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Pieta, Master lead in Venice


BY SCREEN STAFF Kim Ki-duk’s Pieta, a South Korean tale about a loan shark who meets a woman claiming to be his mother, scooped the Golden Lion for best film at the 69th Venice Film Festival yesterday. Finecut handles sales. The Silver Lion for best director was awarded to Paul Thomas Anderson for The Master and a special jury prize went to Paradise: Faith by Ulrich Seidl. Philip Seymour Hoffman and


Joaquin Phoenix shared the best actor Coppa Volpi for The Master while best actress honours went to Hadas Yaron for Fill The Void. The Marcello Mastroianni


award for best new young actor or actress was presented to Fabrizio Falco for Dormant Beauty and It Was The Son. Olivier Assayas took best screen-


play honours for Something In The Air and Daniele Cipri claimed the award for the best technical contri- bution (cinematography) for It Was The Son. The Lion Of The Future — Luigi


De Laurentiis Venice award for a debut film was presented to Ali Aydin’s Mold. Filmauro funded a $100,000 prize to be shared equally by the director and producer. In the Orizzonti awards, Wang


Bing’s Three Sisters won best fi lm and the Special Orizzonti jury prize went to Tango Libre by Frédéric Fonteyne.


Atlas shines for Yellow


BY JEREMY KAY Atlas International has picked up sales rights to Nick Cassavetes’ surreal drama Yellow, which pre- miered here at the weekend. Medient Studios CEO Manu


Kumaran produced the story of a substitute teacher with a vivid imagination who takes a road trip to confront her family. ICM Part- ners represents domestic rights. Heather Wahlquist stars along-


side Sienna Miller, Melanie Griffi th, Gena Rowlands and Ray Liotta. Atlas International’s sales line-


up features Stephen King’s A Good Marriage and Sweetwater starring Ed Harris and January Jones.


Directors Lana Wachowski and Tom Tykwer celebrated the world premiere of Cloud Atlas last night (the film’s third director, Andy Wachowski, was also in attendance). The epic’s ensemble cast was well represented by the likes of Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Hugh Grant, Susan Sarandon, Jim Sturgess, Ben Whishaw, Hugo Weaving and Zhou Xun.


The Deep makes waves for UK


Metrodome Group has acquired UK rights to Baltasar Kormakur’s survival drama The Deep, while BAC Films Distribution has taken French rights. BAC is handling international sales while WME Global handles the US. US and Australian buyers are


also circling the project, while at least one US studio is pursuing remake rights. The film, which is based on the


true story of a sailor who survived a shipwreck against all odds, world premiered here on Friday. Icelandic director Kormakur


directed Contraband (which topped the US box office earlier this year


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Pines leads buzz titles


BY JEREMY KAY As buyers scurried to acquisition screenings and the domestic scene took its customary time to settle into its stride, interest continued to swell around several titles on Satur- day evening. Derek Cianfrance’s The Place


Beyond The Pines has been in play since Friday’s world premiere and The Weinstein Company and Focus Features were understood to be among those circling. Harvey Weinstein released Cian- france’s earlier effort Blue Valen-


tine, however some questioned whether a reunion would result in a 2012 release, given the Wein- steins’ awards slate is looking full with The Master, The Silver Linings Playbook and Django Unchained. WME Global and CAA co-repre-


sent domestic rights and according to sources a Saturday-night deal was not out of the question. Buyers have been eyeing several


other titles. What Maisie Knew — another WME title — has won fans while Imogene has divided buyers but few doubt it will fi nd a home


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BY JEREMY KAY Exclusive Media has landed key sales on Eli Roth’s horror thriller The Green Inferno. The fi lm has sold to Constantin for Germany, West Company for Russia and the Baltic States, and IDC for Latin America. Sales chief Alex Walton and his


Exclusive heats up Green Inferno Production on The Green Inferno


is set to start in Peru and Chile in November. Roth will direct from a screenplay he co-wrote with Guill- ermo Amoedo and will also serve as one of the producers. Plot details are under wraps. Walton said: “Eli has a huge


team have also licensed rights to the fi lm in Greece (Village Road- show), Indonesia (PT Amero), Israel (United King), Singapore (Cathay) and South Africa (Nu Metro). Star TV took TV rights for south-east Asia.


Hair-raising deals for Wide


BY WENDY MITCHELL Wide Management has taken on Arun Tamm and Andres Kopper’s Estonian dark comedy-thriller Bad Hair Friday. The company is also handling Marcos Prado’s Brazilian hit Artificial Paradises, which the company says is close to a North American deal. Sister company documentary


Baltasar Kormakur


for Universal) and several days ago wrapped 2 Guns (sold by Foresight) starring Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg. For The Deep’s UK deal,


Metrodome’s head of acquisitions Joel Kennedy negotiated with Mathieu Robinet of BAC. Wendy Mitchell


specialist Wide House has sold Rob- ert E Ball Jr’s LA gangland doc 213 The Gang Project to Ascot Elite for German-speaking territories. Deals are in play for the UK and Australia. Wide House’s slate also includes


Hala Alabdalla’s Arab artists project As If We Were Catching A Cobra, which starts screening in TIFF Docs today. The company is close to a US deal on Francesco Patierno’s TIFF Cinematheque selection Bergman & Magnani: The War Of Volcanoes.


fanbase around the world. We anticipate continuing the high level of interest from buyers here.” Exclusive Media has also


licensed German rights on Ramin Bahrani’s festival entry At Any Price to Tele München.


Cargo attached


to Tony Kaye Cargo Entertainment has picked up international sales on the upcoming Tony Kaye thriller Attachment to star Sharon Stone and Tom Felton. Sales chief Mark Lindsay is


introducing buyers here to the story of a married woman who has a one-night stand with a student who goes on to terrorise her family. Brad Epstein of Panther Films is producing Attachment and financier Armory Films’ Chris Lemole and Tim Zajaros serve as executive producers. The producers have earmarked


a late October start in Louisiana and US rights are available. Cargo’s slate also includes The


Angriest Man In Brooklyn, which stars shooting in New York on Monday.


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before long. UTA represents the Kristen Wiig comedy from Robert Pulcini and Shari Springer Berman and also handles Noah Baum- bach’s much-fancied Frances Ha. ICM Partners was understood to


have fi elded at least one offer on doc How To Make Money Selling Drugs. On the international scene, sales


companies privately reported a languid pace where new product is thin on the ground and the focus is on clearing up remaining territo- ries, showing fi nished product to buyers and preparing for AFM.


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