Father Geek reporting in with the latest issue of Elston's regular weekly column that covers all the previous week's movie industry news in one place so that you can easily catch up on anything that may have slipped thru the cracks of the cutting room floor during the busy work-week. This week's edition is longer than usual due to all the wheeling and dealing at Cannes. Sooooooo sit back relax and trip thru...
The WEEKLY RECAP...
TAKEN FROM VARIETY AND HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
CASTING
* Stellan Skarsgard, Jacqueline McKenzie and Rachel Blake are attached to
star in the thriller SISTERS for writer/director Stephen Sewell and ISM
Films. It's about two sisters who reunite with their bizarro father who
lives in a lighthouse.
* A.J. Cook, Nastassja Kinski, John Rhys-Davies and Thomas Kretschmann will
star LIVING IN NEON DREAMS, scripted by Jeremy Tarr, for MGM and producers
Michael Tarr and Hy Smith. The ALICE IN WONDERLAND-esque tale centers on a
girl who enters a fantasyland after consuming a spiked drink at a party.
* Elena Anaya (TALK TO HER, SEX AND LUCIA) joins the cast of Stephen
Sommer's VAN HELSING for Universal.
* Colin Firth will star in THE DEAD WAIT, a South Africa-set saga that spans
the 20 years since the bloody Angolan war of 1983, for director Jens Meurer
(PUBLIC ENEMY). Paul Herzberg wrote the script.
* Christopher Lambert has signed to star in the period thriller DAY OF WRATH
for Bauer Martinez Studios and director Adrian Rudomin. Set in Spain during
the Inquisition, story concerns the sheriff of a provincial town who must
find the answers to a series of bizarre murders before the whole town is
condemned.
* Dominique Swain joins the suspense thriller OUT OF SEASON, starring Dennis
Hopper and Gina Gershon for director Jevon O'Neill.
* Eddie Griffin will provide the voice of Babe the Blue Ox for the
live-action/CG-animated feature PAUL BUNYAN for Exodus Film Group and Masque
Entertainment. Michael Nickles and Julia Wall wrote the script.
* Nicole Kidman has committed to reprise her DOGVILLE role to two more Lars
von Trier-helmed pictures: MANDERLAY and an untitled third picture in von
Trier's so-called U.S. OF A trilogy.
* Holly Hunter will star opposite Brittany Murphy in Revolution Studios'
romantic comedy LITTLE BLACK BOOK for director Nick Huran.
* Backstreet Boy Nick Carter and Kaley Cuoco will star in the horror
thriller HOLLOW about a group of high school seniors who learn that they are
the direct descendants of those responsible for a tragic event that begins
to replay itself. Nick Turturro, Judge Reinhold, Kevin Zegers, Joseph
Masiello, Eileen Brennan, Stacy Keach and Melissa Schuman will also star.
* Jennifer Westfeldt (KISSING JESSICA STEIN) will star in 50 WAYS TO LEAVE
YOUR LOVER for writer/director Jordan Hawley. It's about a writer of sleazy
biographies who decides to ditch L.A., burn his bridges and start a new life
for himself on the East Coast. His plans go awry when he meets the woman of
his dreams at the airport and decides to stay in town one more night to date
her.
* Ray Liotta will star in FAMILY OF THE YEAR for director Joel Zwick (MY BIG
FAT GREEK WEDDING) about a family that moves to a new town, only to get
along much better with their new neighbors than with themselves.
* Reese Witherspoon will star in DAUGHTER OF THE QUEEN OF SHEBA, based on
Jacki Lyden's book that Paramount is in talks to option. Meryl Streep has
expressed interest to also star, pending a director. Karen Croner (ONE TRUE
THING) adapted the script, based on Lyden's memoir of growing up with a
mother whom everyone labeled as crazy but suffered from what is now known to
be manic-depression. Lyden's mother often would become convinced she was a
woman with power, such as the Queen of Sheba or Marie Antoinette, then act
out her delusions.
* Vincent D'Onofrio and Joe Pantoliano will star in LITTLE VICTORIES for
director Leo Trombetta and producers Mark and Michael Polish as well as
Cappa Prods. It's about a 12-year-old boy whose world view is altered when
his gangster uncle comes to stay with him after being tossed out the house
by his wife.
* Sean Hayes joins the cast of DreamWorks' WIN A DATE WITH TAD HAMILTON! for
director Robert Luketic and Red Wagon Entertainment. Kate Bosworth, Josh
Duhamel, Topher Grace, Nathan Lane and Ginnifer Goodwin also star.
