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Hemingway & Fuentes pins down finance
Edward Walson of Sunrider Productions, Andy Garcia and Cargo Entertainment CEO- managing partner Marina Grasic have announced Hemingway & Fuentes has financing in place and will start shooting in January 2013. The Paradigm Motion Picture
Finance Group arranged the financing and will represent domestic rights while Cargo will
Tom Yoda Andy Garcia
handle sales. Garcia will direct and produce through his CineSon label. He will also star as Gregorio Fuentes with Anthony Hopkins, as Ernest Hemingway, and Annette Bening. Jeremy Kay
Venice changes underway
BY MIKE GOODRIDGE Venice Film Festival’s new artistic director Alberto Barbera has already instituted key changes for the 69th festival (August 29-Sep- tember 8). Barbera told Screen in Cannes
that a market infrastructure has been put in place under Pascal Diot for the festival’s official mar- ket, which will run from August 30-September 3 with a base on the first floor of the Excelsior Hotel. Up to 120 buyers will be flown
Woo brings home Beast remake
CORRECTION Popular Tokyo International Film Festival chief Tom Yoda will remain as chairman of the festival until March 2013, not through to the end of the 2013 festival in October as stated in today’s TIFF/ Japan special supplement. Screen apologises for any misunderstanding.
BYLIZ SHACKLETON John Woo is set to direct and pro- duce gangster drama Day Of The Beast, an English-language remake of Seijun Suzuki’s 1963 classic Youth Of The Beast. Woo and Terence Chang’s Lion
Rock Productions will co-produce with Nikkatsu as part of the Jap- anese studio’s 100th anniversary celebrations. Rob Frisbee wrote the script for
the remake, which will be pro- duced by Woo, Chang and Nikkatsu president Naoki Sato. Lori Tilkin, Aki Sugihara and
Yoko Asakura are executive pro- ducing. Set in Tokyo, The Day Of The
Beast follows a western outsider who becomes embroiled in a global turf war between a new breed of Japanese yakuza and Russian mobsters.
Pathé sells out Name in Europe
BY MELANIE GOODFELLOW Pathé International has been rack- ing up sales on French hit comedy What’s In A Name? (Le Prénom). Launched by Pathé at Berlin,
the picture has sold to Belgium (Alternative), Greece (Filmtrade), Italy (Eagle), Portugal (Lusu- mondo), Spain (Vertigo), Ger- many (Warner Bros), Netherlands (Lumiere), Canada (Seville Pic- tures), Scandinavia (Svensk), Bra- zil (Esfera), Australia (Madman), Israel (Orlando) and Morocco (Golden Films).
Pathé International’s Paris-
based sales chief Muriel Sauzay is hoping to close a number of East- ern European and Asian territo- ries during Cannes. Patrick Bruel stars as a success-
ful forty-something and first-time father who plans a controversial name for the baby. Upcoming pictures on the
Pathé slate include Denis Ville- neuve’s An Enemy; Christophe Gans’ Beauty And The Beast (La Belle Et La Bete); Nicolas Bary’s The Scapegoat (Au Bonheur Des
Ogres), starring Bérénice Bejo in her first big role since The Artist; and the recently completed Happi- ness Never Comes Alone (Un Bon- heur N’Arrive Jamais Seul). Sauzay revealed that Gérard
Depardieu has signed to star in Beauty And The Beast alongside Léa Seydoux and Vincent Cassel. An Enemy is due to start shoot-
ing on May 22. Pathé announced on the eve of the market that Mélanie Laurent, Sarah Gordon and Isabella Rossellini have joined Jake Gyllenhaal in the cast.
Koch Media has picked up all German-speaking rights to AV Pictures’ road-trip thriller The Liability starring Tim Roth. Craig Viveiros’ film, which is having its market debut screening, follows a veteran assassin who is paired with an eager young driver (Jack O’Connell) on a long-distance hit job. Peter Mullan and Talulah Riley also star.
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in for the market for four nights to boost business at Venice, while a digital video library with up to 45 stations will offer screening facili- ties. Barbera is also cutting the
number of films in the official selection to a maximum of 18 films in competition, 18 in the Orizzonti programme, 12-15 in out-of-competition or special screening slots and 20-25 restored or classic titles. This year restorations of eight films which have played through
the first 80 years of Venice history will be screened (while the festival is celebrating its 69th edition, it started in 1932). Barbera will make the programme announce- ment on July 26. Meanwhile Barbera, who built up the Torino Film Lab while he was head of the National Cinema Museum in Turin, is working with Film Lab director Savina Neirotti on a project for year-round film talent and project development activities in Venice. » Full story on
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Little shows off its Sexy Evil Genius
BY JEREMYKAY The Little Film Company will be showing footage here on its new thriller Sexy Evil Genius starring Buffy The Vampire veterans Seth Green and Michelle Trachtenberg, alongside Anthony Michael Hall. Shawn Piller directs from a
screenplay by Scott Lew about an unpredictable and vengeful woman who lures several ex- boyfriends to a bar in downtown
Los Angeles for a night of mind games and retribution. Katee Sackhoff, William Bald-
win and Harold Perrineau round out the cast. Lloyd Segan of Piller/Segan/
Shepherd produces with David W Higgins of Launchpad Prod- uctions and Sobini Films chief Mark Amin. Sobini COO and pres- ident Cami Winikoff serves as executive producer.
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