NEWS CANNES BRIEFS
FilmNation calls Rover FilmNation has acquired the majority of worldwide sales rights to The Rover, David Michod’s follow-up to Animal Kingdom, and will jointly represent US sales with UTA. The film follows a man chasing a gang in the Australian desert.
Kaas leads Causes Nikolaj Lie Kaas will take the lead role of investigator Carl Morck in the adaptation of Jussi Adler- Olsen’s thriller The Keeper Of Lost Causes. TrustNordisk is handling sales. Mikkel Norgaard directs from a screenplay by Nikolaj Arcel.
AngelWorld dives into Sea AngelWorld Entertainment (AWE) has signed on to finance and produce The Devil And the Deep Blue Sea starring Jessica Biel, Chloe Grace Moretz and Jeffrey Dean Morgan. Bill Purple will direct from a script by Robbie Pickering.
Lightning spreads Bliss Lightning Entertainment has closed a raft of sales on comedy drama The Trouble With Bliss starring Michael C Hall, for Australia/NZ (Shock), DVD/VoD/ancillary for Japan (Epcott) and eastern Europe and Latin America pay-TV (HBO).
Beta crowns Prince Beta Cinema has taken world rights to The Happy Prince, Rupert Everett’s directorial debut. He will play Oscar Wilde; the cast includes Colin Firth and Emily Watson.
Sorrentino sees Beauty Paolo Sorrentino plans an August shoot for The Great Beauty (La Grande Bellezza), which stars Toni Servillo. Indigo Film and Medusa Film produce in Italy and Babe Films and Pathé in France. Pathé International handles sales.
Match Factory lights 2.0
BY GEOFFREY MACNAB German sales outfit The Match Factory has revealed details of its groundbreaking marketing and distribution initiative, 2.0, on which it is working with five lead- ing independent distributors worldwide. The five partners are Strand
Releasing in the US, Pandora in Germany, Canana Films in Mex- ico, Cinefil in Hungary and Joint Entertainment in Taiwan.
The idea behind the $510,000 (¤400,000) initiative — backed by the European Union’s MEDIA Mundus — is for The Match Fac- tory to invest in the distributors’ online marketing and social-net- working campaigns for specific films. Through 2.0, distributors stand to receive $9,500-$25,500 (¤7,500-¤20,000) towards their costs. “From the sales agent perspec- tive, we think that as communica-
tion is becoming more global, we can work with our directors to cre- ate concepts our distributors can use,” The Match Factory’s Jenny Walendy explained. Through 2.0, it is envisaged the distributors can co- ordinate release plans for films, pool resources and thereby reduce p&a costs. The first film to be pushed
through The Match Factory’s 2.0 is Bence Fliegauf’s Just The Wind.
Sahamongkolfilm seduces buyers Sahamongkol executive vice-
BY LIZ SHACKLETON Thailand’s Sahamongkolfilm International has sparked bidding wars in Asia with its erotic drama Jan Dara, which has already sold to five territories during Cannes. The $3m film, Thailand’s first
Jan Dara
Shoreline builds A Perfect Man
BY JEREMY KAY Morris Ruskin’s Shoreline Enter- tainment has picked up worldwide sales rights to A Perfect Man, direc- tor Kees Van Oostrum’s drama set in the world of Amsterdam’s cul- tural elite, starring Jeanne Tripple- horn and Liev Schreiber. Shoreline executive vice-presi-
dent Sam Eigen and acquisitions executive Melody Djavadi negoti- ated the deal with A Perfect Man executive producer Gary W Wilkes and Greg S Bernstein.
erotic drama intended for theatri- cal release, has gone to South Korea (Daisy & Cinergy), Hong Kong (Edko Films), Singapore (Clover Films), Taiwan (Applause) and the Philippines (Pioneer).
president Gilbert Lim said the film had sparked bidding wars in South Korea and Hong Kong and multiple offers in Singapore and Taiwan. “We also have a lot of interest from Japanese and Euro- pean distributors,” he said. Set for a tentative September
release, the film is directed by ML Pantewanop Devakula, whose credits include Sahamongkol titles Eternity and The Outrage.
Nordisk, Mubi reveal Sensations
BY WENDY MITCHELL The new subscriber offering from Mubi — which launched in Turkey two months ago — will next launch in Norway on July 17, fol- lowed by Sweden and Denmark, with Finland and Iceland in the autumn. This comes as Mubi revealed
more about its partnership with the Nordisk Film & TV Fond to spotlight Scandinavian titles via new project Scandi Sensations. Thomas Vinterberg, whose Fes-
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is backed by the Fond, is open- minded about VoD and other new platforms. “Of course I want peo- ple to gather in a cinema and share opinions, but we’re strug- gling to get people to see our mov- ies and to get paid for it... The internet offers a huge possibility and also a huge challenge.” Fond CEO Hanne Palmquist
said: “I really wanted to work with Mubi for Nordic films to get out and get experience of how we get Nordic films out on VoD. We need to experiment in these new plat- forms.”
Hanne Palmquist, CEO of Nordisk Film & TV Fond with director Thomas Vinterberg and Efe Cakarel, founder and CEO of Mubi
Fortissimo takes Borgman
outside Benelux Fortissimo Films has picked up international rights outside Benelux to Dutch film-maker Alex van Warmerdam’s Camiel Borgman. Alex and Marc van
Warmerdam’s independent production outfit, Graniet Film, is co-producing the dark drama together with Belgium’s Epidemic and Denmark’s Angel Films. Scheduled to start shooting on July 9, the film tells the story of an arrogant middle-class family whose comfortable existence is disturbed when the devil, in the form of the eponymous Camiel Borgman (played by Jan Bijvoet), comes to visit. The deal for the film was
negotiated by the producers and Fortissimo Films managing director Nelleke Driessen. The film’s Benelux distributor,
Cineart, plans to release it there in autumn 2013.
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