Various production companies have begun announcing new film projects in the lead-up to the Cannes Film Market which is scheduled to begin later this month. Amongst the new films that have been announced in the past day or so:
Eye in the Sky
Gavin Hood is on board to direct and Colin Firth will lead an ensemble cast in eOne's contemporary drone warfare thriller "Eye In The Sky" which will shoot in South Africa in August.
The story follows a military intelligence officer who is charged with remotely commanding a top secret drone operation to capture a group of terrorists from their safe-house in Kenya. Guy Hibbert ("Complicit") penned the script. [Source: Screen]
Salinger's War
Writer Danny Strong ("Lee Daniels' The Butler," "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay") will make his directorial debut on "Salinger's War", a biopic of famed author J.D. Salinger for Black Label Media.
Strong wrote the script on spec...
Eye in the Sky
Gavin Hood is on board to direct and Colin Firth will lead an ensemble cast in eOne's contemporary drone warfare thriller "Eye In The Sky" which will shoot in South Africa in August.
The story follows a military intelligence officer who is charged with remotely commanding a top secret drone operation to capture a group of terrorists from their safe-house in Kenya. Guy Hibbert ("Complicit") penned the script. [Source: Screen]
Salinger's War
Writer Danny Strong ("Lee Daniels' The Butler," "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay") will make his directorial debut on "Salinger's War", a biopic of famed author J.D. Salinger for Black Label Media.
Strong wrote the script on spec...
- 5/1/2014
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
If you were a regular watcher of NBC's "Dracula" you're no doubt familiar with Victoria Smurfit, who played Lady Jane Wetherby on the show. Up next, Smurfit stars in a revenge thriller, and we've got the skinny for ya today. Read on!
Per Screen Daily, Smurfit (pictured) stars alongside Joanne Mitchell and Jonathan Slinger in the film, which has just begun production over in West Yorkshire. It's being directed by Jonathan Brunt, who previously helmed the 2012 horror flick Before Dawn.
The Taking tells the story of two women who turn the tables on a vicious loan shark, and it's one of the new films on the slate of newly minted UK sales outfit Metrodome International.
Brunt produces alongside Jezz Vernon, Joanne Mitchell, Michael Lacey, Jennifer Handorf and Helen Grace. Executive producers are Martin Campbell and Kwesi Dickson.
The shoot is due to wrap on May 18.
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Per Screen Daily, Smurfit (pictured) stars alongside Joanne Mitchell and Jonathan Slinger in the film, which has just begun production over in West Yorkshire. It's being directed by Jonathan Brunt, who previously helmed the 2012 horror flick Before Dawn.
The Taking tells the story of two women who turn the tables on a vicious loan shark, and it's one of the new films on the slate of newly minted UK sales outfit Metrodome International.
Brunt produces alongside Jezz Vernon, Joanne Mitchell, Michael Lacey, Jennifer Handorf and Helen Grace. Executive producers are Martin Campbell and Kwesi Dickson.
The shoot is due to wrap on May 18.
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- 4/30/2014
- by John Squires
- DreadCentral.com
Exclusive: Dominic Brunt directs, Victoria Smurfit stars in Metrodome production.
Shooting is underway in West Yorkshire on director Dominic Brunt’s revenge-thriller The Taking, one of the new films on the slate of newly minted UK sales outfit Metrodome International.
Victoria Smurfit, star of NBC’s Dracula, will star alongside Joanne Mitchell and Jonathan Slinger in the story of two women who turn the tables on a vicious loan shark.
Metrodome International, which co-produces with Mitchell-Brunt Films, will be shopping the project to buyers at Cannes. Metrodome Distribution will release in the UK.
The film is produced by Brunt, Jezz Vernon, Joanne Mitchell, Michael Lacey, Jennifer Handorf and Helen Grace. Executive producers are Martin Campbell and Kwesi Dickson.
The shoot is due to wrap on May 18.
Metrodome International head of sales and acquisitions Caroline Couret-Delègue said: ‘”The Taking is a powerful female lead movie that tackles the zeitgeist issues of debt and class warfare in a violent...
Shooting is underway in West Yorkshire on director Dominic Brunt’s revenge-thriller The Taking, one of the new films on the slate of newly minted UK sales outfit Metrodome International.
Victoria Smurfit, star of NBC’s Dracula, will star alongside Joanne Mitchell and Jonathan Slinger in the story of two women who turn the tables on a vicious loan shark.
Metrodome International, which co-produces with Mitchell-Brunt Films, will be shopping the project to buyers at Cannes. Metrodome Distribution will release in the UK.
The film is produced by Brunt, Jezz Vernon, Joanne Mitchell, Michael Lacey, Jennifer Handorf and Helen Grace. Executive producers are Martin Campbell and Kwesi Dickson.
The shoot is due to wrap on May 18.
Metrodome International head of sales and acquisitions Caroline Couret-Delègue said: ‘”The Taking is a powerful female lead movie that tackles the zeitgeist issues of debt and class warfare in a violent...
- 4/30/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
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