FEATURE
Struck By Lightning
Dinotasia
Freaky Deaky Nicolas Chartier’s Voltage Pictures has the
action-comedy Cali starring white-hot Kristen Stewart. Nick Meyer and his sales troops at Sierra/Affin-
ity will push the thriller Plus One (shooting starts in June), about a huge party that descends into violence following a mysterious phenomenon. The Weinstein Company’s David Glasser has
August: Osage County (to start shooting in autumn), a story about a family of strong-willed women starring the heavyweight Oscar duo Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts. Nu Image’s newly ensconced sales head John
Fremes will lead the attack with the White House thriller White House Taken (start of shoot early July) which pairs director Antoine Fuqua and Gerard Butler; plus crime thriller Homefront, directed by Sylvester Stallone. Ed Noeltner’s Cinema Management Group bids
to continue its successful recent genre forays with The Collection (screening), the sequel to 2009 hit The Collector. Mickey Liddell’s LD Distribution will distribute in the US. Highland Film Group arrives with Lleju Produc-
tions’ action-comedy The Baytown Disco (com- pleted) led by the steamy combo of Billy Bob Thornton and Eva Longoria in the tale of three mischievous Alabama brothers. Mimi Steinbauer’s Radiant Films International
offers An Ordinary Man (shooting this autumn) from director Brad Silberling, starring Brendan Gleeson and Abbie Cornish. Radiant also has Madame Bovary, to star Mia Wasikowska. Visit Films head Ryan Kampe reteams with
Werner Herzog on the prehistoric nature docu- mentary Dinotasia (screening), following their collaboration on Cave Of Forgotten Dreams. Patrick Ewald and Shaked Berenson’s Epic Pic-
tures will commence talks on deranged gunman story The Mall (shooting now) presented by Linkin Park. Vincent D’Onofrio, Gina Gershon and Peter Stormare star.
n 20 Screen International at Cannes May 16, 2012 Hotel Noir »
Sound Of My Voice Roman Kopelevich’s Red Sea Media has
boarded comedy-thriller Bad Kids Go To Hell (completed), about youngsters in detention who die mysteriously. None other than The Breakfast Club’s Judd Nelson plays the headmaster. LocomotiveEntertainment head Colleen Seldin
will be talking up Shangri-La Entertainment’s erotic crime tale Hotel Noir (completed) from Sebastian Gutierrez and starring Rufus Sewell and Rosario Dawson. Ariel Veneziano’s Recreation has struck a deal
with Salt Lake City-based Incentive Capital to jointly acquire international rights to Spike Lee’s Sundance entry Red Hook Summer. Variance Films will release in the US on August 10. Larry Meyers of Meyers Media Group will show
footage from Simon West Productions’ $7m motion-capture animation Night Of The Living Dead: Origins-3D set in present-day New York. Morris Ruskin’s Shoreline Entertainment will
The Baytown Disco
tout crime caper Freaky Deaky starring Christian Slater hot off its Tribeca world premiere. Brian O’Shea’s The Exchange brings Sundance
entry Sound Of My Voice starring Brit Marling as a cult leader. Fox Searchlight releases in the US. Lightning Entertainment president Robert
Beaumont has picked up Tribeca entry Struck By Lightning, a comedy-drama with Glee’s Chris Colfer and Christina Hendricks about a man who feels remorse over his high-school antics after he gets zapped during a storm. Ellen Wander’s Film Bridge International will
talk up The Poisoners (shooting late summer) from Jon Amiel starring Emily Watson and Anna Friel as women on a wartime farming community. Stephanie Denton’s Indomina has virus out-
break thriller Cabin Fever: Patient Zero (pre-pro- duction), one of two Cabin Fever titles the vertically integrated company intends to shoot in the Dominican Republic.
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