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(Clockwise from left) Speranza13 Media’s Romeo & Juliet; Recreation’s Red Hook Summer; ; Arnold Schwarzenegger; Exclusive Media’s Look Of Love; ; ; 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 , 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 and run by 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 project Zero Dark promo from Romeo & Juliet based on Julian Fel- indie global behemoth The Hunger Games. The Thirty, currently shooting. lowes’ adapted . 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 ’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, (, 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 ’s stop-motion heating up sales on ’ star- performance to save his family. version of Pinocchio (in pre-production), which is ring . 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 ’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 , start talks on Soul, a friendship story set Cargo Entertainment sales chief Mark Lindsay and . Exclusive also has Agent: in Britain. Director Elaine Constantine expects a strong response to Kill Me Three Times Century 21 starring and Benicio starts shooting in July. (, 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 and in tor Greg Mclean to star Alice Braga and Abbie sales on ’sThe (shooting the inspirational drama Sunlight Jr (post-produc- Cornish. now) with 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 ’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 and gas salesman who sparks resistance from a local (shooting now), boasting a 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 , and EFM as they reunite on ’s Navy SEAL as the newly installed COO of Aldamisa Interna- . »

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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- 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 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 ’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. and . 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 ’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 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 ’s motion-capture 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 . 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 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 (com- pleted) led by the steamy combo of and Eva Longoria in the tale of three mischievous Alabama . Mimi Steinbauer’s Radiant Films International offers An Ordinary Man (shooting this autumn) from director Brad Silberling, starring and Abbie Cornish. Radiant also has Madame Bovary, to star . Visit Films head Ryan Kampe reteams with 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 »

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UK sellers By Andreas Wiseman A number of new UK-based sales companies with impressive credentials have entered the market since . 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 teen- ager 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 - 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 -based sales divi- sion, headed by Sally Caplan, will be at market with thriller Cut Bank starring and . HanWay has market debuts for ’s Kon-Tiki Storage 24 vampire drama starring , Mia Wasikowska, and ; Heartbreaker director Pascal Chau- meil’s comedy-drama A Long Way Down from Wildgaze Films with , and in the lead roles; and Barry Men- del Productions’ God Help The Girl, singer-songwriter Stuart Murdoch’s directorial debut starring Elle Fanning and . HanWay also has trailers for Kon-Tiki and Quar- tet and footage of Great Expectations as well as Ber- nardo Bertolucci’s out of competition entry Me And You. Daniel Stamm’s The Darkness and Girls’ Night K-11 The Reluctant Fundamentalist Out are scheduled to shoot this year. K5 will be showing fi rst footage of Mira Nair’s ; extended footage of Neil Jor- dango Portobello brings ’s dark com- thriller The Reluctant Fundamentalist starring Riz dan thriller Byzantium; and a promo of Gabriele edy The King Is Dead as well as Ferzan Ozpetek’s Ahmed, , Liev Schreiber and Kiefer Salvatores’ Siberian Education. Israeli thriller Beth- Magnifi cent Presence and Berlin Panorama entry Sutherland, and Bille August’s Night Train To Lis- lehem is in post. Diaz: Don’t Clean Up This Blood. bon, featuring , and Mel- Company has a