Up-n-coming, 4/15.

First stop: Alison Willmore at the IFC Blog. Because she's got three excellent recent roundups of movies "in the works": 1, 2 and 3.

"The two-part 1970s gangster tale based on the life of France's 'public enemy number one' Jacques Mesrine is taking shape," reports european-films.net. Jean-François Richet will shoot both films simultaneously and he's lined up "a veritable who's who of French-language cinema" in various roles.

"Italian movie director Marco Bellocchio is making a movie about a little-known chapter in the life of Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini - the story of a son he kept hidden in mental asylums until his early death." Marta Falconi reports for the AP.

Etan Vlessing in the Hollywood Reporter: "John Malkovich, Evangeline Lilly and Romain DurisGilles Bourdos's supernatural thriller Afterwards."

"Bryan Singer and Gus Van Sant are racing to be the first into cinemas with separate projects about the assassinated gay San Francisco Mayor Harvey Milk," reports the Guardian. Peter Bowen comments at Filmmaker.

Also in the Guardian, Randeep Ramesh: "The Mumbai film producer Firoz Nadiadwala, whose last movie Phir Hera Pheri - More Fraud - was a big hit in India, is lining up [Mike] Tyson for a dance sequence in his upcoming film Fool-n-Final."

Posted by dwhudson at April 15, 2007 1:59 PM