What sacrifices would you make for your job, your family, your lover…or even your sanity?
The trailer for writer/director Jordan Scott’s “A Sacrifice” propels audiences into a twisted game of untangling the motivations for a father-daughter duo caught on the periphery of a cult. Inspired by Nicholas Hogg’s 2015 novel “Tokyo Nobody,” the feature follows American social-psychologist Ben Monroe (Eric Bana) who is investigating a local Berlin cult connected to disturbing events.
While he immerses himself in his work, his rebellious teenage daughter, Mazzy (Sadie Sink), becomes embroiled with a mysterious local boy (Jonas Dassler) who introduces her to the city’s underground party scene. As their two worlds head toward a dangerous intersection, Ben must race against the clock to save his family.
Sylvia Hoeks, Sophie Rois, Stephan Kampwirth, and Lara Feith co-star.
The ever-prolific auteur Ridley Scott produces the film, along with Michael Pruss, Jonas Katzenstein,...
The trailer for writer/director Jordan Scott’s “A Sacrifice” propels audiences into a twisted game of untangling the motivations for a father-daughter duo caught on the periphery of a cult. Inspired by Nicholas Hogg’s 2015 novel “Tokyo Nobody,” the feature follows American social-psychologist Ben Monroe (Eric Bana) who is investigating a local Berlin cult connected to disturbing events.
While he immerses himself in his work, his rebellious teenage daughter, Mazzy (Sadie Sink), becomes embroiled with a mysterious local boy (Jonas Dassler) who introduces her to the city’s underground party scene. As their two worlds head toward a dangerous intersection, Ben must race against the clock to save his family.
Sylvia Hoeks, Sophie Rois, Stephan Kampwirth, and Lara Feith co-star.
The ever-prolific auteur Ridley Scott produces the film, along with Michael Pruss, Jonas Katzenstein,...
- 5/24/2024
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
French film finance, production and distribution group Logical Pictures is out in force in Cannes this year with connections to 11 films, including Competition titles Emilia Perez, Limonov and Parthenope.
The company helped bankroll the Palme d’Or contenders through its three-year co-production and co-financing deal with French major Pathé, which was announced in early 2023 and involves its Logical Content Ventures fund.
Matthieu Delaporte and Alexandre De La Patellière’s The Count of Monte Cristo, which world premieres Out of Competition later this week, was also partly financed under the deal.
Logical Pictures President Frédéric Fiore and COO Yannick Bossenmeyer co-founded Logical Pictures in 2016 with a focus on film finance as well as digital innovation around blockchain and rights management.
Early investments included Coralie Fargeat’s first feature Revenge, Ninja Thyberg’s Pleasure as well as Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo’s The Deep House.
Less than a decade later, the...
The company helped bankroll the Palme d’Or contenders through its three-year co-production and co-financing deal with French major Pathé, which was announced in early 2023 and involves its Logical Content Ventures fund.
Matthieu Delaporte and Alexandre De La Patellière’s The Count of Monte Cristo, which world premieres Out of Competition later this week, was also partly financed under the deal.
Logical Pictures President Frédéric Fiore and COO Yannick Bossenmeyer co-founded Logical Pictures in 2016 with a focus on film finance as well as digital innovation around blockchain and rights management.
Early investments included Coralie Fargeat’s first feature Revenge, Ninja Thyberg’s Pleasure as well as Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo’s The Deep House.
Less than a decade later, the...
- 5/20/2024
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Logical Pictures is launching a new Africa venture that will see the production, financing and distribution outfit expand its global footprint into the fast-growing African market.
According to the group’s head, Frédéric Fiore, the move will help position Logical Pictures as the preferred financing partner on the continent for the international industry and the leading production company of African content with global ambitions.
“Logical Pictures has now established in Europe a uniquely positioned group that can finance, distribute and produce content internationally with outstanding talents,” said Fiore. “With Logical Pictures Africa, we want to emulate a similar ecosystem in one of the most creative places in the world, dovetailing our approach to the specificities of each part of the world.”
Launched in 2016, the Logical Pictures Group has become a leading player in film and TV equity, producing, financing and distributing a range of content in France and internationally through...
According to the group’s head, Frédéric Fiore, the move will help position Logical Pictures as the preferred financing partner on the continent for the international industry and the leading production company of African content with global ambitions.
“Logical Pictures has now established in Europe a uniquely positioned group that can finance, distribute and produce content internationally with outstanding talents,” said Fiore. “With Logical Pictures Africa, we want to emulate a similar ecosystem in one of the most creative places in the world, dovetailing our approach to the specificities of each part of the world.”
Launched in 2016, the Logical Pictures Group has become a leading player in film and TV equity, producing, financing and distributing a range of content in France and internationally through...
- 5/17/2024
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
Vertical Lands Na Rights To Jordan Scott-Directed Thriller ‘A Sacrifice’ With Eric Bana & Sadie Sink
Exclusive: Vertical has closed a North American rights deal for A Sacrifice, writer-director Jordan Scott’s gripping thriller. The film, originally titled Berlin Nobody, is from Ridley Scott’s Scott Free Productions and augenschein Filmproduktion.
A Sacrifice stars Eric Bana (Black Hawk Down), Sadie Sink (Stranger Things & The Whale), Sylvia Hoeks (Blade Runner 2049), Jonas Dassler, Sophie Rois, Stephan Kampwirth, and Lara Feith. Vertical will release the film exclusively in theaters on June 28.
Inspired by Nicholas Hogg’s 2015 novel Tokyo Nobody, A Sacrifice follows American social psychologist Ben Monroe (Bana) who is investigating a local Berlin cult connected to disturbing events. While he immerses himself in his work, his rebellious teenage daughter, Mazzy (Sink), becomes embroiled with a mysterious local boy who introduces her to the city’s underground party scene. As their two worlds head toward a dangerous intersection, Ben will need to race against the clock in order to save his daughter.
A Sacrifice stars Eric Bana (Black Hawk Down), Sadie Sink (Stranger Things & The Whale), Sylvia Hoeks (Blade Runner 2049), Jonas Dassler, Sophie Rois, Stephan Kampwirth, and Lara Feith. Vertical will release the film exclusively in theaters on June 28.
Inspired by Nicholas Hogg’s 2015 novel Tokyo Nobody, A Sacrifice follows American social psychologist Ben Monroe (Bana) who is investigating a local Berlin cult connected to disturbing events. While he immerses himself in his work, his rebellious teenage daughter, Mazzy (Sink), becomes embroiled with a mysterious local boy who introduces her to the city’s underground party scene. As their two worlds head toward a dangerous intersection, Ben will need to race against the clock in order to save his daughter.
