The ever-busy Japanese character actor Tadanobu Asano — currently having a moment as one of the stars of Disney’s hit samurai series Shōgun — has joined the cast of Thai director Pen-ek Ratanaruang’s upcoming culinary thriller Morte Cucina. The actor and director last collaborated two decades ago on the romantic crime film Last Life in the Universe (2003), which was Thailand’s official submission to the Oscars that year and won Asano the best actor award at the Venice Film Festival.
Set in contemporary Bangkok, Morte Cucina follows a talented young female chef named Sao who has a chance encounter with a man who sexually abused her when she was a teen. “Using her talents in the kitchen, Sao sets her plan of revenge in motion — achieving a rather unexpected result,” the film’s logline reads.
The project’s producers are keeping the nature of Asano’s role under wraps for now,...
Set in contemporary Bangkok, Morte Cucina follows a talented young female chef named Sao who has a chance encounter with a man who sexually abused her when she was a teen. “Using her talents in the kitchen, Sao sets her plan of revenge in motion — achieving a rather unexpected result,” the film’s logline reads.
The project’s producers are keeping the nature of Asano’s role under wraps for now,...
- 3/26/2024
- by Patrick Brzeski
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
After landing in Cannes with outstanding French-Moroccan cinema items in the Un Certain Regard selected Kamal Lazraq’s Hounds (read review) and Directors’ Fortnight selected Faouzi Bensaïdi’s Déserts (see interview) Saïd Hamich Benlarbi will be taking his producer’s hat and alternating with the director’s clapperboard for his sophomore feature which just added some new players. According to Le Film Francais reports Saïd Hamich Benlarbi will direct Anna Mouglalis and Grégoire Colin (along with the already cast Ayoub Gretaa) in that La Mer Au Loin. Benlarbi will produce via his label Barney Production along with The Jokers’ Manuel Chiche. His debut film Return to Bollene received a prestigious Louis Delluc award nomination.…...
- 10/30/2023
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
Oscar winner Bong Joon-ho’s 2006 monster movie “The Host” is among Paris-based distributor The Jokers Films’ recent releases, made available for the first time ever as a 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray edition.
The Jokers’ other new French release, the 4K restoration of Bruce Weber’s 1988 Chet Baker doc “Let’s Get Lost,” also screened at the Lumière Festival in Lyon with Weber in attendance.
Describing the film’s sound and 4K restoration as “sublime,” The Jokers head Manuel Chiche says, “‘Let’s Get Lost’ is now a timeless classic not only about life but also about art and creation.”
“Let’s Get Lost” is due to hit French theaters in summer 2024.
“The Host,” meanwhile, premiered earlier this year in France with a special screening, along with the Oscar-winning “Parasite,” and master class by Bong at Paris’ famed Grand Rex theater and also unspooled at the Institut Lumière in Lyon as part of a Bong retrospective.
The Jokers’ other new French release, the 4K restoration of Bruce Weber’s 1988 Chet Baker doc “Let’s Get Lost,” also screened at the Lumière Festival in Lyon with Weber in attendance.
Describing the film’s sound and 4K restoration as “sublime,” The Jokers head Manuel Chiche says, “‘Let’s Get Lost’ is now a timeless classic not only about life but also about art and creation.”
“Let’s Get Lost” is due to hit French theaters in summer 2024.
“The Host,” meanwhile, premiered earlier this year in France with a special screening, along with the Oscar-winning “Parasite,” and master class by Bong at Paris’ famed Grand Rex theater and also unspooled at the Institut Lumière in Lyon as part of a Bong retrospective.
- 10/18/2023
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
Acclaimed Thai auteur Pen-ek Ratanaruang is reteaming with veteran, Asia-based cinematographer Christopher Doyle for a subversive psychological thriller set in the colorful world of Thai cuisine.
Bangkok-set film Morte Cucina follows a talented young female chef named Sao who has a chance encounter with a man who sexually abused her when she was a teen. “Using her talents in the kitchen, Sao sets her plan of revenge in motion — achieving a rather unexpected result,” the film’s logline reads.
Morte Cucina is co-written by Pen-ek and Kongdej Jaturanrasamee (Hunger, Faces of Anne). It will be Pen-ek’s first feature since his noir crime thriller Samui Song, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2017. The project reunites the Thai auteur and Doyle for the first time since their 2003 project together, Last Life in the Universe, which was Thailand’s official submission to the Oscars that year, and also won its Japanese star,...
Bangkok-set film Morte Cucina follows a talented young female chef named Sao who has a chance encounter with a man who sexually abused her when she was a teen. “Using her talents in the kitchen, Sao sets her plan of revenge in motion — achieving a rather unexpected result,” the film’s logline reads.
Morte Cucina is co-written by Pen-ek and Kongdej Jaturanrasamee (Hunger, Faces of Anne). It will be Pen-ek’s first feature since his noir crime thriller Samui Song, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2017. The project reunites the Thai auteur and Doyle for the first time since their 2003 project together, Last Life in the Universe, which was Thailand’s official submission to the Oscars that year, and also won its Japanese star,...
- 6/1/2023
- by Patrick Brzeski
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Up-and-coming Moroccan filmmaker Saïd Hamich Benlarbi is developing a brace of projects as a producer and director, notably “La mer au loin” which won one of the two top prizes at the Marrakech Film Festival’s Atlas Workshops.
Produced by Hamich Benlarbi’s Paris-based banner Barney Production and Manuel Chiche’s company The Jokers, “La mer au loin” is a 1990’s-set melodrama laced with Rai, a form of lyrical Algerian folk music .
The movie takes place in Marseille, in the South of France, and follows a young Arab immigrant living illegally in the city who falls in love with a woman who happens to be married with a cop.
Citing Todd Haynes and Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Hamich Benlarbi said “La mer au loin” will “explore the concept of identity and how one defines it through exile.” He said the movie will talk about “Rai, love and friendship” and be “festive...
Produced by Hamich Benlarbi’s Paris-based banner Barney Production and Manuel Chiche’s company The Jokers, “La mer au loin” is a 1990’s-set melodrama laced with Rai, a form of lyrical Algerian folk music .
