'Dino Dina' Feature Lands Sales Ahead of Berlin Market Launch (Exclusive)

Hot on the heels of the first two episodes of the show playing at the Berlin International Film Festival, Netflix has dropped a Teaser Trailer for The Eddy, Damien Chazelle’s upcoming limited series. Starring André Holland, Chazelle is bringing his love of jazz to the small screen, easily representing one of the streaming giant’s highest profile 2020 releases.

Few of the executives hustling from meeting to meeting amidst the non-stop stress of this year's European Film Market (EFM) in Berlin would take the time to think of the environment, much alone their own mental health. But people's growing awareness of the global climate crisis and, within the film and television industries, of a home-made mental health crisis, have put both issues in focus.

BERLIN — Handled by TF1 Studio, Freddie Highmore heist thriller “Way Down” has pre-sold most of the world’s key distribution territories.

“Dome 16,” a futuristic sci-fi climate drama from creator Thomas Seeber Torjussen and Norway’s Tordenfilm, has a new co-producer in Fleur Winters from Dutch production house Big Blue. It’s the second time the companies have joined forces, previously co-producing NRK’s popular teenage series “ZombieLars.”

Greenwich Entertainment has taken the U.S. rights to When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit, an adaptation of Judith Kerr's semi-biographical children's book about how her Jewish family escaped from the Nazis and emigrated to England in the 1930s.

Animation feature “The Journey,” co-produced by Saudi animation studios Manga Productions and Japan’s Toei Animation, has struck a deal with Dubai-based exhibitor Vox Cinemas for theatrical distribution across the Middle East and North Africa.

Berlin’s European Film Market has gotten off to a slow start — but there are signs of life. Leonine, the new German studio formed last year by KKR’s acquisition and merger of German indies Tele Munchen Group and Universum, picked up German-speaking rights for the Gerard Butler action thriller Remote Control from STXinternational in a mid-seven-figure deal, the largest reported pact of the EFM so far.

In the run up to Berlin’s European Film Market, Indie Sales has unveiled the trailer for Thor Klein’s “Adventures of a Mathematician” which had its world premiere in Palm Springs.

The Berlin International Film Festival, which runs Feb. 20 to March 1, turns 70 this year and, as with any septuagenarian, the anniversary has triggered some existential reflection.

Defiant Dedryck Boyata insists Scottish football's snipers have got it all wrong because Celtic helped make him a Belgium star.

In today’s film news roundup, Noomi Rapace gets a starring role, ArcLight Cinemas hires Ted Mundorff and a “Karn Evil 9” movie is in the works.

By Mike Fleming Jr

Honeydew, the New England-set horror starring Steven Spielberg's son Sawyer Spielberg in his introductory role, is heading to Berlin, with New York/L.A.-based arthouse genre sales company Yellow Veil Pictures having acquired world sales rights.The film comes from director Devereux Milburn and producers Dan Kennedy and Alan Pierson.

By Andreas Wiseman

Oscar-winner Olivia Colman, Jessie Buckley, Dakota Johnson and Peter Sarsgaard are toplining The Lost Daughter, a psychological drama written and directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal, in what will be her feature directorial debut.Endeavor Content and Charlie Dorfman, through his Samuel Marshall Productions banner, are financing the movie, and Endeavor will begin shopping The Lost Daughter to buyers at the European Film Market in Berlin.The Crown star Colman will play an elegant college professor on a

Thanks to a quirk in scheduling, Berlin's European Film Market was expected to see a record year of business activity from China's vast film industry in 2020.

Picture Tree Intl. has secured global sales rights of Berlin comedy “Nightlife,” directed by Simon Verhoeven, following his last film “Welcome to Germany,” which was Germany’s comic relief to the refugee crisis. The film sold to more than 60 territories and screened at more than 50 festivals worldwide, while being the No.1 box office hit in Germany in 2016.