NEWS
CONGRATULATES COMPETITION:
SCHLAFKRANKHEIT (Sleeping Sickness)
Tomorrow’s Joe knocks out buyers for TBS
BY JEAN NOH Japan’s Tokyo Broadcasting System Televi- sion (TBS) has completed several pre-sales on Tomorrow’s Joe, a live-action feature based on a hit boxing manga from the 1960s and 1970s. The fi lm was picked up for French-speaking territories (Wild Side Films), Hong Kong and Macau (NeoVi- sion), Taiwan (Long Shong), Thailand (J-Bics) and Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei and Indonesia (Encore Films). Tomorrow’s Joe is directed by Fumihiko
THE FUTURE
Sori and stars popular actor and singer Tomohisa Yamashita as a young delinquent
Temple, F&ME to rock in Rio
BIZIM BÜYÜK ÇARESIZLIĞIMIZ (Our Grand Despair)
Mike Downey and Sam Taylor’s Film & Music Entertainment is Brazil-bound for rockumentary Children Of The Revolution, to be directed by Julien Temple. The film is scheduled to shoot in Rio
de Janeiro in September and October during the Rock in Rio music festival. Geoffrey Macnab
MUNDO MISTERIOSO (A Mysterious World)
Beta Cinema gets off to flying start
BY MARTIN BLANEY Beta Cinema has concluded a number of deals here at the EFM including Philipp Stölzl’s Goethe! to US distributor Music Box Films and Japan’s Gaga Films, as well as to Scandinavia (Atlantic Film), the Czech Republic and Slovakia (Hollywood CE),
PANORAMA SPECIAL SCREENINGS DREILEBEN
ETWAS BESSERES ALS DEN TOD (Beats being Dead)
EINE MINUTE DUNKEL (One Minute of Darkness)
PERSPEKTIVE DER PREIS (The Prize)
The Post Republic is offering the full range of cinema postproduction to an international client base.
Greece (Strada Film) and South Korea (Daisy Entertainment). Florian Cossen’s feature-fi lm debut The
Day I Was Not Born has gone to France (Metropolitan), Canada (Mongrel) and Israel (Orlando), while The End Is My Begin- ning, starring Bruno Ganz, was picked up
Little eyes Europe with new Rialto
BY JEREMY KAY Robbie Little’s The Little Film Company and an alliance of European producers have formed Rialto International and will be at the EFM to meet potential partners. The Germany-based entity includes Rialto
Film owners the Wendlandt family, and pro- ducers Alessandro Fracassi, Italy-based Keith Rotman and New York-based Olivier Thau. Rialto International will serve as a one- stop shop offering packaging and production
services, sales representation, gap finance and access to regional European money. The entity also has an affi liation with a
Belgian producer, which enables it to take advantage of Belgian funding incentives. “This is an attempt to get more prod-
ucers working together to pool their resources and build together, rather than acting independently,” Little said. “Today the problem isn’t selling the fi lm — it’s hav- ing the right fi lm to sell.”
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■ 4 Screen International in Berlin February 12, 2011
BY WENDY MITCHELL The Karlovy Vary International Film Festi- val has unveiled programming details for this year’s edition, including a retrospective devoted to Oscar nominee Denis Villeneuve. There will also be a tribute to Samuel Fuller and a spotlight on young Greek directors.
This will be the first KVIFF under the
artistic direction of Karel Och (see interview, p30); his predecessor, Eva Zaoralova, is still involved this year, as artistic consultant. Canada’s Villeneuve will attend the 46th
KVIFF (July 1-9) where his fi lms including Maelstrom and Incendies will be shown.
Fischer’s Giant Mechanical Man heads into post Stealth Media Group is in post on Detroit- set romcom The Giant Mechanical Man starring Jenna Fischer.
Tomorrow’s Joe
who becomes a top boxer. Yusuke Iseya plays his nemesis. The fi lm opened in Japan yesterday and
is set for a market premiere here at the EFM on Sunday.
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You’re Next, says HanWay Films
BY WENDY MITCHELL HanWay Films is handling international sales for Snoot Entertainment’s thriller You’re Next. Adam Wingard directs from Simon Bar-
rett’s screenplay about a family reunion which is stalked by a group of killers. The fi lm, due to shoot this spring in Mis-
souri, will be produced by Snoot’s Keith Calder and Jessica Wu, alongside Barrett. HanWay CEO Tim Haslam said: “Adam
and Simon are naturals for this genre. The fi lm’s pulse is totally fresh, unexpected and entertaining. Keith and Jessica consistently produce stand-out independent fi lms with strong identities and marketing hooks.”
Argentina’s Lucrecia Martel will be the subject of the ‘Tribute to’ programme at this year’s Sarajevo Film Festival (July 22-30). It is the first time the festival’s tribute slot has been devoted to a woman director and a film-maker from Latin America. Martel (pictured) burst onto the global
scene with La Cienega in 2001. Her second and third films, The Holy Girl (2004) and The Headless Woman (2008), were both in Competition at Cannes. The tribute is curated by Sarajevo programmer Howard Feinstein.
by Italy’s Fandango and Spain’s Isaan Entertainment/Karma. Surprise German hit Vincent Wants To
Sea sold to the US (Corinth) and Australia/ New Zealand (Umbrella), while the feature- fi lm version of the TV two-parter Hinden- berg sold to the UK (Metrodome), Australia/ New Zealand (Umbrella), Benelux (Dutch FilmWorks) and Scandinavia (Atlantic).
BERLIN BRIEFS
Lara and Hogg head to Portugal for Jakimowski’s Blind Watching Alexandra Maria Lara and Edward Hogg have joined the cast of Andrzej Jakimowski’s next film, Blind Watching, which starts shooting on May 2 in Lisbon.
Wide plugs into Black Power Mixtape Wide Management has boarded Black Power Mixtape, Göran Olsson’s feature documentary from Sundance, which screens here in Panorama.
Magnolia takes Gaumont’s Point Magnolia Pictures has acquired North American rights to French thriller Point Blank (A Bout Portant) from Gaumont.
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