE: Actors join David Mackenzie’s prison drama starring Jack O’Connell; shoot begins Feb 11.
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NewsCourtney Noble joins Goldcrest
EXCLUSIVE: Noble moves from Fortissimo to Goldcrest as head of acquisitions and development.
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NewsStealth Media boards Ben Hopkins' Epic
EXCLUSIVE: Stealth Media Group has come on board to handle international sales for Ben Hopkins’ Epic, now shooting in Georgia.
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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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NewsSalt brings action film Montana and horror Whitaker to EFM
EXCLUSIVE: Shoot on UK action feature Montana starring Lars Mikkelsen due to get underway mid-February; Salt to handle sales.
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NewsCelsius adopts Any Day Now
EXCLUSIVE: UK sales outfit has picked up gay rights drama starring Alan Cumming and Garret Dillahunt.
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NewsMaeck back to Burroughs for Smash The Control Machine
Fatih Akin’s former production partner Klaus Maeck is to revisit the New York of the 1980s for the first project of his new Hamburg-based company Interzone Pictures.
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NewsBombay Berlin brings love triangle to EFM
Indo-German sales company Bombay Berlin Film has picked up Blue Throat Entertainment’s maiden project, the love triangle film Ishq Actually, for the EFM.
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NewsSola Media premieres English version of Nordic hit
Germany’s Sola Media is presenting the English language version of Nils Gaup box-office hit Journey To The Christmas Star in a market at the EFM for the first time.
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NewsRange to direct David Bowie, Iggy Pop biopic
A biopic based around David Bowie and Iggy Pop’s collaboration in 1970s West Berlin is to be directed by Gabriel Range.
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NewsJill Jones among Mister Smith staff additions
David Garrett’s London-based sales outfit Mister Smith has added former Summit and Lionsgate exec Jill Jones as its London and Paris based executive vice president of marketing and publicity.
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NewsExclusive Media, SPWA strike deal over Parkland
President of international Alex Walton announced the company has licensed the JFK drama to Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions (SPWA) for Eastern Europe, Scandinavia, Iceland, Greece, Turkey and Latin America.