Filmmakers Milad Alami, Kasper Barfoed and up-and-coming creatives Emma Sehested Høed and Jennifer Vedsted Christiansen are some of the Scandi talents plotting projects for the new Danish production banner Uma Film, formerly Good Company Films.
The Copenhagen-based shingle is run by three pedigreed female producers with a solid track record in Danish drama series and features. Stinna Lassen has produced for the Danish pubcaster Dr their biggest hit in the last six-to-seven years,“Carmen Curlers”, under the spotlight at this week’s Göteborg’s TV Drama Vision as contender for the Nordic Film & TV Fond Prize for best screenplay of a Nordic series. Her earlier productions take in Alami’s acclaimed feature debut “The Charmer” and series “When the Dust Settled.”
Lassen’s colleagues Claudia Saginario and Marie-Louise Gyldenkrone were respectively producer and line producer on another Dr’s smash local and international hit,“Cry Wolf.”
Uma Film’s fourth partner,...
The Copenhagen-based shingle is run by three pedigreed female producers with a solid track record in Danish drama series and features. Stinna Lassen has produced for the Danish pubcaster Dr their biggest hit in the last six-to-seven years,“Carmen Curlers”, under the spotlight at this week’s Göteborg’s TV Drama Vision as contender for the Nordic Film & TV Fond Prize for best screenplay of a Nordic series. Her earlier productions take in Alami’s acclaimed feature debut “The Charmer” and series “When the Dust Settled.”
Lassen’s colleagues Claudia Saginario and Marie-Louise Gyldenkrone were respectively producer and line producer on another Dr’s smash local and international hit,“Cry Wolf.”
Uma Film’s fourth partner,...
- 2/1/2023
- by Annika Pham
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Tyler Blackburn, who plays the lead role of Alex Manes in Roswell, New Mexico, has signed with APA for representation.
Blackburn just wrapped filming Roswell, New Mexico, which is currently airing its fourth and final season on the CW. Blackburn, who garnered a massive following on social media, is maybe best known for his role as the dark and mysterious Caleb Rivers in Pretty Little Liars, a performance which earned him two consecutive Teen Choice Awards. His success on the show led to his own spinoff series, Ravenswood.
On the film side, Blackburn can be seen in Discovery’s first scripted film, Capsized opposite Josh Duhamel. He can also be seen in Hello Again, directed by Tom Gustafson with an ensemble cast including Martha Plimpton, Audra McDonald, Cheyenne Jackson, and T.R. Knight. Prior to that, Blackburn starred in the independent film Love Is All You Need, directed by Kim Rocco Shields,...
Blackburn just wrapped filming Roswell, New Mexico, which is currently airing its fourth and final season on the CW. Blackburn, who garnered a massive following on social media, is maybe best known for his role as the dark and mysterious Caleb Rivers in Pretty Little Liars, a performance which earned him two consecutive Teen Choice Awards. His success on the show led to his own spinoff series, Ravenswood.
On the film side, Blackburn can be seen in Discovery’s first scripted film, Capsized opposite Josh Duhamel. He can also be seen in Hello Again, directed by Tom Gustafson with an ensemble cast including Martha Plimpton, Audra McDonald, Cheyenne Jackson, and T.R. Knight. Prior to that, Blackburn starred in the independent film Love Is All You Need, directed by Kim Rocco Shields,...
- 7/29/2022
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
TrustNordisk has boarded suspense drama Birthday Girl, directed by Michael Noer and led by Danish star Trine Dyrholm. The company will handle international sales rights on the feature about a mother’s persevering quest for justice.
Noer, who co-wrote Birthday Girl (working title) with Jesper Fin, is known for such films as 2018’s Before The Frost, which won the Tokyo Special Jury Prize, and his 2010 debut feature R, a Dragon Award winner for Best Nordic Film in Goteborg. His English-language debut was with the 2017 remake of the classic adventure epic Papillon starring Charlie Hunnam and Rami Malek.
One of Denmark’s best-known and most lauded actresses, Dyrholm won the Berlin Film Festival Silver Bear for Thomas Vinterberg’s 2016 The Commune and boasts such credits as Queen Of Hearts, Love Is All You Need and In A Better World. Recently, she’s been seen in crime series Face To Face (Forhøret...
Noer, who co-wrote Birthday Girl (working title) with Jesper Fin, is known for such films as 2018’s Before The Frost, which won the Tokyo Special Jury Prize, and his 2010 debut feature R, a Dragon Award winner for Best Nordic Film in Goteborg. His English-language debut was with the 2017 remake of the classic adventure epic Papillon starring Charlie Hunnam and Rami Malek.
One of Denmark’s best-known and most lauded actresses, Dyrholm won the Berlin Film Festival Silver Bear for Thomas Vinterberg’s 2016 The Commune and boasts such credits as Queen Of Hearts, Love Is All You Need and In A Better World. Recently, she’s been seen in crime series Face To Face (Forhøret...
- 5/2/2022
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
Market
ITV Studios has unveiled a raft of pre-sales for several of its titles and released details about its scripted slate of shows which the company will present to buyers from around the world at its Fall Festival Drama day, Wednesday Oct. 6.
Commissioned by ITV and Nordic Entertainment Group (Nent), the new drama series “Litvinenko,” from writer George Kay, is a four-part true-crime drama starring David Tennant. The series, which is produced by Patrick Spence, ITV Studios and Tiger Aspect Productions, recounts the real-life story of Alexander Litvinenko, a former Russian Federal Security Services and Kgb officer was killed by polonium poisoning in 2006, initiating one of the Metropolitan Police’s most complicated investigations in its history.
Pre-sales deals announced by ITV Studios include major series “The Ipcress File,” “The Long Call,” and “Showtrial,” and a number of shows will hit the market next week including “Our House” (Red Planet Pictures...
ITV Studios has unveiled a raft of pre-sales for several of its titles and released details about its scripted slate of shows which the company will present to buyers from around the world at its Fall Festival Drama day, Wednesday Oct. 6.
Commissioned by ITV and Nordic Entertainment Group (Nent), the new drama series “Litvinenko,” from writer George Kay, is a four-part true-crime drama starring David Tennant. The series, which is produced by Patrick Spence, ITV Studios and Tiger Aspect Productions, recounts the real-life story of Alexander Litvinenko, a former Russian Federal Security Services and Kgb officer was killed by polonium poisoning in 2006, initiating one of the Metropolitan Police’s most complicated investigations in its history.
Pre-sales deals announced by ITV Studios include major series “The Ipcress File,” “The Long Call,” and “Showtrial,” and a number of shows will hit the market next week including “Our House” (Red Planet Pictures...
- 9/30/2021
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
The 34th European Film Awards ceremony takes place on December 11.
Danish director Susanne Bier is to receive the the honorary European Achievement in World Cinema award from the European Film Academy at this year’s European Film Awards to take place in Berlin on December 11.
Bier is the first female director to win a European Film Award, an Academy Award, a Golden Globe and Primetime Emmy.
She started her career with Freud Leaving Home, the story of a Jewish woman who still lives with her parents in Stockholm at the age of 25, which received the 1991 Dragon Award in Gothenburg.
Bier...
Danish director Susanne Bier is to receive the the honorary European Achievement in World Cinema award from the European Film Academy at this year’s European Film Awards to take place in Berlin on December 11.
Bier is the first female director to win a European Film Award, an Academy Award, a Golden Globe and Primetime Emmy.
She started her career with Freud Leaving Home, the story of a Jewish woman who still lives with her parents in Stockholm at the age of 25, which received the 1991 Dragon Award in Gothenburg.
Bier...
- 9/30/2021
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
Danish director Susanne Bier, an Oscar and Golden Globe winner for In a Better World (2010), and Emmy winner for 2016 miniseries The Night Manager, will receive the 2021 European Achievement in World Cinema Award, the European Film Academy’s lifetime honor.
Bier is the first female director to win an Oscar, a Golden Globe, an Emmy and a European Film Award (In a Better World won the best European Film honor in 2010, Love Is All You Need was named the best European Comedy in 2013).
The Danish helmer has been a major figure on the European cinema scene since her feature debut, Freud ...
