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Digital rights issue causes buyer/seller strife in Berlin
The European Film Market is struggling to cope with the arrival of an important new factor in the film sales world - digital rights.Buyers are desperately trying to acquire rights for downloads, video-on-demand and online distribution but many content owners are simply refusing to sell.Digital media is now a mainstream ...
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EastWest strikes deals for three comedies
UK- and Austria-based sales company EastWest Filmdistribution has announced several sales on its trio of English-language comedies. HBO Central Europe took rights to UK comedy 12 In A Box by John McKenzie. The black comedy stars Brian Mitchell, Anjella Mackintosh, Kenneth Collard, Katy Wix, Paul Williamson and Clare Welch.Alexander Hahn's ...
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TWC seals Berlin deals on Spurlock doc, Inside
Continuing a ferocious buying spree that began at Sundance, The Weinstein Company (TWC) has swooped in Berlin on North American rights to Morgan Spurlock's Osama Bin Laden documentary and all English-speaking territories on Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo's thriller Inside.Harvey Weinstein reportedly flew into town on Saturday to see footage ...
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London and Rome Film Festivals face off over dates clash
The London and Rome Film Festivals are on collision course. Both events have now confirmed their slots - and they overlap almost exactly. Rome's second edition runs from Oct 18 to 27 October. London, meanwhile, runs from Oct 17 to Nov 1. What's more, the clash in dates comes as ...
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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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Levinson comedy books major territory sales for 2929
2929 International has closed a raft of sales on Barry Levinson's upcoming comedy What Just Happened'Rights have gone to Telemunchen (Germany), Medusa (Italy), TF1 (France), and Manga (Spain).Shooting is scheduled to begin on Mar 22 with Robert De Niro in the lead as a desperate producer in the throes of ...
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B2B Belgrade Industry Meetings names 12 pitch projects
New feature films from Eastern Europe and Central Asia are among 12 projects to be pitched at this year's B2B Belgrade Industry Meetings from March 2-4.They include Branko Schmidt's Metastases (Croatia), Kirill Serebrennikov's Diva(Russia) and Rusudan Chkonia's Keep Smiling! (Georgia).In addition to the public pitchings and one-to-one meetings with potential ...
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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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Katapult scores with Zidane documentary
Katapult Films Sales has closed deals on several titles here, led byDouglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno's experimental documentary Zidane:A XXI Century Portrait.Rights have gone to Kinowelt in Germany and Circulo in Spain. Salesagent David Jourdan completed a deal for Italian rights with Dolmenbefore the market.Meanwhile Maria Maggenti's romantic comedy Puccini ...
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Okonedo to star in Skin
The Little Film Company is commencing sales here on true-lifeSouth African saga Skin starring Oscar nominee Sophie Okonedo.Shooting is set to begin in May on the co-production between the UK'sElysian Films and Bard Entertainments and South Africa's MoonlightingFilms.The project centres on the extraordinary genetic case of Sandra Laing,a black woman ...
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Verhoeven opens book on Russian Azazel.
Paul Verhoeven is ramping up production on his long-gestating tsaristRussian crime romp The Winter Queen, now called Azazel.Shooting is set to begin this summer in St Petersberg and London afterPeter Hoffman's Los Angeles-based Seven Arts Pictures finalisedpay-or-play deals for Verhoeven and Milla Jovovich.Verhoeven's long-time collaborator Gerard Soeteman, who wrote thedirector's ...
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Friend and Barr cast for Russian gangster movie
UK actor Rupert Friend (Pride & Prejudice) and Jean-Marc Barr (Dancer In The Dark) are attached as cast for US writer-director Tony Pemberton's $ 4.5m gangster movie Buddha's Little Finger based on the novel of the same name by Victor Pelewin.The film's Berlin-based producer Rohfilm has brought Mikhail Kalatozov's Kalatozov ...
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Rock Haven finds home with TLA
TLA Releasing has acquired worldwide rights here from journalist andfirst-time film-maker David Lewis to his drama Rock Haven.The story follows a spiritual man who moves to the coast to live withhis devoutly Christian mother and falls in love with an older man.Newcomer Sean Hoagland stars with Laura Jane Coles and ...
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Lordi ready to rock for Finnish horror film
Finnish monster hard-rock group Lordi, which won last year's Eurovision Song Contest, will star in a $5m horror movie from Finnish producer Markus Selin, of Solar Films, who has for the last four years delivered the number one local top-grossers on the Finnish charts.Selin will be in Berlin to discuss ...
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Skarsgaard to star in Scandinavia's most expensive film project
Swedish Hollywood-actor Stellan Skarsgaard will star in The Knight Templar - Svensk Filmindustri's $30.3m (Euro 22.8m) adaption of Swedish writer Jan Guillou's bestselling trilogy of Arn Magnusson - currently lensing on locations in Morocco.Skarsgaard will perform as Arn's uncle in Scandinavia's so far most expensive film project - two features, ...
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Wajda film throws spotlight on Polish film fund
The expected unveiling at this year's Cannes Film Festival of Andrzej Wajda's Post Mortem will also serve as the international launch party of Poland's generous but still largely unknown new film fund. Wajda, whose Man Of Iron won the top prize at Cannes in 1981, will be among the ...
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BFI, Bac sign French deal for Distant Voices Still Lives
The British Film Institute struck a deal with Bac Films for all Frenchrights to the BFI's restoration of Terence Davies' Distant Voices StillLives. The BFI will re-release the film theatrically in the UK in April followed by a new DVD release. Bac Film's Jean Labadie negotiated the deal with BFI ...
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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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Criterion commits to Berlin Alexanderplatz
In what promises to result in its most lavish compendium to date, high-end US DVD distributor The Criterion Collection has bought US DVD rights Reiner Werner Fassbinder's monumental 939-minute Berlin Alexanderplatz: Remastered. The film is screening in its entirety today at the Volksbuhne, starting at 10am and finishing at 3am ...