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CANNES BUZZ THE LOWDOWN As international buyers arrive on the Croisette clutching their shopping lists, Screen picks through some of the hottest titles, at various stages of production, available at the Marché BUZZ NORTH AMERICAN SELLERS By Jeremy Kay FilmNation Entertainment arrives with Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far On Foot from Gus Van Sant, which stars Joaquin Phoenix as a man who turns to drawing Mobile Homes when he is paralysed in a car crash. Rooney Mara, Jonah Hill and Jack Black Mongrel International will tempt buy- round out the cast. ers with Directors’ Fortnight selection Voltage Pictures has I Feel Pretty with Mobile Homes. Imogen Poots plays a comedy star Amy Schumer as a career young mother drifting across the US woman who learns that beauty is only who finds a new lease of life in a mobile- The White Orchid skin-deep after she suffers a life-changing home community. Vladimir de Fontenay accident. Abby Kohn directs, and Nicolas directs and CAA holds US rights. Chartier and McG are among the produc- Visit Films title M.F.A. stars Francesca ers. Voltage and UTA represent US rights. Eastwood and Clifton Collins Jr in the Lionsgate International will talk up story of an art student who seeks sci-fiChaos Walking. Doug Liman directs revenge when a classmate sexually Daisy Ridley from Star Wars: The Force assaults her. Visit Films is also screening Awakens and Tom Holland, star of July The Maze for the first time. tentpole Spider-Man: Homecoming. The Seville International will introduce story takes place in a world without Skin starring Jamie Bell and Danielle women where all living things can hear Macdonald, the breakout star of each other’s thoughts. Sundance entry and Directors’ Fortnight IM Global is selling and fully financing closing filmPatti Cake$. ICM Partners the thriller Unabomb. Viggo Mortensen handles US sales on the story of a neo- will play the FBI agent who tracked down Nazi who turns his back on his past M.F.A. the notorious Unabomber who terrorised when he falls in love. Oren Moverman the US for more than two decades. Robert produces. Cohen’s graphic novel adaptation Razor among Battle of Britain fighter pilots. Jer- Lorenz will direct. Fortitude International arrives with as part of its new deal with Number 11. emy Irvine and Sam Neill also star, and Sierra/Affinity hits Cannes with The The Medusa starring Jesse Eisenberg as KMI will talk up Ambience Entertain- Roger Donaldson is in final talks to direct. Widow, an upcoming thriller from Neil painter Theodore Gericault, alongside ment’s Australian family drama Storm XYZ Films will show footage on the Jordan to star Isabelle Huppert and Chloe Pierce Brosnan and Vanessa Redgrave. Boy starring Geoffrey Rush and Jai Court- Croisette from thriller Arctic by Armory Grace Moretz. The film is about a young Peter Webber will direct. ney, while Film Sales Company has Bob Films and Union Editorial. Mads Mik- arriviste in New York, grieving the loss of Saboteur Media’s new sales venture, Shaye’s psychological thriller Ambition. kelsen, who is expected to attend, plays a her mother, who befriends a widow with led by Mark Lindsay, will introduce the FilmSharks arrives with Lino 3D, an man fighting for his life in the icy wastes. sinister intentions. SK Global produces. upcoming New York-based noir thriller animated feature from Fox International Joe Penna directs. Bloom Media arrives with Marie Colvin Cleaning House from director Nick Productions and Start Anima about a dis- Chekhov classic The Seagull is on the drama A Private War from Oscar-nomi- Quested, while Brian Sweet’s APL screens illusioned children’s party entertainer Hyde Park International slate. It stars nated documentarian Matthew Heine- the family drama On Wheels and holds who is turned into his own costume. Annette Bening and Saoirse Ronan in man. Rosamund Pike stars as the US war worldwide rights. Rafael Ribas directs. the tale of people in love with the wrong reporter who lost an eye during an assign- The Weinstein Company will show foot- Radiant Films International will be partner. CAA and WME Global handle ment and years later died in a rocket age from Untouchable, the Intouchables selling The Guinea Pig Club, in which North American rights. attack in Syria. Basil Iwanyk, Marissa remake with Kevin Hart, Bryan Cranston Richard E Grant will play a pioneering Shoreline Entertainment has world- McMahon and Charlize Theron produce, and Nicole Kidman. Neil Burger directs. Second World War plastic surgeon from wide rights to The White Orchid, a crime with WME Global representing US rights. Lotus Entertainment will talk up Rob New Zealand who helped burns victims drama starring Olivia Thirlby as a social » 28 Screen International at Cannes May 17, 2017 www.screendaily.com CANNES BUZZ THE