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Cannes with Thunder Road and Black Label Media’s action thriller Sicario from red-hot director Denis Villeneuve (Prisoners, Incendies). Emily Blunt plays a special agent on the trail of a crime kingpin who enlists the support of Benicio Del Toro’s shadowy government operative. Lionsgate will distribute in the US. The slate also includes River Road’s The Last Face, a romance to be directed by Sean Penn. Charlize Theron and Javier Bardem will play star-crossed humanitarian doctors in Africa. IM Global is in town with Civilian, an action thriller starring Jackie Chan and produced by Basil Iwanyk of Thunder Road. Peter Segal, whose credits include Grudge Match and 50 First Dates, is directing. The company is also handling
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Forsaken (formerly Deserted), which Gravity co-writer Jonas Cuaron directs and is producing with his Oscar-winning father Alfonso. Gael Garcia Bernal and Jeffrey Dean Morgan are set to star in the battle of wits between illegal Mexican immigrants and a racist vigilante. Mexico’s prolific Alex Garcia produces and Lava Bear’s David Linde is executive producer. FilmNation is selling the sci-fi project Story Of Your Life, in which Denis Villeneuve will direct Oscar nominee Amy Adams as a linguist summoned after an alien crash-landing. FilmNation and Lava Bear are co-financing the project. Begin Again director John Carney’s Sing Street is a semi-autobiographical story about a teenager growing up in 1980s Dublin. It will feature original music by U2’s Bono and The Edge, who will also be involved in the film. Voltage Pictures is on the Croisette
with Knock Knock, Eli Roth’s sexy psycho-thriller which started shooting in Chile in April. It stars Keanu Reeves as a home-alone husband visited by two beautiful strangers. Also on Voltage’s slate is Breaking Through, an innovative coming-of-age story set in the world of competitive dance. Hyde Park International is showing footage from Skin Trade, an action thriller in which Dolph Lundgren plays a New York cop who teams up with Tony Jaa’s Thai detective to avenge his family’s murder. Hyde Park is also representing Oscar-winning effects wizard Robert Legato’s thriller The Haunting Of Eloise. Chace Crawford and Eliza Dushku will star, Tripp Vinson is producing. Annapurna International is in town to showcase The Hollars, a drama that John Krasinski will direct for Sycamore Pictures and Groundswell. It follows a New Yorker forced to navigate the dys-
functional ways of his Middle America home town when he returns to tend to his ailing mother. The slate also includes Charlize Theron action comedy American Express. QED International’s slate features the drama Time Out Of Mind, in which Richard Gere plays a man down on his luck who ends up on the street. Blue Jasmine producer-financier Edward Walson is on board. Myriad Pictures is kicking off sales on the romantic comedy After The Ball, a Cinderella story set in the world of high fashion. Portia Doubleday, Marc-André Grondin and Chris Noth star and Pacific Northwest Pictures will distribute in Canada. Content is showcasing Amy Berg’s Janis Joplin documentary Janis: Little Girl Blue, which features concert footage and interviews with people who knew » Joplin.
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Radiant Films International has boarded The Driftless Area, a dark comedy from Unified Pictures and Bron Studios about a bartender who returns to his home town and upsets a crime boss. Zooey Deschanel, Anton Yelchin and Frank Langella star in the project, which is now shooting in Vancouver. XYZ Films is presenting the market premiere of Preservation starring Wrenn Schmidt, Pablo Schreiber and Aaron Staton as hunters on a trip that goes wrong. The company’s slate also includes Home, a drama about an estate agent tasked with selling a property that has a dark past. Glee’s Naya Rivera stars with Catalina Sandino Moreno, best known for Maria, Full Of Grace. Visit Films has taken sales duties on Critics’ Week selection It Follows, the second feature from David Robert Mitchell following The Myth Of The American Sleepover. The story follows a young woman plagued by visions and the belief that something is pursuing her. Magnolia International is showcasing Honeymoon, a thriller starring Rose Leslie and Harry Treadaway as newlyweds whose post-nuptials getaway is ruined by strange events. Magnolia is also selling Katemquin Films’ Roger Ebert doc Life Itself. It holds US rights to both titles. Epic Pictures is selling V/H/S Viral, the new film in the found-footage V/H/S horror franchise. This time some eight genre directors, including Marcel Sarmiento,
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Gregg Bishop, Nacho Vigalondo, Todd Lincoln, Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead contribute segments to a story of fame-obsessed teens who unwittingly become internet stars. eOne’s Quebec-based arthouse subsidiary Seville International is handling Julio Medem’s drama Ma Ma starring Penelope Cruz, which starts shooting this month. Seville Pictures has Spanish rights. Buenos Aires-based FilmSharks International is screening footage from the English-language title Save Oz! 3D. It is produced by Alex Garcia’s Anima Estudios and directed by Alberto Mar, whose credits include Top Cat: The Movie. New Films International is showing 10 minutes of footage of James Franco’s adaptation of William Faulkner’s novel The Sound And The Fury, about the decline of a grand Southern family. Franco stars alongside Seth Rogen, Danny McBride and Tim Blake Nelson. The Exchange is handling The Tank, a horror film about a freaky Mars-mission simulation. It is produced by Glacier Films, the Russian-backed outfit set up a year ago by a group of partners including Hayden Christensen. Insidious producer Steven Schneider is on board and Open Road has US rights. Diamond Pictures is expecting a lot of interest in Jackie Earle Haley’s feature directorial debut Criminal Activities, starring John Travolta and Michael Pitt. The
