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Thurman vows Silence

BY ANDREAS WISEMAN

Amy Winehouse

Lotus boards Winehouse bio

BY ANDREAS WISEMAN

US outfit Lotus Entertainment has boarded finance, production and international sales on Kirsten Sheridan’s Amy Winehouse biopic, revealed by Screen International yesterday. Noomi Rapace is in talks to star in the biopic, which according to the production will celebrate the life of the iconic singer.

CAA and UTA arranged financing and will co-represent domestic rights. Joshua Maurer and Alixandre Witlin of City Entertainment and Tristan Orpen Lynch will produce, with Lotus Entertainment’s Jim Seibel, Bill Johnson, Ara Keshishian and Angus Sutherland on board as executive producers.

Sutherland said: “After the huge success of documentary Amy this year, audiences have been left with a compelling appetite to delve even deeper into the story of one of Britain’s most iconic soul singers.”

Sheridan added: “Our aim is an innovative, emotional and lifeaffirming approach [to Amy Winehouse’s] life and art.”

Uma Thurman, Toby Stephens and Brian Cox are set to star in thriller The Bay Of Silence, from The Resident director Antti J Jokinen. US sales outfit International Film Trust (IFT) has boarded the project at AFM where it will begin sales.

The sales deal was negotiated by Kevin Hoiseth on behalf of IFT and producer Thomas Dixon on behalf of the film-makers. Based on Lisa

The Bay Of Silence sees a father embark on a frantic search across Europe for his missing wife and children. Relief on locating his twin girls in a remote French village soon turns to horror when he discovers that his infant son has died mysteriously.

“The Bay Of Silence is a visceral and gratifying, brilliantly wellcrafted piece of storytelling,” said Hoiseth.

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Michael J Fox’s robot dog finds its US home

BY JEREMY KAY

Rooney Mara stars in Benedict Andrews’ newly renamed drama Una (formerly Blackbird), which WestEnd is selling at AFM. Mara stars as the titular Una alongside Ben Mendelsohn, Riz Ahmed and Tara Fitzgerald in the provocative love story about a taboo relationship. The film is in post-production, with composer Jed Kurzel (Macbeth, Slow West) the latest addition to the film’s crew. Backers are Creative Scotland, Film4 and WestEnd; the latter also produced with Jean Doumanian and Patrick Daly.

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Goddesses sparks key deals Mongrel International has closed key territories on Pan Nalin’s recent Rome audience award winner Angry Indian Goddesses heading into Sunday’s market premiere screening. Rights have gone to California Filmes for Latin America, Outside Films for Portugal and Alter Ego Pictures for Poland.

Producer Gaurav Dhingra of Jungle Book Entertainment, producer Sol Bondy of One Two Films and Mongrel International president Charlotte Mickie also announced that AA Distribution

St Aubin de Teran’s bestselling novel, The Bay Of Silence is written by actress-turned-writer Caroline Goodall (The Dressmaker) with Markus Selin of Solar Films and Tristan Orpen Lynch of Subotica producing. Goodall and Peter Garde are executive producers with Dixon and Aoife O’Sullivan on board as co-producers. The shoot is due to kick off next summer in Italy, the UK and Ireland.

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will handle a wide release in India.

Mongrel has licensed Angry Indian Goddesses in more than 40 territories including France (ARP Selection), Benelux (ABC Cinemien), Spain (Caramel), Germany/Austria (NFP marketing and distribution), Middle East (Italia Film) and Switzerland (Filmcoopi). The film premiered in Toronto and centres on a fashion photographer who summons her unsuspecting friends to Goa for a riotous bachelorette party.

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Double Dutch International (DDI) has closed several key territories at AFM on A.R.C.H.I.E. starring Michael J Fox. Arc Entertainment has acquired US rights and California Filmes will distribute in Latin America, Jigsaw in Australia, Program Store in France and Prima Cinema in Indonesia.

Robin Dunne makes his feature directorial debut on A.R.C.H.I.E., in which Fox will voice a robotic canine developed by the military who befriends the niece of a smalltown sheriff. Katharine Isabelle also stars. Arc plans an April US release after Scott Moesta negotiated the deal with DDI president Jason Moring.

Statham strikes out for China

BY JEREMY KAY

Jason Statham is back in the market in an untitled Kurt Wimmer project, a thriller collaboration between Statham and Steven Chasman’s SJ Pictures and Chinabased Road Pictures.

Wimmer, whose screenplay credits include Salt, the upcoming Salt 2 and Point Break, wrote and will direct the project about an expat in Hong Kong who goes on the run with a high-level female Chinese agent to solve a kidnapping with global implications. Chasman will produce with Gongming Cai

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and Julien Favre of Beijing-based Road Pictures. Principal photography is set to begin in autumn 2016 in China and Europe.

“Jason and I both have been wanting to work with Kurt for a long time,” said Chasman. “He has such an incredible vision for the film that this collaboration is particularly exciting for us. Our new partners from Road Pictures, Gongming and Julien, really comprehend the global potential for the film.”

Cai added: “This is a perfect vehicle for Jason Statham to conquer the Chinese market. He is a true global superstar who has such an authentic connection with audiences around the world.”

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Cargo pushes Duhamel flick

BY JEREMY KAY

The Cargo Entertainment/Radiant Films International partnership has dropped another title into the market in the shape of action thriller Lost In The Sun. Josh Duhamel stars in the film, which opens today in the US via eOne, about a small-time crook who takes a newly orphaned teenage boy (Josh Wiggins) with him on a string of robberies.

Radiant Films International president and CEO Mimi Steinbauer and Cargo CEO and managing partner Marina Grasic are showing a trailer to buyers here.

Trey Nelson wrote and directed Lost In The Sun; Clay Floren and Aimee Shieh of Floren Shieh Productions produced with Clay Pecorin. “Lost In The Sun features Josh Duhamel in a very different role from his usual charming, onscreen persona,” said Steinbauer.

Radiant’s AFM slate includes Rita Hayworth And A Hand Grenade, starring Elizabeth Banks.

Cargo’s thriller The Price with Noomi Rapace and Michael Shannon is in pre-production.

Pure Flix trio finds way with the faithful

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Ron Gell, vice-president of international sales and distribution at Pure Flix Entertainment, has introduced three faith and familyfriendly titles here under the Pure Flix/Quality Flix banner and reported a number of early sales.

Do You Believe? starring Mira Sorvino and Cybill Shepherd screens at the market tomorrow and Gell has licensed South

Korean rights to Apex and German rights to Morefilms. The film grossed $13m in the US earlier this year through Pure Flix. Canadian output partner Mongrel Media has taken Faith Of Our Fathers, Woodlawn and God’s Not Dead II, the sequel to the $65m 2014 US box-office smash, which screens today and tomorrow and will open in the US on April 1, 2016 on 1,500 screens via PureFlix.

Gell is fielding a number of offers on Sean Astin-starrer Woodlawn, which has grossed more than $11m in the US via Pure Flix and Provident Films and screens here today and Sunday.

BBI in Benelux has struck a package deal covering The Black Rider, Do You Believe?, Dancer & The Dame and Faith Of Our Fathers.

Morefilms has also acquired Faith Of Our Fathers for Germany.

Prescience fires up pre-prod fund

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Lane joins Neeson on Felt Diane Lane has joined Liam Neeson on Watergate thriller Felt, which Sierra/Affinity is representing at AFM. Peter Landesman will direct the tale about Mark Felt, the notorious whisteblower ‘Deep Throat’. Lane will play Felt’s wife Audrey, who shoulders the burden of his struggle against Nixon’s White House. MadRiver Pictures will finance and produce, alongside Scott Free Productions, Playtone and Cara Films. Principal photography is set to begin in March 2016.

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UK film fund and TV finance firm Prescience has launched subsidiary Ignition Media Finance to provide short-term media backing and pre-production funding for producers. Ignition is being set up to lend a producer between 15% and 20% of the total budget during pre-production.

Since launching 10 years ago, The King’s Speech backer Prescience has provided pre-production, bridge and tactical finance to projects in the US, UK and other European territories. Recent Prescience-backed TV projects include Wolf Hall and The Dresser.

STX goes international STX Entertainment has announced more than 20 output partners as it builds its global network and revealed further details of the films that will be offered to distributors, including Toronto pick-up Hardcore.

The Los Angeles-based production and distribution company has closed deals for Germany and Austria (Tobis Film), Latin America and Spain (Sun), Australia and New Zealand (Roadshow Films), eastern Europe (Freeman Entertainment), Canada (VVS Films) and Scandinavia (AB Svensk Filmindustri). Other deals include Benelux (The Searchers), the Middle East (Gulf Film), South Africa (Times Media), Turkey (Aqua Pinema), Greece (Odeon), Portugal (Cinemundo), Israel (Forum Film), Baltics (ACME), Philippines (Pioneer), Taiwan (Catchplay), Thailand (Sahamongkolfilm), India, (PVR Pictures) and airlines (Entertainment In Motion).

Huayi Brothers Media Corporation will handle STX’s titles in China and related territories. The initial slate of films available for global distribution includes The Space Between Us starring Gary Oldman and Peter Berg-directed thriller Mile 22.

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M-Line snags KAFA film grads

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Carice van Houten

Van Houten finds way to Lose Game Of Thrones star Carice van Houten has joined Aaron Paul on drama The Parts You Lose, which Myriad Pictures has introduced to the market. The story centres on a hearing-impaired boy who strikes up a friendship with a fugitive in his North Dakota town. UTA Independent Film Group represents US rights with Myriad. Zus & Zo director Paula van der Oest will helm the Dutch production.

