"Fina Torres ("Woman on Top") is set to direct a contemporary, Latino version of Jane Austen's "Sense and Sensibility" to be called "Sense and Senibilidad" for Camelot Pictures and Odd Lot Entertainment. Torries will direct the project, set in Los Angeles, from a script she wrote with Luis Alfaro ("Electricidad")..." (full details)
"Odd Lot Intl. has acquired international rights to romantic comedy "Ira & Abby," helmed by Robert Cary. Film stars Chris Messina and Jennifer Westfeldt, who wrote the original screenplay. Messina plays the neurotic Ira, and Westfeldt portrays the free spirit Abby. Fred Willard, Frances Conroy, Judith Light, Robert Klein and Jason Alexander co-star. The film took the audience award at the Los Angeles Film Festival..." (full details)
"Jaume Balaguero ("Darkness," "Fragile") and Paco Plaza ("Romasanta," "Second Name") have re-teamed to co-direct experimental thriller "REC". The $1.9 million Spanish-language shoot kicked off last week in Catalonia with unknown actors and is set for release next summer. "REC" turns on a young TV reporter and her cameraman who cover the night shift at the local fire station. Receiving a call from an old lady trapped in her house, they reach her building to hear horrifying screams - which begin a long nightmare and a uniquely dramatic TV report..." (full details)
"Magnolia Pictures has acquired all North American rights to "Dynamite Warrior" (Tabunfire), a martial arts movie from Thailand directed by Chalerm Wongpim. Magnolia will release the film domestically this summer. Dan Chupong ("Born to Fight") stars as "the Rocket Thief," a young man bent on revenge after witnessing his parents' murder..." (full details)
