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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 […]

11 September, 2007 By Wendy Mitchell in Toronto Source: Screen Daily Coogan stars as a high school teacher who tries to save the school’s drama department by writing his own sequel to Hamlet. Andrew Fleming (Nancy Drew, The Craft) will direct from a script he wrote with South Park veteran Pam Brady. Shooting starts September […]

2 November, 2007 By Jeremy Kay Source: Screen Daily Magnolia Pictures’ new genre label Magnet has swooped on its second acquisition in the last couple of days and taken North American rights to Toby Wilkins’ directorial debut Splinter. The film is nearing completion and centres on a young couple on the run that finds themselves […]