* Aishwarya Rai will star in Ketan Mehta's THE RISING, based on the
revolution of Indians against their colonial Brit rulers in 1857. Aamir Khan
, Toby Stephens and Damian Lewis also star.
* Jimi Mistry (EAST IS EAST) will play the lead in the epic romance
PARTITION for Myriad, imX Communications and director Vic Sarin, who wrote
the script with Patricia Finn. It's about two people caught in the events
that divided India and Pakistan in 1949 after a man resigns from the British
Indian Army to live in a quiet village in India soon finds his life turned
upside down when he becomes responsible for the life of a 17-year-old girl
who is traumatized by the events that separted her from her Muslim family.
* Parker Posey will star opposite Pierce Brosnan and Julianne Moore in LAWS
OF ATTRACTION for director Peter Howitt, New Line Cinema and Intermedia
Films. Shooting begins June 16 in Dublin.
* Peter Boyle will play Old Man Wickles in SCOOBY DOO 2: MONSTERS UNLEASHED
for director Raja Gosnell and Warner Bros.
* Vincent Cassel will star in MESRINE, based on the life of France's public
enemy No. 1, Jacques Mesrine, for director Barbet Schroeder and La Petite
Reine.
* Meryl Streep will join Denzel Washington in Paramount's Jonathan
Demme-directed remake of THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE. Production begins in late
September.
* Olivier Martinez will play a detective alongside Angelina Jolie in TAKING
LIVES for Warner Bros., Village Roadshow and director D.J. Caruso. Ethan
Hawke, Kiefer Sutherland and Gena Rowlands will also star.
* Tom Arnold and Kevin Hart will join the cast of the urban comedy SOUL
PLANE for MGM and director Jessy Terrero. Snoop Dogg and Method Man also
star.
* Joy Bryant, Gina Gershon, Desmond Harrington, Ali Larter and Dominic
Purcell will star in Hyperion Pictures' suspense drama THREE WAY SPLIT for
director Scott Ziehl. Based on Gil Brewer's 1963 pulp novel WILD TO POSSESS,
the story is described as a darkly comic tale of murder, kidnapping,
blackmail and sexual deception. Russell Marleau adapted the script.
* Eva Longoria ("The Young and the Restless") will star in the Breakaway
Films indie thriller CARLITA'S SECRET about a young girl who dreams of
becoming a Broadway dancer. The pic follows her as she runs from police and
her past and changes her identity. On her journey for stardom, she becomes
the hottest entertainer in Miami's South Beach.
* Robert Downey Jr. will star in and produce A GUIDE TO RECOGNIZING YOUR
SAINTS, an adaptation of Dito Montiel's autobiography, for Xingue Films.
Montiel will direct from his own script. It's a coming-of-age drama about a
boy growing up in Astoria, N.Y., during the 1980s. As his friends end up
dead, on drugs or in prison, he comes to believe he has been saved from
their fate by various so-called saints.
* Michael Pitt and Jacob Reynolds will star and William H. Macy, Edie Falco
and Jason Lee are in talks to join WEST MEMPHIS THREE, based on the Arkansas
murder case that inspired the 1996 documentary PARADISE LOST for
writer/producer Curt Johnson.
Johnson is lining up a director for a fall shoot in Texas and Arkansas.
* Dr Dre will star in Entera's action comedy WANTED MEN, written by Ian
Holt, about two janitors and wanna-be DJs, Dr. Wyde and Big Willy, who take
over their radio station's airwaves with the help of a 14-year-old intern
and white rapper, called Mickey Mike. Things go awry when the duo are
accused of kidnapping Mickey.
* Rory Culkin and Hayden Panettiere will star in WEST TEXAS KIDS for
writer/director Brad Isaacs (EIGHT CRAZY NIGHTS), Entera and producer Polly
Platt. It's about two kids who leave their homes in Texas and travel across
the U.S. in search of adventure.
DIRECTOR/WRITER ATTACHMENTS
* Terry Gilliam and his co-writer Tony Grisoni are in negotiations to adapt
Peter Ackroyd's London-set psychological murder mystery novel DAN LENO AND
THE LIMEHOUSE GOLEM.
* Sandra Nettelbeck (MOSTLY MARTHA) is writing and will direct a bigscreen
version of Noel Coward's play DESIGN FOR LIVING. It's a social comedy set in
1932 about three free-spirited artists living in a menage-a-trois.
