NEWS TORONTOBRIEFS


Goldwyn fashions Diana Vreeland deal Samuel Goldwyn Films moved on North American rights to Lisa Immordino Vreeland’s Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has To Travel, about the late, influential Harper’s Bazaar fashion editor.


Sundance hot for Beloved Sundance Selects has taken North American rights to musical drama Beloved. Christophe Honoré’s Cannes closing night gala screens here and stars Catherine Deneuve, Ludivine Sagnier, Paul Schneider and Milos Forman. Celluloid Dreams sells.


Angel gets stake in Union Saskatoon-based Angel Entertainment will acquire a minority ownership in Toronto- based Union Pictures.


Van der Kolk to Panama TIFF co-founder Henk Van der Kolk has joined the team behind the new International Film Festival Panama (April 11-17, 2012). “At least half of our movies will be Latin American with the balance from the rest of the world,” says the Netherlands-born, Panama- based Canadian.


Northpoint plots Drops, Necropolis


BY WENDY MITCHELL Stella Nwimo, the London-based producer attending the Producers Lab Toronto organised by EFP (with participation of the British Council), is here presenting new thriller 18 Drops, written by Steve Lewis and Tony Owen. The film is about a man pre-


sumed dead during the Congolese conflict. When he resurfaces, he


Epic spins Mega-Spider


BY JEREMY KAY Production has begun on the sci- fi action project Mega-Spider, which Patrick Ewald’s Epic Pic- tures is selling internationally. Epic’s Ewald and Shaked Ber-


enson are producing with Travis Stevens of Snowfort Pictures and Klaus von Sayn-Wittgenstein of Wittgenstein Ventures. Mega-Spider centres on a giant


arachnid that goes on an eight- legged rampage. Gregory Gieras wrote the screenplay and Mike Mendez directs. Greg Grunberg, Lombardo Boyar, Clare Kramer and Ray Wise star.


A Funny Man makes friends


A Funny Man, which screens today in Contemporary World Cinema, is already a homegrown hit for Nordisk in Denmark, taking more than 240,000 admissions on 90 prints since its release, August 25. Tine Klint’s LevelK is handling


sales here, and she tells Screen: “It’s one of the best depictions I’ve


seen of male friendship.” The story is about famous post-war Danish comedian Dirch Passer and his producer. In town are director Martin P Zandvliet and leads Nikolaj Lie Kaas and Lars Ranthe. LevelK’s slate also includes The Good Son, Hail and Ronal The Barbarian. Wendy Mitchell


Stonebrook unveils PX3D trailer


BY JEREMY KAY Stonebrook Entertainment is screening in 3D the first trailer of PX3D, the next project from The Orphanage producers Rodar y Rodar. Sales associate Shirley Kim will


present the trailer to buyers today on behalf of president of interna- tional Delphine Perrier, at the


CHARLOTTE RAMPLING


Deluxe Screening Room on 424 Adelaide Street East. Joaquin Padro, Mar Targarona


and Raquel Carreras are produc- ing the story about sceptical research students who open a por- tal to another dimension. Sony will release PX3D in


Spain and Stonebrook holds remaining worldwide rights.


GABRIEL BYRNE


finds his wife has remarried and moved to North America. There, he discovers her new husband is being squeezed by a local gang- ster. “He escapes one war and finds himself in another one,” said Nwimo. The script will go out to cast in


early 2012 and directors are in advanced talks. It will shoot in South Africa and in North America.


Also in development at


Nwimo’s Northpoint Pictures is femme-fatale thriller Necropolis, which has Jens Jonsson (Sun- dance-winning King Of Ping Pong) in talks to direct. The script, developed with


backing from the British Film Institute, is written by Lydia Ade- tunji and is about a crime-scene cleaner who befriends a mysteri-


ous widow. That will shoot in the UK in 2012, with cast discussions starting at the end of the year. It is a busy month as she also


starts shooting another thriller, Rearview, on September 26. Avril E Russell will direct that story, a road movie in the vein of Wrong Turn or Wolf Creek, starring Anto- nia Thomas, Jamie Sives, James Floyd and Jay Simpson.


Egoyan praises young Talents to Watch


BYREGANREID Telefilm Canada’s first Talent to Watch panel on Friday introduced six directors showing their first feature films at TIFF: Simon Dav- idson (The Odds), Guy Edoin (Wetlands), Anne Emond (Nuit #1), Ivan Grbovic (Romeo Eleven), Yonah Lewis and Calvin Thomas (Amy George) and Nathan Mor- lando (Edwin Boyd). Telefilm Canada executive


director Carolle Brabant said: “We wanted to put the spotlight on what we’re really in the busi- ness for — the talent, the content.” Film-maker Atom Egoyan said


of the young directors: “You are so valuable to us culturally as young artists. You are expressing the soul of this country and I think Telefilm has been so instru- mental in that.”


Atom Egoyan


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