NEWS


DAR to get Ugly with Kashyap, Phantom


BY LIZ SHACKLETON India’s DAR Motion Pictures is partnering with Phantom Films to produce Ugly, the next project from Anurag Kashyap, whose Gangs Of Wasseypur is screening in Directors’ Fortnight. Kashyap is currently scripting


the psychological thriller, which is scheduled to start shooting in the third quarter of this year, before he starts work on previously announced thriller Bombay Velvet. “It is a dark story but more


AT THE PRODUCERSNETWORK Martin Moszkowicz from Constantin speaks at yesterday’s breakfast.


CANNES BRIEFS


Raven Banner signs Last Will And Testament Raven Banner has acquired sales rights to Rodrigo Gudino’s feature debut The Last Will And Testament Of Rosalind Leigh. Producers Marco Pecota and Jake Koseleci of Rue Morgue Cinema and Gudino negotiated the deal with Raven Banner managing partners Michael Paszt and James Fler. The Last Will screens today.


DC Medias sells Dark Shadows to Inter Film Paris-based genre specialist DC Medias has sold David Cholewa’s upcoming sci-fi horror film Dark Shadows to Japanese distributor Inter Film. It is the first in-house production for DC Medias, which specialises in horror, thriller and action movies.


Kino Lorber meets Fokkens Kino Lorber has picked up all US rights to Gabrielle Provaas and Rob Schröder’s IDFA hit documentary Meet The Fokkens, about elderly sex workers. Kino Lorber has set an August 8 theatrical release at Film Forum in New York, expanding wide in September.


Marble City hits Japan Stealth has sold Ryuhei Kitamura’s noir action thriller Marble City to Parco and Klockworx for Japan. Nicolas Cage and Mickey Rourke are in negotiations to star in the revenge movie shooting in August.


mainstream than Anurag has been known to do before — per- haps as mainstream as Gangs Of Wasseypur,” said Arun Rangach- ari, chairman of DAR Motion Pic- tures’ parent company, DAR Capital Group.


Anurag Kashyap Gangs Of Wasseypur is a two-


part gangster epic backed by Indian studio Viacom18 Motion Pictures. Phantom Films is the production company Kashyap founded last year with film-mak- ers Vikramaditya Motwane, Madhu Mantena and Vikas Bahl. He also runs the Anurag Kashyap Films banner with Guneet Monga.


DAR Motion Pictures is also a


co-producer on Amit Kumar’s upcoming thriller Monsoon Shoot- out, with the UK’s Trevor Ingman and other European partners; Ritesh Batra’s Lunchbox, which is currently being set up as an Indo- European co-production; and Vasan Bala’s Peddlers, which is screening here in Critics’ Week. In addition to producing inde-


pendent Indian films for a global audience, DAR is producing films in three other strands — big-ticket Bollywood films with directors such as Nikhil Advani; genre fran- chises, including a horror fran- chise in partnership with Anubhav Sinha, and youth-oriented films. The company is also developing three projects with Sudhir Mishra.


Weinstein unveils Tarantino’s Django footage


BY JEREMY KAY Harvey Weinstein showcased foot- age to international press on Mon- day of Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained, Paul Thomas Ander- son’s The Master and David O Rus- sell’s The Silver Linings Playbook. “These are some of the best


films we have ever been associated with, if not the best,” Weinstein told the assembled journalists at the Salon Diane in the Majestic Hotel. Tarantino is still in production


Buyers hunt Scavengers


BY JEREMY KAY Camelot Distribution Group presi- dent Jess Kelly has announced a slew of sales on its Cannes slate, leading with a sale to Splendid for German-speaking territories and Benelux rights to California Pic- tures’ sci-fi adventure Scavengers. California Pictures president


Steve Istock produced Scavengers, which is in post and stars Sean Patrick Flanery, Jeremy London and Roark Critchlow. Travis Zariwny directed the film


about rival space crews battling to obtain a life-altering technology. Camelot has also licensed Japa-


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nese rights for Privacy to Klock- worx, and Japanese rights to You Can’t Kill Stephen King and Web- dultery to AT Entertainment.


n 4 Screen International at Cannes May 23, 2012


(Pictured, from left) HRH Prince Edward, George Lucas and Mike Newell attended a New York launch for Films Without Borders (FWB), the non-profit initiative that brings together teenagers from divided communities and teaches them the first stages of film-making. Some 15 budding young directors from Israel, Rwanda and Palestine were flown to New York by Swiss International Airlines. Their films were screened by Bafta NYC in front of a packed audience and met with Lucas, Newell and Prince Edward, who are friends of FWB, at a launch event at the St Regis Hotel. FWB founder Jill Samuels is in Cannes and will be speaking on the BFI panel discussing youth and film today at 11am at the UK Film Centre. Samuels and patron Christina Juffali will then present screenings of the shorts at the UK Film Centre at 4pm.


on Django and Weinstein said there may be surprise additions to the cast, which already includes Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio and Kerry Washington. Sony Pictures Releasing Inter-


national will distribute the film outside North America and Wein- stein praised his global partner- ship with the studio. The Weinsteins hold worldwide rights to both The Master and The Silver Linings Playbook.


The Master footage did little to


reveal what direction the story will take. It is understood to be based on the life of Scientology founder L Ron Hubbard and stars Joaquin Phoenix, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Amy Adams. The Silver Linings Playbook stars


Bradley Cooper as a former teacher who comes out of a psy- chiatric institution and tries to hook up with his ex-wife. Jenni- fer Lawrence and Robert De Niro also star.


Gael Garcia Bernal in No


SPC says yes to Larrain’s No


BY JEREMY KAY Pablo Larrain’s story is based on true events and stars Gael Garcia Bernal as an advertising executive who in 1988 is hired to spearhead the Chilean opposition leader’s campaign after military dictator Augusto Pinochet calls a referen- dum. Participant Media financed the


film in association with Funny Balloons and Fabula. Jeff Ivers and Jonathan King of Participant Media negotiated the deal with SPC. No also stars Alfredo Castro,


Antonia Zegers, Marcial Tagle, Nestor Cantillana, Jaime Vadell and Pascal Montero. Pedro Pei- rano wrote the screenplay and Juan de Dios Larrain and Daniel Dreifuss produced and Partici- pant’s Jeff Skoll and King served as executive producers. “Pablo, Gael and the team made


a brave, inspiring film and we’re grateful to the audiences at Cannes for embracing it so warmly,” said Participant CEO Jim Berk.


Wild Bunch’s Benelux buying spree


BY GEOFFREY MACNAB Wild Bunch Benelux boss Pim Hermeling has confirmed a raft of market and festival acquisitions. The company has taken Bene-


lux rights on Emmanuelle Bercot’s road movie Elle S’En Va. Elle Driver handles sales. Also from Elle Driver, Her-


meling has taken May In Summer by Cherien Dabis. Hermeling has also picked up


Michael Winterbottom’s King Of Soho from StudioCanal; Desert Dancer and Hello I Must Be Going from 6Sales; Abbas Kiarostami’s Like Someone In Love from MK2; and Broken and Mystery from Wild Bunch.


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