Oscilloscope has acquired Us rights to Matteo Garrone's "Reality," which screened in competition at this year's Cannes Film Festival. "'Reality' makes the case that society renders everyone impossibly small," Indiewire's Eric Kohn wrote in his recent review. "The first and last shots of Matteo Garrone's drama take place from extreme heights that make their focal point blend with their surroundings. Everything in frame takes on the dimensions of a dollhouse, as if the Italian filmmaker has assumed a godlike awareness. The compositions suggest that people are inherently trapped by their surroundings and never fully capable of realizing it." The deal was negotiated by Dan Berger and David Laub of Oscilloscope with Janine Gold of Fandango Portobello assisted by Garrone’s Us representatives, Bart Walker of Cinetic Media and Jeff Berg of ICM. Full press release below. New York, New York (May 26, 2012)--...
- 5/26/2012
- by Peter Knegt
- Indiewire
Poster for Joshua Marston's The Forgiveness of Blood, starring Tristan Halilaj. The winner of the Silver Bear for Best Screenplay at last year's Berlin Film Festival gets its first poster. Joshua Marston (Maria Full of Grace) directs as well as scripting alongside Andamion Murataj. Sindi Laçej, Refet Abazi, Ilire Vinca Çelaj and Çun Lajçi complete the main cast of the drama produced by Paul Mezey, co-produced by Gwen Bialic and Andamion Murataj, and executive produced by Eric Abraham, Janine Gold, Domenico Procacci, Hunter Gray and Tyler Brodie. The film opens February 24th. The powerful and richly textured second feature focuses on an Albanian family caught up in a blood feud. Nik (Tristan Halilaj) is a carefree teenager in a small town with a crush on the school beauty and ambitions to start his own internet café. His world is suddenly up-ended when his father and uncle become entangled in a land dispute.
- 1/5/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Poster for Joshua Marston's The Forgiveness of Blood, starring Tristan Halilaj. The winner of the Silver Bear for Best Screenplay at last year's Berlin Film Festival gets its first poster. Joshua Marston (Maria Full of Grace) directs as well as scripting alongside Andamion Murataj. Sindi Laçej, Refet Abazi, Ilire Vinca Çelaj and Çun Lajçi complete the main cast of the drama produced by Paul Mezey, co-produced by Gwen Bialic and Andamion Murataj, and executive produced by Eric Abraham, Janine Gold, Domenico Procacci, Hunter Gray and Tyler Brodie. The film opens February 24th. The powerful and richly textured second feature focuses on an Albanian family caught up in a blood feud. Nik (Tristan Halilaj) is a carefree teenager in a small town with a crush on the school beauty and ambitions to start his own internet café. His world is suddenly up-ended when his father and uncle become entangled in a land dispute.
- 1/5/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Poster for Joshua Marston's The Forgiveness of Blood, starring Tristan Halilaj. The winner of the Silver Bear for Best Screenplay at last year's Berlin Film Festival gets its first poster. Joshua Marston (Maria Full of Grace) directs as well as scripting alongside Andamion Murataj. Sindi Laçej, Refet Abazi, Ilire Vinca Çelaj and Çun Lajçi complete the main cast of the drama produced by Paul Mezey, co-produced by Gwen Bialic and Andamion Murataj, and executive produced by Eric Abraham, Janine Gold, Domenico Procacci, Hunter Gray and Tyler Brodie. The film opens February 24th. The powerful and richly textured second feature focuses on an Albanian family caught up in a blood feud. Nik (Tristan Halilaj) is a carefree teenager in a small town with a crush on the school beauty and ambitions to start his own internet café. His world is suddenly up-ended when his father and uncle become entangled in a land dispute.
- 1/5/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
BERLIN -- Before the fireworks, there always has to be a long slow-burning fuse, but after a slow start for this year's European Film Market, the wheeling and dealing exploded with some high-profile deals.
A brace of deals lit up the market with GreeneStreet Films due to announce a North American rights deal to Gary the Tennis Coach, directed by Danny Leiner and starring Seann William Scott and Randy Quaid to Sony Pictures. A bawdy high school comedy details the life of a janitor turned tennis coach.
And titles appearing in Competition here are also shifting off the shelves with Mike Leigh's "Happy-Go-Lucky" expected to go to Miramax Films in the six-figure range for U.S. rights. Leigh himself described his latest movie as a light hearted comedy drama.
Elsewhere, Berlinale Competition entry "Quiet Chaos" (Caos Calmo), directed by Antonello Grimaldi, has spread to nine territories ahead of its official screening Wednesday.
While Leigh's buzz title "Lucky" attracted a flurry of U.S. interest before its gala screening Tuesday "Quiet Chaos" (Caos Calmo), also ahead of its official screening Wednesday, is being sold by the production company's own sales entity Fandango Portobello Sales headed by Janine Gold. Deals struck include France (BAC), Spain (Alta), Benelux (Cineart), Switzerland (Filmcoopi), Canada (Seville), Portugal (Midas), South Korea (Jin Jin), Brazil (Imovision) and Israel (Lev). "Chaos" is produced by Fandango's Domenico Procacci from a screenplay by Nanni Moretti, Lauro Paolucci and Francesca Piccolo. It is backed by RAI Cinema, Portobello Pictures and Phoenix Film Investment and details the story of a husband and father dealing with the immediate aftermath of the sudden death of his wife.
A brace of deals lit up the market with GreeneStreet Films due to announce a North American rights deal to Gary the Tennis Coach, directed by Danny Leiner and starring Seann William Scott and Randy Quaid to Sony Pictures. A bawdy high school comedy details the life of a janitor turned tennis coach.
And titles appearing in Competition here are also shifting off the shelves with Mike Leigh's "Happy-Go-Lucky" expected to go to Miramax Films in the six-figure range for U.S. rights. Leigh himself described his latest movie as a light hearted comedy drama.
Elsewhere, Berlinale Competition entry "Quiet Chaos" (Caos Calmo), directed by Antonello Grimaldi, has spread to nine territories ahead of its official screening Wednesday.
While Leigh's buzz title "Lucky" attracted a flurry of U.S. interest before its gala screening Tuesday "Quiet Chaos" (Caos Calmo), also ahead of its official screening Wednesday, is being sold by the production company's own sales entity Fandango Portobello Sales headed by Janine Gold. Deals struck include France (BAC), Spain (Alta), Benelux (Cineart), Switzerland (Filmcoopi), Canada (Seville), Portugal (Midas), South Korea (Jin Jin), Brazil (Imovision) and Israel (Lev). "Chaos" is produced by Fandango's Domenico Procacci from a screenplay by Nanni Moretti, Lauro Paolucci and Francesca Piccolo. It is backed by RAI Cinema, Portobello Pictures and Phoenix Film Investment and details the story of a husband and father dealing with the immediate aftermath of the sudden death of his wife.
- 2/12/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
LONDON -- Element X, a London-based international sales and distribution company headed by former FilmFour International executives Janine Gold and Natalie Brenner, announced its first slate of titles Wednesday. The new entity, set up with backing from British film financing house Visionview, has four titles on its sales roster. The company is selling the New Zealand/United Kingdom co-production "In My Father's Den", written and directed by Brad McGann. Produced by T.H.E. Film's Trevor Haysom and Little Bird's Dixie Linder, the movie is financed by the New Zealand Film Commission, Visionview and the U.K. Film Council.
- 9/11/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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