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Beaufoy gets hitched on ‘Leap Year’
THR reports that Beaufoy will work from an earlier draft by Harry Elfont and Deb Kaplan for Leap Year - a rom com that Spyglass is looking to put into production sometime this year.
Overture are ‘Law Abiding Citizen’s
Taking a cue from last week's deal that will see Summit load up on Participant Media films, Overture films will most probably fill up their future slate with mid-range films like The Rebound, Law Abiding Citizen and The Beautiful and the Damned.
Neil Marshall to Command Fassbender, West and Kurylenko in ‘Centurion’
Penned by Marshall and produced by Christian Colson of Celador Films (they did Slumdog and have a timely screenplay in Selma in the works), Centurion featured Bond girl Olga Kurylenko in metal clad of the époque join the ranks of current “it” actor Fassbender and West.
Universal issues Jose Padilha a New ‘Protocol’
Padilha had a bit more luck with his Berlin International Film Festival winning Elite Squad -- Hollywood came rushing in fairly quickly -- WB threw A Willing Patriot at him and Plan B wants him on board for a project titled Marching Powder. If Padilha chooses to go with a Robert Ludlum book to film project first, he almost assures himself a fair chance at a bright future.
Sundance Journal 2009 Day 9: Lynn Shelton’s Humpday
I can't say that I'm a huge connoisseur of the mumblecore films and from the batch that I have seen so far, Lynn Shelton's Humpday is easily one of the better films to emerge from the grouping of low budget talkies.
