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All articles by Geoffrey Macnab – Page 173
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Lucky Red buys two from Trust including Trier horror
Lucky Red has pre-bought the Italian distribution rights to Lars Von Trier's first horror film Antichrist as well another film from Trust Film Sales - How To Get Rid Of The Others by Anders Rønnow Klarlund. Trier is enjoying something of a renaissance in Italy. His last film The Boss ...
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Tartan, Prokino among buyers wooing Chaotic Ana
Julio Medem''s Chaotic Ana is stirring buyers'' juices. Early in the EFM, Sogepaq has closed deals on a number of major territories. The film has gone to the UK (Tartan), Germany and Austria (Prokino), Benelux (Cineart and A-Film) and Greece and Cyprus (Prooptiki).Starring Manuela Velles and Charlotte Rampling, the $6.5 ...
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Aku Louhimies back on his feet with She-Wolf
Finnish director Aku Louhimies is is pushing ahead with his next project, She-Wolf, putting controversy over his last film behind him.Produced by Aleksi Bardy of Helsinki Film, the new film begins shootingin April. Based on a novel by Leena Lander, it is a love story set inthe Finnish civil war. ...
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Lovers, Lies And Thieves resurrected by Girard
Lovers, Lies And Thieves - a comedy caper whichfell apart five weeks into pre-production in 2001 - is back on themarket courtesy of Arsam International's Illann Girard, producer ofBerlinale competition entry Goodybe Bafana and executive producer ofMarch Of The Penguins. The project is a comic take on the true story ...
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Israel's The Bubble picked up by Strand
Strand Releasing has snapped up US rights to Israeli director Eytan Fox's Panorama title, The Bubble, it was confirmed this week. The deal was negotiated between Jon Gerrans of Strand Releasing and Pierre Menahem of Scalpel Films. Strand Releasing plans an August opening for the film across the US. The ...
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The Escapist starts shoot with Brian Cox and Joseph Fiennes
Rupert Wyatt's debut feature The Escapist has begun filming in Dublin with a sterling cast of British and Irish character actors and stars. The prison escape drama features, among others, Brian Cox, Joseph Fiennes, Liam Cunningham, Seu Jorge, Dominic Cooper, Stephen Macintosh and Damian Lewis. Goalpost Films is handling international ...
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Celluloid Dreams acquires Emotional Arithmetic
Celluloid Dreams has acquired international rights to Emotional Arithmetic, it was announced today (Friday) in Berlin. The movie, produced by Triptych Media and BBR Productions, directed by Paolo Barzman and starring Susan Sarandon, Christopher Plummer, Gabriel Byrne, Roy Dupuis and Max von Sydow is currently in post-production.Acquisitions and sales executive ...
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Trust ramps up international sales with Bier, Troell films
Oscar-nominated Danish director Susanne Bier (After The Wedding) is to make an international drama about a Holocaust survivor. Julius - the project's working title - is about a former prisoner at notorious death camp KZ who moves to Israel. Here, his past eventually catches up with him. The producer of ...
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Thinking outside the box office - the future of UK independents -
These are turbulent times for independent distribution in the UK. The British market may be the third most valuable in the world after the US and Japan, but with 450 films released every year, there is a fear the territory is beginning to suffer from over-supply.On top of that, takeover ...
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Rai Trade's Caravaggio heads to Japan with Tokyo Theatres
On the eve of the European Film Market in Berlin, Rai Trade has announced an eyecatching Japanese deal on its new title, Angelo Longoni's Caravaggio. On the basis of the rushes, Tokyo Theatres have picked up all rights to the biopic, which tells the story of the troubled but brilliant ...
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Odeon and Sky Filmworks strike first deal for UK rights to Kenny
Odeon and Sky Filmworks, the new joint venture between broadcaster Sky and UK exhibitor Odeon, has announced details of its first acquisition. The company's debut release in UK theatres will be Australian hit comedy Kenny, a mockumentary about an employee in a company that rents toilets for big events. 'It ...
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Paul Trijbits joins Alison Owen's production company Ruby Films
Paul Trijbits, whose six-year stint as head of the UK Film Council's New Cinema Fund ended last autumn, has joined Alison Owen's London-based Ruby Films. Full details of Tribijts' role at Ruby are yet to be confirmed, but it is expected that he will be active in acquiring and executive ...
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Paul Trijbits joins Alison Owen's production company Ruby Films
Paul Trijbits, whose six-year stint as head of the UK Film Council's New Cinema Fund ended last autumn, has joined Alison Owen's London-based Ruby Films. Full details of Tribijts' role at Ruby are yet to be confirmed, but it is expected that he will be active in acquiring and executive ...
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Dutch Film Fund explains details for $16.8m Matching Fund
As the Rotterdam film festival continues, local film-makers are seeing several signs of encouragement from the Dutch Film Fund. The fund has announced $1.26m (Euros 975,000) backing in three art-house features as well as unveiling details for its groundbreaking $16.8m (Euros 13m) Matching Fund. Dutch Film Fund director Toine Berbers ...
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Rome aims to lure 300 buyers to second Business Street event
The Rome Festival's industry event Business Street is looking to target buyers and sellers yet more aggressively. Speaking in Rotterdam, Sylvain Auzou, who runs Business Street with Diamara Parodi, has explained just how the market will be expanded further. The second festival is to run from October 18-27 (just a ...
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Klimt finally gets UK release
Raoul Ruiz's film Klimt, about the fin de siecle Austrian painter, is to be released in the UK in the summer by Soda Pictures. Two versions of the film are in circulation - a 129 minute director's cut and a shorter producer's version. After consulting with exhibitors, Soda has decided ...
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Negativ lines up shoots for Country Teacher and Protektor
Reflecting the recent upswing in Czech producers' fortunes, Prague-based independent production outfit Negativ has revealed further details of a bulging development slate. Negativ representatives have been in Rotterdam this week attending CineMart with new project Country Teacher by Bohdan Slama. The $1.7m feature, already supported by Pallas Film in German, ...
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Wide gets on board for controversial Belgian feature Ex Drummer
In one of the first pick-ups of this year's Rotterdam Tiger competition, French outfit Wide Management is to handle international sales on Koen Mortier's Ex Drummer. The news was confirmed on Sunday in Rotterdam, just prior to the film's world premiere. All territories are open, except for Benelux, which is ...
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DV8 plans multi-platform release for cell-phone feature
Jeremy Nathan and Joel Phiri's Johannesburg-based DV8 is planning a global, Bubble-style, multi-platform release for its new feature, SMS Sugar Man. 'We are busy putting in place all the distribution pipelines,' Nathan said of the plans to make Sugar Man available worldwide simultaneously on internet, mobile phones and DVD. 'We've ...