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deadline.comGood afternoon Insiders, Max Goldbart here. The Berlinale is nearly upon us and plenty has been going down in the film and TV world this week.
Read on. A welcome return: Berlin’s European Film Market was the last major physical market to take place in 2020 as the world began to shut down with the Covid-19 pandemic taking hold.
The virus would force the event online in 2021 and 2022. Finally, this year, the market returns to in-person events, with thousands of industry professionals once again gearing up to descend on the Gropius Bau, the market’s traditional home, for the 2023 edition, running February 16-22. Heating up: The market has already begun to heat up, with the first of the high-profile packages arriving this week.
Mike Fleming had the scoop that Sacha Baron Cohen and Keke Palmer are set to star in Super Toys, a new pic written and directed by David O Russell, while Andreas reported that Jude Law and Nicholas Hoult are attached to lead the true-crime movie The Order, from Australian filmmaker Justin Kurzel (Macbeth) and AGC Studios.
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