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Network, Speech win again At the 31st London Film Critics’ Circle Awards in London, The Social Network took four prizes while The King’s Speech picked up three. David Fincher’s Facebook picture took awards for best film and best director, while The King’s Speech was named best British film with Tom Hooper as British director of the year. The film’s Colin Firth was best actor.
Flock launchesW2 Media Former Peace Arch CEO John Flock and film-financing experts Warren Nimchuk and Warren Fergus have launched Los Angeles, Vancouver and Toronto-based distributor and sales company W2 Media.
Rapid Eye takes Utopia Ltd German distributor Rapid Eye Movies has picked up Sandra Trostel’s debut Utopia Ltd. which will open the Perspektive Deutsches Kino sidebar today. The portrait of punk band 1000 Robota will be released in German cinemas on May 12.
Viva Riva! goes Indi-genous Indi-genous has taken South African distribution rights to Djo Tunda Wa Munga’s Congolese gangster film Viva Riva!. The company has also secured rights in six other African territories from sales agent Beta Cinema.
Trilateral co-pro deal struck A trilateral co-production agreement is to be signed today by Germany’s state minister for culture Bernd Neumann and minister of state at the federal foreign office Cornelia Pieper with Switzerland’s interior minister Didier Burkhalter, and Austria’s minister for education, art and culture Claudia Schmied.
K5 moves into Flood
BY GEOFFREY MACNAB K5 International, the worldwide sales company based in Munich, London and Los Angeles, has picked up the rights for Israeli director Guy Nattiv’s second fea- ture The Flood (Mabul) Co-produced by K5 Film with
UCM Films, Intuitive Pictures, Metro Communications, Mact
Content locks Ironclad US deal
BY JEREMY KAY ARC Entertainment in collabora- tion with Barry Gordon’s XLrator Media has taken all US rights from ContentFilm International to medieval thriller Ironclad. Jonathan English directs the
warrior story, which ARC will release theatrically in June. James Purefoy, Paul Giamatti, Kate Mara and Brian Cox star. Gordon and ARC’s Matthew
Smith negotiated the deal with Content’s Jamie Carmichael, Rick Kwak and CAA.
Toronto-based Cinemavault has sold paintball action-thriller War Games to Australia (Transmission), Thailand (M Pictures), the Baltics/CIS (Noviy Disk) and Japan (Nikkatsu) prior to its EFM premiere. The Italy-produced War Games is about a paintball game which turns deadly.
Suzan Ayscough Opus has Septien, Behaviour
BY JEREMY KAY Ken DuBow’s Opus Distribution comes to Berlin with worldwide sales rights to Joseph Sims’ Bad Behaviour and Michael Tully’s Septien. DuBow has also closed a slew
of sales on sci-fi thriller Eyeborgs starring Danny Trejo. Momentum has taken UK rights, Nikkatsu for Japan, Free Dolphin for France, Euro Video for Germany, R Films for Turkey and Vapet for the Czech Republic.
Bad Behaviour stars John Jar-
ratt (Wolf Creek) in a film featur- ing interwoven storylines about murderers, teenagers and a cheat- ing wife. Septien, which launched in
Sundance last month and then went to Rotterdam, will screen in the market on Tuesday. It screens on US VoD channel
Sundance Selects and follows a recluse who returns to his family farm to reunite with his two unhinged brothers.
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Productions and EZ Films, The Flood will soon be released in Israel. It took the best film prize at Haifa, was nominated for six Israeli Academy Awards and has its international premiere here in the Generation section. The feature is based on Nattiv’s
short film, which won the Crystal Bear in 2002, and is the story of
13-year-old Yoni, who has to become a grown-up when his autistic brother returns home to their dysfunctional family. Ronit Elkabetz, known for her
roles in The Band’s Visit and Or, plays the mother. Michael Mos- honov, whose credits include Leba- non, plays the autistic brother. Yoav Rotman makes his debut as Yoni.
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Bankside dances a Jig
BY WENDY MITCHELL Bankside Films has taken on fea- ture documentary Jig by Sue Bourne. The 90-minute doc is about the
40th Irish Dancing World Cham- pionships, which brought thou- sands of dancers to Glasgow, Scotland, for seven days. The project was funded by the
BBC Scotland, BBC Knowledge Commissioning and Creative Scotland. Arrow Films has taken all UK rights (excluding those held by the BBC) for the film and will release in the second quarter of 2011. “It is rare we find a documen-
tary with true universal appeal, but that is what Sue Bourne had created in Jig. “International audiences have
already shown enormous interest in this unique art form, but what Sue has created is a beautifully crafted, human story centred around this most spectacular of dancing events,” said Hilary Davis, co-managing director of Bankside Films.
Lailaps lines up August’s Time
BY MARTIN BLANEY Munich/Berlin-based interna- tional finance, development and production outfit Lailaps Pictures, which was co-founded by pro- ducer Nils Dunker and actor Ana- tole Taubman, has optioned the rights to three screenplays — the first projects for its English-lan- guage feature film slate. The projects include Greg Lat-
ter’s adaptation of Peter Harris’ courtroom thriller In A Different Time, with Bille August attached
to direct; the Cold War thriller The Spy Of God, penned by Sylke Rene Meyer; and romcom The Uncer- tainty Principle, written by Ben Chessell and Rjurik Davidson. Lailaps Pictures is planning to
pursue a two-pronged strategy, with involvement in English- speaking feature films with global appeal — either as a minor pro- ducing partner or full producer — and budgets of up to $20m, as well as in German-language fea- ture films and TV projects.
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