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Seoul-based sales agent M-Line Distribution has signed an agreement to handle all graduate films from the Korean Academy of Film Arts (KAFA), one of South Korea’s leading film schools. The first two films that M-Line will handle under the agreement recently premiered at Busan International Film Festival: Kim Jin-hwang’s thriller The Boys Who Cried Wolf and Park Geun-buem’s drama Girl On The Edge.

The Boys Who Cried Wolf tells the story of an out-of-work actor who agrees to be a fake witness to a child’s murder. The film, which stars Park Jong-hwan, Cha Raehyung and Song Ha-jun, won the

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Directors Guild of Korea Award when it premiered in Busan’s Vision section.

Girl On The Edge, which stars Kong Ye-ji and Park Ye-young, revolves around two schoolgirls who bond over their unhappy family backgrounds. The film also

screened in the Vision section at Busan.

KAFA’s alumni includes Korean film-maker Bong Joon-ho.

The school’s advanced programme requires students to complete a full-length feature in order to graduate.

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Syndicado extends Hand

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US and Canada-based distributor Syndicado has extended its supply deal with Zurich-based First Hand Films. The deal covers North American digital and theatrical distribution, and territories including the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and South Africa.

Features from First Hand Films will go out via cable VoD and major internet platforms, while TV series will be distributed on VoD, VoD/EST and ad-supported VoD in the respective territories. The agreement covers US distribution rights to docs including Trespassing Bergman by Sweden’s Hynek Pallas and Jane Magnusson, and Katarina Peters’ Germany-UK co-production Man For A Day. Syndicado president Greg Rubidge said: “Complementing traditional broadcast sales through windowing and VoD has been a cornerstone of our growth.”

Tangerine’s Taylor to make TV transition

By Andreas Wiseman

Transgender Tangerine star Mya Taylor is developing a TV series based on her transition. Her performance in Sean Baker’s Sundance hit has helped generate awards buzz around the film, which Magnolia and backers the Duplass brothers are hopeful will connect with Academy voters.

Taylor revealed the TV project in an interview about Tangerine due to run in Screen tomorrow. “My experience was way more dramatic than that of the characters in Tangerine,” said Taylor. “I have a team working on a TV series that will cover the struggle pre transition, during transition and after. I would be an exec producer.”

Meanwhile director Baker is looking to change tack on his next project, a children’s film set in Florida that would reunite many of the behind-the-camera team on Tangerine. “It will hopefully have a bigger budget,” he said. Magnolia clocked a number of international deals on the festival favourite and took $700,000 at the US box office.

Krays thriller marches to US

By Andreas Wiseman

Grindstone Entertainment Group has picked up North American distribution rights to gangster drama Rise Of The Krays from Carnaby International. Simon Cotton, Kevin Leslie and Phil Dunster star in the film.

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Grindstone has earmarked a February 2016 release through parent Lionsgate Home Entertainment. The deal was struck between Carnaby International director of international sales Tania Sarra and Grindstone head of acquisitions Stan Wertlieb.

The deal comes after Signature Entertainment shifted more than 80,000 DVD units of the film in the UK after releasing in August, making it one of the bestselling straight-to-DVD titles of the last five years. Carnaby is also handling sequel The Fall Of The Krays.

AFM briefs Bleecker Street in Denial Bleecker Street has acquired Denial starring Rachel Weisz for North America. Cornerstone is handling international sales on the film, adapted from Deborah E Lipstadt’s book about her battle with Holocaust denier David Irving.

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NonStop gets started Scandinavian distributor NonStop Ent has announced its first round of acquisitions. These include Kate Winslet-starrer The Dressmaker, Venice winner From Afar and Laurie Anderson’s Heart Of A Dog.

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Canadian businessman Ian Ihnatowycz will be at AFM this weekend to meet potential buyers for Bitter Harvest, the $20m period epic he fully financed. Max Irons, Terence Stamp, Barry Pepper and Samantha Barks star in the English-language tale about the Holodomor, the genocidal famine that killed millions in Ukraine.

Ihnatowycz, whose par-

ents fled post-war Ukraine, commissioned Richard Bachynsky Hoover and George Mendeluk to write the project; Mendeluk (Lonesome Dove: The Series) also directed. The president and CEO of Toronto-based private investment firm First Generation Capital formerly founded investment firm Acuity, which was sold in 2011 for $7.6bn.

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that’s virtually unknown in the west,” said Ihnatowycz.

“I wanted to make this story understood more widely so making it English language with a known cast will hopefully make it more appealing to a western audience.”

Los Angeles-based Spotlight Pictures will be shopping Bitter Harvest at AFM. Stuart Baird, Mendeluk, Chad Barager and Jaye Gazeley produced the film.

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Little Film flexes Physique

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Los Angeles-based The Little Film Company has come on to handle worldwide sales on The Perfect Physique and is introducing it to buyers here. Kandice King directed, wrote and produced the documentary about the life of the world’s top fitness cover models and International Federation of

Bodybuilding (IFBB) Pro Men’s Physique athletes.

The film uncovers what motivates the models to develop their bodies. IFBB Pro Men’s Physique twotime Olympia champion Jeremy Buendia is one of the key focuses alongside other luminaries such as Sadik Hadzovic, Jason Poston, late fitness icon Greg

Plitt and fitness cover models TJ Hoban, Colin Wayne and David Morin.

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Snowfort, AMP declare co-pro slate Snowfort Pictures and the UK’s Alliance Media Partners (AMP) have announced a co-production slate of genre films. The three projects will see Snowfort handling US production and AMP fully financing. First on the slate is 68 Kill from writerdirector Trent Haaga.

American Cinema finds its Valentine American Cinema International has been talking up several new titles at the market including Love Finds You In Valentine.

The roster also features The Ultimate Legacy with Brian Dennehy and action thriller The Squeeze.

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Uwe Boll’s Event Film has been enticing buyers here with the noir thriller Death Valley. Katrina Law, Victoria Pratt, Lochlyn Munro and Nick E Tarabay star in the story of four strangers on a wedding dash from Los Angeles to Las Vegas. Trouble ensues when the group

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Pulling power From brooding thrillers to romantic comedies, Jean Noh profiles the pick of South Korea’s AFM slate Deep Trap Dir Kwon Hyung-jin Deep Trap, from director Kwon Hyung-jin (Wedding Dress, The Truck) stars Don Lee (aka Ma Dong-seok) from Kundo: Age Of The Rampant and Rough Play as a psychopathic restaurant owner on a remote island. Jo Han-sun (A Better Tomorrow, My New Partner) and Kim Min-gyeong play a couple who take a healing trip to the island to recover from a miscarriage.

The owner seems pleasant but when the couple witness him commit a double murder, they are trapped with no way out.

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he is suspected of anti-Japanese activities. In post-production.

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Fourth Place Dir Jung Ji-woo Fourth Place, from film-maker Jung Jiwoo (Eungyo, Happy End), follows Junho, an 11-year-old swimmer who hopes to become an Olympic medallist but is always stuck in fourth place. Jun-ho’s records start to improve when his enthusiastic mother secures a personal coach who was once the most promising athlete on the national team. Unfortunately, the coach trains Jun-ho in the only way

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Love Guide For Dumpees, from director Ha Ki-ho (Radio Days), stars Yoon Kyesang (The Unfair, Poongsan) with Han Ye-ri (Haemoo, Kundo: Age Of The Rampant). The romantic comedy has the two leads meet at their ex-lovers’ wedding, where they get drunk and sleep together.

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Dir Lee Joon-ik Kang Ha-neul (Empire Of Lust) and Park Jung-min (Office) headline Dongju; The Portrait Of A Poet, directed by Lee Joon-ik whose box-office hit The Throne is South Korea’s submission to the Oscars’ foreign-language section. Based on the short life of the famous Korean poet Yoon Dong-ju, Dongju takes place during the Japanese colonial era when writing in Korean was prohibited. A Japanese professor sees the young poet’s talent and suggests he publish in English, but Dong-ju’s dreams are endangered when

both been dumped and seen their exes get married that day, but can’t deny the one-night stand was fantastic. So when they run into each other at a coffee shop, she suggests they fill in the coffee coupon card with 10 night stands. The film is due out in Korea at the end of November.

Dir Lee Yoon-ki This melodrama by Lee Yoon-ki (My Dear Enemy) stars Cannes award-winning actress Jeon Do-yeon (Secret Sunshine) as a mother who arrives in Finland to send her autistic son to a special camp.

Gong Yoo (The Suspect, Silenced) plays an architect with a daughter suffering from depression and a mentally unstable wife.

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Period drama The Sound Of A Flower stars Bae Suzy, a member of KoreanChinese K-pop group Miss A, as a lowborn girl who challenges the rule that only men are allowed to sing pansori —

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Dir Cho Sung-kyu Two Rooms, Two Nights, from director Cho Sung-kyu (Santa Barbara, Planck Constant), stars Kim Jae-wook (Planck

Constant, Antique), Chae Jung-ahn (Dad For Rent) and Park Gyu-ri from K-pop group Kara. When director In-seong’s ex-girlfriend Mina visits from Japan, he takes her on a seaside trip to win her back. When he fails, he asks his current girlfriend to join him but things don’t go to plan and In-seong must do all he can to keep the two women apart. The film premiered at Busan International Film Festival last month.

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INTERVIEW KANG HYE-JUNG

From learners to Veteran Korean producer Kang Hye-jung of Filmmaker R&K discusses her long collaboration with director husband Ryoo Seung-wan — including their local box-office smash Veteran — and the challenges of finding new Korean directing voices. Jean Noh reports

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orean producer Kang Hye-jung still can’t believe the massive success of her latest film Veteran, directed by Ryoo Seung-wan, her husband and partner at Filmmaker R&K. With more than 13.4 million admissions, it is now the third most-viewed film in Korean box-office history, after Roaring Currents and Ode To My Father.

