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EXCLUSIVE: Principal photography has wrapped in Naples on writer-director Michele Placido's fourteenth film as a director, Caravaggio’s Shadow (L’Ombra Di Caravaggio), about the enigmatic and genius Renaissance painter. Today we can reveal three striking production stills from the Italian-language movie, which stars…

European film, TV and media group Wild Bunch is moving to strengthen its involvement in production and co-productions in France, placing longtime in-house execs Adeline Fontan Tessaur and Jerome Rougier in charge of the effort. They will respectively continue as Managing Director of Elle Driver and Director of French…

Wild Bunch International, an independent subsidiary of European film, TV and media group Wild Bunch, has made four internal promotions just as the virtual AFM gets into gear. The sales company, which was formed as part of a reorganization last year, remains under the management of Eva Diederix. WBI has notably named…

Filmmakers Adil El Arbi & Bilall Fallah (Bad Boys For Life) have been set to direct Rebel, a coming-of-age story about a family torn apart over a little boy's future. Wild Bunch International is handling international sales and will introduce the project to buyers at the virtual Cannes market. CAA Media Finance will…

European film, TV and media group Wild Bunch AG and Frankfurt-based financial institution Commerzbank have agreed a loan financing of up to 35M euros ($40M). Wild Bunch, which is headquartered in Paris and Berlin, will use the credit line to refinance an existing bank loan and “to reinforce the group's capacity to…

EXCLUSIVE: Noomi Rapace (Prometheus) is attached to star in contained Black List thriller O2, which has Franck Khalfoun (Amityville: The Awakening) directing and Wild Bunch International aboard for sales. Vincent Maraval’s Paris-based outfit will begin discussing the fun genre project with buyers next week at the EFM…

Horror icon Dario Argento (Suspiria) is lining up his first TV series in decades in the shape of Italian production Longinus. The episodic drama, created by Argento, has been announced by Italian firms Publispei, whose Verdiana Bixio will produce, and recently launched BIM Production, which is part of the Wild Bunch…

European film and TV group Wild Bunch is riding further into Italy with the formation of BIM Production. Former Leone Film Group exec Riccardo Russo will serve as CEO and Managing Director of the new company and will report to Antonio Medici, President of BIM Production and COO of BIM Distribution, a wholly-owned…

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s first footage of U.S. coming-of-age drama Giants Being Lonely, which has its world premiere in the Horizons strand of the Venice Film Festival this weekend. Writer-director Grear Patterson’s feature debut is the first produced by Olmo Schnabel, whose director-artist father Julian was at the festival…

European film stalwart Wild Bunch is undergoing an internal reorganization with the formation of Wild Bunch International, a subsidiary focused specifically on international film sales. The demarcation establishes the existing Wild Bunch international sales department as a stand-alone company with the ambition for it…

What to watch for in the overseas film industry in 2019: 1. Staying alive One of the most common refrains I hear from independent sales and distribution companies is how tough it is just to survive these days. As Netflix soars and studios, theaters and audiences continue to gravitate toward sequels, prequels and spinof…

Wild Bunch has come aboard to handle worldwide sales on Cities of Last Things, Ho Wi Ding’s new film that is world premiering next month in the Platform section of the Toronto Film Festival. The international sales outfit will rep sales for North America, Japan and most of Europe. Excluded is France, Taiwan, China and…