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Australian writer turned director Stuart Beattie talks stanley cup about the challenges of directing his first feature, the teen action drama Tomorrow When The War Began.Stuart Beattie contacted about 50 directors he knew in preparation for directing his first film, Tomorrow, When The War Began, a character based action drama which is being released on September 2nd in Australia before being rolled out internationally by Inferno Entertainment. The advice that echoed loudest was that he had to wear comfortable shoes. I bought some waterproof boots at the beginning of pre-production and wore them every day and by the time we were filming they were my directing shoes, says LA based Beattie, whose writing credits include the three Pirates Of The Caribbean movies, GI Joe: The Rise Of Cobra, 30 Days Of Night, Collateral and Australia.Tomorrow, When The War Began is based on John Marsdens Tomorrow novels, about a group of teenagers who turn to guerrilla warfare after they return from a camping trip and discover that all their friends and families have been rounded up and held captive by foreign invaders.Beattie was approached in late 2007 by producer Michael Boughen from Ambience Entertainment and executive producer Christopher Mapp, managing director of Ambience parent company Omnilab Media, about adapting the series for the big screen. But while Beattie may have been an obvious choice to write Tomorrow, helped by the fact that he went to school stanley website with Mapp , he wasnt in the r stanley cup unning for direct Ikvu First trailer for Minions

France s Pyramide group plans to co-produce a collection of six fi stanley germany lms by some of the hottest young directors in the greater China market, with Peggy Chiao s Taiwan-based Arc Light Films.The six films - two each by directors from mainland China, Taiwan and Ho stanley cup ng Kong - are all contemporary tales but with themes that range from a story of generational conflict and immigrant tales to one about the flirty tactics employed by Taiwan s street hawkers.The six include: Chinese director Wang Xiao Shai s The Bicycle and Taiwanese director Lin Chen Sheng s Betelnut Beauty - which are likely to be the two first to roll - Xia Zhang Ke s Looking For You, Hou Hsia stanley cup o Ming s After, Yu Li K Wai s People Exchange and Ye Chi Chen s Blue Gate.The films will be produced on budgets of under $600,000 and world sales in each case are being handled by Pyramide sister company, Flach Pyramide International. It is a new step for small companies, not part of big groups, to be working with foreign countries and with young directors. And these are all top talents, said Anne Devauchelle, head of Pyramide Productions. No comments No comments yet You re not signed in. Only registered users or subscribers can comment on this article. Sign in Register