Day 1 030-042 Berlin 2018 EFM Market Buzz L.Indd
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EFM BUZZ THE LOWDOWN Screen highlights the buzziest titles that sellers will be looking to tempt international buyers with at this year’s European Film Market BUZZ Four and Creative Wealth Media Finance. tion Loving Vincent, is in Berlin to talk up (Pictured above from left) Vita & Virginia (UK), AMERICAS Sam Levinson’s Midnight selection cen- Damn Kids from Chilean director Gon- Madeline’s Madeline (US), Curiosa (France) tres on a small town whose inhabitants go zalo Justiniano. The Pinochet-era drama By Jeremy Kay on the rampage after an anonymous data follows a woman’s fight against her explores Cuban culture through its culi- hack. Neon and AGBO stumped up $10m country’s fascist rulers. nary history. Lionsgate International checks into Ber- for worldwide rights in the biggest deal of XYZ Films touches down in Berlin The Exchange will commence sales on lin with the launch of sales on John Wick: Sundance. Odessa Young, Suki Water- with thriller Run Away With Me starring The Stand-In to star Drew Barrymore, Chapter 3 starring Keanu Reeves as the house and Bella Thorne star. Amber Heard from this year’s upcoming about a disillusioned actress who trades celebrated assassin. Basil Iwanyk and Voltage Pictures launches EFM sales DC/Warner tentpole Aquaman, in the places with her stand-in. Flower Films Erica Lee produce, and Chad Stahelski on The Haunting Of Sharon Tate, one of story of star-crossed lovers on the run and The Exchange produce and Jamie directs. The slate also includes Partici- three features in the works concerning from criminals in Europe’s modelling Babbit will direct. CAA and UTA Inde- pant Media’s Green Book, about a bouncer the murderous Charles Manson cult. industry. Fred Grivois directs. pendent Film Group handle US rights. hired to drive a jazz pianist on a concert Hilary Duff stars as Roman Polanski’s tit- Millennium Media will be talking up Double Dutch International arrives tour into the 1960s Deep South. Viggo ular late wife in Skyline Entertainment’s Tesla, which is on Ethan Hawke’s long list with Mark Pellington’s Nostalgia, five Mortensen and Mahershala Ali star. psychological thriller that reimagines her of projects and centres on the life and love stories about love and loss starring Jon Sierra/Affinity, hot off a stirring fi nal days. Daniel Farrands directs. of Nikola Tesla, the electrical engineering Hamm, Catherine Keener, Lindsey Kraft, response in Sundance to American Ani- Fortitude International is selling Char- pioneer and arch-rival of Thomas Edison. Bruce Dern and Ellen Burstyn. Pelling- mals, introduces espionage thriller O f fi - lie Says, about a graduate student sent to Michael Almereyda will direct. ton wrote the screenplay with Alex Ross cial Secrets. Keira Knightley will star as teach three young followers of Charles Magnolia International will launch Perry. Bleecker Street opens the drama in UK intelligence whistleblower Katharine Manson who have been sentenced to sales on RBG, the acclaimed documen- North America on February 16. Gun, alongside Matt Smith. eOne and death. Mary Harron (American Psycho) tary about Supreme Court Justice Ruth FilmSharks touts horror tale You Shall GS Media start production in Yorkshire, will direct Matt Smith, Hannah Murray, Bader Ginsburg that offers insights into Not Sleep (No Dorimiras) starring Span- England in March. eOne distributes Odessa Young and Suki Waterhouse. the life and career of one of the US’s ish icon Belen Rueda and produced by directly in its markets. Endeavor Content holds worldwide brightest legal minds. Magnolia acquired Argentina’s Pablo Bossi (Nine Queens). FilmNation swings into town with rights to Timur Bekmambetov’s Pro- worldwide rights with Participant Colombian director Gustavo Hernandez Amazon Studios’ The Aeronauts starring fi l, e based on Anna Erelle’s memoir Media from CNN Films in helms the story about a theatre group Eddie Redmayne and his The Theory Of In The Skin Of A Jihadist.. ValeneValene Sundance. that experiments with sleep deprivation. Everything co-star Felicity Jones. The Kane and Shazad Latif star in Submarine Entertainment Fox distributes in the US, German- period adventure centres on scientist the tale of a journalist who arrives with worldwide rights speaking territories and Latin America. James Glaisher and wealthy widow Ame- risks her life creating a fake to Cuban Food Stories from Visit Films has boarded sales on Berli- lia Wren, who mount an expedition to fl y profi le in an attempt to lure an writer-director Asori nale Forum entry Madeline’s Madeline, higher in an air balloon than anyone has Isis recruiter. Soto. Easy Mondays which premiered in Sundance and stars gone before. Mandeville Films produces. Cinema Management produced the road- newcomer Helena Howard as a member Tom Harper (Peaky Blinders) directs. Group, riding high with trip doc in