![Benjamin Kramer Headshot Photo Credit_CAA[40][40]](https://d1nslcd7m2225b.cloudfront.net/Pictures/274x183/6/6/4/1455664_benjaminkramerheadshotphotocredit_caa4040_107707.jpeg)
All Sales articles – Page 543
-
News
Blindsight continues to see sales for Little Film Company
Little Film Company has concluded major territory sales at the European Film Market to Robson Entertainment's documentary Blindsight.The film, which won the Panorama Audience Award at the Berlin International Film Festival, sold to TAO Cinemathek (Germany), Phantom Films (Japan), Conquest Films (Brazil), and Quality Films (Mexico).Rights also went to Svensk ...
-
News
Dogwoof strikes UK deal for Dv8's Bunny Chow
UK distributor Dogwoof Pictures has taken UK rights to Dv8's South African comedy Bunny Chow. John Barker's comedy world premiered in Toronto and recently had its European premiere in Rotterdam 's Tiger Competition. The film is on release in South Africa from March 9, after already taking best actor and ...
-
News
Sony, SND/M6, Tele Muenchen among buyers of Marvel films
Marvel Studios has announced a series of international deals on Iron Man and The Incredible Hulk, the first two films which it is self-financing through its recent $525m credit facility from Merrill Lynch.Sony Pictures has acquired distribution rights to both films in Japan and Spain, SND/M6 has taken them for ...
-
News
Germany breaks 100m barrier for DVD sales
Annual DVD unit sales in Germanypassed the 100 million mark for the first time last year, according to statistics prepared by the GfK market research institute for the home entertainment industry body BVV.A total of 100.7m units were sold in 2006, up from 98.7m in 2005, with record sales in ...
-
News
Shindo to have world premiere at Hong Kong Filmart
The Tokyo International Film Festival has arranged to hold the world premiere of Koji Hagiuda's Shindo (translation: Prodigy) at this year's Hong Kong Filmart on March 21. The Tokyo fest and its attendant TIFFCOM market, which are held in October, have been using Filmart as a launch pad in recent ...
-
News
The Match Factoryannounces deals on Berlin competitor Yella
Christian Petzold's Berlin Competition film Yella, which won a Silver Bear for lead actress Nina Hoss, has been sold by The Match Factory to six territories, with further deals in the offing with distributors in the US and Scandinavia, among others.Sales on the Schramm Film production were completed in Berlin ...
-
News
European Film Market: The Deals
EFM Deals2 Days In Paris dir: Julie Delpy (Rezo International)The Works (UK)Alexandra dir: Alexander Sokurov(Rezo International)Arthouse Movies (Latin America) Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens (Fortissimo Films)Haut et Court (France), Lucky Red (Italy) Ashes of Time Redux dir: Wong Kar-wai(Fortissimo Films)Vertigo (Spain), BIM (Italy), A Films (Benelux), Proobtoki (Greece) United ...
-
News
Four Last Songs to play out Malaga festival
UK directorFrancesca Joseph's Four Last Songs will close the 10th annual edition of the Spanish Film Festival of Malaga(March 9-17).The film, aSpanish co-production which shot in Mallorca, stars Stanley Tucci, with Rhys Ifans, HughBonneville and Marisa Paredes. It's the story of an American pianist ofmediocre talents whose efforts to organise ...
-
News
Golden Bear winner finds new buyers
Korean sales agent Cineclick Asia has closed EFM wrap-up deals for Golden Bear winner Tuya's Marriage to Maywin Media for the ex-CIS territories and Arsenal for Germany.Wang Quan'an's third feature, the film portrays a Mongolian woman in search of a new groom who will take care of her family - ...
-
News
Gaumont strikes US deal for Fidel with Koch Lorber and Red Envelope
France 's Gaumont has announced the sale of Prix Michel d'Ornano winner and Sundance entry Blame It On Fidel to Koch Lorber in the US. The film, directed by Julie Gavras, will go out in the second quarter of 2007 in NY and LA followed by a wider release. Koch ...
