Brit Film Bonanza

More details are emerging about the 16 films that DNA Films - the lottery-backed dream partnership between British producers Duncan Kenworthy (Four Weddings and a Funeral) and Andrew Macdonald (Trainspotting) - will produce. In the pipeline is Saracen Street, written and directed by Peter Capaldi, who starred in BBC drama The Crow Road. It centres on a Glasgow club singer's dealings with the city's criminal underworld. Next up, there's The Final Curtain, written by John Hodge, who wrote screenplays for Trainspotting, A Life Less Ordinary, and the forthcoming Leonardo DiCaprio movie The Beach. The film explores the way celebrities live their lives through the media. The Steve Coogan-starrer, The Probation Officer, mentioned in this column yesterday, will also come under the DNA banner. The partnership is set to receive an infusion of $50 million national lottery funds to make 16 films over five years. Kenworthy and Macdonald spent a year reading scripts to find the right projects and plans for 11 of the films have already been unveiled - all, apparently, will cost less than