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2 the AFM daiThursday, Novemberly 5, 2009 THR.com/afm Hungari AFM D2 HC 110509.indd 1 10/30/09 11:23 AM BASED ON THE NOVEL HENRI QUATRE BY HEINRICH MANN JULIEN BOISSELIER ARMELLE DEUTSCH FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CALL +49-172-8587043 OR +1 (310) 403-4102 Bavaria Film International at AFM | Loews Hotel, Suite 866 | 867 eMail [email protected] | www.bavaria-film-international.com A REGINA ZIEGLER PRODUCTION A JO BAIER FILM HE COURTED DEATH. HE COURTED DESIRE. FOR FREEDOM OF FAITH. BAVARIA FILM INTERNATIONAL PRESENTS A REGINA ZIEGLER PRODUCTION A JO BAIER FILM STARRING JULIEN BOISSELIER JOACHIM KRÓL ROGER CASAMAJOR ANDREAS SCHMIDT ARMELLE DEUTSCH CHLOÉ STEFANI HANNELORE HOGER ULRICH NOETHEN DEVID STRIESOW KARL MARKOVICS SANDRA HÜLLER SVEN PIPPIG ANDRÉ M. HENNICKE WOTAN WILKE MÖHRING ANTOINE MONOT JR. SCREENPLAY JO BAIER COOKY ZIESCHE BASED ON THE NOVEL BY HEINRICH MANN PRODUCTION DESIGN KLAUS-PETER PLATTEN CHRISTIAN STRANG COSTUME DESIGN GERHARD GOLLNHOFER MAKE UP GERHARD ZEISS SOUND RECORDING GUNNAR VOIGT MUSIC BY HANS ZIMMER AND HENRY JACKMAN DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY GERNOT ROLL EDITING CLAUS WEHLISCH ALEXANDER BERNER LINE PRODUCER JÜRGEN TRÖSTER PRODUCTION MANAGER CORNELIA SCHMIDT-MATTHIESEN CO -PRODUCED BY GÉTÉVÉ B.A. PRODUKTION INSTITUT DEL CINEMA CATALÀ WEGA FILM MMC INDEPENDENT ARTE BR DEGETO MDR NDR SWR WDR FRANCE 2 ARTE FRANCE CINÉMA ORF TVC EXECUTIVE PRODUCER HARTMUT KÖHLER PRODUCER COOKY ZIESCHE PRODUCED BY REGINA ZIEGLER DIRECTED BY JO BAIER Bavaria_D1_11_04_09.inddTHR_FP_Henry_212 x 278_nov05_RZ.indd 1 1 02.11.200911/2/09 15:17:42 10:21 Uhr AM D2_afm p1,54,56_n1 11/4/09 7:19 PM Page 1 Q&A the Ignasi Guardans AFM has taken on his new job as director of Spain's ICAA Film Institute with a fervor. SEE PAGE 6 dailyThursday November 5, 2009 THR.com/afm 2 Zhang power Capitol chiefs for ‘Flower’ in legal dustup By Jonathan Landreth EIJING — Zhang Ziyi is By Alex Ben Block high-profile direc- joining Wendi Murdoch and tors and stars. BFlorence Sloan in produc- ven as Capitol Films pur- Bergstein, ing “Snow Flower and the sues international sales whose banner Secret Fan,”an English-lan- for a slate of movies at now is Pangea guage drama starring Zhang. AFM this week, legal bat- Media Group, and Wayne Wang has come tles for the men who Tutor, the Los Murdoch aboard as director. Ehead the company are heating up. Bergstein Angeles-based Set during 19th century in remote In the latest salvo, execs behind millionaire behind China, the film tells of the lifelong defunct New York hedge fund Tutor-Saliba, one of the largest friendship of Lily and Snow Flower D.B. Zwirn, which provided most U.S. construction firms, provid- and their imprisonment by rigid cul- of the money to David Bergstein ed personal guarantees on the tural codes of conduct for women. and his partner Ron Tutor to loans that appear to put them on Producers were scheduled for make and sell movies, filed suit the hook for more than $65 mil- talks in the coming days with Monday for reimbursement of lion. That’s according to the Sloan potential backers and distributors about $120 million. That money lawsuit filed on behalf of D.B. at AFM. was used by the pair to acquire Zwirn Special Opportunities Although it will be Zhang’s second feature Capitol for $30 million and Fund; its subsidiary Bernard as producer, “Snow Flower” is the first in ThinkFilm for $25 million as well National Loan Investors of the partnership with Murdoch, the Chinese-born as operate a series of companies Cayman Islands; and Hemlock continued on page 52 and produce movies involving continued on page 52 IMAGES GALLUP/GETTY SEAN ZHANG ZIYI PHOTO: Zhang Ziyi WHAT’S INSIDE ects after seeing the hard-hit sales Market veterans flying new flags sector suffer and companies disap- >Reviews. PAGES 8, 42, 44, 56 pear. > This year’s gathering will boast a Reviews in Brief. PAGES 10, 14, 18, 20, 36, 40 By Stuart Kemp brace of familiar faces from the U.S. boasting new companies and two WORLD REPORT amiliar faces hawking under new banners is a newly formed international sales theme during AFM as veterans of the market cir- groups operating under the banners SCANDINAVIA:PAGE23 Fcuit take up the battle to secure financing for proj- continued on page 54 Bradley THAILAND:PAGE29 LONDON MADRID MONTREAL ROME NEW YORK VANCOUVER HOLLYWOOD TORONTO BANGKOK WWW.TECHNICOLOR.COM Fortissimo_D2_11_05_09.indd 1 11/3/09 11:43 AM Fortissimo_D2_11_05_09.indd 2 11/3/09 11:43 AM D2_afm p4,51,52_n2 11/4/09 7:26 PM Page 4 THR.com/afm news Thursday, November 5, 2009 Camelot spawns DarKnight AFM Daily Edition By Borys Kit Eric Mika amelot Entertainment Group Publisher has launched DarKnight Pic- Ctures, a genre division that Elizabeth Guider will acquire and distribute film Editor for domestic and international markets, picking up flicks “Nude David Morgan Nuns with Big Guns” and Deputy Editor “Samurai Avenger: The Blind Wolf” as its first two releases. EDITORIAL Stuart Kemp (U.K. Bureau Chief) At the same time, Camelot has Gregg Kilday (Film Editor) set Dean Cain, Tito Ortiz, Peter Kevin Cassidy (International Features Editor) Stormare and Marc Decascos in “The Fallen,”an action thriller REPORTERS Borys Kit (Senior Film Reporter) co-produced by Camelot to be Jay A. Fernandez (Film Reporter) directed by Rob Walker and pro- Jonathan Landreth (China Editor) duced by Grant Cramer and Erik Anderson. “Fallen” will be ART released by the company’s just- Jackie Rubi (Senior Designer) created distribution unit, AFM bunting REVIEWS Camelot Distribution Group. The Loews Hotel atrium in Santa Monica was all decked out and ready for Kirk Honeycutt (Chief Film Critic) DarKnight and CDG are head- business on Wednesday as the American Film Market gears up. continued on page 51 ADVERTISING Tommaso Campione (International Executive Director), Alison Smith (International Sales Director), Ivy Lam (Asia Sales & Marketing Manager) CORRESPONDENTS Temple tackles ‘Hoax’ ‘Lion’s Den’team Pip Bulbeck (Australia), Leo Cendrowicz (Belgium), Alex Dai (China), Rebecca Leffler (France), Scott Roxborough (Germany), By Stuart Kemp “Fake!” details Nyay Bhushan (India), Eric J. Lyman (Italy), bellies up to bar Gavin Blair (Japan), John Hecht (Mexico), the complex emo- Ab Zagt (Netherlands), Janine Stein Director Julien Temple will tional triangle (Singapore), Pamela Rolfe (Spain), take on the story of art faker among three main By Patrick Frater Jolanta Chudy (United Arab Emirates) Elmyr de Hory written by the protagonists: the equally notorious hoax biogra- two fakers and HONG KONG – The team OPERATIONS Gregg Edwards (Senior Production Manager), pher Clifford Irving. Richard Orson Welles, who behind last year’s Cannes Shenaya Archer (Production) Gere played him in “The Hoax” Temple made his last film competition entry “Lion’s Den” in 2007. about de Hory. has reunited for the new AFM THR.COM Temple has pacted with U.K.- Temple said: “There’s an ele- film “Carancho.” Karen Nicoletti (Senior News Editor) based production and finance ment of ‘To Catch a Thief’ about The picture, about an house Film and Music Entertain- what they do. As becomes clear ambulance-chasing lawyer who ment to direct “Fake!,”scripted in his conversations with Welles, gets into trouble way out of his by Michael Kalesniko. one of the most amazing illu- depth, is again a collaboration Temple is working with sions Elmyr maintained during between writer-director Pablo Kalesniko with a view to a spring all the years of his career as an Trapero, actress Martina Gus- Gerry Byrne Senior Vice President, shoot in Spain, France and Croatia. art forger was that he was not a man, Argentinian producers The Entertainment Group Kalesniko’s credits include criminal and what he was doing Matanza Cine, Patagonik Film Copyright ©2008 Howard Stern’s “Private Parts” was not a crime. He knew of Group and South Korea’s Fine- Nielsen Business Media, Inc. and the Kenneth Branagh vehicle course it was against the law, but cut. French distributor Ad Vitam All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in any retrieval system or “How to Kill Your Neighbour’s so was jaywalking or smoking a also returns as investor and local transmitted, in any form or by any means — electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or Dog,”and he is working on a joint. What he did, unlike gov- distributor. Finecut will handle otherwise — without the prior written permission rewrite of the sci-fi spoof “Iron ernments and politicians, didn’t world rights sales outside Latin of the publisher. Sky” for F&ME. harm anyone else.” ∂ continued on page 51 THOS ROBINSON/GETTY IMAGES FOR AFM IMAGES ROBINSON/GETTY THOS Los Angeles 323.525.2000 | New York 646.654.5000 | London +44.207.420.6139 | Beijing +86.10.6512.5511 (ext. 121) | THR.com/afm | day 2 4 NTV_D2_11_05_09.indd 1 10/30/09 4:27 PM D2_afm p6_qa_Guardans b 11/4/09 2:57 PM Page 1 & THR.com/afm q a Thursday, November 5, 2009 IGNASI GUARDANS favor women filmmakers? Director of Spain’s ICAA Film Institute Guardans: The law is the law and here there are two laws. One is the general law about equality arlier this year,Ignasi Guardans was appointed director of Spain’s ICAA Film Institute and given a mis- that has an article that requests a public body related to the promotion of the arts — which fits sion to revamp the country’s film subsidy structure.Not one of the industry insiders,Guardans has come perfectly with what we are doing — to put a very to the post with the enthusiasm and energy of someone who wants to tackle a long-overdue project.The specific attention in the creation and produc- Hollywood Reporter’s Spain Bureau Chief,Pamela Rolfe,caught up with Guardans to discuss the subsidy tion of art made by women.