Exclusive: EastWest sells raft of films; launches English-language Never Die Young.
EastWest Film Distribution has revealed a slew of sales at Busan’s Asian Film Market, led by Gustav Deutsch’s Shirley, Visions of Reality, which has been sold to JinJin Pictures for South Korea and Sky Digi for Taiwan.
The film, which weaves together stories from the life of a fictional actress with Edward Hopper paintings, screened at several festivals including the Berlinale and Karlovy Vary.
The Vienna and London-based sales company has also sold The Closed Circuit, Miss Kicki, Cycle and Yarik to China (Jy Entertainment); Rammbock to Japan (Ayapro); and Miss Kicki to Hong Kong (Edko Films).
Expanding its operations in the Asia-Pacific, EastWest is participating in the Asian Film Market for the first time. Their titles include Never Die Young, a Luxembourg-set “poetic feature” directed by Pol Cruchten with a soundtrack featuring Bob Dylan who watched the film before giving permission to use...
EastWest Film Distribution has revealed a slew of sales at Busan’s Asian Film Market, led by Gustav Deutsch’s Shirley, Visions of Reality, which has been sold to JinJin Pictures for South Korea and Sky Digi for Taiwan.
The film, which weaves together stories from the life of a fictional actress with Edward Hopper paintings, screened at several festivals including the Berlinale and Karlovy Vary.
The Vienna and London-based sales company has also sold The Closed Circuit, Miss Kicki, Cycle and Yarik to China (Jy Entertainment); Rammbock to Japan (Ayapro); and Miss Kicki to Hong Kong (Edko Films).
Expanding its operations in the Asia-Pacific, EastWest is participating in the Asian Film Market for the first time. Their titles include Never Die Young, a Luxembourg-set “poetic feature” directed by Pol Cruchten with a soundtrack featuring Bob Dylan who watched the film before giving permission to use...
- 10/9/2013
- by hjnoh2007@gmail.com (Jean Noh)
- ScreenDaily
"The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" star Noomi Rapace and Stellan Skarsgard's son Bill Skarsgard are among the actors nominated for Sweden's version of the Oscars, the Guldbagge.
Rapace, who picked up the Best Actress Guldbagge in 2009 for her portrayal of Lisbeth Salander in "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo", has been nominated again for her performance in "Beyond", which is also nominated for Best Film, Best Director and Best Screenplay. Ironically, "Beyond"'s first-time director Pernilla August will compete with her star in the Best Actress category for her role in "Miss Kicki".
Bill Skarsgard's portrayal of an Asperger's Syndrome sufferer in "Simple Simon" has earned him a Best Actor nomination. "Simple Simon" is also up for Best Film, as is "Sebbe", which won acclaim at the Berlin Film Festival in Germany last year.
Oscar-favorite "The Social Network" will compete for the Best Foreign Film award with "Fish Tank...
Rapace, who picked up the Best Actress Guldbagge in 2009 for her portrayal of Lisbeth Salander in "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo", has been nominated again for her performance in "Beyond", which is also nominated for Best Film, Best Director and Best Screenplay. Ironically, "Beyond"'s first-time director Pernilla August will compete with her star in the Best Actress category for her role in "Miss Kicki".
Bill Skarsgard's portrayal of an Asperger's Syndrome sufferer in "Simple Simon" has earned him a Best Actor nomination. "Simple Simon" is also up for Best Film, as is "Sebbe", which won acclaim at the Berlin Film Festival in Germany last year.
Oscar-favorite "The Social Network" will compete for the Best Foreign Film award with "Fish Tank...
- 1/6/2011
- by AceShowbiz.com
- Aceshowbiz
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo star Noomi Rapace and Stellan Skarsgard's son Bill are among the actors nominated for Sweden's version of the Oscars, the Guldbagge.
Rapace, who picked up the Best Actress Guldbagge in 2009 for her portrayal of Lisbeth Salander in The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, has been nominated again for her performance in Beyond, which is also nominated for Best Film, Best Director and Best Screenplay.