market debut Jennifer Aniston and Embargo Films comedy- anie Laurent in its cast. Music doc Shut Up And screening for UK thriller Storage 24 starring Noel drama Miss You Already, big-budget doc Dolphin: A Play The Hits follows the fi nal gig of dance-punk Clarke, on which Universal has nabbed a number 3D Adventure and comedy Welcome To The Jungle band LCD Soundsystem, while SXSW acquisitions of key territories, as well as screenings of Sundance are all in pre-production for Salt. Girls Against Boys and King Kelly are also new to hits Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry and Safety Not Guaran- Simon Crowe’s SC Films has private screenings market. Naomi Foner’s thriller Very Good Girls teed. of 3D A Liar’s Autobiography — The starring and Elizabeth Olsen is Bankside has a private screening of ’s Untrue Story Of ’s Graham Chapman, in pre-production; Paul Walker thriller Vehicle 19 directorial debut iLL Manors and a promo of Mat a premiere screening of Cockneys Vs Zombies, and is in post. Whitecross’ music-themed Spike Island while screenings of Outback and thriller When The Lights Pathé International brings ’s Damian Jones-produced Belle, in which Gugu Went Out. Jungle Shuffl e and The Reef 2 thriller An Enemy, in which will Mbatha-Raw stars as a mixed-race woman raised and UK drama The Fold are in production. play dual roles. The adaptation of a Jose Sarama- as an aristocrat in 18th-century , starts Intandem has debut screenings for Jules Stew- go’s novel about a man searching for his double shooting in September. Bankside will also be show- art’s thriller K-11 as well as promo reels for Stephen gets underway this spring. ing fi rst footage of Peter Greenaway’sGoltzius And Gyllenhaal’s comedy Grassroots starring Jason Protagonist has an invite-only screening of The The Pelican Company. Biggs and coming-of-age football story Theatre Of Sweeney as well as market screenings for Searching Ealing Metro comes to market with fi rst Dreams with and Natascha McElhone. For Sugar Man, The Imposter and Your Sister’s Sis- market screenings for Regan Hall’s Fast New titles include Ten Things I Hate About Life ter. Also on the slate is Viking drama Hammer Of Girls and Goddess starring with director Gil Junger and actress The Gods produced by Vertigo; John Michael Laura Michelle Kelly and attached and 1920s-set drama The Laureate with McDonagh’s Calvary; Kevin Macdonald’s How I former Boyzone front- Imogen Poots attached. Aisling Walsh drama Dev- Live Now; and StreetDance All Stars. Ben Wheat- man Ronan Keating. lin starring is in pre-production. ley’s Kill List follow up Sightseers is in Directors’ Better Living Through Stealth brings new titles including Beyond Fortnight. Richard Ayoade’s The Double starts Chemistry and Half Of A Apollo from producer Matt Reeves, action fi lm30 shooting on May 20. Yellow Sun are in pre-pro- Below and Howard Deutch comedy Wild Oats star- WestEnd Films has a teaser of Ralph duction. ring Shirley MacLaine, , Fiennes’ period drama The Invisible Alongside Matteo and Maria Bello. Blind Bastard Club, Fangs Of Woman starring Fiennes as Charles Garrone’s Competition Ward 3D, Marble City and Shoe Dog are in pre-pro- Dickens alongside and Byzantium entry Reality, Fan- duction while completed horror title The Tapes »

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French sellers StudioCanal is handling ’ Competi- tion title You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet as well as Direc- By Melanie Goodfellow tors’ Fortnight animation Ernest & Celestine. It will — which represents a record 15 films also continue sales on Susanne Bier’s Serena and across Official Selection including Competition Michel Gondry’s Mood Indigo. titles , The Angels’ Share and Holy Doc & Film International has three festival titles: Motors — will introduce Jean-Luc Godard’s Good- Colombian Juan Andres Arango’s Un Certain bye To Language 3D, ’s Passion, Vin- Regard La Playa DC; Sebastien Lifshitz’s cenzo Natali’s Haunter and Marina de Van’s out of competition documentary Les Invisibles, English-language horror-house tale Dark Touch to about people who pioneered open gay living, and the market. Directors’ Fortnight selection Operation Libertad Elle Driver will launch the - about an attempt to rob a Swiss bank. starring Elle s’en va, directed by Films Distribution is selling Sandrine Bonnaire’s co-writer and