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Buyers drive MK’s Road MK2 has closed fresh deals on Walter Salles’ upcoming On The Road — to Canada (Alliance), Greece (Rosebud) and Scandinavia (Noble with partners). Sam Riley stars in the Jack Kerouac adaptation.
FilmSharks signs off rights FilmSharks has sold theatrical distribution rights to Santiago Segura’s 3D hit Torrente 4: Lethal Crisis in the CIS territories (Kinoprom), Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia (Delta Films), Hungary (Budapest Film) and former Yugoslavia (Mirus Tuck). English remake rights have been sold to Warner Bros, with Chris Bender and JC Spink to produce and Sacha Baron Cohen attached to play the lead. French remake rights went to Le Petite Reine.
Jinga sells A Serbian Film Jinga Films has sold the controversial A Serbian Film to Brazil (Petrini), Mexico (24 Frames), Benelux (Zeno) and France (Elephant). Elephant also acquired Darren Ward’s A Day Of Violence and Zombie Undead.
Indomina closes with Falcon Indomina has closed a deal with Falcon for the Middle East on new sales title Enter Nowhere, a horror story starring Sara Paxton, Shaun Sipos, Scott Eastwood, Katherine Waterston and Christopher Denham.
Locarno fetes Abel Ferrara Film-maker Abel Ferrara will receive the Leopard of Honour at this year’s Locarno Film Festival on August 5. He will present a masterclass at the festival, on August 6.
Swedes sail with Long Ships franchise
BY GEOFFREY MACNAB Swedish production outfit Fladen Film is launching The Long Ships, likely to be the biggest-budget movie in Swedish history. Fladen plans to create a full-
blown viking franchise which will comprise two feature films and a TV series. Plans are already afoot
9ers sells Ronin and Remember
BY LIZ SHACKLETON Korea’s 9ers Entertainment has scored a string of deals on sci-fi action title Ronin Pop and roman- tic drama Try To Remember. Thailand’s M Pictures snapped
up all rights to Ronin Pop, a Japa- nese production starring Korean boy band ZE:A. The film was also sold to PT
Global for Indonesian TV rights and PT Duta Cahaya Utama for Indonesian home-video rights. M Pictures also acquired Try To
Remember, which also went to Medallion Media for Japan, i -Cable for Hong Kong and PT Duta Cahaya Utama for Indonesia.
BY MIKE GOODRIDGE The Asia Pacific Screen Awards will start member voting rights for the first time for select categories at the November awards. Past jury, nominations council,
documentary and animation Academy members will determine the nominees and winners for best animated feature and docu-
New GFM in Seven Arts link
BY GEOFFREY MACNAB Guy Collins, Michael Ryan and Fred Hedman (all ex-IAC and Handmade) are in Cannes as part of GFM, which has struck an alli- ance with Seven Arts. GFM is helping Seven Arts
with sales, marketing and financ- ing on projects such as Neuro- mancer and the long-gestating Winter Queen (due to shoot in August) while pushing ahead with its own titles. Neuromancer has secured sales
A romantic fairy tale about 19 year old Cabella who inherits a key that unlocks not only an old villa in italy but also the mysteries of her family history.
to South Korea and Thailand (Noori), Taiwan (SSG), China (HGC), the Philippines, Indone- sia, Malaysia and India (PT Parkit), CIS (Luxor) and the Mid- dle East (Phars). GFM has held on to remake
rights to Handmade classics The Long Good Friday and Time Bandits. Paul McGuigan will direct a
new TV series of The Long Good Friday to star Ray Winstone. This will be the prelude to a feature.
for all the Scandinavian public funders to support the project. A writer and director will be
announced in the near future. The Long Ships was originally
made by Jack Cardiff in 1964, star- ring Richard Widmark and Sidney Poitier. The rights to the project were owned by Columbia and
Romulus Films. Fladen has now been able to secure these rights. The Long Ships has been
adapted from the epic novel by Frans Gunnar Bengtsson. Patrick Ryborn, CEO of Fladen
Film, and Joakim Hansson, the company’s CFO, called it “the ulti- mate viking movie”.
China’s Tianjin Film Studio has sold 3D animated feature Legend Of A Rabbit to Italian distributor CDF Pictures, which plans an August theatrical release. The $12m film is scheduled for a wide release in China at the end of July through China Film Group.
Liz Shackleton APSAs plan member voting
mentary feature. Another category getting special member voting will be for children’s feature. Voters will be able to use a spe-
cial online platform. The announcement was made
at APSA’s International Launch in Cannes last night, where a new script development fund for chil- dren’s films was also announced.
Seefood sells
Golden Network Asia has pre- sold Malaysian animation Seefood to France (Wild Side) and Germany (Splendid). The film has also gone to China (China Lion and Bona Film), ex-USSR (Luxor), Latin America (California), South Korea (K&Entertainment), Poland (Kino Swiat), Turkey (Duka Film) and Indonesia (PT Ciptu Mutu Ent). Liz Shackleton
CMG’s zombies pick up slack
BY JEREMYKAY Ed Noeltner’s Cinema Manage- ment Group has closed deals on zombie slacker film Deadheads with Eagle for Australia and New Zealand, Splendid for Germany and Benelux and Front Row for the Middle East. Noeltner reported a strong
response to Zambezia, with Film- house taking it for Israel (along with Khumba). Thriller Jacked has closed with SND for France and JNCG for South Korea. Blood Out sold to JNCG for
South Korea and Programmes- 4Media in the former Yugoslavia, while House Of The Rising Sun closed with SND in France, JNCG in South Korea, Programmes- 4Media in the former Yugoslavia, Surya in the Philippines and Pic- tureWorks in India. Liars All closed with Front Row for the Middle East.
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Reel Suspects heats up sales
Matteo Lovadina’s new sales outfit Reel Suspects has sold Q to Italy (Ripley’s) and Germany & Austria (Donau). France is close. Meat has been devoured in
Italy (Ripley’s), Germany & Austria (Donau) and South Korea (JNCG). Koen Mortier’s 22nd Of May has gone to Germany & Austria (Donau). Anarchy In Zirmunai has found a home in the UK with Peccadillo and in France with Optimale. The restored Futures Vedettes has sold to Italy (Ripley’s). Geoffrey Macnab
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