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Distribution captures Wang’s White Deer


BY LIZ SHACKLETON Hong Kong-based Distribution Workshop has picked up interna- tional rights excluding China to Wang Quan’an’s White Deer Plain, which was a late addition to the Berlin competition. The historical epic is based on a


novel of the same name by Chen Zhongshi, set towards the end of imperial China, about a woman who is caught up in a struggle between two rival clans.


White Deer Plain Starring Zhang Fengyi and


Kitty Zhang Yuqi, the film was produced by Wang’s Lightshades


Sola takes Christmas Journey


BYANDREAS WISEMAN Sola Media has boarded Nils Gaup’s (Pathfinder) family film Journey To The Christmas Star with Agnes Kittelsen among the cast. Currently in production in Nor-


way and the Czech Republic, the film is an adventure in which a young girl embarks on a mission


to help a king find the Christmas star. Kittelsen (Happy Happy) plays an evil witch, while new- comer Vilde Marie Zeiner and 2010 Berlin Shooting Star Anders Baasmo Christiansen play the young girl and king, respectively. Moskus Film produces with Storm Rosenberg. Kamilla Krogs-


Journey To The Christmas Star


veen scripts from Sverre Brandt’s 1924 play. Disney will release in Nordic territories on November 23.


Film Productions, Xi’an Movie and TV Production and Western Film Group Corp, among other investors. Wang won the Golden Bear in


2007 for Tuya’s Marriage and a Silver Bear for best screenplay for Apart Together in 2010. Distribution Workshop is also


selling Tsui Hark’s Flying Swords Of Dragon Gate; Ann Hui’s A Sim- ple Life and Tony Ching’s The Sor- cerer And The White Snake.


M-Line opens Doomsday Book sales


BY LIZ SHACKLETON Korea’s M-Line Distribution is launching sales on the sci-fi drama Doomsday Book, co-directed by Kim Jee-woon and Yim Pil-sung. The $5m film comprises three


short stories: the first about a robot achieving enlightenment, the second about a zombie inva- sion and the third about a meteor wiping out mankind. Kim, whose credits include


I Saw The Devil and The Good, The Bad, The Weird, started work on the film in 2007, but it was placed on hold when the financing fell apart. He started shooting again in 2010 with backing from a new investor, Timestory. Produced by Zio Entertain-


ment, the film is in post-produc- tion with a Korean release tentatively scheduled for March. M-Line is also handling melo-


drama Gabi and Lee Kwang-kuk’s Romance Joe.


BERLINBRIEFS


Radius-TWC in Pusher move New Weinstein Company label Radius-TWC has picked up US and Caribbean basin rights to Vertigo-Embargo’s Pusher remake from Gaumont. Luis Prieto directs Richard Coyle, model Agyness Deyn and Zlatko Buric in the story of a London drug dealer who becomes indebted to a drug lord. Nicolas Winding Refn executive produces.


Momentum’s Monster deal Momentum Pictures has acquired rights to Jesse Thomas Cook’s genre film Monster Brawl for the UK and Ireland from Raven Banner Entertainment.


Intramovies flies with Stork Intramovies will handle world sales on The Commander And The Stork, the new feature from Italy’s Silvio Soldini (Bread And Tulips). Currently in post- production, it could be ready for Cannes. The slate also includes love story Chocolate Kisses and Rotterdam selection The Legend Of Kaspar Hauser.


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