On Saturday, film and TV funder Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg celebrated the six films that it funded running in the official program of the Cannes Film Festival.
These were Ruben Östlund’s “Triangle of Sadness,” in Competition, Ali Abbasi’s “Holy Spider,” in Competition, Emily Atef’s “More Than Ever,” in Un Certain Regard, Mia Hansen-Løve’s “Un beau matin,” in Directors’ Fortnight, Sergei Loznitsa’s “The Natural History of Destruction,” in Special Screening, and Mantas Kvedaravicius’ “Mariupolis 2,” in Special Screening.
Commenting on the role Medienboard played in funding the films in Cannes, the organization’s chief Kirsten Niehuus said: “Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg and other film funds play an important role in sustaining high quality cinema in Europe and in international co-productions around the world.”
Speaking about the type of films Medienboard likes to fund, she said: “Not very original but true – we prefer films that bring something original to an audience.
These were Ruben Östlund’s “Triangle of Sadness,” in Competition, Ali Abbasi’s “Holy Spider,” in Competition, Emily Atef’s “More Than Ever,” in Un Certain Regard, Mia Hansen-Løve’s “Un beau matin,” in Directors’ Fortnight, Sergei Loznitsa’s “The Natural History of Destruction,” in Special Screening, and Mantas Kvedaravicius’ “Mariupolis 2,” in Special Screening.
Commenting on the role Medienboard played in funding the films in Cannes, the organization’s chief Kirsten Niehuus said: “Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg and other film funds play an important role in sustaining high quality cinema in Europe and in international co-productions around the world.”
Speaking about the type of films Medienboard likes to fund, she said: “Not very original but true – we prefer films that bring something original to an audience.
- 5/25/2022
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Toni Erdmann star Sandra Hüller features in latest project from the director of Friendship!.
Sony’s Deutsche Columbia Pictures Filmproduktion and Studio Babelsberg’s in-house production arm Traumfabrik Babelsberg are co-producing Friendship! director Markus Goller’s latest feature project 25 Km/H, which began shooting in Baden-Württemberg this week.
The road movie stars Lars Eidinger (The Bloom of Yesterday), Bjarne Mädel (Tatortreiniger), Sandra Hüller (Toni Erdmann), Alexandra Maria Lara (Rush) and Jella Haase (Fack Ju Göhte).
The project is the first to go into production for Goller and screenwriter Oliver Ziegenbalg’s recently formed production company Sunny Side Up, and is also in co-production with Deutsche Columbia, Pictures in a Frame, Mythos Film, Traumfabrik Babelsberg and the single-purpose company 26th Babelsberg Film.
25 Km/H is Goller and Ziegenbalg’s first collaboration since their 2010 film Friendship! which was the most successful German film of that year with more than 1.5 million admissions.
That film was produced by The Live Of...
Sony’s Deutsche Columbia Pictures Filmproduktion and Studio Babelsberg’s in-house production arm Traumfabrik Babelsberg are co-producing Friendship! director Markus Goller’s latest feature project 25 Km/H, which began shooting in Baden-Württemberg this week.
The road movie stars Lars Eidinger (The Bloom of Yesterday), Bjarne Mädel (Tatortreiniger), Sandra Hüller (Toni Erdmann), Alexandra Maria Lara (Rush) and Jella Haase (Fack Ju Göhte).
The project is the first to go into production for Goller and screenwriter Oliver Ziegenbalg’s recently formed production company Sunny Side Up, and is also in co-production with Deutsche Columbia, Pictures in a Frame, Mythos Film, Traumfabrik Babelsberg and the single-purpose company 26th Babelsberg Film.
25 Km/H is Goller and Ziegenbalg’s first collaboration since their 2010 film Friendship! which was the most successful German film of that year with more than 1.5 million admissions.
That film was produced by The Live Of...