Bier is the first female director to win an Oscar, a Golden Globe, an Emmy and a European Film Award (In a Better World won the best European Film honor in 2010, Love Is All You Need was named the best European Comedy in 2013).
The Danish helmer has been a major figure on the European cinema scene since her feature debut, Freud ...
- 9/30/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Danish director Susanne Bier, an Oscar and Golden Globe winner for In a Better World (2010), and Emmy winner for 2016 miniseries The Night Manager, will receive the 2021 European Achievement in World Cinema Award, the European Film Academy’s lifetime honor.
Bier is the first female director to win an Oscar, a Golden Globe, an Emmy and a European Film Award (In a Better World won the best European Film honor in 2010, Love Is All You Need was named the best European Comedy in 2013).
The Danish helmer has been a major figure on the European cinema scene since her feature debut, Freud ...
Bier is the first female director to win an Oscar, a Golden Globe, an Emmy and a European Film Award (In a Better World won the best European Film honor in 2010, Love Is All You Need was named the best European Comedy in 2013).
The Danish helmer has been a major figure on the European cinema scene since her feature debut, Freud ...
- 9/30/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Michelle Pfeiffer has signed on to star as Betty Ford in the upcoming Showtime series “The First Lady,” Variety has learned. In addition, Susanne Bier has signed on to direct and executive produce the anthology series.
Formerly known as “First Ladies,” the show is described as a reframing of American leadership, told through the lens of the women at the heart of the White House. Pfeiffer joins previously announced cast member Viola Davis, who will star as Michelle Obama. The first season of the series will also explore the life of Eleanor Roosevelt, with that role yet to be cast.
Ford was the First Lady of the United States from 1974 to 1977 as the wife of President Gerald Ford. She was active in social policy and set a precedent as a politically active presidential spouse and one of the most candid first ladies in history, commenting on every hot-button issue of the time.
Formerly known as “First Ladies,” the show is described as a reframing of American leadership, told through the lens of the women at the heart of the White House. Pfeiffer joins previously announced cast member Viola Davis, who will star as Michelle Obama. The first season of the series will also explore the life of Eleanor Roosevelt, with that role yet to be cast.
Ford was the First Lady of the United States from 1974 to 1977 as the wife of President Gerald Ford. She was active in social policy and set a precedent as a politically active presidential spouse and one of the most candid first ladies in history, commenting on every hot-button issue of the time.
- 1/21/2021
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
Pour le meilleur et pour le pire
Produced by Christophe Rossignon, Philip Boëffard
Directed by Stéphane Brizé
Written by Stéphane Brizé, Olivier Gorce
Starring: Vincent Lindon, Sandrine Kiberlain, Anthony Bajon
Cinematographer: To be announced.
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Produced by Christophe Rossignon, Philip Boëffard
Directed by Stéphane Brizé
Written by Stéphane Brizé, Olivier Gorce
Starring: Vincent Lindon, Sandrine Kiberlain, Anthony Bajon
Cinematographer: To be announced.
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- 1/7/2021
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Exclusive: Paprika Steen (Okay), Isabella Crovetti (Colony), Glo Tavarez (Late Night), Jade Payton (Dynasty) and Connor Falk (Diary of a Future President) are set as series regulars opposite Lena Headey in Showtime dramedy pilot Rita, based on Christian Torpe’s award-winning Danish series. Torpe will pen the pilot and serve as showrunner. Rita is a co-production of Showtime and Platform One Media.
In Rita, Headey will play the title character, a headstrong, unconventional teacher and single mother who takes on every kind of authority – as well as her family – in a messy and unfiltered way. Josh Hutcherson, Curtiss Cook, Darren Pettie and Bryce Gangel also star.
Steen will play Ellen, a guidance counselor who runs the school with weaponized empathy. Crovetti will portray Rose, an overly ambitious student whom Rita is constantly at odds with. Tavarez will play Connie, a new and overly enthusiastic teacher at Rita’s school. Payton is Molly,...
In Rita, Headey will play the title character, a headstrong, unconventional teacher and single mother who takes on every kind of authority – as well as her family – in a messy and unfiltered way. Josh Hutcherson, Curtiss Cook, Darren Pettie and Bryce Gangel also star.
Steen will play Ellen, a guidance counselor who runs the school with weaponized empathy. Crovetti will portray Rose, an overly ambitious student whom Rita is constantly at odds with. Tavarez will play Connie, a new and overly enthusiastic teacher at Rita’s school. Payton is Molly,...
- 1/24/2020
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
The filmmaker is reuniting with Vincent Lindon and Sandrine Kiberlain who will lead the cast of this Nord-Ouest production, set to be sold by Wild Bunch. The first clapperboard slammed today on Stéphane Brizé’s 9th feature film: Pour le meilleur et pour le pire. For the 5th time, the filmmaker has turned to his favourite actor Vincent Lindon who is recreating, in league with Sandrine Kiberlain (crowned Best Actress at the 2014 Césars for 9 Month Stretch, nominated another five times in 1998, 1999, 2010, 2015 and 2019 for In Safe Hands; and whom we’ll be seeing in French cinemas...
Danish actress Trine Dyrholm — the star of Oscar contender Queen of Hearts — has joined the second-season cast of Danish crime series Face to Face. Dyrholm, whose credits include In a Better World, Love Is All You Need and The Commune, is one of Denmark's most acclaimed and fearless actresses. Her starring role in May el-Toukhy's Queen of Hearts — as a successful career woman who puts everything at risk when she seduces her teenage stepson — has drawn critical acclaim and a best actress nomination for this year's European Film Awards. Queen of Hearts is Denmark's official entry for ...
- 12/2/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Emmy-winning director Susanne Bier has signed on to helm the upcoming HBO series “The Undoing.”
Bier will direct all six episodes of the series, which is based on the book “You Should Have Known” by Jean Hanff Korelit, in addition to serving as an executive producer. The series stars and is executive produced by Nicole Kidman.
Bier won the Emmy for best directing for a limited series for AMC’s “The Night Manager,” with Bier having directed all six episodes of that series as well. Her film credits include critically-acclaimed works like “A Second Chance,” “Love Is All You Need,” “In A Better World,” “Things We Lost In The Fire,” “After The Wedding,” “Brothers,” “Once in A Lifetime,” and the upcoming “Bird Box.” She is repped by CAA, Brillstein Entertainment Partners, and Jackoway Tyerman.
In “The Undoing,” Grace Sachs (Kidman) is living the only life she ever wanted for herself.
Bier will direct all six episodes of the series, which is based on the book “You Should Have Known” by Jean Hanff Korelit, in addition to serving as an executive producer. The series stars and is executive produced by Nicole Kidman.
Bier won the Emmy for best directing for a limited series for AMC’s “The Night Manager,” with Bier having directed all six episodes of that series as well. Her film credits include critically-acclaimed works like “A Second Chance,” “Love Is All You Need,” “In A Better World,” “Things We Lost In The Fire,” “After The Wedding,” “Brothers,” “Once in A Lifetime,” and the upcoming “Bird Box.” She is repped by CAA, Brillstein Entertainment Partners, and Jackoway Tyerman.
In “The Undoing,” Grace Sachs (Kidman) is living the only life she ever wanted for herself.
- 11/7/2018
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
“The Night Manager” filmmaker Susanne Bier has been set as the director for “The Undoing,” HBO’s next limited series from Nicole Kidman and “Big Little Lies” boss David E. Kelley, an individual with knowledge of production tells TheWrap.
Based on the book “You Should Have Known” by Jean Hanff Korelitz, the six-episode series stars Kidman as Grace Sachs, a loving wife, devoted mother and successful therapist whose life unravels when she makes discoveries about her husband’s past.
Here’s the official logline for the series: Grace Sachs (Kidman) is living the only life she ever wanted for herself. She’s a successful therapist, has a devoted husband and young son who attends an elite private school in New York City. Overnight a chasm opens in her life: a violent death, a missing husband, and, in the place of a man Grace thought she knew, only a chain of terrible revelations.
Based on the book “You Should Have Known” by Jean Hanff Korelitz, the six-episode series stars Kidman as Grace Sachs, a loving wife, devoted mother and successful therapist whose life unravels when she makes discoveries about her husband’s past.