cast member Emmanuelle Bercot Critics’ Week screener Maddened By His Absence. It and the hilarious fashion-world documentary will also market premiere Eytan Fox’s latest film Mademoiselle C. Other hot new titles include May Yossi and French director Pierre Jolivet’s police In The Summer, the latest film fromAmreeka direc- thriller Armed Hands. tor Cherien Dabis. EuropaCorp will show first images of Jean- Celluloid Dreams will consolidate sales on Pierre Améris’ adaptation of Victor Hugo’s The The Magnificent Eleven ’s Competition title Rust & Bone. Man Who Laughs, starring Gérard Depardieu, and The company will also continue to pre-sell Brazil- David Marconi’s Morocco-set thriller Intersection. It starring Jason Maza makes its debut on Stealth’s ian Heitor Dhalia’s upcoming Bald Mountain, and is also unveiling three French-language projects, indie label and comedy The Magnificent Eleven gets kick off sales on actioner Raze. including The Journey (Le Parcours) by Philippe a first market screening. TF1 International is selling Brandon Cronen- Lellouche to star Vincent Perez. Goldcrest will be in Cannes with first market berg’s satirical thriller Antiviral, premiering in Un Funny Balloons is handling Benoit Delépine and screenings for David Riker’s The Girl starring Certain Regard. It also hopes to complete sales on Gustave Kervern’s Competition title Le Grand Soir Abbie Cornish, family-drama Private Peaceful and the closing film, the late Claude Miller’sThérese Des- and Chilean Pablo Larrain’s No, which plays in Cheerful Weather For The Wedding starring Eliza- queyroux. New projects include Jérome Cornuau’s Directors’ Fortnight beth McGovern, Felicity Jones and Luke Treada- -set mystery The Crossing. Gaumont is selling the closing film of Directors’ way. Black arts movement doc Brooklyn Boheme is The Coproduction office is handling Ulrich Fortnight, Noemie Lvovsky’s Camille Rewinds, and among Goldcrest’s new documentary offerings. Seidl’s Competition picture Paradise: Love about a will also unveil the upcoming Turning Tide, star- AV Pictures has first screenings of action-thriller European woman who travels to in search ring Intouchables co-star Francois Cluzet as a lone Liability starring , Jack O’Connell and of a young lover. yachtsman on a round-the-world race. , and Menhaj Huda’s horror Come- MK2 will market premiere Marion Laine’s Le Pacte will market premiere two feature- down with Bafta-winner . romance A Monkey On My Shoulder starring Juli- length animations: Jean-Christophe Dessaint’s The Works brings romantic farce Of Corset’s ette Binoche and Edgar Ramirez, and continues Day Of The Crows and Stephan Schesch’s adapta- Mine starring Camilla Belle; Terri Hooley biopic sales on Competition titles On The Road, Like tion the children’s classic Moon Man. Good Vibrations; and Mat Whitecross’ drama Ashes Someone In Love and After The Battle as well as Memento Films International will market pre- starring Jim Sturgess and . Laurence Anyways in Un Certain Regard. miere Craig Zobel’s controversial Compliance and Goalpost’s The Sapphires starring Chris O’Dowd SND is offering a sneak preview of Julien Lecler- continue pre-sales on Jim Mickle’s cannibal pic- gets a midnight screening. cq’s Gibraltar-set thriller The Informant. The film, ture We Are What We Are. Kaleidoscope has first market screenings for based on a script by writer Abdel Raouf Pathé International is world premiering James -narrated doc The Penguin Dafri, is currently in production. Huth’s Happiness Never Comes King 3D, thriller I Against I, Kill Zombie! and Inter- view With A Hitman. Celsius Entertainment brings new teen romance The First Time, recently picked up by Worldwide Acquisitions (SPWA) for North America. Carey Fitzgerald’s High Point Media Group has picked up Cannes Classics doc Me And Me Dad about and gives market screenings to teen horror 6 Plots as well as family title Cool Kids Don’t Cry. Genre specialist Jinga Films has market debuts for horrors Closed Circuit Extreme and The Devil’s Business as well as extended footage of black com- Moon Man edy Black Forest: Hansel And Gretel & The 420 Witch. Moviehouse has debuts for Riot, May I Kill You and I Declare War and will be showing footage of Nativity 2! The Second Coming starring David Ten- Operation Libertad nant, a trailer of The Hooligan Wars from director Paul Tanter and a promo of The Power. Genesis has first market screenings for comedy Outside Bet starring and Adam Dea- con, as well as thrillers The Wee Man and Piggy both starring . Maura and Antony Ford’s 7&7 Producers’ Sales Service will have first screenings for John Duigan’s Careless Love, Papadopoulos And Sons starring , Talking To The Trees and ’s Big Night. Timeless Films’ 3D animation Justin And The Knights Of Valour will be screening on promo reel. Ernest & Celestine Compliance »

