Exclusive: Leonardo DiCaprio and revered environmental activist Jane Goodall will executive produce Howl, a film following an abandoned family dog and a young wolf, which will unfold from the animals’ perspective. The Promethean Pictures movie has just entered production, we can reveal. It is not an environment film per se, but the team behind it plans to give moviegoers a transformative view of the natural world.
Set against the backdrop of a harsh winter, the movie will follow Harry, a family dog who is inadvertently left home alone and whose owners then die in an accident. Harry goes through a rollercoaster survival ride that brings him into contact with a wolf. The pair must overcome their mutual fear and suspicion, and ultimately they develop a close bond. The story is animal-led, but there will be some human characters with casting news to follow.
E. Elias Merhige (Shadow of the Vampire...
Set against the backdrop of a harsh winter, the movie will follow Harry, a family dog who is inadvertently left home alone and whose owners then die in an accident. Harry goes through a rollercoaster survival ride that brings him into contact with a wolf. The pair must overcome their mutual fear and suspicion, and ultimately they develop a close bond. The story is animal-led, but there will be some human characters with casting news to follow.
E. Elias Merhige (Shadow of the Vampire...
- 5/3/2024
- by Stewart Clarke
- Deadline Film + TV
Johns and Merhige met working on ‘Shadow Of The Vampire’.
Richard Johns, producer and founder of Argo Films, and US director E. Elias Merhige, who first collaborated on Shadow Of The Vampire in 2000, have launched UK-based Promethean Pictures and have a slate of film and TV projects in development.
A survival story called Howl is in advanced development, to be directed by Merhige. It is the story of a family dog left at home during an extreme winter after his owners die in a car crash. Told from the dog’s point of view, he goes through a rollercoaster survival ride,...
Richard Johns, producer and founder of Argo Films, and US director E. Elias Merhige, who first collaborated on Shadow Of The Vampire in 2000, have launched UK-based Promethean Pictures and have a slate of film and TV projects in development.
A survival story called Howl is in advanced development, to be directed by Merhige. It is the story of a family dog left at home during an extreme winter after his owners die in a car crash. Told from the dog’s point of view, he goes through a rollercoaster survival ride,...
- 3/28/2023
- by Tim Dams
- ScreenDaily
Johns and Merhige met working on ‘Shadow Of The Vampire’.
Richard Johns, producer and founder of Argo Films and US director E. Elias Merhige, who first collaborated on Shadow Of The Vampire in 2000, have launched UK-based Promethean Pictures and have a slate of film and TV projects in development.
A survival story called Howl is in advanced development, to be directed by Merhige. It is the story of a family dog left at home during an extreme winter after his owners die in a car crash. Told from the dog’s point of view, he goes through a rollercoaster survival ride,...
Richard Johns, producer and founder of Argo Films and US director E. Elias Merhige, who first collaborated on Shadow Of The Vampire in 2000, have launched UK-based Promethean Pictures and have a slate of film and TV projects in development.
A survival story called Howl is in advanced development, to be directed by Merhige. It is the story of a family dog left at home during an extreme winter after his owners die in a car crash. Told from the dog’s point of view, he goes through a rollercoaster survival ride,...
- 3/28/2023
- by Tim Dams
- ScreenDaily
To celebrate the home entertainment release of Once Upon a Time in London which will be available on DVD from the 10th June 2019, we have a copy of the DVD up for grabs, courtesy of Signature Entertainment!
Gateway Films, Ratio Film & Signature Entertainment presents Once Upon A Time In London, starring Leo Gregory, Terry Stone, Jamie Foreman, footballer Jamie O’Hara, Union J’s Jj Hamblett, legendary boxer Joe Egan, Geoff Bell, Holly Earl, Nadia Forde, Kate Braithwaite, Roland Manookian, Josh Myers, Andy Beckwith, Ali Cook, Doug Allan, Justin Salinger, and Laura Carter (Celebrity Big Brother). Comedian Simon Munnery, and boxers Steve Collins and Frank Buglioni round out this amazing cast from all strata of the entertainment and sports worlds.
Once Upon a Time in London charts the epic rise and legendary fall of a nationwide criminal empire that lasted for three action-packed decades from the late 1930s. The one-time...
Gateway Films, Ratio Film & Signature Entertainment presents Once Upon A Time In London, starring Leo Gregory, Terry Stone, Jamie Foreman, footballer Jamie O’Hara, Union J’s Jj Hamblett, legendary boxer Joe Egan, Geoff Bell, Holly Earl, Nadia Forde, Kate Braithwaite, Roland Manookian, Josh Myers, Andy Beckwith, Ali Cook, Doug Allan, Justin Salinger, and Laura Carter (Celebrity Big Brother). Comedian Simon Munnery, and boxers Steve Collins and Frank Buglioni round out this amazing cast from all strata of the entertainment and sports worlds.
