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Elizabeth Olsen. IFC Films acquired North American rights in Park City. W2 Media is offering The Drummer starring
Aaron Eckhart as Beach Boys percussionist Dennis Wilson. Vera Farmiga recently joined the cast as Fleetwood Mac chanteuse Christine McVie, who had an affair with Wilson. The project charts the final six years of his life before he drowned in 1983. W2 is co-financing and production is set to begin on June 15 in south- ern California and Savannah, Georgia. Randall Miller is directing from a screenplay written by partner Jody Savin. The slate includes the Tony Kaye thriller Attachment, set to star Sharon Stone as a woman who has an affair with a college student who becomes a stalker. eOne International will be debuting two docu-
mentaries in Berlin. There will be a trailer for The Secret Disco Revolution, which focuses on the work of revisionist historians who claim the era played an important role in the protest move- ment and helped to liberate gays, blacks and women. BFI London Film Festival hit Dreams Of A Life is an investigation into the life of a woman whose body was found in her north London home in 2006, three years after she died. Cargo Entertainment president of distribution
Mark Lindsay will begin talks on the Rob Cohen action thriller Undone about a pharmaceutical heist that goes wrong. Peter Calloway wrote the screenplay and the project is out to cast with an eye on a summer shoot. Mimi Steinbauer’s new sales company Radi-
ant Films International launches with two titles, Lullaby and I Am. The former is a rom-com from producers Andrea Stone-Brokaw and Cary Brokaw to be directed by acclaimed visual artist Andrew Levitas. Production is set to begin in the spring. Tom Shadyac’s documentary I Am explores the meaning of life, as the film director recovers from a near-fatal motorbike accident. Red Sea Media chief Roman Kopelevich will
be in Berlin touting his new production, financ- ing and sales house and launching sales on heist thriller Pawn and revenge saga Officer Down. David A Armstrong’s Pawn is said to be in the vein of Inside Man and stars Michael Chiklis, Forest Whitaker, Ray Liotta, Common, Sean Faris and Nikki Reed. Brian A Miller’s Officer Down stars Stephen Dorff, Dominic Pur- cell and James Woods in the story of a rogue police officer.
Epic Pictures present the recent Sundance horror anthology V/H/S
Dollhouse Shoreline holds worldwide rights to Let Go by
Thousand Miles Entertainment, starring David Denman, Gillian Jacobs, Kevin Hart and Ed Asner. Brian Jett wrote and directed the comedy about an embattled parole officer. The company also has Generation title A Secret World (Un Mundo Secreto), about a Mexican girl who finishes school and sets off on a road trip. Epic Pictures has just picked up international
sales rights to the recent Sundance Midnight horror anthology V/H/S from genre directors Adam Wingard, Joe Swanberg, Ti West, Glenn McQuaid, David Bruckner and the Radio Silence collective. The action takes place in a house as a team of petty criminals searches for a rare recording. Myriad Pictures brings the intriguing double-
project The Disappearance Of Eleanor Rigby: His and The Disappearance Of Eleanor Rigby: Hers. Jessica Chastain and Joel Edgerton will star in the
projects about a troubled married couple that will shoot back-to-back and take the contrasting viewpoints of the male and female leads. Kirk D’Amico and his team are also talking up recent Sundance acquisition Nobody Walks, a romance starring John Krasinski, Olivia Thirlby and Rosemarie DeWitt. Aldamisa arrives with an untitled Renny Har-
lin project based on a true-life story — contem- porary students attempt to solve the mystery of a deadly 1959 ski expedition in Russia’s Ural Mountains. Principal photography is set to com- mence in April. The company will also be talking up the Machete sequel, Robert Rodriguez’s Machete Kills, which will again star Danny Trejo. Visit Films arrives with a slate that includes
Kirsten Sheridan’s Panorama entry Dollhouse, about a group of wild teenagers who break into a luxury home for a fateful night of revelry. Olivia Silver’s drama Arcadia plays in Generation and stars John Hawkes, fresh from his star turn in Sundance hit The Surrogate, as a father who moves his family across the country to start a new life in California. Fortunate Sons is in pre- production and will star Emily Watson in the story of a London honour killing. Larry Meyers and Bobby Meyers’ recently
formed Meyers Media Group will be talking up the Manhattan Project drama Midnight Sun to star Jesse Eisenberg and casino-set drama 7 Red, about a reformed cheat hired by casino owners. Both are in pre-production. XYZ Films and sales partner Celluloid Night-
mares have the sequel to The Raid, Gareth Evans’ high-octane martial-arts action story that recently received its US premiere in Sundance and will open in the US through Sony Pictures Classics. Production in Indonesia will take place later this year. The slate includes thriller Replicas with Selma Blair and James D’Arcy, and The Side Effect, a sci-fi tale with Liv Tyler that Ti West is directing and Ted Hope is producing. Studio City Pictures sales chief Jim Harvey will
arrive with two films produced by Jack and Joe Nasser of Studio City backers Nasser Entertain- ment. The first is summer shoot 5 Minutes To Live, which Jan de Bont will direct and centres on a bank manager who must complete a large transfer in order to save his wife’s life. Final Girl is about four teenage boys who choose the wrong victim for their initiation. Bleiberg Entertainment has Dolph Lundgren
attached to star in sci-fi actioner Battle Of The Damned, which will shoot in Malaysia and Sin- gapore from June. The company’s slate also includes thriller Don’t Shoot The Piano Player, star- ring Vincent Gallo. Lightning Entertainment arrives with the thriller
Five Thirteen, about two brothers who agree to do one more delivery before quitting their criminal lives. Lightning will show a promo and the ensemble cast includes Danny Trejo, Taryn Manning and James Russo. The Hot Flashes is scheduled to begin shooting on February 13 in New Orleans and follows a no-nonsense mid- dle-aged women’s basketball team. Brooke Shields, Daryl Hannah, Melanie Griffith, Wanda Sykes and Camryn Manheim star. Outsider Pictures holds the worldwide rights to
Replicas n 26 Screen International at the Berlinale February 9, 2012
a second market project to be directed by Rob Cohen: 1950 tells the story of US military involvement in Korea through the eyes of Pulitzer-winning war reporter Marguerite Hig- gins. CJ Entertainment and Grapevine Enter- tainment are financing.
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