Good News for Kathryn Bigelow Fans: Her New Film’s Been Bankrolled
As previously reported here, Oscar-winning pair Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal are now working on a small-scale film based on the true story of a U.S. military black ops mission in the Middle East (there has been some Internet buzz that the film revolves around the hunt for Osama Bin Laden, but that has not been verified). Production on the $10 million budgeted film will begin early summer, with Boal writing and Bigelow directing. Casting should start in the next few weeks. And although no distributor has been lined up for the film, there’s no problem with money for the duo: Annapurna Pictures, the Los Angeles-based firm headed up by Megan Ellison, daughter of Oracle Corp. software billionaire Larry Ellison, is fully funding the project.
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