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You and I: What Happened to Roland Joffe?
The last two films have represented an odd choice in directing choices for two-time Oscar nominated for Best Director Roland Joffe. With a career path that includes The Killing Fields and The Mission, Joffe with the backing of Russian production company RAMCO has gone into fair that is aimed at the younger demographics.
Cassavetes sisters join the Hughes bros. and Caouette on Four Sketch project
Perhaps the families were formally introduced during the production of the New York, I Love You project and now, the Cassavetes name and Hughes bros. are once again participating on a short film collective.
Dub-ya: A Tragedy of Words to be Played out on the Big Screen
The heavyweight bout to take place on the 4th of November finally has its pair of marquee names, and with the forthcoming six months-worth of trash talk between the Obama/McCain camps, the media are likely going to place less emphasis on the person exiting the Oval office.
Bowing out with a Money Maker? Picturehouse sets ‘The Women’ in Motion
Packing more estrogen than the current Sex and the City: The Movie, it's no accident that the almost clinically dead Picturehouse Films (who fall into the same WB umbrella as the soon to be dearly departed outfits of New Line and WIP) are getting a leg up on promoting the next chick flick The Women.
WB sets Abu-Assad for ‘Eleven Minutes’
Less than two weeks ago The Weinstein Company proudly announced their big screen adaptation intentions for Paulo Coelho's classic The Alchemist and now, Warner Bros. are quick to follow announcing that they have re-set a Coelho project originally set up at New Line. Variety reports that Hollywood Gang Prods. has set Hany Abu-Assad (Paradise Now) to direct the project and rewrite the script by Marcos Bernstein (Central Station).
