Berlin news – Page 142

  • News

    Buyers to meet Hoff's Ninja

    2010-02-14T05:00:00Z

    CJ Entertainment will be introducing buyers to Dancing Ninja, starring David Hasselhoff and HIgh School Musical’s Luke Grabeel.

  • Olivier Pere
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    Locarno unmoved by Sarajevo date change

    2010-02-14T04:58:00Z

    The Locarno International Film Festival is not flustered by the Sarajevo Film Festival’s decision to bring its 16th edition forward a week to July 23-31, according to Locarno’s industry office chief Nadia Dresti.

  • Rasmus Krogh
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    NFD commits to local film with new hires

    2010-02-14T04:57:00Z

    Nordisk Film Distribution (NFD) has appointed Lone Korslund as head of co-productions, and Rasmus Krogh as its new local film buyer.

  • The Secret In Their Eyes
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    Campanella’s Eyes still attractive

    2010-02-14T04:57:00Z

    Spanish sales agency Latido has sold Juan Jose Campanella’s The Secret In Their Eyes to Filmware International for Taiwan and is in advanced negotiations for Japan, Germany and Switzerland.

  • Roberto Cicutto
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    Rome on collision course with AFM

    2010-02-14T04:56:00Z

    The fifth edition of the International Rome Film Festival is set to clash with the American Film Market.

  • News

    Imagina takes on Leon de Aranoa’s Amador

    2010-02-14T04:52:00Z

    Imagina is handling international sales on Amador, the new film from critics’ darling Fernando Leon de Aranoa.

  • News

    Oscilloscope goes Bananas for Gertten

    2010-02-14T04:50:00Z

    Oscilloscope has snapped up US rights to Bananas!*, directed by Sweden’s Fredrik Gertten, who also executive produced.

  • Gary Coleman
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    Forward Motion pitches Midgets Vs Mascots

    2010-02-14T04:50:00Z

    Toronto-based Forward Motion has acquired international sales on the Gary Coleman (pictured) comedy Midgets Vs Mascots, one of several new titles on its slate.

  • Jiang Yiyan
    News

    I Phone You engages Kohlhaase

    2010-02-14T04:50:00Z

    Wolfgang Kohlhaase (Summer In Berlin), winner of this year’s honorary Golden Bear, is attached as screenwriter to the Chinese-German culture-clash comedy I Phone You (working title).

  • Petri Kotwica
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    Allfilm boards Screen best pitch title Rat King

    2010-02-14T04:24:00Z

    Estonia’s Allfilm will co-produce Petri Kotwica’s third feature Rat King, which received the Screen International Best Pitch Award at Tallinn’s Baltic Event Co-Production Market last December.

  • Leighton Meester
    News

    ContentFilm snares The Uncatchable Cowgirl Bandits

    2010-02-13T17:30:00Z

    ContentFilm International has taken worldwide rights to The Uncatchable Cowgirl Bandits Of Nottingham, Texas from director Jess Manafort and writer Michael Tabb.

  • Bodyguard And Assassins
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    We Distribution closes deals on Bodyguards And Assassins

    2010-02-13T17:23:00Z

    World sales outfit We Distribution has closed deals for the $23 million budget Peter Chan produced Bodyguards And Assassins. Metropolitan took France and TMC took Turkey.

  • Irvine Welsh
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    Irvine Welsh to direct The Magnificant Eleven

    2010-02-13T17:15:00Z

    Trainspotting novelist Irvine Welsh will direct gritty UK comedy The Magnificent Eleven, a modern-day version of the classic 1960 western The Magnificent Seven in which the Cowboys are a local amateur soccer team, the Indians run a nearby Tandoori restaurant and the bandits are a group of menacing thugs run ...

  • Danny Dyer
    News

    Metrodome joins industry spoof

    2010-02-13T08:26:00Z

    On the opening day of the 2010 European Film Market, UK distributor Metrdome picked up film industry mockumentary Just For The Record

  • News

    Peace Arch adopts Offspring

    2010-02-13T05:53:00Z

    Peace Arch has acquired international sales rights to Moderncine’s Offspring: The Woman based on Jack Ketchum and Lucky McKee’s upcoming horror novel.

  • Bait 3D
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    Singapore’s MDA takes Bait

    2010-02-13T05:00:00Z

    Arclight Films has slotted financing into place on its upcoming shark-attack film Bait 3D, in the first official Australia-Singapore project since the countries signed a co-production treaty in 2007.

  • Sergei Bodrov
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    Bodrov in town to outline plans for Mongol sequel

    2010-02-13T05:00:00Z

    Russian writer-director-producer Sergei Bodrov will be in Berlin on Sunday to unveil his upcoming directing and production slate, including The Great Khan, the anticipated sequel to his Oscar-nominated 2007 film, Mongol.

  • White Lightnin
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    F&ME embarks on biggest project yet

    2010-02-13T05:00:00Z

    Film and Music Entertainment (F&ME), the London-based feature film production outfit led by Mike Downey and Sam Taylor, is embarking on its biggest project yet.

  • Aki Kaurismaki
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    Kaurismaki to make new movie in France

    2010-02-13T05:00:00Z

    Finnish maverick Aki Kaurismaki is hatching a new movie in France called Le Havre. The film, a dramatic comedy about “a shoeblack who tries to save a refugee” has received script development funding from The Finnish Film Foundation.  

  • Terribly Happy
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    Genz plots Terribly Happy English language remake

    2010-02-13T05:00:00Z

    Henrik Ruben Genz is in talks to direct a $10-15m English language remake of his award winning Danish Oscar submission Terribly Happy.