associa- of a prestigious physical theatre run by a Bloom will handle international sales Oscar-nominated anima- tion with Sundial challenging workshop director. Jose- on behalf of 30WEST on Sundance break- Pictures (Jiro phine Decker directs the Bow And Arrow out Assassination Nation from Bron Stu- (Right) Bloom’s Dreams Of Entertainment and Forager Films fea- dios, Foxtail Entertainment, Phantom Assassination Nation Sushi), which ture and returns to the Berlinale after » 30 Screen International at Berlin February 15, 2018 www.screendaily.com EFM BUZZ THE LOWDOWN Butter On The Latch and Thou Wast Mild And Lovely (both 2014). UNITED KINGDOM Red Sea Media arrives with action thriller 22 Chaser from producers Dan By Tom Grater Bekerman and Don Carmody. The story centres on a tow-truck driver who risks Julianne Moore and Diane Kruger star in everything in a quest to become king of Bart Freundlich’s remake of Susanne the road and provide for his family. Bier’s drama After The Wedding, which Bleiberg Entertainment arrives with Cornerstone Films will be introducing to Avengement from director Jesse V John- the market in Berlin. The drama is a son. Action stalwart Scott Adkins stars as reimagining of Bier’s original that relo- an escaped convict who sets out to take cates the story to New York with two revenge on those who turned him into a women in the lead roles. CAA is handling cold-hearted killer. In pre-production. Snowfl ake US rights. Kathy Bates will star in The Laureate Protagonist Pictures will be showing for 13 Films, a drama based on the life of fi rst footage from Chanya Button’s Burn British war poet Robert Graves and his Burn Burn follow-up Vita & Virginia. lover, the American poet Laura Riding. The romance chronicles the relationship Principal photography is set for April between writers Virginia Woolf (Eliza- and Dianna Agron and Tom Hughes also beth Debicki) and Vita Sackville-West star. CAA handles US sales. (Gemma Arterton). Edward James Olmos directs and stars Sally Hawkins is starring in Eternal in Storyboard Media’s The Devil Has A Beauty (previously In My Oils) which Name, about a psychotic oil matriarch Bankside Films will be touting at the who locks horns with a farmer whose market. Written and directed by Craig water has been poisoned. David Roberts, his second feature after Just Jim, Strathairn co-stars. Storyboard Media the fi lm follows a woman who, feeling handles international rights and, at time rejected by life, spirals into a chaotic, of writing, a North American partner The House Of Tomorrow schizophrenic world. was expected to be announced shortly. Embankment Films will be showing Cinetic Media brings The Game champion playing in Warsaw who is Barks, Rachel Hurd-Wood and Ed fi rst footage for Trevor Nunn’sRed Joan, Changers from The Cove and Racing sucked into the world of espionage. Speleers star. which stars Judi Dench and Sophie Extinction director Louie Psihoyos, who Shoreline Entertainment arrives with Blue Fox Entertainment is selling Cookson. Lindsay Shapiro has adapted interviews elite athletes, soldiers and sci- Dreamland from Pontypool director Jo The Medicine Runner, a Hawaii-set Jennie Rooney’s novel about a woman entists to uncover how plant-based diets Bruce McDonald. Juliette Lewis, Ste- romance starring Matt Dillon, Jim who was unmasked at the age of 87 as can improve health and performance. phen McHattie, Tomas Lemarquis and Caviezel and Ryan Potter. Public House the KGB’s longest-serving British spy. James Cameron is among the producers. Henry Rollins star in the comedy horror Films fi nanced the feature, which went Altitude Film Sales is touting Lance Seville International is selling world- about a crime boss who demands the through the Hawaii public-private GVS Daly’s Irish famine drama Black 47, wide rights to Zoo, a dysfunctional dark fi nger of a drug-addled jazz legend. The Accelerator. The coming-of-age love which is having its world premiere out of comedy about a couple struggling to have project is in post. story is set against the backdrop of segre- competition here in Berlin. Starring children who are holed up in their apart- MPI Media Group will be talking up gated coffee fi elds. Hugo Weaving with James Frecheville ment while a zombie plague rages out- What Keeps You Alive, which pits a female Premiere Entertainment Group and Barry Keoghan, the fi lm follows an side. Swedish director Antonio Tublen couple against one another on their fi rst begins talks on The House Of Tomorrow, Irishman who, after fi ghting for the Brit- makes his English-language debut. anniversary. Colin Minihan (Grave a coming-of-age comedy led by Asa But- ish Army abroad, abandons his post to Epic Pictures recently boarded sales Encounters) directs Hannah Emily Ander- terfield as a sheltered teen who learns reunite with his family. on We Are The Heat, a slight change of son, Brittany Allen, Martha MacIsaac and about life from a new punk friend.