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Belle Du Seigneur Houba! On The Trail Of The Marsupilami
voices from Alan Cumming, Tim Curry and Rob Schneider. Goldcrest will be showing a promo of period
drama Cheerful Weather For The Wedding starring Elizabeth McGovern, Felicity Jones and Luke Treadaway, and fi rst footage of Pat O’Connor’s rites-of-passage story Private Peaceful. There will be screenings of Todd Solondz’s Dark Horse and Lucy Walker’s Oscar-nominated short docu- mentary The Tsunami And The Cherry Blossom. Panorama romance-thriller Comes A Bright Day
starring Imogen Poots, Craig Roberts and Tim- othy Spall has its first market screening for Intandem, while Jules Stewart’s K-11 screens on promo and The Mulo with Samantha Morton is in pre-production. Kari Skogland’s Prisoner Of Tehran is out to cast. Stealth Media’s Panorama entry Iron Sky has
festival and market screenings while romantic comedy Belle Du Seigneur with Jonathan Rhys Meyers, drama Foreverland with Demian Bichir and Juliette Lewis and The Giant Mechanical Man all have market screenings. Projects in pre-pro- duction include comedy Emotional Rescue with David Tennant and Heather Graham, horror Fangs Of War and The Anatomist. Ryuhei Kitamu- ra’s Marble City is in development. Timeless Films’ strong animation line-up
includes three 3D projects currently in prod- uction: Postman Pat: The Movie 3D, Justin And The Knights Of Valour — featuring the voices of Fred- die Highmore, Saoirse Ronan and Antonio Banderas — and Troll: The Tale Of A Tail. AV Pictures brings a fi rst promo and selected
scenes of Menhaj Huda’s horror fi lm Comedown starring Adam Deacon, as well as a promo for road movie The Liability starring Tim Roth, Jack O’Connell and Talulah Riley. The Works comes to Berlin with completed
Terri Hooley biopic Good Vibrations, starring Richard Dormer, Dylan Moran and Jodie Whit- taker, and Australian horror film 100 Bloody Acres. Carey Fitzgerald’s High Point has two new completed horror projects: Claustrofobia from the
■ 32 Screen International at the Berlinale February 9, 2012 Now Is Good
Netherlands and Community from the UK. Moviehouse will be showing the fi rst footage of Nativity 2! The Second Coming. David Tennant stars in the sequel to the 2009 local hit. Riot On Redchurch Street gets a promo while Junkhearts with Eddie Marsan and Big Fat Gypsy Gangster are also on the slate. Jinga’s comedy horror Black Forest: Hansel And Gretel And The 420 Witch is in post and has a promo, while Rites Of Spring gets a fi rst mar- ket screening.
Goalpost will be showing a new promo of Australian drama The Sapphires starring Chris O’Dowd.
Genesis Film Sales’ titles include doc I, Super- biker — The Showdown 2012, The Wee Man and Piggy.
Kaleidoscope has completed thriller Victim starring Ashley Chin and Adam Deacon while Hooligan and Interview With A Hitman are in post. Celsius’ slate includes Turn Me On, Dammit! and
Angels Crest. The Patience Stone
EUROPE StudioCanal will begin sales on The Last Exorcism 2, which has just started shooting. Ed Gass-Don- nelly, best known for Small Town Murder Songs, directs with Eli Roth producing under the Arcade Pictures banner. The company will also be unveiling more details on Joel and Ethan Coen’s upcoming Inside Llewyn Davis set against the New York folk scene in the 1960s and fea- turing Carey Mulligan, Justin Timberlake and Garrett Hedlund in the cast. The company will also screen a promo for its biopic My Way about legendary French singer Claude Francois. Le Pacte will show a first promo reel for
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Afghan writer Atiq Rahimi’s adaptation of The Patience Stone. Co-scripted with Jean-Claude Carriere, it is Rahimi’s fi rst picture since 2002’s Earth And Ashes. Le Pacte also hopes to unveil first images of now-shooting Guillaume Nicloux’s adaptation of Diderot’s 18th-century classic The Nun starring Pauline Etienne, Isabelle Huppert and Louise Bourgoin. Wild Bunch will start sales on Cristian Mun-
giu’s fi rst fi lm in fi ve years, an as-yet-untitled thriller set against the backdrop of a remote convent and touching on exorcism and insan- ity, as well as Ziad Doueiri’s The Attack, an adap- tation of Yasmina Khadra’s book about a Palestinian doctor whose wife dies in a suicide attack. Pathé International will hold a market premiere for Alain Chabat’s long-awaited jungle adven- ture caper Houba! On The Trail Of The Marsupilami, starring the actor as a reporter opposite Jamel Debbouze as his guide. The company will also show a fi rst promo for romantic comedy Un Bon- heur N’Arrive Jamais Seule, the latest picture from Lucky Luke and Brice De Nice director James Huth, co-starring Sophie Marceau and Gad Elmaleh.
TF1 will hold a market premiere for Ol Parker’s Now Is Good starring Dakota Fanning as a terminally ill 17-year-old determined to live large dur- ing her fi nal days. The company will also show a first promo reel for Morgan O’Neill and Ben Nott’s Australia-set surf- ing drama Drift starring Sam Worthington and Xavier Samuel. The company will also show a promo for Claude Miller’s Thérese Desqueyroux.
Memento will unveil the latest project from Agnes Jaoui, Under The Rainbow (Au Bout Du Conte). A script is available for the $13m project following a group of modern- day characters through the imagery of tradi- tional fairy tales.
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