Pablo Berger’s buzzy animation is a selling machine following its Cannes premiere in Special Screenings.
Spanish filmmaker Pablo Berger’s Robot Dreams is a selling machine following its Cannes premiere in the Special Screenings section with Elle Driver inking deals worldwide for the buzzy animated feature.
Robot Dreams sold to Neon for North America at the start of the market, the first major deal for the territory of Cannes 2023.
Elle Driver has since inked deals for the film in the UK and Ireland (Curzon), Australia (Madman), Benelux (Cineart), Italy (I Wonder Pictures), Switzerland (Praesens), Germany (Plaion), Scandinavia (Selmer Media...
Spanish filmmaker Pablo Berger’s Robot Dreams is a selling machine following its Cannes premiere in the Special Screenings section with Elle Driver inking deals worldwide for the buzzy animated feature.
Robot Dreams sold to Neon for North America at the start of the market, the first major deal for the territory of Cannes 2023.
Elle Driver has since inked deals for the film in the UK and Ireland (Curzon), Australia (Madman), Benelux (Cineart), Italy (I Wonder Pictures), Switzerland (Praesens), Germany (Plaion), Scandinavia (Selmer Media...
- 6/2/2023
- by Rebecca Leffler
- ScreenDaily
“One buyer said they received 138 scripts at the market,” said Orange Studio’s Charlotte Boucon.
France’s sales companies arrived in Cannes with busy slates, rich with festival titles and market packages. Nearly two weeks on and Screen finds out how business has been for them.
When it comes to French films, buyers in general seem to be both more restrained about rushing to scoop up titles and pay big money up front, yet at the same time are looking for more audacious titles with unique subjects to woo younger audiences.
“We’re seeing the adrenaline again that’s been...
France’s sales companies arrived in Cannes with busy slates, rich with festival titles and market packages. Nearly two weeks on and Screen finds out how business has been for them.
When it comes to French films, buyers in general seem to be both more restrained about rushing to scoop up titles and pay big money up front, yet at the same time are looking for more audacious titles with unique subjects to woo younger audiences.
“We’re seeing the adrenaline again that’s been...
- 5/26/2023
- by Rebecca Leffler
- ScreenDaily
Neon announced today that they have taken the North American rights to Spanish filmmaker Pablo Berger’s first animated feature film “Robot Dreams,” based on the award-winning graphic novel of the same name by Sara Varon. The movie will be screened for the first time in Cannes this coming Saturday, May 20 in the Special Screenings section of the festival. The acquisition marks the first sale made at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
According to the official synopsis, “Robot Dreams” “follows Dog, who lives in Manhattan and one day, tired of being alone, decides to build himself a robot, a companion. Their friendship blossoms, until they become inseparable, to the rhythm of 80’s NYC. One summer night, Dog, with great sadness, is forced to abandon Robot at the beach. Will they ever meet again?” Well that certainly sounds traumatic (but potentially heartwarming).
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Berger,...
According to the official synopsis, “Robot Dreams” “follows Dog, who lives in Manhattan and one day, tired of being alone, decides to build himself a robot, a companion. Their friendship blossoms, until they become inseparable, to the rhythm of 80’s NYC. One summer night, Dog, with great sadness, is forced to abandon Robot at the beach. Will they ever meet again?” Well that certainly sounds traumatic (but potentially heartwarming).
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- 5/17/2023
- by Drew Taylor
- The Wrap
The film about a New York dog and his robot friend is part of the festival’s Special Screenings section.
Neon has acquired North American rights to Spanish filmmaker Pablo Berger’s first animated feature Robot Dreams, which is set to screen this week in the Special Screenings section at the Cannes festival.
Neon, which is claiming the deal is the first sale of this year’s Cannes, has previously distributed Palme d’Or winners Parasite, Titane and Triangle of Sadness. The company is set to premiere Alice Rohrwacher’s La Chimera at this year’s festival.
Robot Dreams follows...
Neon has acquired North American rights to Spanish filmmaker Pablo Berger’s first animated feature Robot Dreams, which is set to screen this week in the Special Screenings section at the Cannes festival.
Neon, which is claiming the deal is the first sale of this year’s Cannes, has previously distributed Palme d’Or winners Parasite, Titane and Triangle of Sadness. The company is set to premiere Alice Rohrwacher’s La Chimera at this year’s festival.
Robot Dreams follows...
- 5/17/2023
- by John Hazelton
- ScreenDaily
Neon has picked up the North American rights to Spanish filmmaker Pablo Berger’s debut animated feature, Robot Dreams.
The deal for the graphic novel adaptation comes ahead of a world premiere in Cannes on May 20 as part of the Special Screenings section. Robot Dreams explores the importance and fragility of friendship as the film follows Dog, who lives in Manhattan, and one day, tired of being alone, decides to build himself a robot as a companion.
Their friendship blossoms as they become inseparable, until one summer night, Dog, with great sadness, is forced to abandon Robot at the beach. Will they ever meet again?
The deal also marks Neon’s first purchase this year in Cannes, where it has picked up earlier box office hits like Parasite in 2019, Titane in 2021 and Triangle of Sadness last year.
Berger produces Robot Dreams alongside Ibon Cormenzana, Ignasi Estapé, Sandra Tapia Diaz and Ángel Durández,...
The deal for the graphic novel adaptation comes ahead of a world premiere in Cannes on May 20 as part of the Special Screenings section. Robot Dreams explores the importance and fragility of friendship as the film follows Dog, who lives in Manhattan, and one day, tired of being alone, decides to build himself a robot as a companion.
Their friendship blossoms as they become inseparable, until one summer night, Dog, with great sadness, is forced to abandon Robot at the beach. Will they ever meet again?
The deal also marks Neon’s first purchase this year in Cannes, where it has picked up earlier box office hits like Parasite in 2019, Titane in 2021 and Triangle of Sadness last year.
Berger produces Robot Dreams alongside Ibon Cormenzana, Ignasi Estapé, Sandra Tapia Diaz and Ángel Durández,...
- 5/17/2023
- by Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Neon has acquired North American rights to Robot Dreams, the first animated feature from Spanish filmmaker Pablo Berger (Blancanieves), which is poised to premiere in the Special Screenings section of the Cannes Film Festival this Saturday, May 20th.
The acquisition, which is the first North American deal announced for a Cannes festival movie this edition, comes on the heels of Neon’s past triumphs at Cannes with three consecutive Palme d’Or winners: Parasite, Titane and Triangle of Sadness.
Based on the award-winning graphic novel of the same name by Sara Varon, Robot Dreams follows Dog, who lives in Manhattan and one day, tired of being alone, decides to build himself a robot, a companion. Their friendship blossoms, until they become inseparable, to the rhythm of ’80s NYC. One summer night, Dog, with great sadness, is forced to abandon Robot at the beach. Will they ever meet again?
Berger produced the film alongside Ibon Cormenzana,...
The acquisition, which is the first North American deal announced for a Cannes festival movie this edition, comes on the heels of Neon’s past triumphs at Cannes with three consecutive Palme d’Or winners: Parasite, Titane and Triangle of Sadness.
Based on the award-winning graphic novel of the same name by Sara Varon, Robot Dreams follows Dog, who lives in Manhattan and one day, tired of being alone, decides to build himself a robot, a companion. Their friendship blossoms, until they become inseparable, to the rhythm of ’80s NYC. One summer night, Dog, with great sadness, is forced to abandon Robot at the beach. Will they ever meet again?
Berger produced the film alongside Ibon Cormenzana,...
