MK2 peddles pic pair

Gaul's MK2 has pre-offered Marion Laine's drama romance "A Monkey on my small Shoulder" and Abbas Kiarostami's "The Finish" to Wild Bunch Benelux. Kiarostami's follow-up to "Licensed Copy," "The Finish" began lensing now in Japan with local thesps Rin Takanashi and Tadashi Okuno. On the top of handling worldwide sales, MK2 is co-creating with Eurospace. "The Finish" formerly offered to South america and also the nations from the former Yugoslavia. Japan-language contempo drama activates the unlikely relationship from a pretty youthful student, who hookers herself to pay the bills, as well as an older guy who would like to safeguard her. "Monkey," which began shooting in Marseilles on March. 24, focuses on a romance between two surgeons. Thelma Films and Manchester Films are creating with MK2 and pubcaster funnel France 3. MK2's AFM slate includes Olivier Assayas' "Something up,Inch Xavier Dolan's "Laurence Anyways" and Walter Salles' "On the highway.Inch Presently in publish-production, "Air" was pre-bought by IFC within the U.S., NFP in Germany and Australia's Structure. Also in publish-production, "Laurence," starring Melvil Poupaud and Nathalie Baye, continues to be clicked up by Israel's Orlando, Taiwan's Filmware and Serbia's MCF MegaCom Film. "On the highwayInch has pre-offered to a lot more than 30 areas including Germany (Concorde), Italia (Medusa), Australia (Icon), Benelux (Cineart) and Latin America (Playarte). Contact Variety Staff at news@variety.com