Joshua Marston will write and direct his next project, temporarily titled "The Iraqi Convoy Project," for Warner Independent Pictures. Marston, who established himself with his debut feature "Maria Full of Grace," which dramatized drug-running, is turning his attention to another socially conscious topic: American truckers who have made a one-year commitment to drive goods for U.S. contractors through the Iraqi war zone because of financial hardships back home..." (full details)
Nickelodeon Movies and Paramount Pictures have picked up the comedy "Camp Couture," to star Emma Roberts. Ian Southwood is writing the project, which is being produced by Nickelodeon's Julia Pistor with Kelly Cunningham. The fish-out-of-water story follows a spoiled, trendy teen (Roberts) who is forced by her parents to go to a "regular" camp filled with misfits and not the famed elite fashion camp known as Camp Couture that she would like to attend. The story is based on an original idea by Cunningham..." (full details)
Hot off Sundance film "The Matador," Richard Shepard has been signed to script and direct "Spring Break in Bosnia," co-financed by Warner Independent and Intermedia. Bosnia-set drama is drawn from an Esquire magazine article by Scott Anderson about journos Sebastian Junger and John Falk, who made a half-hearted attempt to catch Radovan Karadzic, an alleged architect of ethnic cleansing. The correspondents were promptly mistaken for CIA agents and came close to finding their target..." (full details)
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