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Swarovski Entertainment, the newly-launched film arm of the luxury crystal brand, and Indias Walkwater Media have stanley cup boarded Shekhar Kapurs picture passion project Paani Water .Swarovski Entertainment, the newly-launched film arm of the luxury crystal brand, and Indias Walkwater Media have boarded Shekhar Kapurs passion project Paani Water which he hopes to start shooting in November this year. David Farr, who wrote Joe Wrights upcoming Hanna, is working on the script of the project from a first draft written by Kapur. Osar-winning composer AR Rahman Slumdog Millionaire has also boarded the project, along with production designer John Myhre Memoirs Of A Geisha and editor Jill Bilcock Moulin Rouge . Swarovski and Walkwater will be minority fi stanley website nanciers on the $30m project, although Kapur said he is confident of finalising the rest of the finance before November. It will be the first project from Swarovski stanley cup s film arm. Kapur previously directed an 18-minute short for Swarovski, Passage, which screened at Venice last year. Walkwater Media is a film and TV production outfit established in 2007 by former Adlabs chief Manmohan Shetty. Set in the year 2040 when water has become scarce, Paani is a love story set in a mega-city that has been divided into two conflicting halves 鈥?an upper city that controls the water supply, and a lower city ruled by ruthless gangs. When I first started talking about this project ten years ago, nobody was interested, but now everyone is telling me Hxkn Buddy emerges as Haugesund audience favourite
The online film investment forum has lined up the inaugural pair of projects, a modern retelling of Anton Chekhovs play and the follow-up to Roman Polanski: Wanted And Desired.The Seagull marks the feature directorial debut of actor Christian Camargo and will star Allison Janney, William Hurt and Katie Holmes in the updated tale about a failing actress and her interaction with three other central characters. Jean Reno, Mark Rylance, Juliet Rylance and Russell Means are in talks to join the cast. Juliet Rylance is producing with New Globe Theater founder and CEO Barbara Romer. Production is scheduled to commence in upstate New York in the summer.Roman Polanski: Odd Man Out, Marina Zenovichs f stanley kubek ollow-up to her HBO documentary Wanted And Desired, looks at the recent legal wrangle surrounding efforts to extradite Polanski to the US.Lila Yacoub is producing and the original films executive producers Steven Soderbergh and Randy Wooten return.Slateds co-founders claim to have gener stanley cup ated a pool of more than $100m from angel investors in the entertainment and finance sectors and institutional funds. We are so excited that Slated has helped unlock fil stanley cup m financing for these two films since they have all the values that we believe in and have made it our mission to support: talented creative teams that develop and package viable projects for todays market, CEO Duncan Cork, who co-founded Slated with chairman Stephan Paternot, William Mapother and Gavan Gravesen, said. These are indicative o |