Swedish director Ruben Östlund, who won Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d’Or for “The Square” and “Triangle of Sadness,” was among the guests at the German Films and Medienboard Reception on May 18 in the garden of the Mondrian Hotel in Cannes.
Östlund, who is in the Riviera resort to promote his latest production, “The Entertainment System Is Down,” was accompanied by Philippe Bober of Coproduction Office, one of the film’s producers, and Erik Hemmendorf of Plattform Produktion, Östlund’s Swedish producer. (They are pictured above.)
German Films, which is celebrating its 70th anniversary this year, was represented at the event by managing director Simone Baumann, and Medienboard, which is a film fund for the Berlin-Brandenburg region, was represented by its CEO Kirsten Niehuus. Variety was the media partner for the reception.
Among the other guests attending were Karim Aïnouz, director of “Motel Destino,” which plays in this year’s Competition section at Cannes.
Östlund, who is in the Riviera resort to promote his latest production, “The Entertainment System Is Down,” was accompanied by Philippe Bober of Coproduction Office, one of the film’s producers, and Erik Hemmendorf of Plattform Produktion, Östlund’s Swedish producer. (They are pictured above.)
German Films, which is celebrating its 70th anniversary this year, was represented at the event by managing director Simone Baumann, and Medienboard, which is a film fund for the Berlin-Brandenburg region, was represented by its CEO Kirsten Niehuus. Variety was the media partner for the reception.
Among the other guests attending were Karim Aïnouz, director of “Motel Destino,” which plays in this year’s Competition section at Cannes.
- 5/21/2024
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
German production companies Pantaleon Films and Carte Blanche Intl. are separately developing two series projects from writer Katja Eichinger that delve into the Hamburg underworld and the city’s unique high security prison.
Pantaleon, part of actor-director Matthias Schweighöfer’s Pantaflix Ag entertainment group, has optioned Eichinger’s “Santa Fu,” about life in Hamburg’s notorious Justizvollzugsanstalt Fuhlsbüttel prison, commonly known as Santa Fu. Making the facility particularly unique is the fact that it has the only prison soccer team in Germany that plays in a regional league.
Stephan Wagner and Alexander van Dülmen’s Carte Blanche Intl., meanwhile, are developing Eichinger’s screenplay adaptation of “King of Snow,” the memoir of former drug kingpin Ronald “Blacky” Miehling, who amassed unimaginable wealth in the early 1990s as Hamburg’s premiere coke dealer before losing it all and, coincidently, ending up in Fuhlsbüttel.
Actor-director and Hamburg native Moritz Bleibtreu is set...
Pantaleon, part of actor-director Matthias Schweighöfer’s Pantaflix Ag entertainment group, has optioned Eichinger’s “Santa Fu,” about life in Hamburg’s notorious Justizvollzugsanstalt Fuhlsbüttel prison, commonly known as Santa Fu. Making the facility particularly unique is the fact that it has the only prison soccer team in Germany that plays in a regional league.
Stephan Wagner and Alexander van Dülmen’s Carte Blanche Intl., meanwhile, are developing Eichinger’s screenplay adaptation of “King of Snow,” the memoir of former drug kingpin Ronald “Blacky” Miehling, who amassed unimaginable wealth in the early 1990s as Hamburg’s premiere coke dealer before losing it all and, coincidently, ending up in Fuhlsbüttel.
Actor-director and Hamburg native Moritz Bleibtreu is set...
- 3/26/2020
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
Mariette Rissenbeek, managing director of German Films, welcomed members of the international film industry to the German Films Cocktail at Cannes’ Villa Rothschild on Saturday.
German filmmaker Margarethe von Trotta, whose film “Searching for Ingmar Bergman” plays in Cannes Classics, was one of those presented on stage as well as Wanuri Kahiu, the director of German co-production “Rafiki,” which plays in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard.
Among the other German co-productions in the festival are competition titles Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s “The Wild Pear Tree,” Sergey Dvortsevoy’s “Ayka,” and Alice Rohrwacher’s “Lazzaro Felice,” as well as Un Certain Regard films Sergei Loznitsa’s “Donbass,” and Ulrich Köhler’s “In My Room.”