Ironically, Beyond's first-time director Pernilla August will compete with her star in the Best Actress category for her role in Miss Kicki.
Bill Skarsgard's portrayal of an Asperger's Syndrome sufferer in Simple Simon has earned him a Best Actor nomination.
Simple Simon is also up for Best Film, as is Sebbe, which won acclaim at the Berlin Film Festival in Germany last year.
Oscar-favourite The Social Network will compete for the Best Foreign Film award with Fish Tank and Lourdes.
The awards will be announced on 24 January in Stockholm.
Rapace, who picked up the Best Actress Guldbagge in 2009 for her portrayal of Lisbeth Salander in The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, has been nominated again for her performance in Beyond, which is also nominated for Best Film, Best Director and Best Screenplay.
Ironically, Beyond's first-time director Pernilla August will compete with her star in the Best Actress category for her role in Miss Kicki.
Bill Skarsgard's portrayal of an Asperger's Syndrome sufferer in Simple Simon has earned him a Best Actor nomination.
Simple Simon is also up for Best Film, as is Sebbe, which won acclaim at the Berlin Film Festival in Germany last year.
Oscar-favourite The Social Network will compete for the Best Foreign Film award with Fish Tank and Lourdes.
The awards will be announced on 24 January in Stockholm.
- 1/6/2011
- WENN
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- 1/5/2011
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Another day, another strange little cross-cultural Taiwanese film; Håkon Liu's third film Miss Kicki is the story of an ageing Swedish single mother who tries to rediscover her joie de vivre by dragging her grudgingly accepting son halfway across the world for a wander through the backstreets of Taipei. Only this being the movies, things aren't entirely what they seem.
This is a story carried along by regret, chances missed and opportunities wasted. Alex Haridi's screenplay doesn't spend much time on backstory other than some offhand remarks in the second act, but even before then we can clearly see Kicki is struggling to cope with growing older alone.
We open on the tail end of a webcam chat with Kicki (Pernilla August, best known to mainstream audiences as Darth Vader's mother from the Star Wars prequels) exchanging sweet nothings with an online suitor, Mr Chang (a bizarre, if...
This is a story carried along by regret, chances missed and opportunities wasted. Alex Haridi's screenplay doesn't spend much time on backstory other than some offhand remarks in the second act, but even before then we can clearly see Kicki is struggling to cope with growing older alone.
We open on the tail end of a webcam chat with Kicki (Pernilla August, best known to mainstream audiences as Darth Vader's mother from the Star Wars prequels) exchanging sweet nothings with an online suitor, Mr Chang (a bizarre, if...
- 8/2/2010
- Screen Anarchy
Secrets can lead to bad things and in the case of this mother and son duo, they certainly don't lead to anything good.
Watching the trailer for Håkon Liu's feature film debut Miss Kicki, I was somewhat reminded of another film about people “lost” in a big city (looking at you Lost in Translation) but something about his, perhaps the story itself, speaks more to me more than Sofia Coppola's film ever did. It's the story of Kicki, an estranged mother, and Viktor, her son, who travel together to China in an attempt to rekindle their relationship. What Viktor doesn't realize, at least at first, is the Kicki's real reason for going to China is to meet her online boyfriend, a man who has no idea she's come to town to, essentially, meet him in “real life”.
Aside from the gorgeous look of the film, there's something special about this trailer.
Watching the trailer for Håkon Liu's feature film debut Miss Kicki, I was somewhat reminded of another film about people “lost” in a big city (looking at you Lost in Translation) but something about his, perhaps the story itself, speaks more to me more than Sofia Coppola's film ever did. It's the story of Kicki, an estranged mother, and Viktor, her son, who travel together to China in an attempt to rekindle their relationship. What Viktor doesn't realize, at least at first, is the Kicki's real reason for going to China is to meet her online boyfriend, a man who has no idea she's come to town to, essentially, meet him in “real life”.
Aside from the gorgeous look of the film, there's something special about this trailer.
- 1/27/2010
- QuietEarth.us
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