Once Upon a Time in London charts the epic rise and legendary fall of a nationwide criminal empire that lasted for three action-packed decades from the late 1930s. The one-time...
- 5/29/2019
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Ashok Amritraj.s Hyde Park Entertainment and Image Nation Abu Dhabi will finance and co-produce the Arctic adventure Midnight Sun. Directed by Hugh Hudson (Chariots Of Fire, Greystoke: The Legend Of Tarzan, Lord Of The Apes), the film is from a script by Hudson and Bart Gavigan. Jake Eberts (Dances With Wolves, Gandhi) and Brando Quilici (Iceman Autopsy) will produce alongside Hyde Park Entertainment.s Ashok Amritraj (Ghost Rider: Spirit Of Vengeance 3D).
Hyde Park International will introduce the project at the upcoming Cannes Film Festival, and will represent worldwide rights. The project has already generated significant interest among buyers, including Medusa, which has purchased Italian rights, and Alliance Atlantis, which has purchased Canadian rights.
Midnight Sun is a four-quadrant family adventure film in the vein of Free Willy and Dolphin Tale, set amongst the ice fields of Northern Canada. The hero is a young boy, Luke, who defies the...
Hyde Park International will introduce the project at the upcoming Cannes Film Festival, and will represent worldwide rights. The project has already generated significant interest among buyers, including Medusa, which has purchased Italian rights, and Alliance Atlantis, which has purchased Canadian rights.
Midnight Sun is a four-quadrant family adventure film in the vein of Free Willy and Dolphin Tale, set amongst the ice fields of Northern Canada. The hero is a young boy, Luke, who defies the...
- 5/1/2012
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Five wildlife film-makers nominate their favourite living artist in their field
Alan Root on Mark Deeble and Victoria Stone
Mark Deeble and Victoria Stone have produced an unbroken string of great wildlife films, notable for the variety of creatures depicted, the strange behaviours captured, and the stunning photography – but most of all for the quality of the storytelling. Giant crocodiles stalk their prey; hippos open their mouths to have their teeth cleaned by schools of fish; tiny wasps hatch into the extraordinary world hidden inside a fig; a fish opens her mouth to release tiny fry, not realising she has been cuckolded, and they are someone else's young. They have brought so many new, extraordinary sequences to the screen, all of them woven into deeply satisfying stories. And that, for me, is the raison d'etre for film-making.
Alan Root's 1978 film about termites, Mysterious Castles of Clay, was nominated for an Oscar.
Alan Root on Mark Deeble and Victoria Stone
Mark Deeble and Victoria Stone have produced an unbroken string of great wildlife films, notable for the variety of creatures depicted, the strange behaviours captured, and the stunning photography – but most of all for the quality of the storytelling. Giant crocodiles stalk their prey; hippos open their mouths to have their teeth cleaned by schools of fish; tiny wasps hatch into the extraordinary world hidden inside a fig; a fish opens her mouth to release tiny fry, not realising she has been cuckolded, and they are someone else's young. They have brought so many new, extraordinary sequences to the screen, all of them woven into deeply satisfying stories. And that, for me, is the raison d'etre for film-making.
Alan Root's 1978 film about termites, Mysterious Castles of Clay, was nominated for an Oscar.
- 11/24/2011
- by Emine Saner
- The Guardian - Film News
Variety and the Hollywood Reporter are reporting that SAG chief Alan Rosenberg, National Exec Director Doug Allan, and the activist Membership First faction are pushing to have SAG come out against the AFTRA deal and urge dual cardholders (members of both unions) to vote against the deal.
What a mess. If the unions had merged -- or continued to bargain jointly under the Phase 1 arrangement -- we wouldn't have this turmoil. SAG hasn't made a terribly convincing case that the AFTRA deal is so subpar that it deserves to be rejected, although certainly we can hope that SAG would achieve progress on compensation for product integration, an area in which AFTRA achieved nothing.
We'll listen closely to whatever rationale SAG offers, but it's hard to believe that any deficiencies in the AFTRA deal are so bad as to warrant rejection -- all deals are compromises -- let alone a strike...
What a mess. If the unions had merged -- or continued to bargain jointly under the Phase 1 arrangement -- we wouldn't have this turmoil. SAG hasn't made a terribly convincing case that the AFTRA deal is so subpar that it deserves to be rejected, although certainly we can hope that SAG would achieve progress on compensation for product integration, an area in which AFTRA achieved nothing.
We'll listen closely to whatever rationale SAG offers, but it's hard to believe that any deficiencies in the AFTRA deal are so bad as to warrant rejection -- all deals are compromises -- let alone a strike...
- 6/6/2008
- by noreply@blogger.com (Jonathan Handel)
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