SF closes three-year deal with Memfis Film
by Annika Pham
Svensk Filmindustri CEO Rasmus Ramstad announced yesterday in Cannes that he has closed a three-year distribution deal with one of Sweden’s leading production houses, Memfis Film, headed by Lars Jönsson.
The deal covers theatrical and DVD distribution of Memfis’ upcoming productions (including Lukas Moodysson’s Mammoth, starring Gael Garcia Bernal and Michelle Williams) and its 25-title library. Sandrew Metronome will keep distribution rights in the other Nordic territories, and TrustNordisk international distribution rights.
From the Scandinavian Terrace, 55 la Croisette, Ramstad also told Cineuropa that just before Cannes he bought Terrence Malick’s new film Tree of Life, starring Sean Penn and Brad Pitt, sold by Summit; the Coen brothers’ Burn After Reading, starring George Clooney and Brad Pitt, and their upcoming A Serious Man, both sold by Focus Features.
SF also acquired for Scandinavia Danis Tanovic’s Triage, starring Colin Farrell, and Brideshead Revisited, both in the Hanway Films line-up.
“There is a lot of product out there, but very few titles that we are going for. The market is more and more polarized with bigger films getting bigger. Niche films can work, but the middle films are getting really difficult,” stressed Ramstad.
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