"Christopher Eccleston, currently riding high in the U.K. television ratings as the latest incarnation of Doctor Who, has signed to star in "Double Life," from Cougar Films. Joe Ahearne will direct the £3.5 million project, set to begin shooting later this year in Hungary, from his own script. Balhetchet described it as a high concept sci-fi genre piece..." (full details)
"Icon Entertainment said Saturday that Richard Gere and Liam Neeson are signed to star in David Von Ancken's "Seraphim Falls." Von Ancken's directorial debut from his own script penned alongside Abbey Everett Jaques. Billed as a psychological action movie, the film is set just after the end of the American Civil War. Neeson plays an army colonel who vows to kill Gere's character whatever the cost and pursues him across the West..." (full details)
"Bernard Hill, Rhys Ifans, Brian Blessed and Miranda Richardson are voicing the English-lingo of "Midsummer Dream," the second animation pic from Spanish toon animation house Dygra Films ("Forest"). Excepts from the English version of "Midsummer," a CGI adaptation of the Shakespeare play which Lumina Films has sold to 61 countries, will showcase at Cannes..." (full details)
"Asian beauty and wannabe Bond Girl, Aishwarya Rai, is to join Miranda Richardson and Robbie Coltrane in a new British flick entitled "Provoked". Its a real life story about an Indian woman who er.. set fired to her violent husband, killing him. A little controversal, seeing as the case got more than a little support from a certain Brit Prime Minister's Judge wife, giving the murdering Indian chick a bravery award..." (full details)
Thanks to 'KC'.
