All Production articles – Page 481
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NewsKeanu Reeves to star in John Wick
EXCLUSIVE: A resurgent Keanu Reeves will star in Thunder Road’s revenge action tale, which Lionsgate will introduce to buyers next week as one of the hot titles on the Croisette. CAA represents US rights.
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NewsFilmNation closes $50m financing
The investment follows last year’s mighty 2012 when films licensed by the New York-based company generated $420m at the international box office.
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NewsExclusive Media boards Passengers
The long-gestating Keanu Reeves sci-fi project has resurfaced at Exclusive Media with the additional star wattage of Reese Witherspoon. President of international sales and distribution Alex Walton will introduce in Cannes.
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NewsTom Vaughan to direct 'Tom Jones'
Tom Vaughan, whose credits include Starter For 10 and What Happens In Vegas, will direct the literary adaptation Tom Jones for the UK’s CrossDay Productions.
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NewsJames Ponsoldt to adapt Pippin
The Weinstein Company has found its writer on the Broadway musical adaptation and hired the director of Sundance hit The Spectacular Now.
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NewsShane Black to direct Doc Savage
Shane Black, now confirmed as one of the hottest directors in town after Iron Man 3 swept past $711m worldwide this week,, has closed his deal to direct Doc Savage for Columbia Pictures and Original Film.
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NewsMaggie Smith, Kevin Kline join My Old Lady
Protagonist to sell Paris-set comedy-drama; Rachael Horovitz, Raphael Benoliel among producers.
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NewsPaul Solet to direct Dark Summer
Content to begin sales of “twisted supernatural horror” at Cannes.
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NewsJack O’Halloran enters Purgatory
Gene Fallaize’s fantasy to shoot at the end of 2013 at Pinewood Studios.
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NewsAmar Akbar & Tony starts shoot
Atul Malhotra’s independent British comedy-drama stars Martin Delaney, Rez Kempton and Sam Vincenti.
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NewsFranco to star in Wenders’ Every Thing
The US actor will play a writer who causes the accidental death of a child.
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NewsMarvin Gaye biopic shoot pauses
EXCLUSIVE: Julien Temple’s film will resume shooting in early June.
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NewsMichael Douglas gets The Reach
EXCLUSIVE: Douglas, who stars as Liberace in Cannes competition entry Behind The Candelabra, will produce and play the lead in the new thriller. Good Universe is handling international sales and will launch The Reach in Cannes.
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NewsThe Forger lands John Travolta
EXCLUSIVE: Code Entertainment and The Solution Entertainment Group are understood to be co-financing the art heist project that the latter will bring to the Cannes market.
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NewsVoltage to launch Cabin Fever reboot
EXCLUSIVE: Nicolas Chartier’s financing, production and sales outfit will present the world premiere screening and kick off sales in Cannes on Cabin Fever: Patient Zero, the first in an anticipated reboot of the horror franchise.
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NewsBrosnan to play Louis XIV
EXCLUSIVE: Good Universe is handling international sales on Pandemonium’s The Moon And The Sun starring Pierce Brosnan and will introduce to buyers in Cannes.
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NewsGood Universe finds Three Little Words
James Mangold will reunite with Reese Witherspoon on the drama following Witherspoon’s Oscar-winning turn in Walk The Line. Good Universe will introduce to buyers in Cannes.
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NewsWeaver, Sands set for Six Lessons
Two-time Oscar nominee Jackie Weaver and actor Julian Sands have joined the cast of Six Dance Lessons In Six Weeks, the new film based on Richard Alfieri’s play of the same name.
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NewsTrio lines up AIP remakes
Producer Lou Arkoff, filmmaker Jeff Katz and industry consultant and former agent Hal Sadoff will remake a series of American International Pictures (AIP) classics from the 1950s including She-Creature and Teenage Caveman.