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Interview: Rupert Murray (The End of the Line)
I'd been reading horror articles in the newspapers about the oceans sporadically for about 5 years, but I always thought...how do I put these together into a film? I always had had a passion for marine life and then I read Charles Clover's book The End of The Line and I realized my search was over.
GKIDS goes ‘West of Pluto’
After showing at Rotterdam, the Seattle Film Festival and the upcoming L.A Film Fest next weekend, Les Films Séville/E1 Entertainment International have announced that GKIDS have picked up the U.S. rights to West of Pluto. GKIDS is the outlet that co-distributed Sita Sings the Blues. The pic should receive a Fall release perhaps under GKIDS' Flicker Lounge label.
Anchor Bay Picks Up Tribeca Winner ‘City Island’
First Sundance (Spread), then the Cannes market (The Open Road) and now Tribeca, it looks like Anchor Bay Films are getting serious about the theatrical side of the movie business acquiring modestly sized comedies with star power. They happen to believe so much in Raymond de Felitta's Tribeca winning film that they've grabbed all rights for North America, the UK, Australia and New Zealand.
Fox Searchlight Asks Sanaa Hamri to Make Everything ‘Just Wright’
Call this the type of chick flick where the boyfriends get to see some hoop sports action and where the ladies get to see a built basketball player. Originally Disney had bought the pitch back in 2003 but somehow the project with the long attached Queen Latifah was picked up in turnaround via Fox Searchlight who have a film that they might be looking to have a slam dunk with the African American demo.
Away We Go Again – Focus Makes Pact with Mendes on a Possible Pair
Despite only being in theaters for the past two weeks and having Away We Go rake in just under a million at the BO, Focus Features is thinking long term with Sam Mendes (well at least till 2011) and are hoping to get the filmmaker to take on a pair of period piece projects. Mendes and Neal Street Prods have according to Variety, signed a two-year first-look deal that could see Mendes direct.