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Other European sellers By Geoffrey Macnab German outfitThe Match Factory has several new titles in official selection. Its slate includes Compe- tition entry In The Fog by Sergei Loznitsa; and Fatih Akin’s new documentary Polluting Paradise, about a small community in Turkey fighting back when a substandard waste facility begins polluting their environment. The Match Factory is also sell- ing Mekong Hotel, the latest project from former Palme d’Or winner Apichatpong Weerasethakul, and Jaime Rosales’ Quinzaine entry The Dream And The Silence. Munich-based outfit Beta Cinema, which had huge success with thriller The Lives Of Others, has a new East German-themed spy thriller, Two Lives by Georg Maas. Currently in post-production Augustine and starring Juliane Köhler, it is about a former East German spy in Norway who built a new life Alone, starring and Gad Elmaleh using a fake identity. The German outfit is also as an unlikely couple. It will also reveal first images handling sales on much acclaimed Hungarian of Nicolas Bary’s adaptation of Daniel Pennac’s director Janos Szasz’s new drama The Notebook, book The Scapegoat, starring Bérénice Bejo. about two brothers struggling to survive with their Rezo is handling Bernard-Henri Lévy’s out of grandmother toward the end of the Second World competition documentary The Oath Of Tobruk, War. Beta is also handling Imanol Uribe’s Orange about the Libyan uprising, as well as Directors’ Honey, a thriller set in Andalusia in the early 1950s Fortnight screener Aliyah and Critics’ Week title as General Franco continues to impose a medieval God Neighbors. It will also world premiere Russian religious state. director Andrei Proshkin’s 14th century epic The Global Screen, the company formed from the Horde. It also sells SXSW hit Starlet. Starlet merger of sales divisions at Telepool and Bavaria, is Pyramide International will consolidate sales on screening the first footage from Sandra Nettel- Un Certain Regard titles Three Worlds and Children from Quad, the production house behind Intouch- beck’s Mr Morgan’s Last Love (in post) starring Of Sarajevo (Djeca) as well as Directors’ Fortnight ables. . The film has already been pre-sold titles A Respectable Family and Clandestine Child- Les Films du Losange picked up Norwegian to Australia (Hopscotch/eOne) and is being co- hood. Upcoming titles including Manoel de Olivei- Bent Hamer’s 1001 Grams, about a scientist who produced with Sidney Kimmel, who has rights in ra’s Gebo And The Shadow, which will be released falls in love at a seminar in Paris. Other titles the US. Other upcoming projects include The Cave this autumn, and Samuel Collardey’s Little Lion. include Arnaud des Pallieres’ Michael Kohlhaas. by Janet Tobias, about five Jewish families who hid other Angle will unleash a slew of feelgood MPM Films, in association with Pierre Mena- in a cave to escape the Nazis. The company is also films, includingOn The Other Side Of The Tracks, hem, is handling sales on Colombian director Wil- presenting Niko 2 — Little , Big Trouble, the starring Intouchables co-lead . It will also liam Vega’s Directors’ Fortnight debut La Sirga. sequel to its hot-selling the 3D kids’ movie. It also unveil The Big Bad Wolf, a remake of the Canadian Alpha Violet is selling Mexican Antonio Mendez has a market premiere of Camp 14 — Total Control hit Les Trois Petits Cochons. Other projects include Esparza’s Critics’ Week screener Aqui Y Alla about Zone, a feature doc about Shin Dong-hyuk, who Cyril Cohen’s Weeping Susannah, which is set to a man who returns to his mountain village. was born and raised in a working camp in North star Gael Garcia Bernal opposite Marina Fois. It is Bac Films has picked up world sales for Mexi- Korea and managed to escape aged 23. also launching a recut version of documentary can Michel Franco’s Un Certain Regard title After Scandinavian