So we can cover as many films as possible, we thought we’d give you these quick updates on some of today’s smaller film announcements…
There’s been a lot of interest in whether Wes Craven will direct Scream 4. Well, it’s being reported that he’s ‘closer than ever’ to signing on the dotted line to make the movie, although he’s still waiting to read the script before he make a final decision. It’s also being reported that the the film, which is envisioned as the first part of a new Scream trilogy, will be shot in 3D, although writer Kevin Williamson has denied this on Twitter. However with every other horror movie The Weinstein Company is producing being made in 3D, it’d be surprising if this one didn’t follow suit. (Source: Bloody Disgusting)
Ron Livingston, star of Office Space and The Time Traveler’s Wife, has signed up to appear alongside Steve Carrell, Paul Rudd, Zach Galifianakis, Lucy Punch and David Walliams in Dinner For Schmucks. The move is a remake of a French comedy about a group of bourgeois friends who regularly invite the biggest schmucks to dinner in order to ridicule them. There’s no news on what role Livingston will be playing. (Source: Variety)
It’s been announced that the wonderfully named January Jones (Mad Men), and the voluptuous Diane Kruger (National Treasure) will star in the thriller Unknown White Male, alongside the previously announced Liam Neeson.The film is about a man who wakes up from a coma to find that someone else has assumed his identity, and no one, including his wife, believes him. Jones will play the wife, while Kruger will be a taxi driver who ends up helping Neeson’s character get to the truth. Filming is due to start in Berlin in January. (Source: Variety)
Sam Neill, Richard Roxburgh and Frances O’Connor have been lined up to star alongside Stephen Moyer, Claire Forlani, Ben Cross, Simon Callow and Patrick Bergin in the low budget disaster thriller, Ice. Based on James Follett’s book, the film is set in 2020 and looks at the devastation caused when a massive glacier in Greenland melts and a huge chunk of ice breaks off and starts to float towards civilisation. The UK/New Zeland co-production is being made by companies who’ve mainly worked in TV and is being directed by Nick Copus (The Day Of The Triffids). Filming is going on now in New Zealand. (Source: Screen international)
Comicbook writer Philip Gelatt is making his directing debut with the indie flick, County Road K, which is described as a twist on the home-invasion horror genre. Gelatt is known for his graphic novel series Labor Days and has also worked in the Indiana Jones comics. He has written County Road K himself, based on his own original idea. “I’m fascinated by the macabre little stories that occur off the main roads of Middle America, and County Road K is exactly that kind of tale: small, twisted and unsettling,” Gellatt says. (Source: Variety)
Andrew Fleming, director of Hamlet 2, Nancy Drew and The Craft, has signed on to direct Permission for CBS films, which will be based on an original script by Legally Blonde writer Karen McCullah Lutz. The film is about a married couple in their 30s who give one another permission to sleep with someone else while on separate vacations. (Source: Variety)
Warner has bought a pitch for an animated project from writers Austin Winsberg and Heath Corson. Although the studio hasn’t revealed much about the plot, they did say that it’s about a peacock. It’s seen as an attempt to bolster Warner’s theatrical animation division, which has fallen behind most other studios, although it has co-produced Happy Feet and its upcoming sequel. (Source: THR)