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FROM THE NETHERLANDS SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 9


NEWS


DNA talks future of Dredd trilogy


BY GEOFFREY MACNAB DNA Films boss Andrew Macdonald has given further details about the plans for the next instalments in the Dredd trilogy, if box-office figures are up to expectations. “Alex [Garland] has a very good idea for


Dredd’s journey,” Macdonald said. “I think it would be an exciting thing to be done. We’ve nailed a style and we’ve found in Karl Urban an absolutely magic Judge Dredd. It will be something we will do again in partnership with IM Global. I’m sure that, if it works, it’s something all the distributors will want to do again.” Any further films are likely to return to


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shoot in South Africa, where Mega-City One was recreated in Cape Town Film Stu- dios. The next film could see Dredd venture into the Cursed Earth, the post-apocalyptic wasteland surrounding the city. TIFF Midnight Madness premiere


TORONTO BRIEFS


Wilkinson thrills with Felony Tom Wilkinson has joined Matthew Saville’s thriller Felony opposite Joel Edgerton. The Solution Entertainment Group is selling internationally and CAA represents US rights. The film starts shooting next month.


Bean gets Scorched Sean Bean is lined up to star in post- apocalyptic action film Scorched Earth. VMI Worldwide will handle worldwide sales.


Dredd 3D


Dredd 3D, sold by IM Global, is released in the UK by Entertainment this week and in the US by Lionsgate on September 21. Press reports have suggested a $50m


box-office performance in the US may be enough to trigger the sequels.


DAR dials up Phone Thief


BY LIZ SHACKLETON India’s DAR Motion Pictures is teaming with London-based Mobile Film Produc- tions to co-produce Hindi-language com- edy Phone Thief, which has Poorna Jagannathan and Vir Das heading the cast. Developed using a UK Enterprise


Investment Scheme, the chase caper about a girl attempting to retrieve a stolen cell- phone in Mumbai will be directed by Pia Sukanya and produced by Michael Ward. Colin Burrows is executive producer. Production is scheduled to start in Mum-


Well Go USA has Dangerous Liaisons


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n 4 Screen International at Toronto September 9, 2012


BY JEREMYKAY Well Go USA has struck a deal with Arclight Films’ Asian arm, Easternlight, for US rights to Dangerous Liaisons, ahead of the steamy drama’s North America premiere here today. Zhang Ziyi, Jang Dong-gun and Cecilia Cheung star in Korean film-maker Hur Jin-ho’s adaptation of the celebrated period drama about seduction and betrayal. Vice-president of sales and acquisitions


Clay Epstein is in Toronto talking up the surfing spectacle Storm Surfers 3D after the company acquired world sales rights excluding Europe and North Amer- ica but including the UK. XYZ Films represents North America.


Dangerous Liaisons


Stitches


MPI, Fantastic strike genre deal


for Outsource On the eve of the Gala Presentation of Mike Newell’s Great Expectations (pictured) , new funding company Outsource Media Group has acquired all North American rights. Outsource will now seek North American distribution partners to work with its p&a fund. Ralph Fiennes, Helena Bonham Carter, Jeremy Irvine and Holliday Grainger star. Number 9’s Elizabeth Karlsen and Stephen Woolley, who also have Byzantium at TIFF, produced.


Expectations rise


BY JEREMYKAY MPI Media Group and its Stitches produc- ing partner Fantastic Films from Ireland have struck a three-film deal to make and distribute genre films. The two-year pact kicks off with princi-


pal photography at the end of the year on The Cherry Tree. David Keating will direct the project and


previously shot Wake Wood, which the partners released in the US through MPI’s wholly owned subsidiary Dark Sky Films. MPI’s executive vice-president Greg


Newman negotiated the deal with Brendan McCarthy and John McDonnell of Fantastic Films, which co-produced Martin McDon- agh’s Oscar-winning short Six Shooter.


bai in February 2013 with DAR distributing in India, and Mobile Film looking after the rest of the world. The UK-India co-production aims to tap


into the same Indian youth audience as recent hit Delhi Belly, which starred both Jagannathan and Das. “It is the kind of edgy, youth-oriented buddy movie that is being appreciated in Indian metros and already benefits from tremendous support within the industry,” said DAR Motion Pic- tures director Vivek Rangachari. » See interview, page 6


Family ties for M-Appeal M-Appeal has added Michiel ten Horn’s comedy The Deflowering Of Eva Van End to its Toronto slate. The story follows a dysfunctional family disrupted by the arrival of a German exchange student. M-Appeal’s slate also includes Out In The Dark and Julio Hernandez Cordon’s Dust (Polvo).


CMG eyes poltergeist spoof Edward Noeltner’s CMG has boarded found- footage spoof Paranormal Movie, about a man who wants to film the poltergeist in his new house. Kevin Farley directed and stars.


Movement finds Three Worlds Film Movement has taken North American rights to Catherine Corsini’s Three Worlds, about three people whose lives intersect after a twist of fate.


Gondry’s We lands US deal 108 Media and Paladin have boarded North American rights to Michel Gondry’s The We And The I, which plays here following its Cannes premiere. Kinology holds international rights.


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