Durban–The first edition of the Locations Africa Expo and Conference was held this week during the Durban FilmMart, with an eye toward identifying and growing the opportunities to lure incoming productions to the continent.
“Locations Africa is trying to service a need on the continent to discuss the physical production…on the ground, highlighting film commissions, the services sector, the crew, the facilities, the organizations, the understanding of the incentives and legislative environment,” said Locations Africa’s Azania Muendane (pictured).
The three-day event brought together representatives of African film commissions, production services companies, location scouts, and other industry professionals dedicated to turning the continent into a world-class locations industry.
“Trying to sell Africa is always the hardest because the Western perception of what we have and who we are is vastly wrong,” said Irfaan Fredericks, of production services company Kalahari Film and Media. “How do we manage our perception?...
“Locations Africa is trying to service a need on the continent to discuss the physical production…on the ground, highlighting film commissions, the services sector, the crew, the facilities, the organizations, the understanding of the incentives and legislative environment,” said Locations Africa’s Azania Muendane (pictured).
The three-day event brought together representatives of African film commissions, production services companies, location scouts, and other industry professionals dedicated to turning the continent into a world-class locations industry.
“Trying to sell Africa is always the hardest because the Western perception of what we have and who we are is vastly wrong,” said Irfaan Fredericks, of production services company Kalahari Film and Media. “How do we manage our perception?...
- 7/22/2019
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
In today’s film news roundup, Andrew Garfield joins Gia Coppola’s “Mainstream,” Jonathan Rhys Meyers is starring in a hot-air balloon thriller, and Jennifer Lawrence has a first-look deal.
Castings
Gia Coppola will direct and co-write “Mainstream,” with Andrew Garfield, Maya Hawke, Nat Wolff, and Jason Schwartzman starring.
The story, to be co-written by Tom Stuart, centers on an eccentric love triangle and cautionary tale of preserving your identity within the fast-moving internet age. CAA Media Finance is handling domestic sales. Wild Bunch is handling foreign sales, and will be introducing the movie at the American Film Market, which opens Wednesday in Santa Monica, Calif.
“La La Land” producer Fred Berger is producing “Mainstream” through his Automatik production company. The film will begin shooting at the end of 2018.
Coppola most recently directed “Palo Alto” for Tribeca Film, which starred Jack Kilmer, Wolff, Emma Roberts, and James Franco. Garfield’s credits include “Hacksaw Ridge,...
Castings
Gia Coppola will direct and co-write “Mainstream,” with Andrew Garfield, Maya Hawke, Nat Wolff, and Jason Schwartzman starring.
The story, to be co-written by Tom Stuart, centers on an eccentric love triangle and cautionary tale of preserving your identity within the fast-moving internet age. CAA Media Finance is handling domestic sales. Wild Bunch is handling foreign sales, and will be introducing the movie at the American Film Market, which opens Wednesday in Santa Monica, Calif.
“La La Land” producer Fred Berger is producing “Mainstream” through his Automatik production company. The film will begin shooting at the end of 2018.
Coppola most recently directed “Palo Alto” for Tribeca Film, which starred Jack Kilmer, Wolff, Emma Roberts, and James Franco. Garfield’s credits include “Hacksaw Ridge,...
- 10/31/2018
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Jonathan Rhys Meyers is in talks to star in Altitude, a thriller set on on a runaway hot-air balloon in the works from writer-director Marc Fienberg. The pic is in preproduction and shooting is scheduled to start in January in South Africa. 13 Films is repping international rights to the project and is presenting it to buyers at the American Film Market, which kicks off Wednesday in Santa Monica. Meyers would play a man who has planned the perfect romantic proposal to his girlfriend in front of their friends and family aboard a hot air balloon. An abrupt accident leaves only the couple and Bailey’s estranged ex-boyfriend on board as the balloon rises at out-of-control speeds, forcing the trio to try anything to stay alive. Branded Pictures Entertainment’s J. Todd Harris, 13 Films’ Greg Schenz, South African based Charl Van der Merwe of Silverline 360 and Kalahari Film & Media’s Irfaan Fredericks are producers.
- 10/31/2018
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
South African shoot set for January 2019.
Jonathan Rhys Meyers is in advanced talks to join the hot air balloon thriller Altitude, which 13 Films is introducing to buyers at Afm.
Writer-director Marc Fienberg and the producers have earmarked a January 2019 start in South Africa on the story about a man whose plan to propose to his fiancée in a hot air balloon goes horribly wrong.
When the airborne vessel climbs out of control, it leaves the couple and the woman’s estranged ex-boyfriend on board and fighting for their lives.
“I could not be more thrilled to be in talks with Jonathan Rhys Meyers,...
Jonathan Rhys Meyers is in advanced talks to join the hot air balloon thriller Altitude, which 13 Films is introducing to buyers at Afm.
