NEWS TORONTO BRIEFS Martha Marcy team readies drifter tale


Archer up at DDA Dana Archer has been promoted to executive vice-president of DDA PR, moving her closer to full partnership in the company.


Myriad sharpens Knife Myriad Pictures will handle international sales on Bill Guttentag’s political satire Knife Fight starring Rob Lowe, Julie Bowen and Jamie Chung.


H20, Traction rock with Vinyl Andras Hamori’s H2O and Traction Media have come on board the Welsh comedy Vinyl, based on a 2004 rock ‘n’ roll swindle, and starring Phil Daniels, Perry Benson and Keith Allen. Sara Sugarman writes and directs. Also, H20 and Traction are showing footage here of The Samaritan, starring Samuel L Jackson.


Intramovies shakes Hands Italy’s Intramovies has taken international sales rights for Rough Hands, Moroccan director Mohamed Asli’s second film. The story is about a hairdresser who is a black- market middleman. It plays here in Contemporary World Cinema.


BY WENDY MITCHELL Maybach Cunningham, the pro- duction company here with Sean Durkin’s Martha Marcy May Mar- lene, is preparing its third feature to shoot this year. The Low Road, to be directed by


company co-founder Chris May- bach, is in the process of casting. It will shoot for five weeks in San Francisco and Sonoma County, California, either later this year or


The G-Machine pacts with GoDigital Media


BY JEREMY KAY Los Angeles-based production and sales company The G-Machine has signed a deal with digital platform GoDigital Media Group. Content acquired by The


G-Machine and GoDigital will now have access to GoDigital’s mul t i-plat form market ing approach as wel l as The G-Machine’s international distri- bution network. GoDigital says it reaches mil-


lions of homes in the US and Canada.


early in 2012. “There are a whole list of people that we are inter- ested in working with. We have offers out to Nick Nolte and Tom Waits,” said Maybach. Richard Kessler wrote the script. The $1m drama is about a


young drifter who becomes involved with two older men who are losing their farm. The company also has two fea- tures that recently fi nished shoot-


Occupant scares up survival thriller Quiver


BY JEREMY KAY Occupant Entertainment has boarded rights to the survival thriller Quiver, and hired as direc- tor hot UK talent Alex Holmes, the Bafta-winning fi lm-maker of BBC mini-series Dunkirk. Quiver tells of a troubled young


woman who is abducted and forced through a brutal survival test in the Yukon wilderness. Wil- liam Harlan Richter wrote the screenplay. Occupant’s Joe Neurauter and


Felipe Marino are producing and Keith Calder serves as executive producer. ICM represents North American rights. Occupant is in pre-production


on the dark comedy Better Living Through Chemistry to star Sam Rockwell, Michelle Monaghan and Olivia Wilde, who can be seen in Toronto premiere Butter. Holmes has just wrapped


directing a portion of HBO/Cine- max’s action series Strike Back and is attached to direct Interpre- tation Of Murder for Warner Bros. Occupant produced Peep World, which premiered here last year.


ing and could be ready for Sundance. Sean Baker (Prince Of Broad-


way) directs Starlet, about the unlikely friendship between an elderly recluse and a young free spirit (played by Dree Heming- way). The other producers are Blake Ashman-Kipervaser and Kevin Chinoy. Andrew Dosunmu’s Mother Of George is about an African immi-


grant adjusting to life in Brooklyn. It is produced with Lars Knudsen and Jay van Hoy. Cunningham notes that the


company is keen to do more inter- national work in the year ahead. Ted Hope, who executive pro-


duced Martha Marcy May Mar- lene, also brought them Starlet. “We hope to be involved with Ted more next year,” said Cunning- ham.


Ewan MacGregor, Emily Blunt and Lasse Hallstrom at Brassaii, Saturday


Toronto falls in love with Yemen


At the world premiere of Salmon Fishing in the Yemen on Saturday, TIFF co-director Cameron Bailey introduced it as “probably my favourite love story in the festival”. Producer Paul Webster noted:


“Nowhere can be better to introduce a film to the world than


this city and this festival. You guys are the shit.” Star Emily Blunt said she signed


on “because it was so unusual and the script was so perfect”. Director Lasse Hallstrom said the


film was about “the importance of trying to believe in the impossible.” Wendy Mitchell


Jeff Nichols’ Take Shelter, starring Michael Shannon as an Ohio man struggling with mental illness, has won the Grand Prize at the 37th Deauville American Film Festival. The film also screens here at TIFF. Nichols is currently preparing his next feature, Mud.


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