Berlin's European film market closed some deals on Wednesday and was optimistic about the future of the international industry.

The biggest title on the market, rom-com directed by Lena Dunham Good sexwill be in the battle for the project with Amazon, Warner Bros., Netflix and Apple in the star-playing bidding war for Natalie Portman, which has put Portman in a 40-year-old relationship therapist, The latter later found himself back in the market. The exit of her long-term partner. Global quotes are reportedly in the range of over $45 million, but there is no news of the final deal yet.

Most of the deals reportedly featured smaller domestic pickups with the International Athens pavilion, Sony Pictures Classic grants North and Latin America rights to Rebecca Zlotowski's French murder mystery privacya psychiatrist starring Jodie Foster, investigates the death of the patient. Goodfellas also sold projects across Europe to distributors including Altitude (UK), Caramel Film (Spain) and Plaion Pictures (Germany).

Other North American deals include Lucille Hadlilovic's dark fairy tale Ice Towera Berlin Contest champion starring Marion Cotillard, photographed the yellow veil; New Zealand adult drama We're in dangerThis is the winner of the SXSW Award, which tells the story of Maori teenagers rebelling against the girls’ reform school in 1954, a forger of a boutique distributor; and a pair of domestic purchases for the fast-growing Arthouse streaming/distributor Mubi , seized North American rights to gay romance for Oliver Hermanus The history of soundstarring Paul Mescal and Josh O'Connor (Focus Features Are Processing International Releases) and Rights in North America and much of the rest of the world, Eddie Wong's documentary Bad habits break About the Fall of the Promoted Media brand.

Mubi is tall in Coralie Fargeat's body horror movie substance, The company has been released in the United States and in multiple international territories and has so far earned more than $77 million in box office revenue. The material’s great success is a new boom in the EFM driving a noble (and under-thinking) horror film.

Mr. Smith Entertainment lands in US buyers for Sean Byrne's Shark and Killer Thriller Dangerous animalsand The IFC movie and Shiver together earned a work starring Jai Courtney, a shark-obsessed serial killer with Hassie Harrison as his captive. TrustNordisk does monster business in Europe for the features of Påløie's upcoming Norwegian creatures Clekensettle a deal in Germany ((Excellent movies), France (Mediawan Rights) and Spain (YouPlanet), etc.

Movies that have a strong international business at EFM include Kateryna Gornostai's Timestampa documentary from Kateryna Gornostai, focusing on Ukrainian schools during the ongoing war, whose best friends will be sold forever to France (Dulac Distribution) and Belgium (Cherry Pickers) before their competitive premiere in Berlin; and Petra Volpe's Berlinale Special Title night shiftstarring September 5 Actress Leonie Benesch, an overworking nurse at an understaffed Swiss hospital, sold Trustnordisk to Bim Distractuzione for sale for Italy, exacerbating formerly with Wild Bunch (France) and Karma Films (Spain) ) transaction.

But even with large deals without titles, industry attendees are optimistic or at least satisfied with the market conditions. Roeg Sutherland, co-head of Media Finance at CAA, brought about 20 projects to Berlin this year. Barbarians and aor As an independent filmmaker is making the market budget movie icon.

“Barbarians Made for $9 million aorSix, seven, this is responsible to finance. "This means you can take risks. Less stress."

Sutherland notes in international sales that while the number of transactions may not match those that are prefloating, buyers are still willing to shine on the items they believe in. “Foreign sales are really good,” he said. “The movies sold for sale are sold at pre-pop prices, and it’s not just a deal in the U.S..”

During the EFM, the box office figures released by the European Audiovisual Observatory shocked people about the vigorous optimism. The group's early estimates show that theater enrollment in Europe fell 2% to 841 million in 2024, compared with 858 million in 2023, with revenue flat, with revenue of 6.6 billion euros ($6.9 billion) year-on-year.

"Cinema attendance appears to be down by about 24% from pre-pandemic 24%, indicating that the post-pandemic rebound has run and the market may have reached a new equilibrium," the EAO wrote in the report.