"Sony BMG Music Entertainment has picked up U.S. rights to Tim Skousen's 2006 Slamdance Film Festival audience award winner "The Sasquatch Dumpling Gang." The comedy centers on a young sci-fi fan and his friends who discover some large footprints in the woods and think they have found Bigfoot. Two of the teen's neighbors scheme to make a quick buck from the supposed discovery. The film reteams several of the filmmakers behind "Napoleon Dynamite"..." (full details)
"Michael Madsen, Daryl Hannah, Mykelti Williamson and Mark Boone Junior have signed on to star in the indie cop psychological thriller "Vice." Written and directed by Raul Sanchez Inglis ("The Falling"), the story revolves around a group of conflicted police officers who become suspects when drugs go missing..." (full details)
"Director Alexander Hahn's "Midsummer Madness" a $3.25 million comedy co-penned by "Carry On" veteran scribe Norman Hudis and Alexander Mahler, started principal photography at the weekend. Shot entirely in Latvia, cast includes Gaul's Dominique Pinon ("A Very Long Engagement"), Portuguese Maria de Medeiros ("The Saddest Music In The World"), Austrian TV heartthrob Tobias Moretti and German thesp-helmer Detlev Buck as people caught up in Latvia's raunchy summer solstice celebrations, the shortest night of the year..." (full details)
