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North America 1,000 Times starring Hailee Steinfeld. To Samarkand, in which he will star as a of international sales and distribution The project is described as The Fault In troubled former soldier on surveillance Jeffrey Greenstein will also talk up Sep- By Jeremy Kay Our Stars meets The Sixth Sense. The duty in who may or may not tembers Of Shiraz, a thriller about a Jew- FilmNation will introduce Tom Ford’s slate also includes action comedy The have spotted a bomb threat. War photog- ish family caught in the Islamic directorial follow-up to A Single Man, True Memoirs Of An International Assas- rapher Greg Williams directs. Revolution in Iran. Salma Hayek, Adrien the prestige mystery Nocturnal Animals sin, starring Kevin James as a novelist Voltage Pictures is fully financing and Brody and Shohreh Aghdashloo star. starring Amy Adams and Jake Gyllen- who is mistaken for a hitman in Belize, producing ’s directorial Jason Sudeikis and Jessica Biel star in haal. Smokehouse Pictures’ George and the action thriller High Wire Act, debut The Worst Marriage In Georgetown. drama The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea, Clooney and Grant Heslov are produc- with Brad Anderson directing Jon Waltz will play real-life fabulist and to feature a score by Justin Timberlake. ing. CAA represents US rights. The Hamm from a screenplay by Tony Gilroy. social climber Albrect Muth, who mar- Content Media will show first footage company is also selling Second World Sierra/Affinity has a tasty pair of pro- ried a much older woman in Washington and CAA represents US rights. Con- War thriller HHHH, which stars Jason jects in pre-production. Marc Forster’s DC and rose through the ranks of the tent’s sales slate also includes documen- Clarke, Rosamund Pike, Jack O’Connell, All I See Is You stars Blake Lively and elite until his wife was found murdered. tary and Cannes Classics selection Steve and Mia Wasikowska and is one of two Jason Clarke in the story of a blind Nicolas Chartier heads to Cannes with McQueen: The Man & Le Mans. titles in the market about the assassina- woman who learns scary things about the new-look team of president, partner The world’s first ‘painted animation’ tion of Reinhard Heydrich, alongside her marriage when her sight is restored. and COO Jonathan Deckter and presi- project takes pride of place on the Cin- Altitude Film Sales’ Anthropoid. Bold Films’ Shot Caller stars Nikolaj dent of international sales John Fremes. ema Management Group roster. Doug- Keanu Reeves will return as the Coster-Waldau () as an Bloom will kick off talks on Wood- las Booth plays Armand Roulin vengeful former hitman in Thunder ex-con coerced into carrying out a major shock, which will star and alongside Saoirse Ronan, Game Of Road’s John Wick 2, a sequel to the 2014 score for a rival gang. Relativity Media is based on a secretive script by Rodarte Thrones’ Jerome Flynn and Chris hit that International will holds US rights. fashion label founders Kate and Laura O’Dowd in Loving Vincent. Also on its introduce on the Croisette. Lionsgate is IM Global arrives on the Croisette with Mulleavy. The sisters make their feature slate is Ping Pong Rabbit: The Magic also selling The Shack with Sam Wor- Spike Lee’s Chiraq, a musical reimagin- directorial debut and A24 will distribute Paddle, a 3D project from the animators thington and Octavia Spencer attached. ing of the ancient Greek comedy Lysis- in the US. behind The Nightmare Before Christmas. Gil Netter (The Sea Of Trees, Life Of Pi) trata about a woman on a quest to end Nu Image arrives on the Croisette with Lotus Entertainment has taken over produces the tale of the father of an gang warfare in Chicago. Kanye West, Leatherface, a Texas Chain Saw Massacre sales on Magic City, a 1960s Miami-set abducted girl who meets god. , Samuel L Jackson and origins story to star and crime thriller to star Jeffrey Dean Mor- Good Universe has Gold Circle’s are lining up. IM Global Lili Taylor. Production is set to begin in gan, Olga Kurylenko, , Bill supernatural thriller Break My Heart also has the thriller Journey mid-May. Recently promoted president Murray, Danny Huston and Kelly Lynch. »

