Attached to the project in a producing capacity since 06', Kate Bosworth is looking to appear in front of the camera in what would be Jean-Marc Vallee's first U.S. based film debut. The Canadian helmer known for several decade spanning, award-winning picture in C.R.A.Z.Y and his most recent effort in The Young Victoria (which receives a release this month via Apparition) will probably not tackle the Bosworth-starring Lost Girls and Love Hotels until 2011, as he is currently helming Café De Flore (a love story between a man and woman. And between a mother and her son.)
With filmmakers from Iraq, Bolivia, India and out of all places, Greenland, it's no wonder that many of the filmmaker names selected in Sundance's 2010 edition World Cinema Dramatic Competition are drawing a blank stare. Among those that we do know we find Taika Waititi returning to the festival (after the little seen charmer Eagle vs. Shark) with a set in the 80's pic called Boy, and David Michod will be coming to the festival as the scribe for Hesher, and as the the writer-director of Animal Kingdom starring Guy Pearce.
No surprises here with the noms for the 12th British Independent Film Awards as the overwhelming favorite Fish Tank grabbed a total of eight nominations, while a sci-fi film that looks big budget but was closer to shoestring in Duncan Jones' Moon placed second best in the noms tally with a total of seven.
My filmic influences were a real mash up. Structurally the film is closest to Misery but tonally there are shades of Carrie, Dazed and Confused, Footloose, The Terminator, Tarantino, Lynch and even Walt Disney.
Summit Entertainment are in no rush to release Roman Polanski's The Ghost. If there is one genre that has suffered in the current film-going climate, it is the political-themed thriller.