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Berlin news – Page 159
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Sundance hit The Escapist breaks out to Australia, Europe
Rupert Wyatt's Sundance selection The Escapist has been sold to several key territories.Deals have been done for Australia (Rialto), Scandinavia (Sandrew Metrodome) and Europe's IndieCircle (Lucky Red in Italy, Haut et Court in France, Cineart in Benelux, and Frenetic in Switzerland.)Mirjam Wertheim negotiated the deal for Orange Entertainment (on behalf ...
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First Hand shakes on Corridor #8, Brides Of Allah
Zurich/Berlin-based sales agent First Hand Films has picked up international rights for two documentaries which will be having their world premieres in the International Forum of this year's Berlinale.Esther van Messel's company will be handling sales for Bulgarian filmmaker Boris Despodov's directorial debut Corridor #8 about the European Union-backed project ...
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Memento's EFM slate includes Laurent Cantet's The Class
France's Memento Films has taken on international sales on Laurent Cantet's The Class. The film is currently in post-production and is scheduled for delivery in May.The Class is Cantet's adaptation of best-selling novel Entre Les Murs about a young high-school teacher in a rough Parisian neighborhood who doesn't hesitate to ...
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IFC loads up with Sundance double winner Ballast
IFC has picked up North American rights to Lance Hammer's Mississippi Delta-set drama Ballast, which screens in competition in Berlin and won the best director and cinematographer awards at Sundance last month following an enthusiastic reception by critics.Vice president of acquisitions and production Arianna Bocco negotiated the deal with William ...
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K5 International takes on Wonderful World starring Broderick
UK- and Germany-based sales company K5 International has taken on sales (outside North America) to Joshua Goldin's debut feature Wonderful World.Matthew Broderick and Sanaa Lathan star in this comic fable about 'the most negative man in the world.' Ben is forever fighting 'The Man' until he is inspired by the ...
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THINKFilm Intl boards Blue Valentine with Gosling, Williams
THINKFilm International has come on board to sell international rights to Blue Valentine, which will star Oscar nominees Michelle Williams and Ryan Gosling.THINKFilm will introduce the film to buyers at Berlin's European Film Market next week. The project is set to shoot in June 2008.US-based sister company THINKFilm will handle ...
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Match Factory takes on Chiko, Revanche, LoveAnd Other Crimes
Cologne/Munich-based sales agent The Match Factory will be handling international sales for three world premieres in the Berlinale's Panorama Special section next week.The first of the trio is Hamburg-born Oezguer Yildirim's feature debut Chiko which premieres Feb 9 in the Zoo Palast.The no holds-barred story about a wannabe drug boss ...
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Wild Bunch's EFM offerings include James Gray's Two Lovers
Wild Bunch has addednew films from James Gray, Darren Aronofsky, Marco Tullio Giordana and Rintaro, among others, to its slate ahead of Berlin's European Film Market.Gray's Two Lovers reunites the director with Joaquin Phoenix and also stars Gwyneth Paltrow, Vanessa Shaw and Isabella Rossellini. The romantic drama is produced by ...
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World premiere of Golzow finale selected for Berlinale Forum
The 19th and final part of Winfried and Barbara Junge's monumental Children Of Golzow chronicle, ...they're living happily ever after. The Children of Golzow, is one of four world premieres being shown as Special Screenings in this year's Forum programme of the Berlinale.The Junges' longest-lasting observation in film history - ...
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Panorama adds documentaries including Isaac Julien's Derek
The Berlinale's Panorama section has completed its 2008 lineup by announcing the 18 new films selected for the documentary strand Panorama Dokumente. This last slew of films includes Isaac Julien's portrait of the late film-makerDerek Jarman in Derek; director-producer Dror Moreh's documentary Sharon on the former Israeli prime-minister Ariel Sharon, ...
