Updates: "Maps to the Stars" (sneak peeks on monday) and "Life"

@peterhowellfilm @DavidCronenberg's Hollywood satire @MapsToTheStars, with plot of life crisis & rehab, had industry sneak Monday in T.O. -- perfect choice! via @MTTSFilm_blog

EXCLUSIVE: New films by David Cronenberg, Quentin Dupieux and Lone Scherfig are among the titles acquired by German distributors at this year’s AFM.

screendaily Christian Meinke’s MFA+ has picked up David Cronenberg’s Maps To The Stars, starring Robert Pattinson, Julianne Moore and John Cusack, and Tobias Lindholm’s thriller A Hijacking (Kapringen), about a Danish cargo ship hijacked by Somali pirates.

MFA+ has also picked up producer/actor Vincent Grashaw’s feature debut Coldwater, which premiered at this year’s SXSW festival and won the audience award for best feature at Prague’s Fresh Film Festival.

Munich-based Tiberius Film came back from Santa Monica with another three titles in its luggage along with the films it had picked up at the beginning of the market.

Poster: Collider

Via Gossip_Dance, Gossipgyal