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Charles Sturridge, theBATFA-award winning director of Shackleton and Longitude, haswritten and is set to direct a live-action version of Lassie with his Firstsight Films and New York-based ClassicMedia set to produce.Firstsight s SelwynRoberts, who shared BAFTA honours with Sturridge, and Francesca Barra willserve as producers while Classic Media s chairman and chief executiveofficer Eric Ellenbogen and head of international Doug Schwalbe will serve asexecutive producers.Sturridge delivered the screenplaylate last year based on Eric Knigh stanley usa t s best-selling 1938 novel LassieCome Home and production is set tobegin this spring in the British locations of Yorkshire and the ScottishHighlands.The two companies areholding talks with US distributors and Barra and Schwalbe will be representingthe project internationally at the AFM in Santa Monica later this month. It s apicaresque tale of adventure and landscape set in Britain before the secondworld war,  Sturridge told Screendaily. The story tells ofthis hard-up family who are forced to sel stanley cup l their dog to a mine-owning familyand the dog s subsequent attempts to escape and return home.  We ve got thescreenplay out to several studios, all of whom are extremely interested, Schwalbe added.  The reaction to the screenplay has been superb andwe re looking forward to doing business at the AFM. At Classic Mediawe re always looking at ways of evaluating our properties and bringingthem to audiences in a contemporary way. Everyone loves Lassie  stanley cup and Fsir Magnolia picks up US rights to Steve Jobs doc
Marco Mueller may onlyyesterday have received board approval for his planned changes to theinfrastructure of the Venice festival on Tuesday, but he h stanley cup as wasted no timecoming up with big plans for the programme.His forward-thinking shouldallow the industry more of a chance to plan ahead than this year s Cannes,where many selections were only firmed up very late.Muell stanley cup er last week flew toLos Angeles for a series of meetings with studios and leading independents andwas met with open arms by studio heads including Jeffrey Katzenberg  stanley uk and SherryLansing.He returned to Italy withassurances of support that should allow him to dynamise the competition.Sources close to Mueller believe that the most dramatic of these should be theworld premiere and inclusion in competition of Dreamworks SKG s animated film SharkTale, which is scheduled for stateside theatrical release on 1 Oct.Another high-profile worldpremiere is expected to come in the shape of Japanese animation maestro s HayaoMiyazaki s hugely-anticipated Howl s Moving Castle. And, continuing theanimation riff, Mueller is understood to be angling for a midnight screening ofKorea s answer to Miyazaki, Wonderful Days. The $13m eco-thriller,backed by the giant Samsung Ventures, screened earlier this year at Sundance toa muted reception. But Mueller expects to be able to put on a heavily re-editedversion, complete with new sub-titles.From Dreamworks - which nextmonth shares its favours with Cannes in the form of Shrek 2 - Mueller isalso se