MONDAY, MAY 21 2012


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IM Global serves up Butler deals


BY JEREMY KAY Nicole Kidman is reportedly poised to join the cast of IM Global’s hot seller The Butler, reuniting with director Lee Daniels, whose The Paperboy receives its world pre- miere here on Thursday. Daniels is preparing for a July


shoot on the A-list ensemble star- ring Forest Whitaker and based on the life of White House butler Eugene Allen, who served eight presidents of the US. The Butler has been the US art-


French-Korean tie for May film


BY MELANIE GOODFELLOW French Connection is partnering with Korean Dream Capture Stu- dios to develop an English-lan- guage adaptation of Peter May’s thriller The Killing Room. Alexis Dantec and Fred Bellai-


che’s French Connection is trans- posing the novel’s original setting of Shanghai and Beijing to Seoul. The action revolves around a mur- der investigation by a Korean police chief and a French pathologist. Paris-based Korean producer


Yoon Seok of Keystone Films is also involved in the project. Dream Cap- ture has signed a co-development deal with Showbox for the project. Other upcoming pictures on


French Connection’s slate include Solveig Anspach’s The Far Cry and Raphael Nadjari’s next fi lm, Yskor, about a female Jewish cantor.


Sally Potter drama’s UK deal


BY ANDREAS WISEMAN Artifi cial Eye has snapped up UK rights to Sally Potter’s new untitled drama from The Match Factory. Elle Fanning, Alice Englert,


Alessandro Nivola, Christina Hen- dricks and Annette Bening star in the 1960s coming-of-age story. The deal was sealed by Artifi cial


Eye’s Louisa Dent and The Match Factory’s Brigitte Suarez, who had already pre-sold to Scandinavia (Future Film), Australia (Transmis- sion) and Germany (Concorde).


house sensation of the market here, and IM Global has fielded multiple offers on territories, licensing rights for France (Metro- politan), Australia (Hopscotch), Japan (CCC), Italy (Videa), Ger- many (Prokino), Benelux (eOne), Spain (Aurum), Russia and East- ern Europe (EEAP) and Latin America (Sun). “The Butler enjoyed an excep-


tionally powerful market, which shows the arthouse market is still very strong for A-level titles with a


Hubert Boesl


man development, a hot talking point among buyers. IM Global is handling interna-


tional sales on behalf of Access Industries, while Cassian Elwes and CAA are in talks with multiple suitors for North America. The Butler’s all-star cast includes


Lee Daniels


name fi lm-maker, powerful screen- play and well-rounded cast,” IM Global chief Stuart Ford said. He declined to comment on the Kid-


Oprah Winfrey, David Oyelowo, Matthew McConaughey, John Cusack, Alan Rickman, Terrence Howard, Cuba Gooding Jr and Jesse Williams. Jane Fonda will play Nancy Reagan.


NEWS Truth about youth Saoirse Ronan will play Vera in Testament Of Youth for Heyday Films and BBC Films. » Page 6


REVIEW Love through the ages Michael Haneke’s Love delivers performances of a lifetime from Emmanuelle Riva and Jean-Louis Trintignant. » Page 14


FEATURES India rising India’s independent film sector booms with Cannes titles such as Miss Lovely. » Page 26


Iron Sky director to create Hitler in 3D


BY GEOFFREY MACNAB Adolf Hitler is to be resurrected in digital 3D in I Killed Adolf Hitler, the new live-action sci-fi feature from the team behind hit Iron Sky. Udo Kier is in talks to board the


project, about two hired guns from London who are sent back in time to assassinate the Führer. Iron Sky director Timo Vuoren-


Director Thomas Vinterberg and actor Mads Mikkelsen at yesterday’s photocall for the pair’s Competition title, The Hunt. See review, p16.


Stein, Marlind thrill with Paris


BY ANDREAS WISEMAN Underworld: Awakening directors Bjorn Stein and Mans Marlind complete the line-up of 10 dir- ectors on horror-themed Paris, I’ll Kill You. K5 International has boarded


sales on the portmanteau, which will shoot this autumn. The 10 directors are David R


Ellis, Xavier Gens, Joe Dante, Christian Alvart, Christopher Smith, Paco Plaza, Timo Vuoren- sola, Eron Sheean, Jorn Heitmann and duo Stein and Marlind. Instinctive Film and Blind Spot


Pictures produce. Producer Darryn Welch of


Instinctive said: “The stories are wildly unique and original.”


eOne takes Rezo’s The Horde


eOne has picked up multiple territories, including North America and the UK, on Russian epic The Horde, set against the backdrop of the Mongol invasion of Europe in the 14th century. The deal, brokered by Sébastien


Chesneau of Paris-based Rezo World Sales, also includes Australia


and New Zealand. Chesneau says there is also strong interest from Germany, Scandinavia and Japan. Produced by Sergei Kravets


and Natalya Gostyushina, the film will get an 800-screen Russian release.


Melanie Goodfellow


sola will helm the project, which has been developed by Jamie and Alex Brown from London’s Studio Eight Productions. Tero Kaukomaa’s Blind Spot in conjunction with Studio Eight and


Daisy & Cinergy cues auteurs


BY LIZ SHACKLETON Korea’s Daisy & Cinergy Entertain- ment is producing and selling upcoming projects from Im Sang- soo, whose The Taste Of Money is screening in Competition, and Hur Jin-ho, whose Dangerous Liaisons screens in Directors’ Fortnight. Hur’s project — The Last Princess


— is a story about a real-life prin- cess in Korea at the beginning of the 20th century who was forced to live in Japan and marry a Japanese count. Moon Geun-young (Love Me Not) will star in the fi lm. Daisy & Cinergy is also produc-


ing Eoeul-Wudong, which will be produced by Im and directed by a new talent. Im is also scripting the fi lm, about a real-life 16th-cen- tury noblewoman who was exe- cuted for her sexual and political manoeuvring.


Udo Kier: in talks


Niama Film’s Thomas Reisser, Gerd Hecker and Marcus Machura from Germany will co-produce, with filming set for early 2013. Kaukomaa said the budget would exceed that of the $10m Iron Sky.


CANNES DEALS


» AngelWorld Entertainment is backing The Big Shoe, Steven Shainberg’s comedy drama starring Jim Sturgess and Susan Sarandon. Andrew Lazar’s Mad Chance will produce, alongside AngelWorld’s Darby Angel. HanWay is on board for sales. CAA packaged and handles North America.


» Reel Suspects has sold Mixed Kebab, to the US and UK (TLA), Germany and Austria (Pro-Fun), France (Optimale) and the Netherlands (Justbridge).


» K5 International has sold Bille August’s Night Train To Lisbon, starring Jeremy Irons, to Eastern Europe (EEAP), Latin America (Swen) and Italy (Archibald).


» Network Releasing has taken UK rights to Pablo Larrain’s No.


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