- 5/17/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
The Paris sales outfit is also handling Pablo Berger’s ‘Robot Dreams’ in Official Selection.
Paris-based sales powerhouse Elle Driver has added Greek director Alexandros Avranas’ Apathy, now in pre-production, to its line-up heading into Cannes.
Apathy is a drama exploring the real-life phenomenon of ‘resignation syndrome’, a catatonic state that has affected around 700 refugee children in Sweden, sparking a wave of concern among doctors and politicians. Told from the perspective of a family, Apathy follows the parents as they struggle in their daily lives and gives a voice to the children. The multi-territory co-production is produced by France’s...
Paris-based sales powerhouse Elle Driver has added Greek director Alexandros Avranas’ Apathy, now in pre-production, to its line-up heading into Cannes.
Apathy is a drama exploring the real-life phenomenon of ‘resignation syndrome’, a catatonic state that has affected around 700 refugee children in Sweden, sparking a wave of concern among doctors and politicians. Told from the perspective of a family, Apathy follows the parents as they struggle in their daily lives and gives a voice to the children. The multi-territory co-production is produced by France’s...
- 5/11/2023
- by Rebecca Leffler
- ScreenDaily
The Paris sales outfit is also handling Pablo Berger’s ‘Robot Dreams’ in Official Selection.
Paris-based sales powerhouse Elle Driver has added Greek director Alexandros Avranas’ Apathy, now in pre-production, to its line-up heading into Cannes.
Apathy is a drama exploring the real-life phenomenon of ‘resignation syndrome’, a catatonic state that has affected around 700 refugee children in Sweden, sparking a wave of concern among doctors and politicians. Told from the perspective of a family, Apathy follows the parents as they struggle in their daily lives and gives a voice to the children. The multi-territory co-production is produced by France’s...
Paris-based sales powerhouse Elle Driver has added Greek director Alexandros Avranas’ Apathy, now in pre-production, to its line-up heading into Cannes.
Apathy is a drama exploring the real-life phenomenon of ‘resignation syndrome’, a catatonic state that has affected around 700 refugee children in Sweden, sparking a wave of concern among doctors and politicians. Told from the perspective of a family, Apathy follows the parents as they struggle in their daily lives and gives a voice to the children. The multi-territory co-production is produced by France’s...
- 5/11/2023
- by Rebecca Leffler
- ScreenDaily
Animation project directed by Sylvain Chomet.
Elle Driver has swooped for the rest of the world on Sylvain Chomet’s The Magnificent Life Of Marcel Pagnol.
The Paris-based sales outfit has boarded the animated feature for all territories excluding North America, Latin America, Scandinavia, the Middle East, Israel and Italy, which were pre-bought by Sony Pictures Classics in May.
The film’s titular character was one of France’s most prolific and popular playwrights, filmmakers and novelists of the 20th century who has sold 150 million books translated into 50 languages.
The Magnificent Life Of Marcel Pagnol explores Pagnol’s imaginative world...
Elle Driver has swooped for the rest of the world on Sylvain Chomet’s The Magnificent Life Of Marcel Pagnol.
The Paris-based sales outfit has boarded the animated feature for all territories excluding North America, Latin America, Scandinavia, the Middle East, Israel and Italy, which were pre-bought by Sony Pictures Classics in May.
The film’s titular character was one of France’s most prolific and popular playwrights, filmmakers and novelists of the 20th century who has sold 150 million books translated into 50 languages.
The Magnificent Life Of Marcel Pagnol explores Pagnol’s imaginative world...
- 10/20/2022
- by Rebecca Leffler
- ScreenDaily
Animation project directed by Sylvain Chomet.
Elle Driver has swooped for the rest of the world on Sylvain Chomet’s The Magnificent Life Of Marcel Pagnol.
The Paris-based sales outfit has boarded the animated feature for all territories excluding North America, Latin America, Scandinavia, the Middle East, Israel and Italy, which were pre-bought by Sony Pictures Classics in May.
The film’s titular character was one of France’s most prolific and popular playwrights, filmmakers and novelists of the 20th century who has sold 150 million books translated into 50 languages.
The Magnificent Life Of Marcel Pagnol explores Pagnol’s imaginative world...
Elle Driver has swooped for the rest of the world on Sylvain Chomet’s The Magnificent Life Of Marcel Pagnol.
The Paris-based sales outfit has boarded the animated feature for all territories excluding North America, Latin America, Scandinavia, the Middle East, Israel and Italy, which were pre-bought by Sony Pictures Classics in May.
The film’s titular character was one of France’s most prolific and popular playwrights, filmmakers and novelists of the 20th century who has sold 150 million books translated into 50 languages.
The Magnificent Life Of Marcel Pagnol explores Pagnol’s imaginative world...
- 10/20/2022
- by Rebecca Leffler
- ScreenDaily
Paris-based Elle Driver has acquired world sales rights outside Spain and France to “La Maternal,” the second film from Pilar Palomero whose 2019’s “Schoolgirls” (“Las niñas”) made her only the fifth first feature director to win a Spanish Academy Best Picture Goya.
BTeam Pictures is handling distribution in Spain.
“Schoolgirls” also won Goyas for director, original screenplay and cinematography (Daniela Cajías), establishing Palomero as a leading light of Catalonia’s newest – and often female – generation of cineastes, making movies which are grounded in authentic local realities, but alert to broader social trends.
Produced like “Schoolgirls” by Spain’s Inicia Films, whose credits also include Carla Simon’s “Summer 1993,” and BTeam Productions, “La Maternal” sees Palomero once more explore the borders between child and adulthood.
“What does it mean to be mother, what does it mean to be a child ? At 14 years old, Carla is both…” runs the film’s logline.
BTeam Pictures is handling distribution in Spain.
“Schoolgirls” also won Goyas for director, original screenplay and cinematography (Daniela Cajías), establishing Palomero as a leading light of Catalonia’s newest – and often female – generation of cineastes, making movies which are grounded in authentic local realities, but alert to broader social trends.
Produced like “Schoolgirls” by Spain’s Inicia Films, whose credits also include Carla Simon’s “Summer 1993,” and BTeam Productions, “La Maternal” sees Palomero once more explore the borders between child and adulthood.
“What does it mean to be mother, what does it mean to be a child ? At 14 years old, Carla is both…” runs the film’s logline.
- 2/11/2022
- by John Hopewell and Emilio Mayorga
- Variety Film + TV
Drama is inspired by 19th-century La Pitié Salêpetrière women-only mental asylum in Paris.
Elle Driver has boarded French director Arnaud des Pallières’s period thriller Party Of Fools in which Charlotte Rampling and Cecile de France have signed to star with Léa Seydoux.
The Paris-based sales company is launching pre-sales on the production at the Pre-Cannes Screenings next week.
Written by des Pallières and Christelle Berthevas, the drama is inspired by the infamous late 19th-century La Pitié Salêpetrière women-only mental asylum in Paris, which interned up to 4,500 women, many against their will. It unfolds against the backdrop of one of...
Elle Driver has boarded French director Arnaud des Pallières’s period thriller Party Of Fools in which Charlotte Rampling and Cecile de France have signed to star with Léa Seydoux.
The Paris-based sales company is launching pre-sales on the production at the Pre-Cannes Screenings next week.
Written by des Pallières and Christelle Berthevas, the drama is inspired by the infamous late 19th-century La Pitié Salêpetrière women-only mental asylum in Paris, which interned up to 4,500 women, many against their will. It unfolds against the backdrop of one of...
