022-026 Day 1 Berlin 2017 Market Buzz EFM US UK Sellers G.Indd
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EFM BUZZ THE LOWDOWN As international sellers arrive at the European Film Market with projects in all stages of production, Screen highlights some of the hottest titles from around the world BUZZ produces with Bloom partner and Way- Andrea Riseborough and Tom Wilkinson (Pictured above from left) Mongrel NORTH AMERICA point Entertainment founder Ken Kao. round out the key cast and Robbie Bren- International’s Jasper Jones, Voltage Pictures’ All Eyez On Me and Mundial’s Don’t Swallow CAA is repping US rights. ner of Dallas Buyers Club produces. Bur- My Heart Alligator Girl! By Jeremy Kay Sierra/Affi nity’s Nick Meyer, Jonathan den is now in post. Kier and the sales team are launching Content Media is hoping to cause a Lionsgate and Participant Media kick off talks on the Ethan Hawke and Noomi stir with its well-received Sundance doc- Swallow My Heart Alligator Girl! from their sales relationship with an untitled Rapace thriller Stockholm, based on a umentary Cries From Syria by Oscar- Brazil’s Felipe Braganca. The Sundance Entebbe project starring Rosamund Pike real 1973 Swedish bank robbery during nominated Evgeny Afi neevsky. The fi lm premiere is an epic love story about a and Daniel Brühl, and produced by which the hostages bonded with their chronicles the Middle Eastern country’s Brazilian boy and a Guarani girl from Working Title Films. Lionsgate co-chair- captors. The event coined the term for civil war and draws on hundreds of across the Apa river in Paraguay. man Patrick Wachsberger and his team the psychological condition Stockholm hours of war footage and testimony from Adam Brody and The Book Thief’s are expected to show footage from Jose Syndrome. Shooting is expected to begin children, survivors and army officers Sophie Nélisse star in The Kid Detective, a Padilha’s fi lm about the 1976 hijack of a in April. Productivity Media is fi nancing who have defected from government Myriad Pictures sales title produced by passenger jet by pro-Palestinian forces and Jason Blum is among the producers. ranks. HBO will air the fi lm on March 13. Vancouver-based Brightlight Pictures. and the subsequent rescue by Israeli IM Global is launching pre-sales on Mongrel International is at the EFM The satirical murder mystery follows a commandos. Serenity, a noir thriller it is fully fi nancing. with completed Australian coming-of- down-at-heel former child detective who FilmNation arrives with sales rights to Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hath- age mystery Jasper Jones. Toni Collette gets a shot at his fi rst ‘adult’ case. Bright- Amazon Studios’ Suspiria remake from away are in talks to star, and Steven and Hugo Weaving star in Rachel Per- light, Myriad and UTA Independent Film Luca Guadagnino, who is red-hot after Knight will direct from his own screen- kins’ drama about a teenage boy who Group jointly arranged fi nancing and the the Sundance premiere of his Call Me By play. It is about a fi sherman whose past is sets out to confront racism and find a latter two are handling US rights. Your Name. Tilda Swinton, Dakota John- about to catch up with him. Production is killer in the course of an eventful sum- XYZ Films has international rights to son and Chloe Grace Moretz star in the scheduled for the summer on what will mer in 1968. recent Sundance premiere Bushwick, horror feature. be IM Global’s third collaboration with Visit Films has boarded international which just sold to RLJ Entertainment for Voltage Pictures is screening the Knight following Locke and Redemption. sales on Columbus, a completed drama the US and stars Dave Bautista and Brit- Tupac Shakur drama All Eyez On Me, Good Universe is in town to talk about a woman who forms a close bond tany Snow. The action thriller takes which Lionsgate will release in the US on up Burden, in which Garrett with a man visiting his dying father. John place as civil war breaks out in the US June 16 through its Summit label. The Hedlund tackles another Cho, Haley Lu Richardson, Parker and a former soldier helps a young film recounts the late rapper’s life and racism story following his Posey, Rory Culkin and Michelle woman survive. stars Demetrius Shipp Jr as Shakur. noted turn in Sundance Forbes star. It is the directorial Premiere Entertainment is talking to Benny Boom directs from a script by Ed world premiere Mud- debut of South Korean- buyers about You Were Never He re, a Gonzalez and Jeremy Haft. bound. Hedlund plays born filmmaker and film thriller starring Mireille Enos, Sam Bloom Media is in Berlin with one of a man who battles his writer Kogonada. Cinetic Shepard and Goran Visnjic. Camille the most unique titles in the market, family’s ties to the Ku represents