NEWS CANNESBRIEFS
Slew of deals for Opus Ken DuBow’s Los Angeles- based Opus Distribution has taken on horror film Ex Inferis from director Leonardo Araneo. Roberto Zibetti stars in the story of six friends whose idyllic country sojourn turns into a nightmare. The project shot on location in Italy and is in post. Pierfrancesco Fiorenza is producing for The Talking Tree. Also, DuBow has closed the following deals: Bad Behaviour for Germany (Donau Films), The Christmas Bunny for North America (Screen Media) and the UK (Showbox), Dead Undead to North America (Phase 4) and Eyeborgs to Australia (Anchor Bay).
Peccadillo takes UK for She Monkeys,Weekend UK distributor Peccadillo Pictures will come to Cannes with the aim of acquiring a wider variety of films than its traditional LGBT arthouse niche. The company’s recent acquisitions are SXSW hit Weekend, directed by Andrew Haigh, Tribeca winner She Monkeys, Tomboy from Films Distribution, Angele Et Tony from Pyramide, Gigola from Wide and We Were Here by director David Weissman.
MillenniumEntertainment flocks to Little Birds Millennium Entertainment has picked up North American rights to Elgin James’ Sundance entry Little Birds starring Juno Temple, Kay Panabaker, Kate Bosworth and Leslie Mann. The distributor plans an autumn release on Little Birds, which was produced by Jamie Patricof, Alan Polsky and Gabe Polsky.
Free Stone brings Heaven’s Story and pinku to Cannes
BY LIZ SHACKLETON Japanese sales company Free Stone Production is making its Cannes debut with award-win- ning Berlin title Heaven’s Story and a special package of avant-garde pinku (aka erotic) films from Japa- nese production house Kokuei. Directed by Takahisa Zeze,
Heaven’s Story picked up both the Fipresci and Netpac prizes in the Forum section of the Berlinale this year. The four-and-a-half-hour drama depicts the impact of a senseless murder, involving a
duced and directed by major Japa- nese film-makers who have been experimenting with the pinku genre since the 1960s, the package includes Shinji Imaoka’s Lunch Box and Zeze’s Tokyo X Erotica. Also on Free Stone’s slate are
Heaven’s Story
young mother and child, across a period of eight years. The Kokuei package has been
hand-picked by Free Stone and Japan’s Stance Company. Pro-
Reel Suspects head for Valley
BY GEOFFREY MACNAB Reel Suspects, the international sales and coproduction company founded this year by Matteo Lovadina, has added several new titles to its slate. The company has taken on Happy In The Valley by Lee Madsen, starring William Forsythe, Shaun Sipos and Ursula Brooks. The film, screening in the Marché, is a dark comedy about a
once-famous photographer now shooting erotic portraits. Also by Madsen (and new on
Reel Suspects’ slate) is punk-rock drama Hated, starring Ellen Wog- lom, Matthew Hutchinson, Augustus Prew and Chris Riggi. Sales have been done on Saulius
Drunga’s Anarchy In Zirmunai for France (Optimale), with other ter- ritories in play including the UK.
comedies Sukiyaki, directed by Tetsu Maeda, and Thank You Gangsters, directed by Shohei Ima- mura’s protégé Kosuke Oshida. Founded in 2011, Free Stone
aims to handle commercial and arthouse titles with links to Japa- nese directors and producers.
Laurent Bouhnik’s Q has gone
to Israel (Shapira Films), Japan (Medallion) and Russia & CIS (Big Movies). Meanwhile, Reel Suspects is handling international sales on Kanchi Wichmann’s east London- set melodrama Break My Fall. Also on Reel Suspect’s Cannes
slate is cult erotic drama Meat, from directors Maartje Seyferth and Victor Nieuwenhuijs, David Verbeek’s Club Zeus, Koen Morti- er’s 22nd Of May and Santiago Sierra’s No, Global Tour.
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Morena sees apocalypse
BYGEOFFREYMACNAB Leading Spanish producer Pedro Uriol of Morena Films (Cell 211) has teamed with Rebelion Terres- tre’s Alberto Marini (Red) to pro- duce The Last Days, Alex and David Pastor’s second feature. The Last Days is a Spanish-lan-
guage apocalyptic thriller set in Barcelona. A mysterious agora- phobia spreads across the world, trapping everyone indoors. As societal disorder and chaos descend, Mateo becomes sepa- rated from his pregnant girlfriend and must fight his way across the disintegrating city to save her and their baby, without going outside. The project marks the Pastors’
return to their home town, where Alex graduated from the prestig- ious ESCAC before directing the Sundance winner short The Natu- ral Route. Most recently, the brothers lived in New York where they wrote and directed Carriers for Paramount, as well as develop- ing projects for Participant Media and Appian Way among others. The $7.8m (¤5.5m) film is cur-
rently being packaged, with pro- duction set for November and delivery by autumn 2012.
Visit Films takes Toomelah
New York-based Visit Films has acquired international rights to a trio of market titles, including Ivan Sen’s Aboriginal drama Toomelah which premieres today in Un Certain Regard (see Diary, p16). The roster also features Jean-
Directors Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon and Bruno Romy at the Majestic Beach before the Directors’ Fortnight opening of their film, The Fairy (La Fée).
Jacques Jauffret’s Directors’ Fortnight drama Heat Wave (Apres Le Sud) and Evan Glodell’s
Bellflower, about two friends preparing for the apocalypse. Ryan Kampe will also be
continuing sales on Werner Herzog’s 3D documentary Cave Of Forgotten Dreams following its successful debut through IFC Films in the US, where it averaged more than $25,000 per screen. Jeremy Kay
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