Post by The Ultimate Nullifier on Sept 8, 2017 19:05:16 GMT -6
variety.com/2017/film/news/berenice-bejo-alexander-fehling-three-peaks-distribution-1202552580/
Veteran arthouse distributor Ed Arentz has formed Greenwich Entertainment in partnership with an investment fund run by Edmondo Schwartz and set the thriller “Three Peaks” as its first release.
Bérénice Bejo (“The Artist”) and Alexander Fehling (“Homeland”) star in “Three Peaks,” in which a recently divorced French woman, her 8-year-old son, and her new German boyfriend see their summer holiday in the Italian Dolomites goes from bucolic to harrowing. The film won the Variety Piazza Grande Award at the Locarno Film Festival and is having its North American premiere at the Toronto Intl. Film Festival.
Arentz was the co-founder and managing director of Music Box Films, where he acquired and released prominent foreign-language titles including “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” and “A Man Called Ove.” The deal for the North American rights to “Three Peaks” was concluded in Locarno with the Match Factory’s Thania Dimitrakopoulou.
Greenwich Entertainment will also release Claus Räfle’s documentary thriller “The Invisibles,” the untold story of four German Jews who manage to survive the Third Reich living in Berlin by sheer resourcefulness, luck, and the decency of fellow Germans. Beta Cinema CEO Dirk Schuerhoff negotiated the terms with Arentz for the U.S. and Canada. “The Invisibles” will have its North American premiere next month at the Mill Valley Film Festival.
Greenwich plans to handle between six and eight traditional theatrical releases and a similar number of smaller scale releases annually.
“Vast resources, scale and a global reach come in handy in this business, as in any other, but it seems clear to us that film distribution is still an arena where a small but efficient, resourceful, reasonably capitalized firm can provide important value to producers, viewing platforms, audiences and investors alike,” Arentz said. “We’re excited to begin testing this proposition anew.”
Veteran arthouse distributor Ed Arentz has formed Greenwich Entertainment in partnership with an investment fund run by Edmondo Schwartz and set the thriller “Three Peaks” as its first release.
Bérénice Bejo (“The Artist”) and Alexander Fehling (“Homeland”) star in “Three Peaks,” in which a recently divorced French woman, her 8-year-old son, and her new German boyfriend see their summer holiday in the Italian Dolomites goes from bucolic to harrowing. The film won the Variety Piazza Grande Award at the Locarno Film Festival and is having its North American premiere at the Toronto Intl. Film Festival.
Arentz was the co-founder and managing director of Music Box Films, where he acquired and released prominent foreign-language titles including “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” and “A Man Called Ove.” The deal for the North American rights to “Three Peaks” was concluded in Locarno with the Match Factory’s Thania Dimitrakopoulou.
Greenwich Entertainment will also release Claus Räfle’s documentary thriller “The Invisibles,” the untold story of four German Jews who manage to survive the Third Reich living in Berlin by sheer resourcefulness, luck, and the decency of fellow Germans. Beta Cinema CEO Dirk Schuerhoff negotiated the terms with Arentz for the U.S. and Canada. “The Invisibles” will have its North American premiere next month at the Mill Valley Film Festival.
Greenwich plans to handle between six and eight traditional theatrical releases and a similar number of smaller scale releases annually.
“Vast resources, scale and a global reach come in handy in this business, as in any other, but it seems clear to us that film distribution is still an arena where a small but efficient, resourceful, reasonably capitalized firm can provide important value to producers, viewing platforms, audiences and investors alike,” Arentz said. “We’re excited to begin testing this proposition anew.”