Revolver turns Heartbreaker, Fortissimo finds Promised Land
Revolver Entertainment has acquired Pascal Chaumeil’s debut feature Heartbreaker from French sales company Kinology, and will release the film in the UK and Ireland in June (news).
Billed as a romantic comedy, the film stars Romain Duris as a ladies’ man hired to break up unsuitable romances. He may have met his match when he encounters the beautiful Vanessa Paradis. Completing the third angle of the triangle is British actor Andrew Lincoln.
Chaumeil previously served as second unit director for Luc Besson on The Fifth Element and The Messenger: Joan of Arc. The film is written by Jeremy Doner and Laurent Zeiton and produced by Zeiton alongside Yohan Gromb and Nicolas Duval-Adassovsky, with French legend Thierry Arbogast as cinematographer.
Revolver Managing Director Justin Marciano said, “We instantly saw Heartbreaker as the perfect romantic summer movie. We hope it succeeds for us in the way our release of the French thriller Tell No One did [+see also:
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The deal was negotiated between Revolver’s Nick Savva and Yogita Puri, and Kinology Managing Director Gregoire Melin.
Meanwhile, Fortissimo Films have signed up as sales agents for Michael Winterbottom’s The Promised Land. The film stars Colin Firth, Jim Sturgess and Matthew MacFadyen and deals with the division of Palestine in 1948 and the creation of Israel.
The film, which had development funding from the UK Film Council, will be produced by Andrew Eaton for his and Winterbottom’s Revolution Films and is budgeted at £3m.
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