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alongside in comedy The Runaround, which The Solution Enter- tainment Group is bringing to the Croi- sette. The Gersh Agency and UTA Independent Film Group represent North American rights on the story of a workaholic father who enlists the help of his daughter’s ex to find his girl dur- ing a layover in . The pro- ducers have earmarked a July shoot in Los Angeles. Myriad Pictures has the recent SXSW opener Brand: A Second Coming, Ondi nina Forever Timoner’s documentary featuring UK comic Russell Brand in political fire- brand mode. WME Global is the US sales agent. The company’s slate also includes The Parts You Lose, an upcom- ing drama about a hearing-impaired boy who strikes up a friendship with a fugitive. ’s stars and UTA represents US sales. Bleiberg Entertainment has snapped up international rights to Sundance selection Experimenter, starring Peter Sarsgaard as the Yale psychologist Stan- ley Milgram who conducted controver- sial obedience tests in the early 1960s. Krisha experimenter also stars in Michael Almereyda’s drama, which Magnolia CAA represents US rights with Jeff Berg Pictures is distributing in the US later on the project, which QED International this year. originally introduced to the market. The AMBI Distribution hits town with the shoot is scheduled for an August start. animation Arctic Justice: Thunder Squad, will star alongside Ellen boasting the voice cast of Alec Baldwin, Burstyn and Sebastian Koch in Jennifer John Cleese, , Anjelica Fox’s investigative thriller The Tale, Huston, Heidi Klum and Omar Sy. which Mongrel International will tout AMBI’s sci-fi thrillerRupture is set for a on the Croisette. Fox based the story on June start and stars as a an episode from her own life and Dern single mother abducted by a shadowy will play a journalist who probes a story organisation. she wrote as a teenager about her part in Epic Pictures will be talking up Jeru- a sex triangle with two grown-ups. Jeruzalem zalem, an Israeli production about a US Red Granite International label Blue woman on holiday in Israel who is Box International has Stowaway, which sales on 20th Century Women from Seville International will tempt buy- caught up in a Biblical apocalypse. The Marcus Nispel will direct. The thriller is Beginners director Mike Mills. The story ers with Xavier Dolan’s upcoming It’s company also has SXSW selection Nina based on a Norse myth and follows a takes place in the heady summer of 1979 Only The End Of The World, featuring a Forever, a darkly comic ménage-a-trois woman who learns a terrifying secret as a boy comes of age, punk hits US sub- to-die-for cast of , Léa about a dead woman who haunts her ex about her fiancé’s family while on a urbia and the oil crisis ravages the Seydoux, , Nathalie Baye to sabotage his new relationship. yachting trip. global economy. and . Dolan expects to The Exchange slate features Modern Radiant Films International handles Block Entertainment will start talks on start shooting the family drama later Life Is Rubbish, starring Jack Lowden Hailee Steinfeld and in an untitled Jon Lucas and Scott Moore this month once he has completed Com- and Freya Mavor as a couple who can- the adaptation of Caren Lissner’s project, a female-led comedy to star Les- petition jury duties. Seville’s slate also not quite split up after they divvy up the young-adult novel Carrie Pilby, about a lie Mann. Mann’s husband Judd Apatow includes Critics’ Week selection Sleeping record collection that defined their rela- Harvard graduate in search of love and is among the producers. Merced Media Giant from Andrew Cividino. tionship. The company is also looking to happiness in New York. UTA Independ- — the $500m fund launched late last International Film Trust heads to reboot The Three Stooges, reuniting Sean ent Film Group and ICM Partners are year by former QED International chief Cannes with sales rights to Werner Her- Hayes, Will Sasso and Chris Diamanto- jointly handling North American rights. Bill Block, PalmStar Media Capital CEO zog’s super-volcano thriller Salt And poulos from the 2012 Fox release. Krisha caused a stir when it pre - Kevin Frakes and Merced Capital — is Fire, currently shooting in Bolivia. Buenos Aires-based Filmsharks will miered in SXSW and will screen here in fully financing. Paramount swooped on Veronica Ferres, and introduce the comedy No Kids (Sin Critics’ Week. Visit Films is the sales US rights on the eve of Cannes and will Gael Garcia Bernal star and CAA han- Hijos), an Argentina-Spain co-produc- agent on the story of an estranged wom- release on April 15, 2016. dles US rights. The company also tion from the producers of swinger an’s ill-advised return to the family fold. Nigel Sinclair and Guy East’s White arrives with Tribeca world premiere comedy 2+2 about a man who keeps his Visit is also bringing Just Jim, the tale of Horse Pictures is teaming up with Stu- Bleeding Heart, which stars Jessica Biel daughter secret after he meets a woman an enigmatic American played by Emile dioCanal to sell Ron Howard’s author- as a yoga instructor who must rescue who does not like children. Diego Peretti Hirsch who arrives in a Welsh town and ised documentary about The Beatles’ her sister from an abusive relationship. and Maribel Verdu star. takes a teen outcast under his wing. early years. The partners plan to show ICM Partners holds US rights. 13 Films has the Hitchcockian thriller Annapurna International will kick off first footage. Oscar winner JK Simmons stars Every Good Boy Does Fine, which will »

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The pack it’s already Tomorrow in Hong Kong

Hitchcock/Truffaut

The Fencer

cian: The Astonishing Life And Work Of arrives with two completed films. Rom- , which showcases a starry com No Stranger Than Love stars Alison roster of admirers in a look back at the Brie, Justin Chatwin and Colin Hanks, career of the great Welles. while fantasy Albion: The Rise Of Dan- Shoreline Entertainment has high ann starts shooting this month with hopes for Am*Dam, an -set Stephen Dorff, Debra Messing, Jennifer adventure with a fairytale twist about a Morrison, Liam McIntyre and John Deathgasm man’s bid to change the fortunes of his Cleese. father’s ailing marijuana shop. Shoreline Highland Film Group will commence star Michael Nyqvist and Famke Jans- Angeles Film Festival world premiere has also boarded the drama To Whom It talks on Precious Cargo from producers sen in the tale of a piano prodigy who It’s Already Tomorrow In Hong Kong, May Concern, which stars Wilmer Val- George Furla and Randall Emmett. suspects his tutor may be a serial killer. about a Chinese-American in Hong derrama as a young man who tries to Bruce Willis will play a crime boss who The slate also includes action title Entry Kong who falls for a US ex-pat. The slate save the life of a suicidal girl. tries to pilfer another thief ’s loot. High- Level from Franck Khalfoun, director of includes completed script Spy Family. MPI will introduce Deathgasm, the land has also boarded Summerstorm the upcoming Amityville: The Awaken- VMI Worldwide introduces Riot, a SXSW horror comedy about high-school Entertainment and Vandal Entertain- ing, which concerns a man embroiled in revenge saga to star Dolph Lundgren as misfits and heavy-metal fans who open ment’s action thriller The Feud, set to star a crime with far-reaching consequences. a man who gets himself arrested in the gates of hell after they perform an Kellan Lutz as a young man who discov- Paradigm represents North America. order to reach the powerful mob boss obscure piece of music. Dark Sky Films ers he possesses remarkable skills when Marina Cordoni Entertainment will who destroyed his family. The film is is distributing in the US. The company is he goes up against a local crime boss. be in town with The Ninth Cloud star- shooting now. also on board Cherry Tree, a supernatural John Travolta is shooting I Am Wrath, ring Michael Madsen, an existential Margaret Williams’ version of Shake- horror about a young woman who an action thriller from producers Ran- comedy about a young girl in London speare’s enduring classic Hamlet is on makes a pact with a witches’ coven to dall Emmett and George Furla about an looking for answers. The company is The Little Film Company’s slate and save the life of her dying father. engineer out to avenge his wife’s mur- also kicking off sales on Fall, starring stars Maxine Peake, John Shrapnel, Bar- Lightning Entertainment will host the der. Hannibal Classics is handling sales Michael Murphy as a priest accused of bara Marten, Gillian Bevan, Katie West market premiere screening of The Pack, on the title as well as Bus 657, starring sexual assault many years ago. Mongrel and Thomas Arnold. Co-president Rob- an Australian film about a farmer and and Kate Bosworth. In Media releases in Canada. bie Little is also talking up The Fencer, his family whose home comes under post-production, the heist thriller cen- Premiere Entertainment Group is which screens in the market and centres attack from wolves. tres on a man who hijacks a city bus bringing survival thriller Abandoned, on a fugitive from the Russian secret Psychological thriller Border Crossing, after a botched casino robbery to pay for which shot recently in New Zealand and police who winds up teaching fencing to based on the novel by Pat Barker, is on his daughter’s surgery. stars Dominic Purcell in the tale of four children in a remote town. Electric Entertainment’s slate. Josh Concourse Film Trade founders Mat- men whose yacht capsizes. The slate Cohen Media Group is showcasing Charles and Julia Stiles will star in the thew Shreder and Andrew Felts attend also includes American Hangman, the Hitchcock/Truffaut, Kent Jones’ trawl cat-and-mouse tale of a psychologist Cannes with the completed UFO con- -starring project in pre- through the 1962 series of interviews who reopens old wounds after rescuing spiracy thriller The Phoenix Incident. production about a kidnapped judge that Francois Truffaut conducted with a drowning person he had helped con- XLrator Media holds US rights to the who is put on public trial over the inter- Alfred Hitchcock. Talking heads include vict 12 years earlier. story about an incident in Arizona in net for sentencing to death a man his Wes Anderson, , David Expression Entertainment, a 1997 when thousands of people claim to captor claims was innocent. Fincher, and Martin rebranded and expanded iteration of have witnessed unexplainable lights in Red Sea Media has the imminent Los Scorsese. Cohen is also selling Magi- Continental Media led by Daniel Bort, the sky. »