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drama is about former classmates who fall foul of a mobster. Synchronicity Entertainment is starting talks on the supernatural thriller Nightlight, described as an innovative found-footage story about friends who disturb a malevolent force in the woods. Lionsgate has picked up US rights. Bleiberg Entertainment is talking to buyers about Lulu Wang’s romantic drama Posthumous, which stars Jack Huston and Brit Marling alongside Lambert Wilson, the master of ceremonies at this year’s festival. Set in Berlin, the film is about an artist who falls in love with a reporter after he pretends to be dead. The film is in post-production. Inception Media Group is screening the family animation Almost Heroes, about a mechanic and his robot pals who thwart a robot army. Taylor Kitsch, Jen-
nette McCurdy, James Woods and Carla Gugino are among the voice cast. Toronto-based distributor Hussain Amarshi recently launched Mongrel International and is starting sales on Aisling Walsh’s Maudie. Sally Hawkins will star as Nova Scotia folk artist Maud Lewis. Red Sea Media is introducing buyers to About Alex, Jesse Zwick’s recent Tribeca premiere about college friends who reunite over a long weekend. Indie darling Aubrey Plaza and Maggie Grace star in the drama. Screen Media Films has acquired US rights and plans a theatrical/VoD roll-out on August 8. Famous father Ed Zwick is among the producers. Lightning Entertainment is handling sales on the thriller Ask Me Anything, about a young woman whose anonymous blog about her sexual misadventures goes »
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too far. The project features rising star Britt Robertson, who also stars in Warner Bros’ sci-fi Tomorrowland. The rest of the cast includes Justin Long, Christian Slater, Martin Sheen, Robert Patrick and Max Carver. Shoreline Entertainment is commencing talks on The Infinite Man, the SXSW title about a romantic scientist who discovers time travel and traps his lover in a self-repeating loop. Electric Entertainment is talking up the Sundance premiere The Better Angels from frequent Terrence Malick collaborator AJ Edwards. Jason Clarke, Diane Kruger, Brit Marling, Wes Bentley and Braydon Denney star in the little-known story of the young Abraham Lincoln. Continental Media is screening festival favourite Noble in which Sarah Greene plays real-life philanthropist Christina Noble,who overcame a childhood of privation to launch charities in aid of street children. Meyers Media Group will start sales on The B Team, starring John Cleese as the villain in a spy spoof featuring some of the original cast members of Baywatch. AMBI Distribution is handling David Petrucci’s Hope Lost, a sex-trafficking thriller starring Mischa Barton, Danny Trejo, Michael Madsen and Daniel Baldwin. Jason Segel, Jesse Eisenberg and Ron Livingston star in The End Of The Tour, which Fortitude International is representing. The story charts the relationship that developed when a Rolling Stone reporter accompanied the late novelist David Foster Wallace on a book tour. 108 Media is showcasing The Insect King, a drama starring Melissa George about a teenager and his father who vie for the attentions of the same woman. Double Dutch is in town with the drama 4 Minute Mile, about a student athlete from the inner city who prepares for the race of his life. Kelly Blatz, Richard Jenkins and Cam Gigandet star. Gravitas Ventures holds US rights. VMI Worldwide’s Cannes slate is headed by Hellion, starring Aaron Paul, Juliette Lewis and Josh Wiggins. The drama, which premiered at Sundance, is about a wild teen and his emotionally absent father who try to regain custody of the youngest son in the family.
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David Garrett’s Mister Smith is in Cannes with Drake Doremus’s Equals, a futuristic romantic thriller set to star Kristen Stewart and Nicholas Hoult. Written by Nathan Parker, whose credits include Moon, and with Ridley Scott as one of the producers, the project is due to start shooting in Japan and Singapore in August. Mister Smith’s slate also includes Russell Crowe’s directorial debut The Water Diviner and the Jesse Owens biopic Race. Tim Haslam and Hugo Grumbar’s Embankment Films is on the Croisette with the comedy drama Prima, starring Vera Farmiga and Peter Sarsgaard, about a mother who will stop at nothing to realise her daughter’s ballet dreams, and Bryan Bertino horror title There Are Monsters, set to star Elisabeth Moss. Kate Winslet has been joined on Jocelyn Moorhouse’s Australian drama The Dressmaker by Liam Hemsworth, Isla Fisher and Elizabeth Debicki. Protagonist Pictures is introducing
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buyers to Andrea Arnold’s first US-set film American Honey, about ‘mag crews’ — travelling magazine sales crews — and Nick Love’s untitled US project starring Stephen Dorff, about a reluctant superhero. It will also be screening the first footage of James Kent’s period drama Testament Of Youth, produced by BBC Films and David Heyman and starring Alicia Vikander. Harold Van Lier’s eOne International is set to entice buyers with Gavin Hood’s drone-warfare thriller Eye In The Sky, set to star Colin Firth, and John McNamara’s buzz script Trumbo, set to be directed by Jay Roach and star Bryan Cranston and Helen Mirren. eOne also has Competition duo Maps To The Stars and The Captive, directed by David Cronenberg and Atom Egoyan respectively. HanWay Films is in Cannes with the first footage of three highly anticipated dramas: Todd Haynes’ Carol, starring Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara, Rodrigo Garcia’s Last Days In the Desert, starring Ewan McGregor, John Crowley’s Brooklyn and Julian Jarrold’s Girls’ Night Out with Sarah Gadon and Bel Powley.
