At the beginning of every month, IONCINEMA.com’s “Tracking Shot” features six projects that are moments away from lensing and that we feel, are worth signaling out. This September is when Blacklist’s 2008 top title goes into production – Jodie Foster helms The Beaver for Summit. Scribe Rowan Joffe begins his career as a director with Brighton Rock, – Joffe penned Pawel Pawlikowski’s Last Resort. Not much news has been made since a Cannes announcement for Andrew Niccol’s 4th film. We’ll keep tabs on whether filming for The Cross does take place down under. The very rich Todd Phillips already has a due date of November for Due Date. Edward Zwick finally gets into the saddle for Love and Other Drugs, and we are still awaiting more news on Tommy Lee Jones, who should begin filming The Sunset Limited this month. Those that didn’t make the list, but are worth keeping an eye out for are, Yann Samuell’s The Age of Reason, Ben Affleck’s The Town, Tony Scott’s Unstoppable and Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo Livid (2009), we are keeping tabs on:
The Beaver
Director: Jodie Foster – Screenwriter: Kyle Killen
Producer(s): Anonymous Content’s Steve Golin and Keith Redmon
Cast: Foster and Mel Gibson
Filming in New York City.
Brighton Rock
Director/Screenwriter: Rowan Joffe
Producer: Paul Webster (Eastern Promises)
Cast: Helen Mirren, Pete Postlethwaite, Sam Riley, Andrea Riseborough and maybe…Carey Mulligan
Filming in Brighton and London
The Cross
Director/Screenwriter: Andrew Niccol
Producer(s): Niccol, Rémi Burah, Jean-Vincent Puzos, Wieland Schulz-Keil, Jonathan Shteinman
Cast: Orlando Bloom, Olga Kurylenko , Vincent Cassel , John Goodman
Filming in Australia
Due Date
Director: Todd Phillips – Screenwriters: Alan R. Cohen & Alan Freedland with revision by Adam Sztykiel
Producer(s): Phillips and Daniel Goldberg
Cast: Robert Downey Jr. and Zach Galifianakis
Filming in Atlanta, New Mexico and Los Angeles.
Love and Other Drugs
Director: Edward Zwick – Screenwriter: Charles Randolph (The Interpreter)
Producer(s): Zwick, Randolph and Marshall Herskovitz , Mary Parent, Scott Stuber
Cast: Anne Hathaway, Jake Gyllenhaal ,Judy Greer, Josh Gad
Filming in Pittsburgh
The Sunset Limited
Director: Tommy Lee Jones – Screenwriter: Cormac McCarthy
Producer(s): Barbara Hall
Cast: Lee Jones and Samuel L. Jackson
Filming in New Mexico.