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stanley usa ist, with Eyeworks Touchdown.The two companies,represented by MediaCorp Raintree CEO Daniel Yun and Eyeworks Touchdown CEOJulie Christie, are scheduled to sign a letter of intent this Sunday in Auckland, New Zealand.Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, New Zealand PrimeMinister Helen Clark and Aucklandmayor Dick Hubbard will witness the signing ceremony. Raintree and EyeworksTouchdown have a common purpose: we want to fuse stories from each of ourcultures to provide the international market with unique genre stories, saysYun. The Tattooist is a $3.3m NZ$5.35m horror film about an American tattooist whounwittingly becomes the medium for an angry Samoan ghost. The film which beginsin Singapore will be shot mainly in New Zealand. It marks the feature debutof TV commercials director Peter Burger whose short film Turangawaewae was selected for Critics Week at Cannes 2003. DoP isLeon Narbey who has worked on New Zealand break-out hit WhaleRider.Pro
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From the Berlin set of Jesse Owens story Race, Martin Blaney talks to the producers about their approach to the defining story of the 1936 Olympics.The idea for a film about Jesse Owens was brought to me about four years ago by Luc Dayan of ID+, who is from the sports business rather than the film industry, recalls producer Jean-Charles L茅vy of Forecast Pictures.Initially, film-maker Pan Nalin was hired to research the background for a story that would have followed Owens and Hitler.We wanted to have a real 21-year-old as Owens who is suddenly confronted with all of this fameJean-Charles L茅vy, Forecast Pictures But then we decided that what really interested us was Jesse, L茅vy expla
stanley cup ins. So we spent the last three years with Stephen [Hopkins] on developing the story. L茅vy had previously worked with Hopkins on his 2000 thriller Under Suspicion.At the time, there was a rival US project about Owens to star Anthony Mackie also being developed. Anthony is a good actor, but he is too old to play Jesse [at this particular stage of his life], L茅vy remarks. Stephen and I both wanted to have a real 21-year-old as Owens who is suddenly confronted with all of this fame and other things at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. Rising Canadian-born actor Stephan James 鈥?who recently shot the Martin Luther King Jr drama Selma 鈥?was cast as the legendary athlete; Saturday Night Live star Jason Sudeikis as h
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