Archive for the ‘City of Ember’ Category

Bill Murray Set for City of Ember

Monday, June 11th, 2007

Bill Murray will star in City of Ember, the Walden Media adaptation of the Jeanne DuPrau young adult novel. Gil Kenan (Monster House) will direct and Playtone partners Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman are producing.

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Paint hall to become Ember city

Thursday, March 22nd, 2007

A former paint hall at a Belfast shipyard is to be transformed into a post-apocalypse city for a science fiction film.

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City of Ember set to shoot in Belfast

Wednesday, March 14th, 2007

The Northern Ireland Film and Television Commission (NIFTC) has announced that City of Ember, a major multi-million dollar feature film, is to shoot in the province this summer.

[Side note to Walden Media: I didn't have a chance to get up to Northern Ireland when I was in and around Dublin last week, so a set visit would rule! Plus, that's where C.S. Lewis was born. ;-) - Paul]

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Gil Kenan to Direct City of Ember

Saturday, February 3rd, 2007

When 30-year-old Gil Kenan was a student at Grover Cleveland High School in Reseda, he could not have imagined that just a few years after his 10-year reunion, he would find himself nominated for an Academy Award.

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