Vertical Lands Na Rights To Jordan Scott-Directed Thriller ‘A Sacrifice’ With Eric Bana & Sadie Sink
Exclusive: Vertical has closed a North American rights deal for A Sacrifice, writer-director Jordan Scott’s gripping thriller. The film, originally titled Berlin Nobody, is from Ridley Scott’s Scott Free Productions and augenschein Filmproduktion.
A Sacrifice stars Eric Bana (Black Hawk Down), Sadie Sink (Stranger Things & The Whale), Sylvia Hoeks (Blade Runner 2049), Jonas Dassler, Sophie Rois, Stephan Kampwirth, and Lara Feith. Vertical will release the film exclusively in theaters on June 28.
Inspired by Nicholas Hogg’s 2015 novel Tokyo Nobody, A Sacrifice follows American social psychologist Ben Monroe (Bana) who is investigating a local Berlin cult connected to disturbing events. While he immerses himself in his work, his rebellious teenage daughter, Mazzy (Sink), becomes embroiled with a mysterious local boy who introduces her to the city’s underground party scene. As their two worlds head toward a dangerous intersection, Ben will need to race against the clock in order to save his daughter.
A Sacrifice stars Eric Bana (Black Hawk Down), Sadie Sink (Stranger Things & The Whale), Sylvia Hoeks (Blade Runner 2049), Jonas Dassler, Sophie Rois, Stephan Kampwirth, and Lara Feith. Vertical will release the film exclusively in theaters on June 28.
Inspired by Nicholas Hogg’s 2015 novel Tokyo Nobody, A Sacrifice follows American social psychologist Ben Monroe (Bana) who is investigating a local Berlin cult connected to disturbing events. While he immerses himself in his work, his rebellious teenage daughter, Mazzy (Sink), becomes embroiled with a mysterious local boy who introduces her to the city’s underground party scene. As their two worlds head toward a dangerous intersection, Ben will need to race against the clock in order to save his daughter.
- 5/10/2024
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
The Nfts scheme has chosen 20 participants representing 13 territories.
Executives from UK producers Warp Films and Fulwell 73, and Ireland’s Element Cinemas, are among the 20 selected for the 2020 edition of the National Film and TV School’s 2020 Inside Pictures business training and leadership skills development programme.
The scheme has chosen 20 participants representing 13 territories, from sectors including acquisitions, development, production, sales, distribution, finance, marketing, publicity, exhibition, legal and business affairs.
Scroll down for the full list of participants
This year’s industry mentor is BBC Films director Rose Garnett, who was previously head of creative at Film4.
The participants have all...
Executives from UK producers Warp Films and Fulwell 73, and Ireland’s Element Cinemas, are among the 20 selected for the 2020 edition of the National Film and TV School’s 2020 Inside Pictures business training and leadership skills development programme.
The scheme has chosen 20 participants representing 13 territories, from sectors including acquisitions, development, production, sales, distribution, finance, marketing, publicity, exhibition, legal and business affairs.
Scroll down for the full list of participants
This year’s industry mentor is BBC Films director Rose Garnett, who was previously head of creative at Film4.
The participants have all...
- 5/7/2020
- by 1101321¦Ben Dalton¦26¦
- ScreenDaily
Cologne-based Augenschein Filmproduktion, producer of “7500,” which stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt, is moving increasingly into English-language production while also branching out as a financing partner for international projects.
In a move reflecting those changes, the company has hired industry vet Rusta Mizani, currently head of business affairs at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin, as its new CFO. Mizani, a former producer and administrative director of regional funder Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein, will assist Augenschein managing directors Jonas Katzenstein and Maximilian Leo in business development as the company moves into financing.
Augenschein is next re-teaming with “7500” director Patrick Vollrath and Glen Basner’s FilmNation, which handled international sales on the airplane thriller, on a Cold War drama set in 1961 Berlin during the building of the Berlin Wall.
The company is also partnering again with Los Angeles-based Xyz Films on an historical action pic set to shoot in Germany in 2020. The companies, along with Berlin-based Rise Pictures,...
In a move reflecting those changes, the company has hired industry vet Rusta Mizani, currently head of business affairs at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin, as its new CFO. Mizani, a former producer and administrative director of regional funder Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein, will assist Augenschein managing directors Jonas Katzenstein and Maximilian Leo in business development as the company moves into financing.
Augenschein is next re-teaming with “7500” director Patrick Vollrath and Glen Basner’s FilmNation, which handled international sales on the airplane thriller, on a Cold War drama set in 1961 Berlin during the building of the Berlin Wall.
The company is also partnering again with Los Angeles-based Xyz Films on an historical action pic set to shoot in Germany in 2020. The companies, along with Berlin-based Rise Pictures,...
- 9/8/2019
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
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