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The Woman In The Fifth
ATO falls for The Woman
BY GEOFFREY MACNAB ATO Pictures has acquired all North American rights to The Woman In The Fi f th from Memento Films International. Pawel Pawlikowski directs the
Paris-set psychological thriller starring Ethan Hawke and Kristin Scott Thomas. ATO plans to release the film
later this year. Pawlikowski adapted the screenplay based on the novel by Douglas Kennedy. Hawke plays a writer who becomes involved with a mysterious widow (Scott Thomas). ATO Pictures, which was co-
founded in 2002 by musician Dave Matthews, has a slate which also includes Sundance title Terri and George Hickenlooper’s Casino Jack.
Tayrona gets its claws into Joffé’s Dragons
BY JEREMY KAY US financier-distributor Tayrona Entertainment has acquired Latin American rights to Roland Joffé’s There Be Dragons and has commit- ted to a 1,000-screen release before the autumn. Tayrona, which also releases
films in the US and Canada, has access to an $80m Latin American p&a fund which will support the release. There Be Dragons screens in the
market today and stars Dougray Scott as a reporter probing a dec- ades-old mystery. Wes Bentley and Olga Kurylenko also star and Igna- cio Gomez Sancha, Joffé and Igna- cio Nunez produced. Samuel Goldwyn Films will
release in the US on May 6 and Aurum will open the epic in Spain on March 25.
Paul Bettany, Jeremy Irons, Kevin Spacey and Zachary Quinto are in town with JC Chandor’s debut feature, Margin Call, in competition
Dabis plans Summer trip to Jordan with Memento
BY NANCY TARTAGLIONE Memento Films’ Alexandre Mallet- Guy will produce the next film from Cherien Dabis (Amreeka). The script for the new project, May In The Summer, recently won the Sundance/NHK International Filmmakers Award. It will star Dabis and Hiam
Abbass in a romantic comedy in the vein of Nadine Labaki’s sleeper hit Caramel. The mostly English-lan- guage picture will shoot in Jordan
Hubert Boesl Corsan blasts off with $60m sci-fi
BY JEREMY KAY Paul Breuls’ Corsan, riding high with The Devil’s Double, is lining up $60m sci-fi thriller 2525. Wes Clark, son of former NATO
commander Wesley Clark, wrote the screenplay about a fi ghter pilot who takes part in an experiment and awakens 500 years later as the
Sexual Healing to hit big screen
BY GEOFFREY MACNAB Julien Temple is set to direct a biopic about legendary soul singer Marvin Gaye. The project, Sexual Healing, will start shooting in Ostend, Belgium, later this year. EMI, which holds the rights to
Gaye’s music, is understood to be ready to give the greenlight to the project. The story will focus on the Mid-
night Love album the musician recorded in Brussels in the early 1980s. At the time Gaye was con- sidered a spent force, but against the odds he recorded what many believe to be his greatest album. Here in Berlin, Banana Films
producer and MD Jean-Luc Van Damme said the project will have a budget of about $8m. Jimmy De Brabant of Delux Productions in
Fortissimo celebrates 20 years
Multinational sales, production and distribution company Fortissimo Films is kicking off celebrations for its 20th anniversary in world cinema with a series of retrospectives and events. The company is holding a party
tonight in Berlin, with further events over the year including:
» A 12-film retrospective at the Hong Kong International Film Festival in March.
» A special award at the Asian Film Awards (AFA) in Hong Kong to celebrate Fortissimo’s contribution to Asian cinema.
» A retrospective at Amsterdam’s EYE Institute in September.
Luxembourg is the lead producer and the film will be financed through the Belgian tax shelter and Luxembourg’s CIAV. The producers are in discussion
with a leading US sales company to represent the project. Banana is also working on a
$13m 3D Salvador Dali biopic, Dali 3D, to star Alan Cumming and Judy Davis.
» A programme at New York’s Museum of Modern Art in November. “We have much to be proud of,”
said chairman Michael J Werner. “We’ve discovered new talents, influenced audience’s perceptions and tastes around the globe, won awards and broken through barriers.”
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brain of the most deadly spaceship in the galaxy. The Belgian company has tenta-
tively set a November start and Breuls will produce alongside Jon Shestack. Paradigm Motion Picture
Finance Group negotiated the deal and represents Corsan.
BERLIN HOT DEALS
The Weinstein Company has signed a deal with Icon on Ralph Fiennes’ Coriolanus for the US and pan-Asian pay TV.
Julie Gavras’ Late Bloomers has sold to Olive Films for North America. The deal was negotiated by Olive CEO Farhad Arshad and Gaumont’s Cécile Gaget. The romcom has also sold to Australia (Palace), Germany (Movienet), CIS (Paradise), Brazil (Art Film), Singapore (Cathay), Israel (Shapira), India (Picture- Works), Portugal (Lusomundo), Greece (Odeon), Middle East (Four Star), Switzerland (Pathé) and Turkey (Filma).
Korean distributor Showbox / Mediaplex has pre-sold The Front Line to Showbox Media Group for the UK and STG Multimedia for Thailand. The $10m film, set during the Korean War, is directed by Jang Hun.
France’s Memento and the US’s Verisimilitude and Displaced Pic- ture, the producers are Mallet-Guy, Alex Orlovsky, Hunter Gray and Dabis. Memento has also acquired two
Cherien Dabis
this summer where the film will follow the secrets, lies and loves of three Arab American sisters and their strong-willed, single mother. A co-production between
fi lms out of Sundance for French distribution: Another Happy Day by Sam Levinson and On The Ice by Andrew Okpeaha MacLean. Also, Memento is selling Asghar
Farhadi’s Berlin competition title Nader And Simin, A Separation.
NEWS Packing a punch Tomorrow’s Joe is a hot seller for Japan’s TBS, including to France, Hong Kong and Thailand » PAGE 4
REVIEW The kids are all right Tomboy is a French gem about childhood and the politics of gender » PAGE 16
INTERVIEW Czech mate Karel Och on taking the reins from Eva Zaoralova at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival » PAGE 30
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