“When the film’s release was postponed, well… we wrapped the shoot July 1, 2014 and it was supposed to open in early October, but CJ said that it was too good to release in the slow season,” says Kang. “That’s when I realised this film was getting acknowledged.

I was hoping the total admissions would be a little more than The Berlin File — it was hard to hope for more. At the time, 2.8 million admissions would have been enough to hit the break-even point. Now that this has happened, it doesn’t feel real.”

Film-making couple Kang met Ryoo at a workshop in 1993. Like many who had been student democracy activists in college, she wasn’t going to be able to join the mainstream workforce and was teaching at a tutorial school when she happened to see a flyer for a 16mm film-making workshop.

“I paid KW350,000 [$300] and as if by fate I became a student again after graduating college, and my husband was the teaching assistant,” she says. “We met and did a film together and then dated for about five years.”

Although Kang had gone to one of the top universities in Korea, Ryoo was a high-school graduate who, from his early teens, had raised his younger brother Ryoo Seung-bum (who features in his films including Die Bad and The Unjust). “People tried so hard to pull us apart that we became even more solid in the process,” she says.

Ryoo worked as a director’s assistant to Park Chan-wook while Kang learned the ropes of marketing and producing. In 2000, she produced Ryoo’s feature debut Die Bad, which grew out of a short that so impressed the industry that a number of professionals gave their time and effort almost for free to help him expand it into a feature.

“I always say it would be hard for a married couple even if we were running a street cart together,” says Kang. “Ryoo Seung-wan wants things that a director wants. I’m a producer and our roles will clash, as well as our

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“Instead, it totally flopped. You have to add something new and different each time, something you can get excited about.”

“We thought long and hard about why it is we want to make films and how,” she continues. “The Unjust was what saved us, and we made that film with our teeth gritted. We know now that if ever there’s a worst-case scenario where we can’t make films again, we will until that day make films that give happiness and are worthwhile and valuable.

We decided this then and we won’t abandon this because back then we really thought it would come to that — having to quit.”

‘I always say it would be hard for a married couple even if we were running a street cart together’ Kang Hye-jung, Filmmaker R&K

(Right) Ryoo Seung-wan, Kang’s husband and partner at Filmmaker R&K

personal tastes. But those are difficulties you have, whoever you work with.”

R&K’s first production, The City Of Violence, did reasonably well at the box office, sold to The Weinstein Company and garnered critical acclaim. But their second production, Dachimawa Lee, flopped. The bubble had burst on the rush to finance Korean films, investors wouldn’t take their meetings, and the couple’s production house was in danger of shutting down altogether.

“Dachimawa Lee was a big hit in 2000 [as a medium-length film that became a cult favourite] and we arrogantly thought if we remade it like this as a feature, settling for a safe bet, it would do well,” Kang recalls.

Moving on and up With 2013’s The Berlin File, Kang and Ryoo set out to make a thrilling espionage adventure, although the task proved difficult, leading to a change of focus for their subsequent project, Veteran. “Director Ryoo was thinking that in order to talk seriously with a lot of people, you have to make a film light and mainstream,” says Kang.

Veteran, about an incorruptible police detective going up against the scion of a bigbusiness family whose wealth and connections have protected him from criminal prosecution, struck a chord in Korean society. “It became a commercial hit that people come out of saying they had a good time but also found something that stayed with them,” observes Kang. “It wasn’t didactic, it was fun, and I’m looking forward to seeing how the confidence Ryoo has gained from this is reflected in his next film.”

Ryoo is currently working on the script for Gunhamdo, about forced Korean labourers who escape from the titular island during the Japanese occupation. The film is about to go into pre-production with the intention to start shooting next spring.

“Director Ryoo has declared it has to be completely different from Veteran, so I’m really looking forward to seeing how it turns out,” Kang says. “It’s about history so it will be earnest, but he won’t make it heavy.”

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FILMOGRAPHY FILMMAKER R&K* THE UNJUST (2010)

Korea admissions 2,722,996 Korea box office $18,564,370 Sold to 21 territories including France and Italy.

VETERAN (2015)

Korea admissions 13,410,905 Korea box office $92,967,575 Sold to 90 territories including the US and Latin America.

THE BERLIN FILE (2013)

Korea admissions 7,166,290 Korea box office $46,291,396 Sold to 142 territories including the Middle East and Germany.

TROUBLESHOOTER (2010)

Korea admissions 1,843,404 Korea box office $12,241,047 Sold to 16 territories including the US and Japan.

about a teenager struggling to stay in foster care, was a local arthouse sensation.

“The Korean film industry has matured and it’s hard to find new film-makers with something to say,” notes Kang. “The older ones are honing their craft, and there are plenty of directors who can make commercial films ‘well’ according to the formulae that have developed in the industry, but there are fewer energetic new ones.

So Kim

DACHIMAWA LEE (2008)

Korea admissions 628,508 Korea box office $3,650,534 Sold to Japan, North America, French-speaking and German territories, Southeast Asia and nine other territories.

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Tae-yong stands out.” Kim’s second feature, Misbehavior, is in post.

Kang agrees the international market for Korean films has changed. “It’s not like when buyers were picking up Korean films like hotcakes and of course not like the climax of the bubble of 2005-06,” she says. “But I think Korean films are recognised abroad for their quality. The established directors are recognised. But because the films are local-language-

based, they aren’t thinking of bigger markets when they make them.

“There aren’t many complete newcomers, but the directors who make good films get more opportunities. You get questions from overseas about how come there are no newcomers or about the stagnation in the industry, but you have to have lived a certain kind of life and young people these days haven’t in most cases. That’s why s Kim Tae-yong’s films seem so real.” ■

* Box-office figures according the Korean Film Council (KOFIC).

Sales data courtesy of Finecut, Showbox and CJ Entertainment.

film-makers, Kang says they don’t seek out a particular kind of project or director. “What’s most important is what kind of story they want to tell and why,” she says. “We try to get to know the person and don’t just rely on the script to make a decision. We look for people with character who can tell their stories well.”

They are currently working with young director Kim Tae-yong, whose autobiographical feature debut Set Me Free,

THE CITY OF VIOLENCE (2006)

Korea admissions 1,196,520 Korea box office $5,822,614 Sold to more than 200 territories including the US, Japan and UK.

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SPOTLIGHT GRANDVIEW

Jeff Silver

Matt Rosen

Time for talent

With writers such as Bridge Of Spies’ Matt Charman on their books, former CAA agents Matt Rosen and Jeff Silver have LA-based management firm Grandview off to a flying start. Andreas Wiseman reports

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ince launching last summer, Matt Rosen, Jeff Silver and Brian Kavanaugh-Jones’ Los Angeles-based management firm Grandview has grown its client base to almost 100. While Rosen and Silver focus on repping film and TV writers and directors, Automatik Entertainment president Kavanaugh-Jones advises on packaging. Clients include screenwriters Matt Charman (Bridge Of Spies), Mark Heyman (Black Swan) and Anna Waterhouse and Joe Shrapnel (Race). Roughly 20% of the expanding outfit’s client base is international and that percentage is growing; more actor representation could follow.

Screen caught up with former CAA agents Rosen and Silver to discuss the company and the talent landscape.

One year in, what are the most important lessons you’ve learnt?

Matt Rosen Focus. We’re one of the only management companies in the US that has a complete separation between representation and production. Our clients know their managers are not thinking about anything other than their needs.

What’s your client split between film and television?

MR I would say it’s 50/50.

Jeff Silver Something we look for in all our clients is diversification of creativity and ambition across different genres and

platforms. Mark Heyman, the writer of Black Swan and The Skeleton Twins, is a perfect example. He’s writing the feature How To Catch A Russian Spy for director Marc Webb and also a project for AMC called Marvel. Michael Mitnick is another. He started out writing great theatre. A couple of years ago he wrote a script called The Current War, which is going into production this fall with Alfonso Gomez-Rejon directing for TWC and Jake Gyllenhaal and Benedict Cumberbatch on board to star.

Off of that, he wrote an early version of Paul Thomas Anderson’s Pinocchio at Warner Bros. But we wanted to make sure he was exploring other pursuits as well so he just wrote on the new series of HBO’s Vinyl and he sold a feature idea to Big Beach Films for him to direct. There’s a lot of stuff to juggle, a lot of stuff to focus on. We need to make sure all the trains keep running.

What is Brian’s role in the company today?

MR We started the company with the belief there would be a complete separation of church and state, which has remained. We do not have a first look with Brian on films. If the client wants to show Brian film scripts, we’re happy for them to be doing that. But we advise that they should show it to a couple of people and get a sense of what they feel is the best fit.

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which has been really fun. He sold a book series that he’s going to be working on [A Foreign Country] to Colin Firth’s company Raindog. He also sold an original idea to Studiocanal.

Joe Shrapnel and Anna Waterhouse are among the most high-end, undiscovered talents in the UK. They wrote the Jesse Owens biopic Race. We’re hopeful for Berlin for that. Their range is incredible — they’ve just written Circle Of Treason at Focus Features, which is about the two women who took down one of the CIA’s biggest moles, Aldrich Ames.

Christian Contreras is an American actor-writer living in London. His script LAbyrinth is being packaged now, and he came out about eight months ago to pitch an idea called Principia, a sort of Isaac Newton detective-type tale. He sold that for six figures to Warner Bros.

Is the demand for UK-originated content growing in the US? JS There has always been that association of British writers and film-makers with elevated content. That’s now been crossbred with a global access to every piece of content that you could want.

MR I think the biggest headline is that creativity and talent know no borders.

