Canónigo Films and Wayne Rice’s Capacity Pictures, co-produce a film that will be shot in Barcelona, Spain, with big cinema stars. “For the principal roles we like the idea of Demi Moore and Patrick Dempsey, who would feature in the film with a well-known spanish cast”, says Rice.
Actor Robert Englund, popularly known as the wicked Freddy Krueger, the villain from “Nightmare on Elm Street” series, put the two film companies in touch. “Robert had told me he was working on a film called “I Want To Be a Soldier”, directed by Christian Molina and produced by Canónigo. He said the experience was fantastic. That everyone he worked with was very professional and committed to making a great film. He also said he loved his time in Barcelona”, Rice explains. “That’s why I sent a script called “Forced Entry” to Canónigo, in case they wanted to shoot it”.
The film will be Christian Molina’s fifth feature-lenght film, after “Blood Red”, “Diary of a Sex Addict”, festival pleaser “Station of the forgotten”, and soon to premiere “I Want To Be a Soldier”.
“After I saw some footage from his latest film, “I Want To Be a Soldier”, I asked to meet with him. Christian came to LA and we met and immediately hit it off. His vision for the film was the same as mine. I also liked that he was an editor before he became a director and it was an added plus that he is a screenwriter as well” says Rice
“Forced entry”, provisional title of the film, is a thriller written by Adam Mason and Simon Boyes, two acknowledged horror film directors and screenwriters whose latest films, “Blood River” and “Pig”, have been selected by the Sitges Festival Internacional de Cinema Fantàstic de Catalunya to participate in his 43rd edition next october.
Wayne Rice is one of the most successful independent producers in Hollywood. He has written and produced films such as “Only You”, starring Helen Hunt and Kelly Preston, “The man from left Field”, “The Suicide Kings”, starring Christopher Walken and Denis Leary and the comedy “Dude, where’s my car?, starring Ashton Kutcher, Sean William Scott and Jennifer Garner. With over 100 million dollars at the US box office, the film became one of the most successful comedies of the decade, and moved Rice into the opening of his own company called Capacity Films.
In his last film, “Valentine’s Day”, Wayne Rice put together what is possibly the biggest cast ever in recent times. Directed by Garry Marshall (“Pretty Woman”), the film, in fact, reunited Julia Roberts, Jessica Alba, Jamie Fox, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Biel, Patrick Dempsey and Ashton Kutcher.
The spectacular box office results of the film spawned the idea of a sequel, currently in pre-production, going with the title of “New Year’s Eve”, a romantic comedy meant to line up another impressive Hollywood cast.
In his recent career, he has ranged through all sorts of different genres, from the horror-comedy, “Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer” to the romance of “Finding Amanda”, starring Matthew Broderick, right down to “House Broken”, with Danny de Vito.
“Forced Entry” will be shot in Barcelona in February 2011.