* Scott McGehee and David Siegel (THE DEEP END) are attached to direct THE
DEADLY PERCHERON for Fox Searchlight and producers Stephen Wolley and
Elizabeth Karlsen. Howard A. Rodman is scripting this adaptation of John
Franklin Bardin's classic 1940s crime novel.
* Pantelis Voulgaris will direct Damian Lewis in BRIDES for Martin Scorsese
and Barbara De Fina's Cappa Prods. Viktoria Charalabidou and Andrea Ferreol
will also star. Greek novelist Ioanna Karystiani wrote the project which
begins shooting May 28 in Crete and Athens. Set in 1922, the pic tells the
story of a mail-order bride -- one of 700 aboard the SS King Alexander --
who falls in love with an American photographer. She is bound for her new
husband in New York; he is on his way home to a failed marriage.
* Carlos Saura will direct the tentatively titled EL SEPTIMO DIA (THE
SEVENTH DAY) for Lolafilms. It's based on a screenplay by writer and
occasional film director Ray Loriga based on a real-life event in a Spanish
village in 1991 when members of one family slaughtered a dozen members of
another in a family feud.
* Samuel Hadida and Wandering Star are developing SOLOMON KANE, an action
blockbuster adapted from the cult book. David Jung and Steve Dandois are
writing the script centering on Kane as he takes on deadly human forces as
he seeks revenge against the sorcerer who destroyed his family.
* Damien O'Donnell (EAST IS EAST) is attached to direct INSIDE I'M DANCING
for Octagon Films. Jeffrey Caine wrote the buddy movie about two boys with
cerebral palsy.
* Martin Scorsese will direct a documentary for Spitfire Pictures and Cappa
Prods. about Bob Dylan and the impact his early music had on the cultural
and political landscape. Dylan will give his first filmed interview in 20
years. The docu will begin in 1963 and stops at 1966, after he shocked his
audience by going electric. The pic will be ready in late 2004 or early
2005.
* Warner Bros. and Trilogy Entertainment picked up TAJ MAHAL, written by
Kamran Pasha, based on the true story of a young prince who does battle with
an evil empress for India's throne and a princess's heart.
* Fernando Musa will start shooting the drama CHICHE BOMBON (PRETTY GEM) in
July. A metaphor for today's Argentina, the pic concerns a woman in her late
twenties who is pregnant by an 18-year-old neighbor.
* Richard Russo and Robert Benton are scripting and executive producing THE
ICE HARVEST, based on the novel by Scott Phillips, for Focus Features and
Bona Fide Prods. It's a comedic thriller set in a snowbound town on
Christmas Eve that centers on a lawyer who is about to embezzle money from
his mob superiors.
* Echelon Entertainment picked up the true-story script DOUBLE DESTINY from
Anthony Leigh Adams and Christina Adams about identical twin brothers -- one
raised as a Nazi, the other as a Jew. Separated as infants by a mother who
could only return with one child to Nazi Germany while the other remained
with his Jewish father to grow up in Trinidad, the twins don't meet until
years later.
* Milo Addica (MONSTER'S BALL) is in advanced talks to write/direct an
untitled pic based on con artist Christophe Rocancourt's bestselling memoir,
THE FRENCH HUSTLER.
* M. Night Shyamalan will direct THE WOODS for Disney with Ashton Kutcher,
Kirsten Dunst and Joaquin Phoenix in negotiations to star. Production is
planned for an October start for a summer 2004 release. Set in 1897, the
story focuses on a close-knit community that lives with the frightening
knowledge that a mythical race of creatures resides in the woods around
them.
* John Stockwell (BLUE CRUSH) will direct Pierce Brosnan in New Line's AFTER
THE SUNSET for Firm Films. It's about a master thief sailing off to an
island paradise after his last big score. However, when his lifelong
nemesis, an FBI agent, shows up to make sure the thief is really retired, a
new cat-and-mouse game of friendship, suspicion and thievery begins.
* Simon Film Prods. picked up the script 3 AND OUT, written by Tony Owen and
Stephen Lewis, about a fledgling underground train driver who has already
had two suicide jumpers. On learning he needs only one more death and will
be allowed to retire on full pay and pension, the man goes in search of
someone with nothing to live for.
