FEATURE
UK sellers By Andreas Wiseman
A number of new UK-based sales companies with impressive credentials have entered the market since Berlin. David Garrett’s Mister Smith Entertainment, a
joint venture with Constantin Film, comes to Cannes with the fi rst instalment in young-adult book franchise adaptation The Mortal Instruments: City Of Bones, starring Lily Collins as a teenager navigating a New York fi lled with demons, vam- pires and werewolves, as well as 3,096 Days, based on the autobiography of abducted Austrian teen- ager Natascha Kampusch. Tim Haslam and Hugo Grumbar’s Embank-
ment Films enters the sales fray with hot seller Caught In Flight, about Princess Diana’s secret affair with heart surgeon Hasnat Khan, and Iraq- set thriller Mission: Blacklist starring Robert Pat- tinson as a military interrogator. Preferred Content co-represents North American rights with WME Global on the latter. eOne’s newly minted London-based sales divi-
sion, headed by Sally Caplan, will be at market with thriller Cut Bank starring Armie Hammer and Ben Kingsley. HanWay has market debuts for Jim Jarmusch’s
vampire drama Only Lovers Left Alive starring Tom Hiddleston, Mia Wasikowska, Tilda Swinton and John Hurt; Heartbreaker director Pascal Chau- meil’s comedy-drama A Long Way Down from Wildgaze Films with Emile Hirsch, Pierce Brosnan and Toni Collette in the lead roles; and Barry Men- del Productions’ God Help The Girl, Belle and Sebastian singer-songwriter Stuart Murdoch’s directorial debut starring Elle Fanning and Olly Alexander. HanWay also has trailers for Kon-Tiki and Quar-
tet and footage of Great Expectations as well as Ber- nardo Bertolucci’s out of competition entry Me And You. Daniel Stamm’s The Darkness and Girls’ Night Out are scheduled to shoot this year. K5 will be showing fi rst footage of Mira Nair’s thriller The Reluctant Fundamentalist starring Riz Ahmed, Kate Hudson, Liev Schreiber and Kiefer Sutherland, and Bille August’s Night Train To Lis- bon, featuring Jeremy Irons, Bruno Ganz and Mel- anie Laurent in its cast. Music doc Shut Up And Play The Hits follows the fi nal gig of dance-punk band LCD Soundsystem, while SXSW acquisitions Girls Against Boys and King Kelly are also new to market. Naomi Foner’s thriller Very Good Girls starring Dakota Fanning and Elizabeth Olsen is in pre-production; Paul Walker thriller Vehicle 19 is in post.
Pathé International brings Denis Villeneuve’s thriller An Enemy, in which Jake Gyllenhaal will play dual roles. The adaptation of a Jose Sarama- go’s novel about a man searching for his double gets underway this spring.
Protagonist has an invite-only screening of The Sweeney as well as market screenings for Searching For Sugar Man, The Imposter and Your Sister’s Sis- ter. Also on the slate is Viking drama Hammer Of The Gods produced by Vertigo; John Michael McDonagh’s Calvary; Kevin Macdonald’s How I Live Now; and StreetDance All Stars. Ben Wheat- ley’s Kill List follow up Sightseers is in Directors’ Fortnight. Richard Ayoade’s The Double starts shooting on May 20.
WestEnd Films has a teaser of Ralph Fiennes’ period drama The Invisible Woman starring Fiennes as Charles Dickens alongside Felicity Jones and
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Kristin Scott Thomas; extended footage of Neil Jor- dan thriller Byzantium; and a promo of Gabriele Salvatores’ Siberian Education. Israeli thriller Beth- lehem is in post. Independent Film Company has a market debut
screening for UK thriller Storage 24 starring Noel Clarke, on which Universal has nabbed a number of key territories, as well as screenings of Sundance hits Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry and Safety Not Guaran- teed. Bankside has a private screening of Plan B’s directorial debut iLL Manors and a promo of Mat Whitecross’ music-themed Spike Island while Damian Jones-produced Belle, in which Gugu Mbatha-Raw stars as a mixed-race woman raised as an aristocrat in 18th-century England, starts shooting in September. Bankside will also be show- ing fi rst footage of Peter Greenaway’s Goltzius And The Pelican Company.
Ealing Metro comes to market with fi rst market screenings for Regan Hall’s Fast Girls and Goddess starring Laura Michelle Kelly and former Boyzone front- man Ronan Keating. Better Living Through Chemistry and Half Of A Yellow Sun are in pre-pro- duction.
Alongside Matteo Garrone’s Competition entry Reality, Fan-
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
dango Portobello brings Rolf de Heer’s dark com- edy The King Is Dead as well as Ferzan Ozpetek’s Magnifi cent Presence and Berlin Panorama entry Diaz: Don’t Clean Up This Blood. Jennifer Aniston and Embargo Films comedy-
drama Miss You Already, big-budget doc Dolphin: A 3D Adventure and comedy Welcome To The Jungle are all in pre-production for Salt. Simon Crowe’s SC Films has private screenings
of 3D black comedy A Liar’s Autobiography — The Untrue Story Of Monty Python’s Graham Chapman, a premiere screening of Cockneys Vs Zombies, and screenings of Outback and thriller When The Lights Went Out. Animations Jungle Shuffl e and The Reef 2 and UK drama The Fold are in production. Intandem has debut screenings for Jules Stew-
art’s thriller K-11 as well as promo reels for Stephen Gyllenhaal’s comedy Grassroots starring Jason Biggs and coming-of-age football story Theatre Of Dreams with Brian Cox and Natascha McElhone. New titles include Ten Things I Hate About Life with director Gil Junger and actress Hayley Atwell attached and 1920s-set drama The Laureate with Imogen Poots attached. Aisling Walsh drama Dev- lin starring Sally Hawkins is in pre-production. Stealth brings new titles including Beyond
Apollo from producer Matt Reeves, action fi lm 30 Below and Howard Deutch comedy Wild Oats star- ring Shirley MacLaine, Jacki Weaver, Alan Arkin and Maria Bello. Blind Bastard Club, Fangs Of Ward 3D, Marble City and Shoe Dog are in pre-pro- duction while completed horror title The Tapes
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