The movie takes place in Marseille, in the South of France, and follows a young Arab immigrant living illegally in the city who falls in love with a woman who happens to be married with a cop.
Citing Todd Haynes and Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Hamich Benlarbi said “La mer au loin” will “explore the concept of identity and how one defines it through exile.” He said the movie will talk about “Rai, love and friendship” and be “festive...
- 11/19/2022
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Amjad Al Rasheed’s “Inshallah A Boy,” Luck Razanajaona’s “Disco Afrika,” and Boubacar Sangaré’s “A Golden Life” claimed a trio of post-production prizes at this year’s Atlas Workshops, which ran from Nov. 14–17 as part of the Marrakech Film Festival.
The Moroccan festival’s industry platform, this 5th edition of the Atlas Workshops saw a return to in-person events after two years online, and with it, a welcome reception from the 250 professional delegates who turned out to support the 23 selected projects – in development, production and post-production – with mentorship sessions, targeted consulting and, finally, 109,000 in prize money split between the eight winning titles.
Directed by Amjad Al Rasheed, produced by Rula Nasser of The Imaginarium Films, and winner of this year’s top prize at Venice Final Cut, the Jordanian drama “Inshallah A Boy” can now add a 25,000 Atlas Workshops post-production grant to an already hefty list honors (that...
The Moroccan festival’s industry platform, this 5th edition of the Atlas Workshops saw a return to in-person events after two years online, and with it, a welcome reception from the 250 professional delegates who turned out to support the 23 selected projects – in development, production and post-production – with mentorship sessions, targeted consulting and, finally, 109,000 in prize money split between the eight winning titles.
Directed by Amjad Al Rasheed, produced by Rula Nasser of The Imaginarium Films, and winner of this year’s top prize at Venice Final Cut, the Jordanian drama “Inshallah A Boy” can now add a 25,000 Atlas Workshops post-production grant to an already hefty list honors (that...
- 11/18/2022
- by Ben Croll
- Variety Film + TV
Fast-rising film production and investment company Logical Pictures has acquired The Jokers Films, a well-respected French distribution company boasting long-term bonds with Bong Joon-ho and Nicolas Winding Refn, among other filmmakers.
Under the deal, The Jokers Films, which is presided over by Manuel Chiche, will be integrated within Logical Pictures. Chiche, a forward-thinking French industry veteran who’s been one of the country’s top distributors for Asian and independent American films, will also become a partner in Logical Pictures while continuing to lead The Jokers Films.
Headed by Frédéric Fiore, Logical Pictures was founded in 2016 as a financial and co-production banner and has now expanded into different entertainment fields through key investments in banners such as Pulsar Content, Marie Garrett and Gilles Sousa’s sales company whose recent titles include Elie Grappe’s “Olga” and Stephen Fingleton’s “Nightride;” Loveboat, an advertising and branded content outfit; Black Mic Mac,...
Under the deal, The Jokers Films, which is presided over by Manuel Chiche, will be integrated within Logical Pictures. Chiche, a forward-thinking French industry veteran who’s been one of the country’s top distributors for Asian and independent American films, will also become a partner in Logical Pictures while continuing to lead The Jokers Films.
Headed by Frédéric Fiore, Logical Pictures was founded in 2016 as a financial and co-production banner and has now expanded into different entertainment fields through key investments in banners such as Pulsar Content, Marie Garrett and Gilles Sousa’s sales company whose recent titles include Elie Grappe’s “Olga” and Stephen Fingleton’s “Nightride;” Loveboat, an advertising and branded content outfit; Black Mic Mac,...
- 5/5/2022
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Altered Innocence has picked up U.S. rights to Fabrice du Welz’s dark contemporary fairytale “Adoration,” which premiered at Locarno Film Festival. A release is planned for summer.
“Adoration” combines a violent thriller with a romantic sexual awakening story, capturing the teenage intensity of “amour fou.” It features rising stars Thomas Gioria (“Custody”) and Fantine Harduin (Michael Haneke’s “Happy End”). The film is the finale to the director’s Ardennes trilogy, following “Calvaire” and “Alleluia.”
As well as Locarno, the film played at leading genre festivals such as Fantastic Fest and Sitges, where it won the Special Prize of the Jury, and Rotterdam.
The film follows shy 12-year-old Paul who lives near a psychiatric institute. After an encounter with a patient there, the troubled yet beautiful Gloria, he becomes infatuated and vows to protect her. Insisting the doctors are holding her hostage for an inheritance, the two escape...
“Adoration” combines a violent thriller with a romantic sexual awakening story, capturing the teenage intensity of “amour fou.” It features rising stars Thomas Gioria (“Custody”) and Fantine Harduin (Michael Haneke’s “Happy End”). The film is the finale to the director’s Ardennes trilogy, following “Calvaire” and “Alleluia.”
As well as Locarno, the film played at leading genre festivals such as Fantastic Fest and Sitges, where it won the Special Prize of the Jury, and Rotterdam.
The film follows shy 12-year-old Paul who lives near a psychiatric institute. After an encounter with a patient there, the troubled yet beautiful Gloria, he becomes infatuated and vows to protect her. Insisting the doctors are holding her hostage for an inheritance, the two escape...
- 1/20/2021
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Pre-sales for “The Peasants,” the new film from Oscar-nominated “Loving Vincent” director Dorota Kobiela, have kicked off with a sale to The Jokers for distribution in France, brokered by New Europe Film Sales.
Following on the success of “Loving Vincent,” which grossed more than $50 million at the global box office, “The Peasants” will be produced with the same painting technique. The team has just finished the live-action shoot, the first stage of the long production process.
“The Peasants” makes use of a wide repertoire of realist and pre-impressionist paintings to depict the Nobel prize-winning novel of Wladyslaw Reymont. Set at the end of the 19th century, it tells a story of love and life in a small community, where rules and traditions dictate everyone’s role.
Manuel Chiche, The Jokers’ president, said: “’The Peasants,’ directed by the extremely talented Dorota Kobiela is a powerful story about the fight of a...
Following on the success of “Loving Vincent,” which grossed more than $50 million at the global box office, “The Peasants” will be produced with the same painting technique. The team has just finished the live-action shoot, the first stage of the long production process.