Writer-director Marc Fienberg and the producers have earmarked a January 2019 start in South Africa on the story about a man whose plan to propose to his fiancée in a hot air balloon goes horribly wrong.
When the airborne vessel climbs out of control, it leaves the couple and the woman’s estranged ex-boyfriend on board and fighting for their lives.
“I could not be more thrilled to be in talks with Jonathan Rhys Meyers,...
- 10/30/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Shout! Factory’s multi-platform film distribution and production arm Shout! Studios has taken all North American rights to the coming-of-age feature Then Came You from Bcdf Pictures and Voltage Pictures. The deal includes all theatrical, VOD, digital, broadcast, and home entertainment platforms in U.S. and Canada.
Shout! Studios plans a theatrical launch next year followed by a strategic rollout across multiple entertainment platforms.
Directed by Peter Hutchings and written by Fergal Rock, Then Came You follows Skye (Maisie Williams), a spunky teenager with a terminal illness who befriends Calvin (Asa Butterfield), a 19-year old hypochondriac who is afraid of his own shadow. Calvin helps Skye carry out her eccentric bucket list of things to do before she dies. In the process, he learns to confront and conquer his own fears, including falling in love with the beautiful, but seemingly untouchable, Izzy (Nina Dobrev).
Also starring in the pic is Tyler Hoechlin,...
Shout! Studios plans a theatrical launch next year followed by a strategic rollout across multiple entertainment platforms.
Directed by Peter Hutchings and written by Fergal Rock, Then Came You follows Skye (Maisie Williams), a spunky teenager with a terminal illness who befriends Calvin (Asa Butterfield), a 19-year old hypochondriac who is afraid of his own shadow. Calvin helps Skye carry out her eccentric bucket list of things to do before she dies. In the process, he learns to confront and conquer his own fears, including falling in love with the beautiful, but seemingly untouchable, Izzy (Nina Dobrev).
Also starring in the pic is Tyler Hoechlin,...
- 10/9/2018
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Fans of Becca Fitzpatrick’s YA novel Hush, Hush have been waiting for this one with bated breath, and we can finally announce that the stars of Kellie Cyrus’ feature adaptation of the supernatural romance saga are Liana Liberato and Wolfgang Novogratz.
Liberato will play Nora Grey who, with her best friend Vee, are just trying to survive high school. But when Nora meets the otherworldly hottie, Patch Cipriano (Novogratz), things take a turn for the weird. Nora’s drawn to his brooding, bad boy charm, but knows he’s hiding something. That ‘something’ turns out to be that he’s a cursed supernatural being, and to survive he needs a human sacrifice. Nora quickly finds herself thrown into a whirlwind passion and a dangerous immortal battle. But not even that can get her out of gym class. Hush, Hush was a huge New York Times Bestseller for over...
Liberato will play Nora Grey who, with her best friend Vee, are just trying to survive high school. But when Nora meets the otherworldly hottie, Patch Cipriano (Novogratz), things take a turn for the weird. Nora’s drawn to his brooding, bad boy charm, but knows he’s hiding something. That ‘something’ turns out to be that he’s a cursed supernatural being, and to survive he needs a human sacrifice. Nora quickly finds herself thrown into a whirlwind passion and a dangerous immortal battle. But not even that can get her out of gym class. Hush, Hush was a huge New York Times Bestseller for over...
- 8/27/2018
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
In today’s film news roundup, Edgar Ramirez is in talks to play a criminal, Kiersey Clemons is in negotiations to portray a flower arranger and finalists have been announced for Universal’s Film Music Composer Initiative.
Castings
Edgar Ramirez is in talks to portray a career criminal in Netflix’s near-future movie “The Last Days of American Crime.”
The project is based on the Radical Publishing graphic novel by Rick Remender and Greg Tocchini. Olivier Megaton (“Taken 2”) is directing from an adapted screenplay by Karl Gajdusek, whose credits include “Oblivion” and “Stranger Things.”
The story centers on U.S. government plans to broadcast a signal making it impossible for anyone to knowingly commit unlawful acts. Graham Bricke, a career criminal who was never able to hit the big score, teams up with Kevin Cash and Shelby Dupree to commit the heist of the century and the last crime...
Castings
Edgar Ramirez is in talks to portray a career criminal in Netflix’s near-future movie “The Last Days of American Crime.”
The project is based on the Radical Publishing graphic novel by Rick Remender and Greg Tocchini. Olivier Megaton (“Taken 2”) is directing from an adapted screenplay by Karl Gajdusek, whose credits include “Oblivion” and “Stranger Things.”
The story centers on U.S. government plans to broadcast a signal making it impossible for anyone to knowingly commit unlawful acts. Graham Bricke, a career criminal who was never able to hit the big score, teams up with Kevin Cash and Shelby Dupree to commit the heist of the century and the last crime...