* Michael Radford (IL POSTINO) will write/direct a feature version of
Shakespeare's THE MERCHANT OF VENICE for Avenue Pictures. Al Pacino, Cate
Blanchett, Ian McKellen and Joseph Fiennes are in talks to star. Shooting is
scheduled to begin Sept. 1 in Venice and Luxembourg.
* Larry Clark (KIDS, BULLY) will direct A GOOD DAY TO DIE, based on a 1973
Jim Harrison novel about a love triangle involving a poet, a Vietnam vet and
the woman who oscillates between them. They travel from Florida to the Grand
Canyon with a crate of dynamite in an effort to blow up a dam to protest the
war. Tom Hedley and Adam Davidson wrote the screenplay.
* Director Ken Loach and writer Barry Hines (KES) will develop HOLYLAND
COMMON VS. ITALY, a love story with a political twist, about a young woman
in an English mining village during WWII who falls for an Italian POW. Forty
years later, during the miners' strike of the 1980s, she travels to Italy to
see the life she could have had.
* Carine Adler (UNDER THE SKIN) is working on BALANCE OF POWER with writer
Deborah Davies and producer Ceci Dempsey. It's a political drama set in the
18th century court of Queen Anne.
* Neil Hunter and Tom Hunsinger (THE LAWLESS HEART) are developing THREE WAY
SPLIT with producer Martin Pope about a woman who embarks on a road trip
across Europe to find her missing son in Croatia.
* Kenny Glenaan (GAS ATTACK) is developing DU CANES BOYS with writer Kate
Gartside, about two South African boys sent for soccer trials in Holland.
* Barry Levinson will direct THE COLONEL AND ME for Warner Bros. about the
mentoring influence that Elvis Presley manager Col. Tom Parker had on
producer Jerry Weintraub. Bo Goldman (SCENT OF A WOMAN) is writing the
script.
* David Serrano (THE OTHER SIDE OF THE BED) will direct CON AMOR O SIN AMOR
(WITH OR WITHOUT LOVE), a musical comedy set to go before the cameras in
June 2004 for LaZona Films.
* Mimi Leder will direct Franchise's VOID MOON for Warner Bros. and producer
Bill Gerber. Shooting begins in September. Based on Michael Connelly's
novel, the project's about a former cat burglar who is lured back to her
former profession. Unfortunately, her target turns out to be someone she
never should have tangled with, and she soon finds herself running from
gunmen who seem to calculate her every move. Meanwhile, the men seem to be
closing in on her secret -- a young son she's trying to protect.
* Richard Kelly (DONNIE DARKO) will direct KNOWING for Escape Artists and
Fox Searchlight, who just picked it up from Columbia Pictures. It's about a
man who unearths a time capsule with children's drawings predicting the
future that was buried in the 1950s. One child's drawings predicted several
horrible events that already have come true; however, one has not yet
occurred, and the man sets out to prevent it from happening.
* Tim Story (BARBERSHOP) is in talks to develop and direct Universal's
comedy RALPH (aka POOKIE POO) for Imagine Entertainment and Urban
Entertainment. It's about about a black man who, tired of being made to feel
invisible, makes a wish and winds up in a parallel world where he is the
only man of his race in existence.
* Mark Frost ("Twin Peaks) has quietly come on board to rewrite 20th Century
Fox's comic book pic FANTASTIC FOUR for director Peyton Reed (DOWN WITH
LOVE).
* Steven Spielberg is eyeing to direct THE RIVALS for DreamWorks and
producers Dan Jinks and Bruce Cohen about the catfight between 19th century
stage stars Sarah Bernhardt and Eleonora Duse. Robin Swicord (LITTLE WOMEN)
wrote the script.
* Darren Aronofsky is set to develop and direct a live-action adaptation of
LONE WOLF AND CUB, the Kazuo Koike-created graphic novel collection, for
Paramount and Mutual Film Company. It's about a disgraced 17th century
samurai who travels around Japan as an assassin for hire as he tries to
clear his family's name. His companion is his 3-year-old son, whose mother
has been killed.
* Tim Burton will direct a live-action adaptation of Roald Dahl's CHARLIE
AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY for Warner Bros. The film will be produced by Plan
B, the newly formed partnership of Brad Grey, Brad Pitt and Jennifer
Aniston, and Michael Siegel, who manages the film interests of the Dahl
estate.
