17/05/2012

The Antwerp/L.A. based Corsan World sales announced yesterday in Cannes it has added the Academy-award-winning director Paul Haggis (Crash) to its A-star director roster that also includes Lee Tamahori, Roland Joffe and actors Robert De Niro and John Travolta in Mark Steven Johnson’s Killing Season.

Haggis’ new film Third Person follows three different storylines that focus on the city landscapes of New York, Rome and Paris and explore themes such as sexuality, loss and desperation. Liam Neeson and Olivia Wilde are in final negotiations to star and filming is set to start in September.

Writer/director Haggis said: "Third Person is a script where life can change on the turn of the page. It is a project that Liam and I identified to work on together and then finding the right financier became the key that we were looking for to unlock what we hope is a great film."

Corsan World Sales President Pascal Borno said: “Over the past two years we have really been able to plant our flag in the ground by bringing films to buyers with top directors and stars that will succeed in the international marketplace. Our focus has been on quality rather than quantity and the result speaks for itself.”

The fully integrated international film financing, production and sales group Corsan has four other high-profile projects in Cannes: Emperor which reunites Tamahori and writer Michael Thomas from The Devil’s Double. The thriller, starring Dominic Cooper, is set to start filming this autumn in Spain, Belgium and Germany.

The award-winning director of The Killing Fields Joffe will finish his action adventure filmSingularity this summer, which is set in Australia and India. Josh Hartnett (Pearl Harbor) and Bipasha Basu (Dhoom: 2) play the leads.

Meanwhile, director Mark Steven Johnson (Daredevil, Ghost) has now completed the shooting of Killing Season co-starring Robert De Niro and John Travolta. The film is co-produced by Corsan in partnership with Millennium Films. Finally Corsan’s CEO Paul Breuls is discussing his film The Prince of Cool focusing on the legendary jazz musician Chet Baker in Cannes.