NEWS
Atrix marries with Davaa
on Husband Beatrix Wesle’s Atrix Films has come on board to handle sales on the latest feature from acclaimed Mongolian film-maker Byambasuren Davaa, who directed the Oscar-nominated and multi award-winning documentaryThe Story Of The Weeping Camel. The project, developed under
the title How Amar Found A Husband For His Mother, is shooting in 2012 and 2013. The film is supported by
German funding sources BKM and FFA Berlin. The story follows a boy called
Amar in the wake of the car accident that left him blind and killed his father. Amar’s mother Zaya is struggling to run her husband’s garage on her own, and he and his friend Bataa attempt to solve the problem by finding her a new husband.
Geoffrey Macnab Cage eyes up Stealth’s City
BY ANDREAS WISEMAN Nicolas Cage and Mickey Rourke are in talks to star in Marble City, which Stealth Media is selling here in Cannes. Ryuhei Kitamura’s thriller,
about a prisoner seeking out those who put him inside, is scheduled to shoot from August. Kitamura’s credits include No One Lives, The Midnight Meat Train and Azumi. Stealth also comes to Cannes
with sci-fi thriller Beyond Apollo from producers Matt Reeves and Aaron Ockman.
has to explain why his mission was aborted and his captain is missing. Michael Grodner will direct the project, which is slated to shoot in autumn 2012. Action-adventure The Blind
Nicolas Cage Beyond Apollo stars Scott
Speedman, Ali Larter and Bill Pullman in the story of an astro- naut suspected of murder, who
Bastard Club, currently in pre- production, has Rourke, Rosario Dawson and Robin Williams attached while other market debuts include Alaska-set action thriller 30 Below, completed UK horror The Tapes and comedy The Magnificent Eleven, co-written by Irvine Welsh.
Matthias Schoenaerts in talks for Treatment
BY GEOFFREYMACNAB Fast-rising Belgian actor Matthias Schoenaerts (Bullhead, Rust & Bone) is in talks to star in thriller The Treatment. To be directed by Hans Herbots,
the film is an adaptation of Mo Hayder’s international bestseller, a dark thriller. Eyeworks Belgium is producing. Also new on Eyeworks’ slate is Marina, the latest feature from
Matthias Schoenaerts
Oscar-nominated director Stijn Coninx, about Italian migration to Belgium after the Second World
Verhoeven’s Force gets $2m boost
BY GEOFFREYMACNAB Paul Verhoeven’s passion project The Hidden Force (De Stille Kracht) was given a major boost this week as it received $2.3m (¤1.8m) through the Dutch Telescoop initiative. The scheme, from the Nether-
lands Film Fund, the CoBo Fund, the Dutch Ministry of Culture and Dutch broadcasters, aims to fast- track selected films with the potential to reach a mass audience. The Hidden Force reunites Ver- hoeven with his Black Book pro-
Maltha will also be showing
potential partners the latest ver- sion of the screenplay, by Gerard Soeteman. It has yet to be deter- mined whether or not the film will shoot in English or Dutch. Set in Java, then part of the
Paul Verhoeven
ducer San Fu Maltha of Fu Works. Maltha will be in Cannes this week looking for Belgian tax shelter financing for the $12.7m film, based on the 1900 novel by Louis Couperus.
Dutch East Indies, the story pitches the supernatural beliefs of the local population against their colonial rulers. Another Telescoop-backed
project is Wiplala by Vincent Bal, an adaptation of the children’s book by Annie MG Schmidt.
Soda Pictures and Sony Pictures Entertainment have picked up romantic thriller Comes A Bright Day from Intandem for UK theatrical and home entertainment release, respectively. Craig Roberts, Timothy Spall, Imogen Poots and Kevin McKidd star in the story of a jewellery heist gone wrong. Simon Aboud directs and Ipso Facto’s Christine Alderson produces the film, which had its world premiere at the Berlinale. The UK premiere is set for June 26.
Andreas Wiseman
War. The story is centred on the Italian-born singer-songwriter, Rocco Granata, who moved to Belgium as a child. The $3.5m feature is a co-pro-
duction with the Dardenne broth- ers’ outfit Les Films du Fleuve and Orisa in Italy. The VAF has also contributed funding. A sales agent will be appointed
soon and the film will shoot later this year.
Savage strikes on Roskam’s The Faithful
BY GEOFFREYMACNAB Belgian production outfit Savage Film is working on Bullhead direc- tor Michael R Roskam’s new film, The Faithful (La Fidele). The film noir is set against gang warfare in Brussels in the late 1980s. Savage is also backing the
directing debut of Bullhead actor Matthias Schoenaerts (see left), the feature documentary Franky. Other films include Equator by
Hans Van Nuffel, a thriller set in the Congo and South Africa, where the daughter of a Belgian busi- nessman tries to discover how her father died; road movie The Ardennes, to be directed by first- timer Robin Pront; and Bram Van Paesschen’s documentary Welcome To Chocolate City. And the company is close to
closing f inance for Wim Vandekeybus’ long-gestating Gal- loping Mind; Douglas Boswell’s The Labyrinth and Pieter-Jan De Pue’s The Land Of The Enlightened.
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