- 6/16/2021
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
European film, TV and media group Wild Bunch is moving to strengthen its involvement in production and co-productions in France, placing longtime in-house execs Adeline Fontan Tessaur and Jerome Rougier in charge of the effort. They will respectively continue as Managing Director of Elle Driver and Director of French Theatrical Distribution, and will spearhead acquisitions with a particular focus on co-productions. The first films will be announced in the coming weeks.
The push in France follows similar developments at Wild Bunch subsidiaries in Germany, Italy and Spain. Recently appointed COO of Wild Bunch, Marc Gabizon, created and developed the Wild Bunch activity in Germany and is continuing the policy to grow production and co-production in Europe.
Wild Bunch has kept busy with internal shifts and new in-roads over the past year. That includes recently setting key promotions at independent sales subsidiary Wild Bunch International, as well as securing a 35M...
The push in France follows similar developments at Wild Bunch subsidiaries in Germany, Italy and Spain. Recently appointed COO of Wild Bunch, Marc Gabizon, created and developed the Wild Bunch activity in Germany and is continuing the policy to grow production and co-production in Europe.
Wild Bunch has kept busy with internal shifts and new in-roads over the past year. That includes recently setting key promotions at independent sales subsidiary Wild Bunch International, as well as securing a 35M...
- 11/30/2020
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Music Box Films has acquired North American rights to Piranhas, the film adaptation of Gomorrah author Roberto Saviano’s bestseller. The pic, which just won the Silver Bear for best screenplay at the Berlin Film Festival, will hit U.S. theaters later this year ahead of a digital bow.
The Claudio Giovanessi-directed film centers on 15-year-old Nicola (Francesco Di Napoli) and his group of friends as they descend from naïve, designer clothes-wearing and party-loving teenagers into violent and power-hungry gangsters groomed by members of the Neapolitan mafia. Giovanessi, Saviano and Maurizio Braucci wrote the script. Palomar Film and Vision Distribution are producers.
“Director Claudio Giovannesi and novelist Roberto Saviano have delivered a timely look at how youth and social media intersect with one of the oldest and largest criminal organizations in Italy and crafted an underworld epic to stand beside Gomorrah,” Music Box Films president William Schopf said. “We...
The Claudio Giovanessi-directed film centers on 15-year-old Nicola (Francesco Di Napoli) and his group of friends as they descend from naïve, designer clothes-wearing and party-loving teenagers into violent and power-hungry gangsters groomed by members of the Neapolitan mafia. Giovanessi, Saviano and Maurizio Braucci wrote the script. Palomar Film and Vision Distribution are producers.
“Director Claudio Giovannesi and novelist Roberto Saviano have delivered a timely look at how youth and social media intersect with one of the oldest and largest criminal organizations in Italy and crafted an underworld epic to stand beside Gomorrah,” Music Box Films president William Schopf said. “We...
- 3/5/2019
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Cohen Media Group has acquired Us distribution rights to director Eva Husson’s Girls of the Sun, a drama focusing on the sisterhood of women taken prisoner by Kurdistan extremists, and director Jia Zhanqke’s Ash Is Purest White, a Chinese drama detailing a woman’s romance with a mobster.
Charles S. Cohen, the owner, chairman, and CEO of Cohen Media Group, announced the Cmg deals in advance of the closing ceremony of the 2018 Cannes Film Festival, where both films had their world premiere.
Cohen Media Group has distributed over 113 feature films and 10 shorts and has been nominated for eight Academy Awards, including The Salesman from Iranian Director Asghar Farhadi, which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, and the Oscar-nominated Faces Places and The Insult.
Girls of the Sun stars Golshifteh Farahani and Emmanuelle Bercot and tells a story of resistance and sisterhood. Set in modern-day Kurdistan, the drama centers on Bahar, a young lawyer visiting her family. In a bloody attack led by extremists, her husband is killed and she’s taken prisoner with her son and thousands of other women and children. United by their quest for hope and justice, a universal sisterhood is born out of an unimaginable situation.
John Kochman and Georgia Poivre of Cohen Media Group negotiated the agreement for Girls of the Sun with Adeline Fontan Tessaur, co-founder and international sales director of Paris-based sales and acquisition firm Elle Driver.
Ash Is Purest White stars Tao Zhao and Liao Fan. It tells the story of Qiao, in love with Bin, a local mobster. During a fight between rival gangs, she fires a gun to protect him – which results in a five-year prison sentence. Upon her release, she goes looking for Bin to pick up where they left off.
Cmg’s Kochman and Poivre negotiated the agreement with Fionnuala Jamison, head of International Sales for MK2.
“These films, while set far apart from each other, both geographically and culturally, share an urgency and passion in stories of people whose lives have been thrown into chaos,” said Charles S. Cohen. “We’re thrilled to bring both films to wider audiences.”
Adeline Fontan Tessaur of Elle Driver added, “We are extremely proud to have been able to bring to light the destiny of these astonishing Yazidi Women fighters with Eva Husson’s impassioned film, Girls of the Sun. We are delighted to continue our longstanding partnership with Cohen Media Group in the Us, given their proven brio with distributing resonant cinema and powerful stories. It is a great satisfaction to bring such an important film to the American audience.”
“We are extremely proud to have been able to bring to light the destiny of theses astonishing Yazidi Women fighters, with Eva Husson’s impassioned film Girls of the Sun. We are delighted to continue our longstanding partnership with Cohen Media Group in the Us, given their proven brio with distributing resonant author cinema and powerfull stories. It is a great satisfaction to bring such an important film to the American audience.”
Fionnuala Jamison of MK2 praised Ash director Jia ZhangKe as “one of the world’s truly great filmmakers and with Ash he delivers anther profound and riveting look at China. While his wife and muse Zhao Tao gives a powerhouse performance as a gangster’s moll. Cohen Media’s passion for this epic love story and their excellent track record in bringing foreign language films to the Oscar’s leaves us no doubt in their ability to maximize Ash’s potential. We are thrilled to be working together.’...
Charles S. Cohen, the owner, chairman, and CEO of Cohen Media Group, announced the Cmg deals in advance of the closing ceremony of the 2018 Cannes Film Festival, where both films had their world premiere.
Cohen Media Group has distributed over 113 feature films and 10 shorts and has been nominated for eight Academy Awards, including The Salesman from Iranian Director Asghar Farhadi, which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, and the Oscar-nominated Faces Places and The Insult.
Girls of the Sun stars Golshifteh Farahani and Emmanuelle Bercot and tells a story of resistance and sisterhood. Set in modern-day Kurdistan, the drama centers on Bahar, a young lawyer visiting her family. In a bloody attack led by extremists, her husband is killed and she’s taken prisoner with her son and thousands of other women and children. United by their quest for hope and justice, a universal sisterhood is born out of an unimaginable situation.
John Kochman and Georgia Poivre of Cohen Media Group negotiated the agreement for Girls of the Sun with Adeline Fontan Tessaur, co-founder and international sales director of Paris-based sales and acquisition firm Elle Driver.
Ash Is Purest White stars Tao Zhao and Liao Fan. It tells the story of Qiao, in love with Bin, a local mobster. During a fight between rival gangs, she fires a gun to protect him – which results in a five-year prison sentence. Upon her release, she goes looking for Bin to pick up where they left off.
Cmg’s Kochman and Poivre negotiated the agreement with Fionnuala Jamison, head of International Sales for MK2.
“These films, while set far apart from each other, both geographically and culturally, share an urgency and passion in stories of people whose lives have been thrown into chaos,” said Charles S. Cohen. “We’re thrilled to bring both films to wider audiences.”