Here’s the official logline for the series: Grace Sachs (Kidman) is living the only life she ever wanted for herself. She’s a successful therapist, has a devoted husband and young son who attends an elite private school in New York City. Overnight a chasm opens in her life: a violent death, a missing husband, and, in the place of a man Grace thought she knew, only a chain of terrible revelations.
- 11/7/2018
- by Jennifer Maas
- The Wrap
Exclusive: Genius Produced has snapped up the rights to the story of aviation pioneer Florence Lowe “Pancho” Barnes in an agreement with her family and estate.
The announcement was made by Genius Produced CEO Kim Rocco Shields, who also revealed that Dahlia Heyman, sister of producer David Heyman, will adapt the story for a feature film which Shields will produce and direct. Shields previously wrote, produced and directed the viral short Love Is All You Need? which
she developed into a feature film.
Christened Florence Lowe at birth in 1901, Pancho Barnes fell in love with flying under the guidance of her grandfather, who established America’s first military air unit during the Civil War. After a youth spent riding stunt horses in Hollywood and fighting Mexican revolutionaries while disguised as a man, she was dubbed “Pancho” by her compatriots, and the name stuck; her last name was acquired through marriage.
The announcement was made by Genius Produced CEO Kim Rocco Shields, who also revealed that Dahlia Heyman, sister of producer David Heyman, will adapt the story for a feature film which Shields will produce and direct. Shields previously wrote, produced and directed the viral short Love Is All You Need? which
she developed into a feature film.
Christened Florence Lowe at birth in 1901, Pancho Barnes fell in love with flying under the guidance of her grandfather, who established America’s first military air unit during the Civil War. After a youth spent riding stunt horses in Hollywood and fighting Mexican revolutionaries while disguised as a man, she was dubbed “Pancho” by her compatriots, and the name stuck; her last name was acquired through marriage.
- 9/6/2018
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
“I’m still an outsider, that has guaranteed my freedom for all these years.”
Meinolf Zurhorst, the highly-respected producer, commissioner and writer who has worked at French-German public broadcaster Arte since 1992, was in Sarajevo Film Festival on Tuesday (Aug 14) to deliver a reflective talk on his career.
In an interview with Simon Perry from the Ace Producers network, Zurhorst discussed his time at Arte, which he first joined as a commissioning editor in the cinema department, before becoming head of the Arte film department of German broadcaster Zdf (one of Arte’s major shareholders and where the films are broadcast...
Meinolf Zurhorst, the highly-respected producer, commissioner and writer who has worked at French-German public broadcaster Arte since 1992, was in Sarajevo Film Festival on Tuesday (Aug 14) to deliver a reflective talk on his career.
In an interview with Simon Perry from the Ace Producers network, Zurhorst discussed his time at Arte, which he first joined as a commissioning editor in the cinema department, before becoming head of the Arte film department of German broadcaster Zdf (one of Arte’s major shareholders and where the films are broadcast...
- 8/14/2018
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
“I’m still an outsider, that has guaranteed my freedom for all these years.”
Meinolf Zurhorst, the highly-respected producer, commissioner and writer who has worked at French-German public broadcaster Arte since 1992, was in Sarajevo Film Festival on Tuesday (Aug 14) to deliver a reflective talk on his career.
In an interview with Simon Perry from the Ace Producers network, Zurhorst discussed his time at Arte, which he first joined as a commissioning editor in the cinema department, before becoming head of the Arte film department of German broadcaster Zdf (one of Arte’s major shareholders and where the films are broadcast...
Meinolf Zurhorst, the highly-respected producer, commissioner and writer who has worked at French-German public broadcaster Arte since 1992, was in Sarajevo Film Festival on Tuesday (Aug 14) to deliver a reflective talk on his career.
In an interview with Simon Perry from the Ace Producers network, Zurhorst discussed his time at Arte, which he first joined as a commissioning editor in the cinema department, before becoming head of the Arte film department of German broadcaster Zdf (one of Arte’s major shareholders and where the films are broadcast...
- 8/14/2018
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: UK distributor Arrow Films is streamlining operations with the departure of long-time executives Tom Stewart and Jon Sadler.
Stewart has been Arrow Films acquisitions director since 2010, while Sadler has been marketing director since 2012. Both left the firm yesterday and aren’t being immediately replaced, I understand.
Stewart, a veteran of UK distribution firms including Metrodome, High Fliers and Fremantle, picked up movies including Gaspar Noé’s Cannes 2018 title Climax, Margot Robbie starrer Terminal and Gillies MacKinnon’s breakout Whisky Galore. Sadler, formerly of Metrodome, oversaw successful campaigns for the likes of Danish drama Love Is All You Need and the aforementioned Whisky Galore.
Stewart, who is exploring next moves in the business, told us that he wanted to “thank industry for their support” during his tenure and that he had “honestly loved the experience and was so very proud of my own personal achievements and being able to watch...
Stewart has been Arrow Films acquisitions director since 2010, while Sadler has been marketing director since 2012. Both left the firm yesterday and aren’t being immediately replaced, I understand.
Stewart, a veteran of UK distribution firms including Metrodome, High Fliers and Fremantle, picked up movies including Gaspar Noé’s Cannes 2018 title Climax, Margot Robbie starrer Terminal and Gillies MacKinnon’s breakout Whisky Galore. Sadler, formerly of Metrodome, oversaw successful campaigns for the likes of Danish drama Love Is All You Need and the aforementioned Whisky Galore.
Stewart, who is exploring next moves in the business, told us that he wanted to “thank industry for their support” during his tenure and that he had “honestly loved the experience and was so very proud of my own personal achievements and being able to watch...
- 6/19/2018
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Susanne Bier Oscar winner 'In a Better World' director Susanne Bier Susanne Bier, whose In a Better World won the 2011 Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award, is seen above on the 83rd Academy Awards' Red Carpet, just outside the Kodak Theatre. The other 2011 Oscar nominees in the Best Foreign Language Film category were: Rachid Bouchareb's Outside the Law / Hors-la-loi (Algeria). Alejandro González Iñárritu's Biutiful (Mexico). Yorgos Lanthimos' Dogtooth (Greece). Denis Villeneuve's Incendies (Canada). As in previous years, several international favorites were left out of the 2011 Best Foreign Language Film Oscar competition. Among these were the following: Xavier Beauvois' French Academy César winner Of Gods and Men / Des hommes et des dieux (France). Semih Kaplanoglu's 2010 Berlin Film Festival winner Bal / Honey (Turkey). Apichatpong Weerasethakul's 2010 Cannes Film Festival winner Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives / Loong Boonmee raleuk chat (Thailand). Prior to In a Better World,...
- 5/16/2015
- by D. Zhea
- Alt Film Guide
Paolo Sorrentino’s The Great Beauty (La Grande Bellezza) has won the top prize at the European Film Awards in Berlin.
Sorrentino also won the prize for best director for his film about a writer recalling the passions of his youth, while his star Tony Servillo was named best actor and Cristiano Travaglioli was named best editor.
The screenplay award went to François Ozon for his satire adaptation In the House. Veerle Baetens was took home the best actress accolade for Felix Van Groeningen’s The Broken Circle Breakdown.
The awards also paid tribute to French star Catherine Deneuve, who received the European Film Academy lifetime achievement award.
The full list of winners is below:
European Film The Great Beauty (La Grande Bellezza)
European Comedy Love Is All You Need (Den Skaldede Frisør) Dir: Susanne Bier
European Director Paolo Sorrentino - The Great Beauty (La Grande Bellezza)
European Actress Veerle Baetens...
Sorrentino also won the prize for best director for his film about a writer recalling the passions of his youth, while his star Tony Servillo was named best actor and Cristiano Travaglioli was named best editor.
The screenplay award went to François Ozon for his satire adaptation In the House. Veerle Baetens was took home the best actress accolade for Felix Van Groeningen’s The Broken Circle Breakdown.
The awards also paid tribute to French star Catherine Deneuve, who received the European Film Academy lifetime achievement award.
The full list of winners is below:
European Film The Great Beauty (La Grande Bellezza)
European Comedy Love Is All You Need (Den Skaldede Frisør) Dir: Susanne Bier
European Director Paolo Sorrentino - The Great Beauty (La Grande Bellezza)
European Actress Veerle Baetens...