- 5/10/2024
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
UK sales outfit Protagonist Pictures has unveiled a first look at C. May Borgstrom’s thriller Spirit In The Blood, previously known as Desire Of The Prey, which features a cast of Canadian newcomers Summer H. Howell (pictured) and Sarah-Maxine Racicot, alongside German actor Michael Wittenborn and Canadian Greg Bryk.
After a young girl is found dead in a secluded religious mountain community, a pack of teenage girls decide to fight against the evil spirits they believe killed her by embracing their own dark nature.
The Germany-Canada co-production is produced by Hamburg based Verena Gräfe-Höft for Junafilm, and Noah Segal for Elevation Pictures.
After a young girl is found dead in a secluded religious mountain community, a pack of teenage girls decide to fight against the evil spirits they believe killed her by embracing their own dark nature.
The Germany-Canada co-production is produced by Hamburg based Verena Gräfe-Höft for Junafilm, and Noah Segal for Elevation Pictures.
- 2/15/2024
- ScreenDaily
Genre regulars Alexandre Aja and Franck Khalfoun have worked together many times over the years. Khalfoun had acting roles in Aja’s movies High Tension and Piranha 3D, worked in the script department on Aja’s The Hills Have Eyes remake, and was an executive producer on his film Oxygen. Aja wrote and produced Khalfoun’s directorial efforts P2 and Maniac. And now they’ve teamed up again for the thriller Night of the Hunted, which is set to start streaming on both the Shudder and AMC+ services as of October 20th. We’ve gotten our hands on a trailer for Night of the Hunted, and you can check it out in the embed above.
Like several of the previous Aja and Khalfoun projects, Night of the Hunted is a remake. In this case, the source material is the 2015 Spanish film La Noche del Ratón.
Khalfoun directed Night of the Hunted...
Like several of the previous Aja and Khalfoun projects, Night of the Hunted is a remake. In this case, the source material is the 2015 Spanish film La Noche del Ratón.
Khalfoun directed Night of the Hunted...
- 9/27/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
San Sebastian — MediaInvest, a new EU equity tool managed by the European Investment Fund, which targets the audiovisual industry with €400 million ($424 million) over 2022-27, has made its first deal: An equity agreement with France’s Logical Content Ventures, part of Logical Pictures. InvestEU Ccs Guarantee has closed three debt financing agreements, with Spain’s Cersa and Crea and Luxembourg-based The Archers.
Announced Sunday at the San Sebastian Film Festival following on a Spain-hosted EU Conference, the agreements are worth a total of €68.25 million ($72.35 million). They are expected to leverage around €500 million ($530 million) of new financing for audiovisual and creative companies and projects, the European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, confirmed Monday.
MediaInvest “provides a response to one of the pressing challenges in Europe for audiovisual companies: the lack of access to finance. This will strengthen the financial capacities of European companies, enable them to get better value for the...
Announced Sunday at the San Sebastian Film Festival following on a Spain-hosted EU Conference, the agreements are worth a total of €68.25 million ($72.35 million). They are expected to leverage around €500 million ($530 million) of new financing for audiovisual and creative companies and projects, the European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, confirmed Monday.
MediaInvest “provides a response to one of the pressing challenges in Europe for audiovisual companies: the lack of access to finance. This will strengthen the financial capacities of European companies, enable them to get better value for the...
- 9/25/2023
- by John Hopewell and Callum McLennan
- Variety Film + TV
Deal is first time French studio has opened the financing of its films to private investors
French studio Pathé has partnered with financier and producer Logical Pictures for a three-year co-production and co-financing deal via new fund Logical Content Ventures.
The fund will raise finance from private investors and contribute to the budgets of all films produced and acquired by Pathé between 2022 and 2024 with the aim to join forces for 20 upcoming titles.
It is the first time Pathé has opened the financing of its films to private investors and comes as the studio continues to invest in bigger-budget films for wide theatrical release.
French studio Pathé has partnered with financier and producer Logical Pictures for a three-year co-production and co-financing deal via new fund Logical Content Ventures.
The fund will raise finance from private investors and contribute to the budgets of all films produced and acquired by Pathé between 2022 and 2024 with the aim to join forces for 20 upcoming titles.
It is the first time Pathé has opened the financing of its films to private investors and comes as the studio continues to invest in bigger-budget films for wide theatrical release.
- 1/26/2023
- by Rebecca Leffler
- ScreenDaily
French studio Pathé and film and TV financier and producer Logical Pictures have announced a three-year co-production and co-financing deal.
The operation involving Logical Content Ventures, a new fund operated by Logical Pictures, will see Pathé open up the financing of its films to private investors for the first time in its history.
Under the deal with Pathé, Logical Content Ventures will contribute to the financing of all films produced and acquired by Pathé between 2022 and 2024.
The aim is to co-finance and co-produce more than 20 pictures together with the first projects being released as soon as Spring 2023.
The first films included in the agreement are Dany Boon’s Life for Real (Pathé – 26Db Productions), Just Philippot’s environmental thriller Acid (Pathé – Bonne Pioche), starring Canet and Laetitia Dosch, and Kirill Serebrennikov’s English feature debut Limonov: the Ballad of Eddie (Pathé – Chapter 2 – Wildside – Fremantle) starring Ben Whishaw.
The move comes...
The operation involving Logical Content Ventures, a new fund operated by Logical Pictures, will see Pathé open up the financing of its films to private investors for the first time in its history.
Under the deal with Pathé, Logical Content Ventures will contribute to the financing of all films produced and acquired by Pathé between 2022 and 2024.
The aim is to co-finance and co-produce more than 20 pictures together with the first projects being released as soon as Spring 2023.
The first films included in the agreement are Dany Boon’s Life for Real (Pathé – 26Db Productions), Just Philippot’s environmental thriller Acid (Pathé – Bonne Pioche), starring Canet and Laetitia Dosch, and Kirill Serebrennikov’s English feature debut Limonov: the Ballad of Eddie (Pathé – Chapter 2 – Wildside – Fremantle) starring Ben Whishaw.
The move comes...
- 1/26/2023
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Pathé has signed a three-year co-production and co-financing deal with Logical Pictures to strengthen its ambitious film production strategy.