Adeline Fontan Tessaur of Elle Driver added, “We are extremely proud to have been able to bring to light the destiny of these astonishing Yazidi Women fighters with Eva Husson’s impassioned film, Girls of the Sun. We are delighted to continue our longstanding partnership with Cohen Media Group in the Us, given their proven brio with distributing resonant cinema and powerful stories. It is a great satisfaction to bring such an important film to the American audience.”
“We are extremely proud to have been able to bring to light the destiny of theses astonishing Yazidi Women fighters, with Eva Husson’s impassioned film Girls of the Sun. We are delighted to continue our longstanding partnership with Cohen Media Group in the Us, given their proven brio with distributing resonant author cinema and powerfull stories. It is a great satisfaction to bring such an important film to the American audience.”
Fionnuala Jamison of MK2 praised Ash director Jia ZhangKe as “one of the world’s truly great filmmakers and with Ash he delivers anther profound and riveting look at China. While his wife and muse Zhao Tao gives a powerhouse performance as a gangster’s moll. Cohen Media’s passion for this epic love story and their excellent track record in bringing foreign language films to the Oscar’s leaves us no doubt in their ability to maximize Ash’s potential. We are thrilled to be working together.’...
- 5/19/2018
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
The Palme d’Or contender has sold to France, Germany, Latin America and Italy.
French sales company Elle Driver has unveiled a raft of sales on Eva Husson’s women’s war movie Girls Of The Sun following its buzzy premiere in Competition in Cannes over the weekend.
The Palme d’Or contender has sold to France (Wild Bunch), Germany (Wild Bunch), Latin America (California), Italy (Bim), Benelux (Cinéart), Japan (Comstock Group), Middle East (Jaguar Film), and China (Time-In-Portrait Entertainment).
Deals also closed in: Spain (Vertigo Films), Scandinavia (Ab Svensk), Switzerland (Praesens), South Korea (The Coup Corporation), former Yugoslavia (Dexin...
French sales company Elle Driver has unveiled a raft of sales on Eva Husson’s women’s war movie Girls Of The Sun following its buzzy premiere in Competition in Cannes over the weekend.
The Palme d’Or contender has sold to France (Wild Bunch), Germany (Wild Bunch), Latin America (California), Italy (Bim), Benelux (Cinéart), Japan (Comstock Group), Middle East (Jaguar Film), and China (Time-In-Portrait Entertainment).
Deals also closed in: Spain (Vertigo Films), Scandinavia (Ab Svensk), Switzerland (Praesens), South Korea (The Coup Corporation), former Yugoslavia (Dexin...
- 5/14/2018
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Palomar, Elle Driver join forces on adaptation of bestseller.
Elle Driver is launching sales on Roberto Saviano’s big screen adaptation of his Italian bestseller La Paranza Dei Bambini capturing the ferocious world of budding teenage crime bosses in Naples jockeying for power in the backstreets of the city.
Carlo Degli Esposti and Nicola Serra at Rome-based Palomar are producing. Wild Bunch and Elle Driver are on board as French co-producers. Wild Bunch Distribution has taken French rights.
“Elle Driver has always sought strong stories. Working with Saviano offers the perfect combination of one of the world’s most talented writers and an explosive story which is at once local and universal,” Elle Driver chief Adeline Fontan Tessaur said.
Saviano is working with long-time collaborator Maurizio Braucci on the screenplay. Claudio Giovannesi, who was in Cannes Critics’ Week last year with gritty jail-set romance Fiore, is attached to direct. The shoot will...
Elle Driver is launching sales on Roberto Saviano’s big screen adaptation of his Italian bestseller La Paranza Dei Bambini capturing the ferocious world of budding teenage crime bosses in Naples jockeying for power in the backstreets of the city.
Carlo Degli Esposti and Nicola Serra at Rome-based Palomar are producing. Wild Bunch and Elle Driver are on board as French co-producers. Wild Bunch Distribution has taken French rights.
“Elle Driver has always sought strong stories. Working with Saviano offers the perfect combination of one of the world’s most talented writers and an explosive story which is at once local and universal,” Elle Driver chief Adeline Fontan Tessaur said.
Saviano is working with long-time collaborator Maurizio Braucci on the screenplay. Claudio Giovannesi, who was in Cannes Critics’ Week last year with gritty jail-set romance Fiore, is attached to direct. The shoot will...
- 5/22/2017
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Comedy centres on woman who wakes up one morning with something extra.
Elle Driver is reporting brisk business on Audrey Dana’s comedy If I Were A Boy following a packed screening at the Unifrance Rendez-vous With French Cinema in Paris, which runs from January 12-16.
Popular French actress Dana directs and stars as the unlucky-in-love heroine Jeanne – a recently-divorced single mother who has sworn off men.
One morning she wakes up with a penis – a development that mystifies her gynaecologist and results in some quirky situations as Jeanne navigates her way – emotionally and physically – through the unprecedented development.
Other cast members include Serial (Bad) Weddings star Christian Clavier; Eric Elmosnino, whose recent credits include the hit La Famille Bélier; and Alice Belaïdi (A Little Job, The Climb).
It is Dana’s second feature in the director’s chair after her 2014 ensemble work French Women (Sous Les Jupes des Filles) co-starring Isabelle Adjani, Laetitia Casta, [link...
Elle Driver is reporting brisk business on Audrey Dana’s comedy If I Were A Boy following a packed screening at the Unifrance Rendez-vous With French Cinema in Paris, which runs from January 12-16.
Popular French actress Dana directs and stars as the unlucky-in-love heroine Jeanne – a recently-divorced single mother who has sworn off men.
One morning she wakes up with a penis – a development that mystifies her gynaecologist and results in some quirky situations as Jeanne navigates her way – emotionally and physically – through the unprecedented development.
Other cast members include Serial (Bad) Weddings star Christian Clavier; Eric Elmosnino, whose recent credits include the hit La Famille Bélier; and Alice Belaïdi (A Little Job, The Climb).
It is Dana’s second feature in the director’s chair after her 2014 ensemble work French Women (Sous Les Jupes des Filles) co-starring Isabelle Adjani, Laetitia Casta, [link...
- 1/14/2017
- ScreenDaily
Eva Diederix has been appointed head of international sales at Paris-based Wild Bunch, the company has announced.
She will take up her new role at the Unifrance Rendez-vous with French cinema in Paris this week (January 12-16).
Diederix replaces former head of sales Carole Baraton who is leaving to set-up her own sales company.
In her new role, Diederix will supervise the sales team and oversee the operation internally. Vincent Maraval will continue to supervise Wild Bunch acquisitions and marketing.
Diederix comes from Wild Bunch associate company Elle Driver, which she co-founded with Adeline Fontan Tessaur in 2008.
Fontan Tessaur will remain at the head of that company, overseeing its sales activities and development.
Prior to setting up Elle Driver, Diederix was head of international sales at Sogepaq in Spain from 1998 to 2002 and then at Ugc from 2002 to 2007.
As previously announced, Baraton’s long-time territories the Us, France and the UK will be carved up between the sales...
She will take up her new role at the Unifrance Rendez-vous with French cinema in Paris this week (January 12-16).
Diederix replaces former head of sales Carole Baraton who is leaving to set-up her own sales company.
In her new role, Diederix will supervise the sales team and oversee the operation internally. Vincent Maraval will continue to supervise Wild Bunch acquisitions and marketing.
Diederix comes from Wild Bunch associate company Elle Driver, which she co-founded with Adeline Fontan Tessaur in 2008.
Fontan Tessaur will remain at the head of that company, overseeing its sales activities and development.