outfit The Yellow Affair has two Would You Have Sex With An Arab?. Lucia, revolving around the theme of teenage bul- new projects with big-name US actors: Francesco Kinology is selling Michel Gondry’s Bronx-set lying. Lucente’s Dry Lightning, a drama about the US Directors’ Fortnight opener The We And The I and Futurikon will premiere a promo for Thomas welfare system starring Sam Shepard and Sissy Alice Winocour’s Critics’ Week screener Augustine, Szabo’s Minuscule — Valley Of The Lost Ants, a fea- Spacek, and Killing In The Woods, starring Chris- starring as an 18th century doctor ture version of the highly successful children’s tian Slater. Both are due to go into production in treating a female hysteria patient. It is also launch- series mixing live-action nature footage with ani- the autumn. The Yellow Affair is also holding a ing 30° Color, a comedy set in French Martinique mation. closed market screening of Gabriele Pichler’s

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market premiere to epic Finnish drama Once Upon A Time In The North. Another new pick-up is Uncle Hank, the new feature from Elbert van Strien, whose Two Eyes Staring sold widely last year in Cannes. German outfi tAktis Film is giving an interna- tional market premiere to Uta Arning’s coming-of- 10 Rules For Falling In Love The Lithium Conspiracy age fantasy love story Snowchild and is selling Orchestra Of Exiles, the new feature doc about Swedish drama Eat Sleep Die, and two new projects Bronislaw Huberman, a Polish Jewish violin prod- from Swedish production outfit Atmo — Betty igy who gave up his career to create an orchestra of Bangkok, starring Clark Johnson from The Wire, Jewish musicians in the desert outback of Palestine and Viking Line, a feature from Stefan Constanti- in 1936. nescu, whose short Family Dinner screens in Crit- Arri Worldsales is presenting footage of Paula ics’ Week. van der Oest’s The Domino Effect. Produced by TrustNordisk is holding its fi rst market screen- Kasander Film and with an international cast ings of Norwegian action-adventure Escape, Swed- including James D’Arcy, the fi lm is about a group ish thriller Easy Money II, and Anti Jokinen’s of different people across the world whose lives intense family drama Purge. TrustNordisk will be suddenly become connected because of the global pre-selling Bekas, Karzan Kader’s drama about two fi nancial crisis. Arri will also have footage of fam- homeless boys in Kurdish Iraq who become ily horror pic Vampire Sisters, based on the best- obsessed by Superman. Now in post-production, selling children’s book by Franziska Gehm. Sony the fi lm is being touted as “a SwedishSlumdog Mil- will release in . lionaire”. Also up for pre-sales is Mikkel Norgaard’s Easy Money II M-Appeal is beginning sales on Israeli title Out police thriller The Keeper Of Lost Causes. TrustNor- In The Dark, directed by Michael Mayer and chart- disk will be screening a promo of glacier-set action fi lm tells the story of the long personal and creative ing the relationship between a Palestinian student thriller Frost and has Thomas Vinterberg’s The relationship between actress and and an Israeli lawyer. Hunt (already selling well) in Competition. Show- revered Swedish director . Madrid-based 6 Sales is presenting several new ing an appetite for culinary cinema, TrustNordisk Meanwhile, Austrian outfi tAutlook is bringing fi lms, among them Fernando Trueba’s feature The is also presenting Zentropa Spain’s new comedy, three new docs to Cannes: Eames: The Architect Artist And The Model (which will hold private Tasting Menu, about a separated couple who meet And The Painter; About Face: Supermodels Then screenings). Co-scripted by Trueba alongside leg- again at the best restaurant in the world the night And Now and Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview. endary Jean-Claude Carriere, whose before it closes. Spanish outfit DeAPlaneta is holding private credits include Belle De Jour and The Tin Drum, the Dutch producers Fu Works and Talent United screenings of thriller Operation E, set in Colombia story is about an elderly sculptor in occupied Film will be presenting footage of Ate De Jong’s in 2008 as fraught negotiations are held to save the in 1943 inspired by a beautiful young Span- now-shooting The Bombardment, an epic story baby of a hostage held by the FARC guerilla group. ish