- 7/28/2018
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Michael Mayer, who recently directed the Annette Bening-Saoirse Ronan movie, The Seagull, has come on board to direct the feature take on Vanessa Diffenbaugh’s New York Times bestseller The Language of Flowers. Kiersey Clemons, star of Open Road’s cult comedy Dope and the upcoming Warner Bros./DC Flash movie is in talks to star in the lead role of Victoria.
The Language of Flowers tells the story of a young woman who, after being released from the foster care system, finds work in a flower shop. There she changes the lives of others while working to overcome her own troubled past with her foster mother. The book spent 69 weeks on the New York Times Bestseller list and has sold over 2M copies worldwide in 40 languages. Previously set up at Fox 2000, the novel was then developed by Bcdf with a new screenplay by Peter Hutchings.
Claude Dal Farra,...
The Language of Flowers tells the story of a young woman who, after being released from the foster care system, finds work in a flower shop. There she changes the lives of others while working to overcome her own troubled past with her foster mother. The book spent 69 weeks on the New York Times Bestseller list and has sold over 2M copies worldwide in 40 languages. Previously set up at Fox 2000, the novel was then developed by Bcdf with a new screenplay by Peter Hutchings.
Claude Dal Farra,...
- 7/27/2018
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
It's been a long road for the film adaptation of Marie Lu's dystopian Ya novel Legend — but the project had found a new home.
Bcdf Pictures has acquired the film and TV rights to the sci-fi book franchise and set Joseph Muszynski to write a new script based on the first novel.
Claude Dal Farra, Brice Dal Farra, and Brian Keady of Bcdf Pictures are producers, along with Irfaan Fredericks of Kalahari Film & Media. Muszynski, Glenn W. Garland, and Kalahari's Michael S. Murphey are executive producers.
The book was first acquired in 2011 by ...
Bcdf Pictures has acquired the film and TV rights to the sci-fi book franchise and set Joseph Muszynski to write a new script based on the first novel.
Claude Dal Farra, Brice Dal Farra, and Brian Keady of Bcdf Pictures are producers, along with Irfaan Fredericks of Kalahari Film & Media. Muszynski, Glenn W. Garland, and Kalahari's Michael S. Murphey are executive producers.
The book was first acquired in 2011 by ...
- 7/26/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
It's been a long road for the film adaptation of Marie Lu's dystopian Ya novel Legend — but the project had found a new home.
Bcdf Pictures has acquired the film and TV rights to the sci-fi book franchise and set Joseph Muszynski to write a new script based on the first novel.
Claude Dal Farra, Brice Dal Farra, and Brian Keady of Bcdf Pictures are producers, along with Irfaan Fredericks of Kalahari Film & Media. Lu, Muszynski, Glenn W. Garland, and Kalahari's Michael S. Murphey are executive producers.
The book was first acquired in 2011 ...
Bcdf Pictures has acquired the film and TV rights to the sci-fi book franchise and set Joseph Muszynski to write a new script based on the first novel.
Claude Dal Farra, Brice Dal Farra, and Brian Keady of Bcdf Pictures are producers, along with Irfaan Fredericks of Kalahari Film & Media. Lu, Muszynski, Glenn W. Garland, and Kalahari's Michael S. Murphey are executive producers.
The book was first acquired in 2011 ...
- 7/26/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
In today’s film news roundup, “Hush, Hush” is heading for the big screen, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and Anna Diop are cast in Jordan Peele’s “Us,” and Paris Jackson gets a part as a singer.
Director Hired
Television veteran Kellie Cyrus has been tapped to direct a movie adaption of Becca Fitzpatrick’s bestselling supernatural romance saga “Hush, Hush,” Variety has learned exclusively.
Cyrus will direct from an adaptation by Peter Hutchings. Producers are Claude Dal Farra, Brice Dal Farra, and Brian Keady of Bcdf Pictures, along with Irfaan Fredericks of Kalahari Film & Media. Fitzpatrick, Hutchings, Simon Swart, and Kalahari’s Michael S. Murphey are the executive producers.
“Hush, Hush,” published in 2009 as the first of a four-title series, was a New York Times Bestseller for more than 50 weeks. It has sold over five million copies worldwide and has been translated into over 35 languages. All four books — “Hush,...
Director Hired
Television veteran Kellie Cyrus has been tapped to direct a movie adaption of Becca Fitzpatrick’s bestselling supernatural romance saga “Hush, Hush,” Variety has learned exclusively.
Cyrus will direct from an adaptation by Peter Hutchings. Producers are Claude Dal Farra, Brice Dal Farra, and Brian Keady of Bcdf Pictures, along with Irfaan Fredericks of Kalahari Film & Media. Fitzpatrick, Hutchings, Simon Swart, and Kalahari’s Michael S. Murphey are the executive producers.
“Hush, Hush,” published in 2009 as the first of a four-title series, was a New York Times Bestseller for more than 50 weeks. It has sold over five million copies worldwide and has been translated into over 35 languages. All four books — “Hush,...
- 7/20/2018
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
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