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uk By Andreas Wiseman

Bankside Films’ in-demand Cannes slate will be headlined by War On Every- one, John Michael McDonagh’s follow- up to Calvary, which has been snapped up by Sony and Icon for multiple territo- ries. Michael Peña, Alexander Skarsgard and Theo James star in the black com- Meadowland edy, currently shooting in the US, about two corrupt cops who meet their match. Embankment will be enticing buyers with and Helen Hunt road-trip drama Please Stand By from The Sessions director Ben Lewin, as well as intriguing rodeo drama Bronco Belle. War on everyone The busy Protagonist Pictures heads to the Croisette with new title Klown For- ist’s , and will also be ever, the sequel to the 2010 hit Danish talking to buyers about Waste Land comedy Klown, which will include cam- director Lucy Walker’s sequel to the Thea eos from Isla Fisher, Maroon 5 frontman acclaimed 1999 documentary Buena Adam Levine and Game Of Thrones’ Vista Social Club. Nikolaj Coster-Waldau. The company Alison Thompson and Mark Gooder’s also has English-language drama Lords newly minted Cornerstone Films will be Of Chaos from music video director at Cannes with a lively slate including Jonas Akerlund and producers Scott prestige drama Denial, the fact-based Free London, RSA London and Vice. thriller about a lawyer’s courtroom battle Among others, Thorsten Schumacher with Holocaust denier David Irving, and the HanWay Films team will expect written by David Hare and set to star to see good traffic on Jane Goldman’s and Tom Wilkinson. The into The Forest i am not a Serial Killer script The Limehouse Golem, set to star company also has novel adaptation , Olivia Cooke and Doug- Alone In Berlin. thriller Level Up, which has Revenge star Irons and Olga Kurylenko in the lead las Booth, and Lone Scherfig’s rom-com eOne International is looking to wrap Josh Bowman in the lead. roles. Their Finest Hour And A Half, with up deals on strong duo Message From K5 comes to Cannes with a quartet of Metro International is looking to sign Gemma Arterton and . The King, the Chadwick Boseman Tribeca titles, including drama Meadow- more deals on the live-action family film WestEnd Films will be kicking off thriller that has a new promo, and Matt land, starring Juno Temple, Olivia Wilde Molly Moon And The Incredible Book Of sales on apartheid drama Shepherds And Ross’s drama Captain Fantastic, which and Elisabeth Moss, and Stephen Fin- Hypnotism. The company will also have Butchers, in which Steve Coogan is due has a private screening. gleton’s thriller The Survivalist. first footage of the Michael Caton-Jones- to star as a lawyer who uncovers scan- Altitude Film Sales heads to market Salt’s Cannes slate is spearheaded by directed drama Urban Hymn, starring dalous shortcomings in South Africa’s with Brit List thriller She Who Brings horror-thriller script The Neighbor, from former Screen Star of Tomorrow Letitia capital punishment system, and Dancer, Gifts, with Gemma Arterton, Glenn well-known genre writers Marcus Dun- Wright. a documentary following Ukraine-born Close and Paddy Considine on board, stan and Patrick Melton. Kaleidoscope Entertainment will con- ballet sensation Sergei Polunin, which Second World War thriller Anthropoid, Goldcrest International is looking to tinue to sell Gerard Barrett’s Sundance comes from a team that includes set to star man-of-the-moment Jamie entice buyers with The Blob remake, success Glassland alongside Frightfest Philomena producer Gaby Tana and Dornan, and well-received Tribeca doc- from director Simon West, and Roland horror title Digging Up the Marrow. acclaimed photographer David umentary Palio. Emmerich’s gay rights drama Stonewall, Metrodome will be talking to buyers LaChapelle. Independent will be presenting US- which stars , Jer- about supernatural horror film Thea, David Garrett’s Mister Smith is to shot thriller I Am Not A Serial Killer, emy Irvine and Ron Perlman. starring Antonia Thomas, and action- launch sales on Claude Lelouch’s about a teenage boy hunting for a Umedia is shopping Giuseppe Torna- adventure Killers Point, which is in pre- French-language India-set romantic- supernatural murderer in his snow- tore’s romantic drama Correspondence, production. drama Un Plus Une, set to star The Art- bound midwestern town, and UK which is currently shooting with Jeremy Celsius’s slate is headed by Into The Forest, in which Ellen Page and Evan Rachel Wood star as two young women who live in a remote ancient forest and discover the world around them is on the brink of an apocalypse. Simon Crowe’s SC Films is touting US comedy-horror title Demon Hole as well as completed UK- thriller Road Games, produced by The Host pro- ducer Junyoung Jang and Guillaume Benski. The company also has Chinese animation Monkey King Returns. GFM’s Cannes slate includes Henry Cavill action thriller Stratton, which is Correspondence Demon Hole due to get under way at the end of May. »

