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HP_D6_05_17_10.indd50035Hp festival cannes_210X297 1 HRD DV6.indd 1 5/10/1005/05/10 1:33 15:26 PM day6_p1,36,37 n1_c.qxd:001THRD6_n1 5/16/10 8:22 PM Page 1 the Cannes Q&A This filmmaking thing is working out for Charles Ferguson. SEE PAGE 6 Monday dailyMay 17, 2010 THR.com/cannes 6 Walken ready to sow some Focus,Sonyhit‘Hanna’ Sierrashows‘Money’;TMG,Medusahave‘Passengers’ ‘Wild Oats’ By Stuart Kemp and Scott Roxborough By Jay A. Fernandez ocus Features and Sony Pic- hristopher Walken is tures Worldwide Acquisi- negotiating to join the tions Group sliced and LE SEGRETAIN/GETTY IMAGES F Caction-comedy “Wild diced rights to Joe Wright’s Oats,”from writer Claudia Saoirse Ronan-starring teenage Myers and director Scott assassin thriller “Hanna” as Marshall. high profile pre-sales during Shirley Cannes began to pick up. MacLaine, The deal for “Hanna,”which Maria Bello, also stars Cate Blanchett and Christina Eric Bana, sees hefty coopera- Ricci, John tion between the two studios Corbett and with Focus retaining rights in Walken Bill Pullman North America, the U.K., Aus- already are tralia/New Zealand, Greece, aboard the project about a Israel, Middle East, and CIS, widow who finds herself while SPWAG acquires territo- heading to Las Vegas with her ries in continental Europe, Asia granddaughter after a pile of continued on page 36 money falls in her lap. Blythe Frank and Agathe David-Weill are producing the film; Michael Mailer is an execu- tive producer. SHOOTING BACK Landisturnsto Toronto-based Peace Arch “ThePrincessofMontpensier”actorsGregoireLeprince-Ringuet Entertainment is repping andMelanieThierryturnthetablesonthephotographersat pre-sales of the project at the theirgalapremiereSundaynightatthePalais. U.K.forbacking Marche de Film. Shooting is scheduled to begin in Con- By Stuart Kemp necticut and Nevada in August. CAA and ICM pack- ohn Landis says he aged the film. RebornEalingrampsup can’t get the movies he continued on page 37 Jwants to make Hoffman, Cattaneo board projects at studio bankrolled in Hollywood so he came to the U.K. to By Stuart Kemp Thompson said find one. WHAT’S INSIDE Hoffman brought It worked out well for > he roster of talent lining up Irwin Shaw's him as he is putting the Reviews PAGE 10, 11, 27, to make movies with Eal- novel "Night- final touches to “Burke 28, 30, 32, 33, 34 Ting Studios, the reborn work" to Ealing and Hare,”starring Simon >Screening Guides. British production, finance, with a view to the Pegg, Andy Serkis and Isla PAGE 18, 22, 24, 26 sales and studio facility opera- U.K.banner put- Fisher. > tor, includes Peter Cattaneo, Thompson ting it together. Landis said his wife, the About Town Dustin Hoffman and writers Will Davies,one of Oscar-nominated cos- PAGE 40, 41 Richard Warlow and Will Davis. the scribes behind "How to Train continued on page 37 Ealing Studios chief Barnaby continued on page 37 day6_p2,35,38 n2_b.qxd:002THRD6_n2 5/16/10 7:43 PM Page 1 THR.com/cannes news Monday, May 17, 2010 Dubai fest ties up with Beirut DC Partnershipdesignedtosupportindie,localdocumentaryfilmmaking By Elizabeth Guider nection, the co-production film testament to the strong com- theminrealizingtheirdream.” market hosted at DIFF 2010, for munity outreach of the festival. Eliane Raheb of Beirut DC he Dubai International potential financial backing and “Oneofthefoundingobjec- added that Beirut DC has been Film Festival has inked technical support to execute a tivesofDIFFistopromote focused on hosting training a strategic partnership full-fledged doc. regionalfilmmakingtalent,”she workshops “to encourage doc- with Beirut DC, a At a luncheon in Cannes on said.“Throughcollaborations umentary filmmaking in the Lebanon-based Sunday,DIFF managing direc- withcommittedorganizations Arab world.” Torganization that promotes tor Shivani Pandya said that the likeBeirutDC,wecanreachoutto As a partner in Documentary independent filmmaking, to partnership with Beirut DC is a thecreativecommunityandassist continued on page 38 strengthen local documentary filmmaking skills. DIFF will provide a financial incubating fund of $10,000 to Beirut DC’sDocumentary ‘Tattoo’star Course, which is aimed at inspir- ing young film professionals to moving onto refine and showcase their skills. The selected project will be presented at Dubai Film Con- FRANCOIS DURAND/GETTY IMAGES freshterritory By