NEWS CANNES BRIEFS
Jinga adds thriller After UK genre specialist Jinga Films has added Ryan Smith’s completed thriller After to its Cannes line-up. Also, Jinga has closed deals on horror Rites Of Spring to German- speaking territories (I-On) and Korea (Komabshemniba). Gnaw sold to Manadala for Australia/NZ.
Power hungry for Bankside library deal London-based Power has struck an exclusive deal to handle the 21-film library of Bankside Films. Power will also get a first-look deal to represent all rights worldwide for around five to eight additional titles per year as they are added to the library. The films include The Situation, Lou and Bran Nue Dae.
Intramovies books into A Flat For Three Rome-based Intramovies has picked up international sales rights on A Flat For Three, Carlo Verdone’s comedy set against the backdrop of the global recession. It stars Verdone and Pierfrancesco Favino and will here screen in the market.
Sapphires to shine at Melbourne festival Melbourne International Film Festival (August 2-19) will open with The Sapphires. The film is showing as a Midnight Screening in Cannes on Saturday (May 19). The Weinstein Company has bought multiple territories.
Tiberius strikes for five Tiberius Film has acquired a number of films for German release ahead of Cannes. They include The Side Effect (Celluloid Nightmares), Java Heat (IM Global), The To Do List (Lionsgate), Paris Countdown (Gaumont) and The Aggression Scale (Epic).
Hawke in talks to star in UK-Georgia project Epic
BY MARTIN BLANEY Tbilisi-based EFP Producer on the Move Vladimer Katcharava of 20 Steps Productions will partner with the UK’s Film & Music Enter- tainment for the first co-produc- tion between the UK and Georgia, Epic. Epic is described as a gentle
black comedy about a confused, washed-up US director who is invited to make a national epic in an obscure republic in the Cauca- sus. Ethan Hawke is being lined up to star as the film-maker, Chris- topher Lambert as the film’s crazed star and Chulpan Khama- tova as the beauty and brains. Ben Hopkins and Pawel Pawlikowski wrote the screenplay. 20 Steps Productions will also
have Russian producer Artem Vasiliev’s Metrafilms and the French outfit Haut et Court Pro- ductions on board as partners.
Ethan Hawke Meanwhile, Tamara Tatishvili,
head of the Georgian National Film Center (GNFC), revealed to Screen that her institution has allo- cated almost $1.27m in produc- tion as part of this year’s call for projects. A total of $292,000 was paid
out to two European co-produc- tions with minority Georgian par- ticipation. Teona Grenade’s $1.27m feature debut Brother
(Dzma) is being produced by Marie-Pierre Macia and Juliette Lepoutre’s MPM Film with Zurab Maghalashvili’s Cinetech, while Serge Avedikian’s $2.55m Parad- janov about the legendary Arme- nian-born film-maker will be produced by Tbilisi-based Gemini with Ukrainian producer/co- director Olena Fetisova’s Interfilm, France’s Araprod, Armenia’s Para- dise and Norway’s Barentsfilm.
Booming market adds Doc Corner
BY MELANIE GOODFELLOW The Cannes Market has launched a series of initiatives aimed at sup- porting the burgeoning documen- tary market. “We have noticed more and
more documentaries are being sold at the market,” Marché execu- tive director Jérome Paillard told Screen. “Out of some 4,600 titles on offer at the market, 14% of them will be documentaries, up from 11% last year and 10% in 2010,” he added. The market has created a dedi- cated space called Doc Corner,
where buyers can screen some 350 doc titles, and is also organising a programme of meetings. The meetings will kick off with
Thom Powers, documentary pro- grammer for Toronto. Other exec- utives participating include Peter Jäger of Autlook, Andy Whittaker and Anna Sissons of Dogwoof, and Andrew Mer of SnagFilms. Representatives of IDFA, CPH:
DOX, Sunny Side of the Doc and Visions du Réel will also attend. Paillard said that overall the
market has registered a 9% jump in individual participants this
year, to some 1,100 attendees. “What’s interesting is the high number of producers attending, accounting for about 40% of the participants. It’s a sign people come here not just for finished films but to find projects and finance too,” said Paillard. The market’s Producers Net-
work programme also kicks off on Thursday with round-tables wel- coming 100 professionals. Meanwhile, the three-day Pro-
ducers Workshop has doubled participants to 300 in its second year.
Louis Koo
Universe finds soldiers for its Cartel War
BYLIZ SHACKLETON Hong Kong’s Universe Films has unveiled the cast for Benny Chan’s upcoming action film The Cartel War, which will star Louis Koo, Lau Ching Wan and Nick Cheung. Koo will play a police captain in
Hong Kong’s narcotics division who suspects the drugs lord he is investigating might be a former cop (Cheung) whom everyone believes is dead. Lau plays a former police chief who helps him with the case. The $16m film is scheduled to
start shooting in the fourth quar- ter of this year for release over Chi- nese New Year 2014. Koo and Lau also star in Uni-
verse’s upcoming 3D fire-fighting action movie, Inferno, to be directed by the Pang brothers. Angelica Lee is also starring in the $18m film, which is scheduled to start shooting in July for release in December 2013. Oxide Pang is also directing
$5m suspense action film Conspir- ators in Malaysia and mainland China, with delivery expected towards the end of this year. Aaron Kwok and Nick Cheung star in the film, which is a spin-off from Pang’s 2007 The Detective C+. Meanwhile Danny Pang’s cop
thriller Fairy Tale Killer, starring Lau Ching Wan and Elanne Kwong, opened in Hong Kong on May 10.
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