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arteholic

Hellions Cartel Land our Last Tango

GFM’s family animation Blazing Samu- as well as completed Australian sports France opening film Standing Tall, Indian rai has also begun production. drama Drown, which has sold to the US, drama The Fourth Direction (Chauthi By Melanie Goodfellow Jason Biggs comedy Drive She Said France, UK and Germany among other Koot) in , and Pales- and documentary Elstree 1976 remain territories. Wide Management will market pre- tinian dark comedy Dégradé, set in a the key sales titles for The Works Interna- Genre specialist Jinga’s titles include miere Anton Chekhov — 1890, the last Gaza Strip beauty salon and premiering tional. Clare Crean’s team will have first duo Hellions, the latest film fromPonty - work of ultra-independent director in Critics’ Week. Upcoming titles footage of the latter, which charts the pool director Bruce McDonald that had René Féret who died in April, as well as include Audrey Estrougo’s Jailbird, in effect that cultural behemoth Star Wars its world premiere at Sundance, and Khadija Al-Salami’s I Am Nojoom, Age which Sophie Marceau plays a woman had on the lives of those who featured in Max Perrier’s UK-Canada horror film 10 And Divorced, UK director Joanna who swaps places with her lover in jail, even the smallest roles in the film. Feed The Devil. Coates’ Hide And Seek and Sudhanshu as well as Cristi Puiu’s Sieranevada, Carnaby heads to market with the Parkland Pictures’ slate includes Saria’s Loev, about a relationship which revolves around a heated family Jonathan Rhys Meyers espionage drama thriller The Man In The Box, doc- between two men in India where homo- memorial, and André Téchiné’s coming- thriller Damascus Cover, currently in umentary Arteholic, about Udo Kier’s sexuality is considered a crime. It is also of-age tale Being Seventeen (Quand On A post-production, as well as Simon ‘addiction’ to art, and development title selling Panama, which premieres as a 17 Ans). West’s crowd-funded action comedy Monstrous Love, the story of Richard Special Screening, and ACID selections Already looking to Cannes 2016, Wild Salty. Burton and Elizabeth Taylor’s disas- Cosmodrama and La Vanité. Bunch will launch sales on a trio of new Moviehouse arrives in Cannes with trous final movie. Sister doc company Wide House will works by past Palme d’Or winners: the Julien Temple’s SXSW premiere The Matteo Rolleri’s Devilworks will pre- unveil Our Last Tango, a Buena Vista ’ , Ecstasy Of Wilko Johnson, which has a sent horror film Black Mountain Side, Social Club-style work charting the rela- ’s untitled project about market screening. which follows a group of archaeologists tionship between Argentinian tango the responsibilities of fatherhood and Documentary specialist Dogwoof is who unwittingly release an ancient stars Maria Nieves Rego and Juan Car- ’s On The Milky Road. discussing a host of titles including the virus. los Copes, and Lucha Mexico about Mex- Other new titles include Bercot’s upcom- drug-cartel exposé Cartel Land, which Andrew Brown and Billy Hurman’s ico’s colourful wrestling scene. ing Erin Brockovich-style tale 150 Milli- won the US documentary best directing 4SquareFilms slate includes completed Urban Distribution International will grams; Nicole Garcia’s From The Land Of award and cinematography award at drama Electricity, starring Agyness host a private screening of Chanya But- The Moon, starring Marion Cotillard; Sundance, and Yayoi Kusama: A Life In Deyn, horror filmThe Gathering and sci- ton’s road-trip comedy Burn Burn Burn Michael Dudok de Wit’s Studio Ghibli Polka Dots. fi project Genesis. and is also selling Un Certain Regard co-produced animation The Red Turtle; Starline Entertainment will be in The slate of 7 & 7 Sales includes selection Alias Maria by Colombia’s José and Radu Mihaileanu’s epic The History Cannes with Joanne Froggatt drama A Nightingale Falling, which had its Luis Rugeles, which looks at that coun- Of Love. is also handling 13 Starfish, about a husband and wife world premiere at Newport Beach Film try’s armed conflict through the tale of a festival titles, including Palme d’Or con- whose love is tested to its limits by the Festival, and comedy romance Tea & pregnant teenage rebel fighter. tenders Marguerite & Julien, Our Little affect of a rare and devastating disease, Sangria. Elle Driver has Emmanuelle Bercot’s Sister, The Assassin, Chronic and as well as Gaspar Noé’s Love, which pre- mieres in a Midnight Screening, and Arnaud Desplechin’s My Golden Days in Directors’ Fortnight. Memento Films International is launching Bruno Dumont’s dark com- edy Slack Bay (Ma Loute), co-starring and Fabrice Luchini. New projects include fantasy The Dark- ness from Mexico’s Daniel Castro Zim- bron, and Cate Shortland’s psychological thriller Berlin Syndrome, about a holiday romance that turns sinister. The com- pany is also selling Norwegian film- maker Joachim Trier’s English-language debut and Palme d’Or contender Louder electricity Dégradé Than Bombs. »

