US-Americas production news
Dialogue of Cultures festival launches $40,000 grant
The grant is for the production of a 30 minute documentary and is open to director/producer teams from around the world.
Robert Redford to star in J.C. Chandor's All Is Lost
FilmNation Entertainment is handling international sales on the project, which will be distributed in the US by Lionsgate.
Renny Harlin ventures to Ural Mountains for Aldamisa thriller
EXCLUSIVE: Renny Harlin will direct an as-yet-untitled thriller set in Russia’s Ural Mountains.
Schwarzenegger joins Stallone in The Tomb, sold by Summit
Mikael Hafstrom directs the Emmett-Furla Films/Mark Canton production.
HanWay picks up Daniel Stamm thriller The Darkness
HanWay to handle international and co-handle US on thriller set to star Mary Elizabeth Winstead; European shoot set for summer 2012.
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Jack O'Connell, Alice Englert in talks for Beautiful Creatures
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Philip Seymour Hoffman in final talks for Corbijn's A Most Wanted Man
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Amy Adams signs on for Object of Beauty
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K5 boards Groundswell’s Very Good Girls starring Dakota Fanning, Elizabeth Olsen
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Dolph Lundgren to star in Battle of the Damned for Bleiberg's Compound B
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New Regency strikes first-look deal with Israel's ADD
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W2 Media moves into The Killing House
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eOne inks output deal with Steven Schneider and Adi Shankar
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Aspect strikes three-picture genre deal with Blanc/Biehn
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Ruffalo, Johansson to star in Carney's Song for Exclusive
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Alcon to finance, Summit Int'l to sell Beautiful Creatures
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The Raid producers to make sequel later this year
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FilmEngine to set up an Asia joint venture in Taiwan
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Columbia, Hasbro, Adam Sandler go to Candy Land
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Vera Farmiga to play Fleetwood Mac singer in The Drummer
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Likely Story sets writers for Too Cool graphic novel adaptation
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Home Again shooting in Trinidad before move to Toronto
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K5 launches LA division with Kevin Frakes as CEO
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Percentage of women directors in Hollywood declining
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GE, Cinelan announce Focus Forward Filmmaker Challenge
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Content Film, Preferred Content strike genre deal
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Francisco Barreiro to star in Here Comes The Devil
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AR Films, Media Talent Group launch $120m US fund
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Sony, Film District, Alliance team up for Insidious sequel
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Code Name Geronimo shoot gets underway in New Mexico
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K5 strikes output and development deal with Knudsen and Van Hoy
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Endgame to finance Steven Soderbergh’s Bitter Pill
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Nala Films plans festival run for Decoding Deepak
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Relativity takes over Stretch Armstrong project with Hasbro
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Sarah Jessica Parker replaces Demi Moore on Lovelace
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F. Javier Gutiérrez attached to direct Relativity's The Crow
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Incognito Pictures launches, signs output deal with TWC
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Reese Witherspoon, Ryan Reynolds to star in Big Eyes
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Jan De Bont to remake crime drama Five Minutes To Live
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US in Progress to expand to Paris Film Festival in June




