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Wide launches global network
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‘associate partners’, comprising two festivals and two distributors which are not guaranteed MEDIA subsidies this year, and the indus- try database Cinando, which will host select screenings and offer a space for EoF members. EoF is already considering
acquiring Ryan Redford’s thriller Oliver Sherman for its 12-film label, and hopes to have at least three titles by the end of the EFM. The fi rst partner festival to screen fi lms will be the Titanic Budapest Film Festival (April 7-17). Wide Management also has
ambitions to launch a dedicated VoD platform to exploit the fi lms. Wide general manager Loic
Magneron said the aim of the pro- gramme was “to create a synergy of communication and marketing between festivals and distributors who will collaborate from an early stage to ensure real commercial benefits for first-time directors and themselves”. “The space for arthouse film
and fi rst-time directors is becom- ing smaller,” he told Screen. “It’s increasingly difficult to find dis- tributors willing to take the risk of marketing these films when you have close to 18 films released a week in France and you’re compet- ing against the likes of The Green Hornet. If we don’t find new auteurs and support fi rst-time tal- ent, the industry will not function.” Emmanuel Cocq of MEDIA
Mundus added: “In Europe we are good at producing fi rst fi lms, but not so good when it comes to the circulation of these fi lms. This project could test new strategies such as festival-national day-and- date releases.”
Fu Works slate is led by Holocaust drama
BY GEOFFREY MACNAB Dutch producer San Fu Maltha has completed fi nancing on Rudolf van den Berg’s $6m Süskind, due to shoot in April and May in the Neth- erlands, Belgium and Romania. The film is about Walter Süs-
kind, a Jewish man who befriended an SS offi cer to save Jewish chil- dren from the Holocaust. Jeroen Spitzenberger and Lotte
Verbeek star. Fu Works is produc- ing alongside Cadenza and Bel-
Boorsma direct, and the Nether- lands-Ireland co-production is casting now for an April shoot. Road movie Portable Life is in
San Fu Maltha
gium’s UMedia is also on board. Fu Works is working with Sam-
son Films to produce Milo, a drama about a boy born with a rare dis- ease. Berend Boorsma and Roel
post-production. Rutger Hauer stars in the fi lm, directed by Fleur Boonman and produced by Maltha with Bart van Langen- donck of Savage Film (Bullhead). Maltha is continuing to pull
together The Hidden Force, his next collaboration with Paul Verho- even. Gerard Soeteman is writing.
Mullan signs for Antonia Bird’s Cross My Mind
BY GEOFFREY MACNAB Acclaimed UK actor-director Peter Mullan has joined the cast of Antonia Bird’s Cross My Mind, which is now set to start shooting in Rotterdam on May 23. The fi lm is a further collabora-
tion between Film & Music Enter- tainment and Kasander Films after their partnership on Goltzius And The Pelican Company. Cross My Mind was developed
with the UK Film Council and the Netherlands Film Fund, using
Limelight, Rotterdam Film Fund, Motion Investment Group and a pre-sale to Benelux’s Cineart. “Cross My Mind is an intense
Peter Mullan
support from the MEDIA Pro- gramme’s development fund. The fi lm will shoot in Belgium,
the Netherlands and the UK. Other financing of the $2.8m (£1.8m) budget comes from
Italy’s M2 eyes youth market
BY SHERI JENNINGS Italian distributor M2 Pictures is attending the EFM with an eye on completing its 2011-12 roster, which is aimed at the 14 to 34-year-old demographic. Launched in November 2010,
M2 is run by CEO Rudolph Gen- tile and chairman Marco Dell’Utri,
who previously founded Italy’s Moviemax in 2003. “We have a London-based ven-
ture capital company which has supported us in the start-up, and we feel we had the luck to fi nd sev- eral movies we love,” Gentile said. The duo sold 51% of Moviemax to Mondo Home Entertainment in
erotic thriller about the urgency and deceit of desire which plays out between a married older woman and a young, wounded, blinded soldier,” said F&ME’s Sam Taylor. “As the soldier begins to recover, the older woman is not who he thinks she is. It’s a very powerful piece, tight, taut and very commercial.”
2006 and maintain 49% interest in the company, though they resigned from its board of direc- tors in March 2010. The company’s latest acquisi-
tion is Step Up 4Ever 3D, bought during AFM and slotted for a 2012 release. M2’s slate for 2011-12 so far
includes Frozen, set to launch on March 25 on 150 screens; Beat The World, to be released on 180 cop-
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Partners set sights on
Department Q Danish production companies Zentropa and Nordisk Film and German ZDF production house Network Movie are partnering on a series of film adaptations based on the Danish crime novels by Jussi Adler-Olsen. The bestselling series, about
detective superintendent Carl Morck and Department Q, started with 2007’s The Woman In The Cage, which has been published in 21 countries including the US. Zentropa acquired the film
rights to the book series when the second novel was released, 2008’s The Pheasant Killers. Previously, Network Movie,
ZDF Enterprises, ZDF and Nordisk Film have worked together on other successful productions, such as Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy and the Swedish blockbuster Easy Cash (Snabba Cash). TrustNordisk will handle
international sales on the Adler- Olsen movies.
Geoffrey Macnab
ies this summer; mixed martial- arts fi lm Warrior, to be released in October; and James Gunn’s SUPER, starring Rainn Wilson. Gentile and Dell’Utri are at the
EFM along with Carmen Danza, head of acquisitions and develop- ment. Gentile says they are in advanced negotiations on three titles and are then searching for new titles, mostly for their 2012 line-up.
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