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Berlin news – Page 139
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NewsMatch Factory raises sales on Submarino
The Match Factory has closed a raft of deals for key territories on Thomas Vinterberg’s Submarino, which screened in competition here in Berlin.
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NewsPinewood, Studio Hamburg form joint venture
Pinewood Studios and Studio Hamburg have launched a joint venture to encourage European and international film-makers to shoot in Germany.
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Travel ban forced Panahi to stay home
Iranian film-maker Jafar Panahi has fallen victim to the travel ban imposed by president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s regime
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NewsRumours abound on next fund chief
The German film industry rumour-mill has gone into overdrive during the Berlinale over who will replace Filmstiftung NRW chief Michael Schmid-Ospach when he departs in April.
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NewsStudioCanal enjoys bumper EFM
StudioCanal has enjoyed a bumper EFM. Since selling The Last Exorcism (formerly known as Cotton) to Lionsgate for the US last week, the French major has racked up multiple major deals on its eclectic slate.
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BBC, AL under starter’s orders on Coe/Ovett pic
Sebastian Coe and Steve Ovett, one of the great athletics rivalries of the 1980s, are coming to the big screen in time for the London 2012 Olympic Games.
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Bittersuess lines up Love, Run Boy Run and Santiago
Berlin-based Bittersuess Pictures is lining up new films by directors Christian Alvart, Pepe Danquart and Christian Schwochow.
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NewsRedgrave In Ruins for Keiller
Vanessa Redgrave has signed on as Narrator for Robinson In Ruins, the long-awaited follow-up to Patrick Keiller’s celebrated 1990s films London and Robinson In Space.
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NewsTrust’s hot Revenge
Scandinavian sales powerhouse TrustNordisk has revealed details of more EFM deals. The Revenge, directed by Susanne Bier (pictured), has gone to Spain (Golem) and Poland (Vivarto)
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Pyramide International knows what buyers want
Pyramide International has closed several deals for Italian director Silvio Soldini’s eighth feature What More Do I Want (Cosa Voglio Di Piu), which had its world premiere in the Berlinale Special section.
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Perfect Circle signs up to Blind Spot werewolf picture
Vancouver’s Perfect Circle Productions has boarded AJ Annila’s new project Human as co-producers with Blind Spot Pictures.
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Europe should stop looking to US, says panel on indie film finance
Oscar-nominated producer Nicolas Chartier, whose Voltage Pictures was behind The Hurt Locker, has issued a stark warning that old models of financing independent films no longer work
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NewsFilm Depot snaps up Exorcism, Pyramids doc
Sergei Yershov’s Los Angeles-based Film Depot, which specialises in distribution in Russia and the CIS states, has snapped up rights to a raft of films at EFM.
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NewsMicro-budget UK horror sells to Japan, Germany
The film, which marks the debut of Welsh film-maker Marc Price, has sold to Eden Entertainment for Japan, and to MIG Film for German-speaking territories.Left is also negotiating the more substantial financing for Price’s next movie Thunderchild, a war/horror feature which will shoot in June and is being produced by ...
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NewsTreasure trove of sales for Double Edge
Taiwan-based Double Edge Entertainment has announced today a cluster of European and Asian sales, all closed at the European Film Market, on The Treasure Hunter (pictured).
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Independent, Mogador team on erotic thriller
Independent Partners Films and Mogador Films have announced plans to collaborate on a second erotic arthouse film. Rolf Peter Kahl will direct The Lost Love, and Melanie Kretschmann (Blutsfreundschaft) is already attached to star.
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NewsScreen At The Berlin Film Festival
Missed out on a daily? Catch up here with the digital edition.
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NewsMemento does brisk sales on Puzzle, Woman In The Fifth
Memento has done a roaring trade on its Berlinale slate.
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NewsStrickland Sounds out horror flick
Multi award-winning director Peter Strickland, who was in Berlin competition last year with Katalina Varga(pictured), is plotting a new Italy-set horror film.
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NewsTaxi for von Trier?
It was a meeting of heavyweights. Over the weekend, Martin Scorsese and Lars von Trier came face to face here in Berlin.