LA producer announced new movie "Unbound Captives"

Los ASngeles, May 18, 2009
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NRI Ashok Amritraj, former tennis player and a Hollywood producer in Log Angeles announced his new movie, in the 19th-century drama Unbound Captives, and Madeleine Stowe will make her directorial debut from a script she cowrote more than 15 years ago, according to Variety. "Unbound Captives" starring Hugh Jackman, Rachel Weisz and Robert Pattinson.

Stowe originally wrote the script in the early 1990s with her husband Brian Benben (Dream On), but she turned down a multimillion dollar offer from Fox when they wouldn’t promise her anything more than a writing credit.

Madeleine Stowe’ll direct this movie and Weisz will play the role Stowe once envisioned for herself, a frontier woman whose husband is killed and whose two children are kidnapped. Pattinson will play her son, and Jackman will play the man who comes to her rescue.

There is rumor that this movie will be Ashok Amritraj's biggest budget movie around $80-$100 million. Our press reporter contacted to Amritraj's office for this confirmation. Assistant to Ashok Amritraj did not confirm this budget report and said that Ashok Amritraj is in Paris now, will be back on this weekend

According to the Variety, Amritraj sparked to the idea of Stowe directing; she'll be helped by an experienced cinematographer in John Toll, who shot epics "Braveheart" and "The Last Samurai."

Hyde Park Intl. will sell offshore territories at Cannes, and Endeavor Independent, which packaged the pic, will sell North American distribution rights.

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Madeleine Stowe: She was in Eagle Rock, a working class suburb of Los Angeles, California. She appeared mostly in minor or supporting roles in movies and on TV. She became well-known to the public when:

• Stakeout (1987), where she played opposite Richard Dreyfuss
• Revenge, (1990), which co-starred Kevin Costner.
• In 1992 Stowe finally landed a leading role in a high-profile film, playing the part of Cora Munro in The Last of the Mohicans, which also starred Daniel Day-Lewis.
• The director Robert Altman cast Stowe in Short Cuts, in which she gave one of her most acclaimed screen performances as the wife of a compulsive lying and adulterous police officer played by Tim Robbins.
• Madeleine was a blind musician in the thriller Blink, co-starring Aidan Quinn. (Fourteen years earlier, she had a guest role as a blind painter in Little House on the Prairie).
• She was a sympathetic psychiatrist in the science-fiction movie Twelve Monkeys. Stowe postponed her acting career in 1996 to concentrate on motherhood.
• In 1998, she came back with The Proposition.

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Rachel Weisz is an Academy Award and Golden Globe-winning, and BAFTA-nominated English actress

• She won the 2006 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, the 2006 Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress and the 2006 Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role.
• The Mummy (1999), Enemy at the Gates (2001), About a Boy (2002), Runaway Jury (2003) and Constantine (2005).
• In 2006, Rachel Weisz was a star in The Fountain, written and directed by her fiancé, Darren Aronofsky.

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Hugh Jackman is an Australian actor and producer. He was involved in film, musical theatre, and television.

• He has won international recognition for his roles in major films, notably as action/superhero, period and romance characters.
• He is most well known from his role as Wolverine in the X-Men series, plus Kate & Leopold, Van Helsing, The Prestige
• He is also a singer, dancer and actor in stage musicals, and won a Tony Award for his role in The Boy from Oz.
• In November 2008, People magazine named Jackman "Sexiest Man Alive
• In February 22, 2009, he hosted the 81st Academy Awards

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• Robert Pattinson is model and musician and English actor
• He was twelve years old when he started modeling but unsuccessful
• He played Cedric Diggory in the film Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Consequently, he was named that year's British Star of Tomorrow by Times Online. Edward Cullen in the movie Twilight, based on Stephenie Meyer's bestselling novel of the same name, which was released on November 21, 2008 in North America.
• He got role as Edward Cullen in the Twilight sequel, New Moon, with filming slated to begin in March 2009.
• He appeared and presented at the 81st Academy Awards on February 22, 2009

• The film is set in the mid-19th century and revolves around a woman (now to be played by Rachel Weisz) whose husband is killed and whose two children (one of whom is Pattinson) are kidnapped by a Comanche war party. Fox offered Stowe $3 million, and later $5 million, for her script, with Ridley Scott poised to direct and Russell Crowe to star. She turned down
• Madeleine Stowe behind the camera and Jackman starring as the frontiersman who comes to Weisz's rescue.

• Read About Ashok Amritraj

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• The Vijay Amritraj Foundation has yet another successful evening
  at the 2008 Gala Banquet