Prior to setting up Elle Driver, Diederix was head of international sales at Sogepaq in Spain from 1998 to 2002 and then at Ugc from 2002 to 2007.
As previously announced, Baraton’s long-time territories the Us, France and the UK will be carved up between the sales...
- 1/10/2017
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: All-female production stars Canadian actress Natalie Krill and Swedish model Erika Linder.
Elle Driver has acquired world sales to all-female production Below Her Mouth, about a passionate, unexpected fling between two women that changes their lives forever.
It is the latest production from Toronto-based Serendipity Point Films, which previously produced Atom Egoyan’s Remember, Oscar-nominated Barney’s Version and Being Julia, and is made in association with South African outfit Distant Horizon.
The film, which was shot with an all-female crew, stars Canadian actress Natalie Krill and Swedish model Erika Linder in her first acting role. Serendipity’s Melissa Coghlan is lead producer.
Actress and director April Mullen directs from a screenplay by Stephanie Fabrizi.
Described by its producers as a “bold, uninhibited drama”, the feature kicks off with a steamy, weekend affair between two women: Dallas, a roofer, and Jasmine, a fashion editor. But the powerful connection they ignite derails their lives.
Linder is known...
Elle Driver has acquired world sales to all-female production Below Her Mouth, about a passionate, unexpected fling between two women that changes their lives forever.
It is the latest production from Toronto-based Serendipity Point Films, which previously produced Atom Egoyan’s Remember, Oscar-nominated Barney’s Version and Being Julia, and is made in association with South African outfit Distant Horizon.
The film, which was shot with an all-female crew, stars Canadian actress Natalie Krill and Swedish model Erika Linder in her first acting role. Serendipity’s Melissa Coghlan is lead producer.
Actress and director April Mullen directs from a screenplay by Stephanie Fabrizi.
Described by its producers as a “bold, uninhibited drama”, the feature kicks off with a steamy, weekend affair between two women: Dallas, a roofer, and Jasmine, a fashion editor. But the powerful connection they ignite derails their lives.
Linder is known...
- 4/28/2016
- ScreenDaily
The distributor has picked up all Us rights from Elle Driver to Andre Techiné’s recent Berlinale competition world premiere.
Being 17 will open in late autumn and takes places against the mountainous backdrop of the Pyrenees, where two young classmates start off as enemies and gradually develop feelings for each other.
Sandrine Kiberlain stars with Kacey Mottet Klein, Corentin Fila, and Alexis Loret.
This will be the fifth Techiné film that Strand distributes after Wild Reeds, The Girl On The Train, Witnesses and Unforgivable.
Techiné collaborated on the screenplay with Girlhood director Celine Sciamma, whose film Strand also released.
Strand co-president Jon Gerrans brokered the deal with Adeline Fontan Tessaur of Elle Driver.
Being 17 will open in late autumn and takes places against the mountainous backdrop of the Pyrenees, where two young classmates start off as enemies and gradually develop feelings for each other.
Sandrine Kiberlain stars with Kacey Mottet Klein, Corentin Fila, and Alexis Loret.
This will be the fifth Techiné film that Strand distributes after Wild Reeds, The Girl On The Train, Witnesses and Unforgivable.
Techiné collaborated on the screenplay with Girlhood director Celine Sciamma, whose film Strand also released.
Strand co-president Jon Gerrans brokered the deal with Adeline Fontan Tessaur of Elle Driver.
- 4/5/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Berlin competition entry Being 17 among six titles acquired by Metrodome at Efm.
UK distributor Metrodome has finalised six deals from the Efm in Berlin including André Téchiné- Celine Sciamma drama Being 17 and fantasy-romance Angel, both from Elle Driver for all UK and Irish distribution rights.
Téchiné directs the Berlin competition title Being 17, a project he co-wrote with Girlhood director Sciamma.
The French-language film follows the tense relationship between two boys whose lives intertwine until they unexpectedly find themselves living under the same roof.
Sandrine Kiberlain, Kacey Mottet Klein and Corentin Fila star. Producers are Marc Missonnier and Olivier Delbosc of Fidélité Films, co-producers are Wild Bunch and France 2 Cinema.
Fantasy romance Angel is directed by actor-director Harry Cleven and stars Elina Lowensohn, Fleur Geffrier, Hannah Boudru and Maya Dory.
The screenplay is written by Thomas Gunzig (The Brand New Testament) and the film is produced by Jaco Van Dormael and Terra Incognita Films’ Olivier Rausin and Daniel Marquet...
UK distributor Metrodome has finalised six deals from the Efm in Berlin including André Téchiné- Celine Sciamma drama Being 17 and fantasy-romance Angel, both from Elle Driver for all UK and Irish distribution rights.
Téchiné directs the Berlin competition title Being 17, a project he co-wrote with Girlhood director Sciamma.
The French-language film follows the tense relationship between two boys whose lives intertwine until they unexpectedly find themselves living under the same roof.
Sandrine Kiberlain, Kacey Mottet Klein and Corentin Fila star. Producers are Marc Missonnier and Olivier Delbosc of Fidélité Films, co-producers are Wild Bunch and France 2 Cinema.
Fantasy romance Angel is directed by actor-director Harry Cleven and stars Elina Lowensohn, Fleur Geffrier, Hannah Boudru and Maya Dory.
The screenplay is written by Thomas Gunzig (The Brand New Testament) and the film is produced by Jaco Van Dormael and Terra Incognita Films’ Olivier Rausin and Daniel Marquet...
- 3/17/2016
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Emmanuelle Bercot became the first female director to open the festival since 1987.
Cohen Media Group has acquired all Us distribution rights to this year’s Cannes Film Festival opening night feature, Standing Tall (La Tête Haute) from French filmmaker Emmanuelle Bercot.
The film, which is the second ever female-directed feature to open the festival, stars Catherine Deneuve and newcomer Rod Paradot.
Cmg plans a theatrical release in early 2016.
The distribution agreement was negotiated by Cmg svp John Kochman and Adeline Fontan Tessaur, co-founder and international sales director of Paris-based sales and acquisition firm Elle Driver.
The film follows juvenile delinquent Malony from childhood to adulthood, as a children’s judge and social worker try to save him from a life of crime.
Standing Tall received its world premiere in Cannes - out of competition - on May 13 and was released in French cinemas the same day.
Cohen Media Group has acquired all Us distribution rights to this year’s Cannes Film Festival opening night feature, Standing Tall (La Tête Haute) from French filmmaker Emmanuelle Bercot.
The film, which is the second ever female-directed feature to open the festival, stars Catherine Deneuve and newcomer Rod Paradot.
Cmg plans a theatrical release in early 2016.
The distribution agreement was negotiated by Cmg svp John Kochman and Adeline Fontan Tessaur, co-founder and international sales director of Paris-based sales and acquisition firm Elle Driver.
The film follows juvenile delinquent Malony from childhood to adulthood, as a children’s judge and social worker try to save him from a life of crime.
Standing Tall received its world premiere in Cannes - out of competition - on May 13 and was released in French cinemas the same day.
- 5/22/2015
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Other new projects include prison drama Jailbirds (Taularde) starring Sophie Marceau.
Paris-based sales company Elle Driver has taken on world sales of Palestinian filmmakers Tarzan and Arab’s black comedy Dégradé capturing life on the Gaza Strip.
The film joins a strong Efm slate, which also includes Golden Bear contenders Nobody Wants the Night and Diary of a Chambermaid as well as Emmanuelle Bercot’s Standing Tall.
