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Jason Isaacs joins Damon, Kinnear in Greengrass' Iraq thriller
Jason Isaacs has joined the cast of Paul Greengrass' untitled Green Zone thriller for Working Title Films and Universal Pictures.Based on the non-fiction book Imperial Life In The Emerald City by Rajiv Chandrasekaran, the film is set in and around the Green Zone, the base of operations for US troops ...
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Material takes on three Treasure Island pre-quels
UK production company Material Entertainment has acquired the screen rights to John Drake's Flint & Silver as well as the book's two follow-ups.The author makes his debut with the adult adventure novel, a prequel to Treasure Island. The story is about the rivalry between Flint and Silver before their confrontation ...
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Nicolas Winding Refn starts Bronson shoot with Vertigo
Danish-born director Nicolas Winding Refn has started a six-week UK shoot for Bronson, his feature about notorious prisoner Charles Bronson.Vertigo Films is producing in association with 4DH Films, EM Media, Str8jacket Creations and Aramid Entertainment.Vertigo's Rupert Preston and 4DH Film's Danny Hansford will produce. Executive producers are Nick Love, Allan ...
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Highmore signs to voice Astro Boy for Imagi Studios
Freddie Highmore has signed to voice the title character in Hong Kong and Los Angeles-based Imagi Studios' CGI animated feature Astro Boy.Based on Osamu Tezuka's manga creation, which was serialised on television in the 1960s, 1980s and again in 2003, Astro Boy centres on a young robot's odyssey to gain ...
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Advance Party trilogy continues with McKinnon's Donkeys shoot
Sigma Films and Zentropa have begun principal photography on Rounding Up Donkeys.After Andrea Arnold's Red Road, this film is the second project in the Advance Party trilogy. Originally entitled Old Dogs, Rounding Up Donkeys marks the feature debut of television and short film director Morag McKinnon and is written by ...
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Japan's NTV unveils slate with Miyazaki's latest
Japan's Nippon Television Network (NTV) has announced its nine-filmslate for the upcoming fiscal year, headlined by the return of animation giant Hayao Miyazaki with his latest, and possibly final, effort Ponyo On A Cliff. The film is slated for a July release through Toho. NTV has been producer Studio Ghibli's ...
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Power takes TV, film rights to graphic novel Shooting War
UK-based production company Power has optioned the film and TV rights to Anthony Lappe's graphic novel Shooting War, which is illustrated by Dan Goldman.The book, published by Grand Central in the US and Wiedenfeld & Nicolson in the UK, is a near-future political thriller/dark satire about a blogger trying to ...
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Universal strikes four year financing deal with Relativity Capital
Relativity Capital, a brand new investment partnership between Ryan Kavanaugh's Relativity Media and New York-based hedge fund Elliot Associates, has signed a deal with Universal Pictures to co-finance a significant portion of Universal's slate - approximately 45 films - through 2011.This will be the first deal in which Relativity acts ...
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Shooting begins on Salvage in Liverpool
Shooting begins today in Liverpool on British horror film Salvage, one of the three features commissioned under the Digital Departures scheme set up to celebrate Liverpool's year as Capital of Culture. All three films will premiere in Liverpool later in the year.Salvage marks the feature directorial debut of Lawrence Gough. ...
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New Bond filmto shoot in Tuscany
Marc Forster's new James Bond film will be heading to Tuscany as part of its locations shoot, the latest of a series of international productions to choose the region as set.Quantum of Solace will head to Italy for 15 days from the end of Aprilthrough May 12, picking up where ...
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Bavarian regional fund announces $10.6m in funding
New productions by actor-director Til Schweiger, Christian Ditter and Mike Barker are among 35 film and TV projects allocated over $10.6m (Euros 7.2m) by the Bavarian regional fund FFF Bayern at its latest sitting.The largest amount - $1.25m (Euros 850,000) - went to Schweiger's next feature project, the medieval slapstick ...
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Chen, McLachlan to star in Beresford's Last Dancer
Kyle McLachlan, Bruce Greenwood and Joan Chen have been cast in Bruce Beresford's adaptation of the best-selling book, Mao's Last Dancer, which starts shooting in China next month. Jack Thompson, Aden Young, Amanda Schull and Wang Shungbao (Balzac And The Little Chinese Seamstress) have also joined the multinational cast.Paris-based Celluloid ...
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SPWAG picks up international rights to Terminator 4
Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group (SPWAG) has picked up international rights excluding South Korea and select territories in the Middle East to The Halcyon Company's Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins.The first episode in the revived franchise will be directed by McG and produced by Moritz Borman and Halycon co-CEOs Derek ...
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Northern Ireland Screen announces $1.4m in funding for local films
Northern Ireland Screen has announced almost $1.4m in funding for indigenous film production from home-grown talent through the Northern Ireland Screen Fund, supported by Invest NI. 'Last year the big Hollywood film [Walden Media's children's adventure City Of Ember] afforded a great deal of experience for many local cast and ...
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Medb Films acquires rights to Tremain's Sacred Country
Kent-based independent film company Medb Films has acquired the film rights to Rose Tremain's best selling-novel Sacred Country. The option has been funded with development funding from regional film agency Screen South. The film is set in the English countryside, London and Nashville, Tennessee. It tells the story of an ...
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Big Screen Entertainment Group teams with Five Star Picture
Big Screen Entertainment Group (BSEG) has entered a joint venture with Florida production companies Five Star Pictures for the primary purpose of producing feature films in Florida.Over the coming weeks, BSEG and Five Star will be announcing specifics regarding their partnership, which includes over a dozen film projects, most with ...
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Greenaway scouting Australia for science-fiction feature
Legendary filmmaker Peter Greenaway will fly over Western Australia on Feb 23 scouting locations for a science-fiction feature film based on his most recent book The Historians Book 39: The Rise and Fall of Gestures Drama.'The book is really a history of cinema rewritten as fiction,' he told Screendaily.com. It ...
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Screen Opinion: The Red-Stained Carpet
No matter which film walks home from Sunday's Oscar ceremony with the big prize, it will mark another victory for the US-centric studio apparatus otherwise known as Hollywood. Even at the more artistic fringes of the film-making spectrum, the big-six movie conglomerates still exert a gravitational pull on the marketplace ...
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Swinton, Murray, Bernal, Hurt join cast of Jarmusch's latest
Tilda Swinton, Bill Murray, Gael Garcia Bernal, John Hurt, Hiam Abbass, Paz De La Huerta, Alex Descas, Youki Kudoh, Jean-Francois Stevenin and Luis Tosar have joined Jim Jarmusch's tentatively titled The Limits Of Control.Isaach De Bankole stars as a mysterious loner in the story, which began filming earlier this month ...
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Chi McBride and Bow Wow join cast of Driving Lessons
Chi McBride, Jermaine Williams and musician Bow Wow have joined Dermot Mulroney and Hope Davis on the cast of Driving Lessons, which is set to begin filming in Los Angeles in early March.Vivi Friedman will direct the story of an unhappily married couple who get a second chance after the ...