France fetes Arab cinema figures at a special ceremony in Cairo.
Egyptian producer and Cairo International Film Festival director Mohamed Hefzy has been feted with France’s prestigious Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters (Chevalier des Arts et Lettres) honour.
Created in 1957, the order celebrates people who have made a significant contribution to the arts and literature. It has three grades commander, officer and knight.
Other cinema figures to have received the honour in the past include Italian distributor Valerio De Paolis and Sony Pictures Classics co-founders Michael Barker and Tom Bernard.
Due to Covid-19 travel restrictions, Hefzy...
Egyptian producer and Cairo International Film Festival director Mohamed Hefzy has been feted with France’s prestigious Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters (Chevalier des Arts et Lettres) honour.
Created in 1957, the order celebrates people who have made a significant contribution to the arts and literature. It has three grades commander, officer and knight.
Other cinema figures to have received the honour in the past include Italian distributor Valerio De Paolis and Sony Pictures Classics co-founders Michael Barker and Tom Bernard.
Due to Covid-19 travel restrictions, Hefzy...
- 1/28/2021
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
The pan-European holding company will become the only independent group to be active in distribution and production across four major European territories. The Wild Bunch group is developing its production strategy by creating Italian firm Bim Produzione, following its 2014 acquisition of Bim Distribuzione, a company originally founded by Valerio De Paolis. The new firm will produce Italian TV series, documentaries and films in response to growing demand from national operators and global platforms. Bim Produzione is founded in association with Riccardo Russo, who is taking on the role of CEO and Managing Director. Antonio Medici, meanwhile, COO of Bim Distribuzione, will act as President for the new company. Russo was previously Head of International TV Productions at Leone Film Group, and Head of International Co-Productions with Lux. “Joining this great family is a double privilege...
Exclusive: Rome-based distributor Cinema pre-bought six new titles at Cannes.
Italian distribution veteran Valerio De Paolis may have completed the sale of his company Bim to Wild Bunch two years ago but he shows no intention of retiring on the proceeds from the deal.
The distributor has announced a slew of Cannes acquisitions for his burgeoning Rome-based distribution label Cinema.
Pre-buys at Cannes included David Robert Mitchell’s La-set thriller Under The Silver Lake; Michel Hazanavicius’s 1960s-set Jean-Luc Godard tribute Redoubtable from Wild Bunch and Aki Kaurismaki’s The Other Side Of Hope from The Match Factory.
“I love...
Italian distribution veteran Valerio De Paolis may have completed the sale of his company Bim to Wild Bunch two years ago but he shows no intention of retiring on the proceeds from the deal.
The distributor has announced a slew of Cannes acquisitions for his burgeoning Rome-based distribution label Cinema.
Pre-buys at Cannes included David Robert Mitchell’s La-set thriller Under The Silver Lake; Michel Hazanavicius’s 1960s-set Jean-Luc Godard tribute Redoubtable from Wild Bunch and Aki Kaurismaki’s The Other Side Of Hope from The Match Factory.
“I love...
- 6/13/2016
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Rome-based distributor Cinema pre-bought six new titles at Cannes.
Italian distribution veteran Valerio De Paolis may have completed the sale of his company Bim to Wild Bunch two years ago but he shows no intention of retiring on the proceeds from the deal.
The distributor has announced a slew of Cannes acquisitions for his burgeoning Rome-based distribution label Cinema.
Pre-buys at Cannes included David Robert Mitchell’s La-set thriller Under The Silver Lake; Michel Hazanavicius’s 1960s-set Jean-Luc Godard tribute Redoubtable from Wild Bunch and Aki Kaurismaki’s The Other Side Of Hope from The Match Factory.
“I love...
Italian distribution veteran Valerio De Paolis may have completed the sale of his company Bim to Wild Bunch two years ago but he shows no intention of retiring on the proceeds from the deal.
The distributor has announced a slew of Cannes acquisitions for his burgeoning Rome-based distribution label Cinema.
Pre-buys at Cannes included David Robert Mitchell’s La-set thriller Under The Silver Lake; Michel Hazanavicius’s 1960s-set Jean-Luc Godard tribute Redoubtable from Wild Bunch and Aki Kaurismaki’s The Other Side Of Hope from The Match Factory.