-
News
Seville clocks up Berlin deals on Poor Boy's Game
Seville International has closed multiple sales on Clement Virgo's Berlin Panorama entry Poor Boy's Game starring Danny Glover, Rossif Sutherland and Laura Regan. Tot Media bought the film for Spain, CCV for Scandinavia, All Interactive Distribution for Australia, Epelpol for Poland, Video Filmes for Brazil, Teleview International for the Middle ...
-
News
AV Pictures closes Berlin deals on Black Water and Daylight Robbery
London-based sales company AV Pictures finished this year's EFM with a slew of deals on several films in its slate. Australian crocodile thriller Black Water sold to 11 territories including Presidio Film in Japan, FEG in Benelux and Notro Films in Spain. Andrew Traucki and David Nerlich are directing and ...
-
News
Ascot Elite takes German-speaking rights to Shrooms
Switzerland 's Ascot Elite has bought rights to all German-speaking territories for Paddy Breathnach's horror thriller Shrooms. Capitol Films closed the deal after a bidding war during Berlin's European Film Market. Capitol's head of sales James Norrie and Ascot Elite COO Stephan Giger negotiated the deal. Shroomsstars Lindsay Haun and ...
-
News
Bavaria seals deals on Competition films and market titles
Bavaria Film International has closed a slew of deals on Jiri Menzel's I Served The King Of England ahead of its international premiere in the Berlinale competition this afternoon. The adaptation of Bohumil Hrabal's novel starring Ivan Barnev, Oldrich Kaiser, and Julia Jentsch was sold to Distribution Company (Argentina, Chile, ...
-
News
Sony Classics gets North American rights for The Children Of Huang Shi
Sony Pictures Classics has taken North American rights to Roger Spottiswoode's The Children Of Huang Shi. The epic tale is set in war-ravaged China in 1938. Production on the project ends today in Shanghai, with a cast including Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Radha Mitchell, Chow Yun-Fat and Michelle Yeoh. Arthur Cohn ...
-
News
Delpy's latest sparks sales boom for Rezo
The Works UK Distribution has taken UK rights on Julie Delpy's Two Days In Paris, one of the buzz titles in this year's Berlinale. The film, which screened as a Panorama special, stars Delpy, Adam Goldberg and Daniel Bruhl. It's about a New York-based couple on holiday in Europe, trying ...
-
News
Fortissimo enjoys documentary sales
Fortissimo Films has seen a healthy first market for its documentary Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens. The film sold to Haut et Court for France and Lucky Red for Italy, with deals to Germany, Japan, Australia and Benelux pending. 'Berlin is always a good market for us. We've done ...
-
News
Wolfe takes Shelter for US from Wide
Loic Magneron's Wide Manaagement has closed a slew of deals as the EFMwinds down, including a US deal on Marco Simon Puccioni's Italian Panorama entry, Shelter.The film, about two young Italian women who find a Moroccan immigrant hiding in their car, has sold to Wolfe Releasing. The film stars Portuguese ...
-
News
NonStop sells Mikkelsen-starrer Exit to France, Germany
Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen's performance as Le Chiffre in Casino Royale, and his role in Danish director Susanne Bier's Oscar-nominated After the Wedding, have certainly added to his international bankability, per ceo of Stockholm-based NonStop Sales, Michael Werner.Swedish director Peter Lindmark's Mikkelsen starrer, Exit, has now sold German-speaking countries (Galileo ...
-
News
Mandate takes Passengers overseas at EFM
Los Angeles-based production and sales company Mandate Pictures has reported brisk business on the drama Passengers starring Anne Hathaway and Patrick Wilson, which started production in Vancouver three weeks ago.Rights have gone to RTL Universum (Germany), Toshiba (Japan), Cinevideo (Mexico), Dea Planeta (Spain), I Vision (South Korea), West (CIS), Conquest ...