NEWS CANNES BRIEFS
Four more for 7&7 Maura Ford and Antony Ford’s London-based 7&7 Producers’ Sales Service has added four market premiere titles to its slate: John Duigan’s Careless Love, Marcus Markou’s Papadopoulos & Sons, Ilaria Borrelli and Guido Freddi’s Talking To The Trees and William C Sullivan’s Percival’s Big Night. Each is screening here in the market.
Rea tucks in to Menu Stephen Rea and Fionnula Flanagan have joined the cast of Roger Gual’s Tasting Menu. The story is about an estranged couple who visit a famed restaurant on its closing night. TrustNordisk is handling sales.
Children set for Sarajevo The Sarajevo Film Festival will open its 18th edition (July 6-14) with Aida Begic’s Children Of Sarajevo, which will have its world premiere here in Un Certain Regard. The film follows two children orphaned by the war who struggle in the aftermath of the conflict. The film is a co-production between Bosnia’s Film House, Germany’s Rohfilm, France’s Les Films De L’Apres Midi and Turkey’s Kaplan Film.
Senator plans Hermann Hesse adaptation Senator Film is starting pre- production on an adaptation of Hermann Hesse’s bestseller Narcissus And Goldmund. An international cast will be assembled for the English- language project, the tale of a medieval monk and his pious priest. Christoph Müller (Sophie Scholl) and Senator Entertainment CEO Helge Sasse will co-produce for Senator Film Produktion. » Full stories on
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Solution boosts Brosnan deal with November Man
BY JEREMY KAY Lisa Wilson and Myles Nestel’s The Solution Group will com- mence talks here on espionage thriller November Man, the first project to go under a multi-title financing and distribution deal with Pierce Brosnan and Beau St Clair’s Irish DreamTime. Brosnan will star alongside
Dominic Cooper in the potential franchise as an ex-CIA operative pitted against a former pupil in a case involving CIA top brass and the Russian president-elect. Roger Donaldson is set to begin
shooting in October in Berlin. CAA represents Brosnan, Cooper and Donaldson, and the agency brokered the deal for Irish Dream- Time and represents US rights to November Man. Michael Finch and Karl
Gajdusek adapted the screenplay from Bill Granger’s book There Are
Pierce Brosnan
No Spies. Beau St Clair is produc- ing with Sriram Das of Das Films, who jointly developed the script. Dino Conte serves as executive producer. “Myles and Lisa are great part-
ners for us as film-makers and share our vision for these films,” St Clair said. “Their extensive crea- tive and financial experience ena- bles our projects to maximise their
full potential. We all believe the Bill Granger novels and the char- acter of Devereaux feel like the perfect vehicle for Pierce.” The Solution’s sales slate
includes the psychological thriller Grand Piano with Elijah Wood and bittersweet comedy Writers with Greg Kinnear, Jennifer Con- nelly and Lily Collins, currently in post.
Don 2 producer joins Paul Black feature
BY MARTIN BLANEY Don 2’s German co-producer Film Base Berlin is teaming with Patrick Cassavetti of Shaftesbury Films to produce Paul Black’s sec- ond feature The Same Eyes. Film Base’s Mathias Schwer-
brock told Screen the production is set for an October shoot in Toronto and Berlin. “We will be in Cannes to line up financing and hope to confirm casting,” he said. The screenplay by UK-born
Black, whose credits include America Brown, centres on a man’s search for his identity as he tries to discover who he was in his previ-
contact with Cassavetti, whose credits include Mona Lisa, Inti- macy and Brazil. Also in 2013, Schwerbrock will
partner with Russian producer Kira Saksaganskaya of St Peters- burg-based Rock Films on Alexey Uchitel’s next feature project The Stockholm Syndrome, about a woman held captive for 18 years. The project has received devel-
Mathias Schwerbrock
ous incarnation. “The film is between arthouse and main- stream,” Schwerbrock continued, explaining that Black put him into
opment funding from Medien- board Berlin-Brandenburg and was one of the first films to get support from the German-Rus- sian Co-Development Fund ear- lier this year.
Scope takes flight with busy slate
BY GEOFFREY MACNAB After raising $33m last year, ambi- tious Belgian tax shelter financier and production outfit Scope Pic- tures is backing new projects including Princess Diana-themed Caught In Flight. Embankment is selling the Ecosse production, from Downfall director Oliver Hir- schbiegel. The film is a co-production
between the UK, France (Le Pacte) and Belgium (where post will be done). Scope is expected to bring around 14% of the $14.4m budget. Scope is also working on Le
Grand Mechant Loup, starring Benoit Poelvoorde and made through Mandarin. Shooting begins in June on the $15m fea- ture, with Scope providing 10% of the budget. The company is also putting up
around 15% of the budget for $11.5m animated feature The Prince And The 108 Demons, made through Same Player. Shooting has just begun on
another Scope-backed film, Dany Boon’s comedy Eyjafjallajokull, made through Quad. Scope is lin- ing up between 20%-25% of the $25m budget. Also on its slate is Abdellatif
Kechiche’s Blue Is A Warm Colour starring Léa Seydoux. Shooting in Brussels, the film is sold by Wild Bunch. Meanwhile, Scope is backing
Michel Gondry’s Mood Indigo, which is now shooting. Scope pro- vides about 15% of the $25m budget. The company is also working
on En Solitaire, produced by Jean Cottin, starring Francois Cluzet and made through Gaumont.
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