Walter Parkes and Laurie MacDonald and Image Nation Abu Dhabi are extending their deal for another five years and have named Evan Hayes as president of production at Parkes/Macdonald. Hayes was formerly the president of production at Story Mining & Supply Co. The extension of their joint venture expands the relationship first born in 2010 when the production company was given a $10 million revolving financial fund. Two years later the Men in Black producers and their partners formed a stronger union as Parks+Macdonald/Image Nation.
The next project from them is the untitled feature-length documentary about the courageous Pakastani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai, who stood up to the Taliban after getting shot multiple times and is the youngest recipient ever of the Nobel Peace Prize. Directed by Oscar-winner Davis Guggenheim (An Inconvenient Truth), the Malala film follows the features Flight and Men in Black 3. Also on the slate is Keeping Up with the Joneses,...
The next project from them is the untitled feature-length documentary about the courageous Pakastani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai, who stood up to the Taliban after getting shot multiple times and is the youngest recipient ever of the Nobel Peace Prize. Directed by Oscar-winner Davis Guggenheim (An Inconvenient Truth), the Malala film follows the features Flight and Men in Black 3. Also on the slate is Keeping Up with the Joneses,...
- 12/3/2014
- by Anita Busch
- Deadline
"Ain't Them Bodies Saints" filmmaker David Lowery has done a deal to write and direct "The Yellow Birds" for the newly formed Story Mining & Supply Co. production company.
Based on Kevin Powers' National Book Award Finalist novel, the story details the experiences of a young American solider during the American-led war in Iraq, in particular what happens following the death of his friend in the Nineveh province in 2004.
Jeffrey Sharp and Jim Kohlberg will produce. The company is the same one behind Ron Moore's upcoming TV adaptation of Diana Gabaldon's "Outlander" novel series.
They are also developing adaptations of the Charles McCarry spy novel series, Wallace Stegner's "Angle Of Repose" and J. Robert Janes' "Mayhem".
Source: Deadline...
Based on Kevin Powers' National Book Award Finalist novel, the story details the experiences of a young American solider during the American-led war in Iraq, in particular what happens following the death of his friend in the Nineveh province in 2004.
Jeffrey Sharp and Jim Kohlberg will produce. The company is the same one behind Ron Moore's upcoming TV adaptation of Diana Gabaldon's "Outlander" novel series.
They are also developing adaptations of the Charles McCarry spy novel series, Wallace Stegner's "Angle Of Repose" and J. Robert Janes' "Mayhem".
Source: Deadline...
- 9/10/2013
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
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