108 steppes to Myn Bala epic
BYLIZSHACKLETON Toronto-based sales and distribu- tion outfit 108 Media has picked up international rights to Kazakh epic Myn Bala: Warriors Of The Steppe and will start sales here. Akan Satayev’s $10m action
adventure film was released in its native Kazakhstan on May 3, and grossed $1m on its opening week- end, breaking the record set by Satayev’s Racketeer in 2007. The film focuses on teenage
rebels who fight against the fero- cious Mongols occupying their country in the 1720s. The deal with 108 Media was
negotiated by the company’s presi- dent Nathaniel Warsh, CEO Abhi Rastogi and producer Aliya Uvalzhanova, whose New Film Format produced the film with Kazakhfilm Studio president Yer- mek Amanshayev. The film screens in Cannes market tomorrow. “This is such an ambitious epic
with flawless production values, we’re proud to bring the picture to the international marketplace,” said Warsh.
Other Angle catches Wolf
BY MELANIE GOODFELLOW Paris-based sales company Other Angle has picked up French ensemble comedy The Big Bad Wolf (Le Grand Mechant Loup), a modern-day reworking of the chil- dren’s fairy-tale. French stars Kad Merad, Benoit
Poelvoorde and Fred Testot will play three thirty-something broth- ers whose lives fall apart when their mother falls ill. Valérie Donzelli, Zabou Breitman and Charlotte Lebon are also attached.
The film, produced by Eric and
Nicolas Altmayer of Mandarin Cinéma, is a liberal remake of the Canadian hit Les Trois Petits Cochons. Other projects include Cyril
Cohen’s adaptation of Israeli writer Alona Kimhi’s bestseller Weeping Susannah, about a neu- rotic 33-year-old woman living with her ageing mother in Tel Aviv. Marina Fois has signed up to
star opposite Gael Garcia Bernal in the film, which is produced by
Christine Gozlan of Thelma Films and Emmanuel Murat of Barbe- cue Films. Other Angle’s packed slate of
feelgood movies also includes the first films starring Omar Sy since Intouchables: Olivier Dahan’s The Dream Team (Les Seigneurs), about a group of jaded football stars, which will world-premiere in the market; and On The Other Side Of The Tracks (De L’Autre Coté Du Pér- iph), for which the company has a first promo reel.
Colleen Seldin’s Locomotive Entertainment Group is handling all rights outside the US and Mexico to Dean Wright’s For Greater Glory (pictured). Andy Garcia, Eva Longoria, Peter O’Toole and Oscar Isaac lead the cast of the epic set during the 1920s Cristero War, an uprising against the Mexican government. The film has already been successfully launched in Mexico, and Arc Entertainment will release in the US on June 1. It screens here in the market.
Wendy Mitchell Freida Pinto
The Works sets foot in Congo
BY ANDREAS WISEMAN The Works International has boarded Nick Broomfield’s Congo- set love story The Catastrophist, which is set to star Dan Stevens from hit UK TV series Downton Abbey, Freida Pinto and singer/ actor K’naan (Cosmopolis). Film- ing is due to start in Tanzania in February 2013. Broomfield and Marc Hoeferlin
wrote the script, which is based on Ronan Bennett’s 1960, Belgian Congo-set novel of the same name about the love affair between a jaded writer and a young idealistic journalist during civil war. Sarah Curtis (The Awakening, Hysteria) produces.
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