All Production articles – Page 498
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NewsBleiberg strikes deal with wrestling star Steve Austin
EXCLUSIVE: Bleiberg Entertainment has struck a two-film deal with wrestling star Steve Austin and will introduce the projects via its Compound B genre label to EFM buyers in Berlin this week.
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Cinedigm, Voltage sign output deal with Rapid Eye
Cinedigm and Voltage Pictures have signed a three-year, five-film output deal with Marco Weber’s new genre label Rapid Eye Film.
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NewsAtom Egoyan’s Queen of the Night adds Bruce Greenwood
Bruce Greenwood has joined the cast of Atom Egoyan’s psychological thriller Queen Of The Night, which begun principal photography on Monday [4] in Sudbury, Ontario. eOne Films will distribute in Canada and handles international sales.
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NewsIncognito and Intuition team for Hitsville
Jack Selby and Scott Stone’s LA-based Incognito Pictures and Madrid’s Intuition Films have teamed up to produce the genre film Hitsville.
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NewsMister Smith boards Constantin rom-com Love, Rosie
Constantin production adapted by Juliette Towhidi from Cecelia Ahern’s novel Where Rainbows End, set to star Lily Collins [pictured] and Sam Claflin. Christian Ditter to direct.
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NewsGood Films to adapt police corruption book LAbyrinth
Good Films, the UK production company founded by Miriam Segal, has acquired the rights to LAbyrinth, Randall Sullivan’s investigative tome into police and political corruption in Los Angeles.
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NewsLionsgate, SC Films partner on I Am Soldier, Green Street sequel
Lionsgate UK produces and will release two new UK productions, SC Films to handle sales.
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Estonia's Jaak Kilmi and Kiur Aarma plan historical drama
Estonian filmmaker/producer duo Jaak Kilmi and Kiur Aarma are going back in time to the eve of the First World War for their next feature film project The Hoppers (Hüppajad) which won the Screen International Best Pitch Award at Tallinn’s Baltic Event in December.
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NewsSC Films boards animation Wish
EXCLUSIVE: Simon Crowe’s SC Films takes international and joint North American rights to family feature from Prana Studios.
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NewsNick Taussig, Paul Van Carter set up UK production company
EXCLUSIVE: The pair, which had been at Revolver/Gunslinger, kick off Salon Pictures with slate including James Nunn LA-set thriller, Churchill project, teen thriller and bare-knuckle fighting biopic.
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NewsIM Global sinks teeth into Blood Sisters
Mark Waters will direct the first in an anticipated franchise based on the Vampire Academy young adult books [pictured]. Reliance and IM Global jointly finance the project and Stuart Ford and Jonathan Deckter will kick off sales in Berlin this week.
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Arclight to start sales in Berlin on Cavegirl The Movie
The film’s UK film producer Andy Bell of Metropolis Films announced the deal on Friday [Feb 1].
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FeaturesPowder Room
UK production Powder Room, starring Sheridan Smith, Jaime Winstone and singer Kate Nash, marks a number of exciting firsts, including the directorial debut of MJ Delaney, famous for her YouTube sensation spoof Newport State of Mind.
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NewsPinewood submits new £200m expansion plan
Pinewood Shepperton today submitted another planning application for the extension of its Buckinghamshire site.
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NewsProduction gets underway in Indonesia on The Raid 2
PT Merantau Films and XYZ Films announced on Thursday [31] that shooting had begun on the sequel to the cult smash.
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NewsJeremy Renner attached to play journalist in Kill The Messenger
CAA and WME will introduce what is likely to become a hot property at next week’s EFM in Berlin at a time when US sales agents continue to scramble for new projects.
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NewsRelativity Media acquires world rights to Loomis Fargo
Jared Hess will direct the heist action comedy starring Jim Carrey.
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NewsJulia Stiles joins Poverty Row’s Mary Pickford biopic
Stiles, currently starring in awards contender Silver Linings Playbok, will play Frances Marion, the winner of the best adapted screenplay Academy Award in 1930 who collaborated with Pickford on Rebecca From Sunnybrook Farm and Poor Little Rich Girl, among others.
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NewseOne, 1984 Private Defense Contractors sign first-look deal
Under the terms of the multi-year arrangement eOne gets first look to finance and distribute all 1984 films. LA-based Spencer Silna and Adi Shankar’s slate includes Corsica ’72 from Skyfall writers Neal Purvis and Robert Wade and the untitled Female Expendables project.
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NewsDuncan Jones to direct Warcraft
The director of Moon and Source Code has signed a deal with Legendary Pictures to direct a live-action adaptation of hit videogame Warcraft.