The Harold Greenberg Fund, a Canadian private cinematographic patronage program, announced the title of the 26 films that got supported by its script development program. Here are the projects:
Story Optioning
The Flying Troutmans
Four Seasons Productions Inc.
Screenwriters: Miriam Toews & Semi Chellas
The Journal of Mortifying Moments
Marcon Pictures Inc., T.L. Boulton Productions Ltd. & Calder Road Films Inc.
Screenwriters: Jill Girling & Lori Mather-Welch
The Outlander
Strada Films Inc. & Triptych Media Inc.
Screenwriter: Esta Spalding
Sailor Girl
Markham Street Films Inc.
Screenwriter: Johanna Schneller
Treatment to First Draft
Flop House
John Hazlett
Screenwriters: Darren Curtis & John Hazlett
Happy Clean, The Last Chinese Laundry
Picture Plant Ltd.
Screenwriter: William D. MacGillivray
Kill Shakespeare
Anthony Del Col & Conor McCreery
Screenwriters: Anthony Del Col & Conor McCreery
A Royal Day
Conquering Lion Pictures Inc.
Screenwriter: Gerald Wexler
Shanghai Follies
Amf Productions Inc.
Screenwriter: Ann Marie Fleming
First to Second Draft
Cottage Country
Whizbang Films Inc.
Story Optioning
The Flying Troutmans
Four Seasons Productions Inc.
Screenwriters: Miriam Toews & Semi Chellas
The Journal of Mortifying Moments
Marcon Pictures Inc., T.L. Boulton Productions Ltd. & Calder Road Films Inc.
Screenwriters: Jill Girling & Lori Mather-Welch
The Outlander
Strada Films Inc. & Triptych Media Inc.
Screenwriter: Esta Spalding
Sailor Girl
Markham Street Films Inc.
Screenwriter: Johanna Schneller
Treatment to First Draft
Flop House
John Hazlett
Screenwriters: Darren Curtis & John Hazlett
Happy Clean, The Last Chinese Laundry
Picture Plant Ltd.
Screenwriter: William D. MacGillivray
Kill Shakespeare
Anthony Del Col & Conor McCreery
Screenwriters: Anthony Del Col & Conor McCreery
A Royal Day
Conquering Lion Pictures Inc.
Screenwriter: Gerald Wexler
Shanghai Follies
Amf Productions Inc.
Screenwriter: Ann Marie Fleming
First to Second Draft
Cottage Country
Whizbang Films Inc.
- 4/22/2011
- by anhkhoido@gmail.com (Anh Khoi Do)
- The Cultural Post
Where's Vin Diesel when you need him?
In "Extreme Ops", a pair of snowboarders who have teamed up with a downhill gold medalist to shoot a commercial in the Austrian Alps find themselves having to outmaneuver nasty terrorists in addition to the obligatory avalanche.
It's the kind of stuff that could use a larger-than-life lead, but, given the budget constraints of this German-British co-production, big-ticket talent has had to take a back seat to cost-effective backdrops.
They're in vivid, wind-swept supply here and, in the capable hands of former cinematographer Christian Duguay (the Emmy-nominated director of "Joan of Arc"), the able international cast looks convincingly frostbitten.
But because of a cumbersome script that takes forever to click into gear, too much of the picture ends up getting left out in the cold.
The result, which wasn't screened in advance for critics to file opening-day reviews, won't be drawing a large Thanksgiving weekend crowd, but neither is it a turkey, despite all the extra stuffing.
Determined to please an important Japanese client, a smarmy ad executive (England's Rupert Graves with a very convincing American accent) and a British commercial director (Rufus Sewell) overcome their concept vs. cost differences and agree to make a high-stakes commercial for a new digital video camera involving three expert skiers and a fast-moving avalanche.
With a pair of gonzo snowboarders (Jana Pallaske and Joe Absolom) and a comely gold medalist (Bridgette Wilson-Sampras) in tow, the production sets up camp in an unfinished resort perched on a 12,000-foot mountaintop straddling the border of the former Yugoslavia.
It just so happens that a highly dangerous Serbian war criminal (Klaus Lowitsch) has been taking refuge in the very same spot after having faked his death in a plane crash, and when the crew's cameraman (Devon Sawa) inadvertently shoots footage of the bad guy, all hell breaks loose.