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Vincent Perez’s Alone In Berlin, Achim von Borries’ English-language adaptation of Hans Fallada’s classic 1947 novel about a couple in the German Resistance in Berlin under the rise of the Nazis. The film’s stellar production team includes former Focus Features CEO James Schamus and Germany’s X-Filme. Thompson is also handling Mike Leigh’s Competition title Mr Turner and Asif Kapadia’s untitled Amy Winehouse documentary. Independent’s Cannes slate includes new family animation A Bollywoof Tale from Racing Stripes director Frederik Du Chau. It will also be showing the first footage of Bill, a family comedy about how ‘Bill’ Shakespeare became William, and Andy Hamilton and Guy Jenkin’s comedy What We Did On Our Holiday, starring Rosamund Pike and David Tennant. WestEnd Films’ line-up is headed by A Perfect Day, the English-language debut of Fernando Leon De Aranoa in which Benicio Del Toro, Tim Robbins, Olga Kurylenko and Mélanie Thierry star as conflict-zone aid workers. Kanu Behl’s »
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Un Certain Regard entry Titli tells the story of a young man trying to escape the violent family business in Delhi’s underbelly, while Shira Geffen’s Israeli drama Self Made plays in Critics’ Week. Bankside Films’ Cannes slate includes Michael Petroni thriller Backtrack, starring Adrien Brody and Sam Neill, upcoming Steven Shainberg comedydrama The Big Shoe, set to star Kristen Stewart, and X Plus Y, Morgan Matthews’ drama with Asa Butterfield. Salt’s market slate includes comedy Miss You Already, which has new life with director Catherine Hardwicke and actress Rachel Weisz, who joins Toni Collette in the cast. Salt is also handling Paul Hyett’s high-concept horror title The Pool and Northmen: A Viking Saga, which is in post-production ahead of its UK release in October. UMedia is on the Croisette to talk to buyers about former Black List script Sand Castle, set to star Nicholas Hoult, which charts writer Chris Roessner’s 200 missions as a machine gunner in Iraq’s Sunni Triangle. The company is also handling the animation Deep, about an
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adventurous octopus and his two best friends who go on a perilous journey. Altitude Film Sales has international sales rights to John Niven’s adaptation of his own novel Kill Your Friends, a black comedy about life in the music business in the UK in the 1990s, starring Nicholas Hoult. Skins and Black Mirror director Owen Harris is making his feature directorial debut on the project. Altitude is also handling TV-to-screen adaptation Spooks: The Greater Good, a spy thriller directed by Bharat Nalluri and starring Kit Harington, Jennifer Ehle and Peter Firth, now in production, and Directors’ Fortnight title Catch Me Daddy, the feature debut of Daniel Wolfe, a former Screen International UK Star of Tomorrow. For Goldcrest International, Martin Sheen is attached to Andre Ovredal’s thriller The Autopsy Of Jane Doe and Daniel Radcliffe is due to star in Douglas McGrath’s biopic Brooklyn Bridge, to be produced by Christine Vachon. It is also handling the feature documentary Korendal by Restrepo director Sebastian Junger. Metro International is introducing buyers to Joe Stephenson’s Noel Coward
biopic Noel, while UK pop group Spandau Ballet will be in town for the market premiere of George Hencken’s documentary about the band, Soul Boys Of The Western World. Nina Simone biopic Nina is also screening in the market for the first time. Ian Hall’s Genesis Film Sales is launching Jon Drever’s romantic comedy SuperBob starring Catherine Tate and Brett Goldstein, and produced by Robert Jones, and Heidi Greensmith’s drama Winter, executive produced by Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood and starring Stacy Martin, the break-out star of Lars von Trier’s Nymphomaniac. SC Films is in town with John H Williams-produced Gnome Alone, a 3D family animation, the sci-fi film Tomorrow, and new footage of animation Yellowbird, whose voice cast includes Dakota Fanning, Christine Baranski and Seth Green. Fledgling sales outfit Metrodome International is making its market debut with horror duo White Settlers, about a young couple who move to a remote Scottish farmhouse, and Howl from SFX expert Paul Hyett. It is also handling the revenge thriller The Taking, starring
Victoria Smurfit and Joanne Mitchell. The Works is screening a promo for Swung, a drama about the swingers scene, directed by former Screen International UK Star of Tomorrow Colin Kennedy and starring Elena Anaya, Owen McDonnell and Elizabeth McGovern. High Point is handling Thank You Very Much Mr Eastwood, about the infamous feud between boxing champion Barry McGuigan and his manager Barney Eastwood, and Dean Francis’s Australian drama Drown, about homophobia at a Sydney-based lifesavers club. Celsius is talking to buyers about Patricia Rozema’s apocalyptic drama Into The Forest, starring Ellen Page and Evan Rachel Wood, which is due to start shooting this summer, and Ray Lawrence’s Rosa, the Australian director’s much-anticipated follow up to Jindabyne and Lantana. Kaleidoscope Entertainment is in Cannes with sci-fi thriller RPG starring Rutger Hauer, First World War feature No Man’s Land, and the well-received Arab Spring documentary We Are the Giant, which premiered at Sundance. Kaleidoscope has also picked up remaining territories on Ruairi Robinson’s Last Days On Mars. Jinga’s typically robust horror offering includes the well-received FrightFest sequel The Dead II and Alejandro Hidalgo’s The House At The End Of Time, a haunted house title from Venezuela. It is also handling Jeremy Wooding’s comedy western Blood Moon, which is now in post-production. GFM’s Cannes line-up is spearheaded by anticipated Monty Python animation Absolutely Anything, directed by Terry Jones and featuring Simon Pegg and »
