Eric Lavallée

It didn't take long for the filmmaker behind the brilliant 2002 documentary film Bus 174 and the Golden Bear winning Elite Squad to follow the beckon call from the promised land called Hollywood. Jose Padilha hasn't even starting lensing his first English language film and yet he has managed to sign up for four projects including today's mention.

Screen Daily reports that Samuel Goldwyn Films have picked up the rights to Untitled and have already slotted a September playdate for the film.

Screen Daily reports that Boyle has picked up the rights to author Suketu Mehta’s novel Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found but details are thin on whether this will actually be his next project.

Those expecting a straight shooting documentary film where concert footage is the predominant characteristic might be terribly disappointed by Youssou Ndour: I Bring What I Love. I've managed to miss the film festival audience award winning doc at last year's TIFF but from what I gather, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi's intimate look at the renowned pop singer from Senegal happens to be a testament to how one person's faith and artistic output (his Grammy winning 2004 album "Egypt") manages to be “embraced by Western audiences but ignited serious religious controversy in his homeland”.

Up there with R&J, Hamlet is probably the most referenced/re-interpreted Shakespeare play for the big screen. Just when you think all angles have been covered (Hamlet 2's version was fairly original), Catherine Hardwicke, Emile Hirsch, The Jinks/Cohen Company and Overture Films have got another version coming.