“The Peasants” makes use of a wide repertoire of realist and pre-impressionist paintings to depict the Nobel prize-winning novel of Wladyslaw Reymont. Set at the end of the 19th century, it tells a story of love and life in a small community, where rules and traditions dictate everyone’s role.
Manuel Chiche, The Jokers’ president, said: “’The Peasants,’ directed by the extremely talented Dorota Kobiela is a powerful story about the fight of a...
- 11/2/2020
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Céline Petit, a revered French publicist who worked at the Public Systeme Cinema on a number of festivals, died on Friday due to illness. She was 45.
Petit’s death was confirmed by Bruno Barde, the managing director of the Public Systeme Cinema, where she worked for 18 years. Petit was in charge of the press relations at the Public Systeme, a French PR firm that organizes key film events such as the Deauville and Beaune festivals. She worked closely with talents such as filmmakers Nicolas Winding Refn and Park Chan-wook.
“We loved her like a daughter, like a friend, like a sister. She worked by our side for 18 years and the Public Systeme Cinema was part of her family…Celine, in her work, refused to give in to the mediocrity and championed films which she was in charge of, with the fighting spirit and the track record of a thriving professional,...
Petit’s death was confirmed by Bruno Barde, the managing director of the Public Systeme Cinema, where she worked for 18 years. Petit was in charge of the press relations at the Public Systeme, a French PR firm that organizes key film events such as the Deauville and Beaune festivals. She worked closely with talents such as filmmakers Nicolas Winding Refn and Park Chan-wook.
“We loved her like a daughter, like a friend, like a sister. She worked by our side for 18 years and the Public Systeme Cinema was part of her family…Celine, in her work, refused to give in to the mediocrity and championed films which she was in charge of, with the fighting spirit and the track record of a thriving professional,...
- 10/19/2020
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
France’s The Jokers Films has acquired French rights to the project, directed by Banjong Pisanthanakun.
The Wailing director Na Hong-jin is producing a Thai supernatural film, directed by Banjong Pisanthanakun, whose 2013 Pee Mak is Thailand’s highest-grossing film of all time.
Major South Korean investor-distributor Showbox announced the project today (September 23) along with news that the film has been pre-sold to The Jokers Films for France.
The film, which deals with shamanism, has the Thai working title of Rang-Zong, meaning ‘medium’.
It will be Na’s first film since his bombshell Cannes horror title The Wailing in 2016. The Korean...
The Wailing director Na Hong-jin is producing a Thai supernatural film, directed by Banjong Pisanthanakun, whose 2013 Pee Mak is Thailand’s highest-grossing film of all time.
Major South Korean investor-distributor Showbox announced the project today (September 23) along with news that the film has been pre-sold to The Jokers Films for France.
The film, which deals with shamanism, has the Thai working title of Rang-Zong, meaning ‘medium’.
It will be Na’s first film since his bombshell Cannes horror title The Wailing in 2016. The Korean...
- 9/23/2020
- by Jean Noh
- ScreenDaily
Parallel section unveils slimmed down, France-focused 2020 selection.
Cannes Critics’ Week has unveiled the five features and ten shorts selected for its special 2020 Semaine de la Critique label, created in response to the fact that its 59th edition could not take place this year due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Four of the five features hail from France with UK-Pakistani filmmaker Aleem Khan’s After Love the only non-French title in the selection.
Three of the French selections are first films: Anna Cazenave Cambet’s Gold For Dogs, Chloé Mazlo’s Skies Of Lebanon and Just Philippot’s The Swarm. They are...
Cannes Critics’ Week has unveiled the five features and ten shorts selected for its special 2020 Semaine de la Critique label, created in response to the fact that its 59th edition could not take place this year due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Four of the five features hail from France with UK-Pakistani filmmaker Aleem Khan’s After Love the only non-French title in the selection.
Three of the French selections are first films: Anna Cazenave Cambet’s Gold For Dogs, Chloé Mazlo’s Skies Of Lebanon and Just Philippot’s The Swarm. They are...
- 6/4/2020
- by 1100388¦Melanie Goodfellow¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
La Nuée
Promising to be one of 2020’s more bizarre debut is Just Philippot’s La Nuée (The Swarm), produced by Thierry Lounas and Manuel Chiche. Suliane Brahim (“Black Spot” – the French “Fleabag”) and Sofiane Khammes are among the cast in the production lensed by Romain Carcanade. Philippot’s 2016 short “Ses souffles” was shortlisted for a Cesar and his 2018 short “Acid” competed at Sundance and the national competition at Clermont-Ferrand.
Gist: Written by Jérôme Genevray and Franck Victor, in order to save her farm from bankruptcy, a single mother breeds edible grasshoppers but then begins to have a strange, obsessive relationship with them.…...
Promising to be one of 2020’s more bizarre debut is Just Philippot’s La Nuée (The Swarm), produced by Thierry Lounas and Manuel Chiche. Suliane Brahim (“Black Spot” – the French “Fleabag”) and Sofiane Khammes are among the cast in the production lensed by Romain Carcanade. Philippot’s 2016 short “Ses souffles” was shortlisted for a Cesar and his 2018 short “Acid” competed at Sundance and the national competition at Clermont-Ferrand.
Gist: Written by Jérôme Genevray and Franck Victor, in order to save her farm from bankruptcy, a single mother breeds edible grasshoppers but then begins to have a strange, obsessive relationship with them.…...
- 12/31/2019
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Slate also features directorial duo Gustave Kervern and Benoit Delépine’s comedy drama Delete History.
Wild Bunch has boarded sales on Just Philippot’s fantasy drama The Swarm about a woman who develops an obsessional bond with grasshoppers she is breeding as a high-protein crop.
The film, produced by Capricci and Manuel Chiche’s The Jokers Films, is a first feature for Philippot.
The emerging French director participated in Sundance’s international shorts competition earlier this year with his Canal+ acquired short film Acide, about a disturbing acidic cloud which passes over a country spreading panic.
In The Swarm, Suliane Brahim...