JS There’s something exciting and challenging about breaking a voice in the States. Nothing beats the face-to-face meeting so we’ve tried to pick the right time for our clients to come out here and plan the best strategy for them.

How about the rise of Matt Charman?

MR We’re hopeful Patriot’s Day with Peter Berg will shoot next year. He is writing a pilot called Lethal at CBS. Carl Beverly and Brian Kavanaugh-Jones are producing.

Who are the UK names you have recently signed?

JS The writer Charles Cumming is one of the premier spy novelists in the world right now. We’ve worked with CAA to help bridge him into the feature space,

What’s the biggest challenge facing management companies today?

MR There’s a very blurred line between management and production. Clients want to know that their agenda is their s manager’s agenda. ■

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SPOTLIGHT WWE STUDIOS

‘A wider audience will look at a movie like The Call and not realise there’s a guy from WWE in it. So the movies have to come first’ Michael Luisi, WWE Studios

Scooby-Doo! WrestleMania Mystery

Wrestle mania

President Michael Luisi has expanded WWE Studios’ roster beyond its typical action fare to include animation and indie pick-ups. Jeremy Kay reports

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n animated Scooby Doo feature and Oculus may not seem the most obvious stablemates, but they share genealogy. Both productions arrived on screens bearing the mark of WWE Studios, the Los Angeles-based producer-financier that for the past four years has been quietly building a name for itself.

The portfolio is a little more catholic than one might expect from a film division offshoot of global brand WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment). Since Michael Luisi arrived as president in 2011, the former Miramax and Disney executive has nurtured the company’s ability to cast its net widely and be opportunistic. “I grew up with the brand when I was a kid and went to see matches in Madison Square Garden,” says Luisi.

“This gave me a chance to refocus on what it had become.” The executive did his due diligence and was inspired by what he saw: half a billion dollars in annual revenue, number one shows on networks, more than 500 million socialmedia follows… the list went on.

“The movie business made great sense to them and was a great brand enhancer,”

he says. “The Rock [Dwayne Johnson] was starting to hit his stride in film, and since then you’ve seen people like Dave Bautista and John Cena. I saw an opportunity to develop and nurture talent and have them cross over.

“But what I thought was really holding them back was they were making a certain type of movie starring a WWE talent in the lead role,” he adds. “I felt that was a narrow way to execute in the movie business.” It meant scouring for high-grade screenplays that could result

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in a quality production with possibly a WWE superstar in a supporting role. “[A wider audience] will look at a movie like [Halle Berry thriller] The Call and want to go see it and many of them will not realise there’s a guy from WWE in it [David Otunga]. So the movies have to come first.”

Luisi also pulled WWE Studios out of distribution; previously it used Samuel Goldwyn for theatrical while Vivendi was the home entertainment partner.

These days the emphasis is on the

producer-financier role, such as the Erebus Pictures joint venture with Kiss cofounder Gene Simmons (see below).

Leveraging the platforms and fanbase to assist marketing efforts is crucial, and any P&A split on a film would most likely come on the smaller titles that WWE Studios gets involved in.

The milestone year was 2013. While Dead Man Down fell below expectations via FilmDistrict, it was the first wide release after Luisi came on board and served as a statement of intent. The Call, meanwhile, opened via the Sony fold and was the first in-house production to achieve what Luisi calls “significant” success ($68m worldwide).

Besides obvious action-oriented titles such as The Marine 4: Moving Target, Vendetta and 12 Rounds 3: Lockdown, WWE Studios acquires films even if they do not contain a WWE star. It partnered with Relativity on the 2013 Toronto pickup of Mike Flanagan’s horror Oculus and Luisi was back at the festival last month for a private buyers’ screening of the director’s micro-budget Hush.

A collaboration with Warner Bros on Scooby-Doo! WrestleMania Mystery, one of the studio’s biannual direct-to-home releases, allowed the WWE superstars to hone their voice work. More importantly, the film is understood to have outsold the live-action titles by a three-to-one margin. That kind of return could keep the muscle-bound cohorts of WWE Studios s in voice work for many years to come. ■

THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO GENE Gene Simmons has thrilled rock fans for Vendetta (above); decades and wants to do the same for The Marine 4: Moving Target followers of a certain type of cinema.

“The basic premise is to do higher-end horror, sci-fi and genre films,” says the Kiss co-founder of his WWE Studios joint venture Erebus Pictures. A three-film deal starts this autumn with Temple, while Voltage Pictures handles international sales on the slate. “It’s too easy to show a close-up of a knife opening up a human body… that’s the lowest common

denominator. Some of my favourite films never showed a knife entering a human body. Psycho comes to mind.”

Simmons readily cites Nosferatu, The Most Dangerous Game, Poltergeist and The Cabinet Of Dr Caligari as other genre films he holds dear.

Erebus will make elevated genre for a price via the independent funding model of equity investment, tax incentives and international sales.

“Then you pay attention to the important stuff, which is how good is the script and can the action express itself in a way that’s believable,” he says.

That is just how the man known occasionally on stage as The Demon wants it — so long as the gore quotient stays low. “I can’t even watch a chicken get killed,” says Simmons.

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1441 3rd Street Promenade, just north of Broadway

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08:45 The King of Havana

Erotic, drama. 125mins.

Dir: Agusti Villaronga.

Scr: Agusti Villaronga, Pedro Juan Gutierrez.

Cast: Maykol David Tortolo, Yordanka Arioza. Filmax International.

The story of Reinaldo, a teenager recently escaped from a correctional facility.

His lack of scruples and sneaky ways are his only defence on the mean streets of 1990s Havana during Cuba’s “Special Period”.

One day, he meets Magda.

The two find they have a lot in common and a tragic story of impossible love ensues.

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Tikkun

Drama. 120mins.

Dir: Avishai Sivan.

Scr: Avishai Sivan.

Cast: Aharon Traitel, Khalifa Natour, Riki Blich, Gur Sheinberg.

Bleiberg Entertainment.

An ultra-orthodox scholar is revived after dying for 40 minutes. After coming back to life, he suddenly feels a strange awakening in his body and suspects that God is testing him.

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09:00 American Hero

Comedy. 86mins.

Dir: Nick Love. Scr: Nick Love. Cast: Stephen Dorff, Eddie Griffin.

Market

Protagonist Pictures.

Melvin, a reluctant Superhero, lives only for crime, women and drugs — until he realises that the only way he will ever get to see his estranged son is to go straight and fulfil his potential as a crime fighter. But in a world where no one understands Melvin’s condition, or where it came from, his incredible powers could ultimately be his demise.

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No Response. 110mins.

Beta Cinema.

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Black Rose

Action/adventure. 85mins.

Dir: Alexander Nevsky.

Scr: Brent Huff, George Saunders. Cast: Alexander Nevsky, Kristianna Loken.

Lightning Entertainment Group.

A Russian police major is enlisted by the LAPD to solve a series of gruesome murders perpetrated against young women by a sadistic sociopathic.

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Bolshoi Babylon

Documentary. 83mins.

Dir: Nick Read, Mark Franchetti. Cast: Maria Alexandrova, Maria Allash, Sergei Filin, Anatoliy Iksanov, Vladimir Urin.

Altitude Film Sales.

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09:00 Level Up

Thriller. 96mins.

Dir: Adam Randall.

Scr: Adam Randall, Gary Young. Cast: Josh Bowman, Neil Maskell.

Independent.

A fast-paced, high concept

Isn’t It Delicious

thriller following a young man who, over the course of 24 hours, must make his way across London, fighting off a host of mysterious and sinister characters to save his kidnapped girlfriend.

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The Bolshoi. Symbol of Russia, a national treasure — mystical and intriguing.

Recently, however, the theatre has been in the headlines for all the wrong reasons: intrigue, personal attacks and management changes have created lurid headlines. Now for the first time the theatre directors have allowed a film crew access backstage for an entire season.

The Devil’s Candy

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House of Shadows

Family, historical.

97mins. Dir: Dennis Bots. Scr: Tijs van Marle, Karen van Holst Pellekaan. Cast: Derek de Lint, Nina Wyss.

Sola Media.

The strong-willed Isabel takes over her ill grandfather’s search for the long-lost sword of musketeer d’Artagnan, following a secret code that leads her and her friends through caves and castles. But who can Isabel trust and who has a hidden agenda?

Thriller. 85mins.

Dir: Rossella De Venuto.

Scr: Rossella De Venuto.

Cast: Fiona Glascott, Federico Castelluccio.

Mirovision.

After receiving the news of death of uncle, Megan and her husband Leo are forced to go to Apulia to handle the unexpected inheritance that Leo receives. Enchanted by the beauty of the ancient family palace, they decide to stay for the summer. Megan is disturbed by mysterious presences.

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Horror. 90mins.

Dir: Sean Byrne.

Scr: Sean Byrne.

Cast: Ethan Embry, Shiri Appleby, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Kiara Glasco. HanWay Films.

An artist and his family move into the house of their dreams, but slowly satanic forces start to invade the artist’s work and threaten his family.

Comedy, drama.

104mins. Dir: Michael Patrick Kelly. Scr: Kathleen J Kiley, Michael Patrick Kelly. Cast: Kathleen Chalfant, Keir Dullea, Alice Ripley, Mia Dillon, Malachy McCourt. Angel Grace Worldwide.

After years of hard drinking and bad behaviour, Joan Weldon is told she is dying. With only a short time left, she tries to fix the broken relationships with her husband, children and friends — finding hope, forgiveness and love.

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My Big Night

Black comedy.

100mins. Dir: Alex De la Iglesia. Scr: Jorge Guerricaechevarria.

Cast: Raphael Mario Casas, Hugo Silva, Blanca Suarez, Santiago Segura, Carlos Areces, Carmen Machi.

Film Factory Entertainment.

