"Icon Prods. and Infinity Features have teamed to develop, finance and produce three pics - not including their current Pierce Brosnan-starrer "Butterfly on a Wheel". First project under the nonexclusive deal is sci-fi thriller "Push," based on David Bourla's script about a group of American ex-pats with telekinetic and clairvoyant abilities who are hiding out in Beijing from U.S. intelligence agencies. In an attempt to escape detection forever, they marshal their various abilities and band together for one last assignment. Film, currently in the packaging stage, is tentatively skedded to shoot in China in 2007..." (full details)
Daryl Hannah, Roy Scheider, Eric Roberts and Sean Young set to join Alpine Pictures' "Dark Honeymoon." David O'Malley is writing and directing the thriller which follows a man who marries a seductive woman after a brief and passionate relationship. During their honeymoon on the Oregon coast, he uncovers the terrible truth about her as those around them begin to die mysterious and violent deaths. Shooting is scheduled to begin in May..." (full details)
Woody Harrelson will play the title role in "The Walker," a film Paul Schrader wrote and will direct in the UK. Kristin Scott Thomas, Lauren Bacall, Ned Beatty, Moritz Bleibtreu, Willem Dafoe and Lily Tomlin round out the cast, and shooting begins next week. Harrelson will play an escort of society ladies in D.C. Schrader said the character is his vision of what his "American Gigolo" protag would have become when he hit 50. "His gifts are now more social than sexual. He's this society walker who has his lady friends, and a boyfriend on the side" says Schrader..." (full details)