Twin brothers Tarzan and Arab’s short film Condom Lead, revolving around the complications of making love in a conflict zone, premiered at Cannes in 2013.
Their debut feature is set against the backdrop of the real-life liberation of a stolen lioness from the compound of the Hassanein family, one of Gaza’s most powerful clans.
“We’ll be showing first images of the film which is based on true events in Gaza in 2007,” said Elle Driver co-chief Adeline Fontan Tessaur, ahead of the European Film Market (Feb 5-13).
The film focuses...
Paris-based sales company Elle Driver has taken on world sales of Palestinian filmmakers Tarzan and Arab’s black comedy Dégradé capturing life on the Gaza Strip.
The film joins a strong Efm slate, which also includes Golden Bear contenders Nobody Wants the Night and Diary of a Chambermaid as well as Emmanuelle Bercot’s Standing Tall.
Twin brothers Tarzan and Arab’s short film Condom Lead, revolving around the complications of making love in a conflict zone, premiered at Cannes in 2013.
Their debut feature is set against the backdrop of the real-life liberation of a stolen lioness from the compound of the Hassanein family, one of Gaza’s most powerful clans.
“We’ll be showing first images of the film which is based on true events in Gaza in 2007,” said Elle Driver co-chief Adeline Fontan Tessaur, ahead of the European Film Market (Feb 5-13).
The film focuses...
- 2/2/2015
- ScreenDaily
Cohen Media Group has acquired all U.S. rights to the Catherine Deneuve vehicle “In the Name of My Daughter,” which is set to world premiere out of competition at Cannes. Variety first reported the acquisition of the film, which stars Deneuve as Agnes Le Roux, a casino heiress who disappeared in 1977. The drama was directed by Andre Téchiné’s with Adele Haenel and Guillaume Canet rounding out the cast. The deal was negotiated by Charles Cohen and Adeline Fontan Tessaur, co-founder of the film's rep Elle Driver. "In the Name of My Daughter" is set for release in early 2015.
- 5/14/2014
- by Casey Cipriani
- Indiewire
Kino Lorber has acquired Us rights to Mohammad Rasoulof’s Iranian drama about state censorship, Manuscripts Don’t Burn.
Rasoulof’s latest film marks a return to filmmaking after the Iranian Revolutionary Court sentenced him in 2010 to six years in jail and a 20-year filmmaking ban.
The prison term was subsequently reduced to one year. After flying to Iran in September 2013 with the intent to return to Hamburg later that month, Rasoulof’s passport was confiscated by Iranian authorities. He remains unable to leave Iran.
Rasoulof filmed Manuscripts Don’t Burn without federal permission and in order to maintain the safety of the film’s crew, their names have been removed from the film’s final credits. The story centres on an Iranian author secretly writing his memoirs that the authorities want to destroy.
The drama screened in Un Certain Regard in Cannes last year where it won the Fipresci Prize. It also screened...
Rasoulof’s latest film marks a return to filmmaking after the Iranian Revolutionary Court sentenced him in 2010 to six years in jail and a 20-year filmmaking ban.
The prison term was subsequently reduced to one year. After flying to Iran in September 2013 with the intent to return to Hamburg later that month, Rasoulof’s passport was confiscated by Iranian authorities. He remains unable to leave Iran.
Rasoulof filmed Manuscripts Don’t Burn without federal permission and in order to maintain the safety of the film’s crew, their names have been removed from the film’s final credits. The story centres on an Iranian author secretly writing his memoirs that the authorities want to destroy.
The drama screened in Un Certain Regard in Cannes last year where it won the Fipresci Prize. It also screened...
- 4/3/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Kino Lorber has acquired Us rights to Mohammad Rasoulof’s Iranian drama about state censorship, Manuscripts Don’t Burn.
Rasoulof’s latest film marks a return to filmmaking after the Iranian Revolutionary Court sentenced him in 2010 to six years in jail and a 20-year filmmaking ban.
The prison term was subsequently reduced to one year. After flying to Iran in September 2013 with the intent to return to Hamburg later that month, Rasoulof’s passport was confiscated by Iranian authorities. He remains unable to leave Iran.
Rasoulof filmed Manuscripts Don’t Burn without federal permission and in order to maintain the safety of the film’s crew, their names have been removed from the film’s final credits. The story centres on an Iranian author secretly writing his memoirs that the authorities want to destroy.
The drama screened in Un Certain Regard in Cannes last year where it won the Fipresci Prize. It also screened...
Rasoulof’s latest film marks a return to filmmaking after the Iranian Revolutionary Court sentenced him in 2010 to six years in jail and a 20-year filmmaking ban.
The prison term was subsequently reduced to one year. After flying to Iran in September 2013 with the intent to return to Hamburg later that month, Rasoulof’s passport was confiscated by Iranian authorities. He remains unable to leave Iran.
Rasoulof filmed Manuscripts Don’t Burn without federal permission and in order to maintain the safety of the film’s crew, their names have been removed from the film’s final credits. The story centres on an Iranian author secretly writing his memoirs that the authorities want to destroy.
The drama screened in Un Certain Regard in Cannes last year where it won the Fipresci Prize. It also screened...
- 4/3/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Metrodome haul includes rom-com We’ll Never Have Paris from Simon Helberg, star of The Big Bang Theory.
Metrodome has finalised deals on five films for distribution in UK and Ireland, including a deal with K5 for Simon Helberg’s directorial debut We’ll Never Have Paris.
Helberg, who plays Howard Wolowitz in Us sitcom The Big Bang Theory, wrote, co-directed with Jocelyn Towne and stars in the rom-com, based on the co-directors’ real life romantic history.
The film follows a neurotic young man rattled by a sudden declaration of love from an attractive co-worker moments before he is about to propose to his girlfriend.
Zachary Quinto, Alfred Molina, Melanie Lynskey, Jason Ritter and Maggie Grace co-star.
The deal was negotiated between Metrodome head of acquisitions Giles Edwards and Carl Clifton for K5 International with a release planned for late 2014.
Helberg comented on the deal: “After over 200 years of slightly underwhelming independence, I am proud...
Metrodome has finalised deals on five films for distribution in UK and Ireland, including a deal with K5 for Simon Helberg’s directorial debut We’ll Never Have Paris.
Helberg, who plays Howard Wolowitz in Us sitcom The Big Bang Theory, wrote, co-directed with Jocelyn Towne and stars in the rom-com, based on the co-directors’ real life romantic history.
The film follows a neurotic young man rattled by a sudden declaration of love from an attractive co-worker moments before he is about to propose to his girlfriend.
Zachary Quinto, Alfred Molina, Melanie Lynskey, Jason Ritter and Maggie Grace co-star.
The deal was negotiated between Metrodome head of acquisitions Giles Edwards and Carl Clifton for K5 International with a release planned for late 2014.
Helberg comented on the deal: “After over 200 years of slightly underwhelming independence, I am proud...
- 4/2/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Concerns are growing for Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof who had his passport confiscated and was banned from travelling outside of his native Iran by local authorities in September.
Some eight weeks later, Rasoulof remains blocked in Iran.
The director failed to make it to Los Angeles for the screening of his political thriller Manuscripts Don’t Burn (pictured) at the AFI Fest earlier this week and is also expected to be a no-show at the Stockholm International Film Festival (November 6-17).
Staff and guests at Stockholm – including Us actor Sean Gullette and Swedish director Tarik Saleh – stood blindfolded outside the Iranian embassy in Stockholm on Tuesday (November 12) protesting Rasoulof’s travel ban.