“I love...
- 6/13/2016
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Rome-based distributor pre-bought six new titles at Cannes.
Italian distribution veteran Valerio De Paolis may have completed the sale of his company Bim to Wild Bunch two years ago but he shows no intention of retiring on the proceeds from the deal.
The distributor has announced a slew of Cannes acquisitions for his burgeoning Rome-based distribution label Cinema.
Pre-buys at Cannes included David Robert Mitchell’s La-set thriller Under The Silver Lake; Michel Hazanavicius’s 1960s-set Jean-Luc Godard tribute Redoubtable from Wild Bunch and Aki Kaurismaki’s The Other Side Of Hope from The Match Factory.
“I love Godard...
Italian distribution veteran Valerio De Paolis may have completed the sale of his company Bim to Wild Bunch two years ago but he shows no intention of retiring on the proceeds from the deal.
The distributor has announced a slew of Cannes acquisitions for his burgeoning Rome-based distribution label Cinema.
Pre-buys at Cannes included David Robert Mitchell’s La-set thriller Under The Silver Lake; Michel Hazanavicius’s 1960s-set Jean-Luc Godard tribute Redoubtable from Wild Bunch and Aki Kaurismaki’s The Other Side Of Hope from The Match Factory.
“I love Godard...
- 6/13/2016
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Ken Loach’s Cannes Competition title has sold to multiple territories.
French sales powerhouse Wild Bunch has closed a slew of deals on Ken Loach’s Palme d’Or contender I, Daniel Blake, capturing life on the breadline in contemporary Britain, following its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival.
Loach’s 13th film in Competition, I, Daniel Blake centres on a carpenter, who finds himself unemployed after a heart attack and single mother battling bureaucracy nightmare in the UK welfare system.
The film has sold to Germany (Prokino), Spain (Caramel), Greece (Feelgood), Switzerland (Filmcoopi), Hungary (Vertigo), the Czech Republic (Film Europe), Former Yugoslavia (McF Megacom), Romania (Independenta) and the Middle East (Teleview), Turkey (Filmarti Film) and Balkans (Iriku)
Uruguay’s Sun Distribution Group has taken all Latin America rights apart from for Brazil, which has been acquired by Imovision.
“They were all closed here during the early days of the festival, which is what...
French sales powerhouse Wild Bunch has closed a slew of deals on Ken Loach’s Palme d’Or contender I, Daniel Blake, capturing life on the breadline in contemporary Britain, following its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival.
Loach’s 13th film in Competition, I, Daniel Blake centres on a carpenter, who finds himself unemployed after a heart attack and single mother battling bureaucracy nightmare in the UK welfare system.
The film has sold to Germany (Prokino), Spain (Caramel), Greece (Feelgood), Switzerland (Filmcoopi), Hungary (Vertigo), the Czech Republic (Film Europe), Former Yugoslavia (McF Megacom), Romania (Independenta) and the Middle East (Teleview), Turkey (Filmarti Film) and Balkans (Iriku)
Uruguay’s Sun Distribution Group has taken all Latin America rights apart from for Brazil, which has been acquired by Imovision.
“They were all closed here during the early days of the festival, which is what...
- 5/15/2016
- ScreenDaily
Historical thriller secures deals out of Toronto.
Beta Cinema’s The People vs. Fritz Bauer has scored a series of sales out of the Toronto International Film Festival.
Lars Kraume’s riveting historical thriller, which won the audience award at Locarno, has been acquired by Italy’s Valerio de Paolis Cinema, Caramel (Spain), Cineart (Benelux), Scanbox (Scandinavia), Strada Films (Greece), Lev Cinemas (Israel), Alfa Films (Argentina), and New Select (Japan).
As previously announced Arp has acquired France and LookNow! Switzerland.
Advanced negotiations are underway with distributors from the Us, according to Beta.
The film stars German actors Burghart Klaussner (The White Ribbon) and Ronald Zehrfeld (Phoenix) and chronicles the efforts of German district attorney Fritz Bauer to bring Nazi war criminal Adolph Eichmann to justice.
The People vs. Fritz Bauer is produced by Thomas Kufus’ zero one film in co-production with Terz Film, Wdr, Hr and Arte.
