FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9 2011


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Nanking among slew of buzz market titles


BY JEREMY KAY Sales companies head into the fi rst weekend here hopeful the inde- pendent sector’s appetite for com- mercial fare will be strong in a burgeoning unoffi cial market. The Weinstein Company, Fox


Searchlight and Sony are believed to be among a pack of domestic buyers circling the Christian Bale- starrer Heroes Of Nanking, directed by Zhang Yimou and China’s likely Oscar submission. FilmNation screens footage at


Varsity this morning, and David Linde and Stephen Saltzman of Loeb & Loeb represent domestic. Kevin Iwashina of Preferred


Content will screen Amy Hecker- ling’s Vamps for domestic buyers on Monday after Parlay Films han- dled international sales in recent markets. IM Global chief Stuart Ford


aims to capitalise on $60m-plus UK smash comedy The Inbetween- ers Movie. Ford has recruited 300 teenagers to attend a show for domestic buyers at the Cumber- land on Sunday. “We could have screened it in Cannes but the antic- ipation now is high,” he said. In terms of international activity,


Exclusive is revving up pre-sales on Rush (see lead story, above), while Inferno is talking up Allen Hughes’ upcoming $50m crime thriller Broken City. Voltage Pictures will look to


benefi t from a pre-festival screen- play mailout of the Kristen Wiig comedy Imogene.


K5 saddled up for Buck doc


BY WENDY MITCHELL K5 International has taken on international rights to Cindy Meehl’s Sundance Audience Award-winning documentary Buck, a hit at the US box offi ce. Madman has taken on Austral-


ian and New Zealand rights. Deals are expected imminently


for the UK and other European ter- ritories.


U2’s Bono and The Edge with director Davis Guggenheim (centre) at last night’s festival opening world premiere of From The Sky Down. It marked the first documentary to open TIFF.


Fortissimo hops onto Lee’s Frog


BY WENDY MITCHELL Fortissimo Films has acquired international sales rights to Quen- tin Lee’s White Frog. Kevin Iwashina’s Preferred Con-


tent is handling North America. The cast features Booboo Stew-


art (Twilight), Harry Shum Jr (Step- Up 2 and 3D) and Joan Chen. The story is about a teenager with Asperger’s reeling from a tragedy. Producers are Chris Lee for


Chris Lee Productions, Joel Soisson and Ellie Wen for Wentertainment.


Scanbox ups profile with Pan Vision deal


Scanbox Entertainment has struck a deal to acquire Pan Vision’s Nordic Film Division. After the acquisition, Scanbox will become the third- largest distributor in the Nordic market, after Svensk and Nordisk. Pan Vision is a home-


entertainment company that brings strength in the Swedish and Finnish markets to Scanbox, a company which is traditionally stronger in Denmark and Norway. Joni Sighvatsson, chairman of


Scanbox (and producer of Killer Elite), The film is in post and will be


readied for a 2012 launch; Fortis- simo has promo footage to show buyers here. The deal was negoti- ated by Iwashina and Elsa Ramo on behalf of the production with Fortissimo’s Michael J Werner.


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Exclusive revs up for Rush


BY JEREMY KAY Exclusive Media Group (EMG) has boarded Ron Howard’s Formula 1 motor-racing drama Rush and will split financing duties with Cross Creek Pictures. Exclusive Films International,


run by EMG co-head Guy East, president Alex Walton and co- president Alex Brunner, will com- mence pre-sales here on the project, which is based on a screen- play by Peter Morgan. Chris Hemsworth and Daniel


Hubert Boesl


FilmNation parties with 21 And Over


BY JEREMY KAY FilmNation will commence sales here on Relativity Media’s comedy 21 And Over, which has started pro- duction. Emerging star Miles Teller from


the upcoming Footloose remake features alongside Justin Chon, Skylar Astin and Sarah Wright. 21 And Over follows two child-


hood friends who drag their straight-laced friend out for a debauched birthday celebration on the eve of his medical-school inter- view. The Hangover writers Jon Lucas


and Scott Moore will direct from their screenplay and Mandeville Films’ David Hoberman and Todd Lieberman are producing in asso- ciation with Richard Branson’s Vir- gin Produced. Glen Basner’s FilmNation has


a slate that also includes The Oranges, Midnight’s Children, Take Shelter and Heroes Of Nan- king.


told Screen: “One of our goals is to have enough market share in each territory to make a difference. With this, we should have more than 10% market share in every country.” Pan Vision brings a library of


some 2,000 titles, with strengths in local titles as well as TV. Wendy Mitchell


TORONTO BRIEFS


New fund for Emmett/Furla Emmett/Furla Films has partnered with Envision Entertainment on a $250m revolving equity and debt fund to produce commercial fare.


IM Global, Penny Black set up 1840 Fund IM Global and New York-based investment firm Penny Black, led by executive chairman Lawrence Salameno, have established the 1840 Fund to create entertainment properties with multi-media potential.


Focus on board for Joe Wright’s Anna Karenina Focus Features has confirmed it will handle the domestic release on Working Title’s upcoming Anna Karenina, which Joe Wright will start shooting in the UK later this month. Universal Pictures International will distribute outside North America in the second half of 2012. Keira Knightley, Jude Law and Aaron Johnson will star.


Rouleau takes CMPA prize The Canadian Media Production Association has awarded André Rouleau (Breakaway, Goon, Starbuck) with its sixth annual $10,000 Producer’s Award.


AFM ponders move AFM heads have confirmed they are eyeing a move of the event to downtown Los Angeles from 2013.


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Brühl will star as James Hunt and Niki Lauda, the motor-racing titans whose fierce rivalry domi- nated the sport in the 1970s. Alex- andra Maria Lara also stars. Howard makes his first inde-


pendent foray in more than 25 years — a huge coup for the sector — and has commenced shooting technical footage at Germany’s Nürburgring. Filming will continue in the UK at Silverstone before principal photog- raphy proper gets underway towards the end of the year.


Exclusive and Cross Creek are


producing alongside Imagine Entertainment, Working Title and Revolution Films. Howard, Cross Creek head Brian Oliver, Brian Grazer, Eric Fellner, Morgan and Andrew Eaton are producing. “This is one of the greatest sto-


ries set in one of the world’s great- est sports,” Sinclair said. “Add Ron Howard’s singular ability to grip you with emotion, drama and thrills, and we’re off to a Grand Prix race.”


REVIEWS Addictive personality Michael Fassbender delivers an awards-worthy performance in Shame » PAGE 6


Killer comedy William Friedkin shoots and scores with Killer Joe » PAGE 22


SCREENINGS What to see today » START PAGE 27


PROFILE Indian summer Michael Winterbottom talks about Trishna » PAGE 38


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