London -- Kari Skogland is lined up to direct "Beslan," a movie based on the infamous school siege in North Ossetia, Russia, in 2004.
Skogland, who shot to prominence with Ira drama "Fifty Dead Men Walking," is set to direct from a script penned by James W. Mitchell.
The movie is being produced by U.K. based production banner Firefly and is based on the 2004 incident that saw armed terrorists take over 1,300 men, women and children hostage at School Number One. Three hundred were killed by the end of the siege.
Produced by Firefly's Matthew Hobbs the project is scheduled to shoot in the fall in Eastern Europe, Hobbs said.
Skogland is repped by Wme and Ralph Zimmerman.
Skogland, who shot to prominence with Ira drama "Fifty Dead Men Walking," is set to direct from a script penned by James W. Mitchell.
The movie is being produced by U.K. based production banner Firefly and is based on the 2004 incident that saw armed terrorists take over 1,300 men, women and children hostage at School Number One. Three hundred were killed by the end of the siege.
Produced by Firefly's Matthew Hobbs the project is scheduled to shoot in the fall in Eastern Europe, Hobbs said.
Skogland is repped by Wme and Ralph Zimmerman.
- 3/12/2010
- by By Stuart Kemp
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The 90's were David Mamet's decade, the 00's not so much. If you're like me, the only noteworthy item in the last ten was the grossly under-appreciated 2004 film Spartan. Mamet will begin the new decade by wearing the scribe and producer's hat but leaving helming duties to Michael Worth, an unknown television actor whose turned to directing and is also producing a project that is based on a little known out of print book called Come Back To Sorrento by Dawn Powell. - The 90's were David Mamet's decade, the 00's not so much. If you're like me, the only noteworthy item in the last ten was the grossly under-appreciated 2004 film Spartan. Mamet will begin the new decade by wearing the scribe and producer's hat but leaving helming duties to Michael Worth, an unknown television actor whose turned to directing and is also producing a project that...
- 12/18/2009
- IONCINEMA.com
Firefly and Bla Bla Bla Productions are teaming on the $10 million Depression-era romantic drama "Come Back To Sorrento" says The Hollywood Reporter.
David Mamet ("Wag the Dog," "State and Main") adapted the script from Dawn Powell's novel about a music teacher with a mysterious past. The teacher finds more than he expected when he travels to a small town in Ohio to teach music and comes to love a housewife seeking a long-forgotten dream.
Felicity Huffman, William H. Macy and Rebecca Pidgeon are all in negotiations to star. Michael Worth ("God's Ears") directs the project while Mamet, Worth, Matthew Hobbs and Kristin Holt will produce.
David Mamet ("Wag the Dog," "State and Main") adapted the script from Dawn Powell's novel about a music teacher with a mysterious past. The teacher finds more than he expected when he travels to a small town in Ohio to teach music and comes to love a housewife seeking a long-forgotten dream.
Felicity Huffman, William H. Macy and Rebecca Pidgeon are all in negotiations to star. Michael Worth ("God's Ears") directs the project while Mamet, Worth, Matthew Hobbs and Kristin Holt will produce.
- 12/17/2009
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Firefly and Bla Bla Bla Productions are teaming on the $10 million Depression-era romantic drama "Come Back To Sorrento" says The Hollywood Reporter.
David Mamet ("Wag the Dog," "State and Main") adapted the script from Dawn Powell's novel about a music teacher with a mysterious past. The teacher finds more than he expected when he travels to a small town in Ohio to teach music and comes to love a housewife seeking a long-forgotten dream.
Felicity Huffman, William H. Macy and Rebecca Pidgeon are all in negotiations to star. Michael Worth ("God's Ears") directs the project while Mamet, Worth, Matthew Hobbs and Kristin Holt will produce.
David Mamet ("Wag the Dog," "State and Main") adapted the script from Dawn Powell's novel about a music teacher with a mysterious past. The teacher finds more than he expected when he travels to a small town in Ohio to teach music and comes to love a housewife seeking a long-forgotten dream.
Felicity Huffman, William H. Macy and Rebecca Pidgeon are all in negotiations to star. Michael Worth ("God's Ears") directs the project while Mamet, Worth, Matthew Hobbs and Kristin Holt will produce.
- 12/17/2009
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
London -- U.K. production banner Firefly is teaming with L.A.-based producer Bla Bla Bla Productions to produce a David Mamet script entitled "Come Back To Sorrento."
Firefly, which has offices here, the Middle East and in Australia, said Wednesday the $10 million budgeted movie will be directed by Michael Worth ("God's Ears") and produced by Firefly's Matthew Hobbs with Bla Bla Bla's Kristin Holt, David Mamet and Michael Worth.
Based on a novel by Dawn Powell and set during The Great Depression the script details the story of a music teacher with a mysterious past. The teacher finds more than he expected when he travels to a small town in Ohio to teach music and comes to love a housewife seeking a long-forgotten dream.
Felicity Huffman, William H. Macy and Rebecca Pidgeon are all in negotiations to star in the film, Hobbs said.
The film is slated...
Firefly, which has offices here, the Middle East and in Australia, said Wednesday the $10 million budgeted movie will be directed by Michael Worth ("God's Ears") and produced by Firefly's Matthew Hobbs with Bla Bla Bla's Kristin Holt, David Mamet and Michael Worth.
Based on a novel by Dawn Powell and set during The Great Depression the script details the story of a music teacher with a mysterious past. The teacher finds more than he expected when he travels to a small town in Ohio to teach music and comes to love a housewife seeking a long-forgotten dream.
Felicity Huffman, William H. Macy and Rebecca Pidgeon are all in negotiations to star in the film, Hobbs said.
The film is slated...
- 12/16/2009
- by By Stuart Kemp
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Here's your dose of film news for May 16, 2009:
• Jason Statham is set to star in "The Killer Elite" directed by Gary McKendry. Based on Ranulph Fiennes' novel "The Feathermen," the film follows a bunch of former British special forces members tracked down by ruthless killers. Statham, who also stars in the upcoming "The Expendables," plays a Navy Seal leaving retirement to save a good friend. (Variety)
• Spiros Stathoulopoulos is in talks to direct "Love and Let Die," about an expert seducer who runs into his long-lost childhood love. Asimakis "Alfa" Pagidas wrote the script, and Theo Alexander is in talks to play the title role. Stathoulopoulos also directed "P.V.C.-1." (The Hollywood Reporter)
• Jerry Lewis will play the lead in Daniel Noah's "Max Rose," a drama following a widower who decides to turn to his past to unlock the mysteries of his marriage and family life.
• Jason Statham is set to star in "The Killer Elite" directed by Gary McKendry. Based on Ranulph Fiennes' novel "The Feathermen," the film follows a bunch of former British special forces members tracked down by ruthless killers. Statham, who also stars in the upcoming "The Expendables," plays a Navy Seal leaving retirement to save a good friend. (Variety)
• Spiros Stathoulopoulos is in talks to direct "Love and Let Die," about an expert seducer who runs into his long-lost childhood love. Asimakis "Alfa" Pagidas wrote the script, and Theo Alexander is in talks to play the title role. Stathoulopoulos also directed "P.V.C.-1." (The Hollywood Reporter)
• Jerry Lewis will play the lead in Daniel Noah's "Max Rose," a drama following a widower who decides to turn to his past to unlock the mysteries of his marriage and family life.
- 5/16/2009
- by Franck Tabouring
- screeninglog.com
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