All the Fun of the Fare

FEATURE FoCUS n MArkEt bUzz n AlliAnCE FilMS n CnC n zEntropA n EUropE’S FilM tAx CrEditS n SightSEErS (Clockwise from left) Speranza13 Media’s Romeo & Juliet; Recreation’s Red Hook Summer; Jennifer Lawrence; Arnold Schwarzenegger; Exclusive Media’s Look Of Love; Matt Damon; Kristen Stewart; Liam Hemsworth All the fun of the fare As the Cannes Marché opens for business, Screen looks at the hottest titles debuting at the market — at all stages of production — from the US, Europe and across Asia US sellers thriller Lone Survivor, which starts shooting Sep- tional and along with head of sales Nadine de Bar- tember 15. ros will take point on the Robert Rodriguez duo By Jeremy Kay Panorama Media, the new player backed by Frank Miller’s Sin City: A Dame To Kill For in 3D Lionsgate’s Patrick Wachsberger and Helen Lee Megan Ellison and run by Marc Butan and sales and Machete Kills (both in pre-production). Kim will kick off pre-sales on Catching Fire, the head Kim Fox, will introduce buyers to Kathryn Camela Galano’s Speranza13 Media will show a aptly named sequel to this year’s $625m-plus Bigelow’s Osama Bin Laden project Zero Dark promo from Romeo & Juliet based on Julian Fel- indie global behemoth The Hunger Games. The Thirty, currently shooting. lowes’ adapted screenplay. Hailee Steinfeld from merger with Summit has added thriller Red 2 (in Stuart Ford and sales chief Jonathan Deckter of True Grit stars alongside Douglas Booth. pre-production) to the pipeline. Other hot titles IM Global arrive on the Croisette with Robert The Solution Entertainment Group principal are Roman Polanski’s thriller D and Denis Ville- Luketic’s corporate espionage thriller Paranoia, to Lisa Wilson arrives with thriller Grand Piano neuve’s Prisoners. shoot in early summer for Reliance-IM Global, (Spain, in pre-production) starring Elijah Wood Inferno should prove a popular destination for starring Liam Hemsworth. The company is also as a haunted prodigy who must deliver a flawless buyers with Guillermo del Toro’s stop-motion heating up sales on Lee Daniels’ The Butler star- performance to save his family. version of Pinocchio (in pre-production), which is ring Forest Whitaker. Content has sci-fi action thriller/love storyThe being produced with The Henson Company and Exclusive Media energised the market with Machine, to shoot this summer, directed by the is styled as family-friendly entertainment incor- Rush in 2011 and Alex Walton switches gears with UK’s Caradog James. porating the Mexican auteur’s signature visual the romance Look Of Love (shooting now) boast- Robbie Little’s The Little Film Company will flair. ing a prestige cast of Annette Bening, Ed Harris start talks on Northern Soul, a friendship story set Cargo Entertainment sales chief Mark Lindsay and Robin Williams. Exclusive also has Agent: in 1970s Britain. Director Elaine Constantine expects a strong response to Kill Me Three Times Century 21 starring Cameron Diaz and Benicio starts shooting in July. (Australia, pre-production), a thriller about mur- Del Toro. Ashok Amritraj’s Hyde Park International will der, blackmail and revenge, from Wolf Creek direc- FilmNation CEO Glen Basner will commence screen a promo of Naomi Watts and Matt Dillon in tor Greg Mclean to star Alice Braga and Abbie sales on Sofia Coppola’sThe Bling Ring (shooting the inspirational drama Sunlight Jr (post-produc- Cornish. now) with Emma Watson and Leslie Mann in the tion), about a pregnant convenience-store worker The newly signed US distribution deal with tale of teens who break into celebrity homes. and her paraplegic boyfriend who are evicted Open Road has turned up the heat on QED Inter- Alison Thompson and the Focus Features Inter- from their motel residence. national’s DEA thriller Ten (in pre-production) national team have Gus Van Sant’sPromised Land Red Granite International’s Danny Dimbort and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. (shooting now) starring Matt Damon as a natural Christian Mercuri will be talking up the thriller Foresight Unlimited head Mark Damon and gas salesman who sparks resistance from a local Out Of The Furnace (shooting now), boasting a 2 Guns producer Randall Emmett will want to community. North American deal with Relativity and an keep things bubbling along after that breakout Sales veteran Jere Hausfater returns to the fray ensemble of Christian Bale, Casey Affleck and EFM as they reunite on Peter Berg’s Navy SEAL as the newly installed COO of Aldamisa Interna- Woody Harrelson. » n 16 Screen International at Cannes May 16, 2012 FEATURE Struck By Lightning Dinotasia Freaky Deaky Sound Of My Voice The Baytown Disco Nicolas Chartier’s Voltage Pictures has the Roman Kopelevich’s Red Sea Media has tout crime caper Freaky Deaky starring Christian action-comedy Cali starring white-hot Kristen boarded comedy-thriller Bad Kids Go To Hell Slater hot off its Tribeca world premiere. Stewart. (completed), about youngsters in detention who Brian O’Shea’s