* Jon Avnet is attached to direct the epic EMPIRE OF THE DRAGON for producer
Aurelio De Laurentiis, set in 2nd century Persia and based on an original
treatment by Valerio Manfredi. De Laurentiis has also purchased the rights
to the best-selling Italian novel I KILL, by Georgio Faletti, about an FBI
agent and a French cop chasing a serial killer on the Cote d'Azur.
* George Wing will write the romantic comedy HELIUM for director David
Dobkin, Warner Bros. and producer David Heyman. Loosely based on Tim
Earnshaw's 1997 novel, the story centers on a man who becomes lighter than
air when he falls in love. He therefore avoids romance at all costs, but
when he does succumb to the charms of a woman, he attempts to discover what
it is about love that literally makes him float.
* Antoni Aloy (ESSENCE OF MIND) will direct the gay English-language
Bollywood musical comedy JUNGLE RED for ABS Production. It's about two young
homosexual lads who escape from their repressive small village dreaming of
becoming stars in Bollywood. Mario Torrecillas scripted.
* Bertrand Tavernier is preparing to direct HOLLY LOLA, starring Marie
Gillain and Jacques Gamblin as a childless couple on a quest to adopt a
baby. Tiffany Tavernier and Dominique Sampiere wrote the script
* John Brownlow will rewrite THE SAILMAKER, the epic adventure tale to be
directed by Simon West for Arama Entertainment, E3 and producer Jib
Polhemus. It's a 19th century tale of a sea voyage in which a sailmaker must
come to the rescue after a Spanish sea captain sinks into despair and
alcoholism after his wife dies. Shooting begins next summer in Australia,
Malta and other locations.
* Peter Ackerman (ICE AGE) will write FAMILY JEWELS, a remake of the 1965
Jerry Lewis comedy, for Paramount/Nickelodeon. Story focuses on an orphaned
rich girl who must choose between relatives who are fighting for custody of
her while discovering that her chauffeur is also her best friend.
* Aditya Bhattacharya will direct Kabir Bedi in the Hindi-Italian-lingo pic
SANDOKAN IN SICILY for Instituto Luce.
* Terence Davies (THE HOUSE OF MIRTH) is directing SUNSET SONG for UGC Films
and producers Bob Last and Ginnie. Based on Lewis Grassic Gibbon's 1932
novel, it's the story of a young woman in a remote Scottish rural community,
torn between her love of the land and the harshness of the farming life.
Production begins in late summer.
* Mark DiStefano sold his untitled modern Sherlock Holmes script to New Line
with Benderspink attached to produce. The story centers on a rookie NY cop
who discovers he is the descendant of the legendary sleuth. While Holmes'
great-great-grandson doesn't share his last name, he does share his unique
ability and soon rises up the ranks to detective. But when his heritage
becomes tabloid fodder, a copycat criminal emerges and re-enacts many of the
crimes Holmes once solved, putting the cop to the test.
* Redbus has optioned the script STREET RACER, an action film set in the
world of motorcycle racing, with Andy Morahan (HIGHLANDER III: THE SORCERER)
set to direct. Shooting begins in the fall in London.
* MGM grabbed the spec STREET from writer Matt O'Neil about an NBA coach who
is forced to rebuild his franchise with playground and street basketball
players after his players become too greedy to accept the pay raises he's
offering.
* David Giler (ALIEN) is attached to write THE BORGIAS, based on Mario
Puzo's bestseller THE FAMILY, for Impala, Anola and Producciones Aguamarga.
The novel turns on the scandals, murders, incest, betrayal and power plays
of the Italian clan that controlled Italo and Vatican politics from the 14th
to 16th century.
MISCELLANEOUS PRODUCTION TIDBITS
* Spice Factory has six films on its slate that are either under way or set
to roll in the next six months including: EVILENKO, a thriller starring
Malcolm McDowell and Marton Csokas, written and helmed by David Grieco; M,
based on a popular Gallic comic, starring Gong Li for director James Huth;
NOUVELLE FRANCE, a romance starring Gerard Depardieu, Irene Jacob and Samuel
Le Bihan; FORGOTTEN GAMES, writer/director David Ondaatje's recounting of
the British ice hockey team that won a gold medal at the 1936 Berlin
Olympics; EARTHQUAKE BIRD, saga of a love triangle involving two English
girls and a Japanese guy; and MOLES, a sci-fier penned and co-directed by
David Munoz and Antonio Trashorras.
