EFM biz boom for German distribs

BERLIN -- German distribs filled on movies only at that year's European Film Market in Berlin, which saw busy business. Studiocanal Germany acquired Leslye Headland's Sundance screener "The Bachelorette," starring Kirsten Dunst, Regis Roinsard's "Populaire," with Romain Duris and Berenice Bejo ("The Artist"), and Caroline Link's German drama "Marokko," starring Ulrich Tukur. Within the run-as much as EFM, the organization also acquired Robert Zemeckis' "Flight," starring Denzel Washington. Studiocanal is building up its German activities having a three-pillar strategy which includes independent purchases, German films as well as in-house worldwide productions, for example Susanne Bier's "Serena," starring Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper. Studiocanal Germany can also be set to produce Terrence Malick's "Lawless" and "Dark night of Cups" in addition to Derek Cianfrance's "The Area Past the Pines," starring Cooper and Ryan Gosling. The distrib likewise nabbed Blu-ray/DVD privileges to Mark Cousins' 15-part TV series "The Storyline of Film: An Journey," which unspooled in the Berlinale. Prokino Filmverleih acquired Bier's "You Just Need Love," starring Pierce Brosnan and Trine Dyrholm Ken Loach's "The Angel's Share" and also the documentary "Diana Vreeland: The Attention Needs to Travel," concerning the influential fashion editor. Josh Boone's family drama "Authors," with Greg Kinnear and Jennifer Connelly, visited Wild Bunch Germany, that also bought Ashton Kutcher heist comedy "Chase Liberty" and Stefano Sollima's hit Italian police drama "A.C.A.B.: All Cops Are Bastards." Wild Bunch's releases include Angelina Jolie's Berlinale screener "Within the Land of Bloodstream and Honey." Capelight Pictures, that is delivering Berlinale opener "Farewell, My Full" in May, required Klaartje Quirijns' documentary and Berlinale Special screener "Anton Corbijn Thoroughly,Inch concerning the Nederlander digital photographer and filmmaker who offered about this year's Berlinale jury Jennifer Lynch's "Chained" Geoffrey Fletcher's "Purple & Daisy," starring Saoirse Ronan und Alexis Bledel Antoine Charreyron's animated actioner "The Prodigies" and Take advantage of Margolies' "She Would Like Me." MFA+ Film Distribution, that is delivering the Silver Bear-winning "A Royal Affair" in April, acquired Behn Zeitlin's Sundance champion "Monsters from the Southern Wild" in addition to Alice Schmid's Swiss doc and Berlinale Generation Kplus opener "The Kids in the Napf" in addition to Marion Huetter's poetry slam doc and Perspektive Deutsches Kino screener "Rhymers and Rivals." Contact Erectile dysfunction Meza at staff@variety.com