All Sales articles – Page 482
-
Reviews
Rail Road Crossing (Pas a nivell)
Dir: Pere Vilà. Spain. 2007. 103 mins.For many viewers, Catalan drama Rail Road Crossing will seem like the watching-paint-dry film par excellence. At first sight, Pere Vilà's debut feature exemplifies the three-act structure of art cinema: nothing happens, nothing happens and still nothing happens. But for viewers prepared to go ...
-
-
News
Fortissimo adds Son Of ALion, Hold Me Tight to EFM slate
Fortissimo Films has bolstered its slate for the upcoming European Film Market (EFM) in Berlin with two acquisitions. The Amsterdam and Hong Kong-based sales agent has picked up Australian production Son Of A Lion, which was shot in Pakistan by first-time director Benjamin Gilmour. The deal, which includes worldwide rights ...
-
News
Bavaria Film to unveil four market premieres at EFM
Bavaria Film International (BFI) will have four market premieres at the forthcoming European Film Market (EFM) in Berlin next week. These titles are in addition to the three films that the company has in Official Competition - Cherry Blossoms - Hanami, Restless and Black Ice.The four new titles showing at ...
-
News
EastWest takes on sales for Rotterdam title Worldrevolution
Sales company EastWest Filmdistribution has acquired worldwide rights to Worldrevolution According To Drahdiwaberl.Klaus Hundsbichler's film looks at the life of Vienna-based punk musician Stefan Weber and his revolutionary band Drahdiwaberl, which has been together for almost 40 years.Hundsbichler worked on the film for more than eight years. 'My most important ...
-
News
High Point expands with new Sydney-based operations led by Bowen
UK-based High Point Media Group has expanded its operations to now include Australia and New Zealand.Producer/writer Adam Bowen will head up the Sydney-based operations to source films and TV projects from Australia and New Zealand.Bowen will work closely with High Point's head of productions and acquisitions Carl Simons and head ...
-
News
mdc presents two market premieres at EFM
Berlin-based sales outfit mdc international will have two market premieres at the forthcoming European Film Market (EFM) in Berlin.mdc will be presenting Slovenian film-maker Damjan Kozole's latest feature Forever (Za Vedno), produced by Vertigo/Emotion Film, which is having its world premiere in the Sturm und Drang sidebar at Rotterdam.The film's ...
-
News
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 ...
-
News
The Works takes on sales for Shane Meadows' Somers Town
The Works International has come on board for international sales (excluding the UK)of Shane Meadows' Somers Town, which has its world premiere in Berlin's Generation programme onFeb 9.The film, shich started out as a short and grew into a feature, reteams the director with Thomas Turgoose, his acclaimed young star ...
-
News
Telepool unveiling four market premieres for Berlin's EFM
Munich-based sales company Telepool is lining up four market premieres at the forthcoming European Film Market (EFM) in Berlin next month. The titles having their international market premieres are:* Peter Kahane's family film Red Zora, starring Mario Adorf, Ben Becker und Dominique Horwitz and newcomer Lina Reusse, which will be ...
-
News
Ascot Elite takes Swiss rights to The Interrogation Of Harry Wind
Ascot Elite Entertainment Group has picked up Swiss theatrical and DVD rights to Pascal Verdosci's political thriller The Interrogation Of Harry Wind which began shooting in Basle last week.The adaptation of a novel by Matthias Diggelmann, one of the leading post-war Swiss novelists with Max Frisch and Friedrich Dürrenmatt, stars ...
-
News
High Point takes on sales for Kuijpers'Nothing To Lose
High Point Films has continued its long-time relationship with Dutch film-maker Pieter Kuijpers by taking on world sales (outside Benelux) for his latest film Nothing To Lose.The project, which will have a gala premiere at this week's International Film Festival Rotterdam, will later screen at Berlin's European Film Market. Independent ...
-
News
Sundance 2008: full list of reviews
Click on a film title to see Screen's review Assassination of a High School PresidentAugustBagheadBallastBe Kind RewindBlind DateThe BrokenChokeThe DealDeath In LoveDerekDonkey PunchThe EscapistFunny Games USGood DickHenry Poole Is HereIn BrugesIncendiaryKing Of Ping PongThe Merry GentlemenMomma's ManThe Mysteries Of PittsburghNerakhoon (The Betrayal)Phoebe In WonderlandRoman Polanski: Wanted And DesiredSmart PeopleSugarSunshine CleaningTranssiberianTrouble ...
-
News
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 ...
-
News
Vertigo to produce Rupert Wyatt's Escapist follow-up The Trail
The UK's Vertigo Films has come on board for Rupert Wyatt's next feature The Trail, after already taking the rights to his debut feature The Escapist, which is world premiering in Sundance today.Vertigo will produce and take all UK rights to Wyatt's new project, and Vertigo's new partner sales company ...
-
News
American Teen generates early sales buzz at Sundance
While Sundance buyers circled hyped early picks like Sunshine Cleaning and The Wackness, the Saturday nightfocus was on Nanette Burstein's high school documentary American Teen.Fox Searchlight were believed to be among interested parties following the world premiere earlier in the day.Carlos Moreno's Colombian crime saga Perro Como Perro was also ...
-
News
Hot Rendez-Vous projects include Female Agents, Fear(s)
The Unifrance Rendez-Vous with French Cinema, which wrapped in Paris earlier this week, was roundly lauded by participants for the opportunity it provides to sales companies and distributors to meet in a relaxed atmosphere.While there were some deals concluded, many sales companies were either as-yet-unable to announce details or waiting ...
-
News
Intandem, Radical pitch slate including John Woo's Caliber
Intandem Films and its graphic novel publishing company partner Radical Publishing will be meeting with investors in the UK starting Jan 21 to present their shared business model and preview future projects. UK-based financing and sales company Intandem took an equity stake in 2007 in Los Angeles-based Radical, which is ...
-
Reviews
Cloverfield
Dir: Matt Reeves. US. 2008. 84 mins.An exercise in guerrilla-style genre filmmaking that reframes a classic monster movie conceit as a post-September 11 allegory of big city trepidation, new Internet sensation Cloverfield emerges from the cocoon of its pre-release hype as thrilling piece of terror tailor-made for our times. Skilfully ...
-
News
Lionsgate UK acquires Conan, Mad Money and Righteous Kill
Distributor Lionsgate UK has struck a three-picture acquisition deal with Nu Image/Millennium Films. Lionsgate UK has taken UK and Ireland rights to Jon Avnet's crime thriller Righteous Kill; Callie Khouri's comedy Mad Money; and the Conan The Barbarian revived franchise set for a new film release in 2009.Righteous Kill stars ...