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NEWS Tuesday 21 May 2019
DAY 8

THE BUZZ

OF THE DAY Spike Lee with Mia Frye, INDIE FILM
star of Luc Besson’s
The Dancer in Cannes. HIT AFTER
will celebrate its achievements with the GETS SEQUEL
inaugural Diversity in Cannes Global
Excellence Film Awards. AT VOLTAGE
“At a time when worldwide
representation of women, people of HE HIGHEST grossing
colour and other marginalised groups in independent film of 2019,
film is disproportionate to the general After, is getting a sequel. it
market, I am committed to the fight for was announced in Cannes.
diversity and inclusion, by any means T Stars Josephine Langford and
necessary, at the Cannes Film Festival,” Hero Fiennes Tiffin will reprise their roles as
said Yolonda Brinkley, creator of Tessa and Hardin in this new adult
Diversity in Cannes. “While Hollywood romance that originally brought in over
and the global film community have $50m at the international box office.
recently jumped on the diversity Voltage is launching sales on the sequel in
bandwagon, I am proud to celebrate 10 Cannes. After opened at number-one in
years of pioneering inclusion and I’m 17 countries and has since taken over
grateful for the global supporters who $7.7m in France, over $8.2m in Germany
inspire my continuous efforts to showcase and $7m in Italy. Other high-performing
© DR and celebrate under-represented voices at territories include Russia, which took of
the Cannes Film Festival, the world’s
$2.8m, Benelux which took over $1.4m
DIVERSITY most prestigious film industry event.” and Scandinavia which took over $2.7m.
Expanding the inclusion efforts to the
The producers are Anna Todd, the author
Palais des Festivals, Diversity in Cannes
of the international bestselling novel on
IN CANNES will host two professional screenings in which the film is based, Jennifer Gibgot
the Cannes Short Film Corner. The
(17 Again, Step Up), Wattpad’s Aron Levitz
Global Women of Color film collection
and Eric Lehrman, Andrew Panay,
will be screened Wednesday, 22 May at
CalMaple’s Mark Canton (Den of Thieves,
CELEBRATES 15.30, followed by the Black Lives Black 300) and Courtney Solomon (Cake, An
American Haunting). Voltage’s Nicolas
Stories Matter Screening.
Chartier and Jonthan Deckter will
In the midst of the multiple screenings
10 YEARS and awards, Diversity in Cannes has executive-produce. Anna Todd, in addition
planned a lively after-party Tuesday, May
to serving as producer, has written the
script with Mario Celaya. “We’ve already
21, 2019 at a secret location, featuring
the music of celebrity DJ Trauma, who
currently tours with comedians Dave seen what this magic mix of a compelling
narrative, extremely hardworking talent
HE 10TH edition of the programme consists of two short-film Chappelle and Tiffany Haddish, and has and insatiable fans can do at the box office
Diversity in Cannes showcases, an awards reception, the worked with tennis superstar Serena on After,” Deckter said. “We partnered
programme, the independent international premiere of Made in His Williams as well Jay-Z and Beyoncé. with incredibly strategic international
global film movement Image, an anti-bullying film by 12-year- This year’s initiative is presented with distributors on the first installment of
T promoting inclusion at the old Anah Ambuchi, and an all-star film support from Viola Davis’ JuVee After, who were able to unlock the film’s
Cannes Film Festival, will run for three panel featuring Rob Morgan and Yolonda Productions; director, Crystle C. immense value and we can’t wait to get
days from May 20-22. Ross of the film Bull, an Official Roberson; Upscale Magazine; actor and back to work on the second.” Anna Todd
The line-up includes Diversity Day on Selection of the Festival. Immediately producer Julius Tennon; and AfroLife. added: “I am beyond excited to begin the
20 May at the Radisson Blu Hotel. The following the panel, Diversity in Cannes TV.✦ Liza Foreman sequel to After! The fans made the first
film a worldwide success and we are ready
to bring them more of Hardin and Tessa in
the sequel. This next film will truly capture
EXCLUSIVE the heart and feel of the books.” The
GERMAN PRODUCTION CO. WEYDEMANN
After sequel is the latest film to be added
BROS. GREENLIGHTS INTERNATIONAL SLATE to Voltage’s production and sales slate for
Cannes. The company recently launched
sales on the action-thriller The Minuteman
NAMED one of Variety’s 10 Producers To rollercoaster of feelings and alienating Germany, where the clock is ticking for starring Liam Neeson and the gangster
Watch for 2019, German production friends and work colleagues. Kai Müller. His psychotic, violent brother biopic Lansky starring Harvey Keitel, Emory
entity, Weydemann Bros. is moving full- An August/September 2019 shoot is Mirko has just been granted an early Cohen, Sam Worthington and Austin
steam ahead with a new slate. planned in Leipzig and Berlin, in German. release from prison and by the afternoon, Stowell. ✦
New projects include Sarah Blaßkiewitz’s Broadcaster ZDF is backing the film, with he is expected come around to collect the Liza Foreman
feature debut Schoko (Brownie) which is the regional fund MDM Mitteldeutsche money Kai has been holding for him.
set to star Haley Louise Jones. Jones will Medienförderung and Kuratorium Junger There is just one problem — all of the
play a 30-year-old woman of African Deutscher Film. money’s been spent. Welcome to a day in
descent whose life in Leipzig is turned Run by the Wedemann brothers, Jakob the life of Kai Müller — husband, father,
upside-down by the arrival of an and Jonas (and producers Yvonne Wellie and employee in a chicken-processing
unknown half-sister who announces the and Milena Klemke), the company is also factory in the outskirts of Duisburg. Two NEWS THE OFFICIAL DAIL Y
death of their father. Lorna Ishema, Anne backing Damian John Harper’s third very different brothers have a problem to
Haug, Maximilian Brauer, and Anneke Kim feature, Fresh, which is an adaptation of solve. JOIN
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Sarnau round out the cast. Scottish writer Mark McNay’s award- The German-language film is planned to
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other before negotiating a potential trip big-screen adaptation, the film is in Germany. The project is also backed by
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