- 12/7/2013
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The Broken Circle Breakdown, The Great Beauty and Adele: Chapters 1 & 2 among nominees.
The nominations for the 26th European Film Awards have been announced at the Seville European Film Festival.
More than 2,900 European Film Academy members will now vote for the winners who will be presented during the awards ceremony on Dec 7 in Berlin.
Nominated are:
European Film 2013
The Best Offer
Italy, 130 min
Written & Directed By: Giuseppe Tornatore
Produced By: Isabella Cocuzza & Arturo Paglia
Blancanieves
Spain/France, 104 min
Written & Directed By: Pablo Berger
Produced By: Ibon Cormenzana, Jérôme Vidal & Pablo Berger
The Broken Circle Breakdown
Belgium, 100 min
Directed By: Felix van Groeningen
Written By: Carl Joos & Felix van Groeningen
Produced By: Dirk Impens
La Grande Bellezza
The Great Beauty
Italy/France, 140 min
Directed By: Paolo Sorrentino
Written By: Paolo Sorrentino & Umberto Contarello
Produced By: Nicola Giuliano & Francesca Cima
Oh Boy!
Germany, 83 min
Written & Directed By: Jan Ole Gerster
Produced By: Marcos Kantis & Alexander Wadouh
La Vie D’Adele:...
The nominations for the 26th European Film Awards have been announced at the Seville European Film Festival.
More than 2,900 European Film Academy members will now vote for the winners who will be presented during the awards ceremony on Dec 7 in Berlin.
Nominated are:
European Film 2013
The Best Offer
Italy, 130 min
Written & Directed By: Giuseppe Tornatore
Produced By: Isabella Cocuzza & Arturo Paglia
Blancanieves
Spain/France, 104 min
Written & Directed By: Pablo Berger
Produced By: Ibon Cormenzana, Jérôme Vidal & Pablo Berger
The Broken Circle Breakdown
Belgium, 100 min
Directed By: Felix van Groeningen
Written By: Carl Joos & Felix van Groeningen
Produced By: Dirk Impens
La Grande Bellezza
The Great Beauty
Italy/France, 140 min
Directed By: Paolo Sorrentino
Written By: Paolo Sorrentino & Umberto Contarello
Produced By: Nicola Giuliano & Francesca Cima
Oh Boy!
Germany, 83 min
Written & Directed By: Jan Ole Gerster
Produced By: Marcos Kantis & Alexander Wadouh
La Vie D’Adele:...
- 11/9/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Oscar-winning Danish director will next make A Second Chance, starring Game of Thrones’ Nikolaj Coster-Waldau.
Susanne Bier, whose Us drama Serena will debut in April 2014, will return to Denmark for her next film, A Second Chance (En chance til).
TrustNordisk will start presales on the film at Afm next week and it will shoot from Nov 18 to Jan 16 on the Danish island of Funen.
Bier will again work with scriptwriter Anders Thomas Jensen, having first collaborated more than a decade ago on Open Hearts (2002) and later on In A Better World, which won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 2011.
The pair most recently worked together on Danish romantic drama Love Is All You Need (Den skaldede frisør/2012).
Describing the new film, TrustNordisk issued a statement which said: “How far are decent human beings willing to go, when tragedy blurs the line between just and unjust?
“With A Second Chance, Susanne Bier and [link...
Susanne Bier, whose Us drama Serena will debut in April 2014, will return to Denmark for her next film, A Second Chance (En chance til).
TrustNordisk will start presales on the film at Afm next week and it will shoot from Nov 18 to Jan 16 on the Danish island of Funen.
Bier will again work with scriptwriter Anders Thomas Jensen, having first collaborated more than a decade ago on Open Hearts (2002) and later on In A Better World, which won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 2011.
The pair most recently worked together on Danish romantic drama Love Is All You Need (Den skaldede frisør/2012).
Describing the new film, TrustNordisk issued a statement which said: “How far are decent human beings willing to go, when tragedy blurs the line between just and unjust?
“With A Second Chance, Susanne Bier and [link...
- 10/30/2013
- by jornrossing@aol.com (Jorn Rossing Jensen)
- ScreenDaily
Oscar-winning Danish director will next make A Second Chance, starring Game of Thrones’ Nikolaj Coster-Waldau.
Susanne Bier, whose Us drama Serena will debut in April 2014, will return to Denmark for her next film, A Second Chance (En chance til).
TrustNordisk will start presales on the film at Afm next week and it will shoot from Nov 18 to Jan 16 on the Danish island of Funen.
Bier will again work with scriptwriter Anders Thomas Jensen, having first collaborated more than a decade ago on Open Hearts (2002) and later on In A Better World, which won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 2011.
The pair most recently worked together on Danish romantic drama Love Is All You Need (Den skaldede frisør/2012).
Describing the new film, TrustNordisk issued a statement which said: “How far are decent human beings willing to go, when tragedy blurs the line between just and unjust?
“With A Second Chance, Susanne Bier and [link...
Susanne Bier, whose Us drama Serena will debut in April 2014, will return to Denmark for her next film, A Second Chance (En chance til).
TrustNordisk will start presales on the film at Afm next week and it will shoot from Nov 18 to Jan 16 on the Danish island of Funen.
Bier will again work with scriptwriter Anders Thomas Jensen, having first collaborated more than a decade ago on Open Hearts (2002) and later on In A Better World, which won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 2011.
The pair most recently worked together on Danish romantic drama Love Is All You Need (Den skaldede frisør/2012).
Describing the new film, TrustNordisk issued a statement which said: “How far are decent human beings willing to go, when tragedy blurs the line between just and unjust?
“With A Second Chance, Susanne Bier and [link...
- 10/30/2013
- by jornrossing@aol.com (Jorn Rossing Jensen)
- ScreenDaily
The European Film Academy will hold the 26th European Film Awards in Berlin on December 7th, 2013. To make fans part of the celebration every year the audience gets to choose the winner of the Efa People's Choice Award. This year one lucky fan will also have the chance to attend the awards ceremony and be part of a fantastic event that brings together Europe's greatest film stars, directors, actors and actresses.
Audiences in the past have awarded the honor to Jean-Pierre Jeunet's beloved Amelie, Lars von Trier's Dancer in the Dark, and incredibly 3 times to Spanish master Pedro Almodovar (All About My Mother, Talk to Her, Volver).
To vote and for a chance to win a trip to the 26th European Film Awards click Here
The Nominees Are:
Anna Karenina
UK, 124 min
Directed By: Joe Wright
Written By: Tom Stoppard
With: Keira Knightley, Aaron Johnson, Jude Law, Matthew Macfadyen, Domhnall Gleeson, Alicia Vikander
The Best Offer (La Migliore Offerta)
Italy, 130 min
Written & Directed by: Giuseppe Tornatore
With: Geoffrey Rush, Jim Sturgess, Sylvia Hoeks, Donald Sutherland
The Broken Circle Breakdown
Belgium, 100 min
Directed by: Felix van Groeningen
Written by: Carl Joos & Felix van Groeningen
With: Veerle Baetens, Johan Heldenbergh, Nell Cattrysse, Geert van Rampelberg, Nils de Caster
The Deep (Djúpið)
Iceland/Norway, 92 min
Directed by: Baltasar Kormákur
Written by: Jón Atli Jónasson & Baltasar Kormákur
With: Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, Jóhann G. Jóhannsson, Stefán Hallur Stefánsson, Björn Thors, Thorbjorg H. Thorgilsdótir
The Gilded Cage (La Cage Dorée)
Portugal/France, 90 min
Directed by: Ruben Alves
Written by: Ruben Alves, Jean-André Yerlès, Hugo Gélin
With: Rita Blanco, Joaquim de Almeida, Roland Giraud, Chantal Lauby, Barbara Cabrita, Lannick Gautry
I'm So Excited (Los Amantes Pasajeros)
Spain, 90 min
Written & Directed by: Pedro Almodóvar
With: Javier Cámara, Carlos Areces, Raúl Arévalo, Lola Dueñas, Cecilia Roth
The Impossible (Lo Imposible)
Spain, 114 min
Directed by: J.A. Bayona
Written by: Sergio G. Sánchez & María Belón
With: Naomi Watts, Ewan McGregor, Tom Holland, Samuel Joslin, Oaklee Pendergast
Kon-Tiki
Norway, Denmark, UK, Germany, Sweden, 113 min
Directed by: Joachim Rønning & Espen Sandberg
Written by: Petter Skavlan
With: Pål Sverre Hagen, Anders Bassmo Christiansen, Tobias Santelmann, Gustaf Skarsgaard, Odd-Magnus Williamson, Jakob Oftebro, Agnes Kittelsen
Love Is All You Need (Den skaldede frisør)
Denmark, 111 min
Directed By: Susanne Bier
Written By: Anders Thomas Jensen & Susanne Bier
With: Pierce Brosnan, Trine Dyrholm, Paprika Steen, Kim Bodnia
Oh Boy
Germany, 83 min
Written & Directed by: Jan Ole Gerster
With: Tom Schilling, Marc Hosemann, Friederike Kempter, Michael Gwisdek
Searching for Sugar Man
UK/Sweden, 83 min
Directed by: Malik Bendjelloul...
