WEDNESDAY, MAY 16 2012
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FilmDistrict eyes Oculus from Intrepid
BY JEREMY KAY FilmDistrict has acquired US rights to Intrepid Pictures’ horror film Oculus, scheduled to begin shooting in late summer. Mike Flanagan will direct from a
screenplay he co-wrote with Jeff Howard, based on Flanagan’s short fi lm of the same name. Focus Fea- tures International is handling sales on the rest of the world here. Intrepid is fully financing and
principals Trevor Macy and Marc D Evans are producing. Oculus is about an allegedly haunted mirror that may have played a part in a family tragedy that left two chil- dren orphans. Intrepid negotiated the deal directly with FilmDistrict. Macy and Evans’ teen thriller
Crush, starring Lucas Till, Sarah Bolger and Crystal Reed is also in the market, sold by FilmNation.
Finecut scares up Profane
BY LIZ SHACKLETON Korea’s Finecut is teaming with the UK’s Rook Films and India’s Reel Illusion Films to co-produce Indian horror title The Profane, written and directed by Sidharth Srinivasan. Finecut has also picked up
international rights excluding India to the film, which marks a highly unusual collaboration between East Asia, South Asia and Europe. Scheduled to start shooting
early next year, the macabre horror follows a brother and sister who accompany their ailing mother to the city of Varanasi. The mother falls into a coma and the daughter wants to help her mother die, while the son sinks to grisly depths to keep her alive. Srinivasan will produce through
his Reel Illusion Films with Pete Tombs and Andy Starke of the UK’s Rook Films and Finecut’s Youngjoo Suh as co-producer. Rook is also a co-producer on
UK director Ben Wheatley’s Sight- seers, and Wheatley will executive produce The Profane.
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Law books into Hemingway
BY ANDREAS WISEMAN Jeremy Thomas’ Recorded Picture Company and BBC Films will pro- duce London-set black comedy Dom Hemingway, from writer- director Richard Shepard and star- ring Jude Law and Richard E Grant. HanWay will handle sales.
Shooting will start in the autumn. Law will play a safecracker just
out of prison who travels with his best friend (Grant) to collect what
Jude Law
he is owed for not ratting on crime bosses. Thomas said: “I so enjoyed Richard Shepard’s fi lm The Mata-
dor, and when I read this script and thought of the fi lm, I was excited. Richard has a special gift between comedy and drama, and we have wonderful actors to inhabit the film. I’m pleased to be working with Christine [Langan] and BBC Films again to bring Dom Heming- way to life.” Shepard added: “Dom’s charac-
ter is a true original, and so is Jer- emy. It seems like an especially keen fi t.”
Fuhrman, Huppert join Suspiria
BY MELANIE GOODFELLOW Isabelle Fuhrman (The Hunger Games) is set to star alongside Isa- belle Huppert, Janet McTeer and Michael Nyqvist in David Gordon Green’s upcoming Suspiria. The remake of Dario Argento’s
1977 cult horror thriller, about a US student (Fuhrman) who stumbles on a coven of witches while study- ing in Europe, will start shooting in September. Wild Bunch is launching international sales at Cannes. CAA holds US rights.
Crime Scene Pictures’ Adam
Ripp and Rob Paris are fi nancing and producing the fi lm alongside the team behind I Am Love, Luca Guadagnino of First Sun and Francesco Melzi d’Eril of Memo Films, which acquired the Suspiria rights at Cannes 2007. Suspiria joins four other genre
projects on Wild Bunch’s Cannes slate: Franck Khalfoun’s Maniac, Brian de Palma’s Passion, Vincenzo Natali’s Haunter and Marina de Van’s Dark Touch.
“Our Cannes line-up this year
reflects a conscious decision to return to our genre film d’auteur roots,” Wild Bunch chief Vincent Maraval told Screen. One hot non-genre title is Jean-
Luc Godard’s Goodbye To Language 3D. Maraval reveals Godard cre- ated his own 3D camera out of two mobile phones fi tted with lenses. Wild Bunch represents a record
16 festival titles in Cannes this year, including The Angels’ Share, Beyond The Hills and Mystery.
BY MELANIE GOODFELLOW Francois Cluzet and Guillaume Canet have signed up to star in Gaumont and Les Films du Cap’s upcoming Turning Tide, unfolding against the backdrop of the famous Vendée Globe yacht race. The $21.7m production head-
lines a packed Gaumont slate also featuring a live-action Belle And Sébastien and Michael Youn’s com- edy Vive La France, described as “Borat meet Four Lions” by sales chief Cécile Gaget.
Cluzet, Canet drift out with Gaumont’s Tide Gaumont is co-producing
Francois Cluzet
Guillaume Canet
Turning Tide is the directorial
debut for cinematographer Chris- tophe Offenstein, who is currently shooting Canet’s Blood Ties. Shoot- ing is due to kick off from October.
alongside Jean Cottin and Laurent Taieb’s Les Films du Cap, Bel- gium’s Scope Pictures and Spain’s A Contracorriente, which has pre- acquired theatrical rights. Prior to Cannes, the Tanweer
Group signed a multi-territory deal for India, Poland, Romania, Bul- garia, Greece and the Middle East. It has also pre-sold to Switzerland (Frenet ic Fi lms), Canada (Metropole Films) and Taiwan (Applause Entertainment).
Chris Pine brings his Mantivities to Cannes
Fresh off the Star Trek 2 shoot, Chris Pine is expected to jet into Cannes to meet with sales companies on Waterstone Entertainment’s new comedy Mantivities. Jeff Kalligheri and Texan realtor Stephen Bowen’s fledgling
production and sales venture, Waterstone, is fully financing and producing the project, which Michael Patrick Jann will direct. The aim is to go into production this year before Pine starts work on an untitled Jack Ryan project.
Pine will serve as producer
alongside Sarah Babineau, Jordan Foley and Waterstone CEO Kalligheri, Bowen and Steven Garcia. Jay Cohen of Gersh Agency represents domestic rights. Jeremy Kay
Keira Knightley Yves Saint Laurent
NEWS Fashion statement Yves Saint Laurent gets the biopic treatment in a new film directed by Bertrand Bonello. » Page 4
Before Sunset Fortissimo comes on board Terence Davies’ Sunset Song.
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FEATURES Buying time All the buzz on the hottest market titles being sold at Cannes. » Page 16
SCREENINGS » Page 54
» Keira Knightley has replaced Scarlett Johansson on John Car- ney’s Can A Song Save Your Life?, which Exclusive Media is selling here. Hailee Steinfeld also stars and Anthony Bregman is producing. » Inferno has acquired interna- tional sales rights to the Steve Jobs project with Ashton Kutcher in the lead role. » The Weinstein Company will tout Scary Movie 5 to buyers. Mal- colm Lee will direct and David Zucker produce. Dimension Films will distribute in the US as it has done throughout the franchise. » Lakeshore has taken Walden Media’s Won’t Back Down, starring Viola Davis, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Holly Hunter. Fox will release in the US. » Focus screened an early cut of Cloud Atlas for buyers yesterday afternoon. » CBS Films acquired US for IM Global’s Ends Of The Earth. » The Weinstein Company bought multiple territories on The Sap- phires from Goalpost.
Knightley’s Song and other US titles rev market BY JEREMY KAY
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