- 8/4/2017
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
According to a new report by Mockingjay.net, new details for the "Mockingjay" filming have been revealed, via some German site. It turns out that they'll be doing a big shoot over in Berlin,Germany on April 26th. They've released a big casting call, requesting about 1,000 new extras to participate over there. They're also going to be doing some filming over in Paris.France. The Atlanta,Ga filming has wrapped up. The official casting call was translated like this: "Some 1,000 extras are now required according to Berlin-based agency “movie faces” for an international movie that in early summer, among others in the Babelsberg film studios in Potsdam is rotated. Applicants must calm “lived” have faces, as the agency announced. Already at the Germany premiere of the second part “Hunger Games – Catching Fire” Lawrence had announced last November, to be back in Berlin. In a nutshell it is ready. Part three...
- 4/23/2014
- by Andre
- OnTheFlix
Brian Kirk’s feature debut, sci-fi romance Passengers, starring Keanu Reeves and Rachel McAdams, is set to be Studio Babelsberg’s first international production for 2014.
At last year’s Cannes Marché, The Weinstein Company acquired domestic rights to the story of a man on board a colony-bound spaceship who emerges early from cryogenic sleep and awakens a second passenger for company.
Exclusive Media is handling international sales, Concorde Film Verleih will release the film in Germany.
Studio spokesman Eike Wolf confirmed that the production, which will be co-produced by Studio Babelsberg, will begin principal photography this spring.
This week saw Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg allocate €1m production funding to the project.
The studio between Berlin and Potsdam has one of its co-productions from last year, Brian Percival’s The Book Thief, opening in Germany on March 13, while another three - Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel, George Clooney’s The Monuments Men, and [link=nm...
At last year’s Cannes Marché, The Weinstein Company acquired domestic rights to the story of a man on board a colony-bound spaceship who emerges early from cryogenic sleep and awakens a second passenger for company.
Exclusive Media is handling international sales, Concorde Film Verleih will release the film in Germany.
Studio spokesman Eike Wolf confirmed that the production, which will be co-produced by Studio Babelsberg, will begin principal photography this spring.
This week saw Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg allocate €1m production funding to the project.
The studio between Berlin and Potsdam has one of its co-productions from last year, Brian Percival’s The Book Thief, opening in Germany on March 13, while another three - Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel, George Clooney’s The Monuments Men, and [link=nm...
- 1/31/2014
- by screen.berlin@googlemail.com (Martin Blaney)
- ScreenDaily
City hopes £62m adaptation of David Mitchell's book will become first German blockbuster
As far as arthouse cinema goes, Germany has a good reputation. The Stasi thriller The Lives of Others won an Oscar in 2007, The White Ribbon clinched the Palme d'Or at Cannes in 2009 and Downfall was the hit that launched a thousand spoofs.
But despite critical plaudits, German productions have rarely managed to infiltrate commercial multiplexes outside their own borders. That might just change with the announcement of what is being heralded in the German media as "the first attempt at a German blockbuster" and "the most expensive German film of all time" – a $100m (£62m) adaptation of David Mitchell's labyrinthine novel Cloud Atlas, which will be filmed on location in Berlin this autumn.
The film is being produced by Munich-born Stefan Arndt (Good Bye Lenin!, The White Ribbon) and directed by his compatriot Tom Tykwer...
As far as arthouse cinema goes, Germany has a good reputation. The Stasi thriller The Lives of Others won an Oscar in 2007, The White Ribbon clinched the Palme d'Or at Cannes in 2009 and Downfall was the hit that launched a thousand spoofs.
But despite critical plaudits, German productions have rarely managed to infiltrate commercial multiplexes outside their own borders. That might just change with the announcement of what is being heralded in the German media as "the first attempt at a German blockbuster" and "the most expensive German film of all time" – a $100m (£62m) adaptation of David Mitchell's labyrinthine novel Cloud Atlas, which will be filmed on location in Berlin this autumn.
The film is being produced by Munich-born Stefan Arndt (Good Bye Lenin!, The White Ribbon) and directed by his compatriot Tom Tykwer...
- 6/22/2011
- by Helen Pidd
- The Guardian - Film News
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