German distributor is Alamode.
Beta Cinema’s The People vs. Fritz Bauer has scored a series of sales out of the Toronto International Film Festival.
Lars Kraume’s riveting historical thriller, which won the audience award at Locarno, has been acquired by Italy’s Valerio de Paolis Cinema, Caramel (Spain), Cineart (Benelux), Scanbox (Scandinavia), Strada Films (Greece), Lev Cinemas (Israel), Alfa Films (Argentina), and New Select (Japan).
As previously announced Arp has acquired France and LookNow! Switzerland.
Advanced negotiations are underway with distributors from the Us, according to Beta.
The film stars German actors Burghart Klaussner (The White Ribbon) and Ronald Zehrfeld (Phoenix) and chronicles the efforts of German district attorney Fritz Bauer to bring Nazi war criminal Adolph Eichmann to justice.
The People vs. Fritz Bauer is produced by Thomas Kufus’ zero one film in co-production with Terz Film, Wdr, Hr and Arte.
German distributor is Alamode.
- 9/23/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Beta Cinema’s “The People vs. Fitz Bauer” has sold wide around the globe with a series of deals following the Toronto International Film Festival. The film has been acquired by Italy’s Valerio de Paolis’ Cinema, Caramel (Spain), Cineart (Benelux), Scanbox (Scandinavia), Strada Films (Greece), Lev Cinemas (Israel), Alfa Films (Argentina), and New Select (Japan). As previously announced, Arp will release the film in France, and LookNow! in Switzerland. Negotiations for a U.S. release are still under way. Also read: Brie Larson Drama 'Room' Wins Toronto Audience Award A period drama directed by Lars Klaume, “The People vs.
- 9/21/2015
- by Reid Nakamura
- The Wrap
The biggest deals of this year’s Cannes Marché du Film and how the Competition titles sold throughout the festival.
Behind the glamour of this year’s Cannes Film Festival, business was booming at the Marché du Film (May 13-22), with representatives from 120 countries in attendance - up four on 2014.
A total 3,300 films were on offer this year, around 1,000 at the project stage, with an estimated 11,000 film professionals in attendance, in line with last year.
In the opening days, Marché chief Jérôme Paillard told Screen: “Acquisition agents are telling me that it’s the first time in a number of years that there are so many big projects. I’ve been told there are around 50 high profile projects on offer.”
North AmericaHOT Projects
Universal Pictures and Focus Features took worldwide rights to Tom Ford’s upcoming thriller Nocturnal Animals, starring Amy Adams and Jake Gyllenhaal, in a deal reportedly worth $20m. [Story]
Open Road paid...
Behind the glamour of this year’s Cannes Film Festival, business was booming at the Marché du Film (May 13-22), with representatives from 120 countries in attendance - up four on 2014.
A total 3,300 films were on offer this year, around 1,000 at the project stage, with an estimated 11,000 film professionals in attendance, in line with last year.
In the opening days, Marché chief Jérôme Paillard told Screen: “Acquisition agents are telling me that it’s the first time in a number of years that there are so many big projects. I’ve been told there are around 50 high profile projects on offer.”
North AmericaHOT Projects
Universal Pictures and Focus Features took worldwide rights to Tom Ford’s upcoming thriller Nocturnal Animals, starring Amy Adams and Jake Gyllenhaal, in a deal reportedly worth $20m. [Story]
Open Road paid...
- 5/22/2015
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Veteran is acquiring for Wild Bunch-owned Bim as well his fledgling boutique Cinema.
Distribution veteran Valerio De Paolis has acquired Italian rights for Sarah Gavron’s Suffragette from Pathé International.
Rome-based De Paolis is in Cannes acquiring for both Bim, which has been fully owned by Wild Bunch since June 2014, as well as his new boutique label Cinema.
“I’m contracted to acquire four titles a year for Bim for the next three years, until 2017 and then we’ll see where I am and they are,” explained De Paolis, who founded Bim 30 years ago before selling it off progressively to Paris-based Wild Bunch from 2007 onwards.
Other recent pick-ups include Jacques Audiard’s Dheepan and Mike Leigh’s Mr. Turner.
