Long-time collaborators Quentin Tarantino and cinematographer Robert
Richardson will receive the joint Cinematographer-Director Duo Award at
the closing night of Polish festival Camerimage. The pair have
collaborated on five features including Once Upon A Time In Hollywood
and have won five Oscars between them. Camerimage, a film fest
dedicated to the art of cinematography, runs Nov 9-16 this year in its
new home of Toruń, Poland.
StarzPlay, the streaming service run by Lionsgate-owned network
Starz, has picked up Mindy Kaling´s 10-part miniseries adaptation of
rom-com Four Weddings And A Funeral,
and will premiere the show exclusively in the UK on December 12.
Natalie Emmanuel, Nikesh Patel and John Reynolds lead the cast of the
series, which follows a young communications director for a New York
senatorial campaign who receives a wedding invitation from her college
schoolmate now living in London and leaves her professional and personal
life behind. It was produced by MGM Television and Universal
Television.
Scandi sales outfit TrustNordisk has boarded The North Sea, a disaster movie from the makers of The Wave and The Quake.
John Andreas Andersen will direct the story of the consequences that
come from one of the world´s largest offshore oil discoveries, on the
coast of Norway. Shoot is set for summer 2020 and the budget is $6.7m
(€6m). Harald Rosenløw Eeg and Lars Gudmestad wrote the screenplay.
Producers are Martin Sundland, Catrin Gundersen and Therese Bøhn of
Oslo-based Fantefilm. The Wave was a hug hit in Norway, recording more than 800,000 admissions, while The Quake
was the most seen film of 2018 in its native country. TrustNordisk
handled sales on both of those titles and sold US rights to Magnolia
Pictures. An English language version of The North Sea screenplay will be available in early 2020.