The company has acquired international sales rights to the romantic dramedy starring Jack Huston, Brit Marling and 2014 Cannes Film Festival master of ceremonies Lambert Wilson.
Lulu Wang’s Berlin-set Posthumous follows an artist who falls for a journalist after he pretends to be dead when mistaken reports of his demise send the vale of his art sky-rocketing.
Tom Schilling and Alexander Fehling also star and the film is in post.
Wang’s partner at Flying Box Productions, Bernadette Bürgi, produces. The German co-producers are Skady Lis of Getaway Pictures, Andro Steinborn of Arden Film, and Frank Evers, Helge Neubronner and Kristian Stern of Cine Plus.
The project is supported by the German Federal Film Fund.
“It feels like a film that Preston Sturges or George Cukor would be making if they were around today,” said Bleiberg Entertainment evp of acquisitions & production Nicholas Donnermeyer.
“Lulu does a great job creating a whirlwind cinematic romance that’s still very much...
Lulu Wang’s Berlin-set Posthumous follows an artist who falls for a journalist after he pretends to be dead when mistaken reports of his demise send the vale of his art sky-rocketing.
Tom Schilling and Alexander Fehling also star and the film is in post.
Wang’s partner at Flying Box Productions, Bernadette Bürgi, produces. The German co-producers are Skady Lis of Getaway Pictures, Andro Steinborn of Arden Film, and Frank Evers, Helge Neubronner and Kristian Stern of Cine Plus.
The project is supported by the German Federal Film Fund.
“It feels like a film that Preston Sturges or George Cukor would be making if they were around today,” said Bleiberg Entertainment evp of acquisitions & production Nicholas Donnermeyer.
“Lulu does a great job creating a whirlwind cinematic romance that’s still very much...
- 4/30/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Berlin -- Andro Steinborn has resigned from Berlin-based production house X Filme Creative Pool and its co-production arm X Filme International.
As head of X Filme International since its launch in 2006, Steinborn was responsible for such international co-productions as Julie Delpy's "The Countess," Michael Haneke's English-language remake of "Funny Games" and the Nelson Mandela biopic "Goodbye Bafana" from Billie August.
He originally joined X Filme Creative Pool -- the production company run by Tom Tykwer, Dani Levy, Wolfgang Becker and producer Stefan Ardnt -- in 1998 as head of legal and business affairs.
Steinborn said he was leaving in order to devote more time to his own projects.
As head of X Filme International since its launch in 2006, Steinborn was responsible for such international co-productions as Julie Delpy's "The Countess," Michael Haneke's English-language remake of "Funny Games" and the Nelson Mandela biopic "Goodbye Bafana" from Billie August.
He originally joined X Filme Creative Pool -- the production company run by Tom Tykwer, Dani Levy, Wolfgang Becker and producer Stefan Ardnt -- in 1998 as head of legal and business affairs.
Steinborn said he was leaving in order to devote more time to his own projects.
- 7/3/2009
- by By Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Cologne, Germany -- German film subsidy bodies the Ffa and Mbb have set up an artist-in-residency program that will give grants to Israeli filmmakers to study and work in Berlin for a three-month period.
Announced at the Jerusalem Film Festival on Monday, the program will begin in the summer of 2009.
Prominent Berlin-based film and television producers including Razor Film's Roman Paul and Gerhard Meixner, Andro Steinborn of X Filme International, Oliver Berben of Moovie and teamWorx head Nico Hofmann are supporting the new project.
Announced at the Jerusalem Film Festival on Monday, the program will begin in the summer of 2009.
Prominent Berlin-based film and television producers including Razor Film's Roman Paul and Gerhard Meixner, Andro Steinborn of X Filme International, Oliver Berben of Moovie and teamWorx head Nico Hofmann are supporting the new project.
- 7/14/2008
- by By Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
- #28. Funny Games Director/Writer: Michael HanekeProducers: Christian Baute, Chris Coen, Hamish McAlpine, Andro Steinborn Distributor: Warner Independent Pictures The Gist: This is an English-language remake of his 1997 film, but the setting will now be the Hamptons. The film is about a middle-class family on holiday who are terrorized by two young men. Fact: This is an exact copy of his 1997 film: literally shot by shot with only 1 minute more in length than the original. The question is why? See It: Notorious for making quality-infused uncomfortable narratives - his filmography acts as one big masterwork for the 7th art form. Release Date/Status?: Wip releases this March.14th. ...
- 1/31/2008
- IONCINEMA.com
- #84.The CountessDirector/Writer: Julie DelpyProducers: Delpy, Matthew E. Chausse, Martin Shore, Andro Steinborn, Christopher Tuffin Distributor: Currently Seeking Distribution The Gist: The thriller is set against the violent and macabre world of 17th Century Eastern European aristocracy. Reminiscent of the political intrigue of "The Illusionist" and the haunting stylings of "Bram Stoker's Dracula", "The Countess" tells the tale of Erzebet Bathory (Julie Delpy) an aging noblewoman whose years of solitude and loneliness transforms her into a cold and distant figure among Hungarian nobility. Fact: Written by Delpy, this is her passion project - she has been working on it for some time and was supposed to film this before making her directorial debut on 2 Days in Paris. See It: Several territories have bought the rights to the project - vouching on a film that stars Ethan Hawke but is far from being the next Before Sunrise. Release Date/Status?
- 1/28/2008
- IONCINEMA.com
BERLIN -- Germany's X Filme, the team behind art house hits Good bye, Lenin! and Andreas Dresen's Summer in Berlin, have joined forces with the U.K. producers behind British children's classic The Magic Roundabout for a stop-motion animation feature based on Gilbert Shelton's cult comic Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers. The project, titled Grassroots, was announced Monday at the Berlin International Film Festival. Celluloid Dreams will handle world sales. Shelton has written the script with Paul Davies. Dave Borthwick (Roundabout) is attached to direct. Bruce Higham, Andy Leighton and David Lascelles will produce on the U.K. side with X Filme's Andro Steinborn.
- 2/13/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
BERLIN -- Good bye, Lenin! producers X-Filme have set up an in-house sales division, X-Filme World Sales, to handle international distribution of Dani Levy's sleeper hit Go for Zucker -- An Unorthodox Comedy. X-Filme head Stefan Arndt and the company's business and legal affairs executive Andro Steinborn, will manage the new sales company. Previously, X-Filme sold international distribution rights to its films on a case-by-case basis to such German sales groups as Bavaria Film International and Beta Cinema. X-Filme said Zucker already has sold to Italy's Ladyfilms and Orlando in Israel. The Jewish family comedy, which focuses on the conflict between an West German orthodox Jew and his very unorthodox East German brother, was originally planned as a TV movie but scored a theatrical release in Germany through X-Filme, which also helped produce it, going on to gross more than $3 million.
- 2/15/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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