Exclusive: The Match Factory is working again with Belgian director Sam Garbarski on international sales for his new feature film, starring Moritz Bleibtreu and Alba Rohrwacher.
Described by Garbarski as “a historical comedy, a comedy of life, more moving than humorous because it’s true”, Bye-Bye Germany (working title) reunites with the Cologne-based sales company after their previous collaboration on the Locarno 2013 title Vijay And I.
The film will also see him reunited with German actor Moritz Bleibtreu, the star of Vijay and I, as a Holocaust survivor with a remarkable secret.
The international cast includes Alba Rohrwacher as an Italian Jew with a Harvard degree who hunts down Nazis, Hungarian actor Pal Macsai (‘Terapia’), Anatole Taubmann (Quantum Of Solace), La-based Israeli actor Mark Ivanir (Schindler’s List, ‘Homeland’), the German Film Award-winning Swiss actor Joel Basman (We Are Young. We Are Strong.) and Berlin-based, Turkish-born Tim Seyfi (‘Spiral’).
Adapted by Michel Bergmann from his own novel...
Described by Garbarski as “a historical comedy, a comedy of life, more moving than humorous because it’s true”, Bye-Bye Germany (working title) reunites with the Cologne-based sales company after their previous collaboration on the Locarno 2013 title Vijay And I.
The film will also see him reunited with German actor Moritz Bleibtreu, the star of Vijay and I, as a Holocaust survivor with a remarkable secret.
The international cast includes Alba Rohrwacher as an Italian Jew with a Harvard degree who hunts down Nazis, Hungarian actor Pal Macsai (‘Terapia’), Anatole Taubmann (Quantum Of Solace), La-based Israeli actor Mark Ivanir (Schindler’s List, ‘Homeland’), the German Film Award-winning Swiss actor Joel Basman (We Are Young. We Are Strong.) and Berlin-based, Turkish-born Tim Seyfi (‘Spiral’).
Adapted by Michel Bergmann from his own novel...
- 9/4/2015
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: German outfit boards Jim Jarmusch titles.
The Match Factory has secured rights to six Jim Jarmusch titles.
The haul includes Permanent Vacation, Stranger Than Paradise, Down By Law, Mystery Train, Night on Earth and Dead Man.
“We are proud to handle these masterpieces of one of the greatest contemporary directors” said Michael Weber, managing director of The Match Factory. “It is a delight to have our library grow with Jim Jarmusch. Jarmusch’s films are timeless, as proven by their ongoing demand and interest“.
“I am so proud to have my films represented by Michael Weber and the Match Factory team, and to be in the company of filmmakers I admire such as Aki Kaurismäki and Fatih Akin,“ added Jarmusch.
The Match Factory’s Afm slate includes Sam Garbarski’s Vijay And I, David Wnendt’s controversial Wetlands and Soren Kragh-Jacobsen’s The Hour of the Lynx.
The deal was negotiated between Michael Weber and ICM Partners...
The Match Factory has secured rights to six Jim Jarmusch titles.
The haul includes Permanent Vacation, Stranger Than Paradise, Down By Law, Mystery Train, Night on Earth and Dead Man.
“We are proud to handle these masterpieces of one of the greatest contemporary directors” said Michael Weber, managing director of The Match Factory. “It is a delight to have our library grow with Jim Jarmusch. Jarmusch’s films are timeless, as proven by their ongoing demand and interest“.
“I am so proud to have my films represented by Michael Weber and the Match Factory team, and to be in the company of filmmakers I admire such as Aki Kaurismäki and Fatih Akin,“ added Jarmusch.
The Match Factory’s Afm slate includes Sam Garbarski’s Vijay And I, David Wnendt’s controversial Wetlands and Soren Kragh-Jacobsen’s The Hour of the Lynx.
The deal was negotiated between Michael Weber and ICM Partners...
- 11/9/2013
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: The Match Factory has signed a raft of deals for Sam Garbarski’s Vijay And I and David Wnendt’s Wetlands ahead of their world premieres in Locarno.
Garbarski’s romantic comedy, starring Patricia Arquette, Moritz Bleibtreu and Danny Pudi, has been sold to the Cis and Baltic states (Project Manometr) and Taiwan (Encore Film), with negotiations currently underway for “a number of territories“, including Italy and Korea.
