Screeningstitles in Bold; Competition Films in Black Monday, February 15, 2010 “A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop”
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day5_p1,31 n1 b:001THRD5_n1 2/14/10 11:06 AM Page 1 Q&AS From the Arctic to L.A., Alexei Popogrebsky, left, and Noah Baumbach’s films had long roads the to the Berlinale. Berlin SEE PAGES 9 AND 29 Monday dailyFebruary 15, 2010 THR.com/berlin 5 ARRIzoomsinon Market’s got rhythm prod’n,salesbiz Musicthemes By Scott Roxborough makecomeback ilm services giant ARRI is focusing on co-financing at2010EFM Fmore German and interna- tional titles and boosting its By Borys Kit and world sales business. The Scott Roxborough company has brought on Tele- pool veteran Wolfram FM is hearing the Skowronnek as a consultant to music. facilitate contacts to national This year a and international producers number of Something and distributors. musical- about Ben ARRI is counting on its mar- themed movies are E Ben Stiller turns his ket might as the world’s lead- playing, and selling, in head to respond to a ing supplier of film cameras Berlin, though in ways fanonhiswaytothe and postproduction services to you might not expect. “Greenberg” presser on give it leverage as it expands In the time since the Sunday, while his co-star Greta Gerwig STILLER PHOTO: SEBASTIAN WILLNOW/AFP/GETTY IMAGESPASCAL LE SEGRETAIN/GETTY IMAGES into production. “High School Musical” just turned heads. “In film services we are phenomenon swept the already No. 1, there’s no room to U.S.and the world,with grow there,”said Antonio Exa- the third movie,“High coustos, head of ARRI Media School Musical 3: Senior World Sales. “We want to move Year,”making $252 million ‘Greenberg’ more strongly into all other worldwide,you’dthink areas of the business, particu- that a marching band continued on page 31 parade worth of movies REVIEW By Kirk Honeycutt with singing and dancing WHAT’S INSIDE high schoolers would have oah Baumbach seems intent on laying his own distinc- flooded the market. tive claim to a territory already overcrowded with That didn’t happen. developers, that of adults swamped in disabling neu- >Reviews PAGES6,8,25,26,27 N The U.K. did try to repli- roses, bad behavior and self-absorption. You can add Jewish >Festival Screening Guide cate something similar with angst as well in the case of “Greenberg.” PAGE 10 ITV’s “Britannia High,”but While winning no points for originality,Baumbach and his that show was quickly axed. co-conspirator in the script, Jennifer Jason Leigh — whom he >Market Screening Guide continued on page 30 continued on page 31 PAGE 19 SPECIAL FEATURES bounty hunter. APULIA ‘Wolf’men:Santanasmakedebut Viitala plays a New facilities, kidnapped prosti- incentives luring By Scott Roxborough Finnish actor Pihla Viitala, one tute on the run. filmmakers. PAGE 13 of the Shooting Stars at this German actor he British director/produc- year’s Berlinale. Vinzenz Kiefer SHOOTING STARS er team of brothers Based on true events, the film Viitala (“The Baader Berlin’s young star TDominic and Lee Santana is set in French Guyana in 1934. Meinhof Com- showcase’s profile will make their feature film A group of foreign prisoners plex”) will star as a prison “hus- grows. PAGE 17 debut with the action thriller escape from a penal colony only tler” also on the run from the “Man Is Wolf to Man” starring to be tracked down by a ruthless continued on page 31 day5_p2,30 n2 b:002THRD5_n2 2/14/10 11:08 AM Page 1 THR.com/berlin news Monday, February 15, 2010 Patience a virtue with studios shooting stars U.S.involvementkeyifsometimesfrustrating,panelistssay By Karsten Kastelan EFM Industry Debates. A view, one might add, not General consensus was that completely shared by his busi- he vagaries of the studio patience and a thick skin are a ness partner Ole Sondberg, system were at the fore- necessity for Europeans working who quipped about the planned Tfront of “Transatlantic with or within the studio system collaboration: “We’ll scream Drawl: Accents for Filmmak- since, as Constantin Films’ and shout and maybe they will ing,”a panel hosted by The Hol- Robert Kulzer pointed out: “It listen sometimes.” lywood Reporter as part of the takes them 10 years to not make Another important theme a film, and when they decide to was the impact of the worldwide Zrinka Cvitesic make one, they write the script recession on the interaction Nationality: Croatian during pre-production.” between American and Euro- A more optimistic tone was pean partners, most succinctly Who is the actor/actress ‘Sky’captains adopted by Yellow Bird Prods.’ put by German director Chris- you most admire and why? Soren Staermose, who is cur- tian Alvert, who said that, of the MerylStreep,becauseofher rently negotiating with Sony three projects he’s currently cir- Pictures on a U.S. version of the cling,“All three are asking: Can outstandingwork,thechoic- neartake-off Swedish company’s hugely we do it in Germany?” esshe’smadethroughouther successful Millennium trilogy. continued on page 30 career,provingthatanactress By Scott Roxborough canstaytruetoherself. After two years of Inter- What do you consider your net and guerilla marketing snapshot breakthrough role? stunts that Theroleof Lejla,inthe2003 included the 1930s-style film“Konjanik”(Horseman) newsboys by Branko Ivanda. shouting out- side the Euro- What part do you wish you Kier pean Film could have played (past market, Fin- or present)? land’sBlind Spot pictures is Edith Piaf –“La môme” about to close financing on “Iron Sky,”the “Nazis on (2007);Poppy –“Happy Go the moon” film that Lucky”(2008); ErikaKohut became an online sensation –“LaPianiste”(2001). continued on page 30 “Stammheim” Which director would you FEB. 25, 1986: Jury president Gina Lollobrigida attacks Golden Bear most like to work with? winner “Stammheim” Jim Sheridan,MikeLeigh, Everyone knew Reinhard Hauff’s “Stammheim” was going to be an explosive Pedro Almodovar,Clint Triowingway film. The docudrama, based on the trial of the notorious Baader Meinhof terrorists, touched a nerve. Half of Germany, probably half of Europe, saw Andreas Baader Eastwood. and Ulrike Meinhof as brutal murderers. Nearly as many viewed them as freedom to‘Flutter’cast fighters allegedly murdered in prison by the German police. Describe your next project. Security was tight ahead of the festival screening. Several members of the jury By Scott Roxborough had received anonymous death threats. A biographicalfilm,directed But the real drama was to come later. “Stammheim” split the jury much as it did by Branko Ivanda,basedon Brit director Giles Borg has the audience: right down the center. Five in favor, five against. The tie was finally broken when British director Lindsay Anderson, who had initially abstained from atruestory of LeaDauth and lined up acting talents Ricky the vote, cast his ballot for “Stammheim.” DarijaGasteiger,thetalented Tomlinson, Laura Fraser and At the press conference announcing the Golden Bear, jury president Gina stars of afamous childrens’ Mark Williams to star along- Lollobrigida, broke with protocol and condemned the film: “Myself, I was against side Joe Anderson in Borg’s this picture.” Later, it emerged that Lollobrigida had threatened to resign over showof theCroatian giving the Golden Bear to what she considered a “banal, vacuous and NationalTheatre (HNK) dur- sophomore effort “Flutter.” unimaginative” film. Anna Anissimova, in Berlin It would be nearly 20 years before another German film would win the top prize ingWWII.Thestory oftheir promoting Kevin Spacey star- in Berlin. And even longer before the “Stammheim” source material would be friendshipand rivalry isdes- rer “Father of Invention,”a reworked in Uli Edel’s Oscar-nominated “The Baader-Meinhof Complex.” — Scott Roxborough tinedtoendintragedy. continued on page 30 Los Angeles 323.525.2000 | New York 646.654.5000 | London +44.207.420.6139 | Beijing +86.139.1118.1756 | THR.com/berlin | day 5 2 MARKET SCREENING TODAY 4.30pm on 15th February at Cinestar 6 MARKET SCREENING TOMORROW 9.00am on 16th February at CinemaxX 15 MARKET SCREENING TOMORROW 4.30pm on 16th February at CinemaxX 14 THE MARRIOTT HOTEL, ROOMS 258 & 260 EFM BERLIN | TELEPHONE +49 30 22000 - 1131 EALING STUDIOS | EALING GREEN CONTACTS ATTENDING: LONDON | W5 5EP | UNITED KINGDOM NATALIE BRENNER, HEAD OF SALES, +49 1761 7368611 TELEPHONE +44 (0) 20 8567 6655 WILL MACHIN, HEAD OF DISTRIBUTION, +44 7899 796263 FAX +44 (0) 20 8758 8658 JOJO DYE, HEAD OF MARKETING, +49 1761 7368923 [email protected] NAOMI WEINER, SALES COORDINATOR, +49 1761 7368927 EalingStudios D5 021510.indd 1 2/10/10 10:27 AM day5_p4 n3 b:004THRD5__n3 2/14/10 9:44 AM Page 1 THR.com/berlin news Monday, February 15, 2010 Estevez shows ‘The Way’ shooting stars Pilgrimagetalehaditsownlongjourneytocompletion By Borys Kit people to step up together to sell internationally. initially,”Alexan- Shot in the Pyrenees and t’salmost like Emilio Estevez ian said. Galicia with a small cast and wants to make his life hard. “Way,”which almost all outdoors, the pic was I In 2008, Estevez was in the Estevez wrote, a far cry from his political drama middle of casting his follow-up directed and “Bobby,”with its sprawling all- to “Bobby,”a drama titled “The appears in,fol- star cast set inside the Ambas- Public,”when a company financ- Estevez lows Sheen as a sador Hotel in Los Angeles. ing the movie went bankrupt, father who,after “I felt freer,”Estevez said. Anders causing the project to fall apart. his son dies trying to make “There were certain constraints Christiansen Though heartbroken, he Spain’sCamino de Santiago pil- with ‘Bobby’ in terms of actors’ Nationality: Norwegian quickly teamed with his father, grimage,takes his son’sashes and schedules, and keeping all those Martin Sheen, and producer goes on the journey by himself.