Below are listings of movies for which filming is complete, but no date has been scheduled yet, movies that are currently being filmed and movies that have directors and stars attached.

Filming complete, no date set

Movie Title: Mr. Nice, 2010

Director: Bernard Rose

Starring: Rhys Ifans, Chloe Sevigny and David Thewlis

Status: scheduled to release in the UK, Feb. 2010; no US date set

Based on: Mr. Nice, Howard Marks, (Vintage Books, February 23, 2010)

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Movie Title: Twelve, 2010

Status: Post-production

Director: Joel Schumacher

Starring: Emma Roberts, Chace Crawford, Kiefer Sutherland, Ellen Barkin, 50 Cent

Based On: Twelve by Nick McDowell

Status: Shown at Sundance Festival, 2010 (Cinematical, 2/12//10)

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Movie Title: Never Let Me Go, 2010

Status: Post-production

Director: Mark Romanek

Starring: Keira Knightley, Carey Mulligan, Charlotte Rampling, Sally Hawkins

Based on: Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro, (Knopf)

Status: May be in fall film festivals (Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2010, IonCinema, 2/2/10)

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Movie title: ZMD: Zombies of Mass Destruction, 2009

Director: Kevin Hamedani

Status: Completed

Starring: Janette Armand, Doug Fahi, Cooper Hopkins

Based on: Marvel comic by MC

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Movie title: The Adjustment Bureau (2010)

Status: Dec., 2009, filming in NYC

Director: George Nolfi

Starring: Matt Damon, Emily Blunt

Based on: The Adjustment Bureau, short story by Philip K. Dick

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Movie Title: The Irishman, 2010

Status: Filming began May, ‘09

Baserd on: To Kill the Irishman: The War That Crippled the Mafia by Rick Porrello.
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Starring:  Val Kilmer, Christopher Walken, Linda Cardellini, Vincent D’Onofrio

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Movie Title: The Lost City of Z, 2010

Director: James Gray

Starring: Brad Pitt

Status: Filming begins Summer 2009

Based on: The Lost City of Z, David Grann, (Doubleday, Feb, 2009)

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Movie Title: Barney’s Version, 2010

Director: Richard J. Lewis

Starring: Rachelle Lefevre, Dustin Hoffman, Paul Giamatti, Minnie Driver

Status: Filming begins in August ‘09

Based On:  Mordecai Richler’s final novel, Barney’s Version

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Filming Scheduled

Movie Title: Brighton Rock, 2010

Director: Rowan Joffe

Starring: Sam Riley, Helen Mirren, Pete Postlethwaite (Hollywood Reporter, 8/27/09)

Status: Shooting to begin 10/18 in Brighton and London (Hollywood Reporter, 8/27/09)

Based on: Brighton Rock, Graham Greene, 1939

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Movie Title: Boardwalk Empire, 2009 — HBO series

Based on: Boardwalk Empire: The Birth, High Times, and Corruption of Atlantic City, Nelson Johnson (Plesux, 2002)

Director: Martin Scorsese to direct the pilot

Starring: Steve Buscemi, Michael Pitt, Kelly MacDonald and recent Oscar nominee Michael Shannon

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Movie Title: A Very Private Gentleman, 2010

Director: Anton Corbijn

Starring: George Clooney

Based on: Martin Booth’s novel

Shooting scheduled to begin in Italy, Fall ‘09

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Movie Title: Unknown White Male, 2011

Director: Jaume Collet-Serra

Status: Shooting, Winter ‘09

Starring: Liam Neeson

Based on: Out of My Head, Didier van Cauwelaert, (Other Press, 2005)

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Movie Title: Cosmopolis, 2011

Director: David Cronenber

Based on: Cosmopolis, Don DeLillo, (Scribner, 2003)

Status: shooting in 2010 in New York and Toronto

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Movie Title: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, 2012

Director: Tomas Alfredson, (Variety)

