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The Magnificent Eleven Cast: Sean Bean, Dougray Scott, Robert Vaughn Genre: Comedy Director: Irvine Welsh Status: Pre-Production TStealth Media Group Juan Vista Neis +1 310 614 7107 juan@stealthmediagroup.com In Toronto: UK Film Export Office, Hyatt Regency Home Office: +44 1273 739 182 14 Regent Hill, Brighton, BN1 3ED, UK Synopsis: A modernization of the classic Western The Magnificent Seven, in which the Cowboys are a local amateur soccer team, the Indians run a nearby Tandoori restaurant, and the bandits are a group of menacing thugs led by a maniac known simply as Blonde Bob. Manor Hunt Ball Genre: Horror Director: Ross Boyask Writer: Chris Regan Status: Pre-Production TStealth Media Group Juan Vista Neis +1 310 614 7107 juan@stealthmediagroup.com In Toronto: UK Film Export Office, Hyatt Regency Home Office: +44 1273 739 182 14 Regent Hill, Brighton, BN1 3ED, UK Synopsis: A gang of local working class youths crash a high class party at a country manor where they discover that the modern gentry are now hunting people instead of foxes. Running for their lives the gang must survive and escape before they are picked off one by one. Manor Hunt Ball is the ultimate class war! Miral Cast: Hiam Abbas Genre: Drama Director: Julian Schnabel Writer: Rula Jebreal Producer: John Killik Status: Completed TPathé Int’l Mike Runagall +44 7795 847 594 sales@patheinternational.com Home Office: +44 20 7323 5151 6 Ramillies St., London, W1F 7TY, UK Synopsis: Jerusalem, 1948. On her way to work, Hind Husseini comes across 55 orphaned children in the street. She takes them home to give them food and shelter. Within six months, 55 had grown to almost 2000, and the Dar Al-Tifel Institute was born. At the age of 7, Miral was sent to the Institute by her father following her mother's death. Brought up safely inside the Institute's walls, she is naïve to the troubles that surround her. Then, at the age of 17, she is assigned to teach at a refugee camp where she is awakened to the reality of her people's struggle. When she falls for political activist, Hani, she finds herself torn between the fight for the future of her people and Mama Hind's belief that education is the road to peace. From Julian Schnabel, director of THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY, BEFORE NIGHT FALLS and BASQUIAT, comes MIRAL, based on the book by Rula Jebreal and produced by Jon Kilik. MIRAL stars Hiam Abass and Freida Pinto. Mission London Genre: Comedy Director: Dimitar Mitovski Writer: Alex Popov, Dimitar Mitovski, John Drydon Producer: Dimitar Mitovski, Status: Completed TStealth Media Group Juan Vista Neis +1 310 614 7107 juan@stealthmediagroup.com In Toronto: UK Film Export Office, Hyatt Regency Home Office: +44 1273 739 182 14 Regent Hill, Brighton, BN1 3ED, UK Synopsis: When a concert to celebrate Bulgaria joining the EU is being planned at the Embassy in London by VARADIN the new ambassador, he needs to ensure the Queen of England attends. Things don't quite go to plan!With corrupt staff and criminal gangs operating out of the kitchen, Varadin falling in love with a stripper, and a little misunderstanding with a PR firm that provides look-alike royalties - The ambassador's simple task start to turn into a chaotic nightmare. Monsters Cast: Scoot McNairy, Whitney Able Genre: Science-fiction Writer/Director: Gareth Edwards Producer: Allan Niblo, James Richardson Status: Completed TProtagonist Pictures Ben Roberts +44 7872 692 573 ben@protagonistpictures.com Home Office: +44 20 7734 9000 7 -12 Noel St. 4th Fl., London, W1F 8GQ, UK Synopsis: Six years ago NASA discovered the possibility of alien life within our solar system. A probe was launched to collect samples, but crashed upon re-entry over Central America. Soon after new life forms began to appear there and half of Mexico was quarantined as an INFECTED ZONE. Today, the American and Mexican military still struggle to contain "the creatures"...... Our story begins when a US journalist agrees to escort a shaken American tourist through the infected zone in Mexico to the safety of the US border. Toronto 2010: UK Films for Sale 16