Jose is sent by a job placement agency to work on the taping of a New Year’s Eve TV special, in the middle of August!

Hundreds of people like him spend a week and a half cooped up on set, day and night as they pretend to celebrate the

fake coming of the New Year over and over again.

Outside, picketers try to put a stop to the taping.

And inside, no one can leave. Meanwhile, a lunatic fan is planning to kill pop superstar Alphonso. Can Jose survive this senseless nosedive that is life?

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Plan Z

Horror. 90mins.

Dir: Stuart Brennan.

Scr: Stuart Brennan.

Cast: Stuart Brennan, Mark Paul Wake, Eugene Horan, Terry Deary.

Carnaby International Sales and Distribution.

Craig has always thought about what he might do in a zombie apocalypse.

When a deadly outbreak of Ebola erupts, his planning becomes more serious. As the virus mutates and makes the dead rise again, he must put his plan into action.

Barricading himself in his house his plan quickly unravels and he must decide on a new and more aggressive course of action. A ‘Plan Z’.

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Drama. 100mins.

Dir: Noah Buschel.

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in the village of Ambray is at the centre of a local conflict. He heads there to straighten things out. This escapade will change his life forever.

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The Fear of 13

Documentary. 95mins.

Dir: David Sington.

Dogwoof.

After 23 years on Death Row a convicted murderer petitions the court asking to be executed, but as his story unfolds, it becomes clear that nothing is what it seems.

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Thriller, drama.

93mins. Dir: Andrzej Zulawski. Scr: Andrzej Zulawski. Cast: Jonathan Genet, Sabine Azema, Jean-Francois Balmer, Johan Libereau.

Alfama Films.

Witold has just failed his law exams and Fuchs has recently quit his job at a Parisian fashion label. Both are going to spend a few days in the countryside and choose to stay at a so-called family inn. They are

A very talented young athlete is so tortured by his past that he suddenly can’t perform during games.

Through the help of his therapist he is guided through the healing process and learns to deal with his demons — and especially with his abusive father.

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Scare Campaign

Horror. 80mins.

Dir: Cameron Cairnes, Colin Cairnes. Scr: Cameron Cairnes, Colin Cairnes. Cast: Meegan Warner, Ian Meadows, Olivia DeJonge, Josh Quong Tart. Films Distribution.

Popular prank TV show ‘Scare Campaign’ has been

welcomed by a sparrow, hanged in the forest by a string and a series of strange signs. In the guesthouse, there is a servant — who has a strange, twisted mouth — and a young house mistress whom Witold falls obsessively in love with. She’s already married to a decent young man, but is she decent herself ? The third hanging, a cat, is the work of Witold. Why? Could the next one be human?

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entertaining audiences for the past five years with its mix of old-school scares and hidden camera fun.

But as we enter a new age of online TV the producers find themselves up against a new hard-edged web series which makes their show look decidedly quaint. It’s time to up the ante, but will the team go too far this time, and are they about to prank the wrong guy?

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The Squad

Action/adventure, thriller. 92mins.

Dir: Benjamin Rocher.

Scr: Francois Loubeyre.

Cast: Jean Reno.

SND Groupe M6.

Buren is an old-time

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cop who doesn’t play by the rules. In the Paris underworld his squad is never afraid to use their muscle and guns to enforce the law. With their every move under the scrutiny of Lenoir their new boss, Buren knows his time is running out.

When a heist turns into murder, Buren follows his gut and raids the house of Kasper, a former convict.

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TrustNordisk Promo Reel

Drama, documentary.

115mins. Dir: Various.

Scr: Various. Cast: Various. TrustNordisk.

‘The Lion Women’ teaser, ‘Pyromaniac’ teaser, ‘Devil’s Bride’ teaser, ‘Magnus’ promo and selected scenes from ‘The Last King’ and ‘A Conspiracy Of Faith’. The reel run in loop — full show is approx 20mins.

Open to all attendees with a Buyer’s Badge.

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The Wannabe

Drama, mystery. 90mins.

Dir: Nick Sandow.

Scr: Nick Sandow.

Cast: Patricia Arquette, Vincent Piazza, Michael Imperioli. Electric Entertainment.

Set in New York City during the 1990s, the film follows a man obsessed with mob culture who

attempts to fix the trial of John Gotti.

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11:00 The Adderall Diaries

Drama. 105mins. Dir: Pamela Romanowsky.

Scr: Pamela Romanowsky. Cast: James Franco, Amber Heard, Ed Harris.

Kathy Morgan International (KMI).

A gripping account of a young man who must navigate the unstable terrain of truth and identity led by three sources of inspiration: a new romance; the best friend who shares his history; and a notorious murder trial that reminds him of his own past.

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Baskin

Horror. 97mins.

Dir: Can Evrenol.

Scr: Can Evrenol, Ercin Sadikoglu, Cem Ozuduru, Ogulcan Eren Akay.

Cast: Gorkem Kasal, Ergun Kuyucu, Mehmet Cerrahoglu, Sabahattin Yakut, Mehmet Fatih Dokgoz, Muharrem Bayrak. The Salt Company.

A squad of unsuspecting cops go through a trapdoor to hell when they stumble upon a black mass in an abandoned building.

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Biography, drama.

100mins. Dir: Beda Docampo Feijoo.

Scr: Beda Docampo Feijoo. Cast: Dario Grandinetti, Silvia Abascal. FilmSharks International.

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Courted

Drama, romance.

98mins. Dir: Christian Vincent. Scr: Christian Vincent. Cast: Fabrice Luchini, Sidse Babett Knudsen. Gaumont.

Xavier Racine is a feared presiding judge at Criminal Court. His nickname is “The Two Figure Judge” because he always hands down sentences of at least 10 years. Everything changes dramatically the day Racine meets Ditte Lorensen-Coteret.

She is on the jury trying a man accused of homicide. Six years earlier, Racine fell in love with the same woman.

Almost in secret. She is perhaps the only woman he has ever loved.

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Families

Comedy. 110mins.

Dir: Jean-Paul Rappeneau. Scr: JeanPaul Rappeneau.

Cast: Mathieu Amalric, Marine Vacth, Gilles Lellouch, Karin Viard, Nicole Garcia, Guillaume De Tonquedec, Andre Dussollier. TF1 International.

Jerome Varenne lives in Shanghai. During a quick trip to Paris, he learns that his childhood home

Frank vs. God

Comedy. 100mins.

Dir: Stewart Schill.

Scr: Stewart Schill.

Cast: Henry Ian Cusick, Ever Carradine. 4Square Films.

After his house is destroyed by a tornado (what his insurance company deems an “act of God”), former hotshot lawyer David Frank is determined that someone must pay. He decides to serve God... with a lawsuit.

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Hevn (Revenge)

Drama. 100mins.

Dir: Kjersti G Steinsbo.

Scr: Kjersti G Steinsbo.

Cast: Siren Jorgensen, Frode Winther, Maria Bock, Anders Baasmo Christiansen, Trond Espen Seim. Beta Cinema.

Rebekka’s younger sister has committed suicide after spending years in a psychiatric institution.

After the funeral, Rebekka gets into her car and drives off — taking nothing but a kitchen knife. Set within the majestic back drop of the fjords of Western Norway, she is looking for retribution. Under a false identity, she seeks out her deceased sister’s violator and embeds herself into »

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Katie Holmes, Luke Kirby. Myriad Pictures.

Carla and Marco are poets whose art is fuelled by their emotional extremes.

When they stop taking their meds, they end up in the same psychiatric hospital. As the chemistry between them stirs up their emotions, it intensifies their mania. Despite doctors’ and parents’ attempts to separate them, they pursue their beautiful but destructive romance.

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Urge

Market 11:00 Lazy Hazy Crazy

Drama. 99mins. Dir: Luk Yee-sum. Scr: Luk Yee-sum, Luimengzi Zhao. Cast: Ashina Kwok, Fish Liew, Koyi Mak. Bravos Pictures.

A summer during which

three teenage girls date for money, while their friendship is interwoven with love and jealousy, and subsequently how they come to terms with themselves and each other.

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three men has yet to be brought to justice. An associate of the men, still mourning the loss of his friends, is convinced that it’s only a matter of time before he’s next.

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his idyllic family to now destroy his life.

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Jazbaa

Thriller. 100mins.

Dir: Sanjay Gupta.

Scr: Robin Bhatt. Cast: Irrfan Khan, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Sanjay Gupta. Arclight Films.

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Migration

Action/adventure, documentary. 90mins.

Dir: Curt Morgan.

Cast: Travis Rice, John Jackson, Pat Moore. Red Bull Media House.

Snowboarding superstar Travis Rice undertakes a 15,000-mile mission following the hydrological cycle around the Pacific Ocean’s ‘Ring of Fire’ discovering more than new terrain.

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Monkey King: The Hero (3D)

Animation, action/

adventure, family.

90mins. Dir: Tian Xiao Peng. Scr: Tian Xiao Peng, Cory Edwards.

Cast: James Hong.

SC Films International.

The all-powerful Monkey King once roamed freely between Heaven and Earth, but after angering the Gods, he was imprisoned within an ice cage deep within the mountains. Five hundred years later, monsters attack a small village and a child flees to the mountains.

Unknowingly, the child releases the Monkey King from his curse.

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Rise of the Footsoldier 2

Action/adventure.

107mins. Dir: Ricci Harnet. Scr: Ricci Harnet.

Cast: Ricci Harnet, Steven Berkoff, Luke Malby.

Carnaby International Sales and Distribution.

On December 6, 1995, three Essex gang members were brutally murdered in cold blood.

It’s now early 1997 and whoever killed the

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Tiago Correa, Ramon Gonzalez, Manolo Cruz.

