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Corneliu Porumboiu Gives ‘Flying Lessons’ to Igor Cobileanski
Everything that Romanian director Corneliu Porumboiu touches is gold and/or silver (he claimed the Jury Prize this year for the Un Certain Regard selected Police, Adjective) so imagine the chance for an up-and-coming filmmaker to share screenwriting duties on a project that Porumboiu originally developed in Cannes Cinéfondation Residence (workshop for screenplays) and then to take that same screenplay and make it your feature length debut.
Desperately Seeking Studio: Antonio Campos’ Afterschool
Having already been to Cannes on two previous trips with his short films The Last 15 (which I was rattled by in a good way – watch it here) and Cinefondation winner Buy it Now) Antonio Campos got to make his third trip out with Afterschool in the Un Certain Regard section in 2008 and the film would appear at TIFF and the New York Film Festival in the fall.
Summit ‘Conjuring’ up Paranormal Thriller
If Chad and Carey Hayes' promising pitch to be turned into a script and then handed off to a filmmaker revisits 1970's Rhode Island and does its best to include elements such as brown carpeting, sideburns and corduroy pants, then I'm sure those who look back at original The Amityville Horror with admiration will look forward to getting the beejeebus with Conjuring.
Noyce to Return to South Africa with ‘Mixed Blood’
While we can probably cross off the likes of Dirt Music, American Pastoral, Mary Queen of Scots, it now appears that Noyce will follow up Salt with a thriller working from yet again a novel and with Before the Devil Knows You're Dead's Kelly Masterson who has been hired to write the screenplay.
Gaghan set to Ride with Hunter S. Thompson’s Hell’s Angels
As we speak, Bruce Robinson's The Rum Diary must be in the midst of post-production, and now comes word that another seminal work from the earlier portions of Hunter S. Thompson's life might make its way to the big screen adaptation. In Thompson' timeline, Hell's Angels actually follows chronologically after he wrote the The Rum Diary (the novel would actually only be published in 98').
