All Pre-Production articles – Page 16
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The Uninvited Guest
An English language project about an architect who goes through a painful separation from his girlfriend, and then receives a strange visit from his disquieting neighbour who asks to take refuge in his home and make a phone call, but then never leaves.
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Las Madres De Elna
Based on the true story of Swiss nurse Elisabeth Eidenbenz who helped Republican women fleeing the Franco dictatorship after the Spanish Civil War give birth to their children in a French concentration camp next to the Catalan border.
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NewsGlenn McQuaid plans further projects related to I Sell The Dead
Writer/director Glenn McQuaid says he plans to follow his festival hit I Sell The Dead with another project exploring the same graverobbing characters.
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NewsJon Amiel to direct hitman comedy for Sidney Kimmel
Jon Amiel has come on board to direct comedy Old Timers (working title) for Sidney Kimmel Entertainment.
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NewsZac Efron signs on for Dixon's Mandate thriller
Zac Efron has signed on to star in an untitled thriller for Mandate Pictures. Leslie Dixon, the veteran screenwriter behind Freaky Friday and The Thomas Crown Affair, is writing the script.
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NewsTravis modernises Macbeth with Smuggler's Come Like Shadows
Pete Travis has come on board to direct Come Like Shadows for Smuggler Films.
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NewsNoyce draws Mixed Blood with Jackson thriller
Phillip Noyce will direct Mixed Blood, which will co-star Samuel L Jackson.
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Brekenridge
The true story of the top level, top secret meetings that took place a year before the war in Iraq. Codename: Breckenridge
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We Have A Pope
A comedy of reflection, in which a psychiatrist is called in to counsel a cardinal, who although having been elected Pope, is not keen to ascend the Papacy
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NewsGeorge Lucas appeals for Czech filming incentives
George Lucas wants to shoot an as-yet untitled Star Wars TV series in the Czech Republic, but only if local politicians will institute financial incentives.
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The Good War
A British Major leads a platoon of ill-equipped troops, attempting to defeat Malta against Hitler’s airforce, but hostile islanders and a dangerous love triangle threaten to destroy his hopes of military success.
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Salvar A Maria
Remake of Nigel Cole’s Saving Grace set in Northern Spain where a middle-aged woman loses her husband and is saddled with debts and so decides with her gardener to remove her prized orchids and grow marijuana in the garden instead to make some money.
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Jonathan Hensleigh to direct mob story The Irishman for Code
Code Entertainment has hired Jonathan Hensleigh to direct the true-life crime story The Irishman starring Ray Stevenson, which Lightning Entertainment will introduce to buyers in Cannes next week. ICM and Jonathan Dana represent North American rights.
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NewsRachel Weisz to star in political thriller The Whistleblower
Rachel Weisz will star as a Mid-Western police officer who exposes a United Nations cover-up in post-war Bosnia in the political thriller The Whistleblower.
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Burke And Hare
Based on a true story, a black comedy about two 19th century grave robbers who find a lucrative business providing cadavers for an Edinburgh medical school
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Maschi Contro Femmine, Femmine Contro Maschi (Men Versus Women, Women Versus Men)
The synopsis is currently under wraps for this two-film project by comedy master Fausto Brizzi, the two films that mean “Men vs Women”and “Women vs Men” will be shot concurrently.