Production company: Working Title

Filming to begin in 2010

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Movie Title: The Descendants, 2010

Director: Alexander Payne (Variety, 8/12/09)

Studio: Fox Searchlight

Filming to begin end of 2009 or early 2010 in Hawaii; hasn’t been cast

Based on: debut novel by Kaui Hart Hemmings (Random House, 2008); “wealthy landowner takes his two daughters on a search for his wife’s lover in the hopes of keeping his family together,”

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Director and/or Stars Announced

Movie Title: Black Mass

Director: Jim Sheridan (My Left Foot, In the Name of the Father)

Status: Originally scheduled to be in theaters 12/12/09; Looks like shooting has been delayed (Boston Globe, 8/18). 2/15/10 — The Irish Independent reports that the film is “expected to start shooting later this year.”

Based on: Black Mass: The True Story of an Unholy Alliance Between the FBI and the Irish Mob by Dick Lehr and Gerard O’Neill

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Movie Title: The Adventurer’s Handbook

Studio: Universal (Variety) “seven-figure deal”

Latest Update: “hopes to be in production early next year: (Hollywood Reporter, 8/4/09)

Director: Akiva Schaffer

Starring: Jonah Hill, Jonathan Schwartzman, Jason Segal

Based on: The Adventurer’s Handbook: Life Lessons from the World’s Great Explorers,  Mike Conefrey (Smithsonian, 2006)

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Movie Title: You Don’t Know Jack, 2009 (TV)

Studio: HBO Films

Director: Barry Levinson

Starring: Al Pacino (Jack Kevorkian), Susan Sarandon, John Goodman, Danny Huston, Brenda Vaccarro

Latest Update: Vacarro added to cast (Hollywoood Reporter, 8/3/09)

Based on: Between the Dying and the Dead: Dr. Jack Kevorkian’s Life and Battle to Legalize Euthanasia, Neal Nicol & Harry Wylie, (University of Wisconsin Press, 2006)

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Movie Title: Untitled Project

Based on: I’m With Cancer, novel by Will Reiser

Starring: James McAvoy, Seth Rogan

Production Company: Mandate Pictures

Status: Filming to begin January, ‘10 (Variety, 8/17/09)

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Movie Title: Dewey

Starring: Meryl Streep (Variety, 11/12/2008)

Production Company: Temple Hill

Studio: New Line

Updates: Spencer, Iowa Daily Reporter, 5/8/09; Dewey Movie on Fast Track; says it is tentatively scheduled for Christmas, 2010

Publishers Weekly, 8/4/09; Dewey Author Gets Million-Dollar Deal at Dutton; indicates doubt about movie — says Streep is “supposedly attached to star.”

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Movie Title: Night Train, 2010

Status: Pre-production

Director: Nicolas Roeg

Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Michael Madsen, Nick Nolte

Studio: Independent Film

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Movie Title: Game of Thrones, 2010, TV

HBO Films

Director: Thomas McCarthy

Starring: Sean Bean, Jennifer Ehle

Latest Update: Ehle added to cast (Hollywood Reporter, 8/3/09)

Based on: George R. R. Martin’s fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire

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Movie Title: The Lorax, 2012

3-D animated feature

Studio: Universal Pictures

Directors: Chris Renaud, Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio

Release Date: March 2, 2012 (Theodor Geisel’s birthday), according to Variety (7/28/09)

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Movie Title:  Marching Powder, 2010

Director: Jose Padilha (Variety, 7/28/08)

Starring: Don Cheadle

Based on: Marching Powder: A True Story of Friendship, Cocaine and South America’s Strangest Jail, Thomas McFadden and Rusty Young (St. Martin’s, 2004)

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Movie Title: Golf in the Kingdom, 2010

Director: Susan Stretfield

Starring: David O’Hara, Malcolm McDowell, Frances Fisher, Mason Gamble

Based on: Golf in the Kingdom, Michael Murphy (1972)