Harvey Weinstein has snapped up US rights to Grant Gee's documentary Joy Division at Toronto. A prominent UK distributor is understood to be on the cusp of buying the film, which features former band members Peter Hook, Bernard Sumner and Peter Morris reminiscing about the post-punk English band's brief career that started in 1976 and ended four years later with the suicide of frontman Ian Curtis. The Weinsteins already own US rights to Control, Anton Corbijn's acclaimed biopic of Curtis that premiered at Cannes in the summer.
Terry Zwigoff , who thrilled the geek demographic with his 2001 adaptation of the graphic novel Ghost World and revealed his raunchier side in 2003's Bad Santa, is preparing the comedy The $40,000 Man. The story centres on an injured astronaut who is rebuilt on a shoestring budget. Susanne Bier , the Danish director whose hard-hitting dramas make The Seventh Seal look as light as Herbie Goes To Monte Carlo, is lining up her second English-language feature, this time with Working Title.
Lost For Words will tell the story of a philandering film star who falls for a Chinese actor and her translator. Bier, whose award winning Scandinavian work includes Brothers and After the Wedding, recently completed Things We Lost in the Fire with Halle Berry and Benicio del Toro.
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