The Exchange brings Sundance Nick Meyer and his sales troops at Sierra/Affin- die mysteriously. None other than The Breakfast entry Sound Of My Voice starring Brit Marling as a ity will push the thriller Plus One (shooting starts Club’s Judd Nelson plays the headmaster. cult leader. Fox Searchlight releases in the US. in June), about a huge party that descends into Locomotive Entertainment head Colleen Seldin Lightning Entertainment president Robert violence following a mysterious phenomenon. will be talking up Shangri-La Entertainment’s Beaumont has picked up Tribeca entry Struck By The Weinstein Company’s David Glasser has erotic crime tale Hotel Noir (completed) from Lightning, a comedy-drama with Glee’s Chris August: Osage County (to start shooting in Sebastian Gutierrez and starring Rufus Sewell Colfer and Christina Hendricks about a man who autumn), a story about a family of strong-willed and Rosario Dawson. feels remorse over his high-school antics after he women starring the heavyweight Oscar duo Ariel Veneziano’s Recreation has struck a deal gets zapped during a storm. Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts. with Salt Lake City-based Incentive Capital to Ellen Wander’s Film Bridge International will Nu Image’s newly ensconced sales head John jointly acquire international rights to Spike Lee’s talk up The Poisoners (shooting late summer) from Fremes will lead the attack with the White House Sundance entry Red Hook Summer. Variance Jon Amiel starring Emily Watson and Anna Friel thriller White House Taken (start of shoot early Films will release in the US on August 10. as women on a wartime farming community. July) which pairs director Antoine Fuqua and Larry Meyers of Meyers Media Group will show Stephanie Denton’s Indomina has virus out- Gerard Butler; plus crime thriller Homefront, to be footage from Simon West Productions’ $7m break thriller Cabin Fever: Patient Zero (pre-pro- directed by Gary Fleder from Sylvester Stallone’s motion-capture animation Night Of The Living duction), one of two Cabin Fever titles the adapted screenplay of a book by Chuck Logan. Dead: Origins-3D set in present-day New York. vertically integrated company intends to shoot in Ed Noeltner’s Cinema Management Group bids Morris Ruskin’s Shoreline Entertainment will the Dominican Republic. to continue its successful recent genre forays with The Collection (screening), the sequel to 2009 hit The Collector. Mickey Liddell’s LD Distribution will distribute in the US. Highland Film Group arrives with Lleju Produc- tions’ action-comedy The Baytown Disco (completed) led by the steamy combo of Billy Bob Thornton and Eva Longoria in the tale of three mischievous Alabama brothers. Mimi Steinbauer’s Radiant Films International offers An Ordinary Man (shooting this autumn) from director Brad Silberling, starring Brendan Gleeson and Abbie Cornish. Radiant also has Madame Bovary, to star Mia Wasikowska. Visit Films head Ryan Kampe reteams with Werner Herzog on the prehistoric nature docu- mentary Dinotasia (screening), following their collaboration on Cave Of Forgotten Dreams. Patrick Ewald and Shaked Berenson’s Epic Pic- tures will commence talks on deranged gunman story The Mall (shooting now) presented by Linkin Park. Vincent D’Onofrio, Gina Gershon and Peter Stormare star. Hotel Noir » n 20 Screen International at Cannes May 16, 2012 FEATURE UK sellers By Andreas Wiseman A number of new UK-based sales companies with impressive credentials have entered the market since Berlin. David Garrett’s Mister Smith Entertainment, a joint venture with Constantin Film, comes to Cannes with the fi rst instalment in young-adult book franchise adaptation The Mortal Instruments: City Of Bones, starring Lily Collins as a teenager navigating a New York fi lled with demons, vam- pires and werewolves, as well as 3,096 Days, based King Kelly on the autobiography of abducted Austrian teenager Natascha Kampusch. Tim Haslam and Hugo Grumbar’s Embank- ment Films enters the sales fray with hot seller Caught In Flight, about Princess Diana’s secret affair with heart surgeon Hasnat Khan, and Iraq- set thriller Mission: Blacklist starring Robert Pat- tinson as a military interrogator. Preferred Content co-represents North American rights with WME Global on the latter. eone’s newly minted London-based sales divi- sion, headed by Sally Caplan, will be at market with thriller Cut Bank starring Armie Hammer and Ben Kingsley. HanWay has market debuts for Jim Jarmusch’s Kon-Tiki Storage 24 vampire drama Only Lovers Left Alive starring Tom Hiddleston, Mia Wasikowska, Tilda Swinton and John Hurt; Heartbreaker director Pascal Chau- meil’s comedy-drama A Long Way Down from Wildgaze Films with Emile Hirsch, Pierce Brosnan and Toni Collette in the lead roles; and Barry Men- del Productions’ God Help The Girl, Belle and Sebastian singer-songwriter Stuart Murdoch’s directorial debut starring Elle Fanning and Olly Alexander.

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