The family-owned company operates France’s leading multiplex chain and runs one of the country’s most successful film studios. 2023 looks to be Pathé’s biggest year in a while with three major French releases: Guillaume Canet’s “Asterix & Obelix: The Middle Kingdom” and Martin Bourboulon’s two-part epic saga “The Three Musketeers.” Both based on cult franchises, “Asterix & Obelix: The Middle Kingdom” and “The Three Musketeers” are budgeted in the 70 million range (about seven times more than the high bracket of a medium-size film in France). This is just the beginning of a new era for Pathé, which will need financial munitions to limit risks and continue delivering these splashy films on a regular basis for years to come.
Through the partnership, Pathé will be able to tap...
The family-owned company operates France’s leading multiplex chain and runs one of the country’s most successful film studios. 2023 looks to be Pathé’s biggest year in a while with three major French releases: Guillaume Canet’s “Asterix & Obelix: The Middle Kingdom” and Martin Bourboulon’s two-part epic saga “The Three Musketeers.” Both based on cult franchises, “Asterix & Obelix: The Middle Kingdom” and “The Three Musketeers” are budgeted in the 70 million range (about seven times more than the high bracket of a medium-size film in France). This is just the beginning of a new era for Pathé, which will need financial munitions to limit risks and continue delivering these splashy films on a regular basis for years to come.
Through the partnership, Pathé will be able to tap...
- 1/26/2023
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Italy’s International Audiovisual Market Mia is expecting a return to full force this year ahead of its eighth edition in Rome from October 11 to 15.
Speaking at a preview press conference on Thursday, director Gaia Tridente said the meeting had registered a 12 rise in attendance this year with accreditations still open, although she did not give precise figures.
Prior to the Covid-19 pandemic, Mia welcomed 2,500 attendees in 2019, while there were 2,000 registered attendees in 2021 when travel was still restricted.
This year marks the inaugural edition for Tridente who was previously head of scripted at Mia.
Based around Rome’s historic Barberini Palace and the nearby newly refurbished Barberini Cinema, the event spans a traditional market, co-production meetings and a conference.
Expected guests include Banijay CEO Marco Bassetti, Netflix Emea TV boss Larry Tanz, Lionsgate TV Group president Sandra Stern and Fremantle COO and continental Europe CEO Andrea Scrosati as well as...
Speaking at a preview press conference on Thursday, director Gaia Tridente said the meeting had registered a 12 rise in attendance this year with accreditations still open, although she did not give precise figures.
Prior to the Covid-19 pandemic, Mia welcomed 2,500 attendees in 2019, while there were 2,000 registered attendees in 2021 when travel was still restricted.
This year marks the inaugural edition for Tridente who was previously head of scripted at Mia.
Based around Rome’s historic Barberini Palace and the nearby newly refurbished Barberini Cinema, the event spans a traditional market, co-production meetings and a conference.
Expected guests include Banijay CEO Marco Bassetti, Netflix Emea TV boss Larry Tanz, Lionsgate TV Group president Sandra Stern and Fremantle COO and continental Europe CEO Andrea Scrosati as well as...
- 10/6/2022
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline 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
Multi-hyphenate Flying Lotus and his company Brainfeeder Films has linked with Paris-based Logical Pictures and XYZ Films for a multi-picture development deal covering a slate of films that the artist will produce and direct.
Logical Content Ventures, the co-production fund backed by Logical Pictures, will finance the development of the films, which will focus on genres in the horror, thriller and sci-fi universe. Logical also secured a first-look agreement to finance and produce. The slate will span multiple projects, with XYZ Films set to produce and handle sales.
The deal was negotiated by Frédéric Fiore and Grace Adams from Logical Pictures, and by Nate Bolotin, partner at XYZ Films, on behalf of Brainfeeder Films.
Flying Lotus, also known as Steven Ellison, is a genre-bending, Grammy Award-winning producer, composer, filmmaker and rapper. He founded Brainfeeder Records in 2008.
Since 2006, Ellison has released six studio albums and composed much of the music heard...
Logical Content Ventures, the co-production fund backed by Logical Pictures, will finance the development of the films, which will focus on genres in the horror, thriller and sci-fi universe. Logical also secured a first-look agreement to finance and produce. The slate will span multiple projects, with XYZ Films set to produce and handle sales.
The deal was negotiated by Frédéric Fiore and Grace Adams from Logical Pictures, and by Nate Bolotin, partner at XYZ Films, on behalf of Brainfeeder Films.
Flying Lotus, also known as Steven Ellison, is a genre-bending, Grammy Award-winning producer, composer, filmmaker and rapper. He founded Brainfeeder Records in 2008.
Since 2006, Ellison has released six studio albums and composed much of the music heard...
- 3/3/2022
- by Manori Ravindran
- Variety Film + TV
Neon has taken U.S. rights to Ninja Thyberg’s debut feature Pleasure, which debuted to strong reviews at Sundance Film Festival this year. The distributor will release stateside in 2022.
The film takes a look at the Los Angeles porn industry through the lens of newcomer Bella Cherry (Sofia Kappel). Strong, self-confident but naive, Bella believes she can mold the corrupt system to satisfy her needs. But, in the end, she must confront whether she’ll pay with her soul for stardom, or not.
Plattform Produktion and Eliza Jones, Markus Waltå, and Erik Hemmendorff produced the film. The film’s executive producers are Pape Boye and Violaine Pichon of Versatile. The co-producers are Leontine Petit and Erik Glijnis of Lemming Film, Peter Possne and Caroline Ljungberg of Film i Väst, Anna Croneman of Svt, and Frédéric Fiore and Eric Tavitian of Logical Pictures, as well as Grand Slam Film.
The...
The film takes a look at the Los Angeles porn industry through the lens of newcomer Bella Cherry (Sofia Kappel). Strong, self-confident but naive, Bella believes she can mold the corrupt system to satisfy her needs. But, in the end, she must confront whether she’ll pay with her soul for stardom, or not.
Plattform Produktion and Eliza Jones, Markus Waltå, and Erik Hemmendorff produced the film. The film’s executive producers are Pape Boye and Violaine Pichon of Versatile. The co-producers are Leontine Petit and Erik Glijnis of Lemming Film, Peter Possne and Caroline Ljungberg of Film i Väst, Anna Croneman of Svt, and Frédéric Fiore and Eric Tavitian of Logical Pictures, as well as Grand Slam Film.
The...
- 10/7/2021
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Thyberg “happy and relieved” to find US distributor that will release “raw and uncut” version of porn industry drama.