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SND will kick off sales on Tommy Wirkola’s sci-fi action film What Hap- pened To Monday?, starring Noomi Rapace and Glenn Close, and two new French titles: Julien Rappeneau’s quirky romantic comedy Rosalie Blum and Julien Leclercq’s action thriller The Crew. It will also have viticulture dram- edy First Growth as a market premiere. Gaumont is marketing Pascal Chaumeil’s black comedy Odd Job (Un Petit Boulot), which reunites him with Heartbreaker star Romain Duris as a factory worker who takes on a hit-man job. It is also bringing Christian Clavier and Jean Reno to the Croisette to meet Two Lovers and a Bear The assistant buyers for the The Visitors: Bastille Day, and is selling Mathieu Vadepied’s Crit- ics’ Week closer Learn By Heart. Pathé International is launching Ste- phen Frears’ biopic Florence Foster Jen- kins, starring as the legendary society singer with a terrible voice, and Gurinder Chadha’s Viceroy’s House, set in the lead-up to the partition of India. It is also selling Paolo Sorrenti- no’s Palme d’Or contender Youth, Un Certain Regard-screener Masaan and Cowboys Thomas Bidegain’s Cowboys in Direc- tors’ Fortnight. found-footage comedy hit Babysitting, EuropaCorp will descend on the and Oscar-nominated Kim Nguyen’s Majestic with a packed slate of commer- romance Two Lovers And A Bear about cial fare including Barry Sonnenfeld’s two youngsters fighting the elements -starrer Nine Lives, which and past demons in a small North Pole has just started shooting, and Jean-Fran- town. It is also handling sales on Official cois Richet’s English-language Twice, Selection title Samuel Benchetrit’s Mac- about a woman whose image of her hus- adam Stories (Asphalte). band is shaken when she finds a military Celluloid Dreams is handling Kiyoshi Raging Rose arsenal in their home. French-language Kurosawa’s French-language The titles include The Cab Driver, in which Woman In The Silver Plate, starring who killed her son in a road accident, and France’s far-right skinhead community. Reda Kateb plays a man wrongly sus- , as a widowed photog- show teasers for David Verbeek’s Full Festival titles include ’s pected of abducting a young woman. rapher opposite as his Contact, Nicolas Saada’s Taj Mahal and thriller Disorder — starring Diane Kru- Pyramide International will start pre- assistant. It will also market premiere Dagur Kari’s Virgin Mountain. ger as the wife of a wealthy Lebanese sales on Mohamed Diab’s Clash, set ’s retired Yakuza comedy Alpha Violet will begin pre-sales on businessman and against the backdrop of political unrest Ryuzo And The Seven Henchmen. Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy’s film noir as her bodyguard — 2 Friends in Un Cer- in his native Egypt. Upcoming films Upcoming films include Zabou Breit- Luxembourg set in the Chernobyl exclu- tain Regard and Critics’ Week screener include Mikhael Hers’ This Summer Feel- man and Eléa Gobbé-Mévellec’s ani- sion zone, and show a first trailer for The Wakhan Front. ing about the impact of a woman’s unex- mated adaptation of Yasmina Khadra’s Sébastien Betbeder’s Marie & The Mis- Le Pacte kicks off sales on Benoit pected death, co-starring Oslo, August The Swallows Of Kabul, which captures fits, starring Vimala Pons as a woman Delépine and ’s Saint 31st lead Anders Danielsen Lie, and com- life for women under the Taliban. Festi- who is the object of desire for two men. Amour, starring Gérard Depardieu and ing-of-age tale Mountain from Portugal’s val titles include Palme d’Or contender It is also handling sales on Julia Kowal- Benoit Poelvoorde as a farmer and son Joao Salaviza. Festival titles include Dheepan and Nabil Ayouch’s Much Love ski’s Raging Rose, which premieres in on an eventful wine tour. Its slate also Philippe Faucon’s Directors’ Fortnight in Directors’ Fortnight. the ACID showcase. includes Guillaume Nicloux’s Palme screener Fatima and César Acevedo’s Les Films du Losange will launch StudioCanal will launch Nick Park’s d’Or contender Valley Of Love, Laurent Land And Shade in Critics’ Week. sales on Mia Hansen-Love’s Things To prehistoric tale Early Man about a plucky Lariviere’s debut feature I Am A Soldier Versatile will screen 10 minutes of Come starring as a caveman — Park’s first film as a director in Un Certain Regard, and Jaco Van Darren Lynn Bousman’s horror thriller woman embarking on a new life. It will since the Oscar-winning Wallace & Gro- Dormael’s , Abattoir, starring Jessica Lowndes as a also host a market premiere of Christine mit: The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit in which premieres in Directors’ Fortnight. reporter who uncovers a house of hor- Carriere’s A Mother about a violent 2006. It will also commence sales on Ron MK2 is handling five festival titles rors. It is also selling Santiago Mitre’s mother-son relationship. Official selec- Howard’s authorised documentary about including Competition titles Jia Argentinian social thriller and Critics’ tion titles comprise Barbet Schroeder’s The Beatles, and is selling Maïwenn’s Zhangke’s family saga Mountains May Week title Paulina (La Patota), about a Ibiza-set Amnesia, which will premiere Palme d’Or contender . Depart and Stéphane Brizé’s social lawyer-turned-social activist whose at a Special Screening, and a restored Indie Sales will show fresh footage of drama The Measure Of A Man. It also has ideals are tested after being assaulted 2K version of his 1969 filmMore . Stefano Sollima’s highly anticipated Sub- Special Screener Robert Guédiguian’s by a gang. Bac Films will have a private screening urra, set against Rome’s underworld, Don’t Tell Me The Boy Was Mad about TF1 International will kick off sales for psychological thriller The Assistant and market premiere the heart-warming the radicalisation of a young Armenian on All Gone South, or Babysitting 2, a starring Isabelle Huppert as a woman tween tale The New Kid as well as the man in 1980s France, and Naomi Brazil-set sequel to the 2014 breakout determined to exact revenge on the man timely French Blood, which explores Kawase’s An and Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s »

