LGM Cinéma backs Cavayé’s A Bout Portant
Shooting started yesterday in the Paris area on Fred Cavayé’s second feature, the thriller A Bout Portant (“At Point-Blank Range”).
After the success of Anything for Her [+see also:
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Co-written by the director and his usual collaborator Guillaume Lemans, the film centres on Samuel (Lellouche), who has a happy relationship with his partner Nadia: he is soon to become a nurse and she is expecting her first child. But their life is turned upside down when Nadia is kidnapped under Samuel’s helpless gaze.
When he wakes up, his mobile phone rings: he has three hours in which to help a man under police surveillance escape from the hospital where he works. His fate is now tied up with that of Sartet (Zem), a criminal who is actively sought by every police department. If he wants to see his wife alive again, Samuel must act quickly.
A Bout Portant is produced by Jean-Baptiste Dupont and Cyril Colbeau-Justin for LGM Cinéma. Its €10.8m budget includes €2.12m in co-production support and pre-sales from TF1 Films Productions.
Also pre-bought by Canal+ and TPS, the film, whose shoot will last until March 5, is co-produced by Belgian companies Motion Investment Group and Nexus Factory, as well as by Gaumont. The latter will handle French distribution and international sales.
LGM Cinéma is on a roll at the moment: in post-production, the company has Christopher Thompson’s Bus Palladium [+see also:
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(Translated from French)
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