Neon has picked up US rights to Ninja Thyberg’s feature debut and porn industry drama Pleasure and will release the director’s original verion “as intended”.
Pleasure will screen at AFI Fest in Los Angeles next month and stars Sofia Kappel as a newcomer to the porn industry who must reckon with how far she is willing to go to find stardom.
It originated as a short film of the same name in 2013 Cannes Film Festival where it won the Canal+ Award.
Neon has picked up US rights to Ninja Thyberg’s feature debut and porn industry drama Pleasure and will release the director’s original verion “as intended”.
Pleasure will screen at AFI Fest in Los Angeles next month and stars Sofia Kappel as a newcomer to the porn industry who must reckon with how far she is willing to go to find stardom.
It originated as a short film of the same name in 2013 Cannes Film Festival where it won the Canal+ Award.
- 10/7/2021
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Vertical Entertainment has acquired North American rights to Wild Indian, Lyle Mitchell Corbine Jr’s debut feature that had its world premiere in the U.S. Dramatic Competition section of this year’s Sundance Film Festival. Michael Greyeyes, Chaske Spencer, Jesse Eisenberg, Kate Bosworth star in the pic, which will get a theatrical release later this year.
The plot of Corbine’s screenplay revolves around Makwa, a young Anishinaabe boy. He often appears at school with bruises he says he got falling down, but no one believes him. He and his only friend, Ted-o, like to escape by playing in the woods, until the day Makwa shockingly murders a schoolmate. After covering up the crime, the two go on to live very different lives. Now, as adult men, they must face the truth of what they have done and what they have become.
Greyeyes and Spencer star as the adult Makwa and Ted-o, respectively. Newcomers Phoenix Wilson and Julian Gopal play Makwa and Ted-o as boys.
Thomas Mahoney, Corbine and Eric Tavitian produced the pic, which was executive produced by Céline Dornier, Frédéric Fiore, Katy Drake Bettner, Niraj Bhatia, Joel Michaely, Raphael Margules, J.D. Lifshitz, Adam Margules, Lesli A. Masoner, Dan McClung, Adriana Banta, Jake Carter, Eisenberg, Heather Rae, and Brent Ryan Green. It hails from Logical Pictures, 30West, Om Films, Boulderlight Pictures, mm2 Entertainment and PurePlay Entertainment.
“When we first saw Wild Indian at Sundance this year, we were struck by first-time writer-director Lyle Mitchell Corbine Jr’s masterful handling of such an intimate story and the captivating performances from the entire cast,” said Rich Goldberg, co-president of Vertical Entertainment. “We are so proud to be partnering with the whole filmmaking team to bring this affecting film to audiences later this year.”
Vertical’s Peter Jarowey and Josh Spector negotiated the deal with 30West and Endeavor Content.
The plot of Corbine’s screenplay revolves around Makwa, a young Anishinaabe boy. He often appears at school with bruises he says he got falling down, but no one believes him. He and his only friend, Ted-o, like to escape by playing in the woods, until the day Makwa shockingly murders a schoolmate. After covering up the crime, the two go on to live very different lives. Now, as adult men, they must face the truth of what they have done and what they have become.
Greyeyes and Spencer star as the adult Makwa and Ted-o, respectively. Newcomers Phoenix Wilson and Julian Gopal play Makwa and Ted-o as boys.
Thomas Mahoney, Corbine and Eric Tavitian produced the pic, which was executive produced by Céline Dornier, Frédéric Fiore, Katy Drake Bettner, Niraj Bhatia, Joel Michaely, Raphael Margules, J.D. Lifshitz, Adam Margules, Lesli A. Masoner, Dan McClung, Adriana Banta, Jake Carter, Eisenberg, Heather Rae, and Brent Ryan Green. It hails from Logical Pictures, 30West, Om Films, Boulderlight Pictures, mm2 Entertainment and PurePlay Entertainment.
“When we first saw Wild Indian at Sundance this year, we were struck by first-time writer-director Lyle Mitchell Corbine Jr’s masterful handling of such an intimate story and the captivating performances from the entire cast,” said Rich Goldberg, co-president of Vertical Entertainment. “We are so proud to be partnering with the whole filmmaking team to bring this affecting film to audiences later this year.”
Vertical’s Peter Jarowey and Josh Spector negotiated the deal with 30West and Endeavor Content.
- 5/26/2021
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Global distributor, producer and streamer Mubi has snapped up major European markets for hot Sundance title “Pleasure,” which delves into the world of the porn industry in Los Angeles.
The service has acquired all rights to the provocative film in the U.K., Ireland, Italy and Turkey. Directed by Ninja Thyberg, the film recently received its world premiere as part of Sundance’s World Cinema Dramatic Competition.
Starring newcomer Sofia Kappel, “Pleasure” tells the story of a young woman (Bella Cherry) who moves from a small town in Sweden to Los Angeles in pursuit of stardom, and lands squarely in the porn industry. Variety’s chief film critic Owen Gleiberman praised “Pleasure” in his review, calling it an “intentionally stark” and “disturbingly authentic” look at what the porn industry has become.
“A movie like ‘Pleasure’ jerks the skeevy, compulsive porn world out of the closet in a way that few movies have,...
The service has acquired all rights to the provocative film in the U.K., Ireland, Italy and Turkey. Directed by Ninja Thyberg, the film recently received its world premiere as part of Sundance’s World Cinema Dramatic Competition.
Starring newcomer Sofia Kappel, “Pleasure” tells the story of a young woman (Bella Cherry) who moves from a small town in Sweden to Los Angeles in pursuit of stardom, and lands squarely in the porn industry. Variety’s chief film critic Owen Gleiberman praised “Pleasure” in his review, calling it an “intentionally stark” and “disturbingly authentic” look at what the porn industry has become.
“A movie like ‘Pleasure’ jerks the skeevy, compulsive porn world out of the closet in a way that few movies have,...
- 2/9/2021
- by Manori Ravindran
- Variety Film + TV
A24 has acquired U.S. rights to “Pleasure,” an explicit drama about the adult film industry, following its premiere at the virtual Sundance Film Festival.
A24 will release the full uncensored film, as well as an R-rated version, later this year.
Directed by Ninja Thyberg, “Pleasure” takes a look at the Los Angeles porn industry through the lens of newcomer Bella Cherry (portrayed by Sofia Kappel), who moves from a small town in Sweden to pursue her dreams of stardom.
Variety’s chief film critic Owen Gleiberman praised “Pleasure,” calling it an “intentionally stark” and “disturbingly authentic” look at what the porn industry has become.
