Eric Lavallée

Expect to see Canadian filmmaker Vincenzo Natali's stock to rise up with the forthcoming release of futuristic tale called Splice. Already a fan favorite...

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Last week, Shekhar Kapur took over the place left by the late Anthony Minghella for his segment of the shorts ensemble New York, I Love You and this week he will be in over his head with Warner Bros.' period fantasy based on the recent Philip Reeve's novel. THR reports that Kapur will develop and direct Larklight while Steven Knight will adapt the tale that is set in a Victorian-era alternate universe in which mankind has been exploring the solar system since the time of Isaac Newton, revolves around a brother and sister who team with a band of renegade space pirates to save the world from destruction at the hands of a madman. Kapur has over the years been attached to several projects, but nothing close to the magnitude of this 200 million dollar project. In making their decision, Warner isn't looking at the box office receipts for Elizabeth: The Golden Age nor 02's The Four Feathers. Denise Di Novi is producing while Alison Greenspan is exec producing.

When John Hillcoat burst onto the scene with gruesome Western experience of The Proposition he not only made a name for himself, he gave...

The very young, and so far, extremely successful Cannes Atelier program (now in its 4th year) has announced the 15 projects as part of the 2008 curriculum that basically invites directors and their producers to pitch their projects, find financing and/or find distribution to world investors in film the film festival dates.