NEWS CONGRATULATES
COMPETITION: THE FUTURE
BY GEOFFREY MACNAB UK producer Keith Griffiths has revealed further details of Peter Strickland’s project Berberian Sound Studio (working title). Toby Jones will star in the fi lm as a sound engi- neer from Dorking who visits a sleazy sound studio in Italy. The Match Factory is selling. Shooting will begin in March in London.
The co-producer is Cologne-based Hans W Geissendörfer (who holds all German rights). Executive producers are Robin
Gutch, Katherine Butler and Hugo Heppell. Griffi ths (who produced Cannes winner
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives) has also confirmed that Michael Sheen will play Christ in Port Talbot Pas- sion, a project Sheen devised with writer Owen Sheers. Sheen is collaborating with National Theatre Wales to stage the piece, which will be made into a film by Dave McKean. The fi lm should hit cinemas on Good Friday, 2012.
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Jones boards Strickland’s Sound Toby Jones
SCHLAFKRANKHEIT (Sleeping Sickness)
BIZIM BÜYÜK ÇARESIZLIĞIMIZ (Our Grand Despair)
Steinborn unveils first Arden slate
MUNDO MISTERIOSO (A Mysterious World)
BY MARTIN BLANEY Former X-Filme Creative Pool executive Andro Steinborn has unveiled the produc- tion slate for his new company Arden Film, including titles by Karim Ainouz and Nadav Schirman. Steinborn is collaborating with Georgia
Costa Araujo of Coracao Da Selva on Ain- ouz’s adventure movie Praia Do Futuro, to be shot in Germany and Brazil. A Germany-Israel co-production with
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ETWAS BESSERES ALS DEN TOD (Beats being Dead)
EINE MINUTE DUNKEL
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AUF DER SUCHE
(Looking for Simon) SWANS
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BY MARTIN BLANEY Feo Aladag’s When We Leave swept the board at this year’s awards handed out by the Ger- man Film Critics Association on Monday. Aladag’s debut feature took home prizes in all of its seven nominated categories — for best fi lm and best debut fi lm as well as for screenplay, cinematography and editing.
Sibel Kekilli shared the award for best
actress with Three’s Sophie Rois, while the nod for best music score went ex aequo to When We Leave and Lars Kraume’s The Days To Come. Devid Striesow, another lead in Tom Tykwer’s Three, was named best actor, while Im Haus Meines Vaters Sind Viele Woh- nungen by Hajo Schomerus was best doc.
July-August Films is planned for Schirman’s adaptation of the Assaf Gavron novel Croc
Attack! Backing has already come from Hes- sen Film Fund and the Israel Film Fund. In addition, Steinborn has Tomy Wigand
attached to direct Oma In Roma, a genera- tion/culture-clash comedy starring Mari- anne Sagebrecht and Annette Frier. Majestic Filmverleih will distribute in Germany, with Beta Film handling international sales. Meanwhile, Arden Film is partner on the
long-term documentary Bar25: The Film (working title), which is one of the fi rst fi lms in Germany to benefi t from crowd funding to help fi nance the post-production.
Critics praise Aladag’s When We Leave
Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood is working on the score for Lynne Ramsay’s We Need To Talk About Kevin. Greenwood previously composed scores for the award-winning There Will Be Blood and Norwegian Wood. Tilda Swinton (pictured) stars as a mother whose son goes on a killing rampage. John C Reilly and Ezra Miller also star. The film is adapted from Lionel Shriver’s bestseller. Independent is producing and handling sales, and Artificial Eye has UK rights. Wendy Mitchell
BERLIN BRIEFS
Magnolia and TrustNordisk seal second deal on Norwegian thriller Magnolia Pictures and Denmark’s TrustNordisk have struck their second deal in two days here at the EFM with a North American deal on Morten Tyldum’s Norwegian thriller Headhunters. Based on Jo Nesbo’s novel, the film stars Aksel Hennie (A Somewhat Gentle Man) as a roguish headhunter who plots to steal an expensive painting from a former mercenary.
FilmSharks sells (Untitled) to Amstel in Benelux FilmSharks has sold Jonathan Parker’s (Untitled) to Amstel for Benelux. The comedy, starring Adam Goldberg and Marley Shelton, is about a group of artists in New York. The deal was negotiated by Guido Rud of FilmSharks with Marieke Jonker of Amstel. Previous deals were done with the US (Samuel Goldwyn), Latin America (Leda), the Middle East (Front Row) and CIS (Maywin).
Mayall gets to grips with Body
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■ 2 Screen International in Berlin February 15, 2011 Rik Mayall
BY JEREMY KAY Veteran British comedian Rik Mayall has joined Eron Sheean’s psychological thriller Errors Of The Human Body, which has just begun shooting in Dresden. Los Angeles-based XYZ Films is han-
dling worldwide sales and the regional MDM Film Commission is backing the story of a scientist with a tragic past. Sheean makes his feature directorial debut from a
script he co-wrote with Shane Danielsen. The cast includes Michael Eklund (Watch- men), Germany’s Karoline Herfurth (The Reader) and Tomas Lemarquis (December). Darryn Welch of Instinctive Film is pro-
ducing in association with Mike Dehghan of High5Films in Germany. XYZ Films, Chris Ouwinga, Rolloco Productions and Pandastorm’s Justus Peter and Rainer Bruns serve as executive producers.
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