"ThinkFilm has picked up all North American rights to the Heath Ledger-led heroin addiction drama "Candy." The Australian film is set to hit theaters in the fall. In Neil Armfield's directorial debut, which is based on the novel he adapted with its author, Luke Davies, Ledger and Abbie Cornish play Bohemian artists whose passion for each other is matched by a growing passion for heroin. Geoffrey Rush plays a wealthy man who enables their addiction..." (full details)
Robert Englund will direct "Killer Pad," a horror-comedy that's set to begin lensing late next month in LA. Script by Dan Stoller revolves around three friends who use money from an insurance claim to move out of their parents' homes. They score a place in the Hollywood Hills and refuse to believe that the house has a dark history. Shane McRae, Eric Jungman and Daniel Franzese star, and rapper-indie music mogul Master P will do the soundtrack..." (full details)
"Warner Home Video on Thursday announced a branded line of video premieres. Three films have already been greenlighted, and all films in the series will be edgy, hip thrillers described as "a little bit Alfred Hitchcock meets 'The Twilight Zone,' " according to Warner Home Video. This marks the first time Warner Home Video has gone outside of its own library product to develop and produce a line of movies..." (full details)
"Paramount Pictures has acquired screen rights to "H.I.V.E.," a young-adult novel by British writer Mark Walden that will be produced by Lynda Obst. Title is an acronym for the Higher Institute of Villainous Education, a venue where kids with off-the-charts criminal acumen are educated to become super-villains. The book's domestic and other world territorial publishing rights are being auctioned this week at the Bologna Book Fair..." (full details)
