Tracking Shot July 2010: Melancholia, Moneyball, Take This Waltz

July is a pretty big month for movie productions worth keeping tabs on – this month’s IONCINEMA.com’s “Tracking Shot” features a mix of indie and studio project, with helmer Chris Gorak (Right at Your Door) making the jump for low budget to huge budget with Summit Ent. distributing and Timur Bekmambetov producing an alien invasion project. Sticking with the notion of madness, Lars Von Trier has a huge ensemble at his disposal for the a shot in Sweden apocalypse. and we have a pair of shot in Hollywood North horror projects: one indie by Mark Tonderai and one big budget from Catherine Hardwicke. Keeping with the shot in Canada projects, we have Sarah Polley shooting in Toronto. Shooting in the U.K we have Madonna going retro with W.E. and have Lone Scherfig taking on book to film romance One Day. To wrap things up, we have Woody in shooting in Paris and Bennett Miller is comign out of the dugout for Moneyball. Here is the listing of projects that we’ll certainly be looking forward in seeing next year.

The Darkest Hour
Director: Chris Gorak
Screenwriter: Jon Spaihts
Producer: Timur Bekmambetov and Tom Jacobson
Cast: Emile Hirsch, Olivia Thirlby and Max Minghella
Filming in Moscow, Russia.

House at the End of the Street
Director: Mark Tonderai
Screenwriter: David Loucka
Producer: Peter Block, Hal Lieberman, Jonathan Mostow, Aaron Ryder, Tim Williams
Cast: Jennifer Lawrence and Max Thieriot
Filming in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

Melancholia
Director/Screenwriter: Lars von Trier
Producer: Meta Louise Foldager and Louise Vesth
Cast: Alexander Skarsgård, Kirsten Dunst, Stellan Skarsgård, Kiefer Sutherland, John Hurt, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Charlotte Rampling, Udo Kier
Filming in Sweden.

Midnight in Paris
Director/Screenwriter: Woody Allen
Producer: Letty Aronson, Jaume Roures and Stephen Tenenbaum
Cast: Rachel McAdams, Marion Cotillard, Adrien Brody, Michael Sheen, Owen Wilson, Kathy Bates, Alison Pill, Carla Bruni
Filming in Paris, France.

Moneyball
Director: Bennett Miller
Screenwriter: Aaron Sorkin and Steven Zaillian
Producer: Michael De Luca, Rachael Horovitz, Scott Rudin
Cast: Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill, Robin Wright and Philip Seymour Hoffman
Filming in Oakland, California (Oakland Athletics Stadium) and Boston.

One Day
Director: Lone Scherfig
Screenwriter: David Nicholls
Producer: Nina Jacobson
Cast: Anne Hathaway, Jim Sturgess, Romola Garai
Filming in London, England, UK.

Red Riding Hood
Director: Catherine Hardwicke
Screenwriter: David Johnson
Producer: Leonardo DiCaprio, Michael Ireland, Jennifer Davisson Killoran , Alex Mace and Julie Yorn
Cast: Amanda Seyfried, Lukas Haas, Gary Oldman, Julie Christie, Michael Shanks, Shiloh Fernandez
Filming in Vancouver.

Take this Waltz
Director/Screenwriter: Sarah Polley
Producer: Susan Cavan and Sarah Polley
Cast: Seth Rogen, Michelle Williams, Sarah Silverman and Luke Kirby
Filming in Toronto.

W.E.
Director: Madonna
Screenwriters: Madonna and Alek Keshishian
Producer: Colin Vaines (Coriolanus)
Cast: Abbie Cornish, Oscar Isaac, James D’Arcy and Andrea Riseborough
Filming in French Riviera, London and New York.