Unfortunately, the script, credited to first-time screenwriter Michael Zaidan, requires the game cast to trudge through an awful lot of exposition before getting to the heart-pounding bits; by the time those more involving action sequences finally arrive, the effectively chilled viewer is too "XXX"hausted to muster up much enthusiasm.
EXTREME OPS
Paramount Pictures
Paramount Pictures, MDP Worldwide and Diamant Cohen Prods. present an Apollomedia/Extreme Prods. production in association with the Carousel Picture Co.
Credits:
Director: Christian Duguay
Screenwriter: Michael Zaidan
Story: Timothy Scott Bogart, Mark Mullin
Producers: Moshe Diamant, Mark Mullin
Executive producers: Romain Schroeder, Rudy Cohen, Mark Damon, David Saunders
Director of photography: Hannes Hubach
Production designer: Philip Harrison
Editors: Clive Barrett, Sylvain Lebel
Costume designer: Maria Schicker
Music: Normand Corbeil, Stanislas Syrewicz
Cast:
Will: Devon Sawa
Chloe: Bridgette Wilson-Sampras
Jeffrey: Rupert Graves
Ian: Rufus Sewell
Mark: Heino Ferch
Silo: Joe Absolom
Kittie: Jana Pallaske
Yana: Liliana Komorowska
Pavle: Klaus Lowitsch
Running time -- 93 minutes
MPAA rating: PG-13...
In "Extreme Ops", a pair of snowboarders who have teamed up with a downhill gold medalist to shoot a commercial in the Austrian Alps find themselves having to outmaneuver nasty terrorists in addition to the obligatory avalanche.
It's the kind of stuff that could use a larger-than-life lead, but, given the budget constraints of this German-British co-production, big-ticket talent has had to take a back seat to cost-effective backdrops.
They're in vivid, wind-swept supply here and, in the capable hands of former cinematographer Christian Duguay (the Emmy-nominated director of "Joan of Arc"), the able international cast looks convincingly frostbitten.
But because of a cumbersome script that takes forever to click into gear, too much of the picture ends up getting left out in the cold.
The result, which wasn't screened in advance for critics to file opening-day reviews, won't be drawing a large Thanksgiving weekend crowd, but neither is it a turkey, despite all the extra stuffing.
Determined to please an important Japanese client, a smarmy ad executive (England's Rupert Graves with a very convincing American accent) and a British commercial director (Rufus Sewell) overcome their concept vs. cost differences and agree to make a high-stakes commercial for a new digital video camera involving three expert skiers and a fast-moving avalanche.
With a pair of gonzo snowboarders (Jana Pallaske and Joe Absolom) and a comely gold medalist (Bridgette Wilson-Sampras) in tow, the production sets up camp in an unfinished resort perched on a 12,000-foot mountaintop straddling the border of the former Yugoslavia.
It just so happens that a highly dangerous Serbian war criminal (Klaus Lowitsch) has been taking refuge in the very same spot after having faked his death in a plane crash, and when the crew's cameraman (Devon Sawa) inadvertently shoots footage of the bad guy, all hell breaks loose.
Unfortunately, the script, credited to first-time screenwriter Michael Zaidan, requires the game cast to trudge through an awful lot of exposition before getting to the heart-pounding bits; by the time those more involving action sequences finally arrive, the effectively chilled viewer is too "XXX"hausted to muster up much enthusiasm.
EXTREME OPS
Paramount Pictures
Paramount Pictures, MDP Worldwide and Diamant Cohen Prods. present an Apollomedia/Extreme Prods. production in association with the Carousel Picture Co.
Credits:
Director: Christian Duguay
Screenwriter: Michael Zaidan
Story: Timothy Scott Bogart, Mark Mullin
Producers: Moshe Diamant, Mark Mullin
Executive producers: Romain Schroeder, Rudy Cohen, Mark Damon, David Saunders
Director of photography: Hannes Hubach
Production designer: Philip Harrison
Editors: Clive Barrett, Sylvain Lebel
Costume designer: Maria Schicker
Music: Normand Corbeil, Stanislas Syrewicz
Cast:
Will: Devon Sawa
Chloe: Bridgette Wilson-Sampras
Jeffrey: Rupert Graves
Ian: Rufus Sewell
Mark: Heino Ferch
Silo: Joe Absolom
Kittie: Jana Pallaske
Yana: Liliana Komorowska
Pavle: Klaus Lowitsch
Running time -- 93 minutes
MPAA rating: PG-13...
- 12/2/2002
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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