Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy are in final negotiations to star in "Bathory." Delpy will make her directorial debut on the picture, working from her own script about the legendary Elizabeth Bathory, who inspired many a vampire myth with sadistic rituals that included bathing in the blood of virgins. Bauer Martinez Distribution will handle finance, production and distribution..." (full details)
Laura Linney and Julie Walters will star with "Harry Potter" star Rupert Grint in "Driving Lessons," the directorial debut of Brit screenwriter Jeremy Brock. Shooting starts next month in London and Edinburgh. "Driving Lessons" is a comedy/drama about a shy teenage boy (Grint) who starts to escape from the influence of his domineering mother (Linney) when he goes to work for a retired actress (Walters)..." (full details)
Matthew Modine and Richard Griffiths are set to topline the romantic comedy "Opa," for Cinema Seven and "My Son The Fanatic" helmer Udayan Prasad. Pic -- which follows the story of an American archeologist (Modine) who arrives in Greece to fulfill his late father's work of finding the Chalice of St. John -- lenses this month in Greece. Griffiths plays a colleague of the archeologist's father..." (full details)
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