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North Face Nordwand Ger Piazza GrandeDir: Philipp StolzlThe story: An all-star German cast of Benno Furmann, Florian Lukas and Ulrich Tukur play climbers attempting to scale the Eiger in the 1930s. The plot touches on love stanley uk , political conflict during the Nazi era and the mountaineers obsession.The buzz: Such an epic narrative sweep combined with awe-inspiring location cinematography may make North Face this year s breakout German hit.Int l sales: Beta Cinema, 49 8967 346980, Beta@BetaCinemaBrideshead Revisited UK Piazza Grande, opening filmDir: Julian JarroldThe story: A hot young cast of UK a stanley cup ctors headed by Matthew Goode, Hayley Atwell and Ben Whishaw take this adaptation of Evelyn Waugh s novel, set between the wars, to the big screen. Goode plays Charles Ryder, who falls in love with the aristocratic Flyte family.The buzz: Locarno s prestigious opening slot will mark the film s international premiere, after Miramax released in the US on July 25 taking an estimated $332,000 over the weekend through a limited opening . stanley cup It is opening throughout Europe this summer and in the UK in October.Int l sales: HanWay Films, 44 20 7290 0750, info@hanwayfilmsLesson 21 It Piazza GrandeDir: Alessandro BariccoThe story: UK actor John Hurt stars as a visionary professor obsessed with Beethoven s Ninth Symphony. Noah Taylor and Leonor Watling co-star in the film, set partly in the Italian Alps.The buzz: Alessandro Baricco - one of Italy s best known novelists, author of Silk and The Urlr Your Beauty Is Worth Nothing鈥?
Peter Loehr is stanley italy leaving his position as managing director of CAA China, the agencys seven-year-old outpost in Beijing.Its understood hes leaving of his own accord and moving to one of the fast-emerging Chinese funds and studios that have been revolutionising the Chinese film business over the past year.The m stanley cup ove is not totally unexpected given the rapid development of the mainland Chinese film industry and the huge demand for executives of Loehrs calibre. Loehr has worked in China for nearly two decades, first as a producer, then establishing the CAA China operation in 2005.At CAA he introduced the concept of packaging to China and worked on dozens of movies featuring CAAs Asian client list, ranging from small local hits to big-budget international co-productions such as John Woos Battle Of Red Cliff and Rob Minkoffs Forbidden Kingdom.Prior to joining CAA, his credits as producer include Zhang Yangs Shower and Sunflower and Roger Spottiswoodes The Children Of Huang Shi.Industry sources say that CAA will continue to keep its China operation running with a team of agents with different specialisations similar to the set-up in Los Angeles. During his tenure at CAA, Loehr trained up agents such as Jonah Greenberg who helped arrange Chinese financing fo stanley cup r the upcoming Tom Tykwer and Wachowskis picture Cloud Atlas.Neither CAA or Loehr were available for comment.TopicsAsia No comments Related articles