Exclusive: CBS Films has hired Tamara Chestna to rewrite Revenge Wedding, a romantic comedy penned by David White. The project is being produced by Jordan Schur, Andrew O'Connor and Ray Marshall via their Suretone Pictures and What If It Barks Films shingles. The plot: After Robin discovers her fiancé has been cheating, she and her best friend exact revenge by turning the couple’s perfectly planned, high-society wedding into the biggest disaster in his storied family's…...
- 5/9/2016
- Deadline
When about 30 young actresses arrived at a casting call for what was billed as a role in a movie called "May the Best Man Win," they were asked to do everything from perform in blackface to mimic Hitler, reveals the L.A. Times.
Turns out the whole thing was a "Borat"-like stunt for a film -- the real "May the Best Man Win," from London-based production company What If It Barks Films -- in which two men attempt to outdo one another by staging an escalating series of elaborate pranks. The audition was actually for a movie within the movie about the women who get punked.
"The joke is, 'Will these women audition for a part that they think is immorally reflected?'" explained executive producer Oliver Obst.
Naturally, a number of the actresses were less than pleased to have wasted their time, especially given that they were asked...
Turns out the whole thing was a "Borat"-like stunt for a film -- the real "May the Best Man Win," from London-based production company What If It Barks Films -- in which two men attempt to outdo one another by staging an escalating series of elaborate pranks. The audition was actually for a movie within the movie about the women who get punked.
"The joke is, 'Will these women audition for a part that they think is immorally reflected?'" explained executive producer Oliver Obst.
Naturally, a number of the actresses were less than pleased to have wasted their time, especially given that they were asked...
- 6/20/2013
- by Laura Larson
- Moviefone
Peter Webber ("Emperor," "Girl with a Pearl Earring") is set to direct an adaptation of Rose Tremain's novel "The Colour" at Festival Films and Nukuhau Films.
Tremain will adapt the script which set during the New Zealand gold rush of the 1860s.
The story follows newly married immigrants and the husband's widowed mother. Finding life as a small farmer more difficult than he expected, the man sets out to make his fortune and in the process their lives take a disastrous turn.
The project will be shot on New Zealand’s South Island next year. Ray Marshall and Tim Coddington will produce.
Source: THR...
Tremain will adapt the script which set during the New Zealand gold rush of the 1860s.
The story follows newly married immigrants and the husband's widowed mother. Finding life as a small farmer more difficult than he expected, the man sets out to make his fortune and in the process their lives take a disastrous turn.
The project will be shot on New Zealand’s South Island next year. Ray Marshall and Tim Coddington will produce.
Source: THR...
- 5/22/2013
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Peter Webber (Emperor, Girl with a Pearl Earring) will direct an adaptation of English author Rose Tremain's epic novel, The Colour, which is set as a U.K.-New Zealand co-production, the New Zealand Film Commission said Wednesday. Video: Peter Webber Cannes 'Emperor' 2012 Producer Ray Marshall's Festival Films developed The Colour with support from the New Zealand Film Commission. The film will be co-produced with Tim Coddington's Nukuhau Films, reuniting Coddington and Webber, who worked together on Emperor. Story: Peter Webber to Direct 'Happy Camp' Tremain, who won the prestigious Orange Prize for her 2008 novel, The
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- 5/22/2013
- by Pip Bulbeck
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Director Peter Medak (The Changeling) is getting back into the genre game with a chilling new adaptation. According to our buddies at MovieHole, he is attached to direct Cracked, a screenplay by British horror author Sarah Pinborough based on her novel The Hidden.
The story tells of a young amnesiac woman who is the main suspect in a series of gruesome murders; however, the true killers aren’t from this world – and it’s her they’re coming after.
The picture is produced by Ray Marshall and Matt Marshall of Festival Film and Television’s new horror offshoot, Blind Monkey Pictures, with Festival co-producing. A theatrical release is planned for the picture.
“We’re obviously really excited to have Peter Medak on board Cracked”, says producer Ray Marshall. “We know he will bring something very special to the project.”
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The story tells of a young amnesiac woman who is the main suspect in a series of gruesome murders; however, the true killers aren’t from this world – and it’s her they’re coming after.
The picture is produced by Ray Marshall and Matt Marshall of Festival Film and Television’s new horror offshoot, Blind Monkey Pictures, with Festival co-producing. A theatrical release is planned for the picture.
“We’re obviously really excited to have Peter Medak on board Cracked”, says producer Ray Marshall. “We know he will bring something very special to the project.”
More as it comes.
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- 8/2/2012
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
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