The 2012 American Film Market (AFM), set for October 31-November 7 in Santa Monica will screen more than 420 motion pictures, including 77 world premieres and 306 market premieres, for thousands of film buyers and industry professionals from more than 70 countries. Jonathan Wolf, AFM Managing Director and Executive Vice President of the Independent Film & Television Alliance, made the announcement today.
Films making their World Premieres include: A Glimpse Inside the Mind of
Charles Swan III, from writer/director Roman Coppola and starring
Bill Murray,
Jason Schwartzman and
Charlie Sheen (Independent); The Colony, starring
Laurence Fishburne and
Bill Paxton (Sierra/Affinity); Cottage Country, starring
Malin Akerman and
Lucy Punch (VMI Worldwide); The Frozen Ground, starring
Nicolas Cage,
John Cusack and
Vanessa Hudgens (Voltage Pictures); Nous York, starring Leila Bekhti and Géraldine Nakache (Pathé International); The Numbers Station, starring
John Cusack and
Malin Akerman (Content); and Pawn, starring
Nikki Reed and
Ray Liotta (Red Sea Media) and Summer In February, starring
Dominic Cooper and
Emily Browning (Speranza13 Media).
Among the 306 films set to make their Market Premieres are The ABCs of Death, starring Ingrid Bolsø Berdal and Iván González (Magnolia Pictures); Come Out and Play, starring Daniel Gimenez Cacho and
Vinessa Shaw (Celsius Entertainment); Ginger and Rosa, starring
Christina Hendricks and
Elle Fanning (The Match Factory); Here Comes the Devil, starring Francisco Barreiro and Laura Caro (MPI Media Group); Kon-Tiki, starring Pål Sverre Valheim Hagen (HanWay Films); Quartet, starring
Maggie Smith and
Michael Gambon, and directed by
Dustin Hoffman (HanWay Films); Simon Killer, starring
Brady Corbet and Mati Diop (Fortissimo Film); and Zaytoun starring Stephen Dorff and Alice Taglioni (Pathé International).
Other Market Premieres include: After, starring Steven Strait and Karolina Wydra (Jinga Films); The Assassins, starring
Chow Yun-Fat, Yifei Liu and written by Bin Wang (Easternlight); Between Us, starring
Melissa George,
Julia Stiles, and
Taye Diggs (Premiere Entertainment Group); The Body, starring Belén Rueda and Hugo Silva (DeAPlaneta Internacional); Boxing Day, starring
Danny Huston and Matthew Jacobs (Independent); The Brass Teapot, starring
Juno Temple,
Alexis Bledel, and
Annette Bening (TF1 International); Fin (The End), starring Maribel Verdu (Film Factory Entertainment); Great Expectations, starring
Helena Bonham Carter and
Ralph Fiennes (HanWay Films); Greetings from Tim Buckley, starring
Penn Badgley and Imogen Poots (Celluloid Dreams); A Late Quartet, starring
Philip Seymour Hoffman and
Christopher Walken (WestEnd Films); The Reluctant Fundamentalist, starring
Kate Hudson and
Liev Schreiber (K5 International); Revenge for Jolly!, starring
Elijah Wood,
Ryan Phillippe, and
Kristen Wiig (Highland Film Group); Spring Breakers, starring
James Franco,
Selena Gomez and
Vanessa Hudgens (Kinology); Thanks for Sharing, starring
Mark Ruffalo and
Gwyneth Paltrow and written by Stuart Blumberg (Voltage Pictures); What Maisie Knew, starring Alexander Skarsgård and
Julianne Moore (Fortissimo Film); and Writers, starring
Greg Kinnear,
Logan Lerman,
Kristen Bell,
Jennifer Connelly, and
Lily Collins, (The Solution Entertainment Group).
