"28 Weeks Later" star to topline "Beautiful Ruins" bestseller adaptationNovember 16, 2013 - 14:35 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Imogen Poots has signed on to star in the Todd Fields-directed Beautiful Ruins based on Jess Walter’s bestselling novel, Deadline said. Poots plays young actress Dee Moray who travels to Italy in 1962 during the filming of Cleopatra. Fields is writing the screenplay with Walter and will produce with Cross Creek Pictures’ Brian Oliver and Tyler Thompson and Smuggler Films’ Patrick Milling Smith and Brian Carmody. Casting is underway for the male leads with shooting set to begin in Italy in May. Poots has a big year coming up with three films set to bow in 2014 — DreamWorks’ Need For Speed, FilmDistrict’s That Awkward Moment and Wildgaze Films’ A Long Way Down. She recently wrapped Peter Bogdanovich’s Squirrels To The Nuts opposite Owen Wilson. She’s also appeared in Jon Baird’s Filth, opposite James McAvoy, Yaron Zilberman’s A Late Quartet alongside Christopher Walken, Catherine Keener and Philip Seymour Hoffman and Michael Winterbottom’s The King Of Soho. Related links: Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running” Partner news | Kazakhstan welcomes Yerevan, Baku’s agreement to meet in Almaty Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has welcomed the agreement of Baku and Yerevan to hold negotiations in Almaty. Armenia offers to temporarily host, preserve Gaza manuscripts The Armenian Foreign Minister has said Yerevan is ready to help preserve manuscripts from the conflict zone in Gaza. Aliyev says no need for mediators in Armenia-Azerbaijan process Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev believes that Baku and Yerevan do not mediators in the process of normalizing relations. Aram I supports Karekin II’s “patriotic position” Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia Aram I has expressed support for the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin. |