"Amy Brenneman has been cast in Jon Avnet's "88 Minutes," joining Al Pacino, Leelee Sobieski, Neal McDonough and Benjamin McKenzie. The movie, now shooting in Vancouver, focuses on a college professor (Pacino) who moonlights as a forensic psychiatrist for the FBI and receives a death threat claiming he has only 88 minutes to live. Brenneman plays Pacino's longtime assistant who is immune to his man-about-town ways..." (full details)
"Cinematographer-turned-director Ericson Core has signed on to direct "Liberty," a big-budget action movie for Touchstone Pictures being produced by LivePlanet. The story, which takes place after an electromagnetic pulse disables the infrastructure of the country, revolves around a ragtag group of Americans who must use technology from the 1940s and '50s to defend against a foreign invasion. Sean Bailey wrote the script on which Andrew Marlowe did a rewrite..." (full details)
"Platinum Studios and Blue Star Pictures have hired the Pang brothers ("The Eye", "The Messengers") to direct the $28 million budget "The Darkness," based on the comicbook series from Top Cow Prods. Horror pic is under option at Miramax through till the end of January. "The Darkness" is about a Mafia hit man who discovers he is heir to a supernatural, dangerous force. A scribe has yet to be hired..." (full details)
"Jim Henson Co. has set Yuri Zeltser and Cary Bickley ("Spinning Boris") to adapt Barbara Hodgson suspense novel "The Tattooed Map". The story follows a couple's relationship that is tested when they are overseas and a mysterious, tattooed map appears on the woman's body. It leads to a discovery of secrets from each other's past. The book's Morocco locale is being switched to India for the pic..." (full details).
