A loving tribute to Studio Babelsberg, the story of a family’s escape from Nazi Germany, a moving drama about young Palestinians and Israelis working together, and an adaptation of Terry Pratchett’s children’s novel “The Amazing Maurice” are among a wide-ranging selection of German films on offer at Afm this year.
Leading sales companies are presenting the gamut of romantic dramas, arthouse works, high-profile literary adaptations, family films and animated pics.
Picture Tree Intl. presents Martin Schreier’s “Traumfabrik,” a period-piece love letter to East Germany’s famed Defa film studios, now known as Studio Babelsberg. Produced by the late Tom Zickler, the romantic drama follows a young studio extra’s ambitious efforts to reunite with the French girl he loves after being separated by the construction of the Berlin Wall. The film, which opens the 50th Goa Film Festival on Nov. 20, has already sold in major territories around the world,...
Leading sales companies are presenting the gamut of romantic dramas, arthouse works, high-profile literary adaptations, family films and animated pics.
Picture Tree Intl. presents Martin Schreier’s “Traumfabrik,” a period-piece love letter to East Germany’s famed Defa film studios, now known as Studio Babelsberg. Produced by the late Tom Zickler, the romantic drama follows a young studio extra’s ambitious efforts to reunite with the French girl he loves after being separated by the construction of the Berlin Wall. The film, which opens the 50th Goa Film Festival on Nov. 20, has already sold in major territories around the world,...
- 11/8/2019
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
STXinternational’s Hustlers arrives on $4.5m.
September 16 Update: It: Chapter Two held on to its number one worldwide and international box office crowns on a confirmed $46.6m for $169.1m and an estimated $87.3m for $323m, respectively, as the franchise crossed $1bn globally in the second weekend of the sequel’s release.
Meanwhile Focus Features’ Downton Abbey film version of the TV series stormed into the UK on $6.3m, and Sony’s Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood has become Quentin Tarantino’s second highest global release. STXinternational’s Hustlers arrived on $4.5m.
Warner Bros Pictures International
Updated: The It franchise...
September 16 Update: It: Chapter Two held on to its number one worldwide and international box office crowns on a confirmed $46.6m for $169.1m and an estimated $87.3m for $323m, respectively, as the franchise crossed $1bn globally in the second weekend of the sequel’s release.
Meanwhile Focus Features’ Downton Abbey film version of the TV series stormed into the UK on $6.3m, and Sony’s Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood has become Quentin Tarantino’s second highest global release. STXinternational’s Hustlers arrived on $4.5m.
Warner Bros Pictures International
Updated: The It franchise...
- 9/15/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
STXinternational’s Hustlers arrives on $4.5m.
It: Chapter Two held on to its number one worldwide and international box office crowns on $47m for $169.5m and $87.7m for $323.3m, respectively, as the franchise crossed $1bn globally in the second weekend of the sequel’s release.
Meanwhile Focus Features’ Downton Abbey film version of the TV series stormed into the UK on $6.3m, and Sony’s Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood has become Quentin Tarantino’s second highest global release. STXinternational’s Hustlers arrived on $4.5m.
Warner Bros Pictures International
The It franchise has amassed $1.023bn worldwide from two films.
It: Chapter Two held on to its number one worldwide and international box office crowns on $47m for $169.5m and $87.7m for $323.3m, respectively, as the franchise crossed $1bn globally in the second weekend of the sequel’s release.
Meanwhile Focus Features’ Downton Abbey film version of the TV series stormed into the UK on $6.3m, and Sony’s Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood has become Quentin Tarantino’s second highest global release. STXinternational’s Hustlers arrived on $4.5m.
Warner Bros Pictures International
The It franchise has amassed $1.023bn worldwide from two films.
- 9/15/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Komplizen Film will work on Vanessa Jopp’s adaptation of Daniel Glattauer novel.
Komplizen Film, the producer of Maren Ade’s offbeat comedy Toni Erdmann, is to partner with Sony Pictures on Vanessa Jopp’s forthcoming adaptation of Austrian writer Daniel Glattauer’s international bestseller Love Virtually.
Sony’s German production arm will serve as Komplizen Film’s co-producer alongside Erfttal Film, with Sony Pictures releasing the film theatrically in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
Former European Shooting Star Alexander Fehling (Three Peaks) and Nora Tschirner (Rabbit Without Ears) are to headline the cast which will also include Swiss actress Ella Rumpf who appeared in last year’s Panorama title Tiger Girl.
UK-born, Hamburg-based screenwriter Jane Ainscough has adapted Glattauer’s epistolary novel about a love affair conducted entirely by email for Jopp, whose previous films include drama Happy As One.
“I would like to make a wonderful, warm and profound romantic film which will have poetic, magic moments...
Komplizen Film, the producer of Maren Ade’s offbeat comedy Toni Erdmann, is to partner with Sony Pictures on Vanessa Jopp’s forthcoming adaptation of Austrian writer Daniel Glattauer’s international bestseller Love Virtually.
Sony’s German production arm will serve as Komplizen Film’s co-producer alongside Erfttal Film, with Sony Pictures releasing the film theatrically in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
Former European Shooting Star Alexander Fehling (Three Peaks) and Nora Tschirner (Rabbit Without Ears) are to headline the cast which will also include Swiss actress Ella Rumpf who appeared in last year’s Panorama title Tiger Girl.
UK-born, Hamburg-based screenwriter Jane Ainscough has adapted Glattauer’s epistolary novel about a love affair conducted entirely by email for Jopp, whose previous films include drama Happy As One.
“I would like to make a wonderful, warm and profound romantic film which will have poetic, magic moments...
- 2/16/2018
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
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