Ewan McGregor to star in crime drama 'Son of a Gun'
Julius Avery’s Australian crime thriller Son of a Gun, starring Ewan McGregor, will be touted to buyers during the American Film Market, with a shoot start date in early 2013.
The movie, billed as a visceral, tautly paced heist thriller, centers on a complex relationship between Australia’s public enemy No. 1 (McGregor) and his young protégé.
It will be sold to North American buyers by UTA Independent Film Group and internationally by high-profile U.K. start-up sales, finance and production banner Altitude Film Entertainment.
Hopscotch/eOne has inked a deal for Australian and New Zealand rights.
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Powerful UK trailer for The Impossible with Ewan McGregor & Naomi Watts
Acclaimed Spanish director Juan Antonio Bayona (The Orphanage) makes his English language début with The Impossible, the powerful drama based on a harrowing true story of a family caught up in tsunami that hit the coast of Thailand on Boxing Day, 2004.
Starring Ewan McGregor and Naomi Watts in the leads, the film premièred at TIFF last month and with its release just a few months away, Yahoo Movies have debuted the new UK trailer.
The Impossible will be given an Oscar-qualifying release in the US on 21st December, and will arrive in theatres in the UK on 2nd January, 2013. The film is absolutely flawless in its execution, and is by far one of the most powerful dramas in recent memory.
Source: Hey U Guys
Billy Boyd & Dominic Monaghan writing movie comedy
Lord of the Rings stars Billy Boyd and Dominic Monaghan are putting the finishing touches on a film comedy they have been writing since becoming best friends on the set of the movie trilogy a decade ago.
The two Brits discovered they had a similar sense of humour on the New Zealand set of Peter Jackson's epic and producer Barry Osbourne was so impressed with the friends' film ideas he offered to help fund their debut as screenwriters.
The busy pair have reunited for writing sessions whenever their schedules permit and Monaghan tells Wenn that one recent creative spurt has given them both the confidence to take their project back to Osbourne.
He says, "Billy just stayed with me for the last few weeks. He and I have been writing a script for a long time, since we spent the best part of nine months in a tree together making Lord of the Rings. We found each other very funny and we wanted to work together.
"The producer of Lord of the Rings, Barry Osbourne said to us, 'You guys should come up with an idea for a script and I'll produce it.' We both love quality comedy, like Life of Brian and Dumb & Dumber and Spinal Tap and Being There and Pink Panther and we're circling around a couple of things right now that we've co-written with some actors.
"Hopefully, in the next six months or so, we'll have something real."
And Monaghan reveals Boyd isn't the only lifelong friend he made while shooting the Lord of the Rings trilogy - he often hangs out with Elijah Wood and his other co-stars.
He adds, "I see Viggo (Mortensen) whenever I can and Orlando (Bloom) and Ian MCKellen and Pete Jackson. We've all remained really close friends."
Source: Contact Music
Billy
Boyd singing Pippin’s song at Ringcon
"Said it’s the first time he’s ever done
it. So good."
Watch the video here
