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Paramount Vantage taps Orphan’s Johnson for Lake Mungo
Paramount Vantage are going to be tinkering around a little with an Aussie horror film that they picked up in late last year. The U.S remake will be dropping the faux-documentary style that filmmaker Joel Anderson incorporated into his 2008 original and Vantage have hired David Leslie Johnson to write the screenplay and include a narrative with a more familiar look.
Dolphin Killing Doc Wins Audience Awards in Nantucket and Silverdocs
Since it started its festival run at Sundance (where it picked up its first audience award) this tear-jerking doc film that keeps the worst for last has been terribly successful in seducing its audiences. Pegged with a July 31st release, Louie Psihoyos' The Cove has in the same weekend picked up a pair of East coast film festival awards – winning at the Nantucket Film Fest and Silverdocs (the king of doc film festivals).
Get Ready for Radu Mihaileanu’s ‘The Concert’ in the Fall
Radu Mihaileanu's The Concert was a packaged and sold Wild Bunch item that the Weinsteins pre-emptively picked up at last year's Cannes, and now currently in post-production, the film is probably setting its sights on a double preem at Venice and TIFF in the fall.
Focus Features sets Alain Chabat as ‘The Dubber’
Fittingly, Chabat is attached to a comedy called The Dubber - which would let him work in both French and in broken English. Focus Features have attached themselves to a buddy comedy that enters on a man who provides the French dubbing voice for a top Hollywood star. When the A-lister has an on-set meltdown and goes missing, the dubber travels to the U.S. to help find him.
Lemon of the Week: Food, Inc.’s Magnolia Pictures
The Lemon of the Week goes not to the doc film, nor the production companies (Participant Media and River Road Entertainment) and nor does it go to Stonyfield Farm who benefit from the I'll scratch your back if you scratch mine type of arrangement, but rather it goes to Magnolia Pictures for not being a bit more vigilant in choosing a promotional partner.
