Posted: Wed., Sep. 24, 2003, 1:53pm PT

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Seville slots 2 for Canada

Distrib picks up Teutonic candidate for foreign Oscar

TORONTO -- Montreal-based Seville Pictures has picked up the Canadian rights to helmer Wolfgang Becker's "Good Bye Lenin!" and French Canadian rights to "Bad Education" from Pedro Almodovar.

Germany's candidate for consideration in the Academy Awards' foreign-language film category, "Good Bye" is one of the highest-grossing Teutonic films of all time, with a local B.O. of $42 million. Pic tells of a young man who tries to hide the fall of communist East Germany from his ailing mother.

North American release is skedded for spring 2004 through Seville and Sony Pictures Classics.

Focus Features' "Bad Education," to be released in the U.S. through SPC, is a loosely semiautobiographical tale about two boys from church school in Franco's 1960s Spain to 1984. Pic is set for release in Canada in late 2004.

Seville theatrically released more than 30 films in the past 12 months, including "Russian Ark," "Etre a avoir" and "Swimming Pool." In 2003, the company acquired from SPC "Man Without a Past" and Almodovar's "Talk to Her."

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