Release Dates
A couple of new key release date announcements today starting with the Ewan McGregor as Jesus & The Devil project "Last Days in the Desert" which Broad Green Pictures has acquired for the United States and is planning an early 2016 release.
Meanwhile the collapse of Relativity Studios has seen the studio quietly pull three titles - "The Disappointments Room," "Before I Wake" and "The Bronze" - from its calendar with no dates currently set. [Source: Variety]
Men and Chickens
Drafthouse Films has bought North American distribution rights to Anders Thomas Jensen's comedy "Men and Chicken" starring Mads Mikkelsen. The film will have a limited theatrical release in North America in 2016.
The story centers on two brothers who, through meeting their long-lost family, also discover a horrible truth about themselves. [Source: Variety]
Untitled Cop Comedy
"Bad Words" writer Andrew Dodge is set to pen a re-write of an untitled cop comedy at Perfect Storm Entertainment.
A couple of new key release date announcements today starting with the Ewan McGregor as Jesus & The Devil project "Last Days in the Desert" which Broad Green Pictures has acquired for the United States and is planning an early 2016 release.
Meanwhile the collapse of Relativity Studios has seen the studio quietly pull three titles - "The Disappointments Room," "Before I Wake" and "The Bronze" - from its calendar with no dates currently set. [Source: Variety]
Men and Chickens
Drafthouse Films has bought North American distribution rights to Anders Thomas Jensen's comedy "Men and Chicken" starring Mads Mikkelsen. The film will have a limited theatrical release in North America in 2016.
The story centers on two brothers who, through meeting their long-lost family, also discover a horrible truth about themselves. [Source: Variety]
Untitled Cop Comedy
"Bad Words" writer Andrew Dodge is set to pen a re-write of an untitled cop comedy at Perfect Storm Entertainment.
- 9/10/2015
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Variety is reporting that Troll Hunter's Andre Ovredal will sit in the director's chair for the upcoming sci-fi thriller Emergence. The Norwegian director will helm the Australian;Irish co-production written by Rowan O'Neill and Jonathan auf der Heide (Van Diemen's Land). The original story was written by Chris Kunzmann and O'Neill,The story follows a mining crew working on a distant moon that faces a frantic struggle for survival when a rogue terraforming organism is accidentally released on the surface, spreading like wildfire as it consumes anything in its path.As humankind reaches further and further into space finding nasty things where we set our feet is all the rage. Space exploration never seems to end well for us. Recent films like the Aussie production Infini or 2013's Europa...
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- 9/9/2015
- Screen Anarchy
Berlin -- Berlinale Generation, the Berlin International Film Festival sidebar for family and youth cinema, has picked its first titles and named its jury.
Picking the winners of the Generation Crystal Bears next year will be: Iranian director Hana Makhmalbaf ("Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame"), France's Philippe Falardeau ("It's Not Me, I Swear!"), Australian helmer Kylie Du Fresne ("The Djarn Djarns"), along with Irish screenwriter and producer Rowan O'Neill ("The Race") and Margret Albers, the director of German children's media festival the Goldener Spatz.
Among the contenders will be "Boy," from Taika Waititi, aka Taika Cohen, the New Zealand director behind "Eagle vs. Shark" and several episodes of "Flight of the Conchords." The tragicomedy set among the Maori people will premiere in Sundance before heading to Berlin.
The Australian '60s period musical "Bran Nue Dae" from Rachel Perkins and starring Geoffrey Rush, has made the Generation cut, as has Dev Benegal's "Road,...
Picking the winners of the Generation Crystal Bears next year will be: Iranian director Hana Makhmalbaf ("Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame"), France's Philippe Falardeau ("It's Not Me, I Swear!"), Australian helmer Kylie Du Fresne ("The Djarn Djarns"), along with Irish screenwriter and producer Rowan O'Neill ("The Race") and Margret Albers, the director of German children's media festival the Goldener Spatz.
Among the contenders will be "Boy," from Taika Waititi, aka Taika Cohen, the New Zealand director behind "Eagle vs. Shark" and several episodes of "Flight of the Conchords." The tragicomedy set among the Maori people will premiere in Sundance before heading to Berlin.
The Australian '60s period musical "Bran Nue Dae" from Rachel Perkins and starring Geoffrey Rush, has made the Generation cut, as has Dev Benegal's "Road,...
- 12/17/2009
- by By Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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