{"id":552108,"date":"2023-02-15T11:01:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T08:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/with-flood-of-new-projects-berlin-market-could-help-solve-industrys-supply-side-issues\/"},"modified":"2023-02-15T11:01:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T08:01:00","slug":"with-flood-of-new-projects-berlin-market-could-help-solve-industrys-supply-side-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/with-flood-of-new-projects-berlin-market-could-help-solve-industrys-supply-side-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"#With Flood of New Projects, Berlin Market Could Help Solve Industry\u2019s Supply-Side Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3bf25eec13a\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3bf25eec13a\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/with-flood-of-new-projects-berlin-market-could-help-solve-industrys-supply-side-issues\/#With_Flood_of_New_Projects_Berlin_Market_Could_Help_Solve_Industrys_Supply-Side_Issues\" >With Flood of New Projects, Berlin Market Could Help Solve Industry\u2019s Supply-Side Issues<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"With_Flood_of_New_Projects_Berlin_Market_Could_Help_Solve_Industrys_Supply-Side_Issues\"><\/span>With Flood of New Projects, Berlin Market Could Help Solve Industry\u2019s Supply-Side Issues<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    After a couple of lean years, Berlin is ready to feast. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Its European Film Market kicks off on Thursday, Feb. 16 with hundreds of finished films and scores of new packages and projects for every cinematic taste and budget. Even as sellers are still setting up their stands at the EFM\u2019s Martin Gropius Bau headquarters, new packages continue to come thick and fast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Black Bear International, which helped close a deal with Lionsgate (for domestic) and Amazon (for multiple international territories) for Guy Ritchie\u2019s World War II actioner <em>The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare <\/em>on the eve of Berlin, added the buzzy musical project <em>Fred &amp; Ginger<\/em>, about Hollywood dance legends Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, played by Jamie Bell and Margaret Qualley, to its EFM slate. Black Bear will handle international sales of the project, previously at Amazon, with UTA Independent Film Group and 30WEST co-repping the U.S.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    UTA and Mister Smith Entertainment have teamed on the enticing thriller project <em>Wichita Libra<\/em>, starring Phoebe Dynevor (<em>Bridgerton,<\/em> <em>Fair Play<\/em>), which will kick off pre-sales in Berlin, and Mister Smith will also be pitching the David M. Rosenthal-directed L.A. noir crime tale <em>The Smack<\/em> with the impressive ensemble cast of Casey Affleck, Alan Arkin, Teyana Taylor, Kathy Bates and Isabel May.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    International sales firm The Veterans and CAA <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Media<\/a> Finance pitched <em>Ship<\/em>, a sequel to hit Gerard Butler vehicle <em>Plane<\/em> just ahead of Berlin, with <em>Luke Cage <\/em>actor Mike Colter to star. Highland Film Group excited sci-fi fans with the launch of space thriller <em>The Astronaut<\/em>, starring Emma Roberts and Laurence Fishburne from <em>The Purge<\/em> producer Brad Fuller, with CAA and UTA Independent Film Group co-repping domestic rights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Archstone Entertainment has a Luke Hemsworth adult comedy, <em>The Greatest Surf Movie in the Universe<\/em>; The Exchange a psychological thriller <em>The Cut<\/em>, starring Orlando Bloom as a boxer who goes over the edge; XYZ Films a Kiefer Sutherland topped action-thriller <em>The Winter Kills<\/em>. And on and on and on.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    In total, there will be around 700 films screening at this year\u2019s EFM, according to market director Dennis Ruh who notes that the industry will be back in force in Berlin. \u201cWhen it comes to attendance levels, we expect to be back where we were in 2019 or 2020,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    The past two EFMs, in contrast, were comparatively meager affairs. And not just because COVID rules meant they were all-virtual. There were far fewer projects on offer, as independent producers and financiers struggled to get <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">movies<\/a> made. New <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">travel<\/a> and shooting restrictions, a lack of proper COVID insurance, and <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a> uncertainty about the future of the theatrical market turned the usual flood of new projects in Berlin to a trickle. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    There was still money to be made. Sony last year won a bidding war to pre-buy Tom Hanks starrer <em>A Man Called Otto<\/em>, paying a reported $60 million for worldwide rights to the dramedy, a remake of the 2015 Swedish hit <em>A Man Called Ove<\/em> \u2014 but for most, it was slim pickings. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    \u201cIn general, a film market [is] judged primarily on the volume of content for sale, and only secondarily on those handful of large packages that <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ear to generate excitement and drive bidding wars,\u201d says Alison Thompson, co-president of Cornerstone Films. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Berlin 2023 should be different. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    The sheer volume and variety of films on offer at the EFM \u2014 a ballerina-themed action movie starring <em>GOT<\/em>\u2018s Lena Headey from The Veterans and CAA; a high-concept horror film about an Indian teen from <em>Get Out<\/em> producer QC Entertainment and sales group Protagonist; the new arthouse drama from Korean auteur Hirokazu Kore-eda (<em>Broker<\/em>, <em>Shoplifters<\/em>), which Gaga and Wild Bunch are selling; star-driven action vehicles featuring Liam Neeson and Christoph Waltz \u2014 should ensure there truly is something for everyone. And while quantity is not any guarantee of quality,  after years of being starved of films during COVID, independent distributors will be hungry and eager to fill their slates. Few will go home unsated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Variety is just what the post-COVID box office needs. There are signs of theatrical green shoots everywhere \u2014 the U.S. box office for January was up more than 50 percent over the same month last year; China\u2019s Spring Festival box office topped $1 billion, making it the second highest-grossing to date; Japan\u2019s theaters finished 2022 with an estimated $1.52 billion gross, just 9.4 percent off the country\u2019s pre-pandemic average. But, so far, the box office bounce has been overly dependent on a thin group of Hollywood blockbusters \u2014 primarily <em>Avatar: The Way of Water <\/em>and <em>Top Gun: Maverick <\/em>\u2014 alongside a smattering of local tentpoles, such as Japanese <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/anime-manga\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"6\" title=\"Anime || Manga\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">anime<\/a> <em>One Piece: Film Red<\/em> and Shah Rukh Khan\u2019s Indian action movie <em>Pathaan<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    A healthy cinema market, however, relies on a regular supply of mid-sized hits, something that can only come with an increase in releases. In the 10 years before the COVID shutdown, from 2010 through 2019, more than 2,300 films were released in theaters on average per year in the U.S. Over the past three years those figures have been 881, 986 and, last year, 1,158, still barely more than half the number seen pre-pandemic. If the movie business is to truly turn the corner, it needs more volume, more second- and-third tier films getting packaged, sold and released.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    \u201cThat\u2019s what you need for a really good, vibrant, healthy film market,\u201d notes Thompson. \u201cLots of very different films for the business that sits just below the flashy lights business, the busy, industrious independent film business a bit lower in the food chain that just gets on with it.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\n!function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\nif (f.fbq) return;\nn = f.fbq = function() {n.callMethod ? n.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments);};\nif (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\nn.push = n;\nn.loaded = !0;\nn.version = '2.0';\nn.queue = [];\nt = b.createElement(e);\nt.async = !0;\nt.src = v;\ns = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\ns.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s);\n}(window, document, 'script', 'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\nfbq('init', '352999048212581');\nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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