NEWS CANNES BRIEFS
Content gets Complicit Content has taken world rights to MI5 drama Complicit directed by Niall MacCormick (Albatross). The feature film was commissioned by Channel 4 and will have its UK premiere on the channel before a worldwide theatrical release. It starts shooting today in London and Morocco with David Oyelowo (The Paperboy) leading the cast.
Bavaria pacts with Russia Germany’s Bavaria Film Partners is working with Russia’s Trikita and Italy’s Lumiq to film Alexander Belyayev’s sci-fi novel Amphibian Man. The $8m English-language film will be adapted by Sergei Bodrov.
Eurimages heads to Dubai Dubai International Film Festival (December 9-16) will welcome Eurimages’ 129th meeting — the first one outside member states.
Cast books into Physician Ben Kingsley, Stellan Skarsgard and Tom Payne have joined the cast of Beta Cinema’s The Physic- ian, to be directed by Philipp Stölzl.
LUFF lands hot premieres
BY GEOFFREY MACNAB The London UK Film Focus (June 25-28), the annual screening event that brings the world’s top buyers to London, will host premieres including Ashes starring Ray Win- stone, Jim Sturgess and Lesley Manville and directed by Mat Whitecross (sold by The Works); GFM Films’ The Blueblack Hussar, a doc about Adam Ant; Content’s The Scapegoat, based on Daphne du Maurier’s novel, starring Mat- thew Rhys; and Julien Temple’s
documentary about London’s music scene, BabyLon/don from Ealing Metro. LUFF will also screen May I Kill U?, the macabre comedy-drama directed by Stuart Urban and sold by Moviehouse Entertainment. Other premieres will include
The Reef: High Tide 3D from SC Films International, Flying Blind, Eight Minutes Idle, Hollow, I Declare War and Grassroots. The event’s Breakthrough strand is receiving record numbers
of applications. Titles selected this year include Borrowed Time directed by Jules Bishop and star- ring Phil Davies, Swandown directed by Andrew Kotting and Day Of The Flowers directed by John Roberts. Last year, LUFF was estimated
to have generated a record $11.5m worth of sales. Helena Mackenzie, head of inward investment and business development at Film London, said 2013 offers “a packed and exciting programme”.
Yellow pre-sells Kristina biopic
Samuel Goldwyn Films has swooped on US rights to Gilles Bourdos’ drama Renoir ahead of its world premiere as the closing night of Un Certain Regard on May 25.
BY GEOFFREY MACNAB Swedish sales outfit The Yellow Affair is starting pre-sales on Mika Kaurismaki’s 17th-century biopic Kristina Of Sweden as its star, Malin Buska, appeared at Cannes yesterday. The producers are Ana- gram (Sweden), Marianna (Fin- land), Triptych Media (Canada), Starhaus (Germany) and Arsam (France).
Youth relived by BBC Films
BYANDREAS WISEMAN BBC Films is working with David Heyman and Heyday Films on Testament Of Youth, Juliette Tow- hidi’s adaptation of Vera Brittain’s acclaimed First World War mem- oir. Saoirse Ronan is attached to play Vera. Having worked with Simon
Curtis on My Week With Marilyn, BBC Films is also working on the director’s The Golden Lady, about a woman who fought to recover her family’s Klimt paintings which had been stolen by the Nazis. BBC is also in Cannes to discuss
The Alan Partridge Movie (working title) which begins shooting in the autumn. Produced by Baby Cow, Kevin Loader, Henry Normal and Armando Iannucci, the film, cen- tring on the comic character devel- oped by Steve Coogan, will be directed by Declan Lowney. Upcoming projects also include
Dom Hemingway, Saving Mr Banks, Brooklyn and Kinks story You Really Got Me. BBC Films-backed Broken opened Critics’ Week.
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