Pathé’s international sales division stand was a hive of activity yesterday at the 69^th Berlinale European Film Market, with Marie-Laure Montironi’s team revealing sneak peeks of two titles in post-production that are currently being eyed up by a number of distributors.

The first was The Best Is Yet to Come [+leggi anche:
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Pathé will also be showcasing a few sneak peeks from the hotly anticipated French-German co-production Proxima [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Alice Winocour
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Also in the line-up is a film slated to be finished by May: the French-Italian animated feature The Bear’s Famous Invasion [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Lorenzo Mattotti
scheda film] by Lorenzo Mattotti (an adaptation of Dino Buzzati’s book and based on a screenplay written by the director with Thomas Bidegain and Jean-Luc Fromental), which is being presold at Berlin off the back of a new promoreel that consists of a quasi-completed film montage.

Pathé will also be showcasing a first-look promoreel for Let’s Dance by Sébastien Chollat (article – due to be released in France on 27 March).

Among the post-production films being sold at the event on the basis of a screenplay is Judy by the British director Rupert Gold, starring the American actress Renee Zellweger in the role of a weakened Judy Garland getting ready to star in a show in London in 1968. The film is due to be released in the UK on 4 October 2019.

Other post-production films of note include the French comedy Dad Friend [+leggi anche:
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Finally, Pathé will be at the EFM with the market premiere of The Wolf's Call [+leggi anche:
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And that’s not forgetting Mektoub My Love : Intermezzo [+leggi anche:
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