All EFM articles – Page 144

  • David Linde
    News

    Independents step up to Hollywood funding crisis

    2010-02-14T05:00:00Z

    The crisis in the Hollywood studio system could signal a major upturn for the independent production and finance business, key players are hinting in Berlin.

  • Ulrich Thomsen
    News

    Thomsen reveals Embryonic directing career

    2010-02-14T05:00:00Z

    Danish star Ulrich Thomsen is moving behind the camera and is presenting his directorial debut, In Embryo, at Berlin’s Co-Production Market.

  • 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.

  • News

    Shoreline Entertainment hits The Last Beat

    2010-02-14T05:00:00Z

    Morris Ruskin’s Los Angeles-based Shoreline Entertainment has taken international rights to Gustave Reininger’s documentary Corso: The Last Beat.

  • Shank
    News

    AV sells Shank for France, Germany

    2010-02-14T05:00:00Z

    AV Pictures has closed two major territory deals on urban action title Shank, with Wild Side taking France and Ascot Elite handling Germany. Further sales have also been closed with Benelux (Moviebank) and the Middle East (Falcon).

  • 14 Blades
    News

    Easternlight cuts deals on 14 Blades

    2010-02-14T05:00:00Z

    Easternlight Films has closed key territories on the Chinese revenge tale 14 Blades, which has raced to more than $8.7m in its first four days at the Chinese box office.

  • Olivier Pere
    News

    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.

  • The Secret In Their Eyes
    News

    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
    News

    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.

  • Gary Coleman
    News

    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).

  • 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.

  • Petri Kotwica
    News

    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
    News

    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
    News

    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.

  • Aki Kaurismaki
    News

    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.