NEWS CANNES BRIEFS
TWC moves into Tobruk The Weinstein Company has picked up US rights for Bernard- Henri Lévy’s documentary about the 2011 Libyan revolution, The Oath Of Tobruk. The feature- length doc is sold internationally by Rezo Films.
Guillotines slice deals Hong Kong-based We Distribution has sealed further deals on Andrew Lau’s action thriller The Guillotines, which has gone to the UK (Metrodome), French-speaking Europe (AB Droits), Italy (Minerva Pictures) and India (Weg).
Hick travels to Australia Content has sold Australia/ New Zealand rights for Hick to Transmission, which plans an autumn release. Derick Martini’s coming-of-age story, starring Chloe Grace Moretz and Blake Lively, premiered in Toronto.
Banks matters for Margie Elizabeth Banks will star in Alan Ball’s dark comedy What’s The Matter With Margie?, and Myriad Pictures is introducing the project to buyers here. UTA Independent packaged the film and represents US rights.
Cleese hunts elephants John Cleese will join Sasson Gabai and Moni Moshonov on the cast of Hunting Elephants, which Bleiberg Entertainment is co-funding with United King and selling in Cannes.
Fry and Laurie stir ghost Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie will reunite among the voice cast of The Canterville Ghost, a new CG animated feature adapted from the Oscar Wilde story.
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Buska crowned by Kaurismaki
BY JORNROSSING JENSEN Rising Swedish actress Malin Buska has been crowned to take the lead in Finnish director Mika Kaurismaki’s Kristina Of Sweden, stepping into the shoes of Greta Garbo, who played the part in the 1933 film Queen Christina. “I love Garbo, she was one of
the greatest — but I don’t base my interpretation on her,” Buska told Screen of the 17th-century queen. “I let Kristina enter my body and occupy my brain and my soul. This role is my dream.” Kaurismaki, whose latest film,
Road North, is screening for buy- ers, will today unveil the $10m project, his first period piece, which will start shooting in Sweden in February. Michel Marc Bouchard wrote the script, and partners are Sweden’s Anagram Film, his own
Malin Buska
Marianna Films (Finland), Cana- da’s Triptych Media, Germany’s Starhaus and France’s Arsam. “Garbo actually said she wanted
to make a more truthful film about Kristina; I hope my film will be closer to what she wanted, a real depiction of Kristina’s extraordi- nary journey,” added Kaurismaki. Buska’s Happy End role earned
her a Rising Star tag at the Stock- holm International Film Festival.
Schoenaerts cops to Wasteland
BY GEOFFREY MACNAB Rust And Bone actor Matthias Schoenaerts is confirmed to star as a tormented Brussels cop in Wasteland, the new feature from young Flemish director Pieter Van Hees. Actor-director Bouli Lan- ners will co-star. The film is being produced by Eurydice Gysel through Brussels-
based CCCP. The project will mark the second collaboration between Van Hees and Schoe- naerts after they worked together on 2008 cult horror film Left Bank. The $2.3m drama Wasteland is
expected to shoot later in the early autumn. Gysel is in Cannes look- ing to attach a sales company.
Bloom, Kirkwood, Elliot go BiteSize
BY JEREMY KAY Online entertainment hub Mevio chairman and CEO Ron Bloom has launched the vertically inte- grated studio BiteSize Entertain- ment and brought in producer Gene Kirkwood and Ross Elliot’s Kirkwood-Elliot to handle exclu- sive production. Kirkwood-Elliot Productions is
developing a feature about the disgraced former News Interna- tional head Rebekah Brooks as it assembles a slate of four to six higher-budget commercial fea-
Dupieux, Bernard unveil chapter of Wrong Cops
BY MELANIE GOODFELLOW Quentin Dupieux and producer Gregory Bernard of Réalitism Films are in Cannes drumming up finance for the director’s third film, Wrong Cops, starring Marilyn Manson and Mark Burnham. The film-maker will premiere a
At the Producers’ Network: Wayne Borg of Abu Dhabi-based media giant TwoFour54 spoke at the breakfast yesterday.
13-minute first chapter of the film in the shorts selection of Directors’ Fortnight next week. It will also see an online premiere on www.
wrongcops.com. Bernard is seeking finance for the film’s remaining six chapters,
for which Kinology is handling pre-sales. It is due to complete production by the end of the year. Burnham plays Duke, a crooked
and music-mad cop who tries to re- educate an adolescent techno lover on his musical tastes. Dupieux describes the film as “a filthy 90-minute comedy about some dis- turbed cops, set against a pre-apoc- alyptic vintage LA background”. Réalitism Films is also produc-
ing Donoma director Djinn Carré- nard’s Faire L’Amour, which started shooting on April 23.
tures alongside a theatrical micro- budget roster. Bloom plans cross-platform
programming built around theat- rical releases that can be exploited through Mevio’s existing online infrastructure. “With BiteSize, we are combin-
ing Silicon Valley start-up prowess with Hollywood creative genius,” Bloom said, “reshaping the nature and format of entertainment from short-form to feature-length.” LA-based Bitesize has offices in New York, Miami and London.
Independent
chooses Life Independent Distribution has picked up UK rights to writer- director Alex Barrett’s drama Life Just Is, starring Screen International Star of Tomorrow Jack Gordon and Paul Nicholls. Independent will release
the film — about a tight-knit group of Londoners navigating the responsibilities of adult life — on DVD and VoD this coming autumn. The deal was done directly
with the producers, who are also screening the film in the market. Andreas Wiseman
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