Wild Bunch has boarded sales on Just Philippot’s fantasy drama The Swarm about a woman who develops an obsessional bond with grasshoppers she is breeding as a high-protein crop.
The film, produced by Capricci and Manuel Chiche’s The Jokers Films, is a first feature for Philippot.
The emerging French director participated in Sundance’s international shorts competition earlier this year with his Canal+ acquired short film Acide, about a disturbing acidic cloud which passes over a country spreading panic.
In The Swarm, Suliane Brahim...
- 10/30/2019
- by 1100380¦Melanie Goodfellow¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
Lyon, France — Manuel Chiche is riding high. Since June, his boutique distribution outlet The Jokers set admission records with Bong Joon-ho’s “Parasite,” selling nearly 1.7 million tickets in France and still going strong as the film heads into its 19th week in theaters. Indeed, “Parasite” is now the second most successful Palme d’Or winner of the 21st century at the French box office – but don’t expect Chiche or any of his outfits to scale up as a result.
“We want to remains as artisans, in a business that doesn’t always allow for that,” says the French exec, who also runs reissue outfit La Rabbia. On the occasion of this year’s Lumière Festival, Variety sat down with Chiche for a kind state of the industry on the French reissue landscape.
Is there a particular time of year most amenable to reissues?
In France, it’s always in the summer.
“We want to remains as artisans, in a business that doesn’t always allow for that,” says the French exec, who also runs reissue outfit La Rabbia. On the occasion of this year’s Lumière Festival, Variety sat down with Chiche for a kind state of the industry on the French reissue landscape.
Is there a particular time of year most amenable to reissues?
In France, it’s always in the summer.
- 10/16/2019
- by Ben Croll
- Variety Film + TV
The first footage from psychological thriller “Muscle” has dropped ahead of its world premiere Friday at the London Film Festival.
Gerard Johnson’s feature, which is filmed entirely in black and white, is set in a testosterone-fueled world of hardcore gyms. It follows Simon (Cavan Clerkin), a directionless and unhappy office worker whose life is gradually taken over by domineering personal trainer Terry (Craig Fairbrass).
“Apart from the documentary ‘Pumping Iron,’ real gym culture has never been tackled in film before,” Johnson said. “I want to change that with this original character study. This is a dark psychological thriller, dripping with a true reflection of manhood – what makes you a man – in the eyes of other men, in the eyes of women, in the eyes of the world? How do you protect that? What happens when you find yourself emasculated?”
London-based sales outfit WestEnd Films boarded the project in 2018 and...
Gerard Johnson’s feature, which is filmed entirely in black and white, is set in a testosterone-fueled world of hardcore gyms. It follows Simon (Cavan Clerkin), a directionless and unhappy office worker whose life is gradually taken over by domineering personal trainer Terry (Craig Fairbrass).
“Apart from the documentary ‘Pumping Iron,’ real gym culture has never been tackled in film before,” Johnson said. “I want to change that with this original character study. This is a dark psychological thriller, dripping with a true reflection of manhood – what makes you a man – in the eyes of other men, in the eyes of women, in the eyes of the world? How do you protect that? What happens when you find yourself emasculated?”
London-based sales outfit WestEnd Films boarded the project in 2018 and...
- 10/10/2019
- by Stewart Clarke
- Variety Film + TV
Thriller evolves around a crazed and destructive love story between two teenagers who meet at a psychiatric hospital.
Memento Films International has boarded sales on Belgian director Fabrice du Welz’s thriller Adoration ahead of its premiere on the Locarno Film Festival’s Piazza Grande in August.
It is the final film in du Welz’s Ardennes trilogy set against the backdrop of the rugged, forested region spanning southeast Belgium, Luxembourg, France and Germany.
It revolves around a crazed and destructive love story between two teenagers who meet at a psychiatric hospital and embark on a dangerous trip together.
The...
Memento Films International has boarded sales on Belgian director Fabrice du Welz’s thriller Adoration ahead of its premiere on the Locarno Film Festival’s Piazza Grande in August.
It is the final film in du Welz’s Ardennes trilogy set against the backdrop of the rugged, forested region spanning southeast Belgium, Luxembourg, France and Germany.
It revolves around a crazed and destructive love story between two teenagers who meet at a psychiatric hospital and embark on a dangerous trip together.
The...
- 7/17/2019
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
The Korean Palme d’Or winner has grossed approximately $8m in France to date.
French distributor The Jokers is readying a French-language dubbed version of of Bong Joon Ho’s Palme d’Or-winning black comedy Parasite following its runaway box office success in France.
The film has made history for an Asian arthouse film in France last week hitting the 1m spectator mark on July 3, after its fourth week on release since it was launched in French cinemas on June 5.
As of July 8, the subtitled version had drawn just over 1m spectators for an approximate box office of $8m* (€7.2m) and was playing on 727 screens.
French distributor The Jokers is readying a French-language dubbed version of of Bong Joon Ho’s Palme d’Or-winning black comedy Parasite following its runaway box office success in France.
The film has made history for an Asian arthouse film in France last week hitting the 1m spectator mark on July 3, after its fourth week on release since it was launched in French cinemas on June 5.
As of July 8, the subtitled version had drawn just over 1m spectators for an approximate box office of $8m* (€7.2m) and was playing on 727 screens.
- 7/9/2019
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
On track to equal the $7.5m and 1m admissions of Blue Is The Warmest Colour in 2013.
South Korean director Bong Joon Ho’s Palme d’Or-winning black comedy Parasite has grossed approximately $2.8m* from 378,000 admissions in France in its first week on release. It opened second in the French chart behind Fox’s X-Men: Dark Phoenix which was also released on June 5.
France is the first international territory to release the film after Joon Ho’s home territory of Korea, where it grossed $38m in its first week alone, putting it on track to become the biggest Palme d’Or...
South Korean director Bong Joon Ho’s Palme d’Or-winning black comedy Parasite has grossed approximately $2.8m* from 378,000 admissions in France in its first week on release. It opened second in the French chart behind Fox’s X-Men: Dark Phoenix which was also released on June 5.
France is the first international territory to release the film after Joon Ho’s home territory of Korea, where it grossed $38m in its first week alone, putting it on track to become the biggest Palme d’Or...
