NEWS CANNES BRIEFS
Quaid speaks withWords Dennis Quaid has joined Bradley Cooper and Jeremy Irons in thriller The Words, which Lisa Wilson’s Parlay Films is pre-selling here.
Cast in Hand for Hannibal Classics comedy Hannibal Classics is in Cannes selling action comedy Sleight Of Hand, starring Til Schweiger, Kiefer Sutherland, Gérard Depardieu, Johnny Hallyday and Eric Cantona. Brad Mirman will direct the film which is set to start shooting from the end of July through mid- September.
LIGHTNINGSTRIKES: Lightning Entertainment has acquired international rights to the Mexican hit El Infierno and has begun talks with buyers here under its new international title, El Narco. Luis Estrada wrote and directed the crime saga, screening in the market, about a migrant worker in the US who gets involved in drug cartels. Damian Alcazar stars. It was the second-biggest Mexican film of the year last year, taking close to $7m. Jeremy Kay
MUBI pacts with Sony, Hopscotch
BYANDREAS WISEMAN VoD service MUBI has signed a spate of deals, including a signifi- cant agreement with Sony to have the service pre-loaded on Sony Bravia TVs in 58 countries across Europe, Brazil, Mexico and Aus- tralia/New Zealand. This builds on the existing deal between MUBI and Sony’s PS3 consoles. MUBI is also launching a pre-
mium VoD option in Australia with Hopscotch for the distributor’s titles to be available on the plat- form day and date with local DVD releases. Pierre Thoretton’s Yves
In a technical first outside the
US, MUBI signed a deal with Dolby to provide 5.1 channel sur- round sound audio streaming. The announcements come as
Hengameh Panahi and Efe Cakarel
Saint Laurent doc L’Amour Fou will be the first title available (July 21). In one of its largest content
deals, MUBI is distributing the library of HanWay Films, includ- ing titles from Bernardo Ber- tolucci, Woody Allen, Peter Weir, Wim Wenders and Merchant Ivory as well as a selection of BFI films.
MUBI launches a free retrospec- tive of 112 Critics’ Week films. MUBI CEO Efe Cakarel told
Screen: “These are exciting times for MUBI. I want to watch every great film day and date on any device instantly. We are one step closer to making this a reality.” MUBI is backed by Hengameh
Panahi’s Celluloid Dreams, The Cri- terion Collection and Costa Films.
Japan buys Come Rain from bom
BY LIZ SHACKLETON South Korean production house bom Film Productions has sealed a Japanese deal on its Berlin com- petition title Come Rain, Come Shine, which has been snapped up by Pony Canyon. Directed by Lee Yoon-ki, Lim
Soo-jung and Hyun Bin star in the story of a couple’s last day together. The deal was negotiated in
association with People In Com- munications (PIC), a newly
Vibrations rocks TheWorks
BY GEOFFREYMACNAB The Works International has taken world sales on Good Vibra- tions, the story of Terri Hooley, Belfast’s godfather of punk. Richard Dormer will play Hoo-
ley and other actors attached are Michael Fassbender, Steve Coogan and Robert Sheehan. Glenn Leyburn and Lisa Barros
D’Sa (Cherrybomb) direct from a script by Glenn Patterson and
Colin Carberry. Chris Martin and Andrew Eaton will produce. David Holmes will provide the music. Members of the band Snow Patrol will associate pro- duce. Filming is due to start in Belfast in late summer. Good Vibrations is a Cander-
blinks Film & Music and Revolu- tion Films co-production with BBC Films, the Irish Film Board and Northern Ireland Screen.
Countdown
launched South Korean company which specialises in international consulting for films.
STATHAM HITS THE ROAD: Open Road Films, the distributor set up by US theatre chains AMC and Regal, has bought its first film, taking US rights to Omnilab Media’s Killer Elite starring Jason Statham, Clive Owen and Robert De Niro. A nationwide release is planned for 2,000 theatres in the autumn with a $25m p&a spend. Gary McKendry directs the Ranulph Fiennes book adaptation. Jeremy Kay
Fortissimo Films has rights to
Come Rain, Come Shine outside Korea and Japan. Meanwhile, bom is also begin-
ning sales on Huh Jong-ho’s forth- coming action drama Countdown, starring Jeon Do-youn who won best actress at Cannes in 2007 for Secret Sunshine. Bom’s Oh Jung-wan and PIC’s
EJ Cho are handling sales for Asian territories and looking for a partner to handle Western territories.
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Content joins Club with Swank, McConaughey
Content has taken on international sales for Jean-Marc Vallée’s The Dallas Buyer’s Club, which stars Matthew McConaughey and Hilary Swank. Craig Borten and Melisa
Wallack wrote the script, based on the true story of one man’s fight for justice against corruption at the US Food and Drug Administration. The producers are Robbie
Brenner (A Perfect Getaway), Rachel Rothman-Winter and Nathan Ross. Vallée’s previous credits
include The Young Victoria. Content president Jamie
Carmichael said: “We’re delighted to be working with Robbie, Rachel and Jean-Marc on what promises to be a really entertaining and important film. It goes without saying we are very lucky to have such a fantastic cast and we’re looking forward to presenting The Dallas Buyer’s Club at Cannes.” CAA is repping the film in
North America. Wendy Mitchell Scalpello booked for Feltham
BY SARAHCOOPER Gunslinger, the production arm of UK distributor Revolver Enter- tainment, has signed up Ron Scal- pello to direct Feltham. Dubbed “a British A Prophet for
the youth audience”, the film tells the story of a young man who gets himself incarcerated at a young offender’s institute in order to avenge the rape of his girlfriend. Produced by Revolver’s Nick
Taussig and written by Paul Van Carter (Shank), it is set for a late summer shoot in London. Now casting, Taussig is looking to appoint an international sales agent during Cannes. Revolver has also boarded Scal-
pello’s second feature Here Comes The Summer, about unrest in 1980s Britain, which is being pro- duced by Andrea Cornwell and Alan McKenna.
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