Austrian disaster movie, sold by The Playmaker Europe, has market premiere next week at Cannes’ Marché du Film
UK distributor Signature Entertainment has taken UK and Irish rights to Magdalena Lauritsch’s sci-fi disaster movie Rubikon from The Playmaker Munich.
The German sales company has also closed several other territories on the Austrian film including France (Koba Films), Japan (Pflug) and South Korea (Andamiro Films).
Rubikon was previously picked up by IFC Midnight for North America. It will receive its official market premiere in the Marché du Film next week.
Rubikon is the story of a crew on a space...
UK distributor Signature Entertainment has taken UK and Irish rights to Magdalena Lauritsch’s sci-fi disaster movie Rubikon from The Playmaker Munich.
The German sales company has also closed several other territories on the Austrian film including France (Koba Films), Japan (Pflug) and South Korea (Andamiro Films).
Rubikon was previously picked up by IFC Midnight for North America. It will receive its official market premiere in the Marché du Film next week.
Rubikon is the story of a crew on a space...
- 5/13/2022
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
Austrian disaster movie, sold by The Playmaker Europe, has market premiere next week at Cannes’ Marché du Film
UK distributor Signature Entertainment has taken UK and Irish rights to Magdalena Lauritsch’s sci-fi disaster movie Rubikon from sales outfit The Playmaker Munich.
The German sales company has also closed several other territories on the Austrian film including France (Koba Films), Japan (Pflug) and South Korea (Andamiro Films).
Rubikon was previously picked up by IFC Midnight for North America. It will receive its official market premiere in the Marché du Film next week.
Rubikon is the story of a crew on...
UK distributor Signature Entertainment has taken UK and Irish rights to Magdalena Lauritsch’s sci-fi disaster movie Rubikon from sales outfit The Playmaker Munich.
The German sales company has also closed several other territories on the Austrian film including France (Koba Films), Japan (Pflug) and South Korea (Andamiro Films).
Rubikon was previously picked up by IFC Midnight for North America. It will receive its official market premiere in the Marché du Film next week.
Rubikon is the story of a crew on...
- 5/13/2022
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
Competition titles ‘Pacification’, ‘Triangle Of Sadness’, ‘Boy From Heaven’ also backed.
Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk’s Ukrainian co-production Pamfir is one of 49 European films at this year’s Marché du Film to receive Film Sales Support (Fss) from the European Film Promotion (Efp) network.
Twenty-one sales companies are receiving a total of €78,000 for promotion and marketing campaigns of the 49 titles. Thirty-three of the films are completed, with a further 13 still in later stages of production.
Pamfir is Ukrainian director Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk’s debut feature, and plays in Directors’ Fortnight at the festival. A co-production between Ukraine, Poland, France, Germany, Chile and Luxembourg, it...
Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk’s Ukrainian co-production Pamfir is one of 49 European films at this year’s Marché du Film to receive Film Sales Support (Fss) from the European Film Promotion (Efp) network.
Twenty-one sales companies are receiving a total of €78,000 for promotion and marketing campaigns of the 49 titles. Thirty-three of the films are completed, with a further 13 still in later stages of production.
Pamfir is Ukrainian director Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk’s debut feature, and plays in Directors’ Fortnight at the festival. A co-production between Ukraine, Poland, France, Germany, Chile and Luxembourg, it...
- 5/12/2022
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Black Comedy ‘Holy Shit!’ Launches Sales at Cannes With Playmaker Munich, Debuts Trailer (Exclusive)
The Playmaker Munich is launching sales in Cannes on the claustrophobic, real-time black comedy “Holy Shit!,” and have debuted the film’s international trailer. “Holy Shit!” will have its market premiere in Cannes on May 19.
Scriptwriter and director Lukas Rinker has “created an ultimate worst-case scenario that feels relatable yet unimaginable at the same time,” The Playmaker Munich said.
“Holy Shit!” won the Audience Award at its world premiere at the Hard:Line Film Festival this year, and was also shown at the Night Visions Film Festival and Fantaspoa, where it received an Honorable Mention for the “Best Blood (and Shit) Bath.”
In the film, architect Frank (Thomas Niehaus) regains consciousness in a locked portable toilet on a construction site where a detonation is being prepared. As he desperately tries to find ways of escaping this “prison” before potentially being blown to smithereens, he realizes who has put him in this...
Scriptwriter and director Lukas Rinker has “created an ultimate worst-case scenario that feels relatable yet unimaginable at the same time,” The Playmaker Munich said.
“Holy Shit!” won the Audience Award at its world premiere at the Hard:Line Film Festival this year, and was also shown at the Night Visions Film Festival and Fantaspoa, where it received an Honorable Mention for the “Best Blood (and Shit) Bath.”
In the film, architect Frank (Thomas Niehaus) regains consciousness in a locked portable toilet on a construction site where a detonation is being prepared. As he desperately tries to find ways of escaping this “prison” before potentially being blown to smithereens, he realizes who has put him in this...
- 5/9/2022
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Munich-based sales agency The Playmaker Munich is to handle international sales on Snakefilm’s mystery horror “The Black Spider,” which vividly portrays a gruesome world dominated by eerie demonic force.
The film, written by Barbara Sommer and Plinio Bachmann, is directed by Markus Fischer.
Set in Emmental in the 13th century, “The Black Spider” tells the story of the courageous young midwife Christine. As she returns to her home village to accompany a birth, she witnesses the cruel Teutonic Knights driving the villagers to their deaths.