Audiences in the past have awarded the honor to Jean-Pierre Jeunet's beloved Amelie, Lars von Trier's Dancer in the Dark, and incredibly 3 times to Spanish master Pedro Almodovar (All About My Mother, Talk to Her, Volver).
To vote and for a chance to win a trip to the 26th European Film Awards click Here
The Nominees Are:
Anna Karenina
UK, 124 min
Directed By: Joe Wright
Written By: Tom Stoppard
With: Keira Knightley, Aaron Johnson, Jude Law, Matthew Macfadyen, Domhnall Gleeson, Alicia Vikander
The Best Offer (La Migliore Offerta)
Italy, 130 min
Written & Directed by: Giuseppe Tornatore
With: Geoffrey Rush, Jim Sturgess, Sylvia Hoeks, Donald Sutherland
The Broken Circle Breakdown
Belgium, 100 min
Directed by: Felix van Groeningen
Written by: Carl Joos & Felix van Groeningen
With: Veerle Baetens, Johan Heldenbergh, Nell Cattrysse, Geert van Rampelberg, Nils de Caster
The Deep (Djúpið)
Iceland/Norway, 92 min
Directed by: Baltasar Kormákur
Written by: Jón Atli Jónasson & Baltasar Kormákur
With: Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, Jóhann G. Jóhannsson, Stefán Hallur Stefánsson, Björn Thors, Thorbjorg H. Thorgilsdótir
The Gilded Cage (La Cage Dorée)
Portugal/France, 90 min
Directed by: Ruben Alves
Written by: Ruben Alves, Jean-André Yerlès, Hugo Gélin
With: Rita Blanco, Joaquim de Almeida, Roland Giraud, Chantal Lauby, Barbara Cabrita, Lannick Gautry
I'm So Excited (Los Amantes Pasajeros)
Spain, 90 min
Written & Directed by: Pedro Almodóvar
With: Javier Cámara, Carlos Areces, Raúl Arévalo, Lola Dueñas, Cecilia Roth
The Impossible (Lo Imposible)
Spain, 114 min
Directed by: J.A. Bayona
Written by: Sergio G. Sánchez & María Belón
With: Naomi Watts, Ewan McGregor, Tom Holland, Samuel Joslin, Oaklee Pendergast
Kon-Tiki
Norway, Denmark, UK, Germany, Sweden, 113 min
Directed by: Joachim Rønning & Espen Sandberg
Written by: Petter Skavlan
With: Pål Sverre Hagen, Anders Bassmo Christiansen, Tobias Santelmann, Gustaf Skarsgaard, Odd-Magnus Williamson, Jakob Oftebro, Agnes Kittelsen
Love Is All You Need (Den skaldede frisør)
Denmark, 111 min
Directed By: Susanne Bier
Written By: Anders Thomas Jensen & Susanne Bier
With: Pierce Brosnan, Trine Dyrholm, Paprika Steen, Kim Bodnia
Oh Boy
Germany, 83 min
Written & Directed by: Jan Ole Gerster
With: Tom Schilling, Marc Hosemann, Friederike Kempter, Michael Gwisdek
Searching for Sugar Man
UK/Sweden, 83 min
Directed by: Malik Bendjelloul...
- 9/10/2013
- by Carlos Aguilar
- Sydney's Buzz
★★★★☆ In Love Is All You Need (Den skaldede frisør, 2012), a Mediterranean locale plays hosts to the upcoming nuptials of a good-looking, twentysomething couple, whilst Pierce Brosnan crops up as the father of one of the young lovers. Rest assured - this isn't some kind of cynical, cash-grabbing Mamma Mia! (2008) continuation, but instead the work of celebrated Danish filmmaker Susanne Bier. And what an irresistibly intoxicating yarn she has crafted, managing to coax a career-best turn from the aforementioned ex-Bond, plus a spirited and extremely appealing central performance from previous collaborator, Trine Dyrholm.
Dyrholm plays Ida, a cuckolded wife in remission from breast cancer. She's coming to terms with the psychological and physical effects of the disease when she discovers her bullish husband (Kim Bodnia) is sleeping with the receptionist at work, who is closer in age to their daughter. Said offspring is currently planning her wedding to a young man at a rustic Italian villa,...
Dyrholm plays Ida, a cuckolded wife in remission from breast cancer. She's coming to terms with the psychological and physical effects of the disease when she discovers her bullish husband (Kim Bodnia) is sleeping with the receptionist at work, who is closer in age to their daughter. Said offspring is currently planning her wedding to a young man at a rustic Italian villa,...
- 9/2/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Probably the first thing you need to know about Love is All You Need is that it doesn’t include any Beatles songs on its soundtrack. It’s original title is Den skaldede frisør, which seems to roughly translate to “The Bald Hairdresser,” and Love is All You Need is the arbitrary title it got stuck with in English-speaking markets. It is the kind of movie that unashamedly includes multiple uses of the song ‘That’s Amore’ though, so you can probably guess what sort of demographic it’s aiming to hit. Love is All You Need, in addition to being the new film from co-writer/director Susanne Bier (In a Better World, Things We Lost in the Fire), is a relationship drama about a guy (Sebastien Jessen) and a girl (Molly Blixt Egelind) getting married at a rustic house situated in a lemon grove on the coast of Italy. It...
- 5/16/2013
- by Nathan Adams
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Title: Love Is All You Need (Den skaldede frisør) Sony Pictures Classics Director: Susanne Bier Screenwriter: Anders Thomas Jensen from Susanne Bier and Anders Thomas Jensen’s story Cast: Pierce Brosnan, Trine Dyrholm, Molly Blixt Egelind, Sebastian Jessen, Paprika Steen, Kim Bodnia, Christiane Schaumburg-Müller, Micky Skeel Hansen, Ciro Petrone, Frederikke Thomassen Screened at: Sony, NYC, 4/9/13 Opens: May 3, 2013 If you can get over the repetitions of Harry Warren and Jack Brooks’s 1952 song “That’s Amore,” which is neither Italian nor Danish, you may find a few things to like about Susanne Bier’s “Love is All You Need,” which takes place in Copenhagen and Sorrento. Though filled with other clichés [ Read More ]
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- 4/10/2013
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
An interesting discussion during Ficg 2013 with Ugo Sorrentino, the head of Art Films, brought to light the issues involved with co-productions with Brazil, whether with Latino or other countries. Ugo’s grandfather started in the business in 1931 as the distributor for the German production company Ufa. The war blocked all German films and so the company switched and still distributes many French along with American indies, and, as one can see below, they are distributing many Scandinavian films too.
According to Ugo Sorrentino of Art Films, for the Brazilian co-production law to be effective in breaking the stronghold of American film imperialism, it should not only be about co-production but about co-distribution. “Unless there are co-distribution agreements between Brazil and other countries, the simple co-production deals won’t be sufficient to have these films shown in either country, leaving predominant American films occupying the playing time. We need to give an edge on distribution for our films.”
If Brazil were to do “effective” co-productions with Latin America, it must also have a co-distribution agreement in place, because the Brazilians do not like Spanish language films, nor do Spanish speaking countries embrace Brazilian (Portuguese-language) films. So even if they are made, they may not find Brazilian or Latin American distribution.