Among the guests at the cocktail were Tom Bernard of Sony Pictures Classics, Richard Lorber of Kino Lorber, Peter Herrmann, chairman of the board of German Films, Bernd Neumann, president of Ffa, Peter Dinges, chairman of Ffa, Dennis Lim...
German filmmaker Margarethe von Trotta, whose film “Searching for Ingmar Bergman” plays in Cannes Classics, was one of those presented on stage as well as Wanuri Kahiu, the director of German co-production “Rafiki,” which plays in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard.
Among the other German co-productions in the festival are competition titles Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s “The Wild Pear Tree,” Sergey Dvortsevoy’s “Ayka,” and Alice Rohrwacher’s “Lazzaro Felice,” as well as Un Certain Regard films Sergei Loznitsa’s “Donbass,” and Ulrich Köhler’s “In My Room.”
Among the guests at the cocktail were Tom Bernard of Sony Pictures Classics, Richard Lorber of Kino Lorber, Peter Herrmann, chairman of the board of German Films, Bernd Neumann, president of Ffa, Peter Dinges, chairman of Ffa, Dennis Lim...
- 5/14/2018
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
- Werner Herzog is set to direct "Vernon God Little," an adaptation of D.B.C. Pierre's novel penned by Andrew Birkin ("Perfume"). The coming of age story, set in Texas, follows a teenager who is caught up in the aftermath of a shooting at his high-school committed by his best friend. This was the last project set up by the late producer Bernd Eichinger, and will be taken over by his wife, Katja Eichinger and Stefan Arndt. - The previously announced big screen adaptation of the "Assassin's Creed" video games, with Michael Fassbender attached, announces the partnering of Ubisoft and New Regency. The screenplay is being developed and the project is being fast-tracked with Ubisoft maintaining control of the film's creative elements. Ubisoft's Jean-Julien Baronnet says bringing on New Regency "ensures that Assassin’s Creed will be a high-quality film that respects the lore and fans of the video game franchise.
- 10/22/2012
- by Sophia Savage
- Thompson on Hollywood
Werner Herzog ("Grizzly Man," "Encounters at the End of the World") is set to direct a film adaptation of D.B.C. Pierre's coming-of-age novel "Vernon God Little" reports Variety.
Set in Texas, the story follows a teenager caught up in the aftermath of a high-school shooting committed by his best friend. "Name of the Rose" and "Perfume" scribe Andrew Birkin is adapting the script.
Producer Bernd Eichinger was developing the project before he died, his wife Katja Eichinger is now taking over his duties on the film.
Set in Texas, the story follows a teenager caught up in the aftermath of a high-school shooting committed by his best friend. "Name of the Rose" and "Perfume" scribe Andrew Birkin is adapting the script.
Producer Bernd Eichinger was developing the project before he died, his wife Katja Eichinger is now taking over his duties on the film.
- 10/22/2012
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Werner Herzog is to direct an adaptation of D.B.C. Pierre's novel Vernon God Little scripted by Andrew Birkin of Name of the Rose According to Variety, the director amde the announcement today at the German Kinemathek in Berlin. Vernon God Little is a coming-of-age story which takes place in Texas and tells of a teen caught in the aftermath of a tragic high-school shooting by his best friend. Bernd Eichinger was developing this project prior to his death, and his wife Katja Eichinger has taking over as producer with Stefan Arrndt (Cloud Atlas) of X-Filme. Asside from Vernon God Little, Herzog, who's best-known for his solid documentary work like Grizzly Man, Cave of Forgotten Dreams, Into the Abyss and Death Row, also helmed the critically-acclaimed Rescue Dawn...
- 10/22/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Werner Herzog is to direct an adaptation of D.B.C. Pierre's novel Vernon God Little scripted by Andrew Birkin of Name of the Rose According to Variety, the director amde the announcement today at the German Kinemathek in Berlin. Vernon God Little is a coming-of-age story which takes place in Texas and tells of a teen caught in the aftermath of a tragic high-school shooting by his best friend. Bernd Eichinger was developing this project prior to his death, and his wife Katja Eichinger has taking over as producer with Stefan Arrndt (Cloud Atlas) of X-Filme. Asside from Vernon God Little, Herzog, who's best-known for his solid documentary work like Grizzly Man, Cave of Forgotten Dreams, Into the Abyss and Death Row, also helmed the critically-acclaimed Rescue Dawn...
- 10/22/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
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