mArket buzz TaiWan HoT TiTLeS, page 44 Tom Ford Kanye West Keanu Reeves Bruce Willis Blake Lively Loving Vincent Hailee Steinfeld Croisette offerings Screen profiles the hot projects available to international buyers at this year’s market North America 1,000 Times starring Hailee Steinfeld. To Samarkand, in which he will star as a of international sales and distribution The project is described as The Fault In troubled former soldier on surveillance Jeffrey Greenstein will also talk up Sep- By Jeremy Kay Our Stars meets The Sixth Sense. The duty in London who may or may not tembers Of Shiraz, a thriller about a Jew- FilmNation will introduce Tom Ford’s slate also includes action comedy The have spotted a bomb threat. War photog- ish family caught in the Islamic directorial follow-up to A Single Man, True Memoirs Of An International Assas- rapher Greg Williams directs. Revolution in Iran. Salma Hayek, Adrien the prestige mystery Nocturnal Animals sin, starring Kevin James as a novelist Voltage Pictures is fully financing and Brody and Shohreh Aghdashloo star. starring Amy Adams and Jake Gyllen- who is mistaken for a hitman in Belize, producing Christoph Waltz’s directorial Jason Sudeikis and Jessica Biel star in haal. Smokehouse Pictures’ George and the action thriller High Wire Act, debut The Worst Marriage In Georgetown. drama The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea, Clooney and Grant Heslov are produc- with Brad Anderson directing Jon Waltz will play real-life fabulist and to feature a score by Justin Timberlake. ing. CAA represents US rights. The Hamm from a screenplay by Tony Gilroy. social climber Albrect Muth, who mar- Content Media will show first footage company is also selling Second World Sierra/Affinity has a tasty pair of pro- ried a much older woman in Washington and CAA represents US rights. Con- War thriller HHHH, which stars Jason jects in pre-production. Marc Forster’s DC and rose through the ranks of the tent’s sales slate also includes documen- Clarke, Rosamund Pike, Jack O’Connell, All I See Is You stars Blake Lively and elite until his wife was found murdered. tary and Cannes Classics selection Steve and Mia Wasikowska and is one of two Jason Clarke in the story of a blind Nicolas Chartier heads to Cannes with McQueen: The Man & Le Mans. titles in the market about the assassina- woman who learns scary things about the new-look team of president, partner The world’s first ‘painted animation’ tion of Reinhard Heydrich, alongside her marriage when her sight is restored. and COO Jonathan Deckter and presi- project takes pride of place on the Cin- Altitude Film Sales’ Anthropoid. Bold Films’ Shot Caller stars Nikolaj dent of international sales John Fremes. ema Management Group roster. Doug- Keanu Reeves will return as the Coster-Waldau (Game Of Thrones) as an Bloom will kick off talks on Wood- las Booth plays Armand Roulin vengeful former hitman in Thunder ex-con coerced into carrying out a major shock, which will star Kirsten Dunst and alongside Saoirse Ronan, Game Of Road’s John Wick 2, a sequel to the 2014 score for a rival gang. Relativity Media is based on a secretive script by Rodarte Thrones’ Jerome Flynn and Chris hit that Lionsgate International will holds US rights. fashion label founders Kate and Laura O’Dowd in Loving Vincent. Also on its introduce on the Croisette. Lionsgate is IM Global arrives on the Croisette with Mulleavy. The sisters make their feature slate is Ping Pong Rabbit: The Magic also selling The Shack with Sam Wor- Spike Lee’s Chiraq, a musical reimagin- directorial debut and A24 will distribute Paddle, a 3D project from the animators thington and Octavia Spencer attached. ing of the ancient Greek comedy Lysis- in the US. behind The Nightmare Before Christmas. Gil Netter (The Sea Of Trees, Life Of Pi) trata about a woman on a quest to end Nu Image arrives on the Croisette with Lotus Entertainment has taken over produces the tale of the father of an gang warfare in Chicago. Kanye West, Leatherface, a Texas Chain Saw Massacre sales on Magic City, a 1960s Miami-set abducted girl who meets god. Jennifer Hudson, Samuel L Jackson and origins story to star Stephen Dorff and crime thriller to star Jeffrey Dean Mor- Good Universe has Gold Circle’s John Cusack are lining up. IM Global Lili Taylor. Production is set to begin in gan, Olga Kurylenko, Bruce Willis, Bill supernatural thriller Break My Heart also has the Tom Hardy thriller Journey mid-May. Recently promoted president Murray, Danny Huston and Kelly Lynch. » 18 Screen International at Cannes May 13, 2015 www.screendaily.com Feature market buzz alongside Emile Hirsch in comedy The Runaround, which The Solution Enter- tainment Group is bringing to the Croi- sette. The