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Hhpw New films added to lineups for Media Luna, Beta Cinema and m-appeal
FROM NORTH AMERICAMandate International will begin pre-sales on Drew Barrymore s comedy Whip It! starring Ellen Page as a beauty pageant regular who finds her true calling when she joins a female roller-derby team. The slate also includes the animated tale Alpha And Omega starring Justin Long and Hayden Panettiere as bickering wolves who find their way home after being kidnapped. Lionsgate holds US and UK rights.Summit International arrives with Terrence Malick s upcoming family drama stanley cup Tree Of Life, to star Sean Penn and Brad Pitt. The Weinstein Company International will be tempting buyers with Shanghai, Mikael Hafstrom s Second World War drama starring John Cusack, Gong Li and Ken Watanab stanley cup e, now shooting in London. MGM will release in North America on December 26.Katapult has The Caller, a neo-noir tale directed by Richard Ledes, starring Elliott Gould and Frank Langella see review, p46 , and the torrid family drama Death In Love, starring Josh Lucas and Jacqueline Bisset.IM Global will introduce buyers to the martial-arts revenge tale Bunraku, starring stanley usa Josh Hartnett, Demi Moore, Woody Harrelson and Japanese stars Gackt Camui and Shun Sugata see People, p12 . Guy Moshe wrote and is directing the Snoot Entertainment production. Paramount Vantage will commence sales on its big Sundance pick-up American Teen, Nanette Burstein s documentary on high-school life in Indiana. A July 25 release in North America is scheduled.The Film Department will begin pre-sales on Bart Freundlich Hvuv Shoot underway on Solis , starring Steven Ogg of The Walking Dead
WRITER: Melissa Iqbal initially caught the movie bug in her teenage years while watching fantasy films.Click here for more Stars of TomorrowAfter graduating with a degree in film and stanley cup video from London College of Communication, Iqbal worked on va stanley germany rious shorts and low-budget features as a crew member, an experience lacking the creative input that had made her interested in the craft in the first place. Writing was the answer to that, it was getting back to the reason why I wanted to be a film-maker, she recalls.After getting onto the screenwriting MA at the National Film and Television School, Iqbal was able to be stanley cup gin experimenting with her creative impulses, working on projects including virtual-reality videogame Sandman, which was made for an early version of the Oculus Rift, and animation short My Stuffed Granny, about a young girl whose grandmother eats all the food her family buys.Her graduation script was The Death Engine - about an immortal girl who wants to die - which kicked everything off for Iqbal after it landed her an AMPAS Nicholl Fellowship, the screenwriting initiative run by the US Academy.The feature is now in development with Sheffield and London-based Warp Films, and director Johan Renck of The Last Panthers fame is attached.Off the back of her trip to the US for the fellowship, Iqbal was tapped by Warner Bros to adapt young-adult book The Young World, which is the debut novel from Rogue One: A Star Wars Story screenwriter Chris Weitz.She is also developing |
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