To protect her village from the terror of the knights, Christine enters a pact with the devil without knowing the costs. Henceforth punished with a spider plague, the villagers turn away from the midwife and Christine goes from being the savior to the hunted.
While the village is preparing for a human sacrifice, Christine faces the crucial battle against the diabolical power that wants...
The film, written by Barbara Sommer and Plinio Bachmann, is directed by Markus Fischer.
Set in Emmental in the 13th century, “The Black Spider” tells the story of the courageous young midwife Christine. As she returns to her home village to accompany a birth, she witnesses the cruel Teutonic Knights driving the villagers to their deaths.
To protect her village from the terror of the knights, Christine enters a pact with the devil without knowing the costs. Henceforth punished with a spider plague, the villagers turn away from the midwife and Christine goes from being the savior to the hunted.
While the village is preparing for a human sacrifice, Christine faces the crucial battle against the diabolical power that wants...
- 5/2/2022
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
The Eurimages Fund is supporting 28 features.
European support body Eurimages has selected 28 features for a total of €6.1m ($6.9m) funding, including new works by Robert Guédiguian and Jim Sheridan.
French filmmaker Guédiguian – who has directed 21 features since 1981 including his most recent, Venice 2019 selection Gloria Mundi – receives €470,000 for France-Canada co-production Bamako Twist.
Ireland’s Sheridan, who has been nominated for six Oscars across his career since his breakthrough debut feature My Left Foot, receives €280,000 for Ireland-uk-France documentary In Absentia, co-directed with Colm Quinn. The documentary looks into the murder of French producer Sophie Toscan Du Plantier in Ireland, in December 1996.
Other...
European support body Eurimages has selected 28 features for a total of €6.1m ($6.9m) funding, including new works by Robert Guédiguian and Jim Sheridan.
French filmmaker Guédiguian – who has directed 21 features since 1981 including his most recent, Venice 2019 selection Gloria Mundi – receives €470,000 for France-Canada co-production Bamako Twist.
Ireland’s Sheridan, who has been nominated for six Oscars across his career since his breakthrough debut feature My Left Foot, receives €280,000 for Ireland-uk-France documentary In Absentia, co-directed with Colm Quinn. The documentary looks into the murder of French producer Sophie Toscan Du Plantier in Ireland, in December 1996.
Other...
- 6/5/2020
- by 1101321¦Ben Dalton¦26¦
- ScreenDaily
New projects by Tarik Saleh, Robert Guédiguian, Vaclav Kadrnka, Paco Plaza and Carla Simón, among the selection. At its 158th meeting held online due to the current health crisis, the Board of Management of the Council of Europe's Eurimages Fund agreed to support 19 fiction films, 2 animation films and 7 documentary projects for a total amount of €6,138,000. The share of eligible projects with female directors examined at this Eurimages Board of Management meeting was 34%; 37.5% of the projects supported were directed by women and € 2,078,000 was awarded to these projects, representing 34% of the total amount awarded. The projects selected: Sabattier Effect - Eleonora Veninova (North Macedonia/Serbia)Lucy goes Gangsta - Till Endemann (Germany/Netherlands)Sleep - Jan-Willem Van Ewijk (The Netherlands/Belgium)Pink Moon (ex Methusalem) - Floor van der Meulen (The Netherlands/Italy/Slovenia)Kerr - Tayfun Pirselimoglu (Turkey/Greece/France)Storm - Erika Calmeyer (Norway/Sweden)Three - Juanjo Giménez...
Jodorowsky actor directorial debut to be presented at new co-production event; Reygadas curates for Filmfest Hamburg.
Argentinian actor Leandro Taub’s directorial debut The Dream of the Guest and Slovenian filmmaker Jan Cvitkovic’s new feature film Mercedes Fire Horse are among the projects to be presented at a new co-production event, the Matchbox Coproduction Lounge, during this year’s Oldenburg International Film Festival (Sept 14-18).
Matchbox’s inaugural edition will also present Buddy Giovinazzo’s Potsdamer Platz which had been the last project, which the late Tony Scott had optioned to direct.
Taub, who was a lead actor in veteran Chilean director Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Cannes competition film Endless Poetry this year, wrote the screenplay for the comedy drama which centres on how a family’s life changes dramatically when a special guest, claiming to be building a space ship, moves into their home to “confront them” with his strong belief in the possibility of the...
Argentinian actor Leandro Taub’s directorial debut The Dream of the Guest and Slovenian filmmaker Jan Cvitkovic’s new feature film Mercedes Fire Horse are among the projects to be presented at a new co-production event, the Matchbox Coproduction Lounge, during this year’s Oldenburg International Film Festival (Sept 14-18).
Matchbox’s inaugural edition will also present Buddy Giovinazzo’s Potsdamer Platz which had been the last project, which the late Tony Scott had optioned to direct.
Taub, who was a lead actor in veteran Chilean director Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Cannes competition film Endless Poetry this year, wrote the screenplay for the comedy drama which centres on how a family’s life changes dramatically when a special guest, claiming to be building a space ship, moves into their home to “confront them” with his strong belief in the possibility of the...
- 8/22/2016
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
IMDb.com, Inc. takes no responsibility for the content or accuracy of the above news articles, Tweets, or blog posts. This content is published for the entertainment of our users only. The news articles, Tweets, and blog posts do not represent IMDb's opinions nor can we guarantee that the reporting therein is completely factual. Please visit the source responsible for the item in question to report any concerns you may have regarding content or accuracy.