(Jan De Bont, the director of "Speed," became the best-known moviemaker of that group).
Film rights for "Dracula: The Un-Dead" were also acquired by a group of producers that includes Jan de Bont, the director of "Speed" and "Twister".
The process of selecting a new managing director may speed up now that Mr. Strauss-Kahn has resigned his post as the I.M.F.'s managing director to deal with charges of attempted rape, stemming from his encounter with a hotel maid in New York last Saturday.
Jan De Bont, the director of Speed, was attached to helm the project at one point.
Brigit Helms, the general manager of the Multilateral Investment Fund, also has served as the director of SPEED, a USAID-funded program in Mozambique, and a senior expert for financial inclusion at McKinsey & Company.
"I find it so sad that we even have to even ask these questions, really that there's not enough films with strong female characters," says Amber Fares, director of Speed Sisters, a film about an all-woman car racing team in Palestine.
Lindsay Posner, the director of Speed-the-Plow, has coached many film stars through their first forays into theatreland.
Hence his new CEO title, and a board of executive directors to speed up day-to-day decisions.
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Looking up at her long form, as she turns this way and that — she has an interesting, off-center rhythm that slows the action down even as the script and the director want to speed it up — you may mistake the subtlety of her movements for depth, but clouds are surface attractions, and Hall's performance is mostly just that.