“A movie like “Pleasure” jerks the skeevy, compulsive porn world out of the closet in a way that few movies have,” Gleiberman wrote. “That’s a brave thing to, and what makes it work is that Ninja Thyberg, revealing the instincts of a true filmmaker,...
A24 will release the full uncensored film, as well as an R-rated version, later this year.
Directed by Ninja Thyberg, “Pleasure” takes a look at the Los Angeles porn industry through the lens of newcomer Bella Cherry (portrayed by Sofia Kappel), who moves from a small town in Sweden to pursue her dreams of stardom.
Variety’s chief film critic Owen Gleiberman praised “Pleasure,” calling it an “intentionally stark” and “disturbingly authentic” look at what the porn industry has become.
“A movie like “Pleasure” jerks the skeevy, compulsive porn world out of the closet in a way that few movies have,” Gleiberman wrote. “That’s a brave thing to, and what makes it work is that Ninja Thyberg, revealing the instincts of a true filmmaker,...
- 2/8/2021
- by Rebecca Rubin
- Variety Film + TV
A24 said Monday that it acquired U.S. rights to the Ninja Thyberg-directed 2021 Sundance Film Festival drama Pleasure. This was a film that had been announced as a Cannes title for 2020 before the fest was canceled because of Covid, and made its debut as part of virtual Sundance.
The drama stars Sofia Kappel as an aspiring porn star who arrives from Sweden determined to become a big star. While the drama’s point is to recognize the rape culture and degradation that women are put through in that line of business in Los Angeles, the film itself is about as close to a porn film as any that has been released theatrically in recent memory, with complete nudity and simulated sex that is shocking.
A24 will release the full uncensored version alongside a new R-Rated version later this year.
The film is produced by Eliza Jones, Markus Waltå, and Erik Hemmendorff.
The drama stars Sofia Kappel as an aspiring porn star who arrives from Sweden determined to become a big star. While the drama’s point is to recognize the rape culture and degradation that women are put through in that line of business in Los Angeles, the film itself is about as close to a porn film as any that has been released theatrically in recent memory, with complete nudity and simulated sex that is shocking.
A24 will release the full uncensored version alongside a new R-Rated version later this year.
The film is produced by Eliza Jones, Markus Waltå, and Erik Hemmendorff.
- 2/8/2021
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
A24 has acquired the U.S. rights to “Pleasure,” Ninja Thyberg’s film about the pornography and adult entertainment industry in Los Angeles that was a selection of Cannes 2020 and made its world premiere at Sundance.
A24 will release an R-rated version of the narrative feature film as well as an uncensored version, which is sexually explicit in its examination of the porn industry and the predatory practices of managers and male-dominated sets.
Thyberg’s “Pleasure” stars Sofia Kappel as Bella Cherry, who relocates to LA from Sweden in the hopes of making it in the adult entertainment industry as the world’s next big porn star. In its description of the film, Sundance said that it uses nudity in order to “expose rather than titillate.” The film also features a supporting cast of other actors who have had experience in the porn industry.
In TheWrap’s review of the film,...
A24 will release an R-rated version of the narrative feature film as well as an uncensored version, which is sexually explicit in its examination of the porn industry and the predatory practices of managers and male-dominated sets.
Thyberg’s “Pleasure” stars Sofia Kappel as Bella Cherry, who relocates to LA from Sweden in the hopes of making it in the adult entertainment industry as the world’s next big porn star. In its description of the film, Sundance said that it uses nudity in order to “expose rather than titillate.” The film also features a supporting cast of other actors who have had experience in the porn industry.
In TheWrap’s review of the film,...
- 2/8/2021
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
A unique take on Mary Shelley's writing of her masterpiece Frankenstein, Nora Unkel's A Nightmare Wakes has been acquired by Shudder and will be released on the streaming service beginning February 4th.
We have the full acquisition announcement below, as well as the official trailer for A Nightmare Wakes:
Press Release: New York, NY – January 13th, 2021 – AMC Networks’ horror streaming platform Shudder today announced the acquisition of A Nightmare Wakes from writer/director Nora Unkel. The sweeping psychological thriller based on Mary Shelley’s writing of Frankenstein is steeped in accurate period details but told with a modern perspective. It will debut on Shudder on February 4th, days after the 170th anniversary of Mary Shelley’s death on February 1st, 1851.
Synopsis: While composing her famous novel Frankenstein, Mary Shelley descends into an opium-fueled fever dream while carrying on a torrid love affair with Percy Shelley. As she writes,...
We have the full acquisition announcement below, as well as the official trailer for A Nightmare Wakes:
Press Release: New York, NY – January 13th, 2021 – AMC Networks’ horror streaming platform Shudder today announced the acquisition of A Nightmare Wakes from writer/director Nora Unkel. The sweeping psychological thriller based on Mary Shelley’s writing of Frankenstein is steeped in accurate period details but told with a modern perspective. It will debut on Shudder on February 4th, days after the 170th anniversary of Mary Shelley’s death on February 1st, 1851.
Synopsis: While composing her famous novel Frankenstein, Mary Shelley descends into an opium-fueled fever dream while carrying on a torrid love affair with Percy Shelley. As she writes,...
- 1/13/2021
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Paris-based Logical Pictures, a four-year-old company that has financed more than 20 movies including “Revenge” and “Petrov,” is launching 21 Content Ventures, an investment fund dedicated to internationally-driven films and series.
Set to launch in January, the investment fund will be capped at €100 million ($121.6 million) and is structured as an evergreen fund — meaning it’s an open-ended fund with no termination date, allowing investors to exit 21 Content Ventures or change their investment in the fund. The portfolio will be valued each year based on the revenues grossed by each title, and investors shall receive an annual return of 4%-6%. The minimum investment ticket to enter 21 Content Ventures is €100,000.
“Films, TV series and documentaries have been in high demand for the past few years, especially with the rise of streaming platforms such as Netflix, and the pandemic has accelerated this upward trend,” said Frédéric Fiore, president of Logical Pictures Group. He said the...
Set to launch in January, the investment fund will be capped at €100 million ($121.6 million) and is structured as an evergreen fund — meaning it’s an open-ended fund with no termination date, allowing investors to exit 21 Content Ventures or change their investment in the fund. The portfolio will be valued each year based on the revenues grossed by each title, and investors shall receive an annual return of 4%-6%. The minimum investment ticket to enter 21 Content Ventures is €100,000.
