Insights from the Cinematic World: Movie Production Insights

In the end, it was Ruairí Robinson’s unique pitch for the project – United 93 in space - that won him the job and crystallized The Last Days on Mars’s unique place in the pantheon of Martian moviemaking.

The Last Days on Mars

On the last day of the first manned mission to Mars, a crew member of Tantalus Base believes he has made an astounding discovery – fossilized evidence of bacterial life. Unwilling to let the relief crew claim all the glory, he disobeys orders to pack up and goes out on an unauthorized expedition to collect further samples.

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DIANA

The idea for DIANA was generated in-house at Ecosse Films several years ago. The story the filmmakers wanted to tell was the love story between Diana and Dr. Hasnat Khan, a British Pakistani heart surgeon. The filmmakers wanted to portray Diana’s life as accurately as they could.

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How I Live Now

Set in the near-future UK, Saoirse Ronan plays Daisy, an American teenager sent to stay with relatives in the English countryside. Initially withdrawn and alienated, she begins to warm up to her charming surroundings, and strikes up a romance with the handsome Edmund (George MacKay). As the UK falls into a violent, chaotic military state, Daisy finds herself hiding and fighting to survive.

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The Best Man Holiday

In 1999, when The Best Man topped the box office on its opening weekend, audiences fell hard for a group of college friends named Harper, Lance, Mia, Shelby, Murch, Robyn, Jordan, Quentin and Candy. Writer/director/producer Malcolm D. Lee returns to write and direct this sequel to his directorial debut The Best Man Holiday

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About Time

Universal Pictures presents—in association with Relativity Media—a Working Title production: Domhnall Gleeson, Rachel McAdams, Bill Nighy in About Time, starring Tom Hollander, Margot Robbie. The casting is by Fiona Weir, and the music is by Nick Laird-Clowes.

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Charlie Countryman

The story really kicks off in Bucharest Romania, where Charlie (Shia LeBeouf) meets Gabi (Evan Rachel Wood), who is also struck by the recent loss of her father. However, it’s love at first sight for Charlie, who is in a wild, unknown world, more foreign than he ever could have imagined.

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The Book Thief

Markus Zusak’s book and director Brian Percival’s (Downton Abbey) film adaptation tell the story of Liesel (Sophie Nélisse), who is sent to live with foster parents, the kind-hearted Hans Hubermann (Geoffrey Rush) and his prickly wife Rosa (Emily Watson).

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Free Birds

On a quaint, family-owned farm, a giant turkey flock lives a quiet, complacent, corn-stuffed life. All everyone cares about is feeding time and grazing in the sun with the Farmer, who they swear will bring them to “Turkey Paradise.”

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The Counselor

Legendary filmmaker Ridley Scott and Pulitzer Prize winning author Cormac McCarthy have joined forces in the motion picture thriller The Counselor, starring Michael Fassbender, Penélope Cruz, Cameron Diaz, Javier Bardem, and Brad Pitt.

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Inequality for All

Inequality for All allows viewers to start with little or no understanding of what it means for the U.S. to be economically imbalanced, and walk away with a comprehensive and significantly deeper sense of the issue and what can be done about it.

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Carrie

A reimagining of the classic horror tale about Carrie White (Chloë Grace Moretz), a shy girl outcast by her peers and sheltered by her deeply religious mother (Julianne Moore), who unleashes telekinetic terror on her small town after being pushed too far at her senior prom.

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Ender’s Game

The novel’s immense popularity and vivid imagery made a film adaptation seem inevitable, but creating Orson Scott Card’s gorgeously imagined future and intricately plotted storyline would take an exceptionally determined and talented team of filmmakers.

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