Latest Berlin news – Page 209
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NewsFunny Balloons sells Sundance hit Circumstance to France
Hit Sundance title Circumstance (handled in the EFM by Funny Balloons) is continuing to generate buyer buzz following its successful premiere in Park City.
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NewsReel Suspects checks into Club Zeus
Reel Suspects, the new Paris-based sales and coproduction company set up by Matteo Lovadina, has picked up international rights to David Verbeek’s Club Zeus.
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NewsSerbian football hit set for sequel; Soul Food sells original
The sequel to the current Serbian box-office hit Montevideo, Taste of a Dream, is set to begin shooting at original locations in Uruguay from March.
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NewsNiners slate includes Ronin Pop starring ZE:A
Korean sales company also working on Mary, Miss Conspirator and Late Blossom.
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NewsBavaria finds Love with Michael Caine, Sandra Nettelbeck
Bavaria to pre-sell Sandra Nettelbeck’s comedy starring Michael Caine at EFM.
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NewsEmma Watson, Logan Lerman to star in Summit's Wallflower
British starlet Emma Watson has signed on to one of her first post-Harry Potter roles and will star for Summit Entertainment in The Perks Of Being A Wallflower.
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Shoreline has the taste for Berlin entry The Ways Of Wine
Morris Ruskin’s LA-based sales company has picked up worldwide sales rights to The Ways Of Wine (El Camino Del Vino) ahead of its Berlinale premiere.
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NewsParlay boards sales on Bradley Cooper drama The Words
Bradley Cooper will play an author who pays a price for stealing another man’s work in The Words, which Lisa Wilson’s Parlay Films is introducing to buyers at the EFM.
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NewsAktis Films picks up Thome’s Red Room and Adlon re-issue
Aktis Film International has taken on films by two New German Cinema veterans for this year’s European Film Market.
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NewsRelativity signs Spanish output deal with Tripictures
Relativity Media has slotted Spain into its network of international distributors after striking a four-year output deal with Tripictures.
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NewsAmanda Seyfried is Gone for Lakeshore, Sierra / Affinity
Amanda Seyfried will star in Lakeshore Entertainment and Sidney Kimmel Entertainment’s thriller which Lakeshore International and Sierra / Affinity will commence selling jointly at the EFM.
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NewsSerbian, Slovenian box office hits coming to EFM
Miha Hocevar’s Going Our Way, the highest local grosser ever in Slovenia, and Dragan Bjelogrlic’s Montevideo, Taste Of A Dream, the highest local grosser in Serbia since 2005, will be sold at the European Film Market in Berlin.
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NewsFineCut has busy pre-EFM sales
Korean sales agent FineCut has sold the recent Rotterdam Tiger Award co-winner The Journals Of Musan to Star Sands for Japan and S.N.R.T. for Morroco TV.
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NewsTrinity to distribute Red, White & Blue in UK
The UK distributor has picked up rights to Simon Rumley’s thriller from Celluloid Nightmares.
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NewsEaling turns a page with New York Times documentary
Ealing Studios International takes rights to Andrew Rossi documentary.
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NewsSPWA, Samuel Goldwyn take US rights to A Good Old Fashioned Orgy
Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions (SPWA) and Samuel Goldwyn Films have jointly acquired US rights on the ensemble comedy A Good Old Fashioned Orgy.
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State Minister for Culture Neumann throws weight behind incentive extension
On the eve of this year’s Berlinale, State Minister for Culture Bernd Neumann has signalled his support for further extension of the German Federal Film Fund (DFFF) incentive programme.
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NewsDistribution Workshop boards The Flying Machine
The Hong Kong sales firm has acquired rest of world sales rights together with BreakThru Films.
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NewsFilm Commission talks planned during Berlinale
Olsberg SPI, the Sweden Film Commission and the Association of Film Commissions International (AFCI) are planning a conference during the Berlinale about the opportunities and challenges facing film commissions.