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
Vic Bateman, one of the UK’s longest serving international sales agents who handled films including The Deer Hunter and The Elephant Man, has died.
Tributes have been paid to Victor ‘Vic’ Bateman, the co-founder and vice chairman of London-based sales company Av Pictures, has died. He was 72.
Bateman’s career in film spanned more than 40 years. He began in the contract administration department of British Lion in 1961, where he developed detailed knowledge of the commercial, financial and legal terms governing distribution arrangements on a global basis. In the early 1970’s Vic was promoted to the international sales division of what was by then Emi Films.
Over the years, Bateman achieved notable sales successes and established his reputation with film buyers worldwide, handling major films such as The Deer Hunter, The Elephant Man, A Passage to India, All of Me, Highlander, The Hitcher, Death on the Nile, Murder on the Orient Express, The Last Emperor and [link...
Tributes have been paid to Victor ‘Vic’ Bateman, the co-founder and vice chairman of London-based sales company Av Pictures, has died. He was 72.
Bateman’s career in film spanned more than 40 years. He began in the contract administration department of British Lion in 1961, where he developed detailed knowledge of the commercial, financial and legal terms governing distribution arrangements on a global basis. In the early 1970’s Vic was promoted to the international sales division of what was by then Emi Films.
Over the years, Bateman achieved notable sales successes and established his reputation with film buyers worldwide, handling major films such as The Deer Hunter, The Elephant Man, A Passage to India, All of Me, Highlander, The Hitcher, Death on the Nile, Murder on the Orient Express, The Last Emperor and [link...
- 6/5/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
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