The world premiere of the Belgium-Luxembourg-Germany co-production is due to be held on Locarno’s Piazza Grande open-air venue on Thursday evening (Aug 8) after the presentation of a Pardo alla carriera to Italian actor-director Sergio Castellitto, who starred in Vijay And I co-producer Pandora Film’s Mostly Martha which premiered on the Piazza Grande in 2001.
In addition, sales have been finalised on Wnendt’s Wetlands to Switzerland (Filmcoopi), Austria (Filmladen) and for a pan-Scandinavian deal (Future Film), with further deals under negotiation.
The adaptation...
Garbarski’s romantic comedy, starring Patricia Arquette, Moritz Bleibtreu and Danny Pudi, has been sold to the Cis and Baltic states (Project Manometr) and Taiwan (Encore Film), with negotiations currently underway for “a number of territories“, including Italy and Korea.
The world premiere of the Belgium-Luxembourg-Germany co-production is due to be held on Locarno’s Piazza Grande open-air venue on Thursday evening (Aug 8) after the presentation of a Pardo alla carriera to Italian actor-director Sergio Castellitto, who starred in Vijay And I co-producer Pandora Film’s Mostly Martha which premiered on the Piazza Grande in 2001.
In addition, sales have been finalised on Wnendt’s Wetlands to Switzerland (Filmcoopi), Austria (Filmladen) and for a pan-Scandinavian deal (Future Film), with further deals under negotiation.
The adaptation...
- 8/7/2013
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
A total of 18 world premieres feature in the main Competition line-up of this year’s Locarno Film Festival.Scroll down for full lists
The programme for the 66th Locarno Film Festival has been unveiled and was compiled with “diversity” in mind, according to new artistic director Carlo Chatrian.
“The only categorical imperative was to work with diversity, take it to extremes,” said Chatrian.
“For years, the festival’s policy has been to position its mission of discovery within a programme that includes mainstream cinema, but only of the kind that, despite its high production values, is not just pure spectacle, the kind that doesn’t see entertainment and intelligence as incompatible.”
As previously announced, the Swiss festival will open at the open-air Piazza Grande on August 7 with the international premiere of 2 Guns, the action film starring Mark Wahlberg and Denzel Washington as cops, directed by Baltasar Kormakur (The Deep).
Other films to screen at the 8,000 seater venue include...
The programme for the 66th Locarno Film Festival has been unveiled and was compiled with “diversity” in mind, according to new artistic director Carlo Chatrian.
“The only categorical imperative was to work with diversity, take it to extremes,” said Chatrian.
“For years, the festival’s policy has been to position its mission of discovery within a programme that includes mainstream cinema, but only of the kind that, despite its high production values, is not just pure spectacle, the kind that doesn’t see entertainment and intelligence as incompatible.”
As previously announced, the Swiss festival will open at the open-air Piazza Grande on August 7 with the international premiere of 2 Guns, the action film starring Mark Wahlberg and Denzel Washington as cops, directed by Baltasar Kormakur (The Deep).
Other films to screen at the 8,000 seater venue include...
- 7/17/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Danny Pudi, Community funny man? Sure. Danny Pudi, Speed Stick contest host? Uh, sure why not!
As the face behind Speed Stick's "Handle It" campaign, Pudi sat down with Jpp to talk about the winning video, Dan Harmon's departure from the show that made Pudi, if not an outright, then a dearly beloved cult icon, and upcoming roles in films like The Guilt Trip and his first international production My Friend Vijay. We also got some updates on an already-in-the-can film that this writer's been anticipating...but to find out more, check out the interview below!
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As the face behind Speed Stick's "Handle It" campaign, Pudi sat down with Jpp to talk about the winning video, Dan Harmon's departure from the show that made Pudi, if not an outright, then a dearly beloved cult icon, and upcoming roles in films like The Guilt Trip and his first international production My Friend Vijay. We also got some updates on an already-in-the-can film that this writer's been anticipating...but to find out more, check out the interview below!
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- 10/5/2012
- by Mark Zhuravsky
- JustPressPlay.net
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