“Tracking Shot” is a monthly featurette here on IONCINEMA.com that looks at a dozen or so projects that are moments away from lensing (or in a couple of titles below have been shooting since July). This August we’ve got a good number of projects that 
A Bigger Splash
Director: Luca Guadagnino
Writer: David Kajganich
Cast: Dakota Johnson, Ralph Fiennes, Tilda Swinton and Matthias Schoenaerts
Producers: Michael Costigan (Out of the Furnace) & Guadagnino
Filming in Italy
Entertainment
Director: Rick Alverson
Writers: Rick Alverson, Gregg Turkington and Tim Heidecker
Cast: Michael Cera, John C. Reilly, Tye Sheridan, Angeliki Papoulia, Dean Stockwell, Tim Heidecker, Kalia Prescott, Gregg Turkington
Crew: Cinematographer: Lorenzo Hagerman (Heli). Editor: Michael Taylor (Love is Strange)
Producers: Nomadic Independence Pictures’ Brooke Bernard, Ryan Lough & Ryan Zacarias (Ping Pong Summer), Mpower Pictures’ Patrick Hibler
Executive Producers: Jagjaguwar’s Chris & Ben Swanson, Electric Dynamite’s Jack Black
Co-Executive Producers: George Rush (Ping Pong Summer), Epic Pictures Group’ Patrick Ewald and Shaked Berenson
Filming in California (Mojave Desert, Los Angeles)
Equals
Director: Drake Doremus
Writer: Nathan Parker (Moon)
Cast: Kristen Stewart, Nicholas Hoult, Guy Pearce, Jacki Weaver, Kate Lyn Sheil
Crew: Cinematographer: John Guleserian (Song One) + Composer: Sascha Ring (Crazy, Stupid, Love.) + Editor: Jonathan Alberts
Producers: Indian Paintbrush’s Steven M. Rales, Chip Diggins, Ann Ruark, Michael Schaefer, Ridley Scott, Jay Stern
Executive Producers: Pyung-ho Choi, Russell Levine, Michael A. Pruss, Lee Jae Woo
Filming in Japan and Singapore.
Just Jim
Director: Craig Roberts
Writers: Craig Roberts
Cast: Emile Hirsch, Craig Roberts, Aneirin Hughes, Nia Roberts, Richard Harrington, Matthew Aubrey, Ryan Owen, Charlotte Randall
Crew: Cinematographer: Richard Stoddard. Editor: Stephen Haren
Producers: Adrian Bate, Pip Broughton
Filming in Maesycwmmer, Wales
Lamb
Director: Ross Partridge
Writer: Ross Partridge
Cast: Ross Partridge, Lamb Oona, Jess Weixler
Producers: Mel Eslyn (Touchy Feely, The One I Love) and Tayor Williams (The Dish & the Spoon)
Exec Producers: Jennifer Lafleur and Mark Duplass
Filming in Wyoming & Chicago
Look Away
Directors: Monty Whitebloom and Andy Delaney
Writer: Jennifer Schuur
Cast: Nick Frost, Hope Davis, Adelaide Clemens
Producers: Locomotive’s Lucy Barzun Donnelly and Alexandra Kerry (That’s What She Said)
Executive Producers: Peter Friedlander (A Bag of Hammers)
Filming in Hudson Valley, New York
Meadowland
Director: Reed Morano
Writer: Chris Rossi
Cast: Olivia Wilde, Luke Wilson, Elisabeth Moss, Natasha Lyonne
Producers: Bron Studios’ Aaron L. Gilbert & Margot Hand (Rudderless), Matt Tauber (Autumn Blood) and Olivia Wilde
Filming in New York
One & Two
Director: Andrew Droz Palermo
Writers: Palermo & Neima Shahdadi
Crew: Cinematographer: Autumn Durald (Palo Alto)
Producer: Kim Sherman (You’re Next)
Filming in Missouri
Race
Director: Stephen Hopkins
Writers: Joe Shrapnel and Anna Waterhouse
Cast: Stephan James, Jason Sudeikis, Jeremy Irons
Crew: Cinematographer: Peter Levy
Producers: Forecast Pictures’ Jean Charles Lévy, ID+’s Luc Dayan, Totally Commercial Films’ Kate Garwood and Hopkins, Solofilms’ Louis-Philippe Rochon and Dominique Séguin, Trinity Race GmbH’s Karsten Brünig and Thierry Potok
Executive Producers: SquareOne’s Al Munteanu
Filming in Montreal, Canada and Berlin, Germany
Sea of Trees
Director: Gus Van Sant
Writer: Chris Sparling
Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Ken Watanabe, Naomi Watts
Crew: Cinematographer: Kasper Tuxen (The Wait)
Producers: F. Gary Gray, Kevin Halloran, Ken Kao (Rampart), Netter Prod’ Gil Netter (Life of Pi)
Filming in Massachusetts