For his own boutique label, De Paolos has recently acquired Jafar Panahi’s Taxi, which will be Cinema’s first release at the end of August, as well as documentary Ingrid Bergman – In Her Own Words...
Distribution veteran Valerio De Paolis has acquired Italian rights for Sarah Gavron’s Suffragette from Pathé International.
Rome-based De Paolis is in Cannes acquiring for both Bim, which has been fully owned by Wild Bunch since June 2014, as well as his new boutique label Cinema.
“I’m contracted to acquire four titles a year for Bim for the next three years, until 2017 and then we’ll see where I am and they are,” explained De Paolis, who founded Bim 30 years ago before selling it off progressively to Paris-based Wild Bunch from 2007 onwards.
Other recent pick-ups include Jacques Audiard’s Dheepan and Mike Leigh’s Mr. Turner.
For his own boutique label, De Paolos has recently acquired Jafar Panahi’s Taxi, which will be Cinema’s first release at the end of August, as well as documentary Ingrid Bergman – In Her Own Words...
- 5/17/2015
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Palme d’Or contender sold to more than 20 territories.
Celluloid Dreams has closed more than 20 territories for Jacques Audiard’s Dheepan ahead of its Competition screening next week.
Set against the backdrop of a down-at-heel Paris suburb, the film revolves around a Tamil freedom fighter, called Dheepan, who has fled the civil war raging in his native Sri Lanka only to be confronted by urban violence in his new life in the French capital.
In Europe, Celluloid has sold the film to Switzerland (Filmcoopi), Benelux (Lumière), Scandinavia (Triart), Italy (Cinema), Iceland (Greenlight), Greece (Seven), Former Yugoslavia (2i Film), Hungary (Cirko), Poland (Solopan), Czech Republic and Slovakia (Film Europe) andRomania (Independenta 97).
In Asia, it has been for Japan (Longride Inc.), South Korea (Green Narae), Hong Kong (Edko), China (DDDream).
Elsewhere, it has also sold to Latin America (California), Australia and New Zealand (Transmission), Middle East (Front Row) and Israel (United King).
As previously announced, it has also...
Celluloid Dreams has closed more than 20 territories for Jacques Audiard’s Dheepan ahead of its Competition screening next week.
Set against the backdrop of a down-at-heel Paris suburb, the film revolves around a Tamil freedom fighter, called Dheepan, who has fled the civil war raging in his native Sri Lanka only to be confronted by urban violence in his new life in the French capital.
In Europe, Celluloid has sold the film to Switzerland (Filmcoopi), Benelux (Lumière), Scandinavia (Triart), Italy (Cinema), Iceland (Greenlight), Greece (Seven), Former Yugoslavia (2i Film), Hungary (Cirko), Poland (Solopan), Czech Republic and Slovakia (Film Europe) andRomania (Independenta 97).
In Asia, it has been for Japan (Longride Inc.), South Korea (Green Narae), Hong Kong (Edko), China (DDDream).
Elsewhere, it has also sold to Latin America (California), Australia and New Zealand (Transmission), Middle East (Front Row) and Israel (United King).
As previously announced, it has also...
- 5/15/2015
- ScreenDaily
Additional deals closed in Germany-Austria, Italy, Poland and Norway, among others.
Jafar Panahi’s Berlinale entry Taxi has been one of the market’s most in-demand titles for Hengameh Panahi’s Celluloid Dreams with additional deals closing in Germany-Austria (Weltkino), Italy (Cinema – Valerio De Paolis), Switzerland (Filmcoopi), Sweden (Folkestbio), Norway (Arthaus), Poland (Solopan), Ex-Yugoslavia (I2 Films), Baltics (Must Kasi), Columbia (Cine Columbia).
Earlier in the market Memento snapped up French rights to the film in which banned Iranian director Panahi, who won Berlin Silver Bear awards in 2006 and 2013, turns a yellow cab into a mobile film studio with a camera placed on the dashboard.
Deals in a host of other territories are pending....
