MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 12 2011


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CBS leaps for Salmon Fishing; buyers hot on Next, Oranges


Coriolanus producer cranks up team Ferrari


BY WENDY MITCHELL Coriolanus producer Julia Taylor- Stanley of UK-based Artemis Films is working with Senna writer Man- ish Pandey to develop a $60m drama about the Ferrari formula one team’s history. “Nobody can write about for-


mula one like Manish,” the pro- ducer said. “His knowledge is second to none so we’re very excited about the project. We’re already talking to an A-list director and have some fi nancing commit- ted, so it’s all happening very fast.” The fi lm will be a UK-Italy co-pro- duction shooting in both countries. The story will concentrate on


famed drivers Mike Hawthorn and Peter Collins and the racing team’s history in the late 1950s and early 1960s. “It was a very tragic period in Ferrari’s history, and there is also a love triangle within the story,” Taylor-Stanley told Screen. Her slate also includes an adapta-


tion of Henry James’ The Ambassa- dors, with French producer Philippe Carcassonne. The $25m project “has to be opulent”, she noted, and will have an A-list cast and director. Janet Dulin Jones is adapting. Taylor-Stanley is also producing,


with Potboiler’s Gail Egan and Trademark’s David Parfi tt, The Bar- retts, a biopic of poet Elizabeth Bar- rett Browning. That one, which could shoot in the UK in spring 2012, is budgeted at $10-$12m, and is out to directors now. Prescience is on board for fi nancing. Janet Dulin Jones has also written this original screenplay.


Ruben Ostlund’s Play has an additional screening today at 3pm at Bell Lightbox 6. Coproduction Office is handling sales.


BY JEREMY KAY Lasse Hallstrom’s well received Salmon Fishing In The Yemen appeared to be bound for CBS Films last night, and Midnight Madness premiere You’re Next and The Oranges were among acquisi- tion titles in the mix. Snoot Entertainment’s You’re


Next directed by Adam Wingard played well to the late-night crowd on Saturday and studios and the major independents are circling. Domestic rights holder CAA is


understood to be negotiating for a wide release to Wingard’s follow- up to his Toronto 2010 entry A Horrible Way To Die, and the agency has wasted little time in signing the writer-director. CBS Films meanwhile was


Hubert Boesl


Michael Fassbender signs autographs for fans on the red carpet for Shame last night. Fassbender arrived in Toronto after winning the best actor prize in Venice on Saturday for Steve McQueen’s acclaimed film about a sex addict. The actor also stars in another TIFF title, David Cronenberg’s A Dangerous Method.


Universal, Morgan Creek thrill with The Thing


Universal Pictures and Morgan Creek Productions are to co-finance The Thing and will split international distribution. The studio is set to release the


thriller in North America next month as part of its arrangement to handle domestic on Morgan Creek product. Universal Pictures International will distribute in select markets on behalf of Morgan Creek, however the parties had not confirmed the


specific breakdown at time of press. Hot Australian actor Joel


Edgerton from Animal Kingdom, who can be seen in Lionsgate’s new release Warrior, stars in the story of an Antarctic research outpost overrun by paranoia when a creature is unleashed with the ability to replicate any living being. Matthijs van Heijningen directed


The Thing, conceived as a prelude to John Carpenter’s 1982 film of the


same name. Strike Entertainment’s Marc Abraham and Eric Newman are producing. “We are pleased to expand our


relationship with Universal and look forward to partnering on more pictures,” Morgan Creek chairman and CEO Jim Robinson said. “As a big fan of John Carpenter’s film, I’m very excited we are involved with this companion piece.”


Jeremy Kay


Content’s Day begins with German deal


BY WENDY MITCHELL Content has sold its Midnight Madness selection The Day to Splendid for German-speaking Europe and Benelux. The post-apocalyptic war


thriller is directed Doug Aarnioko- ski, written by Luke Passmore and produced by Guy A Danella, whose credits include The Fourth Kind. The cast features Shawn Ash-


more, Ashley Bell, Michael Eklund, Cory Hardrict, Dominic Mona- ghan and Shannyn Sossamon. The deal was done ahead of the


film’s first press and industry screening here. The deal was negotiated by


Harry White, head of sales at Content, and Carl Rickmers at Splendid. Content is representing interna-


tional rights and Kevin Iwashina of Preferred Content is handling North America. Content’s TIFF slate also includes Derick Martini’s Hick and Nick Broomfield’s Sarah Palin — You Betcha!.


understood to have pulled ahead of Summit Entertainment for the cross-cultural dramedy Salmon Fishing starring Ewan McGregor and Emily Blunt. The buyer report- edly put an MG of more than $5m on the table last night and was in negotiations with domestic sales agent UTA. Lionsgate handles international sales. Julian Farino’s dark comedy The


Oranges, with Hugh Laurie and Catherine Keener, is generating heat for CAA, while buyers are circling Jennifer Westfeldt’s Friends With Kids, which originated through the upstart production and interna- tional sales outfit Red Granite. Cinetic is handling domestic rights. Multiple offers are in on The Incident, the English-language


horror story about cooks stranded in an insane asylum that is fi nanced by SND and produced by Roy Lee’s Vertigo. Paradigm is holding out until after tonight’s world premiere in Madness. Meanwhile the positive


response to Bennett Miller’s festi- val entry Moneyball has re-ener- gised his wrestling project Foxcatcher and positioned it squarely on Hollywood’s radar. The talk here is that Megan Elli-


son’s Annapurna Pictures is poised to come on board as fi nancier. Elli- son made a splash in Cannes when she swooped on The Terminator property rights. She is producing John Hillcoat’s Wettest County and Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Mas- ter, among others.


REVIEWS Deep in love Terence Davies returns with a moody love triangle, The Deep Blue Sea » PAGE 9


Trouble in paradise Maldives doc The Island President is a potential awards-winner » PAGE 12


SCREENINGS What to see today » START PAGE 15


PROFILE Taking a gamble Simon Davidson talks about his debut feature, The Odds » PAGE 22


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