NEWS
Number 9 counts for Blanchett and Wasikowska
BY WENDY MITCHELL Cate Blanchet t and Mia Wasikowska will star in Number 9 Films’ adaptation of Patricia High- smith’s novel Carol (also known as The Price Of Salt). John Crowley (Intermission, Boy
A) will direct from a script adapted by Phyllis Nagy. Film4 co-devel- oped and co-financed, and the project is scheduled to start shoot- ing in February 2013 in London and New York. HanWay Films is launching
international sales on the film here. Number 9’s Elizabeth Karlsen and Stephen Woolley are producing. The film is about two women in
1950s New York, one a younger aspirational department store worker and the other a wealthy woman trapped in a loveless mar- riage.
Europa sees admissions soar
BY GEOFFREY MACNAB Celebrating its 20th anniversary, Europa Cinemas — the film thea- tre network for the circulation of European and third-country films — released figures just prior to Cannes that revealed the growing success of the network. In 2011, the network registered
close to 65 million admissions, among which 38 million were for European films. “European cinema still holds its own,” EC’s Claude- Eric Poiroux said. “The public remain loyal… it’s an encouraging signal.” Today Europa Cinemas will be holding a Network Cinema meeting in Cannes.
Bona boosts credit facility to $80m
BYLIZ SHACKLETON China’s Bona Film Group has increased its revolving credit facil- ity with Bank of Beijing from $15m to $80m, which it will use over the next two years. Bona CEO Yu Dong said the
facility — the largest so far by a commercial bank in China for film financing — would be used to bankroll the company’s upcoming slate of 10 pictures. These include two 3D productions — Tsui Hark’s Tracks In The Snowy Mountain and The White-Haired Witch, to be pro- duced by Tsui and directed by Jacob Cheung. The NASDAQ-listed company
is also planning to make a big push into upscale TV drama series, starting with a spin-off from Teddy Chen’s action feature Bodyguards And Assassins. The deal was signed in Cannes
Zhang Hua,Zhang Pimin,Yu Dong
on Thursday between Bona CEO Yu Dong and the bank’s Zhang Hua, in the presence of Zhang Pimin, deputy director of SARFT. Bona also recently secured stra-
tegic investment from News Corp, which acquired a 19.9% stake in the company. Yu Dong told Screen it has resulted in “an improvement in our shareholder base, with a strategic investor which is a world-class player with potential synergistic value for the compa- ny’s future development”.
Svensk introduces buyers to Marie Kroyer
BY GEOFFREY MACNAB Svensk’s sales arm SF Interna- tional has sold Bille August’s new feature Marie Kroyer to Greece (Hollywood) and to CIS (Cinema Prestige). The film will be released in Sweden by Svensk this autumn. The film tells the story of the
unhappy marriage between Marie Kroyer and painter PS Kroyer. SF is screening selected scenes
from Lasse Hallstrom’s The Hyp- notist (due for release in Sweden in October), which is still available for the US, Japan, Mexico and one or two small territories. The film,
the first in its series of Lars Kepler adaptations, has already pre-sold throughout most of the rest of the world. Deals closed include Spain
(Aurum), Germany (Prokino), Benelux (Lumiere), UK (Studio- Canal), Australia (EOne), Argen- tina (Alpha), Greece (Rosebud), Israel (Lev), Italy (Bim), China (Edko), Hong Kong (UA) and many others. Meanwhile, Svensk’s documen-
tary Liv & Ingmar is being tar- geted at autumn festivals and is screening in the market.
Warsaw-based New Europe Film Sales has sold Rotterdam selection Now, Forager: A Film About Love And Fungi to the Baltic States (Kaunas IFF) and Poland (Alter Ego). Jason Cortlund and Julia Halperin direct the story of two mushroom foragers whose relationship changes when she seeks regular work. Other deals are in discussions. Also, New Europe has taken on world sales to another Rotterdam title, It Looks Pretty From A Distance by artists Anka and Wilhelm Sasnal.
Wendy Mitchell Rolli returns to the big screen
BY WENDY MITCHELL Finland’s Matila Rohr Productions is partnering with the UK’s Film & Music Entertainment and Den- mark’s Nordisk on the new instal- ment of the Rolli franchise, Rolli And The Golden Key. TrustNordisk will sell the live-
action musical adventure family film. It will shoot later this year and has been backed by the new Finn- ish Film Foundation 50/50 fund. Taavi Vartia will direct the story, which tackles the tricky subject of
Rolli growing up. The Rolli stories began as a TV series in the mid- 1980s. The character was adapted for the big screen starting in 1991 and most recently in 2001 with Olli Saarela’s Rolli And The Wood Sprite. The new film will be made
using sets and some green and blue screen work, as well as some computer-animated animals. Post will be done at Molinare in Lon- don, with a Finnish release next February.
Lumiere animates Phantom sales
BY GEOFFREY MACNAB Benelux distributor Lumiere’s new sales arm, Lumiere International Sales, is at its first Cannes Market with a promo of its first major project, Phantom Boy, the latest animated feature from Jean-Loup Felicioli and Alain Gagnol (A Cat In Paris). Lumiere is co-producing the film and will also release it in
Benelux. Diaphana will be han- dling the French release. The Lumiere sales strategy for
$5m Phantom Boy is to close pre- sales in the run-up to the film’s completion, which will be in 2014. Also on Lumiere’s slate is Peter
Monsaert’s thriller, Offline, and various library titles, among them Dorothée Van Den Berghe’s Meisje.
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