"Kudos Pictures, Natural Light Films, and Walt Disney Pictures, have begun production on the wildlife feature film "Dreamscape." The film will be released in early 2008 after a year long shoot around Lake Natron in Northern Tanzania. The film showcases the life cycle of flamingos in one of the world's last and most hostile wilderness areas..." (full details) "Tartan Films has acquired all North American rights to the hallucinogenic Hungarian film "Taxidermia," which was featured in Un Certain Regard at the Festival de Cannes in May. Gyorgy Palfi's grotesque tale uses special effects to track three generations of men, including an award-winning obese speed eater, an embalmer of gigantic cats and a man who shoots fire out of his penis. Tartan plans an April platform theatrical rollout..." (full details)
"Sacha Baron Cohen has confirmed he has joined the cast of "Sweeney Todd," the screen version of the Stephen Sondheim musical Tim Burton will shoot for DreamWorks and Warner Bros. Cohen will play Signor Adolfo Pirelli, a barber who becomes the nemesis of Sweeney Todd. Filming begins in London in February, it'll be Cohen's next project..." (full details)