Media Luna New Films.

The enigmatic masked Mirubin stands up against inefficient justice.

He dares to put up against the government, punishing paedophiles.

It is a personal war.

Does it make Mirubin a criminal? The journalist

Amira is determined to uncover the truth behind the mask. The search leads her to doubt whether she is on the right side or not.

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Touched With Fire

Romance, drama.

106mins. Dir: Paul Dalio.

Scr: Paul Dalio. Cast:

Thriller. 89mins.

Dir: Aaron Kaufman.

Scr: Aaron Kaufman.

Cast: Pierce Brosnan, Ashley Greene, Justin Chatwin, Danny Masterson. Green-Light International.

A group of friends take a lavish weekend getaway to an island where they experiment with a designer drug that makes them lose their ability to control all urges. What starts as a little fun soon goes horribly wrong as their impulses turn out to be less innocent than expected.

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Southbound

Horror. 85mins. Dir: Radio Silence, Roxanne Benjamin, David Bruckner, Patrick Horvath, Radio Silence.

Scr: Matt BettinelliOlpin, Roxanne Benjamin, Susan Burke, David Bruckner, Dallas Hallam, Patrick Horvath.

Cast: Chad Villella, Fabianne Therese, Mather Zickel, David Yow, Kate Beahan, Larry Fessenden. MPI Media Group.

On an abandoned stretch of desert highway, weary travellers — two men on the run from their past, a band on their way to the next gig, a man struggling to get home, a brother in search of his long-lost sister and a family on vacation — are forced to confront their worst fears and darkest secrets.

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Talion

Thriller. 85mins.

Dir: Martin Tuta.

Scr: Martin Tuta.

Cast: Viviana Rodriguez,

Market 11:00 Some Kind Of Hate

Thriller, horror. 82mins.

Dir: Adam Egypt Mortimer.

Scr: Adam Egypt Mortimer, Brian DeLeeuw. Cast: Grace Phipps, Ronen

Rubinstein, Lexi Atkins, Spencer Breslin, Sierra McCormick, Brando Eaton. Devilworks.

When a troubled teen is subjected to severe bullying, he accidentally conjures Moira Karp.

Once a teenage girl

pushed to suicide, Moira is now an unstoppable force on a mission of gruesome retribution.

But when she goes too far, he must prevent her from spiraling out of control.

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bound for Florida. On a whim, Claude has decided to visit his youngest daughter, Alice, who is married to an American and living in Miami. Soon we’ve rewound several weeks to follow the events leading up to Claude’s trip.

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God’s Not Dead 2

Market 13:00 Caught

Thriller. 80mins.

Dir: Maggie Kiley.

Scr: Marcy Holland.

Cast: Anna Camp, Stephanie Scott, Sam Page, Amelia Rose Blaire. MarVista Entertainment.

High school senior Allie’s secret relationship with Justin — a charming older

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Chasing Niagara

Action/adventure, documentary. 80mins.

Dir: Rush Sturges. Scr: Mark Anders. Cast: Rafa Ortiz, Rush Sturges, Evan Garcia, Gerd Serrasolses.

Red Bull Media House.

When pro kayaker Rafa Ortiz makes the decision to paddle over Niagara Falls, he sets in motion a series of events that take on a life of its own.

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The Crew

Action/adventure, thriller. 90mins. Dir: Julien Leclercq. Scr: Julien Leclercq. Cast: Sami Bouajila, Guillaume Gouix. SND Groupe M6.

Yanis Zeri is one of the most talented armoredtruck hijackers in Paris.

guy — is the highlight of her otherwise mundane teenage life. What she doesn’t know is that Justin is a married man. When his manipulative wife Sabrina discovers the affair, she enlists her reluctant younger sister Paige to help kidnap Allie to “teach her a lesson”.

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Meticulous and brilliant, he always kept himself under the radar. His friends, Franck and Nasser, and his brother Amine are the only men he trusts to work with him. But for his newest coup, Yanis brings in an explosives expert, Eric. Everything goes according to plan. They hit the jackpot! But Amine is too greedy and makes a mistake that forces them to work for a powerful dealer.

Their job: hijack a go-fast and take all the cash and drugs they can. If they fail, their families will suffer the consequences. The stakes never have been higher.

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Emulsion

Thriller, suspense.

98mins. Dir: Suki Singh.

Scr: Suki Singh. Cast: Sam Heughan, Claudia Bassols. California Pictures.

A man named Ronny

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Maze searches for his beautiful wife Isabella on the south coast of England. The resulting mystery and final resolution changes his life forever.

her sights on stealing the Thailand school partnership away from the elite Schiller School.

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Drama. 109mins.

Dir: Philippe Le Guay.

Scr: Jerome Tonnerre, Philippe Le Guay, Florian Zeller. Cast: Jean Rochefort, Sandrine Kiberlain, Laurent Lucas.

Gaumont.

At 80-plus, Claude Lherminier has lost none of his charm and presence.

Dressed in a white linen suit and a colorful cravat, we meet him on a plane

Excess Flesh

Thriller, drama. 103mins.

Dir: Patrick Kennelly.

Scr: Sigrid Gilmer.

Cast: Bethany Orr, Mary Loveless, Wes McGee, Kristin Minter, Jill Jacobson. Acort International.

Obsessed with her sexy roommate, Jill violently imprisons Jennifer in their apartment in a twisted attempt to bring them closer together.

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Florida

Drama. 110mins.

Dir: Harold Cronk.

Scr: Chuck Konzelman, Cary Solomon. Cast: Melissa Joan Hart, Jesse Metcalfe, Ernie Hudson, Ray Wise, David A R White, Pat Boone, Robin Givens. Pure Flix Entertainment/Quality Flix.

After answering a simple question by a student, a high school teacher faces an epic court case with the help of sympathetic and charismatic defence lawyer, that could cost her the career she had always dreamed of — and expel God from the classroom once and for all.

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Janis: Little Girl Blue

Documentary. 106mins.

Dir: Amy Berg. Scr: Amy Berg. Cast: Chan Marshall, Janis Joplin.

Content.

Janis Joplin was one of the world’s most influential rock icons and a goddess of sound, but there was far more to her than that.

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Jian Bing Man

Comedy, romance.

113mins. Dir: Chengpeng Dong. Scr: Chengpeng Dong. Cast: Chengpeng Dong, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Shanshan Yuan.

Wanda Media Co. A story of a disgraced actor struggling to find a way back to the top, finding the meaning of true friends on the way.

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London Heist

Action/adventure.

92mins. Dir: Mark McQueen. Scr: Craig Fairbrass. Cast: Craig Fairbrass, James Cosmo, Mem Ferda. Cinema Management Group (CMG).

Jack Cregan, career criminal, family man and vicious armed robber, is on a mission for revenge.

When Jack’s father Alfie Cregan is brutally murdered and their money from the Heathrow airport heist stolen, Jack, his cousin Sammy, and other gang members Eddie and Frank, realise there is more to the stolen money and Alfie’s murder than meets the eye.

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Neon

Documentary. 83mins.

Dir: Lawrence Johnston.

Scr: Lawrence Johnston.

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Fack Ju Goehte 2

Comedy. 110mins.

Dir: Bora Dagtekin.

Scr: Bora Dagtekin.

Cast: Elyas M’Barek, Jella Haase, Karoline Herfurth, Katja Riemann, Max von der Groeben, Gizem Emre, Volker Bruch. Picture Tree International.

Everyone loves Zeki Muller at the Goethe Comprehensive School, but he’s beginning to lose enthusiasm for his accidental vocation: waking up early, delinquent students and endless paperwork. And now, overly ambitious Principal Gerster has set

Market 13:00 London Road

Drama, musical. 93mins.

Dir: Rufus Norris. Scr: Alecky Blyth. Cast:

Olivia Colman, Anita Dobson, Tom Hardy.

Protagonist Pictures.

Documents the events of 2006, when the quiet

rural town of Ipswich was shattered by the discovery of the bodies of five women.

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nuts Colleen Collette and Colleen McKenzie love their smartphones and hate their after-school jobs at the Manitoban convenience store, Eh-2Zed. When an ancient evil rises from beneath Canada’s crust and threatens their big invitation to a Grade 12 party, the Colleens join forces with legendary man-hunter Guy Lapointe.

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Market 13:00 The Phone

Thriller. 114mins.

Dir: Kim Bong-joo. Scr: Kim Bong-joo. Cast: Son Hyun-joo, Um Jeewon, Bae Seong-woo.

Contents Panda.

One phone call will change everything. Dongho, a successful lawyer at a prestigious law firm, finds his wife murdered at home. One year after the incident, Dong-ho, Cast: David Ablon, Nancy Deaner. Mongrel International.

Celebrates the beauty, colour and vibrant history of the neon sign from an international perspective as we face a world where it will soon be lost and superceded by LED signage. Neon is 100 years old and the craft and construction has changed very little, making neon one the greenest forms of light ever produced and an amazing and enduring force of colour and light in the visual landscapes of our lives.

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Snowtime!

Animation, children’s, action/adventure.

who is now in ruins, receives a phone call from his deceased wife. He soon realises he is on the phone to her on the day of her murder. Dong-ho attempts to change the present as he steers his wife through the murder attempt over the phone.

Will he succeed in helping his wife survive? And who is behind this murder attempt?

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82mins. Dir: JeanFrancois Pouliot.

Scr: Normand CanaqMarquis, Paul Risacher.

Cast: Sandra Oh, Ross Lynch. Sola Media.

To amuse themselves during the winter school break, the kids in a small village decide to have a massive snowball fight in this animated romp through childhood.

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Uncle Nick

Black comedy. 80mins.

Dir: Chris Kasick.

Scr: Chris Kasick.

