All Production articles – Page 496
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NewsSycamore Pictures lines up Christmas Miracle
The Way, Way Back producers Sycamore Pictures will produce and finance the dysfunctional holiday comedy A Friggin’ Christmas Miracle. Hyde Park International will introduce to buyers at EFM.
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NewsHot projects on Screenbase
Among the many updates and new projects already announced in Berlin are Belly Dancing For Beginners starring Sheridan Smith and Liv Ullmann’s Miss Julie.
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NewsEllen Page to direct Anna Faris
Ellen Page will make her feature directorial debut on Miss Stevens with Anna Faris attached to star in the title role.
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NewsExclusive sells key territories on Quiet Ones
Sales chief Alex Walton has licensed multiple territory rights to the Hammer supernatural thriller to star Jared Harris [pictured] and Sam Claflin.
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NewsStreisand mulls directing gig
Aldamisa International has signed the iconic entertainer to direct a film in what will be her first outing in the role since 1996’s The Mirror Has Two Faces.
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NewsTod Williams to direct Cell for Cargo Entertainment
Cargo Entertainment has attached Tod “Kip” Williams to direct John Cusack in the Stephen King adaptation Cell. Mark Lindsay is presenting the project to buyers company handles international pre-sales while Paradigm represents US rights.
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NewsKing's Speech producers grab autobiography
The true story of how a poor five-year-old Indian boy was separated from his mother, adopted by an Australian family, then found her 25 years later, is to be made into a film by See-Saw Films producers Emile Sherman and Iain Canning.
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NewsMads Mikkelsen saddles up for Zentropa Western
EXCLUSIVE: Zentropa is again saddling up with Mads Mikkelsen. The Danish powerhouse production company is hatching its first Western, which sales company TrustNordisk is launching at the EFM.
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NewsUlrich Seidl talks up horror title
EXCLUSIVE: Seidl producing his wife’s horror film Ich seh/Ich seh.
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NewsGaumont boards Larrieu Bros noir
EXCLUSIVE: Picture starring Mathieu Amalric, Maïwenn, Sara Forestier, Denis Podalydes and Karine Viard due to start shooting on Feb 12 in Alps.
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Shochiku unwraps Kinoshita biopic
Japanese studio Shochiku is launching a biopic of Keisuke Kinoshita, written and directed by Crayon Shin-chan director Keiichi Hara, at EFM.
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NewsBob Berney's Picturehouse, WestEnd board The Great Gilly Hopkins
EXCLUSIVE: Bridge to Terabithia writers reunite on young-adult novel; Kathy Bates and Danny Glover among cast; Stephen Herek to direct.
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NewsGaga, Wild Bunch adopt Kore-eda's Father
EXCLUSIVE: Japan’s Gaga Corporation and Wild Bunch are jointly handling sales on Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Like Father, Like Son, marking the second time they’ve collaborated on one of the director’s films.
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NewsWild Bunch adds Miss Julie
EXCLUSIVE: Paris-based sales powerhouse Wild Bunch has picked up international sales on Liv Ullmann’s upcoming $5m battle-of-the-sexes drama Miss Julie starring Jessica Chastain, Colin Farrell and Samantha Morton.
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NewsJack O’Connell to star in Yann Demange's 71
EXCLUSIVE: Skins and 300: Rise of an Empire star to play lead in Northern Ireland thriller.
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NewsAmour Fou readies Hausner shoot
Shooting starts Monday (Feb 11) in Luxembourg on Jessica Hausner’s new feature film Amour Fou, which will be the first project to go into production for the Amour Fou label.
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NewsKon-Tiki star cast in Viking saga
Oscar-nominated Norwegian drama Kon-Tiki’s star Tobias Santelmann has been cast as the lead in Elite Film Produktion’s English-language historical action adventure Northmen - A Viking Saga.
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NewsKristen Stewart slips into The Big Shoe
Jim Sturgess is also attached to Steve Shainberg’s feature, being sold by HanWay at EFM.
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NewsLaika, Focus unveil third partnership on Boxtrolls
Laika has begun production on its third feature The Boxtrolls. Focus Features holds worldwide rights while Universal Pictures International will distribute outside North America and eOne will release in Canada.
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NewsFocus, Random House snap up films rights to Longbourn
Random House Studio and Focus Features have moved on film rights to Longbourn, a revisionist take on Pride And Prejudice that tells Jane Austen’s story from the point of view of the Bennet family estate servants.