Mr. Nice Cast: Rhys Ifans, Chloe Sevigny, David Thewlis, Omid Djalili, Luis Tosar, Elsa Pataky, Crispin Glover, Jamie Harris Genre: Comedy Director: Bernard Rose Writer: Bernard Rose, Howard Marks Producer: Luc Roeg, Daniel Shephard, James Perkins, Mark Albella, Denise O'Dell, Andrew Orr Status: Completed TIndependent Abigail Walsh +44 7968 109 251 abigail@independentfilmcompany.com Home Office: +44 20 7257 8734 32 Tavistock St., London, WC2E 7PB, UK Synopsis: Nuclear physicist, marijuana connoisseur, school teacher, money launderer, gentleman, fugitive and spy!Raconteur, travel agent, writer, philosopher of science and supposed 20th century gay icon!Rock Music tour promoter, public speaker, board game appreciator and the biggest dope smuggler on the planet. MR NICE. From: Kenfig, South Wales, 1945. To: Oxford University, Germany, London, Ireland, Pakistan, Amsterdam, Thailand, Ibiza, Majorca, Manila, America. Jail. Contact with: the mafia, CIA, IRA and MI6. 43 aliases, 4 kids, 89 phone lines, 25 companies throughout the world and over one million books sold. We follow Howard's prodigious rise. And fall. This is the frequently hilarious, occasionally sad, and often surreal story of Howard's life so far. "The most sophisticated drugs baron of all time!He sounds like Richard Burton and looks like a Rolling Stone" - The Daily Mail Nativity Cast: Martin Freeman, Ashley Jensen, Marc Wootton, Jason Watkins Genre: Comedy Writer/Director: Debbie Isitt Producer: Nick Jones Status: Completed TProtagonist Pictures Ben Roberts +44 7872 692 573 ben@protagonistpictures.com Home Office: +44 20 7734 9000 7 -12 Noel St. 4th Fl., London, W1F 8GQ, UK Synopsis: MARTIN FREEMAN is Mr. Maddens, a frustrated, under-achieving, primary school teacher. His long time adversary, Gordon Shakespeare, (JASON WATKINS), is the teacher at the posh independent school up the road. Every year, the two schools are embroiled in a bitter rivalry to achieve a 5-star review for their Christmas nativity play. Maddens' class always comes runner up. The story of his life. This year, Maddens makes an idle boast to Shakespeare that his school's showstopping musical has attracted the attention of his ex-girlfriend, Jennifer Lore (ASHLEY JENSEN) -who happens to be a big time Hollywood Producer. They want to make a movie starring his kids... Hollywood is coming to Coventry! When over-enthusiastic new classroom assistant, Mr Poppy (MARC WOOTTON), overhears the lie, suddenly Maddens finds himself a local celebrity, and at the centre of quarelling parents, a wannabe show director, and more Mary and Josephs than he can shake a stick at! Now all he needs to do is persuade Jennifer to make Hollywood pay attention and make their dreams come true... NATIVITY is a sweet, heartwarming family comedy of how nothing can get in the way of the true spirit of Christmas. Neds Cast: Marianna Palka Genre: Drama Writer/Director: Peter Mullan Producer: Alan De La Mata Status: Completed TWild Bunch Silvia Simonutti +33 6 20 74 95 08 ssimonutti@wildbunch.eu Home Office: +33 1 53 01 50 30 99 rue de la Verrerie, Paris, 75004, France Synopsis: "If you want a Ned, I‟ll give you a fucking Ned!” Glasgow, 1973. On the brink of adolescence, young John McGill‟s about to start secondary school. He‟s a bright boy, a sensitive boy, eager to learn, but the cards are stacked high against him. The McGill family‟s dirt poor, his hated father‟s a drunken bully. His teachers – punishing John for the „sins‟ of his older brother Benny – are down on him from the start. John‟s on his own. And then there‟s the gangs. The Neds. Non-Educated Delinquents. The bad boys with weapons and attitude: cheap drugs, glam rock, fumbling sex, the violence and the camaraderie of the streets. Local monsters. Local heroes. Benny‟s fearsome reputation buys John protection, and then a way in. Scared, resentful, full of rage, John makes his decision. If no one else will give him a chance: fuck them. John takes to the savage life of the streets with a vengeance. But as his rage and frustration spin him further and further out of control, he is left facing a blank wall. No future. With one extraordinary chance of redemption. Night Train Cast: Sigourney Waever, Michael Madsen, Raoul Bova, Toby Jones Genre: Thriller Director: Nicolas Roeg Writer: Nicolas Roeg, Michael Allin, Martin Amis Producer: Steven Soderbergh, Luc Roeg, Ann Carli Status: Pre-Production TIndependent Abigail Walsh +44 7968 109 251 abigail@independentfilmcompany.com Home Office: +44 20 7257 8734 32 Tavistock St., London, WC2E 7PB, UK Synopsis: Kansas City Police Officer Mike Hoolihan is assigned the task of uncovering the motive for the brutal killing of the flawlessly beautiful Jennifer Rockwell-her close friend and daughter of the Police Chief. As the investigation continues and reaches its conclusion, Mike discovers that we can never truly know those we are closest to. Toronto 2010: UK Films for Sale 17
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