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EFM German showcase includes market premiere of Love Life
Fatih Akin's The Edge Of Heaven and Hans Weingartner's Reclaim Your Brain are among 17 titles selected by programmer Heinz Badewitz to screen in the European Film Market's German Cinema showcase.The 2008 lineup, which is targeted primarily at accredited distributors, buyers, journalists, and programmers from festivals and cultural institutions, also ...
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Berlinale Special adds films by Gitai, Staho and Grube
New films by Amos Gitai, Simon Staho and Thomas Grube are among the 12 projects seelcted for the Berlinale Special sidebar, which is part of the festival's official programme alongside the Competition.Staho's Heaven's Heart, starring Mikael Persbrandt, Lena Endre, Jakob Eklund and Maria Lundquist, is an intimate psychological drama between ...
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Berlinaleadds world premieres including The Other Boleyn Girl
World premieres of Justin Chadwick's The Other Boleyn Girl, starring Natalie Portman, Scarlett Johansson, Eric Bana, Dennis Lee's Fireflies In The Garden, with Julia Roberts and Willem Dafoe, and Iranian filmmaker Majid Majidi's The Song Of Sparrows are among the last eight Competition titles to be confirmed.The latest additions also ...
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Odyssey's slate includes Hornby and Scherfig's An Education
Odyssey Entertainment has announced details on a number of high-profile titles on its sales slate ahead of Berlin's European Film Market.The titles are: Lone Scherfig's An Education; John Crowley's Is There Anybody There'; Stephan Elliot's Easy Virtue;and Andy Cadiff's A Bunch of Amateurs.An Education, in pre-production, will star Peter Sarsgaard, ...
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Films by Doillon and Emigholz now confirmed for Berlinale Forum
New films by Jacques Doillon, Heinz Emigholz, and Benjamin Gilmour are among the Berlinale's Forum main programme of 36 films.Reflecting a trend seen elsewhere in this year's Berlinale programme, the Forum selectors have identified 'a conspicuous number' of films adopting the perspective of children and young people - 'in a ...
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Ealing takes on sales for Eyre's new drama The Other Man
Richard Eyre is set to start principal photography on his new dramaThe Other Man starting Feb 14.Ealing Studios International will handle international sales.The drama will star Liam Neeson, Antonio Banderas, Laura Linney and Romola Garai.Eyre will also produce with Tracey Scoffield, Frank Doelger and Michael Dreyer for Rainmark Films. David ...
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Berlinale Panorama adds titles from Arsenijevic, Kragh-Jacobsen
The Berlinale's Panorama programme has confirmed world premieres of new features by Denmark's Soren Kragh-Jacobsen (What No One Knows), Austria's Goetz Spielmann (Revanche), South Africa's Ralph Ziman (Jerusalema), and Serbia's Stefan Arsenijevic (Love And Other Crimes) among its latest raft of announced titles.Expectations are running high for Arsenijevic's feature debut ...
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Leigh, Szabo, and Daldry lined up for Berlinale Talent Campus
Directors Mike Leigh, Istvan Szabo, and Stephen Daldry, actress Martina Gedeck and producer Bernd Eichinger are among 120 international experts speaking at the sixth Berlinale Talent Campus which be held between Feb 9-14. This year, the Talent Campus will be cooperating with the Federal Foreign Office and the World Cinema ...
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Trust and Nordisk to launch new joint sales operation in Berlin
Leading Scandinavian sales outfits, Trust Film Sales and Nordisk Film International Sales, will set up a joint sales operation, to be launched at the upcoming European Film Market during the Berlinale.Both companies have reserved stands at the market, but since they are next to each other, they will simply knock ...
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Berlin's Perspektive Deutsches Kino to include Randl's debut
The Berlinale's Perspektive Deutsches Kino sidebar has now finalised its 2008 programme with five feature films, four documentaries and four short films.The remaining six films to be confirmed include Lola Randl's feature debut In Between Days which was produced by Herbert Schwering's Coin Film as part of public broadcaster WDR ...