* Japanese major Shochiku is ramping up film production with projects
including OUT OF THIS WORLD, a 1947-set saga of a bunch of jazz musicians
who dream of making the big time by entertaining Gis, directed by Junji
Sakamoto and starring Peter Mullan, Joe Odagiri and Masato Hagiwara;
Taiwan's Hou Hsiao Hsien is set to write/direct an untitled project intended
as an homage to filmmaker Yasujiro Ozu about a romance between a guy who
owns a secondhand bookstore in Tokyo and a beautiful woman who appears to be
a journalist researching a story; CASSHERN, sci-fi pic from director Kazuaki
Kiriya; QUILL, tale of a seeing-eye dog and his master, to be helmed by
Yoichi Sai; and samurai flicks BLADE OF THE IMMORTAL and HAKKEN DEN.
* Paramount Pictures grabbed the English-language remake rights to the
Italian comedy TRE MOGLIE (THREE WIVES) for Tollin/Robbins to produce. It's
about three wives trying to track down their spouses after the husbands pull
a bank heist.
* New Line Cinema picked up Vertigo's comic Y: THE LAST MAN, co-created by
Brian K. Vaughn and Pia Guerra, about what happens after a mysterious plague
kills almost all the world's male mammals overnight. A magician named Yorick
is curiously the only survivor among this group. With his male pet monkey,
he sets out to find what may have wiped out the world's male chromosomes.
Chris Bender, JC Spink, Mason Novick and David Goyer will produce.
* Davis Films and Gaga Prods. are developing a live-action adventure fantasy
picture, ONIMUSHA, adapted from the best-selling video game.
* NEON GENESIS EVANGELION, a live-action pic based on the hit Japanese
animated TV series, is in development as part of a collaboration between ADV
Films, Gainax and Peter Jackson's Weta Workshop.
* Twentieth Century Fox has moved the start of production date for HOMEY THE
CLOWN, starring Damon Wayans, from June 2 to spring 2004 to accommodate the
television production schedule of Wayans, who stars in ABC's "My Wife and
Kids." Keenen Ivory Wayans directs.
* Paramount snapped up THE LEGENDARY McCLOUDS, a family adventure script by
Joe Ballarini, for Nickelodeon and Tollin/Robbins to produce. Set in 1904,
the plot centers on a family of adventurers as they travel across the globe
in search of their lost father and a treasure.
* Paramount picked up the feature rights to NIGHT WITCHES: THE AMAZING STORY
OF RUSSIAN WOMEN PILOTS IN WORLD WAR II by Bruce Myles for Jerry Rigged
Prods. and P.J. Soles to develop. It's about the bombing of German forces at
night by women pilots in antiquated, open-cockpit planes.
* Sparx is developing the sci-fi feature ROBOTA with art director Doug
Chiang. The feature will combine live-action and digital animation (not
unlike that of LORD OF THE RINGS' Gollum character) and tells the story set
in a world that has fallen under the control of the machines.
* Zinc Entertainment, Marching Band Prods. and Sweetpea Entertainment will
produce DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: THE SEQUEL for an early 2004 release.
* Due to the wave of suicide attacks that killed 41 civilians last week in
Casablanca, Dino De Laurentiis plans to move the production of Baz
Luhrmann's ALEXANDER THE GREAT to Australia. Luhrmann expects to start
shooting digital footage in November and begin rehearsals with Leonardo
DiCaprio, who stars, in January.
* Spice Factory and Forgan-Smith Entertainment are developing THE LITTLE
WHITE HORSE, based on the eponymous 1946 novel by Elizabeth Goudge. The
story is set in the 1840s and centers on a 13-year-old orphan who is called
on to save the inhabitants of a mysterious manor from a curse that would
consign them to watery graves.
GUNN SHOTS
(NOT from the trades)
* The Los Angeles Film School (LAFS) offers intense, hands-on
production-based courses in the seven major filmmaking crafts: directing,
producing, screenwriting, editing, sound design, production design,
cinematography and editing. LAFS offers a 1-Year Immersion Filmmaking
Program, a 6-Week Digital Filmmaking Program and a Feature Development
Program. Visit their website at This Location
* Danish actors, especially from the dogme movies are potentials for THE
PRINCE AND THE FRESHMAN about a Danish prince (as opposed to the previously
reported English) and a small-town American girl falling in love. Peter
Gantzler, Trine Dyrholm, Søren Pilmark, Jesper Asholt and Sofie Gråbøl are
in discussions to join Julia Stiles and Luke Mably in the project for
director Martha Coolidge. It's rumored that Susan Sarandon may play the
queen.
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