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Regarding Henry
Berlinale Special Gala Henry
Of Navarre sells well for Bavaria
Fox goes Lubby
Dubby for
Independents step up to
Film International.
» PAGE 2
Russian comedy Hollywood funding crisis
Collision course
This year’s Rome Film Festival will
overlap with the American Film
Market in early November.
BY JEREMY KAY BY MIKE GOODRIDGE International veteran and » PAGE 2
Sanford Panitch’s Fox International The crisis in the Hollywood studio former Universal studio chief
Productions (FIP) will co-produce system could signal a major upturn David Linde is quietly hatching a
Love Carrot 3 (Lubby Dubby 3), for the independent production company which plans to create
the latest entry in Russia’s smash and fi nance business, key players new, incremental opportunities in
‘bodyswitch’ comedy franchise. are hinting in Berlin. this changing landscape.
FIP will partner with Interfest’s Release schedules are still packed Linde has been meeting in Ber-
Renat Davletiarov and Alexander throughout 2010 but, with annual lin and elsewhere in Europe with
Kotelevsky on the fi lm, a hot pros- production budgets being slashed David Linde well-capitalised independents and
pect given the first instalment, at the studios, that will not be the other media companies to discuss
released in 2007, grossed $11m and case from next year. That leaves bulk up and last week appointed it. The outfi t is being described as a
its 2008 follow up grossed $18m. their distribution organisations, Jason Reed to head its non-US pro- hybrid distribution model that will Submarino
Sergei Ginsburg will direct and both domestic and international, in duction activities. finance two to four films a year
Kristina Orbakaite and Gosha Kut- desperate need of product. “With all the studios reducing with backing from a studio — REVIEWS
senko will reprise their famous With Cam Galano recently con- their output from 20-plus a year to thought to be Universal — com- Head above water
roles as the hapless Golubevs, who firmed as head of a new interna- the mid-teens, you have to look to bined with a few key international Thomas Vinterberg returns to form
switch bodies with their battling tional acquisitions unit at Warner other sources,” said Andrew Cripps, partners. in Submarino, a hard-hitting but
parents played by Lea Akhidjakova Bros, and Christian Grass this president of Paramount Pictures Provisionally called Lava Bear, invigorating drama.
and Vladimir Menshov. week named head of international International who added that Los the company plans to focus on glo- » PAGE 14
Lubby Dubby 3 is set to open in production and acquisitions at Angeles-based Paramount World- bally oriented titles designed for a
Russia in December through Fox Universal, those studios are for- wide Acquisitions Group (PWAG) marketplace which is embracing a SCREENINGS
International. Davletiarov, who mally joining Sony, Paramount and is busy in both acquisition and robust theatrical window and an What to see today.
serves as president of Russia’s Pro- Fox in the hunt for independent local production to fill the PPI accelerating digital distribution » START PAGE 20
ducers Guild, is producing. product. Even Disney is looking to pipeline. market.
Hubert Boesl
Fandango takes
Leonardo DiCaprio (pictured)
was relaxed and cheerful at Buyers to meet
HBO snaps up
on Marston film
the launch yesterday of
Hoff’s Ninja
Grenier’s Teenage
Martin Scorsese’s Shutter
Fandango Portobello Sales has Island out of competition. CJ Entertainment will be
Paparazzo
boarded the new untitled project The film, which marks the introducing buyers to Dancing
from Maria Full Of Grace director fourth collaboration Ninja, starring David Hasselhoff BY JEREMY KAY
Joshua Marston. It is handling between the star and and High School Musical 3’s Lucas HBO has acquired US television
international sales. Scorsese after Gangs Of Grabeel. Sony Pictures is handling rights to Adrian Grenier’s crowd-
Marston has co-written the New York, The Aviator and US rights on the film, which is pleasing documentary Teenage
script for the “untitled blood- The Departed, opens in a expected to make its market Paparazzo, which has been draw-
feud project” with Andamion number of territories next debut in Cannes. It is produced ing heavy interest from interna-
Murataj. It follows a teenage week including the US through GV Entertainment and tional buyers here.
boy and his sister after a killing before hitting Germany on ATM Motionwide. It also stars The broadcaster beat multiple
in a dispute over land draws February 25. Jung-hwa Kang and Eric Tsang. bids from other domestic distribu-
their family into a deadly blood » See review, p12 tors who pursued the title after its
feud. sell-out world premiere at Sun-
The film is due to start dance last month.
shooting in April this year in
Albania, where Marston has
Thomsen reveals Embryonic directing career
WME Global is handling North
American rights but did not return
spent much of the last two years BY GEOFFREY MACNAB supposed to be a new beginning calls. It sold international rights in
researching the project. It will Danish star Ulrich Thomsen is but which becomes a fatal journey Park City to T&C Pictures Interna-
feature a local cast. moving behind the camera and is into an abyss of fear and trauma tional chief David Jourdan, who
Paul Mezey of Journeyman presenting his directorial debut, In and violence,” the writer-director has just closed deals with Madman
Pictures is producing, with Janine Embryo, at Berlin’s Co-Production explained. in Australia and The Klockworx Co
Gold, Domenico Procacci and Eric Market. The film will be set against a in Japan.
Abraham as executive producers Best known for his roles in Tho- backdrop of gangsters and drug The documentary charts the
alongside Hunter Gray and Tyler mas Vinterberg’s Festen and Broth- dealers. “There are a few rough budding friendship between an
Brodie of Artists Public Domain. ers and Adam’s Apples, Thomsen’s things in it but my approach will Ulrich Thomsen actor and a young paparazzo.
APD is co-financing the project fi rst feature is an intense English- be more poetic, especially in terms Matt Damon, Paris Hilton and
with Fandango and Phoenix Film language drama about a drug of the sex,” Thomsen added. duced through Cine Plus Film- Lindsay Lohan are among the
Investments. dealer who falls in love with a mys- The $4m (¤3m) project will be produktion and Royal Pony Film, famous faces who weigh in with
Sarah Cooper terious beauty. handled internationally by Bavaria with Danish powerhouse Zentropa their views on modern celebrity
“Together they go on a journey Film International. It is being pro- as the co-producer. culture.
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