The bros. specialize in the horror genre with Dimension films, they are trying to claim a stake in animation category and now, it looks like there is a buck to made with nature-related docs as a sound family film investment that began back with Winged Migration and has since become somewhat of a phenomenon with March of the Penguins. Teaming with BBC Films, The Weinstein Co. have agreed to co-finance the African wildlife feature.
After the critical and box office success with The Departed, Paramount Pictures has announced that they are contiuing the collaboration – picking up the North American rights to Martin Scorsese’s next project, which has been in gestation for a long time now and finally, after having them musically be a part of his feature films (e.g. Goodfellas) the aging Martin Scorsese will get to create with the aging rockers know as the Rolling Stones.
Continuing the relationship the fostered with his last film The Constant Gardener, Fernando Meirelles' next project has been picked up by Focus Features – they will most likely serve as the distributor and will handle international sales for the film which should see a 2008 release.
Death of a President is director Gabriel Range’s speculative documentary set in December, 2008, that tells the story of the assassination of President George W. Bush on October 19, 2007. Part political thriller, part murder mystery, Range’s film documents the President’s ill-fated trip to Chicago to make a speech about economics, the violent protest that ensues outside, the shooting of the President, and the search for the assassin.