Cast: Brian Posehn, Paget Brewsster, Missi Pyle. MPI Media Group.

Lewd, drunken Uncle Nick stumbles his way through his brother’s cookie cutter-family’s annual Christmas

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gathering in the hope of scoring with a superhot party guest. But the arrival of his equally crass sister coupled with Nick’s liquor-fuelled faux pas cause family secrets to bubble to the surface that might spell disaster for the whole clan before the night is over.

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mind-reading psychic powers.

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Yoga Hosers

Horror, comedy. 100mins.

Dir: Kevin Smith. Scr: Kevin Smith. Cast: Johnny Depp, Lily-Rose Depp, Justin Long, Harley Quinn Smith.

XYZ Films.

Fifteen-year-old yoga-

Drama. 92mins.

Dir: Petri Kotwica.

Scr: Petri Kotwica, Johanna Hartikainen.

Cast: Laura Birn, Mari Rantasila, Eero Aho. Media Luna New Films.

When Lauri’s wife, Kiia, goes into premature labour, they ride down a dark country road to reach to the hospital, as fast as they can. An abrupt stop. Did they hit something? Lauri wants to move quickly to save his family. In the hospital, Kiia befriends Hanna, a woman whose husband is in a coma,

victim of a hit-and-run driver. When the truth finally dawns, will it be too late to forgive?

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Anguish

Horror, thriller. 91mins.

Dir: Sonny Mallhi. Scr: Sonny Mallhi. Cast: Ryan Simpkins, Annika Marks, Karina Logue, Cliff Chamberlain.

Lightning Entertainment Group.

Sixteen-year-old Tess may be young in age, but she’s already had several lifetimes’ worth of psychological distress, beginning when she was found banging her head into a wall at age five. Tess’s identity is horrifically disordered... because it’s being encroached upon by spirits of the dead.

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Bikini Body Conscious Living/Just Leo/ Strippers

Comedy. 95mins.

Dir: Phillip Penza.

Scr: Phillip Penza.

Cast: Audrey Beth, Toni L. Mitchell, Kamese Rasheed, Selena, Coco.

Little Books Little Films.

An up-and-coming halfhour talk show featuring

Urban Hymn

Drama. 113mins.

Dir: Michael Caton-Jones.

Scr: Nick Moorcroft.

Cast: Shirley Henderson, Ian Hart, Letitia Wright.

Metro International Entertainment.

A redemptive comingof-age story following neglected and wayward teen, Jamie, whose incredible singing voice offers an escape until her loyalties are divided.

AMC Santa Monica 6

The Virgin Psychics

Comedy. 114mins.

Dir: Sion Sono. Scr: Sion Sono, Shinichi SonoTanaka. Cast: Shota Sometani, Elaiza Ikeda, Erina Mano. GAGA Corporation.

A high-school student spends his days aimlessly.

He is in love with a girl.

Completely disregarded by her, he still dreams of becoming her true love in the future. One day, he discovers he has

Market 15:00 A Heavy Heart

Drama. 109mins.

Dir: Thomas Stuber. Scr: Thomas Stuber, Clemens Meyer. Cast: Peter Kurth, Lina Wendel,

Edin Hasanovic, Lena Lauzemis. Picture Tree International.

Former East German boxing champ Herbert has not been a winner in life since the fall of

the Berlin Wall. Now a hard-up bouncer and debt collector, he tries to revive the past by coaching his young boxing protégé, Eddy.

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Nick, a new co-worker, befriends Camryn and attempts to integrate her into his group of friends.

Just when she might be ready to start a new life, Camryn’s past comes back to haunt her.

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My Men

Market 15:00 She Remembers, He Forgets

Drama. 110mins. Dir: Adam Wong. Scr: Saville Chan, Adam Wong.

Cast: Miriam Yeung, Jan Lamb. Media Asia Distribution.

Unfulfilled at work and dissatisfied with her marital life, a middleaged woman attends a high school reunion a panel of diverse and courageous women that speak straight from the hip about a variety of fun, informative and heartfelt topics.

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Bling

Animation, action/ adventure, comedy.

82mins. Dir: Lee Kyung Ho, Lee Wonjae. Scr: Chris Denk. Cast: Carla Gugino, Taylor Kitsch, James Woods, Jon Heder.

Celsius Entertainment.

Daring beats diamonds any day.

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Closet Monster

Drama. 90mins.

Dir: Stephen Dunn. Scr: Stephen Dunn. Cast: Connor Jessup, Aaron Abrams, Isabella Rossellini.

Fortissimo Films.

Oscar Madly hovers on

and finds a floodgate of flashbacks of her salad days open before her mind’s eyes. She was inseparable with two boys 20 years ago but married one of them eventually. All the memories eventually zero in on one critical incident that changed her life and those of the boys forever.

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the brink of adulthood — destabilised by his dysfunctional parents, unsure of his sexuality and haunted by horrific images of a tragic gay bashing he witnessed as a child. A talking hamster, imagination and the prospect of love help him confront his surreal demons and discover himself.

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Dummie The Mummie and the Sphinx of Shakabah

Family, action/adventure, Fantasy. 80mins. Dir: Pim van Hoeve. Scr: Tijs van Marle. Cast: Roeland Fernhout, Julian Ras. Dutch Features Global Entertainment.

When Dummie, the little living mummy, realises he will never grow up to become a real Pharaoh, he decides to become as famous as his father the

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great Pharaoh, 4,000 years ago. His best friend Gus and his dad are keen to help. Together they will think of something to make Dummie famous.

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The Family Fang

Drama, comedy. 106mins.

Dir: Jason Bateman.

Scr: David LindsayAbaire. Cast: Nicole Kidman, Jason Bateman, Christopher Walken.

Covert Media.

A brother and sister return to their family home in search of their worldfamous parents who have disappeared.

Broadway 4

Hangman

Horror. 90mins. Dir: Adam Mason. Scr: Adam Mason, Simon Boyes.

Cast: Jeremy Sisto, Kate Ashfield. Myriad Pictures.

Returning from vacation, the Miller family finds their home has been broken into. After cleaning up the mess, they continue with their lives, shaking off the feeling of being violated. But little do they know the nightmare has just begun.

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HELP, I Shrunk My Teacher

Family, action/adventure.

90mins. Dir: Sven Unterwaldt Jr. Scr: Gerrit Hermans. Cast: Oskar

Keymar, Anja Kling, Justus Von Dohnanyi, Axel Stein, Otto Waalkes, Lina Hüesker, Georg Sulzer. ARRI Media World Sales.

The story of 11-year-old Felix, whom nobody believes has “shrunk” the universally hated school principal Dr SchmittGossenwein to a height of just 15cm. Even he does not know how it happened and whether it maybe has something to do with the ghost of the school’s founder. But he now has the problem on his hands or, more accurately, in his backpack, because that is where the mini-principal is now and she is still ranting and raving.

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Ithaca

Drama. 100mins.

Dir: Meg Ryan. Scr: Erik Jendresen. Cast: Sam Shepard, Jack Quaid, Hamish Linklater, Tom Hanks. The Exchange.

Fourteen-year-old Homer Macauley is determined to be the best and fastest bicycle telegraph messenger ever. His older brother has gone to war, leaving Homer to look after his widowed mother, his older sister and his four-year-old brother.

And so it is that as spring turns to summer, 1942, Homer Macauley delivers messages of love, hope, pain — and death — to

the good people of Ithaca.

And Homer Macauley will grapple with one message that will change him forever.

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Karma

Horror. 100mins.

Dir: Kanittha Kwanyu. Scr: Kanittha Kwanyu. Cast: Charlie Potjes, Danai Jarujinda, Atthaporn Theemakorn, Ploy Sornnarin Boonpong.

Sahamongkolfilm International.

A 19-year-old boy, Sun, becomes a fugitive after he ran over a girl in an accident. To hide from the law, he unwillingly gets ordained as a novice in a remote northeastern forest monastery, without real faith.

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Last Girl Standing

Horror. 90mins.

Dir: Benjamin R Moody.

Scr: Benjamin R Moody.

Cast: Akasha Villalobos, Danielle Evon Ploeger, Brian Villalobos, JD Carrera. Jinga Films.

Five years ago, a masked killer brutally murdered a group of friends. Since then, Camryn, the lone survivor, has struggled to reclaim her shattered life. Wracked with guilt and paranoia, Camryn leads a depressingly lonely existence until

Comedy, drama.

90mins. Dir: Emma Luchini. Scr: Nicolas Rey, Vanessa David, Emma Luchini. Cast: Manu Payet, Veerle Baetens, Fabrice Luchini, Zacharie Chasseriaud. Gaumont.

Martin, disillusioned after having lived and loved all too much, returns home to his father, a romantically inclined gardener in the autumn years of his life.

He also encounters his young 16-year-old brother, an idealistic enthusiast, whom he will incessantly try to put off love. But that is without taking into account Mathilde, a young, extravagant and capricious woman who will upset all their bearings.

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Up in the Wind

Comedy, romance.

100mins. Dir: Huatao Teng. Scr: Jingjing Bao. Cast: Ni Ni, Boran Jing.

Beijing Itime Production Co. Chen Yumeng is a writer, Wang is second generation rich. They met on a group trip to Nepal. Almost all people in this group had their own problems, including Cheng and Wang. They want to find peace in this mysterious country but finally they find out that they do not have to chase things.

Instead, maybe waiting for the wind is the best choice.

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17:00 American Secrets

Documentary. 115mins.

Dir: Claire Ragge. Scr: Claire Ragge. Cast: Kevin Phillips. Gaslight Productions.

A riveting, real-life behind-the-scenes tale of international espionage,

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corporate treason and manipulation of the electoral process by the privileged few.

