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EXCLUSIVE: Picture Perfect Federation Chairman Patrick Wachsberger, former Co-Chairman of Lionsgate’s Motion Picture Group, stopped by our Zurich Summit studio this past weekend to discuss the progress of his JV with Federation Entertainment, some of the exciting projects he is working on, and the recent…

The future of working with streamers was on the table at the Zurich Summit on Saturday amid talk that the content bubble has burst as key markets such as the U.S. reach saturation point. Watch the panel above. Responding to suggestions that streamers are pulling back in terms of investment, Netflix…

Former Lionsgate film co-chief Patrick Wachsberger has been named as one of the members of the selection committee that will decide the French entry for the Best International Film Oscar category this year. He will be joined by international sales veterans Sabine Chemaly and Tanja Meissner, producer…

Picturestart and Picture Perfect Federation have set JC Lee to direct the English-language remake of Thai hit Bad Genius and also announced key cast members as well as a raft of international presales. Lee also takes co-writing credits for the English-language screenplay with Julius Onah, who was…

EXCLUSIVE: Picture Perfect Federation and Zurich Avenue have teamed to acquire Jeneva Rose’s bestselling psychological thriller debut novel The Perfect Marriage. The film will be directed by Sigal Avin (Losing Alice), and the script is by Oscar-nominated scribe William Broyles (Apollo 13 and Cast…

This year's Zurich Summit kicked off with a bang as a host of top industry execs gathered on stage to discuss one of the most challenging topics facing the independent film world today – how to finance an independent film in the streaming age? The panel inevitably was drawn to the pros and cons of going down the…

Former Lionsgate film chief Patrick Wachsberger, Carol producer Christine Vachon, Neon CEO Tom Quinn and SPC bosses Michael Barker and Tom Bernard will be among industry executives taking part in the Zurich Summit on Saturday in Switzerland. The Zurich Film Festival’s flagship industry event, an all-day confab about…

EXCLUSIVE: Erik Feig’s Picturestart and Patrick Wachsberger’s Picture Perfect Federation have set Luce and Cloverfield Paradox filmmaker Julius Onah to direct their college admissions thriller Bad Genius, which is gearing up for a summer shoot. Luce scribe J.C. Lee, whose credits as a writer and co-producer also…

EXCLUSIVE: Rob Friedman’s Ascendant Entertainment has joined forces with Patrick Wachsberger of Picture Perfect Federation to acquire the film and TV rights to Rules for Vanishing, the genre-bending YA thriller novel by Kate Alice Marshall. This project reunites the former Lionsgate Motion Picture Group Co-Chairmen…

Erik Feig's Picturestart and Patrick Wachsberger's Picture Perfect Entertainment are developing, producing and attached to finance the English-language remake of the hit 2017 Thai movie Bad Genius (Chalard Games Goeng). Eva Anderson has been tapped to write the adaptation of the film which was written and directed by…

Pathé Films and Philippe Rousselet's Vendôme Group production banner have signed an exclusive new film production partnership to develop and produce English-language films for the international marketplace. The three-year revolving co-development and co-producing deal will aim to produce one to two films a year…

Picture Perfect Federation, the company recently launched by Patrick Wachsberger's Picture Perfect Entertainment, has teamed with Pascal Breton's Federation Entertainment to acquire Allison Pataki's two bestselling novels — The Accidental Empress and Sisi: Empress on Her Own — to be developed as a series on the life…