- 6/12/2019
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
London-based sales outfit WestEnd Films has released the first-look image from Gerard Johnson’s psychological thriller “Muscle,” which Variety has exclusively.
The movie, which is “dripping in sweat, tears, and testosterone,” according to WestEnd, centers on Simon, an unhappy, unambitious office worker whose life is gradually taken over by Terry, his new, very hands-on personal trainer. Terry soon reveals himself to be more committed — and more dangerous — than Simon could have imagined.
The black-and-white picture, which is in post-production, stars Cavan Clerkin, Craig Fairbrass and Lorraine Burroughs. The original script was penned by Johnson.
Matthew James Wilkinson of Stigma Films is producing alongside Ed Barratt and Richard Wylie of Hook Pictures. Fred Fiore and Eric Tavitian of Logical Pictures are both producing and fully financing the film. Céline Dornier and Alan Martin, Logical Pictures, and Manuel Chiche, The Jokers, serve as exec producers.
WestEnd is showing exclusive new footage to...
The movie, which is “dripping in sweat, tears, and testosterone,” according to WestEnd, centers on Simon, an unhappy, unambitious office worker whose life is gradually taken over by Terry, his new, very hands-on personal trainer. Terry soon reveals himself to be more committed — and more dangerous — than Simon could have imagined.
The black-and-white picture, which is in post-production, stars Cavan Clerkin, Craig Fairbrass and Lorraine Burroughs. The original script was penned by Johnson.
Matthew James Wilkinson of Stigma Films is producing alongside Ed Barratt and Richard Wylie of Hook Pictures. Fred Fiore and Eric Tavitian of Logical Pictures are both producing and fully financing the film. Céline Dornier and Alan Martin, Logical Pictures, and Manuel Chiche, The Jokers, serve as exec producers.
WestEnd is showing exclusive new footage to...
- 2/10/2019
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Jessica Brown Findlay stars in project from director Christopher Smith.
Christopher Smith’s upcoming horror The Banishing has sold to multiple key territories for sales outfit WestEnd Films.
The Jokers, who are co-producing the project with WestEnd, has now come onboard to distribute in France, while deals are also done for Germany and Switzerland (Koch Media), Latin America (Leda), Middle East (Ecs), Taiwan (Vie Vision), Malaysia and the Philippines (Suraya), Indonesia (Pt Prima) and Vietnam (Blue Lantern).
Screen can also unveil a first look at Jessica Brown Findlay in the film, which stars her alongside Sean Harris, John Heffernan, and John Lynch.
Christopher Smith’s upcoming horror The Banishing has sold to multiple key territories for sales outfit WestEnd Films.
The Jokers, who are co-producing the project with WestEnd, has now come onboard to distribute in France, while deals are also done for Germany and Switzerland (Koch Media), Latin America (Leda), Middle East (Ecs), Taiwan (Vie Vision), Malaysia and the Philippines (Suraya), Indonesia (Pt Prima) and Vietnam (Blue Lantern).
Screen can also unveil a first look at Jessica Brown Findlay in the film, which stars her alongside Sean Harris, John Heffernan, and John Lynch.
- 2/9/2019
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
Animation has also sold to France and China, with the latter taking equity in the film.
Korean studio New and its sales arm Contents Panda have announced a raft of deals on animation Underdog including sales to the Us and Canada (Well Go USA), France (The Jokers Films) and China (Fashion League).
Fashion League has taken equity in the film and also picked up rights to a slew of Asian territories including Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and Hong Kong.
The film is co-directed by Oh Sung-yoon and Lee Choon-baek, who worked together on Leafie, A Hen Into The Wild, which broke local animation box office records.
Korean studio New and its sales arm Contents Panda have announced a raft of deals on animation Underdog including sales to the Us and Canada (Well Go USA), France (The Jokers Films) and China (Fashion League).
Fashion League has taken equity in the film and also picked up rights to a slew of Asian territories including Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and Hong Kong.
The film is co-directed by Oh Sung-yoon and Lee Choon-baek, who worked together on Leafie, A Hen Into The Wild, which broke local animation box office records.
- 12/14/2018
- by Jean Noh
- ScreenDaily
“We have the same DNA” says Logical president Frédéric Fiore.
French film production and film financing company Logical Pictures has taken a minority stake in Manuel Chiche’s Paris-based genre distributor The Jokers.
“We have the same DNA,” said Frédéric Fiore, president of Logical Pictures. ”Beyond the films we have in common, Manuel’s input has been invaluable across our whole line-up.
The Jokers is set to distribute two upcoming films either produced or part financed by Logical: Eric Cherrière’s medieval action drama No Gods No Masters and Gerard Johnson’s English-language thriller Muscle, starring Craig Fairbrass.
Fiore said...
French film production and film financing company Logical Pictures has taken a minority stake in Manuel Chiche’s Paris-based genre distributor The Jokers.
“We have the same DNA,” said Frédéric Fiore, president of Logical Pictures. ”Beyond the films we have in common, Manuel’s input has been invaluable across our whole line-up.
The Jokers is set to distribute two upcoming films either produced or part financed by Logical: Eric Cherrière’s medieval action drama No Gods No Masters and Gerard Johnson’s English-language thriller Muscle, starring Craig Fairbrass.
Fiore said...
- 5/13/2018
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Paris-based Backup Media has acquired multi-territory rights to Joe Penna’s feature debut “Arctic,” a gripping survival thriller starring Mads Mikkelsen (“Hannibal”) which will make its world premiere at Cannes Film Festival in the Midnight section.
Written by Penna and Ryan Morrison, “Arctic” follows Mikkelsen as a man stranded in the Arctic who is finally about to receive his long-awaited rescue. However, after a tragic accident, his opportunity is lost, and he must decide whether to remain in the relative safety of his camp, or to embark on a deadly trek through the unknown for potential salvation.
Armory Films’s Chris Lemole and Tim Zajaros, the duo behind Dee Rees’s Oscar-nominated “Mudbound,” produced “Arctic” alongside Noah C Haeussner of Union. Martha de Laurentiis, Manu Gargi and Einar Thorsteinsson exec produced the film. Xyz Films is representing the international rights with CAA/UTA handling domestic.
