NEWS
Flanders kicks off regional film fund
BY GEOFFREY MACNAB In a major boost to film-making in Benelux, the Flanders government is to create a new $6.3m regional film fund. The Screen Flanders Fund, as it
is to be called, has been set up with the express view of attracting more international productions and co-productions to Flanders. What is likely to make the new
fund especially attractive to inter- national film-makers is the fact it can be combined with the Belgian tax shelter. “The launch of Screen Flanders
opens up a range of new opportu- nities for producers coming to shop in Belgium for tax shelter reasons,” noted Pierre Drouot, CEO of the Flanders Audiovisual Fund. “Screen Flanders funding can
be combined with tax-shelter financing [though the tax shelter is not a prerequisite], as well as with other already existing forms of support.”
Veteran Danon launches Romy Schneider biopic
BY MELANIE GOODFELLOW Veteran French producer Raymond Danon is in Cannes to finalise the finance on his long-gestating fea- ture Romy, about the life of tragic actress Romy Schneider. The picture, scheduled to start shooting in March 2013, will focus on Schneider’s struggle against the odds to make her last film, 1982’s The Passerby (La Passante Du Sans-Souci). Jean-Claude Carriere is writing
the screenplay. Director and adventurer Géraldine Danon will direct. Casting agent Olivier Car- bone is finalising the actress to play Schneider. Raymond Danon, who produces under the Lira Pro- ductions banner, says the budget for the French-language project will be in the region of $10.2m. “I don’t want to make a classic
biopic spanning her whole life but rather capture her through the story behind the making of The Pas- serby,” explains prolific producer
CANNES BRIEFS
Linder flies to Cuba Dixie Linder has been named joint head of the film and television at Cuba Pictures, alongside Tally Garner. The company’s credits include Critics’ Week opener Broken. Linder is a veteran of Working Title, Sarah Radclyffe Productions and Little Bird and has just produced Trap For Cinderella.
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Danon, who has taken a banner ad across the front of the Majestic Hotel to promote the project. “She was absolutely deter-
mined to make it, even though in the backdrop, she was dealing with health problems and the death of her son… through this story her spirit and charisma
shines through,” Danon says. Sch- neider died of a heart attack shortly after completing the film. Danon has produced more than
100 films in his 50-year career, including Bertrand Tavernier’s The Clockmaker Of St Paul and Alain Delon vehicles such as The Gypsy and L’Homme Pressé.
2Pilots backs Temple Cologne-based production outfit 2Pilots has joined Julien Temple’s music documentary feature Children Of The Revolution: This Is Rio, which begins shooting in mid-September (Rapid Eye will release in German cinemas; Ealing Metro sells). Also, TV Zero has joined F&ME’s Street Kids United II to shoot before the 2014 World Cup.
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Samuel Goldwyn goes back to Grassroots Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired US rights to Stephen Gyllenhaal’s character-driven comedy Grassroots. Intandem represents international sales.
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