US rights. Thoman directs and produces the fi lm, Woody Harrelson’s Lost In London. The Klux Klan when his Mundial’s Cristina about an artist who suspects she is being project shot in a single take in the UK lover urges him to Garza is jetting into stalked. The fi lm screens in the market. capital last month, while being simulta- choose a better town with Gen- Raven Banner is in town with Dark- neously beamed to audiences in the UK life. Forest eration 14Plus ness Rising, a sci-fi horror directed by and US. Harrelson plays himself and Whitaker, You Were Never Here selection Don’t Austin Reading about the lone survivor » 22 Screen International at Berlin February 9, 2017 www.screendaily.com EFM BUZZ THE LOWDOWN of a family massacre who revisits her childhood home on the eve of its destruc- UNITED KINGDOM tion. Katrina Law, Bryce Johnson, Tara Holt and horror stalwart Ted Raimi star By Andreas Wiseman in the project from Storyboard Enter- tainment and Compass Entertainment. David Garrett’s Mister Smith is launch- The Exchange is showcasing We’re Just ing sales on Terrence Malick’s Second Married, from director Rodrigo Garcia. World War drama Radegund, the true Lily Rabe, Sam Rockwell and Chris story of Franz Jägerstätter, a conscien- Messina are attached to star. The comedy tious objector who refused to fight for drama is set in the early 1970s and pre- the Nazis. The film marks Malick’s sents a portrait of a romantic triangle. Columbus return to the period following acclaimed Double Dutch International has Heidi: 1998 drama The Thin Red Line. August Queen Of The Mountain, starring Bill Diehl, Valerie Pachner, Matthias Schoen- Nighy. Bhavna Talwar directs the feature, aerts and Bruno Ganz star. based on the celebrated tales of the Swiss HanWay Films is back in business mountain girl. It is anticipated as the first with Brooklyn star Saoirse Ronan on the in a family trilogy. drama Sweetness In The Belly, based on AMBI Distribution is selling world- Camilla Gibb’s novel about a white Mus- wide rights to Beyond The Edge, in which lim woman raised in Africa who goes on a team of paranormal crooks plan a bank to be employed by the UK’s National heist. Antonio Banderas stars in the film, Health Service. Ethopia-born Zeresenay which is co-directed by Aleksandr Mehari, whose 2014 filmDifret won an Boguslavskiy and Francesco Cinquemani. You Are Killing Me Susana audience award at Sundance, is directing VMI Worldwide has picked up sales the film, which is produced by Sienna on and is screening Nightworld by Chil- Films and Parallel Films. ean horror master Patricio Valladares. Protagonist Pictures is in Berlin with Jason London and Robert Englund star period biopic Vita And Virginia, about lit- in the film about a security guard at an erary icons Vita Sackville-West and Vir- old apartment building in Eastern ginia Woolf. Gemma Arterton is set to star Europe possessed by a malevolent force. as the former and Eva Green as the latter. Shoreline Entertainment is handling The film marks the second feature of sales on Tatu And Patu, a completed pro- Chanya Button (Burn Burn Burn) and is ject based on the Finnish family bestseller due to shoot in the spring. about brother inventors who visit the city Thorsten Schumacher’s Rocket Sci- at Christmas with their best friend. Cries From Syria ence is at the EFM with Kristin Scott Electric Entertainment is showing Thomas’s directorial debut about a cou- footage of company owner Dean Devlin’s relationship between a singer and her and Toby Kebbell. ple whose marriage is in crisis. Scott Bad Samaritan with David Tennant and protégé that won the audience award at Canadian outfit Attraction Distribu- Thomas will play the woman in the trou- Robert Sheehan, about two burglars who Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival. tion is here at the Berlinale with a selec- bled relationship and Mark Strong is in stumble on a captive woman during a Little Film Company is talking up Bad tion of European titles that include talks to play her husband. break-in. Electric has worldwide rights. Blood, a thriller starring Xavier Samuel Simone van Dusseldorp’s family film Altitude Film Sales recently secured MPI Media Group is showcasing It from Fury and Love & Friendship, about a Owls And Mice, produced by Dutch outfit world sales rights to Mary And The Stains The Sands Red, a zombie apoca- romantic weekend at a mountain resort Lemming, which is screening in Genera- Witch’s Flower, the first feature from Stu- lypse story about a woman who is pur- that turns into a terrifying ordeal. tion Kplus. Attraction is also handling dio Ponoc, the Japanese animation house sued through the desert by an undead Seville International has boarded sales Nathalie Teirlinck’s Past Imperfect, a founded by former Studio Ghibli pro- creature.