NEWS
Branco and Ruiz prep Lines Of Wellington
BY GEOFFREYMACNAB Paulo Branco’s Alfama Films is back in business with Chilean auteur Raul Ruiz on Lines Of Wel- lington, an epic that Branco is bill- ing as “War And Peace in Portugal”. Scripted by Carlos Saboga, the
$7m (¤5m) drama revisits the third French invasion of Portu- gal in 1810-11. Ruiz has set aside plans for the previously announced Black Book Of Dennis to concentrate on the project, which is currently casting. The film will be in Portuguese, French and English. The idea is to project the movie
as a two-hour film and as a three- part 50-minute TV series. Branco hopes to shoot in September. Meanwhile, Branco’s Mysteries
Of Lisbon has confirmed a new deal for Japan (Alcine Terran).
Kretschmann hot for Dracula
Thomas Kretschmann has signed up to play the lead in Dario Argento’s Dracula 3D, Italy’s first live-action stereoscopic 3D film, which gets underway May 30. The Pianist and Valkyrie actor
will star alongside Asia Argento, Marta Gastini and Rutger Hauer. Roberto Di Girolamo’s
Filmexport has closed a number of deals here on the project, which is produced by Multimedia Film Production and Enrico Cerezo Productions. Andreas Wiseman
FilmDistrict on for Jolie, Johnson
BY JEREMY KAY Busy FilmDistrict has added Angelina Jolie’s feature directorial debut In The Land Of Blood And Honey and is teaming with TriStar on Rian Johnson’s time-travel thriller Looper. Jolie’s debut is set for release in
the US on December 23. She wrote the screenplay, which is set against the backdrop of the Bosnian War in
the 1990s. Jolie shot simultaneously in English and the local language, known as BHS. FilmDistrict will release the English-language ver- sion of the project, which was pro- duced by Graham King’s GK Films. Bruce Willis and Joseph Gor-
don-Levitt star in Looper, Endgame Entertainment’s sci-fi story. Ram Bergman is producing with Endgame CEO Jim Stern, in
association with DMG, and End- game’s Doug Hansen served as executive producer. Endgame fully financed the project and FilmNa- tion is handling international sales. CAA brokered the deal on behalf of Endgame with Adrian Alperovich, president of acquisitions at Film- District, who will partner with the Sony division on distribution and marketing.
CLOSE-UP ON 3D STORYTELLING: Ravensbourne, Skillset and WFTV are hosting a 3D storytelling panel today at 10.30am at the UK Film Centre. ‘Turning a Gimmick into a
Wentworth Miller Eric Stonestreet
Wentworth Miller and Eric Stonestreet have been added to the cast of the $15m US remake of Erik Van Looy’s Loft. Produced by Anonymous Content, the film is set to shoot from June 6 in New Orleans. Sierra/Affinity will be handling world sales. Patrick Wilson and James Marsden also star in the story of married men who have a secret apartment where they take their lovers; secrets emerge when a woman is found there dead.
Geoffrey Macnab Lall brothers launch Filmworks
BY LIZ SHACKLETON Bhuvan and Akshay Lall have launched an arthouse label, Lall Brothers Filmworks, to produce and distribute a slate of high- quality Indian films. The first pick-up is Bedabrato Pain’s 1930s-set action drama
Chittagong starring Manoj Bajpai, Barry John and Nawazud- din Siddiqui. Lall Brothers is also developing
a slate of story-driven films, each with budgets of around $1m, and plans to unveil the first projects in Toronto.
Vajna overhauls Hungarian film
BY GEOFFREYMACNAB Speaking in Cannes this weekend, producer and Hungarian film commissioner Andy Vajna has offered further details of plans to overhaul the Hungarian film industry. Two weeks ago, Vajna revealed his plans to set up a new
film fund, after the failure of the Hungarian Motion Picture Public Foundation (MMKA). If the new plan receives govern-
ment approval, the fund will be up and running in weeks. This year, the proposed fund will have a budget of $10m for investing in
Storytelling Tool’ will involve producer Gareth Unwin, Vertigo’s Allan Niblo, Vision3’s Adam May and Picturehouse’s Clare Binns. Screen’s Wendy Mitchell will moderate. Ravensbourne is now planning a
two-day 3D event with Pinewood, July 28-29.
“We are focused on strategic
investments in arthouse content and world-class intellectual prop- erties in Hindi and English lan- guage in India,” said Bhuvan Lall, who also executive-produced Chittagong. The company is also represent-
ing Deepa Sahi’s romantic comedy Tere Mere Phere.
film, and Vajna hopes to double that for 2012. The 20% tax advan- tage remains in place. Vajna said: “I want to make
sure that if we say ‘yes’ to a project, [it] will get funded. I don’t want to have the same thing happen again. I don’t think we can afford that.” He added he would not be able to honour all the old MMKA deals.
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Kelliher takes Export role
Bankside’s Stephen Kelliher (pictured) has been elected as the chair of
Film Export UK. New directors Clare Crean and Andrew Orr join the re-elected Samantha Horley and Elisar Cabrera. Kelliher said: “I’m looking
forward to building on the great work we’ve already done. The world will always embrace great film-making, but it doesn’t all happen automatically. That’s the message we must get across.” The board elections take
place every two years. Wendy Mitchell
London’s PFM set for October
BY GEOFFREYMACNAB The Film London Production Finance Market, held during the London Film Festival, has con- firmed its fifth edition to run October 19-20. A report revealed financiers
offered successful producers an average of $5.8m per project at last year’s event. Applications for this year’s
market are now open. As well as partnerships with the Ile de France Film Commis- sion, Rome International Film Fest ival and Melbourne’s 37˚South Market, the PFM is also looking to secure new part- ners in Germany and is under- taking an outreach programme in the US.
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