NEWS Niels Arden Oplev
Fortissimo on Song with Terence Davies
Alliance shoots for Dead Man, Zero Dark
Alliance Films has swung into action on the eve of Cannes with pre-buys on hot market titles Dead Man Down and Zero Dark Thirty. The company has acquired
UK, Canadian and Spanish rights to Dead Man Down, the $30m project IM Global is selling internationally and co-financing with WWE Studios. Niels Arden Oplev is directing
the story of a criminal lieutenant seduced by a vengeful woman. Colin Farrell, Noomi Rapace and Dominic Cooper star and Neal H Moritz’s Original Film produces with screenwriter JH Wyman of Frequency Films. Alliance has also struck a deal
with Panorama Media to acquire Canadian distribution rights to Kathryn Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty. Megan Ellison’s Annapurna
Pictures bankrolled the Osama Bin Laden thriller and invested in the production, financing and sales venture Panorama, which is handling sales. Joel Edgerton, Chris Pratt, Mark Strong, Edgar Ramirez and Jessica Chastain star and Sony anticipates a US release later this year.
Jeremy Kay
BY LIZ SHACKLETON Fortissimo Films has acquired international rights to Terence Dav- ies’ Sunset Song, which has been reactivated with Peter Mullan and Agyness Deyn heading the cast. Deyn received acclaim for her
West End performance in The Lei- sure Society earlier this year, while Mullan was most recently seen in Steven Spielberg’s War Horse. The film, based on the 1932
Scottish novel of the same name by Lewis Grassic Gibbon, is sched- uled to start shooting towards the end of the year. Davies and Bob Last of Hold-
ings Ecosse have been jointly developing the project since they worked together on Davies’ 2000 The House Of Mirth. It will be produced by Sol Papa-
dopoulos and Roy Boulter of Hur- ricane Films — the production company behind Davies’ docu- mentary Of Time And The City —
Agyness Deyn
along with Sweden’s Götafilm. Last is executive producing. Set in the early 20th century
against the backdrop of poverty in north-east Scotland, the story fol- lows a farmer’s daughter, Chris Guthrie, struggling for love amid hardship and family misfortune. Deyn, who also stars in the new
English-language Pusher, said: “When I read the script, I fell com- pletely in love with the character and the story. I’m honoured and
Peter Mullan
excited to be working with Ter- ence, he’s such an incredible direc- tor. I can’t wait to get started and just hope I can do Chris Guthrie justice.” The deal with Fortissimo was
negotiated by the producers and Fortissimo’s London-based vice- president of acquisitions Courtney Noble. Fortissimo’s slate also includes
An End To The Killing, Full Circle and Una Noche.
Intandem has 10 Things
Intandem comes to Cannes with comedy romance 10 Things I Hate About Life, from the team who made 10 Things I Hate About Y
ou. Gil Junger directs and Andrew
Lazar produces. Hayley Atwell is attached to star in the project, scheduled for an autumn shoot. Imogen Poots is attached to
period drama The Laureate, currently in pre-production, about the writer Robert Graves. Harris Tulchin, Steve Norris, Philip Moran and William Nunez produce, with Nunez directing. Intandem is showing promos
of football story Theatre Of Dreams and comedy Grassroots and a first market screening of thriller K-11. Titles in pre- production include Glimmer 3D, Devlin starring Sally Hawkins, and Starbright. October Squall starring Halle Berry is in pre- production.
Andreas Wiseman
Bonello to direct Yves Saint Laurent biopic Content turns on The Machine
BY MELANIE GOODFELLOW Bertrand Bonello will direct a biopic about legendary French fashion designer Yves Saint Lau- rent for sales outfi t Films Distribu- tion and production company Mandarin Cinema. It will focus on key years in
Saint Laurent’s life, from 1965-76. “This was an incredibly important period for him, both creatively and personally,” says Eric Altmayer, co- head of Mandarin alongside his brother Nicolas. Thomas Bidegain, who co-
wrote A Prophet and Rust & Bone, is writing the screenplay with
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Bonello. International casting is currently under way for the French-language $19.2m produc- tion, due to start shooting this summer. “We are involved at the devel-
opment stage and looking for pre- sales, co-producers and even fi nanciers at Cannes,” Films Dis- tribution co-chief Nicolas Brigaud-Robert told Screen. The company also handled Pierre Thoretton’s YSL doc L’Amour Fou. The new f i lm has been
endorsed by the fashion brand, granting access to the designer’s sketches and vintage outfi ts.
BY WENDY MITCHELL Content has acquired world rights to The Machine, a sci-fi romantic thriller directed by Caradog James. John Giwa-Amu from Red And Black Films produces. The fi lm is currently being cast and Content is showing a VFX teaser here. Content’s Jamie Carmichael
said: “We believe that together, Content and Red And Black have a fantastic opportunity to build another UK-based action fran- chise. We expect this to be the fi rst of a substantial ongoing series.”
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