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EFM BUZZ THE LOWDOWN FOR EXTENDED JAPAN AND ITALY BUZZ, SEE PAGE 44 As the European Film Market ramps up for its latest edition, Screen highlights the buzz titles ready to tempt international buyers BUZZ for a client played by Rebecca Ferguson. the Ireland-set story of a reluctant stran- (Pictured from left) All My Loving (Germany), AMERICAS Westworld showrunner Lisa Joy makes ger tasked with driving a corpse to a bur- Monos (France), Light Of My Life (US) her feature directing debut. Kilter Films, ial, evading the police, fi nding love and By Jeremy Kay Michael De Luca Productions and Film- fi xing family relations along the way. are producing, and backers are Screen Ire- Nation Entertainment are producing. Cinema Management Group teams land, Epic Pictures, Telefi lm, Wrap Fund Director Neil Burger turns his eye to Endeavor Content handles US sales. up with Uncommon Pictures on thriller and Creative Europe. young-adult sci-fi in Voyagers for AGC Voltage Pictures brings thriller Follow William, a sci-fi from Tim Disney (great- FilmSharks has sales on English- and International, a story about a Lord Of The Me, starring Keegan Allen and Holland nephew of Walt) about two academics Spanish-language animation Dalia And Flies-type mission to reach a newly dis- Roden in the story of a social-media who extract DNA from a frozen Neander- The Red Book 3D, about a girl left to fi n- covered planet that is now casting ahead celebrity’s trip to Moscow that turns into thal man and birth a child. Waleed ish her deceased father’s novel who of a scheduled spring start. a fi ght for survival. Zuaiter and Maria Dizzia star. Disney enters the world of the characters as they IMR International arrives at EFM with Vice Media and Fox will be in Berlin produced with Bill Haney, Jonathan fi ght for the book’s lead role. David Bis- Black Flies, a drama starring Tye Sheridan looking for distribution partners on Gen- DuBois and Amar Balaggan, while Peter bano (Rodencia And The Princess Tooth as a rookie paramedic who teams up with erations 14Plus entry Goldie, a drama Newman serves as executive producer. 3D) directs. Mel Gibson’s experienced medic to work from Sam de Jong about a teenager living The Exchange has Seacole starring Myriad Pictures will continue sales the mean streets of New York’s inner city. in a family shelter who wages war on the Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Sam Worthing- through its Scoundrel Media label onIron Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire (A Prayer Before system. Slick Woods, George Sample III, ton in the tale of Jamaica-born nurse Sky: The Coming Race, which screens to Dawn) will direct. MadRiver Pictures is Danny Hoch, Khris Davis, Marsha Steph- Mary Seacole, who entered the frontlines buyers for the fi rst time. Timo Vuorensola fi nancing and producing, with CAA and anie Blake and Gbenga Akinnagbe star. of the Crimean War to treat the wounded returns to direct, and the fi lm stars Udo Endeavor Content handling US rights. XYZ Films reunites with Nicolas Cage and save the man she loves.The Help pro- Kier, Tom Green, Julia Dietze, Vladimir Endeavor Content (formerly Bloom) and Mandy producer SpectreVision on ducer Brunson Green is on board. Burlakov, Stephanie Paul and Lara Rossi. has the Aretha Franklin concert docu- Color Out Of Space, based on an HP Love- Epic Pictures arrives with worldwide DDI has Girl from debutant writer/ mentary Amazing Grace, which played craft novella about a family who witness rights to The Winter Lake, in which a director Chad Faust, a thriller starring well at Doc NYC and has its European a meteorite crash near their farm. withdrawn teen makes a dis- Bella Thorne about a woman returning to premiere in Berlin. Neon holds US rights. Montreal-based Seville International turbing discovery in a her small hometown to kill her abusive Sierra/Affi nity has Casey Affl eck’s fea- will be talking up The Last Right to buyers lake and must con- father, and learning that someone beat ture directing debut Light Of My Life in and represents all international rights to front a malign pres- her to it. CAA represents US sales. Panorama. The post-apocalyptic father- the comedy-drama exclud- ence. Emma Mackey Toronto-based Raven Banner has daughter survival drama also stars Elisa- ing the UK, Australia and from Netfl ix’sSex Edu- thriller The Prey, Cambodia’s fi rst million- beth Moss and Anna Pniowsky. New Zealand (eOne). cation stars with Anson dollar action fi lm starring Gu Shang Wei Lionsgate will launch sales on Rian Michiel Huisman, Boon, and the project is as an undercover cop in a remote jungle Johnson’s modern murder mystery Knives Niamh Algar, Samuel due to shoot in Ireland. prison where he is targeted by a corrupt Out, which stars Daniel Craig