Jafar Panahi’s Berlinale entry Taxi has been one of the market’s most in-demand titles for Hengameh Panahi’s Celluloid Dreams with additional deals closing in Germany-Austria (Weltkino), Italy (Cinema – Valerio De Paolis), Switzerland (Filmcoopi), Sweden (Folkestbio), Norway (Arthaus), Poland (Solopan), Ex-Yugoslavia (I2 Films), Baltics (Must Kasi), Columbia (Cine Columbia).
Earlier in the market Memento snapped up French rights to the film in which banned Iranian director Panahi, who won Berlin Silver Bear awards in 2006 and 2013, turns a yellow cab into a mobile film studio with a camera placed on the dashboard.
Deals in a host of other territories are pending....
- 2/9/2015
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Carlo Cresto-Dina’s Italian production company tempesta has sold a 20% stake to Bim founder Valerio De Paolis.
In the next twelve months, De Paolis has the option to increase his stake to 40%.
tempesta recently produced Alice Rohrwacher’s The Wonders, which won the jury pirze in Cannes.
The investment deal has been in the works for months, and De Paolis said the Cannes prize was “a beautiful seal on our agreement.”
“It’s a time of growth for us, we hope to deserve this responsibility,” said Cresto-Dina. “As a small company we need investment but
especially we needadvice, guidance, and experience [that De Paolis provides].”
Also, Alice Rohrwacher and Leonardo Costanzo, tempesta’s main directing talents, are joining the company as partners.
In the next twelve months, De Paolis has the option to increase his stake to 40%.
tempesta recently produced Alice Rohrwacher’s The Wonders, which won the jury pirze in Cannes.
The investment deal has been in the works for months, and De Paolis said the Cannes prize was “a beautiful seal on our agreement.”
“It’s a time of growth for us, we hope to deserve this responsibility,” said Cresto-Dina. “As a small company we need investment but
especially we needadvice, guidance, and experience [that De Paolis provides].”
Also, Alice Rohrwacher and Leonardo Costanzo, tempesta’s main directing talents, are joining the company as partners.
- 6/3/2014
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Four days after wrapping his gothic fable Twixt Now And Sunrise in California at his Napa estate, Francis Ford Coppola was the headline guest for the Marrakech 10th International Film Festival. There, filmmakers Roberto de Paolis and Carlo Lavagna interviewed the 71-year-old who makes some surprising revelations about himself. (De Paolis is a longtime family friend and his father, producer Valerio de Paolis, worked in Sicily on the first two installments of The Godfather ):...
- 12/23/2010
- by NIKKI FINKE
- Deadline Hollywood
ROME -- France's Wild Bunch is joining forces with Italian distributor BIM Distribuzione in a wide-reaching strategic alliance, BIM said Thursday.
The official announcement of the alliance, which includes a capital investment in BIM, will come on Friday. But BIM founder Valerio De Paolis said in an interview Thursday that the companies would be partners effective immediately.
"The two companies will collaborate in terms of acquisitions and co-productions," De Paolis said.
Among the films the newly bolstered BIM will distribute are Ang Lee's "Lust, Caution", the Golden Lion winner at this year's Venice Film Festival; "Youth Without Youth" from Francis Ford Coppola, one of the most anticipated films at the current RomaCinemaFest; and "Shine a Light" from Martin Scorsese.
In its 24-year history, BIM has assembled a catalog of more than 400 films, including films that have won 10 Palme d'Or awards at Cannes, five Golden Lions, and 19 Oscars.
The Paris-based Wild Bunch is one of France's leading distributors, with a library of more than 300 films.
The official announcement of the alliance, which includes a capital investment in BIM, will come on Friday. But BIM founder Valerio De Paolis said in an interview Thursday that the companies would be partners effective immediately.
"The two companies will collaborate in terms of acquisitions and co-productions," De Paolis said.
Among the films the newly bolstered BIM will distribute are Ang Lee's "Lust, Caution", the Golden Lion winner at this year's Venice Film Festival; "Youth Without Youth" from Francis Ford Coppola, one of the most anticipated films at the current RomaCinemaFest; and "Shine a Light" from Martin Scorsese.
In its 24-year history, BIM has assembled a catalog of more than 400 films, including films that have won 10 Palme d'Or awards at Cannes, five Golden Lions, and 19 Oscars.
The Paris-based Wild Bunch is one of France's leading distributors, with a library of more than 300 films.
- 10/20/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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