Scott Roxborough Noomi Rapace, the star of Swedish hit “The Girl With the Frenchfilmfocus Dragon Tattoo,”will not reprise her role as goth hacker Lisbeth Salander in David Fincher’s atVietnamfest English-lan- guage adaptation By Jay A. Fernandez ‘World’ travelers of the Stieg Lars- Martin Scorsese, Olivia Harrison and Nigel Sinclair hit Antibes on Saturday to talk about son best-seller. A day after holding a Fes- their George Harrison documentary “Living in the Material World: George Harrison.” Speaking to tival de Cannes party to THR in Cannes, celebrate the launch of the Rapace said after Vietnam International Film Endoflong,windingroad two years shoot- Rapace Festival, organizers added a ing the Larsson few new details at an Inter- Scorsese doc focuses on former Beatle’s journey “Millennium”trilogy in Swedish, national Village press con- she has had enough of Salander ference Sunday. By Jay A. Fernandez lar and successful band. Pro- and would not accept the role The first annual VNIFF, ducer Nigel Sinclair of Exclu- even if Fincher offered it to her. announced at the Pusan fes- Martin Scorsese swept into sive was Media Group, home of “No, I’m done with her (Lis- tival last year,will take place the Cap d’Antibes Beach Hotel the Spitfire Pictures label that beth), and it’s up to somebody October 17-21 in Hanoi. Per- down the coast from Cannes on will release the doc, also on else to step into her shoes,” haps reflecting the Cannes Saturday afternoon with hand to provide background Rapace said. “I don’t like to locale (and the countries’ George Harrison’s widow, and perspective on the forth- repeat myself. So it’s better if colonial history), fest pro- Olivia. The two have been col- coming project. someone else does it.” grammers are looking to laborating on a documentary “His music is very important ButRapacedidsuggestthat UniFrance, which hosted about the famous songwriter to me,”Scorsese said of Harri- FincherandproducerScottRudin Sunday’spresser,to help for the past three years and son. “So I was interested in the expandtheircastingcallbeyond them select five to seven finally have the end in sight. journey that he took as an theA-listers(NataliePortman, French films for a special Titled “Living in the Material artist. The film is an explo- KeiraKnightleyandCareyMulli- sidebar to the 60-film pro- World: George Harrison,”the ration. We don’t know.We’re ganareamongthosethoughtto gram. Vietnamese filmmak- documentary will take on the just feeling our way through.” bevyingforthepart)toinclude ers also will be showcased. whole of the Beatles guitarist’s Among other things, Scors- somelesser-knownnames. continued on page 35 life before, during and after his ese says he related to Harrison’s “I hope they won’t take, you time in the world’s most popu- continued on page 35 continued on page 38 Los Angeles 323.525.2000 | New York 646.654.5000 | London +44.207.420.6139 | Beijing +86.139.1118.1756 | THR.com/cannes | day 6 2 FondazioneApuliaFF_D4_05_15_10.indd 1 5/13/10 10:38 AM day6_p4,39 n3_b.qxd:004THRD6_n2 5/16/10 8:05 PM Page 1 THR.com/cannes news Monday, May 17, 2010 Reeves populates ‘Passengers’ Big-budget‘Adam&Eve’talehighlightsMorganCreekfocus Cannes Daily Edition EDITORIAL OFFICE: By Elizabeth Guider still being sought for what the gan Creek founder James Hotel Montaigne, producers short-handed as Robinson put the accent on his newly reinvigorated Mor- “Adam & Eve in Space.”Pic also company’s new focus on big- 4 rue Montaigne gan Creek has licensed its will have a couple of comedic ger-budget projects that have Alatest project, “Passen- roles and set designs created by global appeal; his son Brian, TERRACE: gers,”to be directed by Italo some of the wizards who who is senior vp worldwide Hotel Palais Stephanie, auteur Gabriele worked on “Avatar.” marketing, also emphasized the Boulevard de la Croisette Muccino, to At a brunch for press and importance of responding to Medusa in Italy international buyers Sunday at the needs of international buy- Elizabeth Guider and to Herbert the Moulin des Mougins, Mor- continued on page 39 Editor Kloiber’s Tele- David Morgan Munchen in Deputy Editor Germany.Other deals in key ter- EDITORIAL Robinson Gregg Kilday (Film Editor), ritories are Chad Williams (Deputy Editor, Dailies), pending on the $90 million pic, Patrick Hipes (Copy Chief) which will go out domestically REPORTERS through Universal. Stuart Kemp