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BBC Films tempts Cillian Murphy to board Broken
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EVENTS PROGRAMME MONDAY 16 MAY
3D storytelling: Turning a gimmick into a storytelling tool
10.30-11.30
Directors such as Martin Scorsese, Bernardo Bertolucci, Wim Wenders and Werner Hertzog are all experimenting with 3D in their storytelling. This discussion will look at how filmmakers can enhance their film content with 3D, what the impact of 3D is on the creative process and how best to use it.
Market forces: How to make the Production Finance Market work for you
11.45-13.45
What are the current challenges in the commercial marketplace for independent films? This session will address how to overcome the key sales, distribution and financing challenges facing European producers today. The Film London Production Finance Market (PFM) is the only event of its kind in the UK, dedicated to connecting international producers and financiers as a way to encourage new film financing relationships. Details of this year's PFM, together with information on the MEDIA Production Guarantee Fund, will also be available during this session.
The King’s Speech: From development to distribution
15.00-16.00
The producers and UK distributors of this year’s BAFTA and Oscar®-winner, The King’s Speech, discuss how they worked together to make this film an international box office and award-winning success.
TODAY’S 1-2-1 SURGERIES: Meet the BFI London Film Festival
Meet the BFI’s Film Fund
How to qualify as a British film: the Cultural Test
Ravensbourne on 3D and digital Career coaching
Inside the Press
11.00-13.00 11.00-13.00
13.00-15.00 13.00-15.00 15.00-17.00
TUESDAY 17 MAY HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE: Christine Langan, Head of BBC Films
The magic hour: Cinematographer Manuel Alberto Claro DFF in conversation
Closing the deal: International co-production
Scots on film: Financing and funding opportunities
BY WENDY MITCHELL BBC Films, one of the back- ers of Lynne Ramsay’s Competition title We Need To Talk About Kevin, is in Cannes discussing a full slate of new projects includ- ing several debut features and two family films. Theatre director Rufus
Norris will make his feature debut with Broken, adapted by Mark O’Rowe from Dan- iel Clay’s novel. Cillian Mur- phy is attached to star in what is described as a mod- ern-day To Kill A Mocking- bird set in the north of England. BBC Films head Chris-
tine Langan tells Screen: “It’s about distrust and hatred in a small commu- nity.” Dixie Linder, Nick Marston and Tally Garner will produce. Another first-time fic-
tional feature director is Morgan Matthews, who will make a dramatic adap-
Purcell joins
emy Irvine, Paddy Consid- ine and Olivia Williams will star. Graham Broadbent and Pete Czernin produce. Political journalist Tom
Cillian Murphy
tation of his 2005 docu- mentary Beautiful Young Minds. James Graham writes the new film, The X And Y Factor, about a maths prodigy figuring out love. A first-time feature direc-
tor will be announced soon for Brit List-winning com- edy Sex Education with Ruby Films. Among establ ished
directors, Langan says that company is in talks on another project with Ram- say, but it is early stages (Ramsay will next be mak- ing her Warp Films project). Ol Parker will direct Now
Is Good, his adaptation of Jenny Downham’s Before I Die. Dakota Fanning, Jer-
Bradby is working on an updated remake of political thriller Defence Of The Realm. Lynda Myles and Jason Newmark of New- scope Films will produce. Family films are also key
on the slate, as Paul King adapts Peter Pan In Scarlet and Andrea Gibb adapts Swallows And Amazons for Tom and Charlie Guard to direct and Harbour’s Nick Barton to produce. As previously reported,
BBC Films is also reteam- ing with Lone Scherfig for Danish epic Music And Silence, and with James Marsh on IRA story Shadow Dancer, and with Number 9 films for Mike Newell’s adaptation of Great Expec- tations. The slate also includes StreetDance 2.
Vikingdom BY JEREMYKAY Prison Break star Dominic Purcell has joined Viking- dom, the $10m 3D action- adventure collaboration between Patrick Ewald’s Epic Pictures Group and Malaysia’s KRU Studios. Ewald has licensed Bel-
gian and German rights to Splendid and closed deals with Eagle for the Middle East and HGC for China. Epic has also sold Dar-
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ren Bousman’s thriller 11-11-11 to France (Wild- side), Scandinavia (Scan- box), Benelux ( Just Bridge), Turkey (Mars), Eastern Europe (SPI), CIS (Luxor), Latin America (Swen), Taiwan (Catch Play), Malaysia and Singa- pore (Cathay), Hong Kong (Deltamax), Middle East (Eagle), the Philippines (Pioneer) and South Korea (Good Morning). Robert Hall’s horror
project ChromeSkull: Laid To Rest 2 has closed new deals with 21st Century for Australia and Eagle for the Middle East.
Intandem, Mary Alice in pact
Intandem Films and Los Angeles-based Mary Alice Productions will produce and finance a slate of films in the $20m-40m range. Mary Alice will source the equity with Intandem closing pre-sales and gap finance. The first two films under
the deal are Section 8 and X-Treme Mission. Section 8 is a $27m
comedy to be produced by Penny Marshall and
directed by Scott Marshall. Josh Duhamel is in talks. XM3D is a $40m action
film (part of a planned trilogy) with Duhamel and Tyrese Gibson in talks. Other forthcoming films
include Love By A Knockout, a $30m comedy from producer Mark Lipsky. All the films have been
written by Mary Alice founder Gerald Henderson. Geoffrey Macnab
Finecut seals slew of deals
BYLIZ SHACKLETON Korea’s Finecut has sold Kim Ki-duk’s Arirang and Hong Sang-soo’s The Day He Arrives to Taiwan’s Catch- Play. It has also acquired Athena: Goddess Of War. Animation Leafie: A Hen
Into The Wild has been sold to Horizon International for Turkey. Horizon has also picked up Athena: Goddess Of War, Midnight FM and 71: Into The Fire. Finecut has also sold US rights to a trio of titles —
Heartbeat, Midnight FM and Troubleshooter — to JoyNContents Group along with a raft of library titles. The Korean sales outfit
has also pre-sold Poongsan, directed by Juhn Jai-hong, to Pretty Pictures for French-speaking territories. Upcoming horror film
The Cat, in post for a sum- mer release by Korea’s Next Entertainment World, has been sold to Scorpio East for Singapore, Malaysia and Brunei.
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