Screenhead

Academy Award-winning filmmaker Roman Polanski is to direct his first contemporary thriller in more than twenty years. His new project, The Ghost, will begin shooting in Berlin in two weeks’ time, on February 4th. The movie tells the story of a former British Prime Minister, Adam Lang, (played by Pierce Brosnan) who is holed up on an island off the Eastern seaboard of the USA in midwinter, writing his memoirs. When his long-standing aide drowns, a professional ghostwriter (played by Ewan McGregor) is sent out to help him finish the book. The anonymous ghostwriter is quickly drawn into a political and sexual intrigue involving Lang’s wife, Ruth (played by Olivia Williams) and his aide (played by Kim Cattrall). Hanging over Lang is the threat of a war crimes trial and a mysterious secret from his past that threatens to jeopardize international relations. Jim Belushi, Robert Pugh and recent Golden Globe Tom Wilkinson have also joined the cast.

The Ghost is based on the novel by the same name written by best-selling author Robert Harris. It won the International Thriller Writers’ Award for best novel of 2008. Harris joined Polanski in adapting the book for the big screen.

Popularity: 1% [?]

Sex and the City actress, Kim Cattrall is set to star in Miss January, a film about a young man who travels a long distance to meet his dream woman. His dream woman was a 1980s cinema star who is now a middle-aged single mother in a child custody battle.

Variety reported that Brian Dennehy, Dustin Ingram, Keith David and Sam McMurray also star in the film, which marks the feature directorial debut of Keith Bearden, who also wrote the script.  

The film is shooting in Michigan

Popularity: 1% [?]

Hot off the trail of her opening in “Sex and the City” co-star Kim Cattrall is returning to HBO with another sex-themed single-camera comedy project set in New York.

Cattrall plans to star and executive produce an adaptation of the British comedy series “Sensitive Skin,” which is being written and exec produced by Emmy-winning “The Sopranos” scribes Mitchell Burgess and Robin Green. Sounds like a winner.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, The project, in development at the pay cable network with a significant penalty attached to it (Ouch!), centers on a middle-aged wife and mother (Cattrall) in New York who rediscovers her sexuality and begins to question her place in the world and the choices she has made in life.

The original series, which aired on BBC Two for two seasons, was written and directed by Hugo Blick and starred Joanna Lumley as a well-to-do ex-model working at an art gallery in London.

Popularity: 1% [?]