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Feature Cannes Buzz
Metamorphoses
A Cry From Within
The Legend Of Underzoo
Kate Beckinsale, as well as the voice talents of Jones, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Michael Palin and Eric Idle. Timeless is showcasing Robodog, featuring the voices of Ron Perlman and Chris Colfer, and The Legend Of UnderZoo, in which four animals unite in search of a mythical treasure to save their devastated zoo. New to Parkland Pictures’ slate are romantic drama Secret Love, which will star UK singer-songwriter Duffy and the romantic comedy Scrum Like It Hot, written and directed by Niall Johnson. Goalpost Film is continuing the push on the feature version of Michael Winterbottom’s The Trip To Italy and will be introducing buyers to Neil Armfield’s Australian love story Holding The Man. Documentary specialist Dogwoof is handling Alex Gibney’s Finding Fela, about musician Fela Kuti, and Hot Docs titles Advanced Style, about seven inspirational women aged over 60 and living in New York. It is also representing 112 Weddings about a videographer who has filmed 112 weddings. Maura Ford of 7 & 7 Sales is introducing buyers to two horror titles: Zach Miller and Deborah Twiss’s A Cry From Within, starring Eric Roberts, and Blair Erickson’s Banshee Chapter. The compa-
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Macbeth
ny’s slate also includes Peter Domankiewicz’s Tea & Sangria, about a hapless Englishman who abandons his life in the UK for his Spanish girlfriend. Moviehouse’s slate includes two animations: The Hero Of Colour City, about a gang of crayons, and A Giant Adventure, in which a 12 year-old stumbles on a hidden world where he discovers a giant. Carnaby’s market slate includes Ataturk, the biopic of iconic Turkish statesman Kemal Ataturk, which has renowned DoP Vilmos Zsigmond attached, the family comedy Tom Thumb and Paul Tanter’s crime drama The Rise Of The Krays. Manifest Film Sales is in Cannes with Reagan, a biopic of the late US president, scripted by Space Cowboys’ Howard Klausner and set to star Jon Voigt. Park Entertainment is showcasing the mixed martial-arts documentary Enter The Jungle, narrated by and featuring rapper Ice T, Craig Newland’s 3 Mile Limit, a drama about the New Zealand music scene in the 1960s and Robert Rice’s thriller Dead Of Winter, featuring footballer John Carew. Saradan Media will screen actionthriller Viktor, in which Gérard Depardieu plays a father who avenges his son’s death. Elizabeth Hurley co-stars in Philippe Martinez’s Russia-set feature.
France By Melanie Goodfellow Wild Bunch launches pre-sales on a slew
of international titles including the sequel Spring Breakers: The Second Coming, Paul Verhoeven’s untitled raperevenge thriller, Gaspar Noé’s sexual melodrama Love, Abdellatif Kechiche’s Tunisia-set The Real Wound, the remake of Maniac Cop, and Arnaud Desplechin’s Three Memories Of Childhood. It is also selling Mark Osborne’s animated take on Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s classic children’s story The Little Prince, and Kim Farrant’s Australian outback drama Strangerland, starring Nicole Kidman and Hugo Weaving. Of the Competition titles, Wild Bunch is handling Michel Hazanavicius’s The Search and JeanPierre and Luc Dardenne’s Two Days, One Night. It is also screening Abel Ferrara’s controversial Welcome To New York in the market for the first time, MK2 , which is handling Naomi Kawase’s Japanese Palme d’Or contender Still The Water, is set to announce her next project as well as that of compatriot Kiyoshi Kurosawa. It is also unveiling the first images of Christophe Honoré’s Metamorphoses, a contemporary retelling of Ovid’s classic work. Further films in the
Two Days, One Night
pipeline include Robert Guédiguian’s Don’t Tell Me The Boy Was Mad and Paolo and Vittorio Taviani’s Wondrous Boccaccio. It also handles Olivier Assayas’s Clouds Of Sils Maria, which gets a Special Screening. StudioCanal will promo-reel powerful first images from Justin Kurzel’s Macbeth as well as family film Paddington. It will also launch sales on Brian Helgeland’s thriller Legend about the Kray twins, starring Tom Hardy, and Julien Neel’s Lou!, an adaptation of his comic book about a 12-year-old and her young single mum, played by Ludivine Sagnier. Indie Sales is beginning sales on Voyage En Chine, starring Yolande Moreau as a nurse who sets off for China to recover the body of her dead son, and Joachim Lafosse’s The White Knights, which takes inspiration from the Zoe’s Ark affair that saw French aid workers were arrested in Chad on child abduction charges. SND is showcasing Yann Gozlan’s psychological drama A Perfect Man, starring Pierre Niney as a writer who rips off a dead soldier’s diary as his own work, and is showing the first promo reels for Frédéric Tellier’s serial-killer thriller SK1, La Traque De Guy Georges and Eric Lartigau’s La Famille Bélier. It is also selling »
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Feature Cannes Buzz
Wild Life
Insecure
Love At First Fight