Christopher Lemole and Tim Zajaros...
Written by Penna and Ryan Morrison, “Arctic” follows Mikkelsen as a man stranded in the Arctic who is finally about to receive his long-awaited rescue. However, after a tragic accident, his opportunity is lost, and he must decide whether to remain in the relative safety of his camp, or to embark on a deadly trek through the unknown for potential salvation.
Armory Films’s Chris Lemole and Tim Zajaros, the duo behind Dee Rees’s Oscar-nominated “Mudbound,” produced “Arctic” alongside Noah C Haeussner of Union. Martha de Laurentiis, Manu Gargi and Einar Thorsteinsson exec produced the film. Xyz Films is representing the international rights with CAA/UTA handling domestic.
Christopher Lemole and Tim Zajaros...
- 4/30/2018
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Watch: Screen caught up with Mubi’s Efe Cakarel and The Jokers Films’s Manuel Chiche.
Screen sat down at Cannes Film Festival with Efe Cakarel (Mubi) and Manuel Chice (The Jokers Films) to ask - is the success of VOD platforms good news for the independent film industry?
Mobile users can watch the video on Youtube by clicking here.
The video was supported by Curzon Home Cinema and Under The Milky Way.
Screen sat down at Cannes Film Festival with Efe Cakarel (Mubi) and Manuel Chice (The Jokers Films) to ask - is the success of VOD platforms good news for the independent film industry?
Mobile users can watch the video on Youtube by clicking here.
The video was supported by Curzon Home Cinema and Under The Milky Way.
- 5/21/2017
- ScreenDaily
Rumble Films is producing the fighting drama.
Paris-based Backup Media will fully finance writer-director Tim Sutton’s Donnybrook, which is being produced by Whiplash producer David Lancaster through his outfit Rumble Films.
Adapted from Frank Bill’s 2013 noir novel of the same name, the film tells the story of a man hard up for cash and determined to support his family who competes in the Donnybrook, a legendary, bare-knuckle brawl where a $100,000 prize goes to the last man standing.
Production is scheduled for August 2017 in Southern Ohio in the Us.
According to Backup Media, distribution deals are being finalised for Germany, Switzerland, Benelux and Austria, while Manuel Chiche and The Jokers will co-produce and release the film in France.
Lancaster is producing with Stephanie Wilcox of Rumble Films. The two companies have previously collaborated on Fabrice du Welz’ Message From The King and Evan Katz’ Small Crimes.
UTA Independent Film Group is representing North America.
Launched in 2002, finance...
Paris-based Backup Media will fully finance writer-director Tim Sutton’s Donnybrook, which is being produced by Whiplash producer David Lancaster through his outfit Rumble Films.
Adapted from Frank Bill’s 2013 noir novel of the same name, the film tells the story of a man hard up for cash and determined to support his family who competes in the Donnybrook, a legendary, bare-knuckle brawl where a $100,000 prize goes to the last man standing.
Production is scheduled for August 2017 in Southern Ohio in the Us.
According to Backup Media, distribution deals are being finalised for Germany, Switzerland, Benelux and Austria, while Manuel Chiche and The Jokers will co-produce and release the film in France.
Lancaster is producing with Stephanie Wilcox of Rumble Films. The two companies have previously collaborated on Fabrice du Welz’ Message From The King and Evan Katz’ Small Crimes.
UTA Independent Film Group is representing North America.
Launched in 2002, finance...
- 5/11/2017
- by tom.grater@screendaily.com (Tom Grater)
- ScreenDaily
It is definitely an exciting time as a film fan to see the Western genre back in a major way in all its forms (horror, thriller, drama). Brimstone, written and directed by Martin Koolhoven, premiered last September at Toronto International Film Festival (Tiff), but now we all can get a glimpse at the film in its official trailer.
From the Press Release: Los Angeles – Oct. 20, 2016 – Momentum Pictures announced today that it has acquired North American rights to the western/thriller Brimstone. The film, which first premiered in September at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival to positive reviews, is written and directed by Martin Koolhoven. It stars Dakota Fanning (Man on Fire), Guy Pearce (L.A. Confidential), Kit Harrington (“Game of Thrones”), Carice van Houten (“Game of Thrones”) and Emilia Jones (Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides). Momentum Pictures will be releasing Brimstone in theaters and on VOD in March...
From the Press Release: Los Angeles – Oct. 20, 2016 – Momentum Pictures announced today that it has acquired North American rights to the western/thriller Brimstone. The film, which first premiered in September at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival to positive reviews, is written and directed by Martin Koolhoven. It stars Dakota Fanning (Man on Fire), Guy Pearce (L.A. Confidential), Kit Harrington (“Game of Thrones”), Carice van Houten (“Game of Thrones”) and Emilia Jones (Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides). Momentum Pictures will be releasing Brimstone in theaters and on VOD in March...
- 1/26/2017
- by Tamika Jones
- DailyDead
Exclusive: Director with focus on Aboriginal culture revisits western genre from indigenous perspective.
Memento Films International has taken on world sales of Warwick Thornton’s Sweet Country, an Australian frontier drama set in the 1920s told from an aboriginal perspective.
The film is scheduled to shoot mid-November in Alice Springs, Australia and will be ready for Cannes 2017. The confirmed cast includes Sam Neill, Bryan Brown and Ewen Leslie.
Memento will be starting sales at script stage at Afm. Manuel Chiche’s Paris-based The Jokers has already taken French Rights.
“The project resonates so much with today’s issues of injustice and racism, it’s uncanny. The script manages at the same time to pack a lot of action and to paint a subtle (and quite hard) portrait of a nation being built,” commented Mfi sales chief Tanja Meissner.
It marks a third feature for Thornton after Samson & Delilah, which won the Caméra d’Or in Cannes in 2009, and...
Memento Films International has taken on world sales of Warwick Thornton’s Sweet Country, an Australian frontier drama set in the 1920s told from an aboriginal perspective.
The film is scheduled to shoot mid-November in Alice Springs, Australia and will be ready for Cannes 2017. The confirmed cast includes Sam Neill, Bryan Brown and Ewen Leslie.
