NEWS BERLINBRIEFS
FSC boards Francine The Film Sales Company has taken on Melissa Leo-starrer Francine on the eve of the film’s world premiere here in Forum, before it goes on to SXSW. Melanie Shatzky and Brian M Cassidy direct.
GFM sings with BB King GFM is handling worldwide sales for documentary BB King: The Life Of Riley. Jon Brewer directs and produces the film, now in post. The company is also selling Nick Cassavetes’ Yellow, previously sold by Wild Bunch.
Shoreline to Let Go Shoreline has acquired comedy Let Go by Brian Jett, starring David Denman, Gillian Jacobs, Kevin Hart, Simon Helberg and Ed Asner. The Los Angeles-set film is ready for delivery.
Media Luna takes on debuts Ida Martins’ Media Luna has added two official Berlinale titles to its slate: Sacha Polak’s debut feature Hemel (in Forum) and Joachim Schoenfeld’s directorial debut Before Tomorrow (in Perspektive Deutsches Kino). Media Luna is also selling Beat Down, Where The Road Meets The Sun and Big Mamma’s Boy.
Finecut takes on Grand Heist, Ghost Sweepers
BY LIZSHACKLETON Seoul-based sales company Fine- cut has picked up two new Korean genre films — $10m period action adventure The Grand Heist and $5m comic action horror Ghost Sweepers. The Grand Heist, about specialist
thieves wiping out an ice store- house during the Chosun dynasty, features an ensemble cast headed by Cha Tae-hyun and Oh Ji-ho. Cha is one of Korea’s most bankable actors after hits such as Hello Ghost and Scandal Makers, while Oh starred in recent action hit Sector 7. Ghost Sweepers is directed by
Shin Jung-won, whose credits include creature feature Chaw, which Finecut also handled. Com- bining situation comedy and
The Grand Heist
genre elements, Ghost Sweepers follows a group of top exorcists who join forces to eradicate a notorious evil spirit. Both films, which are currently
in production, are financed and will be widely released by Korean distributor N.E.W. (Next Enter- tainment World). Finecut is also selling two com-
pleted f i lms: legal drama Unbowed, a local box-office hit, and quirky romantic comedy Love Fiction. The Korean sales outfit is also
handling the latest film from auteur Hong Sang-soo: In Another Country is a mostly English-lan- guage production starring Isabelle Huppert.
Ealing Metro finds its Oasis
BYANDREAS WISEMAN UK sales company Ealing Metro International has acquired docu- mentary Last Call At The Oasis directed by Oscar-winning direc- tor Jessica Yu. Screened at Toronto, where it
was picked up by ATO Pictures for US release, the film confronts the global water shortage and fea- tures an appearance from Erin Brockovich, among other cam- paigners. Participant Media pro- duced. Last Call At The Oasis will
screen in the Berlinale Culinary Cinema strand on Wednesday. Ealing’s slate also includes Fast Girls and Trap For Cinderella.
Copro Office blasts off with Meteora
BY GEOFFREY MACNAB Coproduction Office has closed pre-sales on Spiros Stathoulopou- los’ competition entry Meteora with ABC/Cinemien for Benelux, Frenetic Films for Switzerland and Film Europe for the Czech Republic. Several other deals are pending. The company has also revealed
further details about some of its forthcoming productions. Ulrich Seidl’s anticipated sex- tourism film Paradise is now set to
Meteora
be released as three separate fea- ture films. The completed project should be ready in time for Cannes. Here in Berlin, Coproduction
Office head Philippe Bober has confirmed the title of Roy Anders- son’s new feature — the final part of the trilogy that includes Songs From The Second Floor and You The Living. The new film, which is likely to
be ready next year, is to be called A Pigeon Sat On A Branch Reflecting On Existence.
Bober was in Rotterdam last
week, where Ruben Ostlund’s new project Tourist was presented in the CineMart. The $3.6m tragicomedy is
being produced through Erik Hemmendorf f ’s Platt form Produktion. Coproduction Office is a partner on the project, along- side Essential Filmproduktion. Film i Vast has already boarded the film. Ostlund’s last film, Play, was a hot seller for Coproduction Office.
Cinemavault boards La Run, Lawman M-Appeal gets Electrick, sells Baikonur to Spain
BYANDREAS WISEMAN Toronto-based sales company Cinemavault has picked up inter- national rights to crime drama La Run and western reboot Lawman. Released by Lionsgate subsidi-
ary Grindstone in the US, Law- man tells the story of a lone officer who must clean up the crime and
corruption gripping a small town. Wyeth Clarkson, whose credits include Sk8 Life, directs. La Run, directed by Demian
Fuica, follows a straight-A student who agrees to pay off his father’s gambling debts by making dan- gerous drug runs. The film stars Jason Roy-Léveillée.
BY GEOFFREY MACNAB Berlin-based sales outfit M-Appeal has closed a Spanish deal on its Veit Helmer sci-fi romance Baikonur with Piramide Films Distribucion. The film screens here in LOLA@Berlinale. M-Appeal’s EFM slate also includes The Clay Diaries, King Of
Comics and Electrick Children, in Generation 14plus. Rebecca Thomas directs the
Children cast which includes Julia Garner, Rory Culkin and Billy Zane. The film follows a Mormon girl
who thinks she has become preg- nant after listening to rock music. Paradigm handles North America.
Baikonur
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