FRIDAY, MAY 18 2012
TODAY Sylvain Chomet
www.ScreenDaily.com
Reilly chills for Larsen’s Ice Princess
BY MELANIE GOODFELLOW UK actress Kelly Reilly has signed to star in Danish director Birger Larsen’s English-language adapta- tion of Camilla Lackberg’s thriller The Ice Princess, the first in her series of Fjallbacka books. TF1 International is launching
pre-sales this market. Larsen, director of hit Danish TV series The Killing, will be in Cannes next week to present the project. It is one of three high-profile
productions that have been launched by TF1 International’s new sales chief Sabine Chemaly. The others are Christian Carion’s Letter From An Unknown Woman (Lettre D’Une Inconnue) and Philippe Claudel’s Avant L’Hiver. Cillian Murphy has recently
signed to co-star opposite Mélanie Laurent in Letter, Carion’s adapta- tion of the Stefan Zweig story. The Ice Princess, being produced
by UGC Images and Les Films du 24, will shoot in February and March 2013. UGC Distribution will handle its release in France. Reilly will play a woman who
investigates the murder of a child- hood friend. Lackberg’s books have sold
more than 7 million copies in 45 countries. TrustNordisk is han- dling the Swedish-language film project on the same property. Chemaly took over as executive
vice-president of sales at TF1 Inter- national just before Cannes, fol- lowing the departure of Nicholas Eschbach. Chemaly, who returns to TF1 International, was the com- mercial director at Mipcom imme- diately prior to taking up the post.
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Williams, Kunis move to Brooklyn for Landscape
BY JEREMY KAY Robin Williams, Mila Kunis and Peter Dinklage will star in comedy The Angriest Man In Brooklyn, which Cargo Entertainment sales chief Mark Lindsay is introducing to buyers here. Landscape Entertainment and
Force Majeure are producing the fi lm, the story of a doctor who mis- takenly tells an obnoxious patient he has 90 minutes to live.
Brooklyn, New York. WME Global packaged the project and repre- sents US rights. Phil Alden Robinson, whose
Robin Williams Mila Kunis Melissa Leo and James Earl
Jones will also star, and production is set to kick off in September in
credits include Field Of Dreams, will direct from a screenplay by Red Dog writer Daniel Taplitz. Landscape’s Bob Cooper and
Tyler Mitchell are producing with Daniel J Walker. Jean-Charles Levy serves as executive producer.
Exclusive Media and Cross Creek Walk together
BY JEREMY KAY Exclusive Media and Cross Creek Pictures have formalised their rela- tionship with a three-year deal to jointly finance, produce and develop at least two features a year budgeted at up to $65m. The films are guaranteed US
theatrical distribution through Universal following Cross Creek’s distribution deal with the studio.
First to go in February 2013 in New York will be Lawrence Block adaptation A Walk Among The Tombstones starring Liam Neeson. Exclusive Media will retain
international sales rights and will introduce here. The deal follows previous collaborations such as Rush and The Woman In Black. The arrangement grants the partners first right to co-finance
Hubert Boesl
and co-produce projects outside those set for the Universal pipeline. In addition they are establishing a six-fi gure revolving development fund to source extra properties. Exclusive COO Marc Schipper
negotiated the development and production deal with Cross Creek’s Brian Oliver. Exclusive’s Tobin Armbrust will oversee the new relationship.
Cast revs up for thriller Driven
BY FIONNUALA HALLIGAN Damian Lewis, Jessica Brown Findlay, Peter Capaldi and Iwan Rheon will star in actor-writer- director David Leon’s debut feature Driven. Production on the crime thriller
Marion Cotillard and Matthias Schoenaerts at the photo call for Jacques Audiard’s Competition title Rust And Bone. The actors were winning raves for their performances. See Screen’s review, page 16.
New film Desert Dancer will tell the story of Afshin Ghaffarian, who used his passion for dance to protest against the injustices of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Actors Freida Pinto and Reece Ritchie are in Cannes today to announce the film alongside Ghaffarian.
Freida Pinto dances into Desert UK production outfit May 13
Films is joining forces with Matador Pictures, Rostik Investment Group and 6 Sales on the project, in which Pinto and Ritchie will star alongside Alfred Molina. Desert Dancer is the directorial debut of Richard Raymond, who
produced 2009’s Heartless. The screenplay is by Jon Croker, who is also writing Hammer’s follow-up to The Woman In Black. Principal photography is
scheduled to begin this summer in Jordan and Ankara, Turkey. 6 Sales is handling international sales; CAA is handling domestic. Geoffrey Macnab
is set to start in and around New- castle and Northumberland in early 2013. Driven will be produced by Daisy Allsop with the photogra- pher Rankin attached as executive producer alongside Gareth Wiley. German production company GFF will co-produce. The fi lm will be made through
Leon’s production company Zeit- geist Films. Leon, currently starring in ITV’s
Vera, took the award for best narra- tive feature at last year’s Tribeca Film Festival with his co-directed short fi lm Man And Boy. Lewis is hot off Homeland and
Downton Abbey’s Brown Findlay will star in Winter’s Tale.
NEWS Back to Belleville Sylvain Chomet reteams with Les Armateurs for a prequel to The Triplets Of Belleville. » Page 8
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BREAKING NEWS Reel Suspects has picked up erotic drama Day And Night and sold to Shapira Film in Israel. Reel also sold The Year Dolly Parton Was My Mom to Australia/New Zealand (Accent) and South Korea (AVA), and adult shorts title X-Femmes to Netherlands (Living Colours).
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uMedia goes to Universal War
BY GEOFFREY MACNAB Belgian mini-studio uMedia, which has backed fi lms including The Artist, is developing an adap- tation of Denis Bajram’s best-sell- ing graphic novel Universal War One. The live-action sci-fi feature will
have a budget around $40m. The fi lm follows a band of soldiers on a deadly mission into enemy terri- tory in deep space. The company is also developing
Maelstrom, billed as “a Se7en meets Memento thriller” about a writer who tracks a serial killer. La Vie En Rose’s Isabelle Sobelman and Stéphane Marchand are writing and the project will go out to “heavyweight” directors. Also on uMedia’s slate is thriller
The Scent Of Adam, adapted from the novel by Jean-Christophe Rufi n. Since 2004, uMedia has co- fi nanced more than 240 projects.
THRILLS IN LOS ANGELES John Hillcoat, whose Lawless premieres in Competition tomorrow, is lining up an autumn shoot on the Los Angeles-set contemporary crime thriller Triple Nine. Anonymous Content is backing the project based on an original screenplay. Hillcoat will reunite with his Lawless star Shia LaBeouf. Hillcoat said: “It will be a bit in the tradition of Sidney Lumet and Michael Mann.”
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