Memento will be starting sales at script stage at Afm. Manuel Chiche’s Paris-based The Jokers has already taken French Rights.
“The project resonates so much with today’s issues of injustice and racism, it’s uncanny. The script manages at the same time to pack a lot of action and to paint a subtle (and quite hard) portrait of a nation being built,” commented Mfi sales chief Tanja Meissner.
It marks a third feature for Thornton after Samson & Delilah, which won the Caméra d’Or in Cannes in 2009, and...
- 11/3/2016
- ScreenDaily
Starring Dakota Fanning, Guy Pearce, and Kit Harington, the Western thriller Brimstone has been acquired by Momentum Pictures for North American distribution, with a release date slated for March of 2017.
Press Release: Los Angeles – Oct. 20, 2016 – Momentum Pictures announced today that it has acquired North American rights to the western/thriller Brimstone. The film, which first premiered in September at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival to positive reviews, is written and directed by Martin Koolhoven. It stars Dakota Fanning (Man on Fire), Guy Pearce (L.A. Confidential), Kit Harrington (“Game of Thrones”), Carice van Houten (“Game of Thrones”) and Emilia Jones (Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides). Momentum Pictures will be releasing Brimstone in theaters and on VOD in March 2017. Momentum Pictures’ Senior Vice President of Content Ian Goggins made the announcement today.
“Dakota Fanning and Guy Pearce’s strong performances truly capture the work and vision of filmmaker Martin Koolhoven,...
Press Release: Los Angeles – Oct. 20, 2016 – Momentum Pictures announced today that it has acquired North American rights to the western/thriller Brimstone. The film, which first premiered in September at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival to positive reviews, is written and directed by Martin Koolhoven. It stars Dakota Fanning (Man on Fire), Guy Pearce (L.A. Confidential), Kit Harrington (“Game of Thrones”), Carice van Houten (“Game of Thrones”) and Emilia Jones (Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides). Momentum Pictures will be releasing Brimstone in theaters and on VOD in March 2017. Momentum Pictures’ Senior Vice President of Content Ian Goggins made the announcement today.
“Dakota Fanning and Guy Pearce’s strong performances truly capture the work and vision of filmmaker Martin Koolhoven,...
- 10/20/2016
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
“I can’t sing, I can’t dance, I can’t write… no real talent. But I’m pretty, and I can make money off pretty.”
Amazon Studio’s The Neon Demon directed by Nicolas Winding Refn, is a sumptuous horror-thriller, set in the highly competitive and often vicious world of fashion modeling, where the term “eat their own” takes on a decidedly new meaning. When aspiring model Jesse moves to Los Angeles, her youth and vitality are devoured by a group of beauty-obsessed women who will use any means necessary to get what she has. The film is co-written by Refn (Bronson, Drive, Only God Forgives, Valhalla Rising), Mary Laws (”Preacher”) and Polly Stenham; and stars Elle Fanning (Maleficent,Super 8), Karl Glusman (Love, Stonewall), Jena Malone (Inherent Vice, The Hunger Games series), Bella Heathcote (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Dark Shadows), Abbey Lee (Gods of Egypt, Max Max:...
Amazon Studio’s The Neon Demon directed by Nicolas Winding Refn, is a sumptuous horror-thriller, set in the highly competitive and often vicious world of fashion modeling, where the term “eat their own” takes on a decidedly new meaning. When aspiring model Jesse moves to Los Angeles, her youth and vitality are devoured by a group of beauty-obsessed women who will use any means necessary to get what she has. The film is co-written by Refn (Bronson, Drive, Only God Forgives, Valhalla Rising), Mary Laws (”Preacher”) and Polly Stenham; and stars Elle Fanning (Maleficent,Super 8), Karl Glusman (Love, Stonewall), Jena Malone (Inherent Vice, The Hunger Games series), Bella Heathcote (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Dark Shadows), Abbey Lee (Gods of Egypt, Max Max:...
- 9/25/2016
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Exclusive: First look at Andrew Hulme’s follow up to Cannes 2014 entry Snow In Paradise.
UK sales outfit Protagonist, riding high off the success of Toronto hit Lady Macbeth, has boarded world sales on Andrew Hulme’s recently wrapped crime-horror The Devil Outside.
Writer-director Hulme’s BFI-backed follow up to his 2014 Cannes Official Selection debut Snow In Paradise charts the story of a young boy (Robert) brought up in a world of evangelical Christianity that has taught him to look for signs and to believe that evil is waiting just outside the front door.
Caught between his mother, who’s determined to bring Jesus’s love to a dead mining town, and his best friend who has introduced him to teenage rebellion, Robert becomes embroiled in a spiritual tug of war as he tries to escape his religious beliefs. It’s then that he discovers a dead body in the woods and realises that God has sent...
UK sales outfit Protagonist, riding high off the success of Toronto hit Lady Macbeth, has boarded world sales on Andrew Hulme’s recently wrapped crime-horror The Devil Outside.
Writer-director Hulme’s BFI-backed follow up to his 2014 Cannes Official Selection debut Snow In Paradise charts the story of a young boy (Robert) brought up in a world of evangelical Christianity that has taught him to look for signs and to believe that evil is waiting just outside the front door.
Caught between his mother, who’s determined to bring Jesus’s love to a dead mining town, and his best friend who has introduced him to teenage rebellion, Robert becomes embroiled in a spiritual tug of war as he tries to escape his religious beliefs. It’s then that he discovers a dead body in the woods and realises that God has sent...
- 9/22/2016
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: The Jokers inks deal with WestEnd for Jeremy Saulnier thriller.
The Jokers Films has acquired French distribution rights to Jeremy Saulnier’s crime thriller Green Room, from WestEnd Films.
Anton Yelchin, Imogen Poots and Patrick Stewart star in the Cannes Directors Fortnight title about four punk rock band members who accidentally witness a murder and find themselves fighting for their lives against a gang of white supremacists.
The deal marks The Jokers’ second collaboration with Blue Ruin director Saulnier.