refugee. about the bombing of Rotterdam during the Sec- About Face: Directed by Miguel Courtois Paternina, the film 6 Sales will also be screening footage of Sebas- ond World War. Dutch Filmworks has taken Dutch Supermodels stars Luis Tosar (Cell 211) and Martina Garcia tian Silva’s untitled thriller (formerly known as rights. Then And Now (Bunker). Magic Magic). Sony has already taken the US and Rai Trade will be giving a market premiere to Latido is giving a market premiere to Argentin- Canada, Latin America, Scandinavia, South Africa Marco Tullio Giordana’s Piazza Fontana: The Ital- ian title From Tuesday To Friday (from the produc- and Eastern Europe on the fi lm, starring Michael ian Conspiracy (aka Story Of A Massacre). The fi lm, ers of Puzzle) and to All Is Silence, the new fi lm from Cera and . 6 Sales is also presenting which won multiple nominations for ’s Don- Jose Luis Cuerda. The company will also be screen- footage of Jonathan Newman’s fantasy adventure atello awards, is about the Piazza Fontana bomb- ing festival hit Violeta Went To Heaven. Mariah Mundi starring Michael Sheen and Mark ing in 1969 in Milan. Meanwhile, Barcelona-based Filmax Interna- Strong. Another Italian seller, Intra Movies, is giving a tional is presenting several genre projects Canada’s Delphis is giving a market premiere to world premiere in the market to The Lithium Con- among them I Will Die Tonight, the new horror pic Sonny Boy, Maria Peters’ Dutch Oscar entry. spiracy, Davide Marengo’s drama set against the from Miguel Angel Vivas (Kidnapped); Jor- Sola Media will be holding its world premiere backdrop of the fight for natural resources in dan Barker’s Spain-Canada co-produc- screenings of family fi lmVictor And The Secret Of developing countries. tion Torment, due to shoot at the end of Crocodile Mansion. Adriana Chiesa is selling new feature doc the year; comedy thriller Stranded, Vicente Canales’ Barcelona-based Fear Factory : Every Film My First Film. scripted by Jaime Bartolome; and has several new genre projects in the market, The fi lm, currently in post-production, features Patricia Ferreira’s Malaga Film Fes- among them Miguel Larraya’s action-slasher pic- interviews with many of Tornatore’s collabora- tival winner The Wild Ones. ture Afterparty, about a TV star and three girls tors and admirers. Chiesa is also holding the Stockholm-based NonStop stalked by a mysterious killer. fi rst market screenings of romantic teen comedy Sales has picked up a brace of The Hungarian National Film Fund, which now 10 Rules For Falling In Love, directed by Cristiano Dutch titles: Threes Anna’s psy- has an active sales arm, will be presenting The Dis- Bortone. chological drama Silent City and trict! 3D by Aron Gauder, the 3D remake of the Feature docs continue to have traction in the Miller’s comedy Annecy Crystal Globe winner The District!, and market. Svensk is holding closed market screen- drama Becoming Redwood which Peter Bergendy’s 1950s-set spy thriller The Exam. ings of new feature doc Liv & Ingmar. Backed by features songs by Cat Stevens and Its upcoming projects include comedy Couch Surf the Norwegian Film Institute, Dheeraj Akolkar’s . It will also be giving a by Zsombor Dyga. »

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Asian sellers By Liz Shackleton has recently rounded out its slate with a pair of titles from established Chinese and a trio of films from India’s dynamic up-and-coming indie scene. Yuan’s Beijing Flickers explores the reality behind Beijing’s daz- zling economic boom, while Zhang Yang’s Full Cir- cle is about a group of senior citizens who take part in a TV variety show. From India, Fortissimo has ’s highly anticipated drama Miss Lovely, which plays in Un Certain Regard; Amit Kumar’s action thriller Monsoon Shootout, and Anand Gandhi’s philosoph- Miss Conspirator ical drama The Ship Of Theseus. The company has also boarded Genghis Khan epic An End To Killing and Tribeca award-winner Una Noche. Distribution Workshop is introducing period gangster filmThe Last Tycoon, starring Chow Yun- fat, and action comedy Double Trouble, while also handling award-winning dramas White Deer Plain, which played in Berlin competition, and A Simple Life, which was recently a hit in Hong Kong. Media Asia is handling another recent local hit, romantic comedy Love In The Buff, along with Soi Cheang’s action thriller