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Journey To The Shore, both premiering in Un Certain Regard. Philippe Bober’s Coproduction Office is launching comedy Creative Control, written, directed by and starring Benja- min Dickinson. The film received enthu- siastic reviews at SXSW where it won a special jury award for visual excellence. Le Bureau Sales will show a new promo for Fabienne Berthaud’s Eng- lish-language Sky, starring Diane Kru- Creative Control ger as a tourist who sets off across Nevada after a violent row with her husband. New titles include Cavanna, He Was Charlie, a documentary about one of the co-founders of satirical mag- a Holy Venetian Family azine Charlie Hebdo, who died a year before the terrorist attack on its staff in January. Doc & Film International will private screen Raphael Jacoulot’s rural murder drama Heatwave and is also handling Roberto Minervini’s The Other Side, a hybrid work capturing the US’s under- class, premiering in Un Certain Regard, and Directors’ Fortnight title Marcia Tambutti Allende’s documentary Beyond My Grandfather Allende. Funny Balloons will market screen Last Cab To Darwin pizza and Dates Don’t accept Dreams From Strangers Pablo Larrain’s Berlinale Silver Bear Jury Grand Prix winner The Club, about Ethiopian picture to screen in Official Italy by Mexico’s Rigoberto Perezcano, about discredited Catholic priests who retreat Selection, Lamb. It will also market pre- a woman who returns to her home town By Melanie Goodfellow to a secluded house by the sea. miere Jeremy Sims’ Last Cab To Darwin to seek vengeance for the murder of her Genre specialist Reel Suspects will about a terminally ill man’s epic drive Rai Com will launch sales on Gabriele best friend; Russian director Lika Alek- launch sales on sci-fi comedyLovemilla , across Australia. Hot upcoming titles on Muccino’s Summertime (L’Estate seeva’s Parallel Lines Meet At Infinity; a spin-off of a popular Finnish teen- its slate include Eva Husson’s sexually Adesso), a coming-of-age tale set and Roberto Cuzzillo’s Don’t Accept aimed series, and Indian horror picture charged Gang Bang. between Rome, the US and Cuba, Dreams From Strangers, about an Italian Ludo, the latest film from directorial duo Other Angle will launch Clovis which explores four friends at key swimmer who falls in love with his Q and Nikon, who have a growing fan- Cornillac’s romantic comedy Blind Date stages of their adolescence and early interpreter while at a competition in St base at home and abroad. and continue sales on Sam Friedland- adulthood. It will also continue selling Petersburg, all set against the backdrop Kinology is handling Turkish director er’s comedy Larry Gaye: Renegade Male feature-length animation Cinderella of Russia’s anti-gay legislation. Deniz Gamze Erguven’s Directors’ Fort- Flight Attendant, about a flight atten- The Cat. A retelling of the classic fairy Coccinelle Film Placement will kick night screener Mustang, which is about dant who fights his airline’s plan to tale by Ivan Cappiello, Marino Guarni- off sales on Remy van Heugten’s intense five girls who rebel against a preordained replace cabin crew with robots. eri, Alessandro Rak and Dario Sansone father and son social drama Son Of destiny of marriage and children. WTF will show new promos for — the team behind the award-winning Mine, which premiered at Rotterdam, Films Distribution is selling Palme Hyena Road and launch sales on The Art Of Happiness — the film is set and Italian comedy A Holy Venetian d’Or contenders Laszlo Nemes’ Holo- French-language title Inside The Cell, sometime in the near future against the Family, about a wealthy heir and dad- caust drama and Nanni about terrorists in Paris, and Thank You backdrop of the Italian city of Naples, in dy’s boy who dreams up an ingenious Moretti’s My Mother as well as Un Cer- For Calling, a true story about a French honour of the story’s author Giambat- way to maintain his lifestyle when the tain Regard titles Taklub by Filipino con artist starring Vincent Elbaz and tista Basile who hailed from the city. economic crisis bankrupts the family director , and the first Julie Gayet. Basile’s work was also the inspiration business. The company is also selling for ’s Cannes Competi- documentary The Holy Shroud, shed- tion title Tale Of Tales. ding new light on the mystery sur- Adriana Chiesa Enterprises will mar- rounding the Shroud of Turin. ket premiere Fariborz Kamkari’s exotic Intramovies will market premiere comedy Pizza And Dates, which is set Lorenzo Sportiello’s sci-fi dramaIndex against the backdrop of Venice’s Zero, set in a futuristic Europe where recently established Middle Eastern natural childbirth has been outlawed. immigrant community and revolves The film premiered last year at Rome around a young Afghan’s attempts to Film Festival. integrate into the city. Fledgling Aurelia Film Production Turin-based The Open Reel will mar- Company will also be in Cannes with it ket premiere Rocio Caliri and Melina first productionCalibro 10 — Il Decalogo Marcow’s second feature To The Chil- Del Crimine, which stars Franco Nero as dren The Beauty, a tale of medical exper- a Mafia boss and is inspired by a list 10 imentation set against the backdrop of a commandments for real-life Mafiosi, remote Danish colony in Argentina in found on the arrest of a Sicilian Mafia Ludo the early 20th century; Carmin Tropical chief in 2007. »

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oddball Bridgend The peter pan Man

Germany drama based on an apparently true Scandinavia and rest Swedish feature, Girls Lost, from Alex- story of a sheepdog befriending a pen- andra-Therese Keining. This drama By Geoffrey Macnab of europe guin. It stars Shane Jacobson and Sarah about gender and sexual identity fol- By Geoffrey Macnab ARRI Worldsales is giving a market pre- Snook. Another of the company’s mar- lows three bullied teenage girls who miere to V82 — Revenge Of The Nitros by ket premieres is German road movie Danish powerhouse TrustNordisk will come across a magical plant that trans- director Joachim Masannek (creator of Half Brothers, directed by Christian be holding its annual promo reel screen- forms them temporarily into boys. The Wild Soccer Bunch franchise), which Alvart. The cast is headlined by Fahri ing on Thursday. It will include such Dutch outfit Dutch Features Global will be released by Universal in German Yardim, YouTube star Tedros titles as Nils Gaup’s action drama The Entertainment is pre-selling Dummie theatres next year. ARRI is also showing Teclebrhan and German rapper Paul Last King and Swedish comedy drama The Mummy And The Sphinx Of Shak- footage from family feature Help, I ‘Sido’ Würdig. Another big film in its A Man Called Ove from Hannes Holm. aba, the sequel to box-offi ce hitDummie Shrunk My Teacher by director Sven line-up is Sum1, the apocalyptic sci-fi The company is also beginning sales on The Mummy. Also new on the compa- Unterwaldt. Meanwhile, the company movie by Christian Pasquariello and Ingrid Bergman — In Her Own Words, a ny’s slate is Michiel ten Horn’s The Peter will have new material from its long- starring Game Of Thrones’ Iwan Rheon. feature documentary about the legend- Pan Man, thriller Undercover from Boris gestating animated feature Ploe — You The Match Factory’s Cannes slate is ary actress, which screens in Cannes Paval Conen, Israeli action thriller Sui- Never Fly Alone, which is from the crea- led by Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Classics. The company is pre-selling cide and family adventure Kidnap from tors of Legends Of Valhalla — Thor. The Cemetery Of Splendour, Miguel Gomes’s A Conspiracy Of Faith, the latest in the Topkapi Films. film is in pre-production with an Arabian Nights and Israeli comedy Department Q-franchise, based on the Lemming Films will be holding a expected delivery date in late 2016. Afterthought. books by Jussi Adler-Olsen. Shooting market screening of Blood, Sweat & Beta Cinema is giving a market pre- Sola Media is representing Code M, has just started on the fi lm, which has Tears, its biopic of troubled Dutch folk miere to ’s You Can’t (aka The Sword Of D’Artagnan), directed already gone to several territories. singer André Hazes. Save Yourself Alone. A promo reel is avail- by Dennis Bots (Secrets Of War, Cool TrustNordisk is also screening a Austrian documentary specialists able for Florian Gallenberger’s Colonia Kids Don’t Cry). The company also has promo of its recently acquired Danish Autlook will be giving a market pre- starring Emma Watson, Daniel Brühl two animated features, Two Buddies And feature Walk With Me from Lisa Ohlin miere to 10 Billion — What Will We Eat and Michael Nyqvist. Also an interna- A Badger and Raven, The Little Rascal. and will be introducing buyers to Zen- Tomorrow?, the new fi lm from Valentin tional market premiere is Ghosthunters M-Appeal is launching sales on new tropa drama The Day Will Come, starring Thurn that assesses the likely social and — On Icy Trails, an English-language Argentinian title How To Win Enemies, Lars Mikkelsen. Meanwhile, in offi cial environmental impact of the world’s adaptation of Cornelia Funke’s bestsell- which is the second feature from Gabriel selection, TrustNordisk is handling population reaching 10 billion by 2050. ing novel, starring Milo Parker and Ger- Lichtmann (Jews In Space). M-Appeal Magnus von Horn’s debut feature, the The company will also be introducing man comedian Anke Engelke. will also be giving a market debut to Poland-Sweden co-production The Here buyers to Ghostland by Simon Stadler, a Meanwhile, The Pasta Detectives, which Gerald McCullouch’s drama Daddy. After, which is screening in Directors’ new film that follows the Ju/’Hoansi has already earned $4.5m (¤4m) in Ger- Sister company Raspberry & Cream Fortnight. However, the company will bushmen as they travel into the heart of many, marks the first collaboration is introducing buyers to erotic drama not yet be pre-selling Lars von Trier’s Europe from the Kalahari desert in between Beta and Fox International Like Cattle Towards Glow. new TV series, The House That Jack Built. southern Africa. Productions. Media Luna will be Danish outfi tLevel K will be introduc- Poland’s New Europe Film Sales is Global Screen is pre- bringing to the market ing buyers to human rights documen- handling Icelandic Un Certain Regard selling Til Schweiger Vera Glagoleva’s Rus- tary Motley’s Law (formerly Afghan title Rams (Hrutar) as well as Danish movie Nick — Off Duty, sian-language Two Justice). The fi lm by Helle Faber Putin’s( thriller and Tribeca multi-award winner in which the German Woman, based on Kiss) profi les Kimberley Motley, who left Bridgend. superstar plays a Ivan Turgenev’s the US to work as a defence lawyer in The Hungarian Film Fund will be Hamburg cop in a A Month In The Afghanistan. holding two market premieres. One is race against time to Country and star- Svensk is continuing pre-sales on local box-offi ce hit Argo 2 from Attila save his daughter’s ring Ralph Heaven And Earth and 1864, the feature Arpa, an action comedy about a small- life. The company is Fiennes and Syl- version from the TV series that is likely time Hungarian crook who becomes also giving a market vie Testud. to be completed by the autumn. involved with a Japanese crime syndi- premiere to Oddball, an Also from Scandinavia, The Yellow cate. The other is Liza, The Fox Fairy, a Australian family (Left) Colonia Affair is beginning sales on its new 1970s-set black comedy billed as a »