Fabrice du Welz’s Alleluia in Directors’ Fortnight. Gaumont is launching sales on comedies Takeaway Romance and The Grad Job. It will also premiere promos for Régis Wargnier’s The Gate, starring Raphael Personnaz as a French ethnologist who was seized by the Khmer Rouge in the 1970s, and Samba, the latest film from Intouchables duo Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano, which stars Omar Sy and Charlotte Gainsbourg. Aside from Palme d’Or contenders Saint Laurent and The Homesman, EuropaCorp will kick off sales on Richard Wenk’s navy seal thriller The Lake and the 3D martial-arts tale Warrior’s Gate, a co-production with Chinese Fundamental Films. Urban Distribution International is handling sales on Insecure, starring Adele Exarchopoulos, which is playing in the ACID section, and also promo-reeling the Peter Mullan-starrer Hec McAdam and pre-sell Oliver Hermanus’s South Africa-set The Endless River. TF1 International will continue sales on Frédéric Auburtin’s FIFA football drama United Passions, which premieres in a Cinema de la Plage screening in the presence of Gérard Depardieu, Sam Neill and Tim Roth. It is also premiering Once In A Lifetime about an inner city teacher,
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and showing the first images of Francois Favrat’s Boomerang. The company is handling the French hit Serial (Bad) Weddings, which has drawn more than 5 million spectators in France. Alpha Violet’s slate features Ukrainian Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy’s Critics’ Week screener The Tribe (Plemya), and new acquisitions that include Fred Nicolas’s Max & Lenny, co-written with The Class author Francois Bégaudeau, which is about two teenage girls in Marseille. Bac Films is on the Croisette with a trio of festival titles: Pablo Fendrik’s rainforest thriller El Ardor, which is in Special Screenings, Philippe Lacote’s Un Certain Regard film Run and romantic comedy Love At First Fight in Directors’ Fortnight. It is also holding invitationonly screenings for Vincent Mariette’s Fool Circle (Tristesse Club). The Coproduction Office is selling two Un Certain Regard titles: Austrian Jessica Hausner’s Amour Fou, a romantic comedy based on the suicide of poet Heinrich von Kleist in 1811; and Ruben Ostlund’s Swedish family ski drama Force Majeure. Doc & Film International is screening extracts of Phantom Boy, by Alain Gagnol and Jean-Loup Felicioli, whose credits include the Oscar-nominated A Cat In Paris. The company is handling Italian
The Tribe
director Stefano Savona’s La Route Des Samouni, which follows a family in Gaza. Doc & Film also has Silvered Water, Syria Self-Portrait in Official Selection, and Frederick Wiseman’s National Gallery in Directors’ Fortnight. Films Distribution is selling the festival titles Bird People, screening in Un Certain Regard, as well as Céline Sciamma’s Directors’ Fortnight opener Girlhood and Ronit and Shlomi Elkabetz’s Gett, The Trial Of Viviane Amsalem, also in Directors’ Fortnight. The company’s recent acquisitions include SXSW hit Housebound, and it is screening promoreel footage of Francois Ozon’s upcoming The New Girlfriend. Kinology is introducing Antoine Bardou-Jacquet’s Moonwalkers to buyers. The film stars Ron Perlman as a CIA agent sent to London to make contact with Stanley Kubrick. Rupert Grint costars. The company has also picked up American-Iranian Ana Lily Amirpour’s Girl Walks Home Alone At Night about a chador-clad vampire, and is also handling Stephanie Valloatto’s Cartoonists:
United Passions
Foot Soldiers Of Democracy in Official Selection. Memento Films International is showing the first footage of Still Alice, which stars Julianne Moore as a professor prematurely suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. The company also has a script available for Jason Lew’s The Free World, starring Cillian Murphy as a wrongly convicted prisoner. Memento is handling Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Palme d’Or contender Winter Sleep and Diego Lerman’s Refugiado in Directors’ Fortnight. Le Pacte is screening footage from Cédric Khan’s Wild Life, starring Mathieu Kassovitz as a father on the run with his two sons, and Thomas Salvador’s fantasy drama Vincent. It is also handling festival titles Hippocrates, which closes Critics’ Week, Nadav Lapid’s The Kindergarten Teacher (Critics’ Week Special Screening), John Boorman’s Queen And Country (Directors’ Fortnight), Wim Wenders and Juliano Ribeiro Salgado’s Salt Of The Earth (Un Certain Regard) and Abderrahmane Sissako’s Palme d’Or contender Timbuktu. »
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Feature Cannes Buzz
Camp X-Ray
3 Hearts
Elle Driver will begin sales on Benoit Jacquot’s Diary Of A Chambermaid remake starring Léa Seydoux, and reveal first images of the director’s latest film 3 Hearts. It will also world premiere Audrey Dana’s French Women starring Isabelle Adjani, Laetitia Casta and Vanessa Paradis. The company is handling Djinn Carrénard’s Critics’ Week opener Faire L’Amour and André Téchiné’s In The Name Of My Daughter. Other Angle Pictures is handling Asia Argento’s melodrama Misunderstood, (Incompresa) starring Charlotte Gainsbourg, and Israeli director Keren Yedaya’s family drama That Lovely Girl, both of which premiere in Un Certain Regard. The company is also representing Hilla Medalia’s documentary The Go-Go Boys, about legendary Israeli producers Menahem Golan and Yoram Glo-
Pride
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Gente De Bien
bus, which premieres in Cannes Classics. Genre specialist WTFilms is focusing on sci-fi thriller Debug and Arab action film Gates Of The Sun starring Mike Tyson. The company is launching a new documentary arm with La Bare about a male strip club and Korea, an exploration of North Korea by writer Yann Moix. Pathé International is beginning sales on Paolo Sorrentino’s English-language Youth (La Giovinezza), starring Michael Caine, Rachel Weisz, Harvey Keitel and Paul Dano, as well as Piero Messina’s Sicily-set The Wait (L’Attesa) starring Juliette Binoche, and Seasons, the newest natural history documentary from Jacques Perrin. It is continuing sales on Sarah Gavron’s UK title Suffragette, starring Carey Mulligan, and is handling Matthew Warchus’s comedy Pride, which is closing Directors’ Fortnight.
