Toronto -- Jason Priestley is set to direct "Mud Puppy," a feature from Angel Entertainment and Lexico Prods. about a playboy wine-lover battling a female environmentalist for control of a frog-plagued wine vineyard.
The romantic comedy is based on a true story about a British Columbia vineyard overcome by pesky amphibians. Monica Hilborn penned the script, and Telefilm Canada and pay TV operator Corus Entertainment helped bankroll development.
No word on casting. Production is set for summer 2011.
Priestley already co-hosts the celebrity wine-tasting TV series "Hollywood and Vines" and co-owns a winery in interior British Columbia.
In other Canadian film news, Vincenzo Natali is to direct the big-screen adaptation of cyberpunk author William Gibson's 1984 masterwork "Neuromancer," it was announced Thursday by indie producer Fire Development Inc. and pay TV operator Astral Media's the Harold Greenberg Fund.
Joseph Khan was previously tapped to direct the Gibson novel, with Hayden Christensen starring,...
The romantic comedy is based on a true story about a British Columbia vineyard overcome by pesky amphibians. Monica Hilborn penned the script, and Telefilm Canada and pay TV operator Corus Entertainment helped bankroll development.
No word on casting. Production is set for summer 2011.
Priestley already co-hosts the celebrity wine-tasting TV series "Hollywood and Vines" and co-owns a winery in interior British Columbia.
In other Canadian film news, Vincenzo Natali is to direct the big-screen adaptation of cyberpunk author William Gibson's 1984 masterwork "Neuromancer," it was announced Thursday by indie producer Fire Development Inc. and pay TV operator Astral Media's the Harold Greenberg Fund.
Joseph Khan was previously tapped to direct the Gibson novel, with Hayden Christensen starring,...
- 5/6/2010
- by By Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Julian Richards, Wales’ prime movie export, has been stomping in the horror genre with bloody gusto for the last several years. Since completing The Last Horror Movie, a violent vérité serial-killer flick starring Kevin Howarth released Stateside as a Fango Video title, Richards has been busy dividing his time between his production company Prolific Films and sales outfit Jinga Films.
Summer Scars, a coming-of-age tale with a sinister, dark edge (also starring Howarth, pictured), won two Welsh BAFTA awards, received U.S. release last year and has a UK theatrical run scheduled for this coming June/July. Through Jinga, Richards has sold the Scottish lycanthropicture Wild Country to Lionsgate, the torture shocker Gnaw to Mpi (see item here) and the seriously creepy, well-crafted and very groovy supernatural slow-burner The Disappeared (see review here) to IFC. Richards has also directed Charles Dickens’S England, a feature-length documentary starring Sir Derek Jacobi,...
Summer Scars, a coming-of-age tale with a sinister, dark edge (also starring Howarth, pictured), won two Welsh BAFTA awards, received U.S. release last year and has a UK theatrical run scheduled for this coming June/July. Through Jinga, Richards has sold the Scottish lycanthropicture Wild Country to Lionsgate, the torture shocker Gnaw to Mpi (see item here) and the seriously creepy, well-crafted and very groovy supernatural slow-burner The Disappeared (see review here) to IFC. Richards has also directed Charles Dickens’S England, a feature-length documentary starring Sir Derek Jacobi,...
- 3/25/2009
- Fangoria
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