“Tracking Shot” is a monthly featurette here on Ioncinema.com that looks at a dozen or so projects that are moments away from lensing (or in a couple of titles below have been shooting since July). This August we’ve got a good number of projects that will start surfacing as early as next year’s Sundance, Rotterdam and Berlin Film Fests. With Dakota Johnson having been just announced, we’ve got Luca Guadagnino’s long awaited (remake) A Bigger Splash, getting ready for a poolside shoot. Gus Van Sant comes out of the woodworks to move into the woods for Sea of Trees. Sundance alumni Rick Alverson is wrapping up Entertainment, Reed Morano is set to make her directorial debut this mid-August with Meadowland, while Douchebag, Like Crazy, Breathe In‘s Drake Doremus is stationed in Japan for a weighty cast and futuristic tale in Equals. Here are some...
- 8/6/2014
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Pitch Perfect 2
Danish actress Birgitte Hjort Sorensen ("Borgen") has joined Elizabeth Banks' a cappella singing sequel "Pitch Perfect 2" at Universal and Gold Circle Films.
Sorensen will play a member of a competing a cappella group alongside recently cast German YouTube star Flula Borg. Anna Kendrick, Rebel Wilson, Brittany Snow, Skylar Astin, and Adam DeVine also star. [Source: Deadline]
Black Mass
Kevin Bacon will join Johnny Depp in the film adaptation of the Whitey Bulger book "Black Mass".
Bacon will play FBI special agent Charles McGuire who is in charge of the Boston field office and the boss of Bulger's childhood friend John Connelly. [Source: Boston Globe]
Red Oaks
Craig Roberts ("Submarine," "Being Human") has scored the lead role of twenty-year-old college student David Myers in the Amazon Studios pilot "Red Oaks". Steven Soderbergh and David Gordon Green will produce.
Roberts plays a young man trying to work out what he wants to...
Danish actress Birgitte Hjort Sorensen ("Borgen") has joined Elizabeth Banks' a cappella singing sequel "Pitch Perfect 2" at Universal and Gold Circle Films.
Sorensen will play a member of a competing a cappella group alongside recently cast German YouTube star Flula Borg. Anna Kendrick, Rebel Wilson, Brittany Snow, Skylar Astin, and Adam DeVine also star. [Source: Deadline]
Black Mass
Kevin Bacon will join Johnny Depp in the film adaptation of the Whitey Bulger book "Black Mass".
Bacon will play FBI special agent Charles McGuire who is in charge of the Boston field office and the boss of Bulger's childhood friend John Connelly. [Source: Boston Globe]
Red Oaks
Craig Roberts ("Submarine," "Being Human") has scored the lead role of twenty-year-old college student David Myers in the Amazon Studios pilot "Red Oaks". Steven Soderbergh and David Gordon Green will produce.
Roberts plays a young man trying to work out what he wants to...
- 6/27/2014
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Even though they lost, the United States soccer team is moving up to the next round at the World Cup, and Will Ferrell didn't even have to bite anyone. So now he can get back to the business of making movies, and the always-busy actor has yet another project brewing. Steve Pink ("Hot Tub Time Machine," "About Last Night") has ben hired to helm "Overnight," which is being produced by Ferrell's Gary Sanchez Productions as a potential vehicle for the funnyman. The plot is said to be like "Home Alone" but set in a toy store. Not the most original idea, but hey, put Ferrell in it and we'll be there. That said, currently he's only set to produce and not star. [Variety] Nick Frost, Hope Davis and Adelaide Clemens will star in the black comedy "Look Away." Monty Whitebloom and Andy Delaney — aka BigTV! — are directing this one about "a...
- 6/27/2014
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
• Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan may reunite on screen for the actress’ directorial debut Ithaca. Hanks would have a cameo role in the World War II coming-of-age drama based on William Saroyan’s novel The Human Comedy and already serves as an executive producer. Erik Jendresen (Killing Lincoln) adapted the script that will also feature Ryan onscreen, as well as the previously announced Sam Shepard (August: Osage County), Melanie Griffith (Working Girl), and Jack Quaid, Ryan’s son with actor Dennis Quaid. This would be the fourth time the pair has appeared on screen together after Joe Versus the Volcano,...
- 6/26/2014
- by Jake Perlman
- EW - Inside Movies
Exclusive: Nick Frost (The World’s End), Hope Davis (Louder Than Words) and Adelaide Clemens (Rectify) have been set to star in the black comedy Look Away, in which Clemens will play a young woman suffering from so-called “selective blindness” that leaves her unable to see her own mother (Davis). In search of a cure, she sees a therapist (Frost), who’s in love with her and, having Asperger’s, is unable to empathize. Music video and commercial vets Monty Whitebloom and Andy Delaney, who go by the directing duo moniker of Big TV!, are helming from a script by Jennifer Schuur (Big Love). […]...
- 6/26/2014
- Deadline
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