“Films, TV series and documentaries have been in high demand for the past few years, especially with the rise of streaming platforms such as Netflix, and the pandemic has accelerated this upward trend,” said Frédéric Fiore, president of Logical Pictures Group. He said the...
- 12/4/2020
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Tapping into sales agents and buyers’ increasing need for a 365-day-film marketplace, Archipel Market, a community tool, is launching in the run-up to the Cannes virtual Marché du Film and the agencies-led initiative.
Archipel Market was created by Cascade8, which specializes in software solutions for the entertainment industry, in collaboration with Logical Pictures, a financing banner, and Pulsar Content, an international sales outfit.
The innovative web platform is bowing with several key sales banners already signed up, notably Charades, Xyz Films, Versatile, WTFilms, Film Constellation and Film Republic, on top of Pulsar Content and Logical Pictures.
Archipel Market will be allowing buyers to access sales agents’ line-ups and live events such as screenings, pitch sessions, and Q&a’s in betweens festivals and markets, all year around. The service was indeed conceived to fast-track dealmaking outside of existing physical and online film markets.
Coping with impossibility to travel and the...
Archipel Market was created by Cascade8, which specializes in software solutions for the entertainment industry, in collaboration with Logical Pictures, a financing banner, and Pulsar Content, an international sales outfit.
The innovative web platform is bowing with several key sales banners already signed up, notably Charades, Xyz Films, Versatile, WTFilms, Film Constellation and Film Republic, on top of Pulsar Content and Logical Pictures.
Archipel Market will be allowing buyers to access sales agents’ line-ups and live events such as screenings, pitch sessions, and Q&a’s in betweens festivals and markets, all year around. The service was indeed conceived to fast-track dealmaking outside of existing physical and online film markets.
Coping with impossibility to travel and the...
- 6/11/2020
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
It is one of Williams’s first roles since Game Of Thrones came to an end last year.
Screen can reveal the first look at Game Of Thrones star Maisie Williams in horror-thriller The Owners.
Paris-based sales company Versatile is market premiering the feature at the European Film Market this week.
French director Julius Berg’s English-language horror thriller The Owners revolves around a burglary that takes a violent turn when the elderly inhabitants turn the tables on the young intruders. It is adapted from the graphic novel Une Nuit De Pleine Lune by Belgian artist Hermann and writer Yves...
Screen can reveal the first look at Game Of Thrones star Maisie Williams in horror-thriller The Owners.
Paris-based sales company Versatile is market premiering the feature at the European Film Market this week.
French director Julius Berg’s English-language horror thriller The Owners revolves around a burglary that takes a violent turn when the elderly inhabitants turn the tables on the young intruders. It is adapted from the graphic novel Une Nuit De Pleine Lune by Belgian artist Hermann and writer Yves...
- 2/21/2020
- by 1100388¦Melanie Goodfellow¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
Pulsar Content, the Paris-based sales company launched at Toronto, has acquired “Wild Indian,” a thriller executive produced by and starring Jesse Eisenberg, along with Michael Greyeyes (“Fear the Walking Dead”). The film marks the feature debut of Lyle Mitchell Corbine Jr., whose shorts have played at Toronto and Sundance.
“Wild Indian” was developed at the Sundance Writer, Director and Producer labs, and also took part in the first Catalyst Program at last year’s Sundance. The film also stars Chaske Spencer (“Woman Walks Ahead”) and Kate Bosworth (“Still Alice”).
Now in post-production, the movie follows two Anishinaabe men who are bound together after covering up a murder of a schoolmate. After years of separation following widely divergent paths, they must finally confront how their traumatic secret has shaped their lives.
“Wild Indian” is produced by Blake Pickens, Thomas Mahoney and Corbine Jr. Along with Eisenberg, the executive producers are 30West...
“Wild Indian” was developed at the Sundance Writer, Director and Producer labs, and also took part in the first Catalyst Program at last year’s Sundance. The film also stars Chaske Spencer (“Woman Walks Ahead”) and Kate Bosworth (“Still Alice”).
Now in post-production, the movie follows two Anishinaabe men who are bound together after covering up a murder of a schoolmate. After years of separation following widely divergent paths, they must finally confront how their traumatic secret has shaped their lives.
“Wild Indian” is produced by Blake Pickens, Thomas Mahoney and Corbine Jr. Along with Eisenberg, the executive producers are 30West...
- 2/20/2020
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Xyz Films handles North American sales.
Sylvester McCoy, Rita Tushingham, Ian Kenny, Jake Curran, Andrew Ellis and Stacha Hicks have been announced as cast members of home invasion thriller The Owners alongside Game Of Thrones star Maisie Williams as the production starts shooting in the UK.
McCoy, whose credits include Doctor Who, plays an elderly doctor opposite veteran UK actress Rita Tushingham as his wife. Together, the retired couple turn the tables on a gang of local hoodlums who break into their isolated house.
Kenny and Ellis (This Is England) play two dead-beat, childhood friends who are spurred on by...
Sylvester McCoy, Rita Tushingham, Ian Kenny, Jake Curran, Andrew Ellis and Stacha Hicks have been announced as cast members of home invasion thriller The Owners alongside Game Of Thrones star Maisie Williams as the production starts shooting in the UK.
McCoy, whose credits include Doctor Who, plays an elderly doctor opposite veteran UK actress Rita Tushingham as his wife. Together, the retired couple turn the tables on a gang of local hoodlums who break into their isolated house.
Kenny and Ellis (This Is England) play two dead-beat, childhood friends who are spurred on by...
- 5/7/2019
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Production is underway in the UK on Maisie Williams thriller The Owners.
Joining Williams (Game Of Thrones) in the cast are Sylvester McCoy (Doctor Who), Rita Tushingham (A Taste of Honey), Ian Kenny (Sing Street), Jake Curran (Spotless), Andrew Ellis (This Is England) and Stacha Hicks (The Children Act).
The 90’s-set thriller is directed by Julius Berg, with a screenplay by Berg and Mathieu Gompel, based on the comic book from artist Herrmann and written by Yves H. Producers are Alain de la Mata at UK-based Bluelight and Christopher Granier-Deferre, with Nate Bolotin and Maxime Cottray executive producing for Xyz Films.
Co-producers are Brahim Chioua for Wild Bunch, Frédéric Fiore and Eric Tavitian for Logical Pictures and Pape Boye for Versatile. Versatile will continue pre-sales on available international territories, while Xyz will handle North American sales, at the upcoming Marché du Film at Cannes.
