EFM biz boom for German distribs

BERLIN -- German distribs filled on movies only at that year's European Film Market in Berlin, which saw busy business. Studiocanal Germany acquired Leslye Headland's Sundance screener "The Bachelorette," starring Kirsten Dunst, Regis Roinsard's "Populaire," with Romain Duris and Berenice Bejo ("The Artist"), and Caroline Link's German drama "Marokko," starring Ulrich Tukur. Within the run-as much as EFM, the organization also acquired Robert Zemeckis' "Flight," starring Denzel Washington. Studiocanal is building up its German activities having a three-pillar strategy which includes independent purchases, German films as well as in-house worldwide productions, for example Susanne Bier's "Serena," starring Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper. Studiocanal Germany can also be set to produce Terrence Malick's "Lawless" and "Dark night of Cups" in addition to Derek Cianfrance's "The Area Past the Pines," starring Cooper and Ryan Gosling. The distrib likewise nabbed Blu-ray/DVD privileges to Mark Cousins' 15-part TV series "The Storyline of Film: An Journey," which unspooled in the Berlinale. Prokino Filmverleih acquired Bier's "You Just Need Love," starring Pierce Brosnan and Trine Dyrholm Ken Loach's "The Angel's Share" and also the documentary "Diana Vreeland: The Attention Needs to Travel," concerning the influential fashion editor. Josh Boone's family drama "Authors," with Greg Kinnear and Jennifer Connelly, visited Wild Bunch Germany, that also bought Ashton Kutcher heist comedy "Chase Liberty" and Stefano Sollima's hit Italian police drama "A.C.A.B.: All Cops Are Bastards." Wild Bunch's releases include Angelina Jolie's Berlinale screener "Within the Land of Bloodstream and Honey." Capelight Pictures, that is delivering Berlinale opener "Farewell, My Full" in May, required Klaartje Quirijns' documentary and Berlinale Special screener "Anton Corbijn Thoroughly,Inch concerning the Nederlander digital photographer and filmmaker who offered about this year's Berlinale jury Jennifer Lynch's "Chained" Geoffrey Fletcher's "Purple & Daisy," starring Saoirse Ronan und Alexis Bledel Antoine Charreyron's animated actioner "The Prodigies" and Take advantage of Margolies' "She Would Like Me." MFA+ Film Distribution, that is delivering the Silver Bear-winning "A Royal Affair" in April, acquired Behn Zeitlin's Sundance champion "Monsters from the Southern Wild" in addition to Alice Schmid's Swiss doc and Berlinale Generation Kplus opener "The Kids in the Napf" in addition to Marion Huetter's poetry slam doc and Perspektive Deutsches Kino screener "Rhymers and Rivals." Contact Erectile dysfunction Meza at staff@variety.com

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Steven Culp Existence-altering occasions on Desperate Average women this March inspire one further flashback-filled episode prior to the series finale in May. This time around, look forreappearances from Steven Culp as Bree's dead husband, Rex Van P Kamp, and Take advantage of star Lupe Ontiveros as Carlos' late mama, Juanita Solis - you remember, the one that got plowed lower by Bree's boy Andrew. Sign up for TV Guide Magazine now!

Adopt Films Acquires U.S. Privileges To Semi-Doc Caesar Must Die: Berlin

Adopt Films has introduced its purchase of all U.S. privileges to Paolo and Vittorio Tavianis Caesar Must Die, its second purchase of a title competing for that Golden Bear only at that years ongoing Berlin Worldwide Film Festival following Ursula Meiers Sister. Caesar Must Die may be the latest and probably the most surprising records to become co-directed through the Taviani Siblings. This revivifying effort may be the latest chapter inside a storied career which includes Padre Padrone, The Evening from the Shooting Stars, Hello, Babylon, Elective Infinities, and Kaos. Caesar Must Die was compiled by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani using the collaboration of Fabio Cavalli. It stars Cosimo Rega, Salvatore Striano, Giovanni Arcuri and Antonio Frasca. The offer was discussed by Catia Rossi representing RAI Trade and Switches into Co-Controlling Executive Tim Grady. A completely scripted semi-documentary work, Caesar Must Die takes the crowd behind the walls of Romes high-security Rebibbia prison for that testing, staging, and carrying out of Shakespeares Julius Caesar, a production cast with actual prison inmates. Alternatively fierce and introspective, behaved and familiar with abject reality, Caesar Must Die explores the major energy of art even underneath the most dire and apparently hopeless of conditions. Tim Grady stated from the film, Like a lengthy-time fan from the Taviani siblings we couldn’t be more happy with this particular acquisition. Caesar Must Die is definitely an incredibly poignant film. It shows how art can liberate the soul and profoundly change one’s view around the globe. It shows how this type of change can reveal an abyss of loss and regret. The film ought to be a motivation for a lot of students formerly not really acquainted with the free work of those masters too for lengthy-time lovers of riveting Italian cinema. Caesar Must Die joins an Adopt Films slate which includes Anne monds Nuit #1, a 2011 Toronto Worldwide Film Festival hit and multiple Genie Award nominee, Ursula Meiers 2012 Berlin Competition selection Sister, Marie Losiers 2011 Berlin Festival award-champion The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye and Darlene Goodsteins Mighty Fine.

Box Office: Moviegoers Commit to The Vow, Safe House Starts Solid

The Vow It was a record-breaking weekend at the box office, as four major new releases each took in more than $20 million apiece for the first time on a non-holiday weekend. Moviegoers happily committed to The Vow, starring Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum, according to Box Office Mojo. The weepy romantic drama grossed an estimated $41.7 million. Ryan Reynolds and Denzel Washington's action film, Safe House, stole second with $39.3 million. Box office: Chronicle edges out The Woman in Black for top spot An action film for the younger crowd, Journey 2: The Mysterious Island, came in at No. 3, digging up $27.5 million. The latest classic Hollywood blockbuster to get the 3D treatment - the reissue of Stars Wars: Episode 1 - The Phantom Menace - beamed in $23 million. Last week's top film, Chronicle, completed the top 5 with $12.3 million. At No. 6, The Woman in Black scared up $ 10.3 million. The Grey ranked seventh with $5.1 million. Rounding out the top 10: Big Miracle (No. 8, $3.9 million), The Descendants (No. 9, $3.5 million) and Underworld: Awakening (No. 10, $2.5 million).

Taking 'The Vow' of celebrity

Jonathan Glickman, Gary Barber, Clint Culpepper and Roger Birnbaum take "The Vow" in Hollywood. Screen Gems put a marriage-designed buffet in the Roosevelt. Director Michael Sucsy with pic's Jessica McNamee Channing Tatum and Rachel McAdams welcome their off-screen doppelgangers Krickitt and Kim Contractor to Grauman's Chinese. It's one factor to may play a role with different real person. It's another factor to look at the film with this person sitting alongside you within the room.Channing Tatum and Rachel McAdams attended Screen Gems' "The Vow" premiere in the Chinese on Monday evening, together with the actual-existence couple, Kim and Krickitt Contractor, who inspired the amnesia love story. "I had been scared to satisfy the man,Inch Tatum stated of meeting Kim around the set. "I've not had the opportunity to speak to him by what he really considered the film, so I am type of scared to achieve that.InchPreem festivities moved next door towards the Roosevelt for that after-party, where visitors incorporated Tatum's "Miracle Mike" co-star Adam Fishing rod-riguez. That approaching pic is loosely according to Tatum's personal expertise like a stripper. Rodriguez remarked, "You can't take yourself too seriously when you are waiting in a dance line with six other grown males within their G-strings." Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com