“Jeremy Saulnier is simply a brilliant director and we didn’t want to let him go anywhere else!”, said The Jokers’ MD Manuel Chiche, who remains a champion of elevated genre having picked up titles including The Raid 2, High-Rise and Nicolas Winding Refn’s upcoming The Neon Demon.
The film is set to be released in France close to A24’s Us release in April 2016.
WestEnd previously sold the Tiff title to UK (Altitude/Picturehouse...
The Jokers Films has acquired French distribution rights to Jeremy Saulnier’s crime thriller Green Room, from WestEnd Films.
Anton Yelchin, Imogen Poots and Patrick Stewart star in the Cannes Directors Fortnight title about four punk rock band members who accidentally witness a murder and find themselves fighting for their lives against a gang of white supremacists.
The deal marks The Jokers’ second collaboration with Blue Ruin director Saulnier.
“Jeremy Saulnier is simply a brilliant director and we didn’t want to let him go anywhere else!”, said The Jokers’ MD Manuel Chiche, who remains a champion of elevated genre having picked up titles including The Raid 2, High-Rise and Nicolas Winding Refn’s upcoming The Neon Demon.
The film is set to be released in France close to A24’s Us release in April 2016.
WestEnd previously sold the Tiff title to UK (Altitude/Picturehouse...
- 11/7/2015
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Distributor picks up French rights to new documentary from Room 237’s Rodney Ascher [pictured].
Wild Side Films has acquired French rights from Content to Rodney Ascher’s The Nightmare.
Content commenced sales on the documentary at the Afm in Santa Monica last November.
The Nightmare was sparked by Ascher’s personal experiences and follows a disturbing investigation into demonic visions undergone by victims of sleep paralysis.
The genre title comes from the Preferred Film & TV joint venture between Content and Ross M Dinerstein and Kevin Iwashina, who produce The Nightmare with Glen Zipper.
Content’s Jamie Carmichael served as executive producer and represents North American rights with Iwashina. Tim Kirk is the co-producer.
“It’s a great testament to Rodney’s talent, combined with such an original and terrifying concept, that two of the finest distributors in the business have joined the film early,” said Content head of sales Harry White.
Wildside’s [link...
Wild Side Films has acquired French rights from Content to Rodney Ascher’s The Nightmare.
Content commenced sales on the documentary at the Afm in Santa Monica last November.
The Nightmare was sparked by Ascher’s personal experiences and follows a disturbing investigation into demonic visions undergone by victims of sleep paralysis.
The genre title comes from the Preferred Film & TV joint venture between Content and Ross M Dinerstein and Kevin Iwashina, who produce The Nightmare with Glen Zipper.
Content’s Jamie Carmichael served as executive producer and represents North American rights with Iwashina. Tim Kirk is the co-producer.
“It’s a great testament to Rodney’s talent, combined with such an original and terrifying concept, that two of the finest distributors in the business have joined the film early,” said Content head of sales Harry White.
Wildside’s [link...
- 2/7/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Re-classification of Nicolas Winding Refn’s Only God Forgives from a certificate 16 to certificate 12 prompts debate.
Having divided critics in Cannes, Nicolas Winding Refn’s ultra-violent thriller Only God Forgives is now dividing France’s ruling Socialist Party.
The picture’s French classification as a certificate 12 has sparked a public spat between former presidential candidate Ségolene Royal and Culture Minister Aurélie Filippetti.
Originally rated a certificate 16, the film’s classification was softened to a certificate 12 ahead of its May 22 release, following an appeal by co-distributors Wild Side Films and Le Pacte.
Under the French film classification system, the Minister Of Culture grants certificates on the advice of a 28-person commission.
Royal said in an interview with a current affairs TV show over the weekend that she believed Filippetti had bowed to “pressure from the producers” when she signed off on the modification.
“I regret that Aurélie Filippetti de-classified an ultra-violent film which was originally forbidden for under...
Having divided critics in Cannes, Nicolas Winding Refn’s ultra-violent thriller Only God Forgives is now dividing France’s ruling Socialist Party.
The picture’s French classification as a certificate 12 has sparked a public spat between former presidential candidate Ségolene Royal and Culture Minister Aurélie Filippetti.
Originally rated a certificate 16, the film’s classification was softened to a certificate 12 ahead of its May 22 release, following an appeal by co-distributors Wild Side Films and Le Pacte.
Under the French film classification system, the Minister Of Culture grants certificates on the advice of a 28-person commission.
Royal said in an interview with a current affairs TV show over the weekend that she believed Filippetti had bowed to “pressure from the producers” when she signed off on the modification.
“I regret that Aurélie Filippetti de-classified an ultra-violent film which was originally forbidden for under...
- 6/4/2013
- ScreenDaily
Exciting news from the Pen-Ek Ratanaruang camp with word that his return to the noir tinged style where he first made his name is now in production and evidently looking good enough that it's already picked up distribution in France.
Titled Headshot we've got the first still from the picture above and here's the official sales announcement with additional details about the film:
Wild Side Goes For Ratanaruang's 'Headshot'
A return to the crime thriller genre by one of Thailand's most acclaimed directors
Bangkok, December 16th 2010 - Headshot, the latest project by renowned Thai director Pen-ek Ratanaruang (6IXTYNIN9, Last Life In The Universe, Ploy), has been acquired by distributor Wild Side for distribution in France. The film is currently in production.
Produced by Local Color Films, whose previous productions include Wisit Sasanatieng's Red Eagle and the omnibus Sawasdee Bangkok, Headshot is a modern film noir adapted from the novel...
Titled Headshot we've got the first still from the picture above and here's the official sales announcement with additional details about the film:
Wild Side Goes For Ratanaruang's 'Headshot'
A return to the crime thriller genre by one of Thailand's most acclaimed directors
Bangkok, December 16th 2010 - Headshot, the latest project by renowned Thai director Pen-ek Ratanaruang (6IXTYNIN9, Last Life In The Universe, Ploy), has been acquired by distributor Wild Side for distribution in France. The film is currently in production.
Produced by Local Color Films, whose previous productions include Wisit Sasanatieng's Red Eagle and the omnibus Sawasdee Bangkok, Headshot is a modern film noir adapted from the novel...
- 12/16/2010
- Screen Anarchy
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