FEATURE AFM BUZZ TITLES
UK Sellers By Andreas Wiseman Tim Haslam and Hugo Grumbar’s Embankment Films will be enticing buyers with Simon Beaufoy’s script, Gold, which will see Daniel Radcliffe play Olympic athlete Sebastian Coe and reunite him with The Woman In Black director James Watkins. The team will also be shopping Informant Media project Boychoir, set to star Dustin Hoffman; Kidnapping Freddy Heineken, currently in production; and The Dressmaker, starring Kate Winslet. HanWay comes to AFM with buzzed-about SeeSaw western Slow West, shooting now with Michael Fassbender, Kodi Smit-McPhee and Ben Mendelsohn. Also new to the slate is Nick Cave documentary 20,000 Days On Earth, and there will be a promo for Lone Scherfig’s Posh. Protagonist’s rounded slate includes Yorgos Lanthimos’s English-language debut The Lobster, due to shoot next spring; Potboiler’s gangster film Trespass Against Us, which has Michael Fassbender in talks to star; Vincent Cassel starrer Partisan, which is currently shooting; Peter Strickland’s The Duke Of Burgundy; and comedy-drama My Old Lady, which is in post-production. There are promos for ’71, Monsters: Dark Continent and Kill Command. David Garrett’s Mister Smith Entertainment brings to market Russell Crowe’s directorial debut The Water Diviner, which is due to get underway in Australia in December. Crowe stars alongside Olga Kurylenko in the period-adventure story backed by RatPac Entertainment, about a father searching for his sons after the First World War. Altitude’s busy slate includes the feature version of hit TV series Spooks, horror The Last Word and music documentary Pulp. Mike Runagall’s sales team will also show a teaser trailer for Brit List project The Call Up as well as a new promo for Jalmari
■ 18 Screen International at AFM November 6, 2013
Helander’s action-adventure Big Game starring Samuel L Jackson. Bankside Films will be shopping Simon Pegg drama Hector And The Search For Happiness, which now has a promo, while X Plus Y — with Ender’s Game star Asa Butterfield — is in post-production. WestEnd Films will continue to talk to buyers about David Gordon Green’s drama Manglehorn, starring Al Pacino and Holly Hunter; Michael Winterbottom’s Italy-set The Face Of An Angel starring Kate Beckinsale; and drama The Silent Storm starring Andrea Riseborough and Damian Lewis, which is in post-production. Independent’s Carol Morley drama The Falling, starring Game Of Thrones actress Maisie Williams, is currently in production while James Ward Byrkit’s Coherence has a market premiere and comedy What We Did On Our Holiday has a new promo. Hyena is in post-production. Salt’s new documentary Seve charts the life of golfing legend Seve Ballesteros. James Norrie and the team will also have market premieres for comedy Johnson, starring Cam Gigandet, action-thriller Montana and The Borderlands, while Northmen: A Viking Saga is in post-production. The Works recently acquired Toronto premiere Lucky Them starring Toni Collette and will introduce buyers to 2011 Screen Star of Tomorrow Colin Kennedy’s debut Swung, produced by Sigma Films. Nick Broomfield’s The Catastrophist is due to shoot next year. The Skin I Live In star Elena Anaya is attached to star in Celsius’s sweeping romance-drama Rosa from Jindabyne and Lantana director Ray Lawrence, while AV Pictures will be selling new titles No Man’s Land, director Sean Hogan’s action-horror set in the trenches of the First World War; and horror title Let Us Prey. AV’s Caroline Couret-Delegue will also be screening sci-fi thriller Scintilla.
(Top left) The Silent Storm; (top right) Monsters: Dark Continent; (above left) Delicious; (above) Northmen: A Viking Saga; (below) What We Did On Our Holiday
Simon Crowe’s SC Films will be in Santa Monica with first footage of Cory Edwards’ family animations Gus and Wish; as well as The Last Showing. There are screenings of Green Street Hooligans Underground, Danny Trejo-starrer Bullet and I Am Soldier. Umedia International brings to market thriller Exit 147, which has Taylor Kitsch attached to star as a cop who starts a tense game of cat and mouse with a strung-out young traveller; comedy-drama Dough starring Jonathan Pryce; and psychological horror The Well. K5 International comes with Simon Helberg’s rom-com We’ll Never Have Paris in post-production starring Helberg and Maggie Grace; Neil LaBute’s Dirty Weekend in production starring Alice Eve and Matthew Broderick; spoof SuperFast!; plus docs including Dancing In Jaffa and Cutie And The Boxer. Metro International is launching pre-sales on iBOY, a superhero thriller for the digital age starring Will Poulter. Producers are Wigwam Films and Gail Mutrux. There are market screenings for Toronto premieres Half Of A Yellow Sun and The Stag and first footage of Nina Simone biopic Nina starring Zoe Saldana and David Oyelowo. Homeland star Damian Lewis is attached to play a US astronaut tasked with saving the planet in Alone, Genesis Film Sales’ sci-fi thriller. Kirk Weddell wrote the script and will co-direct with Chris Taylor. Genesis will also debut Sitges supernaturalthriller Soul Mate. Kaleidoscope brings to market completed horror film Willow Creek and a first market promo for Enemy Of Man, a reworking of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, starring Sean Bean and Harry Potter star Rupert Grint. Maura Ford’s 7 & 7 will be introducing buyers to three newly completed features: Delicious, Little Happiness and Breakfast With Jonny Wilkinson, a sports comedy starring Sunshine On Leith’s George MacKay. Parkland Pictures will be touting completed horror Hollow and action-adventure Allies, a $3m budget action-adventure set in occupied France at the end of the Second World War. Dominic Burns directs, Julian Ovenden, Chris Reilly and Matt Willis star. The film is in post-production. Intandem will be shopping completed drama Gagarin: First In Space, the story of the Russian cosmonaut, and three Richwater Films productions: Vendetta, Assassin and Reign Of The General. Genre specialist Jinga will be looking for deals on Austin Fantastic Fest title Goldberg & Eisenberg and On Tender Hooks, a shockumentary about the world of human suspension. Moviehouse has a premiere screening for futuristic drama Biodegradable, from the Dominican Republic. GFM Films’ Schism is in post-production, Carnaby will be shopping thriller Still Waters and Timeless Films has animation titles Justin And The Knights Of Valour and Postman Pat: The Movie (3D). »