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perdiendo el norte

Happy 140 emelie Journey To The Shore

“sarcastic fairy tale” from first-time lottery win, award-winning Mexican Asia In addition, Nippon Television (NTV) director Karoly Ujj Meszaros. drama The Thin Yellow Line, thriller The has picked up Cellin Gluck’s Persona By Liz Shackleton Leading Spanish outfitFilm Factory Seed Of Silence that stars Andres Parra, Non Grata, about a Japanese diplomat Entertainment is introducing buyers to Second World War drama Dirty Wolves, Japan has a strong showing in the major helping Jewish refugees escape Nazi black comedy My Big Night, the latest starring Marian Alvarez, and Gerardo festival sections, with Hirokazu Kore- Europe, and is handling Asian territo- feature from the ever outrageous Alex Herrero’s crime filmDeath Of A Fisher- eda’s Our Little Sister in Competition; ries on Mamoru Hosoda’s Gaumont- De La Iglesia, about tumultuous events man, which is an adaptation from the Naomi Kawase’s An opening Un Certain backed anime The Boy And The Beast, during the taping of a New Year’s Eve best-selling novel by Domingo Villar. Regard; Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Journey To which Gaumont is selling in the rest of TV special in the middle of August in Fellow Spanish seller Filmax will be The Shore in Un Certain Regard; and the world. Madrid. The company is also handling pre-selling thriller The Chosen, which Takashi Miike’s Yakuza Apocalypse in Free Stone Productions’ slate To Rob A Thief, the latest feature from stars Hannah Murray and Julian Sands Directors’ Fortnight. France’s MK2 is includes Girls Of The Sea, directed by Daniel Calparsoro. Luis Tosar and Rod- and is about the assassination of Marx- selling both the Kawase and Kurosawa 19-year-old prodigy Ryugo Nakamura, rigo De La Serna star. ist revolutionary Leon Trotsky. The com- titles. Nikkatsu is selling Yakuza Apoca- and Yudai Yamaguchi’s fantasy horror Also from Spain, DeAPlaneta is pany is also selling Cesc Gay’s Truman, lypse, while Gaga Corporation is han- title Rokuroku. screening local box-office hitPerdiendo starring Ricardo Darin. dling Asian territories on Our Little Korea has two titles in Un Certain El Norte. Nacho Garcia Velilla’s roman- Sister, with Wild Bunch selling the rest Regard — Finecut is selling Madonna, tic comedy is about a young Spaniard of the world. from Pluto director Shin Su-won, while looking for love in Berlin. Gaga is also selling Sion Sono com- CJ Entertainment has Oh Seung-uk’s Madrid-based 6 Sales is pre-selling edy The Virgin Psychics, which stars romantic noir The Shameless, starring dark comedy Speed Freak, starring Zach Shota Sometani as a high school student Jeon Do-yeon. CJ also has Han Jun-hee’s Gilford, and Joey Curtis’s sci-fi drama saving the world from ‘erotic terrorism’. Coin Locker Girl in Critics’ Week and is Winter’s Dream. The company will be New titles on Nikkatsu’s slate include selling Baek Woon-hak’s cop thriller The pushing thriller Emelie, starring Sarah Rikiya Imaizumi’s The Strangers, star- Chronicles Of Evil, produced by Jang Bolger, fresh from its Tribeca premiere, ring members of Korean pop band Wonseok (A Hard Day). Finecut also and Despite The Falling Snow, which stars Australian outfitOdin’s Eye is screen- NU’EST, and Koichi Sakamoto’s KIRI has Park Eun-gyoung and Lee Dong- and . ing the first footage from its ani- — Profession: Assassin, starring Yumiko ha’s thriller Circle Of Atonement and is Spanish outfitLatido brings I Want To mated feature Animal Crackers with a Shaku (The Princess Blade). handling European territories on Min Be Like You, Konstantin Bojanov’s road confirmed voice cast that includes Among other Japanese studios, Kyu-dong’s period drama The Treacher- movie, which is co-scripted by play- John Krasinski, Emily Blunt, Danny Toho’s slate is headed by Attack On ous, which Lotte Entertainment is sell- wright (co-writer of DeVito, Ian McKellen and Sylvester Titan Part 1 and Part 2, the highly antic- ing in the rest of the world. Oscar winner Ida). Latido is also pre- Stallone. Odin Eye’s market debuts ipated live-action adaption of the best- Lotte’s slate also includes Lee Hae- selling drama The Tip Of The Iceberg by include Turkish animated feature selling manga, while Shochiku is selling young’s mystery thriller The Silenced, set David Canovas. Its market screenings of Bad Cat and US thriller The Girl Is In Sion Sono’s Tag, starring Reina Triendl, in a sanitorium where young women new films include black comedyHappy Trouble (pictured). about a bloody battle of wits at a high keep disappearing, while Showbox has 140, about the family fallout from a huge school for girls. added , directed by »