Shooting is currently underway in Kent,...
Joining Williams (Game Of Thrones) in the cast are Sylvester McCoy (Doctor Who), Rita Tushingham (A Taste of Honey), Ian Kenny (Sing Street), Jake Curran (Spotless), Andrew Ellis (This Is England) and Stacha Hicks (The Children Act).
The 90’s-set thriller is directed by Julius Berg, with a screenplay by Berg and Mathieu Gompel, based on the comic book from artist Herrmann and written by Yves H. Producers are Alain de la Mata at UK-based Bluelight and Christopher Granier-Deferre, with Nate Bolotin and Maxime Cottray executive producing for Xyz Films.
Co-producers are Brahim Chioua for Wild Bunch, Frédéric Fiore and Eric Tavitian for Logical Pictures and Pape Boye for Versatile. Versatile will continue pre-sales on available international territories, while Xyz will handle North American sales, at the upcoming Marché du Film at Cannes.
Shooting is currently underway in Kent,...
- 5/7/2019
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
The upcoming psychological thriller is the feature debut of Carlo Mirabella-Davis after a number of award-winning short films.
French sales company Charades has a revealed the first image of Haley Bennett in Carlo Mirabella-Davis’s upcoming psychological thriller Swallow.
Bennett, best known for her role opposite Emily Blunt in The Girl On The Train, plays a pregnant young woman, whose seemingly harmonious existence takes an alarming turn when she begins compulsively and uncontrollably eating dangerous objects.
It Mirabella-Davis’s first feature after a number of award-winning short films. Charades kicks off sales on the feature at the Afm this week.
French sales company Charades has a revealed the first image of Haley Bennett in Carlo Mirabella-Davis’s upcoming psychological thriller Swallow.
Bennett, best known for her role opposite Emily Blunt in The Girl On The Train, plays a pregnant young woman, whose seemingly harmonious existence takes an alarming turn when she begins compulsively and uncontrollably eating dangerous objects.
It Mirabella-Davis’s first feature after a number of award-winning short films. Charades kicks off sales on the feature at the Afm this week.
- 10/29/2018
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Seville International said Tuesday it will sell international rights at the upcoming American Film Market to Advantages of Traveling by Train, the upcoming Spanish comedic horror pic being directed by Aritz Moreno and written by Javier Gullón (Enemy). Production is set to start in December with a cast that includes Luis Tosar, Ernesto Alterio, Pilar Castro, Belén Cuesta, Ingrid García Jonsson, Javier Botet and Gilbert Melki. The plot centers on Helga, an editor and train traveler whose seatmate, a psychiatrist and an expert in personality dysfunctions, recounts to her the worst case he’s faced: the sordid and crazy tale of an extremely dangerous paranoid man obsessed with garbage. The story leads Helga down an unpredictable path as she sets out on an investigation following her encounter. Morena Films’ Merry Colomer and Juan Gordon are producers with Sr & Sra’s Leire Apellaniz and Logical Pictures’ Frédéric Fiore.
Myriad Pictures has...
Myriad Pictures has...
- 10/24/2018
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Spanish shorts director Aritz Moreno makes feature debut on mystery.
Seville International is launching sales at the Afm next week on the Spanish-language film Advantages Of Traveling By Train.
Morena Films is producing the feature and is ramping up for a production start in December and will shoot mostly in San Sebastián, Spain, with select scenes being shot in Paris, France.
Award-winning shorts director Aritz Moreno makes his feature directorial debut from a screenplay by Enemy screenwriter Javier Gullón based on the novel by Antonio Orejudo. Advantages Of Traveling By Train follows a young editor who takes her seat on...
Seville International is launching sales at the Afm next week on the Spanish-language film Advantages Of Traveling By Train.
Morena Films is producing the feature and is ramping up for a production start in December and will shoot mostly in San Sebastián, Spain, with select scenes being shot in Paris, France.
Award-winning shorts director Aritz Moreno makes his feature directorial debut from a screenplay by Enemy screenwriter Javier Gullón based on the novel by Antonio Orejudo. Advantages Of Traveling By Train follows a young editor who takes her seat on...
- 10/24/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
San Sebastian — Based in Lyon, France Logical Pictures, proud of Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje’s “Farming,” has come on board to co-produce Aritz Moreno’s much-awaited directorial debut “Advantages of Traveling by Train,” starring Luis Tosar and Pilar Castro.
Sold internationally by Entertainment One’s Seville International, Filmax has picked up Spain’s distribution rights to “Advantages,” which is produced by Señor y Señora –an up-and-coming San Sebastian-based production house owned by Moreno and producer-director Leire Apellániz – and Madrid’s Morena Films, producer of Iciar Bollaín’s San Sebastian competitor “Yuli,” Daniel Monzón’s “Cell 211.” “Advantages” marks the first movie produced at Morena Films by Merry Colomer.
“Logical Pictures’ DNA is based on innovating and financing new forms of independent cinema. Therefore, betting on the adaptation of such a unique and quirky best selling novel, directed by a promising first-time director, sounded perfect for us,” Logical’s president Frédéric Fiore told Variety.
Sold internationally by Entertainment One’s Seville International, Filmax has picked up Spain’s distribution rights to “Advantages,” which is produced by Señor y Señora –an up-and-coming San Sebastian-based production house owned by Moreno and producer-director Leire Apellániz – and Madrid’s Morena Films, producer of Iciar Bollaín’s San Sebastian competitor “Yuli,” Daniel Monzón’s “Cell 211.” “Advantages” marks the first movie produced at Morena Films by Merry Colomer.
“Logical Pictures’ DNA is based on innovating and financing new forms of independent cinema. Therefore, betting on the adaptation of such a unique and quirky best selling novel, directed by a promising first-time director, sounded perfect for us,” Logical’s president Frédéric Fiore told Variety.
- 9/25/2018
- by Emilio Mayorga
- Variety Film + TV
French outfit are in Toronto this year to launch new blockchain initiative.
French film production and financing outfit Logical Pictures has launched a new blockchain initiative called Blockframes, signing up compatriot company Bac Films as its first user to manage sales rights for upcoming animated feature Terra Willy.
Paris-based Bac Films is handling international sales and French distribution on Terra Willy, which is the latest animation from Tat Productions, the company behind international hit The Jungle Bunch: The Movie. It launched sales on the production, due for delivery in 2019, at this year’s Cannes
“Bac will register and secure into...