Motorway, Johnnie To’s Blind Detective and $20m action adventure Switch. Emperor Motion Pictures unveiled several new projects at this year’s Filmart which it will be selling in Cannes, including Derek Yee-produced action Love In The Buff The Kirishima Thing drama The Bullet Vanishes, starring Lau Ching-wan and Nicholas Tse, and Daniel Chan’s Triad. M-Line Distribution is screening sci-fi drama Universe also has several new titles including Doomsday Book, co-directed by Kim Jee-woon and Benny Chan’s action drama The Cartel War and the Yim Pil-sung, and romantic comedy All About My Pang brothers’ fire-fighting disaster movieInferno . Wife, as well as introducing El Condor Pasa, Also of note from Hong Kong are a handful of directed by Jeon Soo-il (With A Girl Of Black Soil). period action thrillers — We Distribution’s The 9ers Entertainment is focusing on Miss Con- Guillotines, directed by Andrew Lau and produced spirator, scheduled for Korean release in June. by Peter Ho-sun Chan; Mei Ah’s The Silent War, Mirovision will be introducing works from sev- starring Tony Leung Chiu-wai; Mega-Vision’s Once eral young up-and-coming directors. Upon A Time In Shanghai, directed by Wong Ching Prolific Japanese director Takashi Miike has two Po, and Pegasus Motion Pictures’ Ip Man 3D, projects at Cannes — Kadokawa is handling his about the eponymous kung-fu master. musical For Love’s Sake, which is Golden Network Asia will be introducing stere- Horror Stories screening in an out-of-competition midnight slot. oscopic animation Echo Planet, a Thai production Toho will open pre-sales on Miike’s more recent that tackles environmental issues, and two new Films featuring Korea’s hottest export, K-pop thriller Lesson Of The Evil, which is in production. Chinese productions — Yang Shupeng’s stylish stars, are prominent this year. With the Korean Meanwhile, Shochiku will be kickstarting pre- An Inaccurate Memoir, and Gao Qunshu’s wave recently rolling into Europe, CJ E&M has high sales on Yoji Yamada’s homage to Yasujiro Ozu’s action romance Crimes Of Passion. hopes for music documentary I Am: SM Town Live, Tokyo Story, tentatively titled Tokyo Family, which about a concert featuring all 32 artists from talent is also in production. agency SM Entertainment. Toei returns to its with violent action drama Meanwhile, Lotte recently picked up Code Blazing Famiglia, the first big-budget film from Name: Jackal, a comic thriller starring Jaejoong indie director Kazuyoshi Kumakiri, and introduces from K-pop band JYJ. the drama A Chorus Of Angels from Junji Sakamoto. Reflecting the recent trend towards Korean- Nikkatsu has two new titles on its slate — Shu- Chinese collaboration, Showbox will be screening ichi Okita’s A Story Of Yonosuke, based on a novel a promo of heist drama The Thieves, starring about a student who dances the samba, and Tet- Korean and Hong Kong actors, and introducing suhiko Nono’s Days Of Red, about a hitman 3D action sports drama Mr Go 3D, which is a co- attempting to go straight. production with ’s Huayi Brothers. Also on Among Japan’s broadcaster-producers, TBS is Showbox’s slate are Don’t Click and focusing on crime thriller SPEC: The Movie, based The Thieves action thriller A Company Man, starring So Ji-sub. on a TV show and currently a $20m hit in Japan. Finecut is handling Cannes Competition title In NTV has Mamoru Hosoda’s animation Wolf Another Country, directed by Hong Sang-soo, and Children and Daihachi Yoshida’s high-school is introducing several titles backed by Korea’s drama The Kirishima Thing. N.E.W., including Kim Ki-duk’s Pieta, comedy hor- Looking beyond the big studios and broadcasters, ror Ghost Sweepers and period action adventure The buyers will also find some note-worthy titles from Grand Heist. Japan’s smaller and edgier companies — Phantom Daisy & Cinergy, which has recently ramped up Film is introducing I’m Flash!, a drama about a cult its sales operation with the appointment of Erica leader directed by Toshiaki Toyoda and starring Tat- Nam, is also handling a Cannes Competition title, suya Fujiwara. Im Sang-soo’s The Taste Of Money, along with Pictures Dept has the latest project from Sion omnibus film Horror Stories and revenge thriller Sono, The Land Of Hope, which deals with paranoia I Am: SM Town Live Don’t Cry, Mommy. over nuclear radiation. ns

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