FEATURE
Salt’s thriller Cleanskin, starring Sean Bean
WestEnd’s comedy horror Love Bite UK SELLERS cont
with his new nurse. Also, Bankside is handling sales for its partner Killer Films’ gothic vampire story Innocence which has Abigail Breslin and Chloe Sevigny set to star. And since its Toronto world premiere, Michael Winterbottom has fi n- ished a slightly trimmed edit of his India-set drama Trishna, starring Freida Pinto and Riz Ahmed (it has already sold to Sundance Selects for the US and Artifi cial Eye for the UK). Independent has uwantme2killhim?, which
started shooting for director Andrew Douglas just last week. The thriller, adapted from a true story reported in Vanity Fair, is about teenagers who meet online and develop an intense rela- tionship that leads to violence. The cast features Jamie Blackley (Snow White & The Huntsman), Toby Regbo (One Day) and Joanne Froggatt (TV’s Downton Abbey) and producers are Bryan Singer, Steve Golin, Peter Heslop and Simon Crocker. Also, Noel Clarke produces, writes and stars in Storage 24, which is now in post and has a promo available. The fi lm is set in a self-stor- age facility, as a mystery predator hunts a group of friends. The cast also includes Antonia Campbell-Hughes and Laura Haddock. Ealing Metro’s hot projects include Fast Girls, set
to shoot in mid-November, about female run- ners in a story pitched as StreetDance meets Bend It Like Beckham. Damian Jones (The Iron Lady) produces. StudioCanal has pre-bought for the UK and a number of other international pre-sales have been done. Ealing Metro also has footage to show of Australian musical comedy Goddess (starring Ronan Keating and Laura Michelle Kelly), which it is introducing to buy-
■ 22 Screen International at the AFM November 2, 2011
Independent’s Storage 24
ers at the AFM. And the company offers a new promo of Trap For Cinderella, which has already sold in a number of key territories (Lionsgate has UK rights). The psychological thriller, from what Ealing calls the “formidable team” of director Iain Softley and producer Robert Jones, is set for delivery in early 2012. Tuppence Mid- dleton and Alexandra Roach star. SC Films is handling The Nut House 3D, a family
animation fi lm from the producers John H Wil- liams (Shrek), John Stevenson (Kung Fu Panda) and Arc Productions (Gnomeo & Juliet). The project is now in pre-production with full pro- duction to start in January. Also, now in post, SC handles Tower Block about building tenants being tormented by a sniper. The hot young UK cast is led by Jack O’Connell, Sheridan Smith and Russell Tovey. WestEnd will be teasing Andy De Emmony’s
comedy-horror Love Bite about a werewolf in a UK seaside town, currently in production, and also offers a fi rst market screening for Rodrigo Garcia’s Albert Nobbs starring Glenn Close. Drama A Late Quartet starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Christopher Walken and Catherine Keener is set for a late 2011 delivery. West End also has Israeli foreign Oscar contender Foot- note, which will be released in the US by Sony Pictures Classics. Salt is introducing recent pick-up Skylab, an
Australian thriller set on board a NASA space station during the Cold War. Directed by Rupert Glasson and produced by David Lightfoot and James Vernon, the $7.5m budgeted sci-fi has sold to Splendid for German-speaking Europe and Benelux. There is a market debut for Hadi Hajaig’s thriller Cleanskin, in which Sean Bean, Charlotte Rampling and James Fox star. Also, Salt has early results of 3D parkour camera tests
for Twist, the energetic Oliver Twist update to be directed by Matthew Parkhill. Completed com- edy Dirty Girl starring Juno Temple, Milla Jovov- ich and William H Macy, already distributed by The Weinstein Company in the US, gets a debut market screening and has been re-edited since Toronto 2010. Timeless Films presents Spanish 3D anima-
tion Justin & The Knights Of Valour, the story of a young boy’s quest to become a knight, featur- ing an all-star voice cast led by Freddie High- more, Saoirse Ronan and Antonio Banderas. Timeless is also giving a market screening debut to completed German 3D animation, Vicky And The Treasure Of The Gods from director Christian Ditter. AV Pictures has the fi rst market screenings of
(From top) Freida Pinto in Bankside’s Trishna; and AV Pictures’ Truth Or Dare
Robert Heath’s teen thriller Truth Or Dare as well as recent BFI London Film Festival premiere Sket, a girl-gang thriller directed by Nirpal Bhogal for Revolver’s Gunslinger production division. Ashley Walters is among the cast for Sket, which has already sold to the likes of Wild- side for France and Tiberius for Germany. Also, shooting starts later this month for Craig Vivei- ros’ road trip thriller The Liability, starring Tim Roth, Jack O’Connell and Talulah Riley. Tristan Whalley’s Goalpost brings two new
projects in development: Mixtape, an Australian romantic-drama to be directed by Maia Horn- iak, and Chinese Whispers, a documentary in development about two Chinese and Canadian teenagers who discover their lives are inextrica- bly linked. Gristle and gore are on the menu in Jinga
Films’ $5m-budgeted US horror Bad Meat, which gets its market debut along with Michael Rymer’s Australian comedy-drama Face To Face about bullying in the workplace.
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