NEWS
Leth,Mikkelsen hit the road with DT’sMove On
BYWENDYMITCHELL Asger Leth (Man On A Ledge) will direct a new film project, Move On, which is backed by Deutsche Tele- kom (DT) and invites audience participation in the film-making process. Mads Mikkelsen, who is here
in Cannes with The Hunt, is con- firmed to star in the road movie, which is written by acclaimed UK screenwriter Matt Greenhalgh (Nowhere Boy, Control). The project will film in eight
different European countries dur- ing a hectic 30-day shoot, and will involve the participation of audi- ences and film fans from 11 coun- tries. “I thought the project was fas-
cinating. I jumped in with a fresh mind,” Leth told Screen of Move
CANNES BRIEFS
Edgerton books Felony Joel Edgerton will star in the thriller Felony, which The Solution Entertainment Group is selling.
Coogan dances with Northern Soul Steve Coogan has joined leads Josh Whitehouse and Elliot James Langridge on Northern Soul, which The Little Film Company is selling.
CORRECTION Nu Image’s crime thriller Homefront will be directed by Gary Fleder, based on Sylvester Stallone’s adapted screenplay of a novel by Chuck Logan. Stallone is also a producer.
want to create an iconic character and have fun with it.” The story starts with Mikkelsen’s character, a flawed hero, stepping off a boat in Rotterdam before going across Europe to deliver a mysterious sil- ver suitcase. Leth does reveal the character “might encounter a woman or two”. Leth will shoot Move On on the
Asger Leth
On, which is being financed entirely by DT. “Their [DT’s] attitude was
really refreshing. They said, ‘We’re not going to sit on you to tell you what you can and can’t do.’ There’s no pressure to show the product.” Most of the storyline is under wraps for now, but Leth says: “We
MCC buys stake in Block’s QED
BY JEREMY KAY Media Content Capital (MCC) has taken a stake in Bill Block’s QED International in an eight-figure deal. Block has sold a portion in a deal that will enable him to grow the development, production and financing business, and boost the agency side of his sales operation by paying minimum guarantees for more projects. QED intends to produce and/or
acquire four to seven features a year, and grow its infrastructure to handle additional third-party titles for sales and distribution. The slate includes Arnold Sch- warzenegger action-thriller Ten.
Arri Alexa camera and draw on his documentary experience on films such as Ghosts Of Cité Soleil. Each country will comprise one ‘episode’ that will average five to eight min- utes long. A combined long-form version of the project will pull all those episodes together with a launch planned for September. More information about the
project can be found at move-on-
film.com.
Broken cracks French deal duo
BYMELANIE GOODFELLOW Wild Bunch has sold UK director Rufus Norris’ Critics’ Week opener Broken to a French con- sortium of Le Pacte and Why Not Productions. Head of Paris-based Why Not
Productions, Pascal Caucheteux, who produced Competition title Rust & Bone, is believed to be interested in working with Norris in the future.
Broken Broken, theatre director Norris’
debut feature film, follows an 11-year-old girl who witnesses a violent attack.
Buyers open M-Line Doomsday Book
BYLIZSHACKLETON Korea’s M-Line Distribution has sold its high-concept sci-fi drama Doomsday Book to Well Go USA for North America and Splendid for Benelux and Germany. The three-part film, co-directed
by Kim Jee-woon (I Saw The Devil) and Yim Pil-sung (Antarctic Journal), tells three stories of human self-destruction in the high-tech era. M-Line also pre-
sold the film to Turkey’s Bir Film. In addition, the Korean distrib-
utor has sold Yu Ha’s action thriller Howling to Japan’s BMS and Rainbow Media for Singa- pore, Malaysia, Indonesia and Brunei; and My Secret Partner to Hong Kong’s Sundream and Japan’s E-motion; as well as Korean romantic comedy Two Weddings And A Funeral to Viet- nam’s Velo Media.
HanWay has hot docs
BY ANDREAS WISEMAN HanWay Select has closed a slew of doc deals, including a US deal with Music Box for Mark Cousins’ The Story Of Film, as well as a host of sales for Robert Weide’s Woody Allen: A Documentary and Laurent Bouzereau’s Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir. The Allen doc, screening today
TrustNordisk has sold its drama Call Girl to Pretty Pictures for French distribution. The political thriller, starring Pernilla August, is directed by Mikael Marcimain. Pretty Pictures has previously worked with TrustNordisk on Thomas Vinterberg’s Competition title The Hunt.
Geoffrey Macnab
in Cannes Classics, has sold to France (Memento), Spain (Ver- sus), UK (Soda), Switzerland (Agora), Russia (Yota Play), Latin America (Polar Star) and Japan (Cinema Rise). Polanski, which also runs today
as a special screening, has sold to Australia (Shock), Hong Kong
(Edko) and Latin America (Polar Star). Pathé has France, Lucky Red has Italy and Studio Babelsberg has Germany. Anton Corbijn: Inside Out,
directed by Klaartje Quirijns — about the Dutch-born photogra- pher and film-maker — has gone to Australia (Shock) and Hong Kong (Edko), while Diana Vree- land: The Eye Has To Travel jour- neys to Italy (Feltrinelli) and Hong Kong (Edko). The Story Of Film also sold to
Switzerland (Praesens), Hong Kong (Edko), Czech Republic (Film Europe), Mexico (Canal 22), Sweden (SVT), Finland (YLE) and Norway (NRK).
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