FEATURE
Protagonist brings a 3D promo reel of StreetDance 2 UK SELLERS
From UK-based sales companies, Pathé brings Luke Evans-starrer No One Lives; K5 has footage of Paul Walker in Vehicle 19; Goldcrest offers a new film from Penelope Spheeris; and Protagonist unveils 3D footage from hot sequel StreetDance 2, plus more buzzy projects. Wendy Mitchell and Andreas Wiseman report
Pathé come to AFM with first footage of Ry- uhei Kitamura’s No One Lives, the Luke Evans- fronted thriller about a ruthless criminal gang who take a young couple hostage but are then hunted down by a seasoned killer. There are first market screenings for Fran- cis Ford Coppola’s thriller Twixt, starring Val Kilmer, Bruce Dern and Elle Fanning; and French comedy Welcome Aboard with ac- tor/comedian Franck Dubosc and Valérie Lemercier. K5 will be showing buyers a new promo of
Vehicle 19, the Paul Walker-starring thriller set on the streets of Johannesburg. The film, which Mukunda Michael Dewil directs from his own
n 18 Screen International at the AFM November 2, 2011
Black List script, counts Los Angeles-based Peter Safran (Buried) as one of its producers. The redemptive action thriller is now in post. Also, there has been new cast added to Bille August’s Night Train To Lisbon, with Vanessa Red- grave, Bruno Ganz, Mélanie Laurent, Christo- pher Lee, Lena Olin, Martina Gedeck and Jack Huston now set to star with Jeremy Irons. The adaptation of Pascal Mercier’s bestseller will shoot starting in March 2012. And K5 has also taken international rights to Sundance audi- ence award-winning documentary Buck, about horse whisperer Buck Brannaman. Protagonist has a new 3D promo reel to entice
buyers to StreetDance 2 (the reel screens Novem- ber 3 by invitation only). The sequel to the brea- kout hit re-unites directors Max Giwa and Dania Pasquini with stars George Sampson, Flawless and other top dancers, as the backdrop expands globally. Protagonist also has Nick Love’s The Sweeney shooting this month, with Ray Winstone and Ben Drew (aka singer Plan B) leading the cast. Protagonist also has the first market screening of Lynn Shelton’s Humpday follow-up Your Sister’s Sister, starring Emily Blunt, after a strong reception in Toronto. Goldcrest is introducing Penelope Spheeris’
US comedy High School Sweethearts, produced by Sara Risher, and will offer first screenings of Robbie Pickering’s SXSW hit Natural Selection, picked up by Cinema Guild in the US, along
with Dana Lustig’s UK thriller A Thousand Kisses Deep with Jodie Whittaker and Dougray Scott. Intandem Films will be presenting Kari Skog-
land’s next feature Prisoner Of Tehran, the true story of a 16-year-old Christian girl forced to convert to Islam and marry a prison guard who rescued her from an Iranian firing squad. There will also be a market debut for The True Confes- sions Of Charlotte Doyle, Danny DeVito’s feature adaptation of Avi’s historical fiction novel about a young girl’s dangerous high-seas adventure aboard a ship with a mutinous crew, featuring Pierce Brosnan and Morgan Freeman. Jules Stewart’s drama Kill, starring Goran Visnjic, and Simon Aboud’s thriller Comes A Bright Day are both in post. HanWay has Bernardo Bertolucci’s Me And You
(From top) Protagonist’s The Sweeney; and HanWay’s horror favourite You’re Next
(Io e Te) shooting now. The latest from the Ital- ian master stars newcomers Jacopo Olmo Anti- nori and Tea Falco, about a troubled 14-year-old boy who hides out from his family in the base- ment until his half sister disturbs him. HanWay is also selling Adam Wingard’s You’re Next, the Toronto Midnight Madness hit thriller about a family reunion gone wrong. It has already sold to more than 30 territories. Bankside’s new projects include Mark Hart-
ley’s sci-fi thriller Patrick to star Richard E Grant, Rachel Griffiths and Sharni Vinson. In pre-pro- duction, that story is about a psychiatric patient with telepathic powers who becomes obsessed
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