Nanette Burstein

All the major directors are getting ready for a busy 2009 film schedule. Despite shaky economic conditions the major ones are getting into production. There is absolutely no dearth of interest or enthusiasm for the coming year’s film activity in the film circuit. The flurry of signing ins and production madness are already turning out to be a dampener for the economic depression majorly in the US.

Among the directors signing projects that have been revealed this week goes like this:

Greg Mottola will direct the ET comedy “Paul” for Working Title and Universal Pictures. Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, the duo behind “Shaun of the Dead” and “Hot Fuzz,” will star.

Greg Mottola

Martin Campbell

Martin Campbell will helm “Nagasaki Deadline,” an action thriller that will be financed by Alcon Entertainment and co-produced with James Cameron’s Lightstorm Entertainment and 8:38 Prods.

New Line Cinema has pulled in documentarian Nanette Burstein (”American Teen”) to direct the romantic comedy “Going the Distance,” with Adam Shankman and Jennifer Gibgot producing via their Offspring Entertainment shingle.

Inspite of the strikes carried out by SAG and the fact that Feature productions are slowing down there has been a serious attempt to fight against the strike. Studios are putting in and around 40 films into production in the spring and summer.

Motolla’s “Paul” will be filmed from mid-April in New Mexico. Story revolves around two British slackers who, after visiting Comic-Con, go on a road trip to Area 51, where they encounter a small alien named Paul, who enlists them to help him find his way home.
Campbell (”Casino Royale”) will return to work on “Nagasaki”. “Distance,” a romantic comedy under New Line production which will likely go into production early next year, re-teams Shankman and Gibgot with New Line after they produced the upcoming “17 Again.” It was a bold decision taken by New Line to tap a documentarian.

Despite a serious stoppage in feature film activity the above mentioned scenario is sure to lighten the mood and joyously mark the return of filmic activity despite aborted circumstances.

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