French film production and financing outfit Logical Pictures has launched a new blockchain initiative called Blockframes, signing up compatriot company Bac Films as its first user to manage sales rights for upcoming animated feature Terra Willy.
Paris-based Bac Films is handling international sales and French distribution on Terra Willy, which is the latest animation from Tat Productions, the company behind international hit The Jungle Bunch: The Movie. It launched sales on the production, due for delivery in 2019, at this year’s Cannes
“Bac will register and secure into...
- 9/8/2018
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
French production outfit Logical Pictures, which has Damson Idris and Kate Beckinsale starrer Farming at Toronto, is launching blockchain solution Blockframes in a bid to improve cash flows for international sales contracts.
French sales outfit Bac Films has signed up to be the first exponent of the rights management system which it will apply to deals signed on their animation Terra Willy.
Logical is hoping that Blockframe can provide greater clarity around chain of title, more security over contracts and speed up cash-flow distribution. “Bac will register and secure into this blockchain the rights of all distributors buying the movie during Tiff,” confirmed Gilles Sousa, Head of International sales for Bac.
The idea, said Logical, is that later on, whenever revenue — for example an Mg from a distributor — is injected into Blockframes, the waterfall is applied at that moment and each stakeholder instantly receives their exact share of revenue.
“We...
French sales outfit Bac Films has signed up to be the first exponent of the rights management system which it will apply to deals signed on their animation Terra Willy.
Logical is hoping that Blockframe can provide greater clarity around chain of title, more security over contracts and speed up cash-flow distribution. “Bac will register and secure into this blockchain the rights of all distributors buying the movie during Tiff,” confirmed Gilles Sousa, Head of International sales for Bac.
The idea, said Logical, is that later on, whenever revenue — for example an Mg from a distributor — is injected into Blockframes, the waterfall is applied at that moment and each stakeholder instantly receives their exact share of revenue.
“We...
- 9/8/2018
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Lost alum Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje is getting personal in his directorial debut feature, Farming, which he also wrote. Premiering September 8 at the Toronto Film Festival, the film is inspired Akinnuoye-Agbaje real-life experience with the practice of farming, a term used in the 60s in reference to Nigerian immigrants coming to Britain who would foster their children out to poor white working-class families in order to create a better opportunity for themselves. Once they had accomplished what they set out to do, they would pick up their children and return to Africa to rebuild their lives.
Kate Beckinsale and Snowfall’s Damson Idris portray a foster mother and child relationship which, from the preview, is not without contention.
Here’s the synopsis: At six weeks old, Enitan (Idris) is left in the care of a white working-class family in the dock-town of Tilbury, in Essex. His new surrogate mother, Ingrid (Beckinsale), makes for a complex,...
Kate Beckinsale and Snowfall’s Damson Idris portray a foster mother and child relationship which, from the preview, is not without contention.
Here’s the synopsis: At six weeks old, Enitan (Idris) is left in the care of a white working-class family in the dock-town of Tilbury, in Essex. His new surrogate mother, Ingrid (Beckinsale), makes for a complex,...
- 9/5/2018
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
“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
Exclusive: Company’s financing slate features new films by Simon Saulnier, Eric Charrière and Coralie Fargeat.
French film company Logical Pictures has closed a €20m finance round pulling together investment for 30 feature productions over the next four years.
“Our aim is to gap finance around 20 movies initiated by third party producers and another 10 in-house productions, putting in around 20% of the budget,” explained company co-founder and president Frédéric Fiore.
He is at this week’s European Film Market (Efm) in Berlin networking and scouting for projects, alongside fellow co-founder and VP development Alexis Perrin.
“We’re talking to European producers and sales agents but we’re keen to meet Us agents working on independent films in the $1m-$2m budget range,” said Perrin.
The company’s focus is on elevated sci-fi, fantasy or thriller genre productions with a strong visual dimension and international potential, involving up and coming talent.
“We’d like to become a production and financing...
French film company Logical Pictures has closed a €20m finance round pulling together investment for 30 feature productions over the next four years.
“Our aim is to gap finance around 20 movies initiated by third party producers and another 10 in-house productions, putting in around 20% of the budget,” explained company co-founder and president Frédéric Fiore.
He is at this week’s European Film Market (Efm) in Berlin networking and scouting for projects, alongside fellow co-founder and VP development Alexis Perrin.
“We’re talking to European producers and sales agents but we’re keen to meet Us agents working on independent films in the $1m-$2m budget range,” said Perrin.
The company’s focus is on elevated sci-fi, fantasy or thriller genre productions with a strong visual dimension and international potential, involving up and coming talent.
“We’d like to become a production and financing...
- 2/14/2017
- ScreenDaily
Third European edition of genre co-production market to feature new projects from Baskin’s Can Evrenol [pictured] and Doc Of The Dead’s Alexandre Philippe.Scroll down for full line-up
Frontières International Co-Production Market has unveiled the full line-up for its third European edition.
Taking place at the Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival (Bifff) from March 30-April 1, Frontières will showcase 20 projects from the likes of Belgium, Canada, the Netherlands, Turkey and the UK.
A total of 20 projects were selected from a record number of submissions new projects from Baskin’s Can Evrenol, Doc Of The Dead’s Alexandre Philippe, Go Down Death’s Aaron Schimberg and I Sell The Dead’s Glenn McQuaid.
Giles Daoust (Starry Eyes), Amy Darling (Violent), François Cognard (The Strange Color Of Your Body’s Tears) and Glass Eye Pix’s Larry Fessenden and Peter Phok are among the producers showcasing new projects in Brussels.
Frontières has also picked Amanda Kramer’s Drain You, executive...
Frontières International Co-Production Market has unveiled the full line-up for its third European edition.
Taking place at the Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival (Bifff) from March 30-April 1, Frontières will showcase 20 projects from the likes of Belgium, Canada, the Netherlands, Turkey and the UK.
A total of 20 projects were selected from a record number of submissions new projects from Baskin’s Can Evrenol, Doc Of The Dead’s Alexandre Philippe, Go Down Death’s Aaron Schimberg and I Sell The Dead’s Glenn McQuaid.
Giles Daoust (Starry Eyes), Amy Darling (Violent), François Cognard (The Strange Color Of Your Body’s Tears) and Glass Eye Pix’s Larry Fessenden and Peter Phok are among the producers showcasing new projects in Brussels.
Frontières has also picked Amanda Kramer’s Drain You, executive...
- 2/12/2016
- by ian.sandwell@screendaily.com (Ian Sandwell)
- ScreenDaily
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