NEWS


Demarest gets its Man Sam Englebardt, Michael Lambert and William D Johnson’s new financier Demarest Films will co-finance and co-produce Anton Corbijn’s contemporary spy thriller A Most Wanted Man, adapted from the John le Carré novel. FilmNation is handling international sales. Philip Seymour Hoffman, Rachel McAdams and Willem Dafoe star.


TORONTO BRIEFS Reid and Wilton join Bankside’s Belle


BY WENDY MITCHELL Sam Reid, Penelope Wilton, Tom Felton and James Norton have joined the cast of Amma Asante’s Belle, which starts shooting in the UK on September 23. Gugu Mbatha-Raw takes the


Worldview signs on for West’s The Sacrament Worldview Entertainment has joined IM Global’s Octane division as co-financier and co-producer on Ti West’s The Sacrament. Octane will introduce the project to international buyers in Toronto and CAA represents domestic rights.


French deal for Sion Sono Japan’s Pictures Dept and Metropolitan have closed a French distribution deal for Toronto entry The Land Of Hope. Sion Sono’s film is set to receive its world premiere tonight and depicts a family’s struggle to recover from a tsunami.


title role, and other confirmed members of the cast include Tom Wilkinson, Miranda Richardson, Matthew Goode, Emily Watson and Sarah Gadon. CinemaNX will release in the


UK and Bankside has presold to Icon in Australia, Benelux Film Distributors in Benelux, Rialto in Switzerland, Shooting Stars in the


producing for his DJ Films. He started developing the project after seeing a 1779 painting of Dido Elizabeth Belle, a mixed-race girl who was raised in aristocratic society in England. Reid, whose credits include


Anonymous and the forthcoming Serena, plays John Davinier, Belle’s love interest. Jones told Screen: “When I saw


Sam Reid


Middle East, Bonton in Czech Republic and Jaguar for world air- line rights. Damian Jones (The Iron Lady) is


the painting, I thought, ‘What a fascinating world.’ Those Austen- esque movies are tried and tested but this has something unique and fresh.” He added: “The calibre of talent


Cascade falls for first-look deals


BY WENDY MITCHELL UK-based finance outfit Cascade Pictures is launching with first- look deals in place with producers Jessica Parker and Jessica Malik of Pari Passu Films and Tom Butter- field and Emily Man of Culmina- tion Productions. Cascade is being financially


backed and launched by former Icon UK CFO Mark Fisher, who is joined by Cora Palfrey (ex-Exclu- sive Media Group) as COO, and Daniel Campos Pavoncelli (ex- Fandango Portobello) as acquisi- tions and development executive. The company plans to make equity investments up to about


30%-35% of a film’s budget. In the first year, it will invest mostly in films with budgets of $5m or less, rising to $15m-plus in years to come. Fisher noted: “We are not sticking to any one genre.” Culmination, which has Gavin


James and Clare Wise as advisers, is working with Cascade on pro-


that has attached itself to it is amazing.” The film had development sup-


port from Chris Collins at the UK Film Council, later the BFI. Belle is now one of the first projects to get production support from the BFI Film Fund since Ben Roberts has taken the reins. The film will shoot for seven


weeks in London, Oxford, the Isle of Man and Pinewood Studios. Jones expects it to be delivered


in late spring. Asante previously directed the


Bafta-winning A Way Of Life in 2004.


ductions including rom-com Festi- val Calling, teen thriller Vanishing Act, action film Hustle and action thriller The Arbitrator. Pari Passu is in post on genre


film January, and its development slate also includes Corin Hardy’s Fest. Palfrey noted: “We want lon-


gevity and to grow relationships, to work with new talents and grow together.”


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