NEWS
Jones recruited to direct K5’s Ian Fleming biopic
BY WENDYMITCHELL Duncan Jones, director of Moon and Source Code, will direct a new film about James Bond author Ian Fleming. Oliver Simon and Daniel Baur
of K5 Film will produce with PalmStar Media Capital’s Kevin Frakes and Liberty Films’ Stuart Fenegan, in association with Jim Young and Fleming’s great- nephew Robert Laycock of the Ian Fleming estate. K5 will handle world sales. Jones is currently casting the
given the full support of Fleming’s estate. The story will explore Fleming’s
history as a naval intelligence officer who planned secret opera- tions before he became an author. “The essential question for me
Duncan Jones
film, which is based on Andrew Lycett’s biography Ian Fleming: The Man Behind James Bond. It is the only biographical film to be
Wu’s Seven Stars finances Killer
Bruno Wu’s Seven Stars Film Studios will finance John Woo and Terence Chang’s English-language remake of Hong Kong action film The Killer. Woo and Chang will produce the
Pictures Dept adopts Dog
BY LIZ SHACKLETON Japanese production and sales outfit Pictures Dept has picked up worldwide rights to Shinji Aoya- ma’s upcoming adaptation of Shinya Tanaka’s novel Dog Eat Dog (Tomogui), about a 17-year-old boy exploring his sexuality. Produced by Naoki Kai’s Style
Jam, the as-yet-untitled film will start shooting this autumn in Japan’s Kyushu region — the same location as Aoyama’s Eureka and Sad Vacation — for Japanese theat- rical release in spring 2013.
$30m film through their Lion Rock Productions, with Lion Rock’s Lori Tilkin as executive producer. John H Lee is set to direct from a script by Josh Campbell. The cast will include
is, ‘Where did Ian Fleming end and Bond begin?’” Jones said in a statement. “Duncan is one of the hottest
directors currently working in film and everyone has been waiting to see what he would do next,” added Simon and Baur.
Chinese actress Sarah Yan Li. Set in Los Angeles, the remake follows a contract killer who falls in love. The financing deal was closed by
Seven Stars’ recently appointed CEO Fred Milstein prior to Cannes. Liz Shackleton
Pasolini paints Beta’s Still Life
BY WENDYMITCHELL Eddie Marsan (War Horse) and Joanne Froggatt will star in Still Life, which starts shooting tomor- row in London and south-east England. Machan director Uberto Pasolini is directing from his own script. Beta is handling world sales on
the project, which will be delivered in early 2013. The film is described as “a
poignant, quixotic tale of life, love and the afterlife”. A council worker (Marsan) is working his final case, notifying the next of kin for some- one who died alone. Pasolini will also produce, with
Christopher Simon and Felix Vossen. The film is a Red Wave/ Embargo Films production in association with Rai Cinema, Cinecitta Studios and Exponen- tial Media.
Buyers addicted to Voltage’s Don Jon
BY JEREMY KAY Ascot Elite has acquired German- speaking rights to Joseph Gordon- Levitt’s directorial debut Don Jon’s Addiction from Voltage Pictures. Deals also closed in Australia and
New Zealand (Roadshow), Portugal (Lusomundo), Scandinavia (Mis. Label), Middle East (Gulf), Latin America (Imagem), Hong Kong (Deltamac), Singapore (Shaw), Tai- wan (SSG), South Korea (Noori), South Africa (Ster Kinekor), CIS (Paradise), Eastern Europe (Blue Sky), Turkey (Kalinos), Canada
Lightning strikes for Jungle, Reich
BY JEREMY KAY Lightning Entertainment has closed a raft of pre-sales on Andrew Traucki’s thriller The Jun- gle and has licensed German and Japanese rights on Australian sci-fi adventure The 25th Reich. Richard Guardian serves as
executive producer and sales consultant for Lightning on The Jungle. Traucki’s production company
Mysterious Light and producer Annmaree J Bell are ramping up for a June shoot in Australia and Indonesia.
The 25th Reich Deals have closed with Metro-
dome in the UK, IFM/Filmways in Australia, Wild Side in France, A Contracorriente in Spain, Eagle in the Middle East and IPA in Thailand.
Stephen Amis’ Australian sci-fi
fantasy adventure film The 25th Reich screens at noon today. Light- ning vice-presidents of interna- tional sales Mathilde Epstein and Alexandra Cocean have licensed rights to Revolver for the UK, Nikkatsu for Japan, Eagle for the Middle East and More Films for German DVD/VoD. Also, Universum has taken all
German-speaking territories to Lightning’s Love And Honor while Eagle has acquired Middle East- ern rights to that film as well as Kikoriki: Team Invincible.
Wide Management has picked up The Skinny (above) and Gulf Stream Under The Iceberg. The Skinny, directed by Patrik-Ian Polk, follows five friends during a tumultuous gay pride march in New York. Jussie Smollett stars. Yevgeny Pashkevich’s Russian- language drama Gulf Stream is based on a novel by Anatole France. Andreas Wiseman
(Remstar), Iceland (SamFilm), Israel (Forum), India (Picture- Works) and Indonesia (PT Amero). For The Necessary Death Of
Charlie Countryman, deals have closed in Portugal (Lusomundo), Latin America (Imagem), Hong Kong (Deltamac), Singapore (Innoform), Middle East (Gulf ), CIS (DT), South Africa (Ster Kine- kor), Taiwan (SSG), China (HGC), Scandinavia (Scanbox), Eastern Europe (Mediapro), Benelux (Belga), Israel (Forum), Greece, Turkey and India (Tanweer).
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