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All Quiet on the Berlin Deals Front but EFM Still Serves as an Efficient Marketplace, Buyers Report
It’s all quiet on the Berlin deals front as the sales agencies wind down their operations at the European Film Market.
International buyers are taking their time, but we’ve been seeing a steady flow of deals closing and fully expect that trend to continue apace, particularly on Bill Condon’s ‘Kiss of the Spider Woman’ and Noah Hawley’s ‘Nowhere Fast.’” Apart from buzz around Natalie Portman-Lena Dunham rom-com “Good Sex” and some other higher-profile projects, and deals on starry films like Jodie Foster movie “Vie Privée” and genre fare like horror thriller “Dangerous Animals,” it’s not been a particularly heated market. Fabien Westerhoff, CEO of Film Constellation, says they had “a very positive EFM,” adding, “No doubt the market will stretch over the next days and weeks.” He has seen continued traction on horror thriller “Fear Is the Rider” and animation “The Growcodile,” as well as first offers for Plan B’s “Olmo” by Fernando Eimbcke, which is in Berlinale’s Panorama.
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