Wild Management is launching 10 new pick-ups in the market including Finland director Arto Halonen’s dark doping-themed comedy A Patriotic Man and Natalie Saracco’s debut feature The Maneater. Les Films du Losange is showcasing Philippe Claudel’s gritty drama Childhood and Barbet Schroeder’s Ibiza-set Amnesia. It is also handling Wang Chao’s Un Certain Regard title Fantasia and Tony Gatlif ’s Geronimo, which is a Special Screening. Versatile is selling Colombian director Franco Lolli’s Critics’ Week title Gente De Bien about a young boy spending Christmas with a wealthy client of his carpenter father. Rezo’s market slate is headed by Peter Sattler’s Sundance hit Camp X-Ray, starring Kristen Stewart, and Léa Fazer’s
Maestro, starring Michael Lonsdale as an elderly director. It is also handling Yves Jeuland’s documentary Les Gens Du Monde, which is screening in Official Selection. Pyramide International is selling Un Certain Regard opener Party Girl, about an elderly nightclub hostess who wants to retire, and Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Competition title Leviathan about a garage owner who decides to stand up to local corruption. It is also handling Julie Lopes-Curval’s High Society and Alix Delaporte’s The Last Hammer Blow, which are in post-production. Reel Suspects is starting pre-sales on the German Angst horror trilogy featuring works from Jorg Buttgereit, Andreas Marschall and Michal Kosakowski. It is also handling three other new titles: Matthew Berkowitz’s Wild In Blue, Romain Basset’s Fievre, about a girl trapped between reality and her nightmares, starring Catriona MacColl and singer Murray Head, and Maartje Seyferth and Victor Nieuwenhuijs’s Cat And Mouse. Capricci Films is selling its latest production Eat Your Bones, set against the backdrop of France’s traveller community, which is premiering in Directors’ Fortnight. Funny Balloons will be talking to buyers about Benoit Delépine and Gustave Kervern’s NDE: Near Death Experience starring Michel Houellebecq. The company will also screen footage of Laurent Cantet’s Return To Ithaca, Abel Ferrara’s Pasolini and Chilean Sebastian Silva’s Nasty Baby. Alfama Films is handling Mathieu Amalric’s The Blue Room, an adaptation of a novel by French crime-writer Georges Simenon about a love affair that takes a murderous turn, which is premiering in Un Certain Regard. Alfama is also giving buyers a sneak preview of Michael Sturminger’s Casanova Variations, starring John Malkovich as the Italian womaniser Giacomo Casanova.
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Feature Cannes Buzz
A Second Chance
Fair Play
A Golden Boy
Italy By Melanie Goodfellow
Pupi Avati’s Golden Boy — about the son of a B-movie screenwriter, who makes his living as a copywriter and dreams of one day writing something brilliant and authentic — is making its market debut at Cannes for Rai Trade. The company is also starting pre-sales on Cristina Comencini’s romantic comedy Latin Lover, about an actor who has had five daughters with five different mothers, and Sebastiano Riso’s Darker Than Midnight (Piu Buio Di Mezzanotte). The film is inspired by the real-life story of one of Italy’s best-known drag queens, Fuxia (aka Davide Capone), and is premiering in Critics’ Week. Intramovies is screening Czech director Andrea Sedlackova’s Fair Play for the first time to buyers. It is about a talented sprinter who is secretly doped by her coaches after she decides not to enhance her performance with steroids. The company is also screening the first footage of Fernando Muraca’s Land Of Saints about a young female magistrate who is transferred to Sicily and considers removing the children of Mafia bosses from their families to forcibly break the code of omerta, or silence. The film is in postproduction. The fledgling outfit Coccinelle Film
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Placement, which made its debut at Ber-
lin with documentaries, is breaking into fiction with first-time director Francesca Muci’s romance Love Is Not Perfect, starring Anna Foglietta and produced by Ferzan Ozpetek’s R&C Produzioni. It is also handling Russian director Viktor Shamirov’s comedy The Game Of Truth, and Andrea Segre’s documentary Undue Debt, which explores the Greek financial crisis through the eyes of a musician journeying across the country. Adriana Chiesa Enterprises (ACE) is continuing sales on Roberto Faenza’s English-language Anita B., about a young Auschwitz survivor trying to rebuild her life after the war. It is also handling Andrea Segre’s First Snowfall, about the friendship between an immigrant and a young local boy in the Italian Alps, which is screening for the first time at Cannes. The company also has footage for Water And Sugar, a documentary about cinematographer Carlo Di Palma. The Open Reel has picked up Argentinian directors Rocio Caliri and Melina Marcow’s Announce Earthquakes, which is set in an Argentinian town hit by a wave of teenage suicides. It is also screening Mickael Abbate, Domiziano Cristopharo and Tiziano Martella’s portmanteau film Phantasmagoria, comprising three short films revolving around the supernatural.