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Bare

Drama. 90mins. Dir: Natalia Leite. Scr: Natalia Leite. Cast: Dianna Agron, Paz De La Huerta, Chris Zylka. Myriad Pictures.

A young girl in Nevada becomes romantically involved with a female drifter who introduces her to a life of stripping, drugs, and metaphysical experiences that teach her what happens when real life catches up with dark fantasy.

Market 17:00 Born to Dance

Drama. 96mins. Dir: Tammy Davis. Scr: Steve Barr, Casey Whelan, Hone Kouka. Cast: Stan Walker, Kherington Payne, TiaTaharoa Maipi. Cinema

Management Group (CMG).

Tu, an ambitious young man from an underprivileged South Auckland suburb, dreams of being a professional hip-hop dancer. When his

father, a Sergeant in the New Zealand Army, issues an ultimatum — find a purpose in life by the end of the summer or enlist — Tu decides that dance is his way out.

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The Burning of Wildgoose Lodge

Historical, drama.

105mins. Dir: Paul

Macardle, William Martin. Scr: William Martin. Cast: Dave Duffy, Tom Muckian, Deirdre Rice, Paul McGee, Naseen Morgan.

Leomark Studios.

An elderly priest in 19th century Ireland fails to prevent the massacre of an entire family by a secret brotherhood called the Ribbonmen. He vows to bring their leader to justice.

terrified inhabitants order them to be quiet and leave as soon as they can. The group splits in order to find help faster and that is when they find out about the evil that controls lives in the village. The only thing they now know for sure is that if they want to live they will have to be absolutely quiet.

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Documentary. 90mins.

Dir: Jon Spira. Scr: Jon Spira. Cast: Dave Prowse.

The Works.

In 1976, during the hottest summer on record, ‘Stars Wars’ was filmed in suburban north London.

Nobody involved had any idea how big the film would become, many couldn’t even remember the title. Yet, for the extras and actors in smaller roles, their faces hidden in masks and helmets, this seemingly insignificant job would go

Don’t Speak

Horror. 82mins.

Dir: Amadeu Artasona.

Scr: Jaime Sacristan.

Cast: Liliana Cabal, Saras Gil, Chrys Hobbs, Melina Mathews. Princ Films.

A group of friends party on a boat. In the distance, a small town watches them in silence. One of the boys gets injured and the group decides to seek help in the village. But, no one attends and the few

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only reveal the true nature of their disappearance but has implications for humankind, as shadowy government forces continue to cover up the truth of an ongoing alien invasion.

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Stonewall

Drama. 127mins.

Dir: Roland Emmerich.

Scr: Jon Robin Baitz. Cast: Jeremy Irvine, Jonathan Rhys Meyers. Goldcrest Films International.

A young man is caught up in the 1969 Stonewall Riots.

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Summer Camp

Market 17:00 The Exclusive: Beat the Devil’s Tattoo

Thriller. 125mins.

Dir: Roh Deok.

Scr: Roh Deok. Cast: Cho Jung-Seok. Lotte Entertainment.

Mu-hyuk writes an exclusive article about a serial killer and becomes on to colour their lives even four decades later.

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Friend Request

Horror. 100mins. Dir: Simon Verhoeven. Scr: Matthew Ballen, Philip Koch, Simon Verhoeven.

Cast: Alycia DebnamCarey, William Moseley, Connor Paolo, Brit Morgan. The Exchange.

Laura is a popular college student who lives her collegiate life to the fullest, gladly sharing it with all her Facebook friends. But when Laura accepts a friend request from a loner in her class, Marina, she unwittingly sets a terrible curse in motion.

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Family. 87mins. Dir: Phil

a star overnight. But soon he realises that his article was based on false information. To cover himself, he starts to write a fake article stating that he was threatened by the killer and ends up getting caught in the web of lies.

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Gorn. Scr: Greg Lyon.

Cast: Shannon Elizabeth, Sean Patrick Flannery.

VMI Worldwide.

A young girl’s life is turned upside down when she is asked to monkeysit Gibby, her science teacher’s beloved Capuchin monkey.

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I am a Hero

Action/adventure, thriller. 127mins. Dir: Shinsuke Sato. Scr: Akiko Nogi. Cast: Yo Oizumi, Kasumi Arimura, Masami Nagasawa. Toho Co. One day, after returning from work late in the evening, Hideo witnesses a traffic accident in which a car crashes into a nearby pedestrian, killing the victim instantly. However, despite severe injuries including a broken neck, the victim stands up and walks away. Hideo questions whether this is another one of his

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hallucinations, but strange events begin happening around him.

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in Phoenix, Arizona, on March 13 1997. Details of the incident and the events that followed have been, and continue to be, the subject of conspiracy

theories. At the same time, four friends went missing in the desert, body remains suggested an animal attack but now footage has emerged which will not

Horror. 84mins.

Dir: Alberto Marini.

Scr: Alberto Marini, Danielle Schleif. Cast: Jocelin Donahue, Diego Boneta, Mayara Walsh, Andres Velencoso. Filmax International.

Looking for fun and new experiences as counsellors at a camp in Europe, four young Americans never

Thriller, drama. 103mins.

Dir: Menno Meyjes.

Scr: Nele Meirhaeghe, Menno Meyjes. Cast: Thekla Reuten, Daan Schuurmans. Dutch Features Global Entertainment.

After a burn-out, Sabine returns to work. It becomes clear that she’s no longer in her place there. However, there’s one consolation: the encounter with the handsome Olaf, a man she remembers from her teenage years. The meeting with Olaf stirs up an important event from her childhood: the disappearance of her best friend Isabelle. She starts digging up the past and comes ever closer to the true, harrowing story of Isabel’s disappearance.

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The Phoenix Incident

Sci-fi, thriller. 81mins.

Dir: Keith Arem. Scr: Keith Arem. Cast: Troy Baker, Jamie Tisdale, Travis Willingham, Yuri Lowenthal, Liam O’Brien, James C Burns. Odin’s Eye Entertainment.

The world’s largest mass UFO sighting occurred

Market 17:00 Port of Call

Suspense, drama.

120mins. Dir: Philip Yung. Scr: Philip Yung.

Cast: Aaron Kwok, Elaine Jin, Patrick Tam.

Mei Ah Entertainment Group.

During sex, an escort tells her client she wants to die.

He squeezes her neck until she passes away. A quirky police officer investigating

the case already has enough evidence to charge the man but he wants to get to know him better.

Human nature begins where truth ends.

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Market 17:00 The Tenor Lirico Spinto

Drama, biography.

121mins. Dir: Kim Sang-man. Scr: Kim Sang-man. Cast: Yoo Ji-tae, Yusuke Iseya.

More In Group.

The talented Korean tenor Bae Jae-Chul, who penetrates the audience’s hearts through his delicate and powerful singing,

suspect that their first summer abroad could be their last. The rapid-fire spread of an extreme rageinducing infection plunges the group into a dark vortex of horror and madness and catapults them into a race against time — and each other — to find the source of the infection and make it out alive. Welcome to Summer Camp.

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19:00 The Daniel Connection

Thriller, action/ adventure. 91mins.

Dir: Stewart Menelaws.

Scr: Deborah Forrest, Stewart Menelaws, Marc Pye. Cast: Morgan Carberry, Caroline Goodall, Gray O’Brien.

is on the rise to stardom on the European opera scene. Koji Sawada, a Japanese music producer, is searching for a new tenor for an upcoming performance. Sawada invites Jae-Chul to Japan, which marks the beginning of a great friendship. But after a successful season of performances, thyroid cancer strikes Jae-Chul.

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California Pictures.

When her best friend, an underground journalist is mysteriously killed while investigating alien sightings, a feisty radio presenter realises her own life is endangered as others around her disappear and the Federal Protection Force increase in power and control.

Not knowing who to trust when she discovers film footage of a secret detention centre and then a troubled detective offers to help her, she finds the same subjects keep coming to the fore. A mixture of ancient mysteries and conspiracy theories masquerading as science fiction. However, the more she digs, the more she realises that the ancient prophecies foretelling the end of this world as we know it may be frighteningly accurate.

Kikoriki — Legend of the Golden Dragon (Work in Progress)

Animation. 60mins.

Dir: Denis Chernov.

Scr: Denis Chernov, Dmitry Yakovenko.

Art Pictures Studio.

The lovably simple residents of peaceful Kikoriki Island are thrown kicking and screaming into a big adventure, when their resident scientist invents an amazing device —

a helmet called “the Improverisor,” which takes personality traits from one person and swaps them with someone else’s.

But when spineless young Wally tries to use the untested device to cure his cowardice, he ends up even more spineless — by getting accidentally body-switched with a squirmy little caterpillar.

Now he’s got more to fear than he ever dreamed.

You Will Kill

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Horror, drama. 90mins.

Dir: Marwan Mokbel.

Scr: Marwan Mokbel.

Cast: Tara Shayne, Thomas Garner.

Egywood.

After a game with a spirit board goes horribly wrong, a vengeful spirit forces Sara to either watch her loved ones die one after the other, or give in to the spirit by killing one of them with her own hands.

Market 19:00 Woodlawn

Drama. 130mins.

Dir: Andrew Erwin, Jon Erwin. Scr: Jon Erwin, Quinton Peeples.

Cast: Jon Voight, Sean Astin, Caleb Castille.

Pure Flix Entertainment/ Quality Flix.

In 1973, a spiritual awakening captured the heart of nearly every player of the Woodlawn High School football team, including its coach Tandy Gerelds.

Their dedication to love and unity in a school filled with

racism and hate leads to the largest high school football game ever played in the torn city of Birmingham, Alabama, and the rise of its first African American superstar, Tony Nathan.

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