MUMBAI: Four Frames, director Priyadarshan‘s production house, has inked a $20 million deal with Woodpecker Pictures & Entertainment Ltd to produce two Hindi feature films.

The two films involving Woodpecker Pictures, the Indian subsidiary of US-based entertainment fund Woodpecker Holding Inc, will be directed by Priyadarshan.
As part of the deal, Woodpecker will be forwarding the entire investments for the productions. 

The first of the two productions will go on the floors in April with a start-to-finish 60-day schedule in Lucknow and abroad. The first project will be based on a hit Tamil film featuring four friends. The second will be another start-to-finish venture between September and December 2010.

Woodpecker is also in negotiations for a mainstream international movie with a top Hollywood cast to be shot in Mexico that Priyadarshan would be directing as part of the third project of this joint venture.