All articles by Geoffrey Macnab – Page 148
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Other Angle collars Bambou
New Paris-based sales outfit Other Angles Pictures has added a new title to its inaugural EFM slate, the company is to handle world rights on Didier Bourdon's new feature Bambou.Bambou stars Didier Bourdon, Anne Consigny, Pierre Arditi and Eddy Mitchell. The film is about a bank worker and his piano ...
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Negativ gets animated with Alois Nebel
Czech production outfit Negativ is venturing into feature length animation with a film version of cult graphic novel Alois Nebel, by Jaroslaw Rudis and Jaromir 99. Tomas Lunak has signed on to direct. The project, which was presented at last month's Rotterdam CineMart, has now been picked up by The ...
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3D fails to fly, says Stassen
nWave Pictures' Ben Stassen, who produced 3D feature Fly Me To The Moon, is warning that the 3D revolution has failed to materialize. While 3D films are being made and released in abundance, Stassen argues that the industry is now in 'a much longer transition phase than anybody had hoped ...
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Filmmuseum ramps up acquisition business
Amsterdam's Filmmuseum has taken Dutch rights to a slew of films led by Kelly Reichardt's Wendy and Lucy sold by Memento, Edwin's Blind Pig Who Wants To Fly which premiered in Rotterdam last month, and Swiss master's Peter Liechti's The Sounds Of Insects - Record Of A Mummy. They follow ...
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Arrow Cuts Loose with Verheyen
Canadian outfit Arrow Entertainment has taken world rights excluding Benelux to Cut Loose, from the prolific Flemish director Jan Verheyen. Cut Loose was produced by the team behind Flemish hits The Alzheimer Case and Ben X. Based on the best-selling novel by Tom Naegels, the film is about a crusading ...
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Dragon Tattoo set for European rollout, English version
In Berlin this weekend, Yellow Bird's Soren Staermose has revealed further details of the hugely ambitious roll-out plans for the film of Stieg Larsson's world bestseller The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, sold here by Zodiak International. The film will be released theatrically in late February in Sweden and Denmark, ...
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Noble snaps up Nine, Expendables
Aggressive Scandinavian distributor Noble Entertainment has taken Scandinavian rights for Rob Marshall's Nine from The Weinstein Company.The film, currently shooting in London and Rome, opens in the US in December, and the Swedish release will follow in January or February 2010. The cast includes Daniel Day-Lewis, Nicole Kidman, Penelope Cruz ...
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KWA adds four to slate
Madrid-based Kevin Williams Associates has picked up Albert Arizza’s thriller Ramirez about a lonely young night stalker and drug dealer, preying on young women he can pick up and seduce.KWA has also acquired Mexican drama Limbo, about a 12-year-old gay boy who suffers an accident and goes to limbo, a ...
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Umedia has Double Take, enlists Rachel
Attending the EFM for the second time, French outfit Umedia (Urban Media International) has come on board as international sales agent on artist and filmmaker Johan Grimonprez's provocative new feature, Double Take. The film, screening in Berlin's Forum, is a satirical, self-reflexive drama about Alfred Hitchcock, the Cold War, catastrophe ...
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Thoretton plots YSL art auction doc
The story of legendary French fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent and his partner Berge's life together is to be told on screen in a new film produced by Films Du Lendemain, the outfit co-founded by billionaire Francois Pinault, the owner of Christie's.Love, Art and Ethics, as the feature documentary is ...
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Fallon partners on ambitious Auteurs
London-based advertising agency Fallon has come on board as a partner, as ambitious online movie venue/internet distribution platform The Auteurs to develop branding and sponsorship opportinities.Entrepreneur Efe Cakarel and Celluloid Dreams boss Hengameh Panahi made the announcement here and Fallon joins an impressive group of partners among them the Criterion ...
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Cineart goes on pre-Berlin buying spree
Benelux distributor Cineart/Cinelibre has picked up three titles in official selection in Berlin: Francois Ozon's competition entry Ricky from Le Pacte, Simone Bitton's Forum documentary Rachel from UMedia and Philippe Lioret's Panorama title Welcome sold by Films Distribution. Cineart/Cinelibre has also been busy pre-buying. It has now snapped up Ken ...
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Celluloid to handle sales on Philip Seymour Hoffman's directorial debut
Celluloid Dreams has signed on to handle international sales of Philip Seymour Hoffman’s directorial debut,Jack Goes Boating,billed as an unconventional romantic comedy.
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Pathe seals deals on Frears' Cheri with Lumiere, Nordisk
On the eve of EFM, Pathe International announced deals on two major territories for Stephen Frears' Cheri which screens in competition here on Feb 10. Lumiere has taken the film for Benelux and Nordisk for Scandinavia.The film, written by Christopher Hampton from Colette's novel stars Michelle Pfeiffer, Rupert Friend, Felicity ...
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Wide gives Hand to Strand for US
French sales outfit Wide Management has announced a raft of new sales on its new slate including Give Me Your Hand and Ah! The Libido. Pascal Alex-Vincent's Give Me Your Hand has been taken by Strand Releasing for the US and by Peccadillo Pictures for the UK. Meanwhile, Michel Rosier'comedy ...
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Autlook takes world on Panorama doc War + Love
Vienna-based sales outfit Autlook has swooped to take world rights on Berlinale Panorama entry War + Love in Kabul directed by Helga Reidemeister. 'This is an incredible Romeo and Juliet drama that feels like fiction, a very intimate love story in a country that only knows war...' Autlook's managing-director Peter ...
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Thai master Weerasethakul lines up Uncle Boonmee
Thai master Apichatpong Weerasethakul, who has won multiple prizes for previous films like Syndromes And A Century, Blissfully Yours and Tropical Malady, is preparing Uncle Boonmee: A Man Who Can Recall His Past Lives, which will be handled internationally by The Match Factory. It is being produced by London-based Illuminations ...
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Yes Men land at Rezo
The Yes Men are back in town and they're promising to wreak mischief in Berlin. New film from the merry pranksters The Yes Men Fix The World, which screened at Sundance and is opening this year's Berlin Panorama, has been picked up for international sales by Rezo. Directed by Andy ...
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Dean Spanley goes to US with Miramax
Miramax Films has taken US rights to Toa Fraser' much feted comedy-drama Dean Spanley starring Sam Neill, Jeremy Northam and Peter O'Toole. The UK/New Zealand coproduction, which screened at the Toronto, London and Pusan festivals last year, was produced by Matthew Metcalfe and Alan Harris, with David Parfitt, Finola Dwyer, ...
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Loveridge launches Meridiana with first slate
Industry veteran Helen Loveridge, who co-founded Fortissimo Film Sales, has announced details of her new, London-based sales outfit, Meridiana Films. 'This is my first active market,' Loveridge commented. 'I will be starting slowly, looking to build up as we did with Fortissimo.' The company will be handling both dramatic features ...