Every distributor and international sales agent knows well that to have a film made is not enough; the film must have the possibility of making money for a business to run. The filmmaker also needs this in order to establish herself or himself as a bonafide player in the international film business.
Ancine, the governmental arm of Brazil had a two year agreement with Incaa, the governmental film arm of Argentina, to trade 8 films with P&A of Us$20,000 included. There are 100 film produced in Argentina in one year, so over 4 years there are 400. If you choose the best 8 then a pipeline can be, and in fact was, created to habituate the audiences to these films. The agreement between Ancine and Incaa gave Argentinian films an edge in Brazil. It broke the ice and created the habit of accepting and watching well-written Argentinian films. Brazilian audiences might still choose to go to see an Argentinian film as a result of this initiative. However, Argentina did not reciprocate and so Brazilian films did not gain a foothold in Argentina.
In 2012, according to compiled data by Ancine, the only co-productions with Latin America were a two part documentary “In 2111” co-produced with Argentina, a TV series by Endemol co-produced with Argentina “10 Years Younger” and an ad co-produced with Chile entitled “Fiestas, Sandals and Blouses”.
Ventana Sur, the Buenos Aires based film market which sells Argentinian along with other countries’ films, needs that co-production/ co-distribution with P&A in place to make effective inroads into other countries like Brazil where Spanish language films are not habitually accepted.
“Movie imperialism”, as U.S. films abroad are known, will continue everywhere unless such co-distribution arrangements accompany co-production agreements of the countries trying to gain a foothold in local and worldwide film business.
Brazil has the largest theatrical business in Latin America in terms of theatrical box office (Us$862 million Bo in 2011 vs. Mexico’s Us$ 788 million). Brazil has 200 million inhabitants; 18 million are in Sao Paolo and 13 million in Rio. It has the largest population of Latin American countries with the third largest Gdp per capita (in 2011) of Usd $13, 000 after Uruguay’s Usd $15,000 and Chile’s Us$14,000.*
It is 10th largest film business worldwide in terms of its 2011 theatrical admissions according to Observatoire’s 2011 market statistics. Its movie-going population worldwide with 144 million admissions is up 7% from last year and is second to Mexico’s 205 million. And yet in terms of per capita admissions, among the Latin American countries it has the second lowest per capita admissions of 0.7 per person, tying with Uruguay. Bolivia has the lowest at 0.2. Mexico has the highest per capita admissions of 1.9 films seen in a year per person.
Brazil’s 2011 gross box office was Usd$ 862 million, an increase of 14% over last year, the highest level on record, second to Mexico’s Usd$ 788 million. 99 Brazilian feature films were released in 2011, the highest level in recent history. Cinema admissions increased by 7%, however, the national market share for Brazilian films dropped form 19% to 12.4%.
These figures will be revised at the Cannes Marche this May 2013.
English (rather than Spanish) is the second language of Brazil. However, the expanding middle class, coming up from the B- and C classes speaks neither English nor Spanish. Pay TV is currently showing dubbed films.
American films hold an 80% share of the Brazilian market.
U.S. must pay Brazil 25% income tax on receipts for U.S. films which play in Brazil. However, 18.5% of that can be used to produce Brazilian films. Eight of the top ten Brazilian films are produced by the major Hollywood studios, But they do not go out of Brazil to play in U.S. or other countries. For instance, a Brazilian film with 5 million admissions will not be sold internationally by the major studio but by a smaller company because the majors’ business model does not include sales or international distribution of non-u.S. films, even if they are produced by them in Brazil.
City of God was not produced by a major and was acquired for U.S. by the Weinstein Brothers for Miramax, but most films do not exit the country in that way, especially when they are produced by the majors.
The law decrees that Brazilian films will have 35 days per screen. In 2010 the market share for Brazilian films went up to 19%. However, in 2011 it dropped to 12.4%. 2012 was not such a good year from Brazilian films either. 2013 sees Brazilian films struggling to hold onto a 16% share even with the law protecting them. The 2012 megahit Brazilian film, Elite Squad 2, had 12 million admissions.
International Co-Production
Brazil has instruments for co-production in dual languages. For the international co-production agreements see the site of Ancine (Agencia Nacional del Cine) the Brazilian national agency of cinema. Bilateral agreements exist between Brazil and Argentina, Chile, Venezuela, Spain and other non-Spanish speaking countries. For the 11 of November 1989 Latin American Co-Production Agreement see the Spanish language site.
The Audiovisual Law grants up to 7 million Reales (Us$1.72 million) per picture. To qualify, a project must be accredited by Ancine. The project must have a local producer attached. It may be in any language, but it must be directed or co-directed by a Brazilian. You can check out all the requirements on the website of Ancine. Some of it, like the Faq, is in English.
Art Film itself continues to change with the times as its latest acquisitions from the Nordic countries as well as from France include Kon-Tiki, A Thousand Times Goodnight starring Juliette Binoche from Im Global and the following:
Liv & Ingmar by D Akolkar (acquired from Svensk Filmindustry in Sep 2012)
Rights : Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD - Sweden - Documentary - Budget : $0,0 million
Love Is All You Need (Den Skaldede FRISØR) by Susanne Bier (acquired from Trustnordisk in Aug 2012)
Rights : Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD - Denmark - Comedy - Budget : $8,1 million
Perfect Mothers, formerly entitled Two Mothers By Anne Fontaine (acquired from Gaumont in Jul 2012)
Rights : Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD - France - Drama - Budget : $0,0 million
The Suicide Shop (Le Magasin Des Suicides) by Patrice Leconte (acquired from Wild Bunch in Feb 2012)
Rights : Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD - France - Animation - Budget : $0,0 million
Paulette by Jérôme Enrico (acquired from Gaumont in Feb 2012)
Rights : Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD - France - Comedy - Budget : $0,0 million
Ugo thinks the future for films in Brazil is in dubbing. TV series are subtitled for TV, but films are both dubbed and subtitled. The B- and C classes have TV access and increasingly to Pay TV and, as was said, they do not speak English. Pay TV is now dubbing and Ugo Sorrentino is now also thinking of dubbing the bigger films he distributes, starting with Kon-Tiki.
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* All statistics come from Marche du Film Focus 2012 World Market Trends, published in cooperation with the European Audioviual Observatory...
According to Ugo Sorrentino of Art Films, for the Brazilian co-production law to be effective in breaking the stronghold of American film imperialism, it should not only be about co-production but about co-distribution. “Unless there are co-distribution agreements between Brazil and other countries, the simple co-production deals won’t be sufficient to have these films shown in either country, leaving predominant American films occupying the playing time. We need to give an edge on distribution for our films.”
If Brazil were to do “effective” co-productions with Latin America, it must also have a co-distribution agreement in place, because the Brazilians do not like Spanish language films, nor do Spanish speaking countries embrace Brazilian (Portuguese-language) films. So even if they are made, they may not find Brazilian or Latin American distribution.
Every distributor and international sales agent knows well that to have a film made is not enough; the film must have the possibility of making money for a business to run. The filmmaker also needs this in order to establish herself or himself as a bonafide player in the international film business.
Ancine, the governmental arm of Brazil had a two year agreement with Incaa, the governmental film arm of Argentina, to trade 8 films with P&A of Us$20,000 included. There are 100 film produced in Argentina in one year, so over 4 years there are 400. If you choose the best 8 then a pipeline can be, and in fact was, created to habituate the audiences to these films. The agreement between Ancine and Incaa gave Argentinian films an edge in Brazil. It broke the ice and created the habit of accepting and watching well-written Argentinian films. Brazilian audiences might still choose to go to see an Argentinian film as a result of this initiative. However, Argentina did not reciprocate and so Brazilian films did not gain a foothold in Argentina.
In 2012, according to compiled data by Ancine, the only co-productions with Latin America were a two part documentary “In 2111” co-produced with Argentina, a TV series by Endemol co-produced with Argentina “10 Years Younger” and an ad co-produced with Chile entitled “Fiestas, Sandals and Blouses”.
