WEDNESDAY, MAY 23 2012


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The Sweeney


Protagonist books Sweeney into eOne for US


BY ANDREAS WISEMAN eOne continues to ramp its US dis- tribution slate with the acquisition of Protagonist’s The Sweeney, which they had previously picked up for UK and Canada. The expanding eOne also took


Nick Love’s crime-drama for South Africa. The deal was negotiated by Jo


Sweby, eOne’s manager, world- wide acquisitions, and Ben Rob- erts, CEO for Protagonist, following a packed market screen- ing which also triggered deals with CIS (DT Productions), Poland (Freeman), Spanish-speaking Latin America (Pasatiempo), East- ern Europe (Programs 4 Media), Greece (Feelgood), South Korea (Atnine), China (China Lion), Indonesia (PT Parkit) and Japan (Klockworx). Ray Winstone and singer-actor


Ben Drew, aka Plan B, star in the feature adaptation of the popular UK TV series about two UK cops in a violent-crime unit. eOne and Protagonist also


locked up a multi-territory deal for UK viking epic Hammer Of The Gods for Canada, Germany, France, Scandinavia and South Africa, with Protagonist also clos- ing deals with Australia and New Zealand (Hopscotch), Middle East (Front Row) and Switzerland (Impuls).


Ryan Kampe’s New York-based Visit Films has struck a slew of sales here, led by a deal with Ascot Elite for German-speaking Europe on dinosaur documentary Dinotasia. It also sold to Taiwan (Cineplex), Thailand and Vietnam (IPA) and India (Velavan). Werner Herzog will narrate.


Buyers stomp around Visit’s dinos Mark Webber’s father-son drama


The End Of Love has gone to Codex for Turkey, while Mads Matthiesen’s Teddy Bear has landed at Aurora for Poland and Encore for airlines. Herzog’s Cave Of Forgotten


Dreams sold to Binci for China and Imagine for Dutch-speaking Benelux.


TWC strong with Master, Devil’s Knot, Scary Movie


BY JEREMY KAY The Weinstein Company has reported a huge response to its Cannes slate, selling out most of the world on the likes of Scary Movie 5, The Master and Devil’s Knot. Scary Movie 5 has been licensed


to the UK (Entertainment), Ger- many (Constantin), Australia (Roadshow), Italy (Lucky Red), Russia (CP Digital), Spain (DeA- Planeta), Benelux (RCV) and Greece (Odeon). John Wells’ dysfunctional family tale August: Osage County starring


Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts has gone to the UK (Entertainment), Germany (Tobis), France and Italy (Wild Bunch), Australia (Road- show), Spain (DeAPlaneta) and South Africa (Ster Kinekor). Paul Thomas Anderson’s The


Master closed in the UK (Enter- tainment), France (Metropolitan), Australia (Roadshow), Benelux (A-Film), Scandinavia (Mis.Label) and Greece (Odeon). Atom Egoyan’s crime drama


Devil’s Knot starring Colin Firth and Reese Witherspoon went to Enter-


Larry Clark skates into Paris story


BY MELANIE GOODFELLOW Larry Clark is set to shoot a French-language picture taking inspiration from the skateboarding scene around Paris’ Trocadero Gar- dens this summer, the fi rst fi lm the Kids and Ken Park director has shot outside the US. Titled The Smell Of Us, the fea-


Hubert Boesl


Brad Pitt joins Scoot McNairy on the red carpet for the Competition premiere of Killing Them Softly, directed by Andrew Dominik who last worked with Pitt on 2007’s The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford. Review, p9


Young Turkish director dies


BY MIKE GOODRIDGE Turkish fi lm-maker Seyfi Teoman, who was in competition at Berlin with his second film Our Grand Despair last year, has died from injuries sustained in a traffic accident on April 16. He passed away on May 8 in Istanbul. The 35-year-old was considered


California Solo sold to Hexagon


for Japan and Viasat for Scandinavia. Sundance Channel


International will release in Spain, Portugal, Eastern Europe, Southeast Asia and Dutch-speaking Benelux. Viasat will also handle the


Scandinavian release of Arcadia and See Girl Run.


Jeremy Kay


one of the most exciting young directors in Turkey and won awards around the world with his fi rst short fi lm Apartment and his fi rst feature Summer Book. He also produced Emin Alper’s


Beyond The Hill, which won the Golden Tulip at the Istanbul Film Festival this April. When he died, Teoman was


working on this third fi lm, Saints, which received production support from the ministry of culture and the German-Turkish co-production development fund.


ture will follow four self-destruc- tive skateboarders, who push their lives to the limit. “It’s about a group of friends


without ambition, feelings or val- ues on a self-destructive path but it’s not clear why,” says Belgian producer Pierre-Paul Puljiz of Polyester.


tainment for the UK and Swen for Latin America. France and Ger- many are expected to close today. The team sold David O Russell’s


The Silver Linings Playbook to Enter- tainment for the UK, StudioCanal for France and Eagle for Italy. “We had a really strong sales


market for all our titles,” COO David Glasser said. “Michael Roth- stein [president of international] and Ennis Hensley [EVP of inter- national] did an incredible job and we have great partners around the world.”


Puljiz and Gérard Lacroix of


Paris-based Morgane Production are in Cannes fi nalising fi nance for the project with a budget of $3.8m. Puljiz says: “Larry met a lot of


skateboarders when he presented Kids in Cannes in 1995, and has been interested in the scene since then.”


Clark has co-written the script


with a 23-year-old poet called Mathieu Landais.


BREAKING NEWS Daniels finds his Jackie Lee Daniels tells Screen he is pursuing Minka Kelly for the part of Jackie Kennedy in his new feature The Butler, starring Forest Whitaker as a White House butler who served eight presidents. “I feel humbled to be here with


The Paperboy,” said Daniels in Cannes. Of The Butler, backed by Icon and sold by IM Global, Daniels said: “I connected with it because it is ultimately a father-son story with a civil-rights backdrop. It’s an exciting journey for me.” The shoot starts July 16. Andreas Wiseman


Film4 goes monster mad with Wheatley


BY WENDY MITCHELL Film4 is in discussions with poten- tial co-fi nanciers here on Kill List and Sightseers director Ben Wheat- ley’s planned cops-and-monsters fi lm Freakshift. The project is likely to shoot in


spring 2013. “There are a lot of people inter-


ested in working with him and see- ing him scale up,” said Film4 senior commissioning executive Katherine Butler. Another hot project in develop-


ment is Lenny Abrahamson’s Frank, which is now casting to shoot towards the end of the year. Bafta-winner Peter Straughan wrote the script with Jon Ronson. These are among a busy slate of


diverse projects at Film4, which has a banner Cannes this year with Sightseers and On The Road pre- miering tonight. The outfit also backed Fyzal Boulifa’s Directors’ Fortnight short The Curse. Film4 head Tessa Ross said:


“Cannes always presents us with a great opportunity to share our upcoming slate of films with our international partners, and it’s a particular pleasure to be here with three fi lms in among all the other fantastic fi lms in Cannes this year.” Other upcoming projects include


Ken Loach’s documentary Spirit Of ’45, Yann Demange’s Belfast-set thriller 71, John Crowley’s Carol to star Cate Blanchett and Mia Wasikowska, Jeremy Lovering’s horror title In Fear, Kevin Macdon- ald’s How I Live Now, and John le Carré adaptations from Justin Kurzel and Anton Corbijn.


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