LOWDOWN services investigator who becomes Mesquida, Roger Guenveur Smith, Rich- involved in the hunt for a murderer. John ard Edson, Julie Delpy and newcomer Carroll Lynch and Jennifer Beals star, Matthew Dennis Lewis star. and Bogart Estate managers Robbert de Premiere Entertainment Group will Klerk and Stephen Bogart served as talk up sci-fi Incoming from Benattar/ executive producers for Santana Films. Thomas Productions. XLrator Media The Highland Film Group slate holds US rights to the story of terrorists includes Miscellaneous Entertainment’s who take over a prison orbiting Earth war fi lmGhosts Of War starring Brenton and threaten to attack Russia. Scott Thwaites. Eric Bress wrote and directs the Adkins stars. fi lm about US soldiers who battle a super- Electric Entertainment has Bad natural force when they capture a French Samaritan, directed by company founder chateau formerly occupied by Nazis. Dean Devlin, about burglars who fi nd a Foresight Unlimited will talk up politi- woman held captive in a home they cal thriller The Last Full Measure, which Lucky intend to rob. David Tennant and Robert features an all-star cast of Samuel L Jack- Sheehan star. son, Sebastian Stan, Christopher Plum- Film Mode will be talking up Knights mer, William Hurt, Ed Harris and Peter Of The Damned, in which the king’s Fonda. ICM Partners holds US rights. knights must overcome supernatural Good Universe arrives with Oscar challenges including a dragon and an winner Viola Davis in drama The Per- army of the undead. sonal History Of Rachel Dupree. CAA rep- Octane Entertainment offers Mayhem, resents North American rights with the SXSW selection starring Steven Yeun Davis’s JuVee Productions. from The Walking Dead as an attorney Epic Pictures is selling The Man Who trapped in a building where a virus has Killed Hitler And Then The Bigfoot, about broken out. Paradigm handles North a war hero summoned to hunt down a American rights. plague-carrying beast in the Canadian Conquistador Entertainment will talk wilderness. Sam Elliott will star for up Wonders Of The Sea 3D, a documen- writer-director Robert D Krzykowski, tary directed by Jean-Michel Cousteau who will produce with Lucky McKee, and Jean-Jacques Mantello, and narrated Patrick Ewald and Shaked Berenson. Rendel by Arnold Schwarzenegger. John Sayles serves as executive producer Oceanside Media and Route One and principal photography is set for Entertainment represent The Claim, the August on the east coast. thriller based on a screenplay by recent Robert Patrick stars in thriller Last best director Oscar winner Damien Cha- Rampage from The Little Film Company. zelle. Motion Picture Capital is fi nancing Patrick plays real-life Gary Tison, who the project about a single father who embarks on a killing spree when his must fi nd his kidnapped daughter while three sons break him out of an Arizona fighting the claims of another couple prison. Heather Graham also stars. Epic who insist the child is their own. Releasing holds US rights. Film Bridge International will be in Cinema Management Group and Rich- town with Spinning Man, starring Pierce ard Guardian are teaming up to sell the Brosnan, Guy Pearce and Minnie Driver. world on The BBQ, an Australian comedy Simon Kaijser directs the thriller about a about a suburban man who enlists the married professor whose seemingly idyl- help of a tyrannical Scottish chef when he lic life is shattered when he becomes the is invited to compete in an international Access All Areas suspect in a missing-person case. contest. Revolution Partners recently MPI Media Group has Bitch, which wrapped production in Australia. Dean Stanton as a 90-year-old atheist on Spawn. It follows a vigilante who targets screened in the Midnight strand at Content Media will talk up sci-fi 2067 , a spiritual journey. John Carroll Lynch a criminal organisation. Sundance. The fi lm centres on a down- which takes place on an Earth ravaged makes his feature directorial debut on Cohen Media Group has out-of-com- trodden wife and mother who trans- by climate change as mankind looks to the SWSW selection. Magnolia Pictures petition documentary Visages, Villages forms herself into a vicious dog. Jason the future to solve the problems of the will open theatrically in the US this year. from Agnes Varda and the muralist and Ritter and writer-director Marianna present. Production is set for later this The Exchange will launch worldwide photographer JR, which chronicles their Palka star. Dark Sky Films will distribute year in Australia. Seth Larney will direct pre-sales on graphic-novel adaptation blossoming friendship on a road trip. in the US. It screens in the market. the project for Arcadia, Buffalo Gal Pic- Brodie’s Law, in which a man framed for Arclight brings the Killer Films drama AMBI Distribution arrives with Bent, tures and Kojo Entertainment.