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  • Bill Condon and Ian McKellen reunite for a new Sherlock flick

    Bill Condon and Ian McKellen reunite for a new Sherlock flick

    MUMBAI: The acclaimed director is all set to recreate a new Sherlock Holmes movie in which McKellen will play a retired Holmes. The movie titled A Slight Trick of the Mind is based on a novel by Mitch Cullin and the screenplay is adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher.

     

    Condon and McKellen were previously seen together in Gods and Monsters. The finance is done by Icon UK’s production department called AI and BBC is co-financing. AI is also co-producing. The shooting is set to begin sometime next April in UK.

     

    Anne Carey is producing via Archer Gray Productions. King’s Speech producers Iain Canning and Emile Sherman of See-Saw Films, Icon/AI Film’s Aviv Giladi, and Len Blavatnik, whose Access Industries owns the Icon UK group, are exec producing as is BBC Films’ Christine Langan.

     

    International sales are being handled by FilmNation. Condon is repped by WME, Anonymous Content, Wayne Alexander and Robert Nau. McKellen is repped by Chris Andrews at CAA and Paul Lyon-Maris at Independent Talent Group.

  • Dick Cook, Bill Condon are in Academy’s board of governors

    MUMBAI: Former Disney studio chief Dick Cook and Twilight: Breaking Dawn director Bill Condon have been elected to the board of governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
    They are among six new, first-time board members that also include Dante Spinotti, Lisa Cholodenko, John Knoll and Scott Millan. While Spinotti will represent the cinematogrpahers branch; Cholodenko, the directors branch; Cook, executives; Knoll, visual effects; Millan, sound; and Condon, writers.
    Three former board members — director Michael Mann, composer Arthur Hamilton and producer Kathleen Kennedy – are set to return to the board after a hiatus. Mann previously served from 2000 to 2006.
    Hamilton, who most recently served from 2008 to 2011 representing the music branch, has been a member of the board of governors for 33 long years while Kennedy, who was on the board from 1994 to 1997, made it again from 2002 to 2011.
    The board will next meet on 31 July to elect officers including a new president for the coming year.