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Tribeca books Janie Jones Tribeca Film plans a summer release for Janie Jones, the Abigail Breslin road movie, after negotiating a US deal with Unified Pictures. Breslin and Alessandro Nivola star as a daughter and father who reconnect through music. Tribeca will stage a theatrical release in multiple US markets as well as on VoD and other platforms in the summer.
LA I Hate You finds buyer The Little Film Company’s genre label Accelerator Division has taken worldwide sales rights to Yvan Gauthier’s Malcolm McDowell thriller LA I Hate You. It premieres in the market today.
Movies sell post-Sundance Roadside Attractions will handle the North American release of Maryam Keshavarz’s drama Circumstance, which Participant Media acquired at Sundance; and ro*co films picked up North American rights to Jennifer Siebel Newsom’s documentary Miss Representation.
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Antonio Banderas stars in Jean-Jacques Annaud’s Black Gold, as one of two rival emirs in 1930s Arabia. The cast includes Tahar Rahim and Freida Pinto. Having filmed in Tunisia since October, the project has now moved to Qatar — the first major international film to shoot there. Co-produced by Quinta Communications and the Doha Film Institute, the film will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros and Universal Pictures International. Wendy Mitchell
Buyers blow into Headwinds
BY GEOFFREY MACNAB Perrine Teze’s PTZ International has some top-level distributors already aboard Headwinds, the $5.3m Audrey Tautou project Teze is introducing to buyers at the EFM. Directed by Jalil Lespert, Head-
winds is adapted from Olivier Adam’s bestselling book Des Vents Contraires. It tells the story of a
widower with two young children. The cast includes Benoit Magimel and Isabelle Carré. Universal is handling France
while Cinéart will be releasing the fi lm in Benelux, on behalf of Mov- ies Benelux. Produced by Wassim Beji of WY Productions and co- produced by Direct Cinéma and Artémis Productions, the project is likely to be ready for Cannes.
The Flowers Of Kirkuk to bloom in Iraq
BY GEOFFREY MACNAB Fariborz Kamkari’s The Flowers Of Kirkuk, handled by Adriana Chiesa in the EFM, is set to be released in Iraq in late March. It will be one of the fi rst movies
to screen in a new circuit of cine- mas being built in Kurdistan with support from the Kurdish govern- ment. Here at the EFM, Kamkari
revealed he is also planning spe- cial screenings for the minister of
The Flowers Of Kirkuk
culture, for former prime minister Ayad Allawi and Iraq president Jalal Talabani. The film’s Italian release was handled by Medusa in November.
Chiesa has already secured
deals for Flowers in several territo- ries, among them Japan (Alcine Terran), Brazil (California Filmes) and Mexico (Quality Films). Meanwhile, Columbus is han- dling the Swiss release. Kamkari’s project began life in
Berlin’s co-production market, where producer Fabrizia Falzetti of Rome-based Far Out Films brought on board Swiss co-pro- ducer Marcel Hoehn.
BY JEREMY KAY Shirley MacLaine, Christopher Walken, Twilight franchise star Ashley Greene and Adam Beach from the upcoming summer release Cowboys And Aliens will star in mystical drama Boom Boom Boom, which Arclight Films is selling here. Bono serves as executive pro-
ducer on the project, alongside Wim Wenders. Production is scheduled to start this summer in the US state of New Mexico on
what the producers describe as a magical tale set in a desert milieu. Lian Lunson will direct from
his own screenplay and will pro- duce alongside Aaron Lubin. CAA represents US rights on the tale of a young woman who meets a pair of retired vaudeville stars while investigating an old family secret. “This has been a vision of mine
for a very long time,” Lunson said. “It’s a dream to be working with Shirley MacLaine and Christo- pher Walken.”
K5 sings for Belafonte biopic
K5 International has picked up international sales on Harry Belafonte biopic Sing Your Song, directed by Susanne Rostock, after its world premiere at Sundance. Belafonte himself is flying into
Berlin ahead of a series of special screenings that kick off tomorrow. Michael Cohl, Gina Belafonte, Jim
Brown, William Eigen and Julius R Nasso produced. Sing Your Song chronicles
the singer’s life, including his involvement in the US civil rights movement. K5’s Carl Clifton and Daniel Baur negotiated the deal with Karol Martesko-Fenster on behalf of S2BN Entertainment.
Kaleidoscope picks up a pair
BY WENDY MITCHELL UK-based Kaleidoscope Film Dis- tribution has signed a two-pic- ture deal with producer Black and Blue Films. The fi rst project is Elfi e Hopkins
And The Gammons, a thriller star- ring Ray Winstone, Jaime Win- stone and Kimberley Nixon. Ryan Andrews directs the story of a small-town detective whose new neighbours are cannibals. Shoot- ing will begin in March.
The second film, Strippers Vs
Werewolves, is a revenge action comedy about a strip-club mur- der. Jonathan Glendening will direct; the shoot begins in April. Jonathan Sothcott is producing both fi lms. Kaleidoscope has also taken
world rights to cricket documen- tary From The Ashes by James Erskine, which is in post. It previ- ously handled the UK release of Erskine’s One Night In Turin.
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