Ventana Sur, the Buenos Aires based film market which sells Argentinian along with other countries’ films, needs that co-production/ co-distribution with P&A in place to make effective inroads into other countries like Brazil where Spanish language films are not habitually accepted.
“Movie imperialism”, as U.S. films abroad are known, will continue everywhere unless such co-distribution arrangements accompany co-production agreements of the countries trying to gain a foothold in local and worldwide film business.
Brazil has the largest theatrical business in Latin America in terms of theatrical box office (Us$862 million Bo in 2011 vs. Mexico’s Us$ 788 million). Brazil has 200 million inhabitants; 18 million are in Sao Paolo and 13 million in Rio. It has the largest population of Latin American countries with the third largest Gdp per capita (in 2011) of Usd $13, 000 after Uruguay’s Usd $15,000 and Chile’s Us$14,000.*
It is 10th largest film business worldwide in terms of its 2011 theatrical admissions according to Observatoire’s 2011 market statistics. Its movie-going population worldwide with 144 million admissions is up 7% from last year and is second to Mexico’s 205 million. And yet in terms of per capita admissions, among the Latin American countries it has the second lowest per capita admissions of 0.7 per person, tying with Uruguay. Bolivia has the lowest at 0.2. Mexico has the highest per capita admissions of 1.9 films seen in a year per person.
Brazil’s 2011 gross box office was Usd$ 862 million, an increase of 14% over last year, the highest level on record, second to Mexico’s Usd$ 788 million. 99 Brazilian feature films were released in 2011, the highest level in recent history. Cinema admissions increased by 7%, however, the national market share for Brazilian films dropped form 19% to 12.4%.
These figures will be revised at the Cannes Marche this May 2013.
English (rather than Spanish) is the second language of Brazil. However, the expanding middle class, coming up from the B- and C classes speaks neither English nor Spanish. Pay TV is currently showing dubbed films.
American films hold an 80% share of the Brazilian market.
U.S. must pay Brazil 25% income tax on receipts for U.S. films which play in Brazil. However, 18.5% of that can be used to produce Brazilian films. Eight of the top ten Brazilian films are produced by the major Hollywood studios, But they do not go out of Brazil to play in U.S. or other countries. For instance, a Brazilian film with 5 million admissions will not be sold internationally by the major studio but by a smaller company because the majors’ business model does not include sales or international distribution of non-u.S. films, even if they are produced by them in Brazil.
City of God was not produced by a major and was acquired for U.S. by the Weinstein Brothers for Miramax, but most films do not exit the country in that way, especially when they are produced by the majors.
The law decrees that Brazilian films will have 35 days per screen. In 2010 the market share for Brazilian films went up to 19%. However, in 2011 it dropped to 12.4%. 2012 was not such a good year from Brazilian films either. 2013 sees Brazilian films struggling to hold onto a 16% share even with the law protecting them. The 2012 megahit Brazilian film, Elite Squad 2, had 12 million admissions.
International Co-Production
Brazil has instruments for co-production in dual languages. For the international co-production agreements see the site of Ancine (Agencia Nacional del Cine) the Brazilian national agency of cinema. Bilateral agreements exist between Brazil and Argentina, Chile, Venezuela, Spain and other non-Spanish speaking countries. For the 11 of November 1989 Latin American Co-Production Agreement see the Spanish language site.
The Audiovisual Law grants up to 7 million Reales (Us$1.72 million) per picture. To qualify, a project must be accredited by Ancine. The project must have a local producer attached. It may be in any language, but it must be directed or co-directed by a Brazilian. You can check out all the requirements on the website of Ancine. Some of it, like the Faq, is in English.
Art Film itself continues to change with the times as its latest acquisitions from the Nordic countries as well as from France include Kon-Tiki, A Thousand Times Goodnight starring Juliette Binoche from Im Global and the following:
Liv & Ingmar by D Akolkar (acquired from Svensk Filmindustry in Sep 2012)
Rights : Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD - Sweden - Documentary - Budget : $0,0 million
Love Is All You Need (Den Skaldede FRISØR) by Susanne Bier (acquired from Trustnordisk in Aug 2012)
Rights : Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD - Denmark - Comedy - Budget : $8,1 million
Perfect Mothers, formerly entitled Two Mothers By Anne Fontaine (acquired from Gaumont in Jul 2012)
Rights : Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD - France - Drama - Budget : $0,0 million
The Suicide Shop (Le Magasin Des Suicides) by Patrice Leconte (acquired from Wild Bunch in Feb 2012)
Rights : Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD - France - Animation - Budget : $0,0 million
Paulette by Jérôme Enrico (acquired from Gaumont in Feb 2012)
Rights : Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD - France - Comedy - Budget : $0,0 million
Ugo thinks the future for films in Brazil is in dubbing. TV series are subtitled for TV, but films are both dubbed and subtitled. The B- and C classes have TV access and increasingly to Pay TV and, as was said, they do not speak English. Pay TV is now dubbing and Ugo Sorrentino is now also thinking of dubbing the bigger films he distributes, starting with Kon-Tiki.
_______
* All statistics come from Marche du Film Focus 2012 World Market Trends, published in cooperation with the European Audioviual Observatory...
- 3/26/2013
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Robert Redford, Spike Lee and Brian De Palma are among the big name Hollywood directors who will be booking a ticket to Venice this year. The line-up for the 69th Venice Film Festival was unveiled Thursday with a list of heavyweight European auteurs like Denmark's Susanne Bier and her comedy, "Love Is All You Need," in addition to the American talent. Notably, the festival boasts the world premiere for Terrence Malick's "To the Wonder," a romantic drama from the famously secretive director that stars Ben Affleck and Rachel Weisz. The opening night slot...
- 7/26/2012
- by Brent Lang
- The Wrap
U.K. distributor Arrow Films has inked a deal with sales banner TrustNordisk for Susanne Bier’s upcoming romantic comedy Love Is All You Need. Starring Trine Dyrholm, Paprika Steen and Pierce Brosnan, the film is billed as a tale about a group of people all seeking love, about passion and happiness, about jealousy and loneliness. The project is written by Anders Thomas Jensen. Photos: Cannes 2012: The Market's Most Outrageous Movie Posters It has a tapestry of backers and is produced by Sisse Graum Jørgensen and Vibeke Windeløv for Zentropa Entertainments 29 in co-production with Lumiere & Co., Slot Machine, Zentropa
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- 5/25/2012
- by Stuart Kemp
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
It seems that Jennifer Lawrence can't get out of the woods. She made her name with a breakthrough performance in the Southern Gothic tinged "Winter's Bone," and is currently hunting children to the tune of major box office dollars in "The Hunger Games." And before she heads back to Panem, she's gonna get one non-blockbuster effort in the can.
Lensing has started on the Depression-era drama "Serena" with Susanne Bier at the helm, and a first look at Lawrence and her co-star Bradley Cooper has emerged. This is what they look like in old-timey clothes, and yeah, they look pretty damn good. Based on the novel by Ron Rash, the story centers on a man named George Pemberton (Cooper) and his new bride, Serena (Lawrence), as they set out to depression-era North Carolina to create a timber empire. Their successful, ruthless reign in the mountains becomes complicated when Serena discovers her inability to bear children,...
Lensing has started on the Depression-era drama "Serena" with Susanne Bier at the helm, and a first look at Lawrence and her co-star Bradley Cooper has emerged. This is what they look like in old-timey clothes, and yeah, they look pretty damn good. Based on the novel by Ron Rash, the story centers on a man named George Pemberton (Cooper) and his new bride, Serena (Lawrence), as they set out to depression-era North Carolina to create a timber empire. Their successful, ruthless reign in the mountains becomes complicated when Serena discovers her inability to bear children,...
- 4/11/2012
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Though All You Need Is Love, Danish director Susanne Bier's follow-up to her Oscar-winning drama In A Better World, is currently in the midst of post-production, reports on her next efforts are already surfacing. Last week we got word that Bier had signed on to direct Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper in Serena, and now Variety reports that California-based production company Anonymous Content has hired Bier to helm their adaptation of Abraham Verghese's Cutting for Stone. The best-selling novel, which has been published in 25 languages, takes place in 1950s Ethiopia and follows the globetrotting journey of an unconventional family tree. Sister Mary Joseph Praise is a pious young nun in 1940s India, who meets an arrogant but debonair British doctor, Thomas Stone, while traveling to her missionary post in Yemen. On a tumultuous sea journey she saves his life, and when destiny reunites them years later in a...
