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Byzantium UK SELLERS
Bankside comes to the EFM with hot new acqui- sitions The Great and Belle. Gillian Armstrong directs The Great, a $17m-budgeted comedy about the life of Catherine the Great, who will be played by Annette Bening. A Way Of Life writer- director Amma Asante has written Belle based on the true story of Dido Belle, a mixed-race woman raised as an aristocrat in 18th-century England; Damian Jones produces. The slate also includes Mat Whitecross’ music-themed Spike Island and Istvan Szabo’s The Door starring Helen Mirren, which has a first market screening. Richard Ayoade’s The Double and buzzy Sun-
dance docs Searching For Sugar Man and The Imposter are among Protagonist’s market debuts. Mia Wasikowska and Jesse Eisenberg will star in Ayoade’s follow-up to Submarine, due to start shooting in the UK this spring. Sony Pictures Classics picked up US rights to Searching For Sugar Man out of Sundance while The Imposter went to Revolver and Picturehouse for the UK. Ben Wheatley’s Kill List follow-up Sightseers and Nick Love’s actioner The Sweeney starring Ray Winstone and Ben Drew are screening on promo, while Kevin Macdonald’s How I Live Now starring Saoirse Ronan is in development. Ealing Metro’s slate includes market debuts for
love story Half Of A Yellow Sun starring Dominic Cooper, Thandie Newton and Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Jessica Yu’s documentary Last Call At The Oasis. Regan Hall’s Fast Girls screens on promo while Iain Softley’s completed thriller Trap For Cinderella has a first market screening. In pre- production is drama Better Living Through Chem- istry with Olivia Wilde and Sam Rockwell. Michael Winterbottom’s hot-seller Bailout, to star Jack Black, is also in pre-production. HanWay will be introducing buyers to The
Darkness from The Last Exorcism director Daniel Stamm and Sunshine Cleaning writer Megan Holley. The haunted-house thriller will star Mary Elizabeth Winstead (The Thing). There are also promos for Mike Newell’s Great Expecta- tions starring Ralph Fiennes, Helena Bonham
n 28 Screen International at the Berlinale February 9, 2012 Sightseers
Carter and Jeremy Irvine; Bernardo Berto- lucci’s Me And You (Io E Te); action adventure Kon- Tiki; and Dustin Hoffman’s Quartet. Michael Hoffman’s Girls Night Out now has Juno Temple in the cast. WestEnd will be teasing first footage of Neil
Kon-Tiki
Jordan’s vampire horror Byzantium starring Gemma Arterton and Saoirse Ronan, which has already sold to StudioCanal for the UK, as well as a promo of comedy-horror Lovebite. There will also be a promo for Gabriele Salvatores’ first English-language film Siberian Education, star- ring John Malkovich, while Catherine Hard- wicke’s Knockout starring Noomi Rapace and Ola Rapace is in pre-production. Fandango Portobello’s slate includes Daniele
Vicari’s controversial Panorama drama Diaz — Don’t Clean Up This Blood about the brutal police attack on activists during the G8 Summit in 2001, with French and Italian rights already sold. There will be a clip and images of Gomorrah director Matteo Garrone’s next project, a story about the Italian obsession with appearing on TV, which is in post-production. Ferzan Ozpetek is in post on comic ghost story Magnifica Presenza, starring Margherita Buy and Elio Germano.
K5 is touting all-star Bille August drama Night
Train To Lisbon, in which Jeremy Irons plays a Swiss professor who embarks on a thrilling jour- ney, comedy High School starring Adrien Brody and documentary Highway Gospel. Naomi Foner’s recently announced Very Good Girls starring Dakota Fanning and Elizabeth Olsen is in pre- production, while Vehicle 19 starring Paul Walker will screen on promo. Independent offers the first market screening
of SXSW-bound musical comedy Hunky Dory starring Minnie Driver; a promo of Roman Cop- pola’s A Glimpse Inside The Mind Of Charles Swan III starring Charlie Sheen, Jason Schwartzman and Bill Murray, as well as promos for Noel Clarke- starrer Storage 24 and thriller uwantme2killhim?. The Salt Company will be screening Sundance
Midnight Movie comedy-horror Grabbers from Jon Wright and in-demand thriller Cleanskin. Matthew Parkhill’s parkour action film Twist, Rupert Glasson’s sci-fi Skylab and documentary Dolphin: A 3D Adventure are in pre-production. SC Films arrives with the first market screen-
ings of UK horror When The Lights Went Out, thriller Tower Block and Animation Picture Com- pany’s The Outback 3D, a family comedy with
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