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CASTING COMPLETE ON BEL AMI

Robert Pattinson, Uma Thur­man, Kristin Scott Thomas, Christina Ricci to star

Lon­don… 2^nd Feb­ru­ary, 2010… Prin­ci­pal pho­tog­ra­phy on BEL AMI is to start on Feb­ru­ary 7^th 2010, shoot­ing on loca­tions in Lon­don and Budapest.

Robert Pat­tin­son (Twi­light series, Remem­ber Me) plays Georges Duroy in this erot­i­cally charged story of ambi­tion, power and seduc­tion. Uma Thur­man (Pulp Fic­tion, Kill Bill) is Madeleine, Kristin Scott Thomas (Nowhere Boy, I’ve Loved You So Long) is Vir­ginie, Christina Ricci (Mon­ster, The Ice Storm) is Clotilde, Holly Grainger (Scout­ing Book for Boys) is Suzanne, Philip Glenis­ter (Life on Mars, Cal­en­dar Girls) is Charles, and Colm Meaney (The Damned United, The Snap­per) plays Duroy’s adver­sary, Rous­set.  The screen­play is writ­ten by Rachel Ben­nette from the novel by Guy de Mau­pas­sant, and the film is directed by the influ­en­tial and inno­v­a­tive Cheek By Jowl direc­tors Declan Don­nel­lan and Nick Ormerod.

BEL AMI is the story of Georges Duroy, who trav­els through 1890s Paris, from cock­roach rid­den gar­rets to opu­lent salons, using his wits and pow­ers of seduc­tion to rise from poverty to wealth, from a prostitute’s embrace to pas­sion­ate trysts with wealthy beau­ties, in a world where pol­i­tics and media jos­tle for influ­ence, where sex is power and celebrity an obsession.

BEL AMI is pro­duced by Uberto Pasolini (The Full Monty, Machan) with Simon Fuller as exec­u­tive pro­ducer.  The direc­tor of pho­tog­ra­phy is Hagen Bog­dan­ski (The Young Vic­to­ria, The Lives of Oth­ers); Attila F. Kovacs (Sun­shine, Meet­ing Venus) is pro­duc­tion designer; the cos­tumes are designed by Odile Dicks-Mireaux (An Edu­ca­tion, The Con­stant Gar­dener); the hair and make-up designer is Jenny Shir­core (The Young Vic­to­ria, Eliz­a­beth: The Golden Age) and the edi­tor is Masahiro Hirakubo (The Duchess, Trainspotting).

BEL AMI is a Red­wave Films pro­duc­tion in asso­ci­a­tion with Simon Fuller’s new com­pany XIX, Pro­tag­o­nist Pic­tures and RaiCinema.

Pro­tag­o­nist Pic­tures are han­dling inter­na­tional sales on the film. RaiCin­ema came on board early as a pro­duc­tion part­ner, and will han­dle the film in Italy. Stu­dio Canal fol­lowed suit, secur­ing rights for its three ter­ri­to­ries: Opti­mum Releas­ing in the UK, Kinow­elt in Ger­many and their own Stu­dio Canal label in France. Else­where, Pro­tag­o­nist have com­pleted deals with Hop­scotch for Aus­tralia, Inde­pen­dent for Benelux, Impuls for Switzer­land, Golden Scene for Hong Kong/Macau, Uniko­rea Cul­ture and Art for South Korea, Cen­tral Part­ner­ship for CIS, Ablo for East­ern Europe, Cal­i­for­nia Filmes for Latin Amer­ica, PT Camila for Indone­sia and Hol­ly­wood Enter­tain­ment for Greece and Cyprus.

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Source: BelAm­i­Film