- 2/10/2012
- cinemablend.com
Susanne Bier ("In a Better World") has been set to direct the feature adaptation of Abraham Verghese's novel "Cutting for Stone" for Anonymous Content says Variety.
The story centers on twin brothers born of a forbidden union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon in an Ethiopian mission hospital.
Orphaned by their mother's death and their father's disappearance, and bound together by a preternatural connection as well as a shared fascination with medicine, the twins come of age as Ethiopia hovers on the brink of the modern world.
Scott Teems ("That Evening Sun") penned the script while Rosalie Swedlin and Steve Golin will produce. Bier's recent romantic drama "All You Need Is Love" is currently being shopped around at Berlinale where deals have already been closed for over three dozen territories.
The story centers on twin brothers born of a forbidden union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon in an Ethiopian mission hospital.
Orphaned by their mother's death and their father's disappearance, and bound together by a preternatural connection as well as a shared fascination with medicine, the twins come of age as Ethiopia hovers on the brink of the modern world.
Scott Teems ("That Evening Sun") penned the script while Rosalie Swedlin and Steve Golin will produce. Bier's recent romantic drama "All You Need Is Love" is currently being shopped around at Berlinale where deals have already been closed for over three dozen territories.
- 2/10/2012
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Danish director Susanne Bier – whose In A Better World won last year’s Best Foreign Language Film Oscar – will direct an adaption of Abraham Verghese‘s best-seller Cutting For Stone for Anonymous Content. [Variety]
The film, scripted by That Evening Sun writer-director Scott Teems, will be “a riveting saga of twin brothers, Marion and Shiva Stone, born of a tragic union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon at a mission hospital in Addis Ababa. Orphaned by their mother’s death in childbirth and their father’s disappearance, and bound together by a preternatural connection and a shared fascination with medicine, the twins come of age as Ethiopia hovers on the brink of revolution.” Synopsis courtesy of the novel’s website. This Sunday marks the novel’s impressive 105th consecutive New York Times’ trade paperback bestseller list, indicating a high level of public interest in this story.
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The film, scripted by That Evening Sun writer-director Scott Teems, will be “a riveting saga of twin brothers, Marion and Shiva Stone, born of a tragic union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon at a mission hospital in Addis Ababa. Orphaned by their mother’s death in childbirth and their father’s disappearance, and bound together by a preternatural connection and a shared fascination with medicine, the twins come of age as Ethiopia hovers on the brink of revolution.” Synopsis courtesy of the novel’s website. This Sunday marks the novel’s impressive 105th consecutive New York Times’ trade paperback bestseller list, indicating a high level of public interest in this story.
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- 2/9/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
Danish director Susanne Bier has never been shy about traveling the world for her films. Her Oscar-winning "In A Better World" split time between Denmark and an African refugee camp. Her upcoming comedy "All You Need Is Love" is set in Italy, while past efforts have seen her journey to the United States ("Things We Lost In The Fire") and (partially) to India ("After The Wedding"), and Bier has lined up another effort that will see her returning to Africa. The director has signed on to an adapation of the massive (over 600 pages), best-selling (1 million copies worldwide) tome "Cutting For Stone" by Abraham Verghese. The story is a sprawling one, centering on twin brothers, the product of a forbidden relationship between an Indian nun and British surgeon, who are born in an Ethiopian mission hospital. Orphaned after the death of their mother, both boys become doctors as well, and continue...
- 2/9/2012
- The Playlist
Berlin - TrustNordisk has closed deals for more than 35 territories for the romantic drama All You Need is Love by Oscar-winning director Susanne Bier (In a Better World) and starring Pierce Brosnan and Better World actress Trine Dyrholm. Trust sold the English-language romcom to multiple buyers ahead of Berlin's European Film Market, which kicks off Thursday, among them were deals for Japan (Longride), Australia (Madman), China (Universal Full Band) and Latin America (Leda Films). All You Need Is Love has already sold to ProKino for Germany and Austria, Golem for Spain and CineArt for Benelux among many other territories. "We are very proud that
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- 2/9/2012
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Director Suzanne Bier had won awards for her films before, but being nominated for an Oscar – and turning up for the ceremony – was something else again, she explains
When In a Better World won the Golden Globe for foreign language film, I was amazed. My work has won awards before, but it's something you never get used to, or feel grounded about. And while it was encouraging, it didn't make me feel any more certain that we would win the Oscar – it's rarely an indicator in that category. I have to admit I paid attention to the bookmakers' odds before the Globes. They were so bad that my husband was complaining afterwards that I should have backed myself. The odds improved for the Oscars, but you still can't take anything for granted.
I'm sure my heart had stopped and I wasn't breathing while Helen Mirren and Russell Brand were reading...
When In a Better World won the Golden Globe for foreign language film, I was amazed. My work has won awards before, but it's something you never get used to, or feel grounded about. And while it was encouraging, it didn't make me feel any more certain that we would win the Oscar – it's rarely an indicator in that category. I have to admit I paid attention to the bookmakers' odds before the Globes. They were so bad that my husband was complaining afterwards that I should have backed myself. The odds improved for the Oscars, but you still can't take anything for granted.
I'm sure my heart had stopped and I wasn't breathing while Helen Mirren and Russell Brand were reading...
- 8/4/2011
- by Ryan Gilbey
- The Guardian - Film News
Susanne Bier has been Oscar nominated for two of her previous three films - winning for In A Better World - and after helming a string of intense dramas, Bier has re-teamed with her regular screenwriter Anders Thomas Jensen for something much lighter. Bier is now in production on romantic comedy Den Skaldede Frisor - known variously as The Bald Hairdresser or All You Need Is Love in English - with Pierce Brosnan and Paprika Steen in the leads. Though there is not yet an official English synopsis for the film the first still has been released and can be seen above....
- 6/27/2011
- Screen Anarchy
While Susanne Bier is best known for her tough dramas like “Open Hearts,” “After The Wedding,” “Brothers” and most recently, the Oscar winning “In A Better World,” the director is using her Academy Award to go and do something completely different. Make a romantic comedy. First announced earlier in the year under the title "All You Need Is Love" with Pierce Brosnan set to star, production company Zentropa have revealed some (admittedly microscopic) first look photos, a new title for the film as well as the cast. First up, the movie is now being titled "The Bald Hairdresser" (uh, not…...
- 6/9/2011
- The Playlist
Check out new clips from In a Better World, starring Ulrich Thomsen, Mikael Persbrandt and Trine Dyrholm. Susan Bier directs the drama which opens on April 1st via Sony Pictures Classics and is scripted by Anders Thomas Jensen (At World's End, The Duchess, Brothers). Bier, who worked together with Jensen on Brothers, is also known for strong films like After the Wedding and Things We Lost in the Fire, is also directing the upcoming comedic romance All You Need Is Love starring Pierce Brosnan. In a Better World is an Academy Award® winner for Best Foreign Language Film (Denmark). In a Better World Synopsis: Plot: Anton is a doctor who commutes between his home in an idyllic town in Denmark, and his work at an African refugee camp. In these two very different worlds, he and his family are faced with conflicts that lead them to difficult choices between revenge and forgiveness.
- 3/11/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
The big-screen version of 21 Jump Street finally has a female lead. Brie Larson (United States of Tara, Scott Pilgrim vs the World) will play Molly in the rather unlikely R-rated comedy/action translation of the TV show that launched the career of a young Johnny Depp in 1987. Phil Lord and Chris Miller (Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs) are directing from a script by Josh Appelbaum with Michael Bacall, Joe Gazzam, Jonah Hill and André Nemec. Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum will play the primary roles as cops investigating the drug trade in a high school; Ice Cube is their captain. The Lord/Miller team had me locked after Cloudy, and this one has been talked up as a Bad Boys-style action picture. Let's hope that really happens. [Deadline [1]] After the break, Luke Evans joins Robert Carlyle in the UK cop thriller Dogs of Law while Pierce Brosnan signs for All You Need is Love.
- 3/5/2011
- by Russ Fischer
- Slash Film
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