SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11 2012
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I, Anna
Global Screen launches with strong Anna sales
BY WENDY MITCHELL Global Screen, the new joint ven- ture sales company of Bavaria and Telepool, has closed a number of deals on I, Anna ahead of its Berli- nale Special premiere tomorrow. It has sold to the UK (Artifi cial
Eye), Germany and Austria (NFP), Benelux (ABC for Belgium; Cine- mien for Netherlands), Sweden (TriArt), Switzerland (Filmcoopi), South Korea (Challan) and Greece (StraDa). Embargo Films produced with
Riva and Arsam International. Barnaby Southcombe makes his feature debut with the noir-ish drama. “It is an intelligent psychologi-
cal thriller/fi lm noir and it has an incredible cast with Charlotte Rampling, Gabriel Byrne and also Hayley Atwell,” says Global Screen head Sonia Mehandjiy ska. “It is an easy film for buyers to promote with a cast like that.” Global Screen has a slate of 22
fi lms being sold at EFM by a sales team of 11 staff. Those projects include titles such as Sandra Net- telbeck’s Mr Morgan’s Last Love, starring Michael Caine (now in post) and genre title Eddie The Sleepwalking Cannibal. Mehandjiyska — formerly of
Echo Bridge and MRG — took up the new role at the beginning of February. “Telepool and Bavaria are two extremely established companies. We want to expand, not to change things drastically,” she told Screen. “I want to bring more to the
company than just sales. I want to be involved in acquisitions, I want to be involved in co-productions. I think they are essential elements of sales. When you know what to bring your team for sales, that’s important.” The acquisitions team is busy
scouting new product and adding more English-language titles.
MK2 boards Turturro’s Gigolo, Demme’s Zeitoun
BY MELANIE GOODFELLOW John Turturro is set to star in and direct Fading Gigolo, which French mini-major MK2 is producing. MK2 also has boarded Jonathan
Demme’s animated adaptation of Dave Eggers’ Zeitoun. In Fading Gigolo, a down-on-
his-luck pimp persuades Turturro’s character to become a gigolo. Principal photography on the
$10m picture starts in New York in April. The script, co-written by Turturro, is available in Berlin.
John Turturro Zeitoun is Demme’s long-
gestating adaptation of Eggers’ non-fi ction book about a US citi-
Cargo flies with Paquin’s Angel
Cargo Entertainment has picked up Black Wings Has My Angel, set to star Anna Paquin, Tom Hiddleston and Elijah Wood, about an escaped convict and a high-class call girl whose lives are changed by an armoured car heist.
Buyers fall for Fjallbacka
BY GEOFFREY MACNAB Germany’s ZDF and France 3, part of France Télévisions, have snapped up the crime project The Fjallbacka Murders, based on the stories from bestselling crime nov- elist Camilla Lackberg. TrustNordisk has also sold
for Benelux (Lumiere), Australia and New Zealand (Rialto) and Poland (Canal Plus Cyfrowy). The Fjallbacka Murders, pro-
duced by Sweden’s Tre Vanner, consists of TV episodes and fea- tures. “The series will fi t wonder- fully into our slate of high-quality Scandinavian crime. In line with films based on novels by Stieg Larsson, Henning Mankell and Jussi Adler-Olsen, it will — though a crime series — show us a brighter side of Scandinavia,” said ZDF’s Peter Nadermann. TrustNordisk has also taken on
Reynir Lyngdal’s sci-fi thriller Frost from Iceland.
“We have received a great
response to the script from the buyers,” said Cargo president of distribution Mark Lindsay. Marina Grasic, managing partner of Cargo, added: “It has it all — great writing, rich, engaging characters and top-
zen of Syrian origin who was wrongly arrested in New Orleans as a suspected terrorist in the after- math of Hurricane Katrina. Demme’s $15m feature-length,
2D animation adaptation is sched- uled for delivery in 2014. MK2, led by president Natha-
nael Karmitz, also continues sales on Walter Salles’ On The Road, Abbas Kiarostami’s Like Someone In Love, Olivier Assayas’ Something In The Air and Xavier Dolan’s Laurence Anyways.
notch talent.” Alfonso Pineda Ulloa will direct from a script by Barry Gifford (Wild At Heart), Christopher Peditto and Ulloa based on Elliott Chaze’s novel. The shoot will start in September. Cargo is also handling Rob
Cohen’s action thriller Undone. Wendy Mitchell
Vikander, Friend circle Last Things
BY ANDREAS WISEMAN Alejandro Chomski will direct an adaptation of bestselling author Paul Auster’s acclaimed dystopian novel In The Country Of Last Things. Auster has collaborated with Chomski on the script. Red-hot star Alicia Vikander,
who stars in Berlinale Competition entry A Royal Affair and in Joe Wright’s Anna Karenina, is in advanced talks to star in the fi lm with Rupert Friend. UK producers Carola Ash of
Future Films division 2B Pictures (Last Passenger, Cracks) and Alex- andra Stone (Young Adam, Kidult- hood) of CMP Film are producing with French outfit Cinétévé. The team will be in Berlin looking for European partners on the $4m (¤3m) budgeted production, which will shoot in Europe later this year. The story follows a young
woman in a devastated city, where she goes to search for her lost brother and falls in love with a foreign journalist.
Content scares up Pact deals
Content has sold Sundance ghost story The Pact to territories including the UK, Australia and New Zealand (Entertainment One); Germany, Switzerland and Austria (Ascot Elite); Japan (Klockworx); Brazil (PlayArte); CIS, Baltic states
and Eastern Europe (EEAP); Middle East (Gulf Film); Portugal (Lusomundo) and Turkey (Medyavizyon). IFC Midnight already has North American rights. Content is screening in the market here. Wendy Mitchell
Jim Sturgess
Raking Ashes The Works International takes on thriller Ashes starring Jim Sturgess and Ray Winstone. » PAGE 6
REVIEW The last day Alain Gomis’ Today (Aujourd’Hui) is at times engrossing and alienating — but always visually absorbing. » PAGE 12
FEATURES Love & war Angelina Jolie talks about her directorial debut In The Land Of Blood And Honey, which has its international premiere today. » PAGE 26
SCREENINGS What to see today. » START PAGE 30
Bachelorette party spreads
BY GEOFFREY MACNAB Comedy Bachelorette, starring Kirsten Dunst and produced by — among others — Will Ferrell, is proving a hot seller for Elle Driver. The Sundance hit, previously
sold to Radius-TWC for the US, has now closed for the UK (Icon), Ger- many (Telepool), the Middle East (Phars Film), France (Mars), Israel (United King), Russia-CIS and Baltics (Top Film), Spain (Vertigo), Scandinavia/Iceland (Scanbox), Poland (Hagi), former Yugoslavia and Albania (Cinemania), Bene- lux (Paradiso), Turkey (Medya- Vision), Thailand (M Pictures), Bulgaria (A Plus), Portugal (Films 4You), Australia (Hopscotch/ eOne), Romania/Hungary (Pro- rom), Latin America (Imagen Film), Switzerland (Frenetic) and Czech Republic/Slovakia (EEAP). Italy and Japan are expected to
close by the end of the market. “It is the opposite of Brides-
maids,” Elle Driver’s managing director, Adeline Fontan Tessaur, said of Bachelorette. “It is the same subject, same story, but more edgy, more catchy, more real.”
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