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shan’s The Ghouls, co-produced by Wanda Pictures, Huayi Brothers and Enlight Media, with Wanda handling Asian territories. Arclight Films’ East- ernlight label is selling Wu Jing’s Wolf Warriors, which has grossed $86m in China, and Sun Zhou’s Impossible 3D. Meanwhile, the two Chinese-lan- guage titles in Cannes Competition — ’s Mountains May Depart and Taiwanese film-maker Hou Hsiao- hsien’s The Assassin — are being sold by French companies MK2 and Wild Bunch respectively. India also has two titles in Un Certain Regard — Neeraj Ghaywan’s Masaan, To The Fore The Black Death sold by Pathé International, and Gur- vinder Singh’s The Fourth Direction, United Pictures is selling Jang Jae- Reclaim, starring Lau Ching Wan, Louis which Elle Driver picked up on the eve hyun’s exorcist thriller The Priests, star- Koo and Eddie Peng. of the market. Mumbai-based Yash Raj ring Kim Yun-seok (Haemoo) and Gang Golden Network Asia will be unveil- Films, one of India’s most outward- Dong-won (Woochi), while Mirovision is ing ’s new project, Railroad looking studios, is bringing Dibakar selling Sung-kyo Cho’s musical drama Tigers, along with an international 3D Banerjee’s Calcutta Detective to Cannes, Life Is But An Empty Dream. version of his recent hit Dragon Blade, along with Sharat Katariya’s comedy My Hong Kong sellers unveiled a number and Ding Sheng’s Saving Mr Wu, star- Big Fat Bride. of high-profile titles from top directors ring and . Fortissimo Films has picked up one at Filmart in March. Media Asia has Pegasus Motion Pictures is selling of the most highly anticipated titles John Woo’s action thriller Manhunt, Wilson Yip’s Ip Man 3, in which Mike from Southeast Asia — Victor Vu’s nos- adapted from a famous Japanese novel, Tyson will do battle with Donnie Yen, talgic drama Yellow Flowers In The Green Songs My Brothers Taught Me and Johnnie To’s crime thriller Three, while Filmko Entertainment has Soi Grass — and also has Chloe Zhao’s US- starring Vicky Zhao and Louis Koo. Cheang’s The Monkey King 2, starring set Songs My Brothers Taught Me screen- Lee Yoon-ki (Come Rain, Come Shine) Edko Films also has a Johnnie To project and Gong Li. Both films ing in Directors’ Fortnight. and starring Jeon Do-yeon, to its Cannes — Office starring Chow Yun-fat and Syl- are scheduled to open over Chinese Thai sellers will also be out in force in slate. via Chang, and based on Chang’s musi- New Year 2016. Cannes. Sahamongkol International is Korea’s 9ers Entertainment has cal — and is also selling Raman Hui’s Hong Kong’s Mega-Vision Project selling Thailand’s first zombie movie, acclaimed writer Hong Won-chan’s Monster Hunt, starring Jing Boran and Workshop is lining up a third instal- The Black Death, while Five Star Produc- directorial debut Office in official selec- . ment in ’s hugely popular tion has Achira Nokthet’s horror film tion’s Midnight Screenings and is also Emperor Motion Pictures is selling From Vegas To franchise, which Ghost Ship in pre-production. Thailand’s selling 3D circus performance film Dante Lam’s To The Fore, set in the is targeting 2016. GTH is introducing romantic drama Odysseo and Kim Sang-jin’s comedy world of competitive cycling, and also Bravos Pictures is selling Soi Cheang’s Heart Attack, directed by Ter Nawapol Three Summer Nights. has Fruit Chan’s thriller Kill Time, star- SPL2: A Time For Consequences. (Mary Is Happy, Mary Is Happy). Contents Panda, the sales arm of ring Angelababy and Ethan Juan. Both Taiwan’s leading sales company, Singapore also has several strong NEW, is selling Park Hoon-jung’s The titles are in post-production. Ablaze Image, will be launching sales on projects in the market including Tiger: An Old Hunter’s Tale, starring Distribution Workshop has Ringo Cheng Wei-hao’s horror film The Tag- Royston Tan’s musical comedy 3688 Choi Min-sik, and Baik’s high-concept Lam’s first film in seven years,Wild City, Along at Cannes and is also selling Lee and Randy Ang’s historical drama 1965, romance The Beauty Inside. starring Louis Koo and , and Chung’s The Laundryman and Tom which are both being sold by mm2 M-Line Distribution’s slate includes Lo Chi Leung’s The Vanished Murderer, Shu-yu Lin’s Zinnia Flower, starring Entertainment. Hong Kong’s Distribu- Im Sang-soo’s Intimate Enemies and starring Lau Ching Wan. Both titles are Karena Lam. tion Workshop is selling Eric Khoo’s Kang Hyo-jin’s Wonderful Nightmare, in post-production. Some of the most high-profile titles erotic drama In The Room, while Bravos about a female lawyer who dies but is Universe Films Distribution is selling from mainland China are being handled Pictures is selling Kelvin Tong’s horror returned to earth as a housewife. Benny Chan’s action title The Deadly by US sellers. IM Global is selling Wuer- The Faith Of Anna Waters. ns

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