Hot Berlin Package: Olivia Wilde To Direct Kerri Strug Biopic ‘Perfect’ About Olympic Gymnast Who Battled Injury To Win Gold; FilmNation, CAA, Riverstone & Pulse Aboard

Overshadowed by a grisly, racially motivated shooting in western Germany and the growing pains of new festival leadership, this year’s Berlinale served to illuminate the market dynamics and global issues set to impact the international film and television industry in the run-up to Cannes — provided coronavirus stays away from the Croisette.

Iranian auteur Mohammad Rasoulof, whose sixth feature “There is no Evil” won the Berlin Film Festival’s Golden Bear on Saturday, is one of his country’s most prominent directors even though none of his films have screened in Iran where they are banned. In 2011, the year he won two prizes at Cannes with his censorship-themed “Goodbye,” Rasoulof was sentenced with fellow director Jafar Panahi to six years in prison and a 20-year ban on filmmaking for alleged anti-regime propaganda.

Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof’s drama “There Is No Evil” took home the top Golden Bear prize at the 2020  Berlin Film Festival.

It’s a brave young director who has the gumption to revisit Alfred Doblin’s 1929 Weimar Republic classic Berlin Alexanderplatz. A 1931 film version directed by Piel Jutzi was notably followed by Rainer W.

“If he only repeats himself, how can he be sincere?” wonders a woman about her famous novelist husband whose TV appearances are all starting to sound alike. For anyone familiar with the work of Korean writer-director Hong Sang-soo, there’s a fascinating tongue-in-cheek quality to this remark, uttered in his latest work, the Berlin competition titleThe Woman Who Ran (Domangchin yeoja); repetitions with infinitesimal variations are basically Hong’s entire modus operandi.

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.

Searchlight Pictures has emerged as the frontrunner for the Olivia Wilde-directed gymnastics movie “Perfect,” amid a days-long bidding war out of Berlin’s EFM.

In a dark, shuttered South Korea devoid of people after a financial apocalypse, a naïve young gang knocks off an underworld gambling den and becomes the target of an implacable killer. Young writer-director Yoon Sung-hyun, whose 2011 coming-of-age drama Bleak Night won multiple Best New Director awards and heralded him as a leader of the next generation of South Korean filmmakers, fulfills that promise nine years later in the nerve-janglingTime to Hunt (Sa-nyang-eui-si-gan).

In a dark, shuttered South Korea devoid of people after a financial apocalypse, a naïve young gang knocks off an underworld gambling den and becomes the target of an implacable killer. Young writer-director Yoon Sung-hyun, whose 2011 coming-of-age drama Bleak Night won multiple Best New Director awards and heralded him as a leader of the next generation of South Korean filmmakers, fulfills that promise nine years later in the nerve-janglingTime to Hunt (Sa-nyang-eui-si-gan).

South Korea’s Contents Panda has sold director Yeon Sang-ho’s upcoming action filmPeninsula, a sequel to the 2016 cult zombie action flick Train to Busan, to 15 territories, including North America (Well Go USA) and U.K. (Studio Canal).


Pixar’s “Onward” saw its world premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival, and the film’s director, Dan Scanlon, and producer, Kori Rae, talked to the press at the festival about the film, which follows brother elves on a magical quest to reconnect with their late father.

Pixar’s “Onward” saw its world premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival, and the film’s director, Dan Scanlon, and producer, Kori Rae, talked to the press at the festival about the film, which follows brother elves on a magical quest to reconnect with their late father.

For 25 years, from 1992’s “La Frontera” through 2017’s ”A Fantastic Woman,” a subsequent Oscar winner, the Berlinale has prized a rich trove of Chilean movies.

Robert Simonds’ STX Entertainment and Teddy Schwarzman’s Black Bear Pictures have struck an exclusive output deal that will see STXinternational, the Hustlers producer's international division, sell and distribute all Black Bear productions overseas.The deal, unveiled Wednesday in time for the Berlin Film Festival, will also see Toronto-based Elevation Pictures, in which Black Bear has a major stake, distribute all STX productions in Canada after the international box office success of pics

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

Hot on the heels of her Independent Spirit Award for best first feature, Booksmart director Olivia Wilde is heading to Berlin with a new film.Produced by Riverstone Pictures and Pulse Films from a script by Ronnie Sandahl, Perfect is the extraordinary true story of gymnast Kerri Strug’s triumph against all odds to win Team USA’s first gold medal at the 1996 Olympics.Producers are Nik Bower for Riverstone Pictures and Thomas Benski for Pulse Films, together with Jeremy Baxter and Moss Barclay.

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

Dino Dana: The Movie, the big-screen adaptation of Sinking Ship Entertainment's Emmy-winning TV series, is heading to the European Film Market in Berlin and has already landed several territory sales.Odin's Eye Entertainment has acquired worldwide sales rights outside of North America to the Telefilm-backed feature, selling to Japan (New Select) and South Korea (Yejilim) ahead of the market, where it will feature in Telefilms Perspective Canada screenings.The film will launch in North America