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Germany, Benelux, Hungary and the Nordic region By Geoffrey Macnab
With Lars von Trier reportedly about to announce a new project and the western Salvation in official selection, Scandinavian powerhouse TrustNordisk is expecting a busy Cannes. The company has snapped up sales rights to Norwegian comedy Here Is Harold, which it will be selling for the first time in the market (the film was acquired at Gothenburg’s Work In Progress sidebar). TrustNordisk CEO Rikke Ennis describes the film, about a furniture salesman battling with IKEA, as a quirky drama in the vein of Hans Petter Moland’s work. TrustNordisk is having a closed buyers’ screening of a promo reel of Susanne Bier’s new drama A Second Chance. Meanwhile, the company is also screening first footage of The Shamer’s Daughter, a $9m fantasy adventure based on Lene Kaaberbol’s bestselling Scandinavian fantasy franchise The Shamer Chronicles. The company is also introducing buyers to Thomas Vinterberg’s The Commune, expected to launch in the autumn. Fellow Scandinavian major Svensk is continuing pre-sales on 1864 — the feature and TV epic directed by Ole
Bornedal and produced by Miso Film. Also being pre-sold by Svensk is comedy Borning, about an illegal car race from Oslo to the North Cape, and Heaven On Earth, the sequel to box-office hit As It Is In Heaven. Svensk’s new, completed films include Colin Nutley’s comedy Medicine and Nils Gaup’s thriller Glass Dolls. LevelK is introducing buyers to topical feature documentary Drone, which looks at the CIA drone programme and explores how pilots are recruited at a very young age at gaming conventions. It is also screening Stephen Lance’s English-language My Mistress, starring Emmanuelle Béart, in advance of its official world premiere at Melbourne International Film Festival later this year. LevelK is also pre-selling Silent Heart, a drama from double Palme d’Or winner Bille August. Also new to its slate is Ben Chessell’s Australian drama Sucker which stars Timothy Spall as a mentor to a Chinese-Australian 18-year-old girl. Yellow Affair is holding closed screenings of Kasimir Burgess’s Fell and JP Valkeapaa’s They Have Escaped, both in post-production. Austrian outfit Autlook is screening the feature version of The New Rijksmuseum, Oeke Hoogendijk’s epic documentary about the multi-million euro renovation of Amsterdam’s Rijksmu» seum, for the first time to buyers.
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Feature Cannes Buzz
Regret!
Bibi & Tina
The Great Hypnotist
Asia By Liz Shackleton Fortissimo Films is in Cannes with
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Dutch sales company Mountain Road is looking to capitalise on the huge local and festival success of Regret! (Spijt!), Dave Schram’s adaptation of Carry Slee’s novel. There is strong interest in German and Scandinavian remake rights. From Spain, Vicente Canales of Film Factory has high expectations for Competition entry Wild Tales, co-produced by the Almodovars’ El Deseo in Spain and K&S in Argentina. Film Factory is also giving a big international push to romantic comedy Spanish Affair, a runaway local box-office hit in Spain that has racked up 8 million admissions. Meanwhile, Canales is pre-selling action movie Toro from director Kike Maillo and starring Mario Casas and Luis Tosar. 6 Sales is giving a market premiere to 3D horror picture Darker Than Night and to comedy Cantinflas starring Michael Imperioli. It is also hosting the first market screening of Desert Dancer, starring Freida Pinto. Fellow Spanish sales company Imagina is screening Traces Of Sandalwood (working title), starring Nadita Das. Filmax has the first footage in Cannes from latest genre picture Summer Camp, now in post-production, and also has material from [REC 4]: Apocalypse,
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which is likely to be in cinemas in time for Halloween. Another of the company’s genre pictures, Sweet Home, is now in pre-production. Latido is looking to capitalise on World Cup fever with its market premiere of feature documentary Maracanazo: The Football Legend, which looks back at the 1950 World Cup when Uruguay defied huge odds to beat the host country Brazil in one of the biggest upsets in football history. Newly active Benelux sales agent T Films, based in Luxembourg, is giving a market premiere to Dick Maas’s genre thriller Quiz and to the new version of US indie drama Syrup starring Amber Heard. Through Asian genre company Elixir, Kevin Williams is selling The Little Match Murder Girl, directed by Naoyuki Tomomatsu, whose credits include Vampire Girl Vs Frankenstein Girl. Williams is also handling pre-sales on Killer Mermaid, the latest title from the same director. Corsan, the producer, sales outfit and Belgian tax shelter specialist, is finally giving a market premiere to Roland Joffé’s long- gestating The Lovers (aka Singularity) and will be continuing to pre-sell Lee Tamahori’s Emperor, now in
pre-production and with Adrien Brody heading the cast. From Germany, Beta Cinema is showcasing local hit family adventure Bibi & Tina, and Michael ‘Bully’ Herbig’s Buddy, “a screwball action romantic comedy” in the words of Beta’s Thorsten Ritter. ARRI Worldsales is in town with the German family film Pettson And Findus — A Little Nuisance, A Great Friendship, which mixes live action and animation, and The Whole Shebang, the latest feature from Doris Dörrie. The Match Factory is on the Croisette with a bulging slate that includes Hungarian auteur Kornel Mundruczo’s White God. The company is also selling Alice Rohrwacher’s second feature, Competition title The Wonders, UK director Andrew Hulme’s debut feature Snow In Paradise, which is screening in Un Certain Regard, and Tribeca success Zero Motivation by first-time director Talya Lavie. The sales arm of the Hungarian Film Fund is introducing buyers to a raft of new titles, among them Szabolcs Hajdu’s neo-western Mirage, Bence Miklauzic’s Car Park, a drama about a feud for a parking space, and Virag Zomboracz’s Afterlife, a comedy drama about a son and his father’s ghost.
