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West Is West<br />
Cast: Om Puri, Linda Bassett, Jimi Mistry, Emil Marwa, Ila Arun<br />
Genre: Comedy<br />
Director: Andy De Emmony<br />
Writer: Ayub Khan-Din<br />
Producer: Leslee Udwin<br />
Status: Completed<br />
TIcon Entertainment Int’l<br />
Anthony Buckner<br />
isabelle@icon-entertainment.co.uk<br />
Home Office: +44 20 8492 6300<br />
17 Gresse St., London, W1T 1QL, <strong>UK</strong><br />
Synopsis: Manchester, North of England, 1975. The now much diminished, but still claustrophobic and dysfunctional, Khan family<br />
continues to struggle <strong>for</strong> survival. Sajid, the youngest Khan, the runt of the litter, is deep in pubescent crisis under heavy assault<br />
both from his father's tyrannical insistence on Pakistani tradition, and from the fierce bullies in the schoolyard. So, in a last,<br />
desperate attempt to 'sort him out', his father decides to pack him off to Mrs Khan No 1 and family in the Punjab, the wife and<br />
daughters he had abandoned 35 years earlier. It is not long be<strong>for</strong>e Ella Khan (Mrs Khan No 2), with a small entourage from<br />
Sal<strong>for</strong>d, England, swiftly follows to sort out the mess, past and present.<br />
Wild Target<br />
Cast: Emily Blunt, Bill Nighy, Rupert Grint, Rupert Everett, Martin<br />
Freeman, Eileen Atkins<br />
Genre: Comedy<br />
Director: Jonathan Lynn<br />
Writer: Lucinda Coxon<br />
Producer: Martin Pope, Michael Rose<br />
Status: Completed<br />
TProtagonist Pictures<br />
Ben Roberts +44 7872 692 573<br />
ben@protagonistpictures.com<br />
Home Office: +44 20 7734 9000<br />
7 -12 Noel St. 4th Fl., London, W1F 8GQ, <strong>UK</strong><br />
Synopsis: Rose (Emily Blunt) is a beautiful, quick-witted con-artist, who makes a killing selling fake paintings. But when she scams an art<br />
loving gangster (Rupert Everett) he sets Europe's most efficient and expensive assassin on her tail. Enter Victor Maynard (Bill<br />
Nighy). He sets out on the assignment with his usual lethal professionalism. Yet every time Victor has Rose in his sights<br />
something holds him back. Entranced by the spirited Rose, Victor spares her life and becomes her protector, accidently<br />
acquiring a young apprentice (Rupert Grint) into the bargain. Now on the run, Victor has to fight both his feelings <strong>for</strong> Rose and<br />
the murderous attentions of 'the second most expensive' assassin (Martin Freeman), sent to finish off all three of them.<br />
The Woman In Black<br />
Genre: Horror<br />
Director: James Watkins<br />
Writer: Jane Goldman<br />
Producer: Richard Jackson, Simon Oakes<br />
Status: Pre-Production<br />
TExclusive Film Distribution<br />
Alex Walton +1 310 300 9000<br />
rriskas@exclusivemedia.com<br />
In Toronto: <strong>UK</strong> Film Export Office, Hyatt Regency<br />
Home Office: +44 20 3002 9510<br />
2nd Fl., 52 Haymarket, London, SW1Y 4RP, <strong>UK</strong><br />
Synopsis: Young lawyer Arthur Kipps leaves his son in London to settle the legal affairs of the recently deceased Alice Drablow. He<br />
discovers a series of inexplicable accidents and suicides have <strong>for</strong>ced the parents of her village to barricade their children<br />
indoors, as if protecting them from an unseen foe. When Arthur stays the night all alone at the Drablow's <strong>for</strong>eboding Hse., he<br />
hears the screams of a drowning child and sees decaying children listlessly wandering the marshes. He will soon discover these<br />
haunting figures share the same date of death, and the same killer. The ghost of a scorned woman, who was unable to save her<br />
beloved son Nathaniel from drowning, The Woman In Black takes on a horrifying <strong>for</strong>m. Her veil hides gaping sockets eaten away<br />
by scavengers and her curse hides an even darker secret !whenever she is seen, a child dies. In the face of hostility from the<br />
local residents, Arthur dredges up Nathaniel's skeleton and buries it with his mother, hoping the evil spectre will finally rest in<br />
peace. In a cruel twist of fate the The Woman In Black turns her claws toward Arthur's young son. To avoid a fate worse than<br />
death Arthur must now sacrifice everything he holds dear.<br />
The Woman In The Fifth<br />
Cast: Ethan Hawke, Kristin Scott Thomas<br />
Genre: Thriller<br />
Director: Pawel Pawlikowski<br />
Status: Production<br />
TMemento <strong>Films</strong> Int’l<br />
Tanja Meissner +33 6 22 92 48 31<br />
sales@memento-films.com<br />
Home Office: +33 1 53 34 90 20<br />
9 Cité Paradis, Paris, 75010, France<br />
Synopsis: American writer Harry Ricks arrives in Paris to be closer to his daughter, who recently moved there with her mother. Completely<br />
broke, he accepts a job as a night guard <strong>for</strong> the local Balkan mafia. Down in a basement, his only task is to push a button when<br />
a bell rings. The tranquillity of the night, he hopes, will help him focus on his new novel. Soon his days become more exciting<br />
than his nights when he starts a romance with Margit, a mysterious and elegant widow who sets strange rules to their meetings:<br />
she will only see him at her apartment in the fifth arrondissement, at 5pm sharp, twice a week. And he's to ask no questions<br />
about her work, her past, her life... As people suddenly start dying around Harry, he begins to believe that a dark <strong>for</strong>ce has<br />
entered his life, punishing anyone who has recently done him wrong. When the police accuse him of murdering his neighbour,<br />
Harry tries to use his weekly visits in Margrit's apartment as an alibi, only to find out she hasn't lived at this address <strong>for</strong> the past<br />
15 years...<br />
Toronto 2010: <strong>UK</strong> <strong>Films</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>Sale</strong> 26
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