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2009 EFA Noms: This Year’s Favorite (A Prophet) vs. Last Year’s Fave (Slumdog)
With the film eligibility dates covering portions of two years, the 2009 European Film Awards finds itself in an awkward mode of having a clear favorites from circa 2008 (Slumdog Millionaire, Let the Right One In) go up against cream of the crop from Cannes 2009 (A Prophet, The White Ribbon and Fish Tank).
Pawlikowski Returning Home for ‘Sister of Mercy’
Pawlikowski has been involved with a couple of false starts and is probably struggling to get more money out of a Miramax deal for his pic called Young Stalin. He hasn't directed a picture since My Summer of Love, but it appears as if his next pic will be a Polish-British co-production which would shoot this coming summer.
New Actors En ‘Route’ to Ken Loach’s Latest Drama
We might be getting a double dose of the "Green Zone" in 2010. We have the actioner film by Paul Greengrass coming out in early 2010, and then we should see Ken Loach staking out this region in war-torn Baghdad with DP Chris Menges by his side.
Myriad Sheds no Tears for ‘Cry of the Owl’
Rather than letting a title collect dust or selling at a big loss, an uncomfortable scenario that happens to the best of film studios (see Magnolia's The Burning Plain as a recent example) and this is exactly the dilemma that Myriad Pictures has found itself in with Cry of the Owl.
IFC ‘Horde’ French Zombie Movie
After distributing a film about Nazi zombies running amuck in the Fjords, it appears IFC Films are probably thinking of more content for their Saturday night programming with this AFM purchase. SD reports that they've picked up French zombie film La Horde.
