NEWS Best Laid Plans


Sony draws Plans for UK


BY WENDY MITCHELL Sony Pictures Home Entertain- ment (SPHE) has acquired UK home entertainment rights to Best Laid Plans from AV Pictures. Andy Armstrong, SPHE man-


aging director, Northern Europe, said: “This film, about friend- ships tested to the limit, boasts an award-winning director and a critically acclaimed cast.” Bafta-winner David Blair


directs, and the cast features Stephen Graham, Adewale Akin- nuoye-Agbaje and David O’Hara. The film is about a hustler who


puts his mentally challenged friend into a fight ring. It is produced by Michael


Knowles and Stacey Murray for Made Up North Productions and Bradley Moore and Mark Foligno for Moli Films in association with EM Media and AV Pictures.


Intandem shines Bright with Roberts and Poots


BY GEOFFREY MACNAB UK outfit Intandem Films has snapped up international rights to Comes A Bright Day, a UK roman- tic thriller starring Craig Roberts and Imogen Poots. The main cast’s costumes are by UK fashion designer Paul Smith. Shooting begins next week on


location around Mayfair and at London’s Elstree Studios. The film is being made through Smudge Films, Matador Pictures, Lost Tribe Productions and Ipso Facto Films. Finance is from Matador, Regent Capital and Lost Tribe.


Comes A Bright Day is written


and directed by Simon Aboud. Roberts (Submarine) and Poots (28 Weeks Later) play hostages during a Mayfair jewellery shop heist. The cast also features Kevin McKidd and Timothy Spall. “Paul Smith says everything the


film is about — his style is just so timeless and elegant. With Paul’s clothes and the stills photogra- pher Mary McCartney shooting on set, we know we’re going to end up with something very spe- cial,” producer Christine Alderson of Ipso Facto said.


Craig Roberts styled for Comes A Bright Day M-Line tempts buyers with Haunters, Heroes


BY LIZ SHACKLETON Seoul-based sales company M-Line Distribution has sealed a slew of deals on action drama Haunters, directed by Kim Min- suk, including a sale to Japanese distributor Twin Co. The film, starring Kang Dong- won and Koh Soo, has also gone to


Madman for Australia and Dream Movie for Singapore. The story is about a bank robber who can hyp- notise people but comes across a bank clerk he cannot control. M-Line has also closed a string


of sales on comic war drama Bat- tlefield Heroes, directed by Lee Joon-ik, who is known for histori-


cal movies such as Blades Of Blood. Battlefield Heroes, which was released in South Korea in January, has been sold to Germa- ny’s KSM, China’s E-Stars, Tai- wan’s CatchPlay and IRIB for Iran. Catchplay has also snapped up


M-Line’s romantic comediesShot- gun Love and Petty Romance. The


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Parlay parties with Birthday


Lisa Wilson’s Parlay Films has picked up all international rights on romantic comedy A Little Something For Your Birthday to star Malin Akerman and James Marsden. Television director Michael


Engler makes his feature-film debut with a screenplay by Susan Walter. Anonymous Content’s Steve Golin and Alix Madigan-Yorkin will produce. Jay Cohen and P Jennifer Dana


at the Gersh Agency will represent North American rights. Akerman plays a clothing designer who struggles to find love and success after turning 30. Jeremy Kay


latter was also sold to Malaysia’s Hwa Yea, which bought M-Line’s 2AM Show, a concert film featur- ing boy band 2AM, taking rights for Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia. M-Line’s slate also includes


Uzbekistan-South Korea co-pro- ductionHanaan, currently in post, which is being billed as the Uzbek answer toTrainspotting.


Wide boards Panahi’s Not A Film Pacino shoots for Levinson’s Gotti saga


Wide Management will handle worldwide sales on Jafar Panahi and Mojtaba Mirtahmasb’s This Is Not A Film. It depicts a day in the life of Panahi, who has been waiting for a verdict in his court appeal for several months. This Is Not A Filmwas just


added to the official Cannes selection as a special screening.


In a statement, the film-makers


said: “The reality of being alive and the dream of keeping cinema alive motivated us to go through the existing limitations in Iranian cinema. The existing possibilities in cinema have convinced us that a film-maker has only himself to blame if he’s unable to make films.” Nancy Tartaglione


BY JEREMYKAY Al Pacino has come on board Fiore Films’ crime saga Gotti: Three Generations, which Barry Levin- son is set to direct in the autumn for a late 2012 release. Levinson is rewriting the script


of the true story, chronicling the relationship between Mafia king- pin John Gotti and his son John Gotti Jr, the heir apparent to the Gambino crime family who chose


Al Pacino


to turn his back on a life of crime. James Toback, who worked with Levinson on Bugsy, is helping with the script. Pacino will portray


Gambino family underboss Neil Dellacroce. John Travolta, Kelly Preston, Joe Pesci and Lindsay Lohan are among the cast already announced. ICM represents worldwide sales. “Pacino is one of the finest


actors of all time, and will bring an unsurpassed level of reality and excitement to the film,” said Marc Fiore, CEO of Fiore Films and executive producer on the project.


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