NEWS BERLINBRIEFS
Bening goes for Third Act Oscar nominee Annette Bening has found her next project after The Kids Are All Right, signing up with Morgan Freeman for Rob Reiner’s The Third Act, being sold by Voltage.
Christenson keeps the Beat Hollywood Studios International president Eric Christenson has picked up sales rights to comedy The Brooklyn Brothers Beat The Best featuring Oscar nominee Melissa Leo. Christenson is in Berlin talking to buyers about the story of a two-man band which sets off on a nationwide tour.
Strand will release Three Strand Releasing has acquired all US rights to Tom Tykwer’s Three from the Match Factory. The film plays here in the German Cinema — Lola@ Berlinale programme.
U-Carmen gang heads back to film with F&ME
BY WENDY MITCHELL Mark Dornford-May and Pauline Malefane’s South African theatre company Isango Ensemble, which was behind Golden Bear winner U-Carmen eKhayelitsha and Son Of Man, is to kickstart new film production activities via a partnership with UK-based Film & Music Entertainment. Also, Ian McKellen has joined
Isango as a patron, with new council members including Stephen Daldry. Over the next three months
Dornford-May, Daldry and F&ME’s Mike Downey will pre- pare their first slate of films for announcement in Cannes, likely to include one major film opera adaptation. Other projects could include a modern adaptation of
Sierra/Affinity staffs up
BY JEREMY KAY Nick Meyer and Marc Schaberg have rounded out their Sierra/ Affinity senior executive roster as the EFM gathers steam. Elizabeth Kim Schwan is named
EVP and Kristen Figeroid is SVP of sales. Virginia Longmuir is EVP and Cynthia Griffiths is VP of legal and business affairs. Joey Monteiro is SVP and
Amanda Potts director of market- ing. Kelly McCormick is VP of pro- duction and development and Jen Gorton is creative executive. Scarlett Pettyjohn is director of
international along with Stephanie Ho, while Sam Lindy is the com- pany’s international sales assistant.
Sierra/Affinity launched in Jan-
uary as a partnership between Meyer and Schaberg’s Sierra Pic- tures, Michel Litvak’s Bold Films and Gigi Pritzker’s OddLot Entertainment. The slate includes Lakeshore
and Sidney Kimmel Entertain- ment’s Amanda Seyfried thriller Gone, which Meyer and his team will sell jointly with Lakeshore, as well as OddLot’s romcom From Prada To Nada; CBS Films’ roman- tic fantasy Beastly; Bold Films, OddLot and Marc Platt Produc- tions’ Ryan Gosling thriller Drive; and Sierra Pictures, Silverwood Films and Incentive Entertain- ment’s untitled 3D shark thriller.
QED rides with Soul Surfer
BY JEREMY KAY QED International has closed a deal with the producers of true- life drama Soul Surfer and will kick off sales here for the whole of Europe, Russia and Japan. FilmDistrict and Sony are part- nering on the North American
launch and will channel the film through TriStar in a wide release set for April 8. Sony Pictures Worldwide
Acquisitions picked up North America and substantial interna- tional rights prior to production on the story of surfer Bethany
Stephen Daldry, Pauline Malefane and F&ME’s Mike Downey
John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera and a filmed version of Isango’s 2010 stage hit, Robert Tressell’s The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists. Dornford-May said: “With an
international production partner- ship that involves Film & Music
Entertainment and Stephen Daldry, we are looking to expand back into film alongside our core theatre work, and spread the word that South Africa has a major contribution to make to culture at all levels.”
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TrustNordisk makes Sense of French deal
BY GEOFFREY MACNAB French distributor Pretty Pictures has bought David Mackenzie’s Perfect Sense, starring Ewan McGregor and Eva Green, from TrustNordisk. The film premiered at Sun-
dance, where it sold to IFC Films for North America, and a deal has also been done with Kalinos Film- cilik for Turkey. Perfect Sense was pre-sold to
more than 15 territories, includ- ing Benelux, Brazil, Korea and the Middle East before its Sundance premiere. TrustNordisk is also starting
sales on thriller ID:A, about an amnesiac woman in danger. The director is Christian E Chris- tiansen, whose The Roommate is top of the US box office.
Protagonist Pictures has taken on sales for Kill List, directed by Ben Wheatley (Down Terrace). The horror film will premiere at SXSW, where Protagonist previously launched Gareth Edwards’ hit Monsters. The Warp X project is about a contract killer, played by Neil Maskell. Wendy Mitchell
Hamilton, who lost her left arm in a shark attack and went on to become a champion. AnnaSophia Robb plays Hamil-
ton. Dennis Quaid, Helen Hunt and Carrie Underwood also star. Sean McNamara directed and
produced alongside David Zelon, Douglas Schwartz, David Brook- well and Roy ‘Dutch’ Hofstetter.
I Travel Alone
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