BERLINBRIEFS
The Robbers reload Producer Roland Pellegrino (Enemy At The Gates) and writer-director Hagen Myller are teaming up to make an adaptation of Friedrich Schiller’s classic play The Robbers. Pellegrino and Myller are planning to update the 1782 play to the present day. The movie is in pre-production, aiming for a theatrical release in 2013.
Arc, XLrator take US rights on debut Graystone Arc Entertainment and XLrator Media have picked up US rights to horror film Graystone, the directorial debut of Sean Stone, son of Oliver Stone. Graystone follows film-makers documenting inexplicable events in an abandoned insane asylum. The father and son duo star in the film, with Alexander Wraith, Antonella Lentini and John Schramm. The deal was negotiated by CAA and Marina Fuentes of 6 Sales, which is handling international and co-repped the US with CAA.
Backup draws Crowd for Heysel drama
BY GEOFFREY MACNAB The story of the Heysel Stadium football disaster — when 39 Juventus fans died and hundreds more supporters were injured just prior to the 1985 European Cup Final against Liverpool in Bel- gium — is to be told in an ambi- tious $9.3m (¤7m) feature film. The story will follow characters
from the countries involved on the tragic day. In The Crowd, to be directed by Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire, is being
put together by Paris-based pack- ager and financier Backup Films. Anna Lena Films (Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait) is producing. The idea is to structure the film
as a European co-production fea- turing all the countries involved: Belgium (where the match was played), Italy (home to Juventus) and the UK (home to Liverpool). Backup is also packaging a very
different football-themed film: Goal Of The Dead, a two-part zom- bie comedy by Benjamin Rocher
Astral City finds home in Canada
BY WENDY MITCHELL Guido Rud’s FilmSharks Interna- tional has sold Canadian rights to Mongrel Media for Brazilian hit Our Home: The Astral City (the film was released in the US by Strand Releasing under the title Astral City: A Spiritual Journey).
Rud negotiated the deal with Andrew Frank of Mongrel. Our Home: The Astral City has
grossed more than $25m in Latin America via Fox. FilmSharks is negotiating deals now for the UK, Japan, Korea, France and Ger- man-speaking territories.
Our Home: The Astral City
and Thierry Poiraud produced by Capture The Flag Films. Other Backup projects include
El Frances by Olivier van Hoofs- tadt, to add an international dis- tributor imminently; El Instructor by Santiago Otheguy, to attach a German co-producer; and Jean- Baptiste Andrea’s thriller Brother- hood Of Tear s , to add a Luxembourg co-producer. David Atlan-Jackson and Jean-
Baptiste Babin’s Backup has sup- ported some 400 films since 2002.
Ashes
Works rises with Ashes
BYANDREAS WISEMAN UK sales outfit The Works Interna- tional has taken on international sales to Mat Whitecross’ thriller Ashes starring Ray Winstone, Jim Sturgess, Lesley Manville, Jodie Whittaker and Luke Evans. Ashes, in post-production, follows the dif- ficult reconciliation of a father and son, on the run after the son breaks his father out of hospital. Producers are Esther Douglas
and Fiona Neilson of Fiesta Pro- ductions and executive producers are Steve Christian and Marc Samuelson of CinemaNX, Phillip Keir of Merzbau and Guy Berry- man, Jonny Buckland, Will Champion and Chris Martin of the band Coldplay. CinemaNX will release in the UK.
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