CANNES BRIEFS
Abramovic tours Europe Dogwoof Global has sold Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present to Poland (New Horizons), Germany (NFP), France (Pretty Pictures), Switzerland (Look Now) and Austria (Poly Film).
VVS strikes for Ten VVS has picked up Canadian rights to the Arnold Schwarzenegger thriller Ten in a deal with QED International.
Gens to make horror trio French genre master Xavier Gens has come on board to produce the trio of films recently announced by BlancBiehn Productions and UK-based Aspect Film. Gens will produce the series with Michael Biehn, kicking off with The Farm.
Thompson promoted at Entertainment One Lara Thompson has been promoted to the newly created role of EVP of filmed entertainment at Entertainment One, effective immediately. She is based in Los Angeles.
Benelux buyers make Ties
BY GEOFFREY MACNAB Benelux buyers have struck a number of deals for titles being sold at Cannes. Lumiere has taken rights to
Guillaume Canet’s Blood Ties, sold by Wild Bunch. The company is also releasing Jacques Audiard’s Rust & Bone (Celluloid Dreams) and director-writer Cristian Mun- giu’s Beyond The Hills. Other titles in official selection
that Lumiere has taken include documentary Journal De France,
The Suicide Shop (both Wild Bunch) and Catherine Corsini’s Three Worlds (Pyramide). Imagine has snapped up Sylvie
Verheyde’s Un Certain Regard title Confession Of A Child Of The Century, starring Pete Doherty and Charlotte Gainsbourg. Cinéart has picked up Holy
Motors by Leos Carax (sold by Wild Bunch), Gilles Bourdos’ Renoir (also Wild Bunch), Michael Haneke’s Love (Les Films Du Losange), Alain Resnais’ You
Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet! (sold by StudioCanal), Walter Salles’ On The Road (MK2), Fatih Akin’s Pol- luting Paradise (The Match Fac- tory) and Ernest & Celestine (StudioCanal). The company will also be releasing Ken Loach’s The Angels’ Share. Meanwhile, ABC Distribution
has taken Laurence Anyways by Xavier Dolan (sold by MK2), Ber- nardo Bertolucci’s Me And You (HanWay) and Violeta Went To Heaven (Latido).
High Point Films has sold US rights for Jason Ford’s horror Community to Lionsgate’s genre label, Grindstone Entertainment. Lionsgate Home Entertainment will release across all media platforms. The deal was struck by High Point’s director of sales and marketing Elisar Cabrera and Grindstone’s head of acquisitions Stan Wertlieb. Darren Kent, Jemma Dallender and Elliott Jordan star in the film, which was also written by Ford.
Sarah Cooper
Longstocking to get Potter treatment
BY JORN ROSSING JENSEN Efraim Longstocking, father of the world’s strongest girl Pippi Long- stocking, will return to the screen in Efraim Longstocking And The Cannibal Princess, based on two books by the Swedish author Joakim Langer, adapted by Daniel Fridell and Ulf Stark, and approved by Saltkrakan, which holds rights to Astrid Lindgren’s Swedish classics. In Cannes today, Swedish pro-
ducer Mirijam Johansson of Wanted Pictures will announce the project — “a kind of Harry Pot- ter with a Swedish touch” — hav- ing just signed the agreement with the Lindgren estate to use the Longstocking name and story. She is currently negotiating with a top US scriptwriter. The Efraim character was
inspired by Carl Pettersson, a Swedish sailor who became king of Tabar Island after marrying the chieftain’s daughter. The Pippi sto- ries were invented in the 1930s.
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n 10 Screen International at Cannes May 18, 2012
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