WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2 2011
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Wild Bunch warms up with Gray, Dujardin
BY NANCY TARTAGLIONE-MOORE Wild Bunch arrives AFM with a host of new projects, featuring top- name talent such as James Gray, awards favourite Jean Dujardin, star producer Thomas Langmann and maverick director Leos Carax among many others. The untitled Gray project, set in
1920, stars Marion Cotillard and Joaquin Phoenix and is shooting in January in New York. The Worldview-Wild Bunch co-
production is produced by Gray, Anthony Katagas and Greg Sha- piro. CAA is handling the US; Wild Bunch has the rest of the world. Screen understands Wild Bunch
may be poised to board Blood Ties, the English-language directing debut of Guillaume Canet. Co- writing with Gray, Canet will remake Jacques Maillot’s 2008 fi lm Rivals (Les Liens Du Sang). Mark Wahlberg could come aboard with Canet’s partner Cotillard, and Ava- tar’s Zoe Saldana is also linked. Meanwhile, Wild Bunch is
reteaming with some of The Artist team for The Players, a comedy portmanteau written by Dujardin and Gilles Lellouche. The directors include Michel Hazanavicius, Dujardin, Lellouche, Fred Cavayé, and Jan Kounen. The fi lm will go out via Mars in France in March. Also on the line-up is Maniac, a
remake of William Lustig’s 1980 serial killer fi lm. Produced by Tho- mas Langmann, it is directed by Franck Khalfoun and shepherded by Alexandre Aja, who will give a presentation at the AFM. Wild Bunch is also handling the
latest film from Carax, Holly Motors, which stars Denis Lavant, Kylie Minogue and Michel Piccoli. Even The Rain director Iciar Bol-
lain and screenwriter Paul Laverty are reteaming for the Wild Bunch- repped English-language project Kathmandu Lullaby. Wild Bunch is also handling
Alvaro Longoria’s documentary Sons Of The Clouds: The Last Col- ony, a passion project for producer/ star Javier Bardem. HBO has the US rights while producer Morena Film has retained Spain.
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Heavyweights line up for AFM
BY JEREMY KAY AFM gets underway with a number of commercial draws led by heavyweights such as Summit’s heist project Now You See Me, IM Global’s gangster thriller Dead Man Down and Lionsgate’s super- natural shocker Flight 7500. Focus Features International
arrives with Woody Allen’s Nero Fiddled and sci-fi thriller The Last Days On Mars, while Summit’s slate include Steve McQueen’s Twelve Years A Slave and FilmNa- tion has just boarded two new star- laden Terrence Malick projects. IM Global chief Stuart Ford and
his team will be touting the thriller Blood starring Paul Bettany, the London-set Offender starring Joe Cole, and the $15m-$18m Hum- mingbird with Jason Statham. Inferno represents Mark Steven
Johnson’s terrorism thriller Auto- bahn and rom-com The English Teacher with Julianne Moore. Foresight Unlimited has My
Wild Life from Phillip Noyce, while Lakeshore International will han-
FEATURES Rushing In Screen profiles the hottest AFM titles from US and UK sellers, including Ron Howard’s Niki Lauda-James Hunt picture Rush from Exclusive Media Group. » PAGE 10
Money Talks The new equity financiers who are re-energising the US indie business. » PAGE 26
SCREENINGS What to see today. » START PAGE 32
The Expatriate
dle sales rights on Curtis Hanson’s surfi ng drama Mavericks. Sales veteran Jere Hausfater is
teaming up with Aldamisa Inter- national and Dennis Rice’s Visio Entertainment on animation Jock. Voltage has action titles Code
Name Geronimo: Killing Bin Laden and Maximum Conviction with Ste- ven Seagal. CAA expects heat on the Aaron
Eckhart thriller The Expatriate, which Essential Entertainment is selling internationally and is
Salt pre-sells Twist, Skylab
BY ANDREAS WISEMAN UK sales outfit Salt has closed a number of pre-sales on Twist, the 3D parkour-based update of Charles Dickens’ classic Oliver Twist. Wild Bunch has taken rights for German-speaking Europe, Luxor for CIS, Front Row for Mid-
dle East, Best Film for China and Panorama for Hong Kong. Matthew Parkhill (The Caller)
will direct the London-set action adventure, which is out to cast. Salt has also boarded the $7.5m
Australian sci-fi Skylab, a monster vs astronauts thriller set on board a
screening here. CAA is also court- ing buyers with the comedy Bach- elorette starring Kirsten Dunst. Elle Driver is selling internationally. Ron Howard will drop in to the
market today to talk up his Formula 1 drama Rush, which Exclusive Films International is selling here. Hyde Park International has invited Simon West to present Thunder Run to buyers and the Coen brothers are expected here to talk up Studio- Canal’s folk music project. » See AFM buzz, p10
space station, with Splendid snap- ping up rights for German-speak- ing Europe as well as Benelux. Rupert Glasson (Coffin Rock)
writes and directs, while the pro- ducers are David Lightfoot (Wolf Creek) and James Vernon (The Eye Of The Storm). The Australia shoot is set for early 2012 Salt’s slate also includes Grab- bers, Cleanskin and Dirty Girl.
Intandem touts Ray Winstone, Gemma Arterton
Intandem Films has boarded comedy Western In With The Outlaws, to be directed by Andrew Morahan. Gemma Arterton, Brendan Gleeson, Tom Hollander, Richard Griffiths and Domhnall Gleeson are attached. Intandem is also structuring
finance for new Harley Cokeliss project Crossing 23, scripted by Peter Milligan (Pilgrim), with Ray Winstone attached. Intandem’s AFM slate includes
market debuts for Kari Skogland’s Prisoner Of Tehran and action-adventure The True Confession Of Charlotte Doyle. Andreas Wiseman
Gaumont meets Grandmothers
Kidman gets Wild with Foresight
Mark Damon’s Foresight Unlimited will begin talks with international buyers this week on Mandalay Pictures’ $35m Our Wild Life, to be directed by Phillip Noyce. The film, in which Nicole Kidman plays an animal conservationist,
will shoot in South Africa in the first quarter of 2012. Universal will release in North America. Cathy Schulman and Peter Guber will produce for Mandalay in association with Envision Entertainment. Jeremy Kay
BY NANCY TARTAGLIONE-MOORE Gaumont has boarded Anne Fon- taine’s next picture, The Grandmoth- ers. The company will commence pre-sales here at the AFM on the adaptation of Doris Lessing’s novella, adapted by Christopher Hampton. Naomi Watts, Robin Wright, Xavier Samuel and James Frecheville are attached to star. The Grandmothers is the story of
two women, best friends since childhood, who fall in love with each other’s sons. They carry on the affairs for years until resolving to end them and see their sons mar-
ried off — a turn that has lasting consequences. Philippe Carcassonne (Ciné @),
Francis Boespflug (Gaumont), Dominique Besnehard and Michel Feller (Mon Voisin) and Andrew Mason (Hopscotch) are producing the $16m fi lm which will shoot in Australia beginning in February 2012 for a Cannes 2013 delivery. At the AFM, Gaumont will also
screen Olivier Marchal’s A Gang Story and show a promo reel of the English-language remake of Pusher. The company will also screen fi rst footage of The Chef.
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