Screenwriter Terrance Mulloy ("Priority Run") is set to pen the film adaptation of best-selling Australian author Matthew Reilly's sci-fi novel "Contest" for Common Thread Entertainment and Myth Film Co.
Greg McLean ("Wolf Creek") will direct and Animal Logic will handle the effects for the project. The story follows a radiologist and his daughter who find themselves trapped in the New York Library which has been sealed off from the world.
Turns out he's been selected to represent humanity in a fight to the death between representatives from seven different alien races. The last survivor will be transported out of this makeshift labyrinth.
McLean, Richard Stewart, Penny Wall and Richard Sheffield will produce.
Source: Variety...
Greg McLean ("Wolf Creek") will direct and Animal Logic will handle the effects for the project. The story follows a radiologist and his daughter who find themselves trapped in the New York Library which has been sealed off from the world.
Turns out he's been selected to represent humanity in a fight to the death between representatives from seven different alien races. The last survivor will be transported out of this makeshift labyrinth.
McLean, Richard Stewart, Penny Wall and Richard Sheffield will produce.
Source: Variety...
- 9/19/2015
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
At the end of last year we reported that the Fantasia Film Festival is gearing up to become the next hot spot to acquire unproduced projects being sold as part of its film market - the Frontières International Co-Production Market. And now we have additional details.
From the Press Release
Montreal’s Fantasia International Film Festival, widely acclaimed as one of the largest and most influential genre film festivals in the world, is embarking on its 16th edition with a major new industry-driven venture: the Frontières International Co-Production Market. Frontières is the first international co-production market to connect North American with Europe and Australasia in an environment focused specifically on genre film production.
The projects to be presented in the market have now been chosen and feature an exciting array of filmmakers, from gifted newcomers to world-renowned maestros, as well as numerous established international producers.
Blood Borne (Australia) Director / Writer:...
From the Press Release
Montreal’s Fantasia International Film Festival, widely acclaimed as one of the largest and most influential genre film festivals in the world, is embarking on its 16th edition with a major new industry-driven venture: the Frontières International Co-Production Market. Frontières is the first international co-production market to connect North American with Europe and Australasia in an environment focused specifically on genre film production.
The projects to be presented in the market have now been chosen and feature an exciting array of filmmakers, from gifted newcomers to world-renowned maestros, as well as numerous established international producers.
Blood Borne (Australia) Director / Writer:...
- 5/7/2012
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
The Queensland sun beats down and dust blows up from the dirt track when Fango steps onto the first of several locations to witness the filming of the stylish new Australian serial-killer thriller Acolytes (out this week on Anchor Bay DVD following numerous festival appearances over the past year). Virtually entombed in concrete—beneath an overpass that supports a busy highway—one can still hear the traffic, but it’s virtually drowned out by the noise of a fly swarm—perhaps entirely fitting for a film that deals with the stench of rotting corpses and the people who cause them.
Fango freezes just before rounding a corner where a rehearsal is taking place; much shouting stops suddenly, and this writer takes a spot behind the monitors being fed the picture from the Viper camera—the hi-def rig of choice for the likes of David Fincher and Michael Mann. Director Jon Hewitt...
Fango freezes just before rounding a corner where a rehearsal is taking place; much shouting stops suddenly, and this writer takes a spot behind the monitors being fed the picture from the Viper camera—the hi-def rig of choice for the likes of David Fincher and Michael Mann. Director Jon Hewitt...
- 7/29/2009
- by no-reply@fangoria.com (Michael Helms)
- Fangoria
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