The blindfolds referenced a scene in Rasoulof’s Manuscripts Don’t Burn about a political prisoner who manages to secretly write his memoirs despite being under the constant surveillance of state security apparatus.
“We want to show that it is unacceptable to prevent filmmakers, artists...
Some eight weeks later, Rasoulof remains blocked in Iran.
The director failed to make it to Los Angeles for the screening of his political thriller Manuscripts Don’t Burn (pictured) at the AFI Fest earlier this week and is also expected to be a no-show at the Stockholm International Film Festival (November 6-17).
Staff and guests at Stockholm – including Us actor Sean Gullette and Swedish director Tarik Saleh – stood blindfolded outside the Iranian embassy in Stockholm on Tuesday (November 12) protesting Rasoulof’s travel ban.
The blindfolds referenced a scene in Rasoulof’s Manuscripts Don’t Burn about a political prisoner who manages to secretly write his memoirs despite being under the constant surveillance of state security apparatus.
“We want to show that it is unacceptable to prevent filmmakers, artists...
- 11/13/2013
- ScreenDaily
Concerns are growing for Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof who had his passport confiscated and was banned from travelling outside of his native Iran by local authorities in September.
Some eight weeks later, Rasoulof remains blocked in Iran. The director failed to make it to Los Angeles for the screening of his political thriller Manuscripts Don’t Burn (pictured) at the AFI Fest earlier this week and is also expected to be a no-show at the Stockholm International Film Festival, running November 6-17.
Members of the Stockholm jury – including Us actor Sean Gullette and Swedish director Tarik Saleh – stood blindfolded outside the Iranian embassy in Stockholm on Tuesday protesting Rasoulof’s travel ban.
The blindfolds referenced a scene in Rasoulof’s Manuscripts Don’t Burn about a political prisoner who manages to secretly write his memoirs despite being under the constant surveillance of state security apparatus.
“We want to show that it is unacceptable to prevent filmmakers, artists...
Some eight weeks later, Rasoulof remains blocked in Iran. The director failed to make it to Los Angeles for the screening of his political thriller Manuscripts Don’t Burn (pictured) at the AFI Fest earlier this week and is also expected to be a no-show at the Stockholm International Film Festival, running November 6-17.
Members of the Stockholm jury – including Us actor Sean Gullette and Swedish director Tarik Saleh – stood blindfolded outside the Iranian embassy in Stockholm on Tuesday protesting Rasoulof’s travel ban.
The blindfolds referenced a scene in Rasoulof’s Manuscripts Don’t Burn about a political prisoner who manages to secretly write his memoirs despite being under the constant surveillance of state security apparatus.
“We want to show that it is unacceptable to prevent filmmakers, artists...
- 11/13/2013
- ScreenDaily
Mohammad Rasoulof was due to present Manuscripts Don’t Burn at the Nuremburg International Human Rights Film Festival (Nihrff).
Iranian authorities have confiscated director Mohammad Rasoulof’s passport on the eve of a trip to the Nuremburg International Human Rights Film Festival (Nihrff) in Germany where he was due to accept a lifetime achievement award and present his latest film Manuscripts Don’t Burn.
On Wednesday, the Hamburg Film Festival denied reports circulating that it had announced Rasoulof had been granted permission to travel. Sources close to Rasoulof also denied the rumours.
“We don’t know where this story has come from,” said a spokeswoman for the festival. “Please read our official press statement on Rasoulof on our website.”
According to the Nihrff, Rasoulof, who divides his time between Tehran and Hamburg, had his passport confiscated by the Iranian authorities when he entered Iran on September 19, preventing him from returning to Germany this weekend as planned.
“We...
Iranian authorities have confiscated director Mohammad Rasoulof’s passport on the eve of a trip to the Nuremburg International Human Rights Film Festival (Nihrff) in Germany where he was due to accept a lifetime achievement award and present his latest film Manuscripts Don’t Burn.
On Wednesday, the Hamburg Film Festival denied reports circulating that it had announced Rasoulof had been granted permission to travel. Sources close to Rasoulof also denied the rumours.
“We don’t know where this story has come from,” said a spokeswoman for the festival. “Please read our official press statement on Rasoulof on our website.”
According to the Nihrff, Rasoulof, who divides his time between Tehran and Hamburg, had his passport confiscated by the Iranian authorities when he entered Iran on September 19, preventing him from returning to Germany this weekend as planned.
“We...
- 10/2/2013
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: UK distributor takes Elle Driver’s provocative, award-winning Venice drama.
Metrodome has taken UK rights to Alexandros Avranas’ Venice drama Miss Violence from Elle Driver.
The unsettling Greek drama, about an abusive father’s devious sexual, physical and psychological control over the rest of his family, won the Best Director and Best Actor awards at the festival.
Themis Panou, who plays the father, won Venice’s Volpi Cup.
Review: Miss Violence
The deal was negotiated by Adeline Fontan Tessaur for Elle Driver and Metrodome’s head of acquisitions, Giles Edwards.
Edwards said: “This provocative, brilliant and ferociously uncompromising film is a genuine masterpiece of directorial control, featuring a series of impeccable, fearless and often astonishing performances and was justifiably rewarded at Venice this year.
“With the candor and skill of world-class storytellers like Michael Haneke and Giorgos Lanthimos, director Alexandros Avranas gives voice to the dark unspoken fears of victims too often silenced by monstrous villains...
Metrodome has taken UK rights to Alexandros Avranas’ Venice drama Miss Violence from Elle Driver.
The unsettling Greek drama, about an abusive father’s devious sexual, physical and psychological control over the rest of his family, won the Best Director and Best Actor awards at the festival.
Themis Panou, who plays the father, won Venice’s Volpi Cup.
Review: Miss Violence
The deal was negotiated by Adeline Fontan Tessaur for Elle Driver and Metrodome’s head of acquisitions, Giles Edwards.
Edwards said: “This provocative, brilliant and ferociously uncompromising film is a genuine masterpiece of directorial control, featuring a series of impeccable, fearless and often astonishing performances and was justifiably rewarded at Venice this year.
“With the candor and skill of world-class storytellers like Michael Haneke and Giorgos Lanthimos, director Alexandros Avranas gives voice to the dark unspoken fears of victims too often silenced by monstrous villains...
- 9/27/2013
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
January 24, 2012 – Sundance Film Festival – Submarine Entertainment announced today that it has sold all foreign rights to Katie Aselton’s film Black Rock to Elle Driver. The deal was negotiated by David Koh, Josh Braun & Dan Braun of Submarine Entertainment on behalf of the Producers and Director and Adeline Fontan Tessaur of Elle Driver. Black Rock was Directed by Katie Aselton. Executive Produced by Mark Duplass and Jay Duplass. Produced by Adele Romanski. Co-Produced by Mary Budd. Cinematography by Hillary Spera. Edited by Jacob Vaughan. Composed by Peter Golub. Ld Entertainment will release theatrically later this year domestically. The film screens again Wednesday, January 25th at Midnight at the Egyptian Theater at the Sundance Film Festival in the Midnight Section. Described as a mix between Deliverance and Thelma and Louise, the film focuses on three female friends who set aside their personal issues and organize a girls getaway weekend on a...
- 1/25/2012
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
Quentin Dupieux, or if you prefer Mr. Oizo, is a techno musician and director from France, and we are here today to have a little chat about his new project titled Rubber, that was the part of this year’s special screening in the International Critic’s Week competition at the Cannes Film Festival.
Rubber
And let’s just say this at the beginning: this is pretty weird story. But you can call it original as well (…if you like tires that go around and act as if they were alive…). Ok, weird then!
