Author: Jill Rose

11 July, 2007 By Denis Seguin in TorontoSource: Screen Daily The new Gala titles are: Michael Clayton, the debut of screenwriter Tony Gilroy (The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy) who also penned this legal drama starring George Clooney as a burned out corporate attorney who confronts the greatest moral challenge of a hitherto immoral career. […]

19 October, 2007 By Wendy MitchellSource: Screen Daily Aisling Walsh (Song For A Raggy Boy) will direct based on an original screenplay by Lauren MacKenzie. The film starts shooting Oct 29 as a UK/Irish co-production. Subotica Entertainment’s Tristan Orpen Lynch and Dominic Wright will produce. Content is also co-financing the project with the Irish Film […]

2 October, 2007 The film is based on the true events of the Indonesian invasion of East Timor in 1975. LaPaglia plays Australian TV journalist Roger East, who runs a local news agency but tries to find five missing Australian journalists. Connolly co-wrote the script with David Williamson. The project is set to shoot in […]

19 May, 2007 By Adam DawtreySource: Variety CANNES — ContentFilm Intl. is handling worldwide sales on “Elephants,” a feature doc that will follow the annual journey of hundreds of pachyderms across the Kalahari Desert to reach the lush Okavango Delta in southern Africa. Production will begin in the upcoming dry season. The film will focus […]

29 November, 2007 By Jeremy Kay in Los Angeles Source: Screen Daily As previously announced the festival will open on January 17 with Martin McDonagh’s feature directorial debut In Bruges starring Ralph Fiennes, Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson. Festival director Geoff Gilmore revealed the closing film will be CSNY Déjà Vu, which follows Crosby, Stills, […]

16 April, 2007 Pic stars Josh Hartnett, Naomie Harris, Adam Scott and Rip Torn in the story of a young dotcom entrepreneur struggling to keep his head above water during the 2001 stock market collapse prior to the World Trade Center attacks of 9/11. “August” is being financed by Patrick Morris and Elisa Pugliese’s 57th […]

26 June, 2007 By DIANE GARRETTSource: Variety.com Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group has picked up rights to “Outpost” for a series of territories, most of them English-speaking. Sony will distribute the ContentFilms thriller in the U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia and New Zealand, in addition to South Africa, Greece and Israel. Story follows mercenaries in war-torn […]

20 December, 2007 By Jeremy Kay in Los Angeles Source: Screen Daily The film, the first to be produced and financed by fledgling Los Angeles-based L+E Productions, will receive its world premiere on January 21. Fleming and Pam Brady co-wrote the story, which stars Coogan as a high school drama teacher who creates a musical […]

13 September, 2007 By John DeForeSource: The Hollywood Reporter It’s a self-portrait, to a great extent, as the film’s most effective passages come straight from the man’s typewriter: impassioned speeches, witty letters, and soul-baring confessions that he wrote, read by actors who remind us how lovely it can be simply to sit and listen to […]