and opens Bottomley, Colm Phil Sheerin directs warden who invites wealthy businessmen through the studio in the US over the Meaney, Brian from the screenplay to hunt his criminal charges. Jimmy Hen- November Thanksgiving holiday. Cox and Jim by David Turpin. derson directs and XYZ Films represents FilmNation flies in with worldwide Norton star in Ruth Treacy and North American rights. rights to Reminiscence, a sci-fi starring Julianne Forde of Magnolia Pictures International Hugh Jackman as a private eye who falls (Right) The Prey Tailored Films handles sales on Sundance selection » 24 Screen International at Berlin February 7, 2019 www.screendaily.com EFM BUZZ THE LOWDOWN Hail Satan?, Penny Lane’s film about the rise of The Satanic Temple and its UNITED KINGDOM call for a Satanic revolution to save the soul of the US. Magnolia plans a spring By Tom Grater US theatrical release. Storyboard Media will be in town HanWay Films’ buzz title for EFM is Richard with Line Of Descent, a crime thriller Press’s Farnsworth House. Maggie Gyllenhaal starring Prem Chopra, Ronit Roy, and Ralph Fiennes star in the love story, set in Neeraj Kabi, Abhay Deol and Brendan 1940s Chicago, about an ambitious woman’s Fraser in the story of an undercover project to build the first glass house with the officer who infiltrates a strife-ridden revolutionary Bauhaus architect Ludwig Mies mafia clan. Rohit Karn Batra directs. van der Rohe. Gyllenhaal is producing with Visit Films has international sales Albert Berger, Ron Yerxa and Matt Flanders. excluding Argentina, Spain, Andorra The Sharks ICM Partners is handling the US sale. and Uruguay to The Sharks, about the Embankment Films will show footage from sexual awakening of a 14-year-old resi- writer/director Jessica Swale’s Summerland. dent of a beach town where shark Gemma Arterton stars with Gugu Mbatha-Raw sightings are spreading panic. Romina and Tom Courtenay in the Second World War- Bentancur stars and director Lucia era drama. Guy Heeley and Adrian Sturges pro- Garibaldi just won the World Cinema duce. Embankment is co-representing the US Dramatic Competition directing award sale with Gersh. in Sundance. Protagonist Pictures is handling sales on Highland Film Group launches Monday, the latest feature from Argyris worldwide sales on the Bella Thorne Papadimitropoulos, whose credits include Sun- crime story Southland, about a small- tan. Sebastian Stan and Denise Gough star in town diner employee and her recently the story of what happens after a weekend’s paroled boyfriend who embark on a romantic fling. Christos V Konstantakopoulos crime spree, courting fame by posting American Dreamer produces with Brian Kavanaugh-Jones, Damian their exploits on social media. Joshua Jones and Deanna Barillari. Caldwell is set to shoot this spring. Bankside Films has a first promo of Craig Shoreline Entertainment has Soren Roberts’ Eternal Beauty. Sally Hawkins stars as a from writer/director Juan Carlos Val- woman who, rejected by life, spirals into a cha- divia, a Bolivia-set romance about two otic, schizophrenic world. Adrian Bate produces people’s seemingly perfect union until through Cliff Edge Pictures while Pip Broughton the title character turns up. Willy is an executive producer. Cartier, Alejandra Lanza and Romel Rocket Science brings The Queen Mary to Vargas star. EFM. Directed by Gary Shore (Dracula Untold), Film Mode is selling crime thriller the horror film will be shot onboard the iconic Crypto starring Alexis Bledel, Kurt Rus- ocean liner. White Horse Pictures’ Nigel Sinclair sell, Liam Hemsworth and Beau and Nicholas Ferrall are producing with Brett Knapp. A young investigator’s probe Tomberlin and Mali Elfman for Imagination into small-town corruption leads to a Design Works and Thorsten Schumacher and world of intrigue and danger. John Abe Lars Sylvest for Rocket Science. Stalberg Jr directs and Grindstone Altitude Film Sales has UK supernatural acquired US rights at the AFM. Blue Fox International has family who raised her. Pollyanna McIntosh thriller The Power. The film stars Rose Williams Toronto-based V71 returns to Berlin comedy Abe starring Noah Schnapp directs and Andrew van den Houten and is produced by Matthew James Wilkinson with Loud Krazy Love, a hard-rock doc- (Stranger Things) in the story of a and Greg Newman produce. and Rob Watson. Set in 1970s London, Williams umentary that chronicles the harrow- 12-year-old aspiring chef living in APL Film is in town with the plays a young nurse who is forced to work the ing story of Korn guitarist Brian ‘Head’ Brooklyn who sneaks off to Manhattan thriller Chameleon starring Joel night shift in a crumbling hospital while electri- Welch, who walked away from the band to work with an innovative street chef Hogan (Open Water 3: Cage Dive) and cal blackouts rollout across Britain.