This is the story of Robert, an inanimate tire, and if you’re still confused, here’s the full Rubber synopsis:
“A group of spectators is watching a mock-projection in the middle of the desert. They make comments on the scenes of the “film” as it is occurring before their eyes: Robert, a tire that has been abandoned in the desert,...
Rubber
And let’s just say this at the beginning: this is pretty weird story. But you can call it original as well (…if you like tires that go around and act as if they were alive…). Ok, weird then!
This is the story of Robert, an inanimate tire, and if you’re still confused, here’s the full Rubber synopsis:
“A group of spectators is watching a mock-projection in the middle of the desert. They make comments on the scenes of the “film” as it is occurring before their eyes: Robert, a tire that has been abandoned in the desert,...
- 5/23/2010
- by Fiona
- Filmofilia
The Wagner/Cuban Company's Magnet Releasing, genre arm of Magnolia Pictures announced today that it has acquired Us rights to Rubber, a cult hit at Cannes Critic’s Week that tells the unlikely story of a murderous tire (yes, a tire) with terrifying telepathic powers. Directed by Quentin Dupieux (Steak, Nonfilm), Rubber is the story of Robert, an inanimate tire that has been abandoned in the desert, and suddenly and inexplicably comes to life. As Robert roams the bleak landscape, he discovers that he possesses telepathic powers that give him the ability to destroy anything he wishes without having to move. At first content to wreak havoc on small desert creatures and various lost items, his attention soon turns to humans, resulting in the most gory vehicular-related mayhem inflicted on screen by an “inanimate” object since Christine.
"Robert the tire has to be the most unforgettable villain of the decade,...
"Robert the tire has to be the most unforgettable villain of the decade,...
- 5/21/2010
- MoviesOnline.ca
Headline says it all, really. Read on for the press release.
Cannes - May 20, 2010 - The Wagner/Cuban Company's Magnet Releasing, genre arm of Magnolia Pictures announced today that it has acquired Us rights to Rubber, a cult hit at Cannes Critic's Week that tells the unlikely story of a murderous tire (yes, a tire) with terrifying telepathic powers. Directed by Quentin Dupieux (Steak, Nonfilm), Rubber is the story of Robert, an inanimate tire that has been abandoned in the desert, and suddenly and inexplicably comes to life. As Robert roams the bleak landscape, he discovers that he possesses telepathic powers that give him the ability to destroy anything he wishes without having to move. At first content to wreak havoc on small desert creatures and various lost items, his attention soon turns to humans, resulting in the most gory vehicular-related mayhem inflicted on screen by an "inanimate" object since Christine.
Cannes - May 20, 2010 - The Wagner/Cuban Company's Magnet Releasing, genre arm of Magnolia Pictures announced today that it has acquired Us rights to Rubber, a cult hit at Cannes Critic's Week that tells the unlikely story of a murderous tire (yes, a tire) with terrifying telepathic powers. Directed by Quentin Dupieux (Steak, Nonfilm), Rubber is the story of Robert, an inanimate tire that has been abandoned in the desert, and suddenly and inexplicably comes to life. As Robert roams the bleak landscape, he discovers that he possesses telepathic powers that give him the ability to destroy anything he wishes without having to move. At first content to wreak havoc on small desert creatures and various lost items, his attention soon turns to humans, resulting in the most gory vehicular-related mayhem inflicted on screen by an "inanimate" object since Christine.
- 5/20/2010
- Screen Anarchy
A couple of weeks ago we told you about what looks to be one of the strangest movies we've ever seen, Rubber. So strange in fact we knew that it wouldn't be long before someone picked this baby up for distro!
Check out some new stills, a clip, and the sales art below; and look for more soon!
Synopsis
The Wagner/Cuban Company's Magnet Releasing, genre arm of Magnolia Pictures, announced today that it has acquired Us rights to Rubber, a cult hit at Cannes Critic’s Week that tells the unlikely story of a murderous tire (yes, a tire) with terrifying telepathic powers. Directed by Quentin Dupieux (Steak, Nonfilm), Rubber is the story of Robert, an inanimate tire that has been abandoned in the desert and suddenly and inexplicably comes to life. As Robert roams the bleak landscape, he discovers that he possesses telepathic powers that give him the...
Check out some new stills, a clip, and the sales art below; and look for more soon!
Synopsis
The Wagner/Cuban Company's Magnet Releasing, genre arm of Magnolia Pictures, announced today that it has acquired Us rights to Rubber, a cult hit at Cannes Critic’s Week that tells the unlikely story of a murderous tire (yes, a tire) with terrifying telepathic powers. Directed by Quentin Dupieux (Steak, Nonfilm), Rubber is the story of Robert, an inanimate tire that has been abandoned in the desert and suddenly and inexplicably comes to life. As Robert roams the bleak landscape, he discovers that he possesses telepathic powers that give him the...
- 5/20/2010
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
Film Movement has acquired North American rights to Ciro Guerra's Spanish-language drama "The Wind Journeys," which follows an older musician and his young acolyte through the Colombian countryside.
"Journeys" is Colombia's official submission in the foreign-language film Oscar race.
A spring theatrical release is planned, followed by a DVD and VOD release in the summer.
The acquisition was negotiated by Film Movement president Adley Gartenstein and vp of acquisitions and distribution Rebeca Conget and Elle Driver's Eva Diederix and Adeline Fontan Tessaur.
"Journeys" is Colombia's official submission in the foreign-language film Oscar race.
A spring theatrical release is planned, followed by a DVD and VOD release in the summer.
The acquisition was negotiated by Film Movement president Adley Gartenstein and vp of acquisitions and distribution Rebeca Conget and Elle Driver's Eva Diederix and Adeline Fontan Tessaur.
- 10/28/2009
- by By Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
More Sundance coverage
Park City -- There's nothing funnier than Nazi zombies.
IFC Films, which had remained quiet throughout most of the Sundance Film Festival, suddenly jumped Wednesday to purchase U.S. distribution rights to the Norwegian horror-comedy "Dead Snow." Elle Driver also sold the film in foreign territories Germany, Benelux, the U.K. and Canada.
The mixed-genre flick premiered Saturday night in the Park City at Midnight section at the Egyptian Theatre, where interest was high enough that people were turned away. Written and directed by Tommy Wirkola, the film follows eight medical students who head into the mountains for a skiing vacation only to find themselves sharing the slopes with maniacal Nazi zombies intent on turning the snow blood red.
IFC Films' Arianna Bocco negotiated the deal with Adeline Fontan Tessaur and Eva Diederix at Elle Driver.
"We are thrilled to work with Tommy and our friends...
Park City -- There's nothing funnier than Nazi zombies.
IFC Films, which had remained quiet throughout most of the Sundance Film Festival, suddenly jumped Wednesday to purchase U.S. distribution rights to the Norwegian horror-comedy "Dead Snow." Elle Driver also sold the film in foreign territories Germany, Benelux, the U.K. and Canada.
The mixed-genre flick premiered Saturday night in the Park City at Midnight section at the Egyptian Theatre, where interest was high enough that people were turned away. Written and directed by Tommy Wirkola, the film follows eight medical students who head into the mountains for a skiing vacation only to find themselves sharing the slopes with maniacal Nazi zombies intent on turning the snow blood red.
IFC Films' Arianna Bocco negotiated the deal with Adeline Fontan Tessaur and Eva Diederix at Elle Driver.
"We are thrilled to work with Tommy and our friends...
- 1/21/2009
- by By Jay A. Fernandez and Steven Zeitchik
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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