FEATURE FOCUS n MARKET BUZZ n ALLIANCE FILMS n CNC nZENTROPA n EUROPE’SFILM TAXCREDITS n SIGHTSEERS
(Clockwise from left) Speranza13 Media’s Romeo & Juliet; Recreation’s Red Hook Summer; Jennifer Lawrence; Arnold Schwarzenegger; Exclusive Media’s Look Of Love; Matt Damon; Kristen Stewart; Liam Hemsworth
All the fun of the fare
As the Cannes Marché opens for business, Screen looks at the hottest titles debuting at the market — at all stages of production — from the US, Europe and across Asia
US sellers By Jeremy Kay
Lionsgate’s Patrick Wachsberger and Helen Lee Kim will kick off pre-sales on Catching Fire, the aptly named sequel to this year’s $625m-plus indie global behemoth The Hunger Games. The merger with Summit has added thriller Red 2 (in pre-production) to the pipeline. Other hot titles are Roman Polanski’s thriller D and Denis Ville- neuve’s Prisoners. Inferno should prove a popular destination for
buyers with Guillermo del Toro’s stop-motion version of Pinocchio (in pre-production), which is being produced with The Henson Company and is styled as family-friendly entertainment incor- porating the Mexican auteur’s signature visual flair. Cargo Entertainment sales chief Mark Lindsay
expects a strong response to Kill Me Three Times (Australia, pre-production), a thriller about mur- der, blackmail and revenge, from Wolf Creek direc- tor Greg Mclean to star Alice Braga and Abbie Cornish. The newly signed US distribution deal with
Open Road has turned up the heat on QED Inter- national’s DEA thriller Ten (in pre-production) starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. Foresight Unlimited head Mark Damon and
2 Guns producer Randall Emmett will want to keep things bubbling along after that breakout EFM as they reunite on Peter Berg’s Navy SEAL
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thriller Lone Survivor, which starts shooting Sep- tember 15. Panorama Media, the new player backed by
Megan Ellison and run by Marc Butan and sales head Kim Fox, will introduce buyers to Kathryn Bigelow’s Osama Bin Laden project Zero Dark Thirty, currently shooting. Stuart Ford and sales chief Jonathan Deckter of
IM Global arrive on the Croisette with Robert Luketic’s corporate espionage thriller Paranoia, to shoot in early summer for Reliance-IM Global, starring Liam Hemsworth. The company is also heating up sales on Lee Daniels’ The Butler star- ring Forest Whitaker. Exclusive Media energised the market with
Rush in 2011 and Alex Walton switches gears with the romance Look Of Love (shooting now) boast- ing a prestige cast of Annette Bening, Ed Harris and Robin Williams. Exclusive also has Agent: Century 21 starring Cameron Diaz and Benicio Del Toro. FilmNation CEO Glen Basner will commence
sales on Sofia Coppola’s The Bling Ring (shooting now) with Emma Watson and Leslie Mann in the tale of teens who break into celebrity homes. Alison Thompson and the Focus Features Inter-
national team have Gus Van Sant’s Promised Land (shooting now) starring Matt Damon as a natural gas salesman who sparks resistance from a local community. Sales veteran Jere Hausfater returns to the fray as the newly installed COO of Aldamisa Interna-
tional and along with head of sales Nadine de Bar- ros will take point on the Robert Rodriguez duo Frank Miller’s Sin City: A Dame To Kill For in 3D and Machete Kills (both in pre-production). Camela Galano’s Speranza13 Media will show a
promo from Romeo & Juliet based on Julian Fel- lowes’ adapted screenplay. Hailee Steinfeld from True Grit stars alongside Douglas Booth. The Solution Entertainment Group principal
Lisa Wilson arrives with thriller Grand Piano (Spain, in pre-production) starring Elijah Wood as a haunted prodigy who must deliver a flawless performance to save his family. Content has sci-fi action thriller/love story The
Machine, to shoot this summer, directed by the UK’s Caradog James. Robbie Little’s The Little Film Company will
start talks on Northern Soul, a friendship story set in 1970s Britain. Director Elaine Constantine starts shooting in July. Ashok Amritraj’s Hyde Park International will
screen a promo of Naomi Watts and Matt Dillon in the inspirational drama Sunlight Jr (post-produc- tion), about a pregnant convenience-store worker and her paraplegic boyfriend who are evicted from their motel residence. Red Granite International’s Danny Dimbort and
Christian Mercuri will be talking up the thriller Out Of The Furnace (shooting now), boasting a North American deal with Relativity and an ensemble of Christian Bale, Casey Affleck and Woody Harrelson.
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