The challenge and opportunity of transatlantic production was the subject of a session at the Zurich Summit this morning, with the panel comprising Bert Hamelinck, head of films and global MD at Belgian-U.S.
film and TV group Caviar, CAA Media Finance’s Benjamin Kramer, Elysian Film Group CEO Danny Perkins and Hype Studios founder Ilya Stewart.Russian producer Stewart is riding high with latest production Sanctuary, which this week sold to Neon label Super for the US.
The genre film, starring Margaret Qualley and Christopher Abbott, is an example of a US-European collaboration.“Sanctuary started out with Rumble Films in the U.S.
We came aboard with French sales firm Charades, putting together pre-sales and equity. It was a relatively low-budget and a great festival premiere was essential.”The movie world-premiered at Toronto, where it earned strong reviews (it currently holds a 93% “fresh” rating on Rotten Tomatoes).Stewart acknowledged that another of their recent titles to go into production, Limonov, starring Ben Whishaw and directed by Russian helmer Kirill Serebrennikov, posed a different challenge and made more sense as a European production. “The minute we started assembling it, the industry changed.
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