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Apocalypse Now Now will be a South-African Canadian co-production. After she's kidnapped, he and a supernatural bounty hunter are plunged into the increasingly bizarre landscape of Cape Town's underworld to save her while facing a brush with the Apocalypse. "Charlie has actually upped the game and obliterated them all altogether."The novel centers on the kingpin of a smut-peddling high school who's dating the girl of his dreams. Variety reported that South African author Charlie Human's urban fantasy novel Apocalypse Now Now will adapted to film by District 9 and Chappie writer Teri Tatchell. "South Africa has always pushed through the usual limits of my imagination and 'Apocalypse Now Now' is no exception," Tatchell said. He’s convinced by his long-lostĪwesome Sci-Fi Fantasy Short Film Apocalypse Now Now Our hero for the sequel is Stacker’s son Jake ( John Boyega), introduced as a grifter, cheating those looking for weapons and war relics. Production on the Kaiju-battling Jaegers, the equally-immense robots controlled by pilots positioned inside their heads, has continued. Pacific Rim Uprising is set a decade after the climax of the first film, when Stacker Pentecost (as played by Idris Elba) had sacrificed himself shutting off that bottom-of-the-sea gateway between Earth and that nasty alien dimension that kept serving up those skyscraper-stomping beasts known as Kaiju. But it’s still a profoundly silly movie, so keep your expectations in check and you’re likely to have a decent time with it. Pacific Rim Uprising is a cut above the standard heavy-metal action blockbuster, with a wealth of visual detail and even an occasional pulse of intelligence beating beneath all of the mayhem. I’m looking for producers who have an interesting eye, and a smart sensibility, I’m looking for people who are strong screenwriters. What drives the Durban mart is “not the selling end, it’s the discovery end.” He continued, “For me, it’s across the board. Film Festival this week, said the value of attending the continent’s leading market and finance forum is instead about what one described as “playing the long game.” “If you’re looking at this as a place where people are selling, categorically not, because the buyers aren’t here,” said Todd Brown, head of international acquisitions at Xyz Films. “Rachel is such a generous, clever, cool woman,įoreign Sales Agents Dip Into Durban Talent Poolĭurban - Buzzy competition titles and late-night bidding wars might be a staple at some of the world’s biggest film festivals, but sales agents at the 9th edition of the Durban FilmMart (Dfm), which ran parallel to the Durban Int’l. It’s kept me connected and doing meaningful things.” Hoodlum Entertainment and Margot Robbie’s Luck圜hap Entertainment are developing Shakespeare Now, consisting of fresh re-interpretations of Romeo and Juliet, The Tempest, Macbeth, Love’s Labour’s Lost, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Richard III, The Merchant of Venice and Twelfth Night. “I think I would have gone mad if I didn’t have all these scripts and virtual writers’ rooms. “I have had a privileged, lucky lockdown,” she tells If. Enjoying a career high, Beyersdorf is also working on an Every Cloud Productions’ drama and developing multiple projects with writer-director Miranda Nation, Aquarius Films, Truant Pictures and US director Alexis Ostrander. Prolific screenwriter Anya Beyersdorf says her excitement level has gone through the roof as she collaborates with director Rachel Ward on one of the segments of the ABC’s female-driven Shakespeare Now anthology.