recent acquisition The Great Hypnotist, directed by Leste Chen and produced by Wanda Media, which recently grossed $22m on its opening weekend in China. Wanda is handling Hong Kong, Taiwan and Southeast Asian territories on the film, an atmospheric mystery thriller starring Xu Zheng (Lost In Thailand) and Karen Mok. Wanda is one of a growing number of mainland Chinese studios attending Cannes this year in addition to industry veterans Huayi Brothers and Distribution Workshop, the Hong Kong-based sales arm of China’s Bona Film Group. Beijing Galloping Horse , which attended Cannes for the first time last year with John Woo’s The Crossing, returns this year with a fresh slate including an as-yet-untitled romantic drama directed by Zhang Yibai. Huayi Brothers’ slate includes Pang Ho Cheung’s romantic comedy Women Who Flirt, Gu Changwei’s Love On The Cloud and Mabel Cheung and Alex Law’s $12m historical drama A Tale Of Three Cities, starring Tang Wei and Lau Ching Wan. Distribution Workshop is unveiling two titles directed by Derek Yee: 3D martial-arts drama Sword Master, produced by Tsui Hark and starring Lin Gengxin, and drama I Am Somebody, which goes behind the scenes at China’s Hengdian World Studios. Among Hong Kong companies, Edko Films is selling Ann Hui’s The Golden Era, a biopic of Chinese writer Xiao Hong starring Tang Wei, and is also handling Asia and Americas on Jean-Jacques Annaud’s Wolf Totem and Southeast Asian territories for Zhang Yimou’s out of competition title Coming Home. Emperor Motion Pictures is in Cannes »
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Break Up 100
with Teddy Chen’s action thriller Kung Fu Jungle, starring Donnie Yen, while Media Asia is launching sales on Lawrence Cheng’s romantic comedy Break Up 100, starring Ekin Cheng and Chrissie Chau. Golden Network Asia is introducing Korean found-footage thriller Live TV. We Distribution is in town with Peter Ho-sun Chan’s next project as director, Qin Ai De Xiao Hai (literal translation: Dear Children), about child kidnapping, which is in production with Zhao Wei, Huang Bo and Tong Dawei heading the cast. New titles on the slate of Universe Films Distribution include James Yuen’s Paris Holiday, starring Louis Koo and Fiona Sit, and Adrian Kwan’s drama Little Big Master, starring Miriam Yeung and produced by Benny Chan. Mega-Vision Project Workshop has three projects in pre-production: Wong Jing will direct From Vegas To Macau 2, starring Chow Yun-fat, and The Golden Monk, with Louis Koo, while Law Wing Cheong directs King Of Drug Dealers, starring Nick Cheung. Mei Ah Entertainment also has several projects in pre-production, including Soi Cheang’s sci-fi action thriller Unforgotten and Joe Ma’s fantasy thriller On Fallen Wings. Pegasus Motion Pictures is relaunching sales on $36m martial-arts sequel Ip Man 3, reuniting director Wilson Yip and star Donnie Yen. Bravo Pictures, founded by former Media Asia sales executive Ricky Tse, is making its Cannes debut with Pang Ho Cheung’s Aberdeen. And Taiwanese sales agent Ablaze Image is selling Black & White: The Dawn Of Justice, the sequel to Tsai Yuehhsun’s 2012 action hit. As usual, Korean companies have a strong presence on the Croisette. CJ Entertainment is selling two titles in Cannes’ Official Selection: July Jung’s A Girl At My Door (Un Certain Regard) and Point Blank remake The Target (out of competition), along with 3D thriller omnibus Mad Sad Bad, directed by Ryoo Seung-wan, Han Ji-seung and Kim Tae-yong. Finecut is introducing three new
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Mad Sad Bad
The World Of Kanako
titles: period drama Chronicle Of A Blood Merchant, directed by and starring Ha Jung-woo; Oh Ki-hwan’s romantic comedy Fashion King; and Park Gyu-tek’s 3D horror The Tunnel. New titles on Showbox’s slate include Yoo Ha’s 1970s-set gangster drama Gangnam Blues and Jang Jin’s culture clash comedy We Are Brothers. Lotte Entertainment has several new titles, including Lee Seok-hoon’s action adventure The Pirates and Jang Jin’s action drama Man On High Heels, about a transsexual cop. M-Line Distribution is launching sales on suspense drama Whistle Blower, directed by Yim Soon-rye, along with 3D documentary The Kingdom Of Bugs, directed by Kim Jin-man (Pengi And Sommi). 9ers Entertainment is introducing
LiveTV
Boo Ji-young’s social drama Cart and Oh In-chun’s horror Mourning Grave, about a psychic schoolboy. Among the Japanese companies, Nikkatsu is launching sales on Yakuza Apocalypse, Takashi Miike’s return to hardcore genre film-making, while Shochiku is introducing Mother, the directorial debut of manga artist Kazuo Umezu. Gaga Corporation is selling the longawaited two-part sequel to Keishi Otomo’s 2012 smash hit Rurouni Kenshin and is also handling Asian territories on Tetsuya Nakashima’s The World Of Kanako, while Wild Bunch handles the rest of the world. Toho is selling Parasyte Part 1, the first instalment in a two-part adaptation of the 1990s manga, directed by Takashi Yamazaki (The Eternal Zero), while NTV is introducing Yu Irie’s Second World
War action thriller Joker Game. Toei will be launching sales on Taiwanese director Chiang Hsiu Chiung’s The Furthest End Awaits, a drama set on Japan’s scenic coastline, and Isao Yukisada’s JapanChina co-production Five Minutes To Tomorrow. Thai companies will also be out in force at Cannes. Sahamongkol Film International is launching two new action titles: Kongkiat Khonsiri’s Khun Pan, starring Ananda Everingham as the eponymous Thai detective, and Vengeance Of An Assassin, which brings a host of Thai martial artists together in a fightfest directed by Panna Rittikrai. Five Star Production is launching sales on two new horror titles in pre-production: Isara Nadee’s O.T., a spin-off from its popular 3AM series, and Pawat s Panangkasiri’s Ghost Coins 3D. n
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