Gersh Agency and UTA Independent Film Group represent North American rights on the story of a workaholic father who enlists the help of his daughter’s ex to find his girl dur- ing a layover in Los Angeles. The pro- ducers have earmarked a July shoot in Los Angeles. Myriad Pictures has the recent SXSW opener Brand: A Second Coming, Ondi nina Forever Timoner’s documentary featuring UK comic Russell Brand in political fire- brand mode. WME Global is the US sales agent. The company’s slate also includes The Parts You Lose, an upcom- ing drama about a hearing-impaired boy who strikes up a friendship with a fugitive. Breaking Bad’s Aaron Paul stars and UTA represents US sales. Bleiberg Entertainment has snapped up international rights to Sundance selection Experimenter, starring Peter Sarsgaard as the Yale psychologist Stan- ley Milgram who conducted controver- sial obedience tests in the early 1960s. Krisha experimenter Winona Ryder also stars in Michael Almereyda’s drama, which Magnolia CAA represents US rights with Jeff Berg Pictures is distributing in the US later on the project, which QED International this year. originally introduced to the market. The AMBI Distribution hits town with the shoot is scheduled for an August start. animation Arctic Justice: Thunder Squad, Laura Dern will star alongside Ellen boasting the voice cast of Alec Baldwin, Burstyn and Sebastian Koch in Jennifer John Cleese, James Franco, Anjelica Fox’s investigative thriller The Tale, Huston, Heidi Klum and Omar Sy. which Mongrel International will tout AMBI’s sci-fi thrillerRupture is set for a on the Croisette. Fox based the story on June start and stars Noomi Rapace as a an episode from her own life and Dern single mother abducted by a shadowy will play a journalist who probes a story organisation. she wrote as a teenager about her part in Epic Pictures will be talking up Jeru- a sex triangle with two grown-ups. Jeruzalem zalem, an Israeli production about a US Red Granite International label Blue woman on holiday in Israel who is Box International has Stowaway, which sales on 20th Century Women from Seville International will tempt buy- caught up in a Biblical apocalypse. The Marcus Nispel will direct. The thriller is Beginners director Mike Mills. The story ers with Xavier Dolan’s upcoming It’s company also has SXSW selection Nina based on a Norse myth and follows a takes place in the heady summer of 1979 Only The End Of The World, featuring a Forever, a darkly comic ménage-a-trois woman who learns a terrifying secret as a boy comes of age, punk hits US sub- to-die-for cast of Marion Cotillard, Léa about a dead woman who haunts her ex about her fiancé’s family while on a urbia and the oil crisis ravages the Seydoux, Vincent Cassel, Nathalie Baye to sabotage his new relationship. yachting trip. global economy. and Gaspard Ulliel. Dolan expects to The Exchange slate features Modern Radiant Films International handles Block Entertainment will start talks on start shooting the family drama later Life Is Rubbish, starring Jack Lowden Hailee Steinfeld and Tom Wilkinson in an untitled Jon Lucas and Scott Moore this month once he has completed Com- and Freya Mavor as a couple who can- the adaptation of Caren Lissner’s project, a female-led comedy to star Les- petition jury duties. Seville’s slate also not quite split up after they divvy up the young-adult novel Carrie Pilby, about a lie Mann. Mann’s husband Judd Apatow includes Critics’ Week selection Sleeping record collection that defined their rela- Harvard graduate in search of love and is among the producers. Merced Media Giant from Andrew Cividino. tionship. The company is also looking to happiness in New York. UTA Independ- — the $500m fund launched late last International Film Trust heads to reboot The Three Stooges, reuniting Sean ent Film Group and ICM Partners are year by former QED International chief Cannes with sales rights to Werner Her- Hayes, Will Sasso and Chris Diamanto- jointly handling North American rights. Bill Block, PalmStar Media Capital CEO zog’s super-volcano thriller Salt And poulos from the 2012 Fox release. Krisha caused a stir when it pre - Kevin Frakes and Merced Capital — is Fire, currently shooting in Bolivia. Buenos Aires-based Filmsharks will miered in SXSW and will screen here in fully financing. Paramount swooped on Veronica Ferres, Michael Shannon and introduce the comedy No Kids (Sin Critics’ Week. Visit Films is the sales US rights on the eve of Cannes and will Gael Garcia Bernal star and CAA han- Hijos), an Argentina-Spain co-produc- agent on the story of an estranged wom- release on April 15, 2016. dles US rights. The company also tion from the producers of swinger an’s ill-advised return to the family fold.