Multi award winning UK singer-songwriter and former X-factor judge Tulisa Contostavlos (Big Fat Gypsy Gangster) will make her way to the big screen applying her craft in Evolutionary Films‘ new crime thriller, Diva. The film will mark a debut lead role for the decorated recording artist who is also working on the film’s original soundtrack which aims to showcase her mainstream appeal as well as her urban and hip-hop roots.
With Liam O’Donnell back to penning and producing sci-fi threequel, Skylines, the upcoming action adventure follow-up is also being sold at AFM as reported over the weekend with Highland Film Group and XYZ Films on hand.
Assault On Precinct 13 helmer Jean-François Richet just recently saw a thrilling foray with Mel Gibson pic, Blood Father, and is now back on track after filming is latest period venture, The Emperor Of Paris. Richet pens the script witn Eric Besnard in reunion with his Mesrine leading man, actor Vincent Cassel of The Brotherhood Of The Wolf and The Crimson Rivers fame who here stars in the title role based on the real-life legendary ex-con-turned-sleuth in his latest screen iteration following treatments in 1939 and 2001.
Netflix series Ozark co-creator Mark Williams is set to soon begin helming action thriller, Honest Thief.
If a sequel to Red Billabong helmer Luke Sparke’s Occupation is what you were looking for, then you’re about to get it. The Aussie alien invasion sci-fi follow-up is under way in Australia with Clay Epstein’s Film Mode Entertainment signaling the film’s production at AFM with Sparke back in writing and directing.
Anthony Kwan/Getty Images AsiaPac; Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images AsiaPacDirecting duo Wong Jing and Jason Kwan are reportedly in post-production with Chasing The Dragon 2: Master Of Ransom. Following the first film in its remade biopictoral featuring of actor Donnie Yen in the role of notorious mobster, Ng Sek-Ho, the new film will take place in the 1990s with Louis Koo portraying an undercover agent who infiltrates a gang of kidnappers, with Tony Leung Ka-Fai as their ringleader.
Actor Don Lee isn’t done kicking ass. Nope, far from it…
As you look toward gazing upon Dolph Lundgren’s brooding mass and his hulking on-screen offspring opposite Michael B. Jordan and Sylvester Stallone in Creed 2 soon, be advised of the former’s latest stint in action thrills now shopping at AFM from LA-based CineTel Films with Acceleration.
Upcoming Jungleland star Charlie Hunnam is set to join the set of Waldo early next year when cameras roll. Tim Kirkby (Fleabag, Veep) is directing the film based on Howard Gould’s 1982 novel with a story that centers on a disgraced ex-LA detective who re-emerges from his mininalist lifestyle in the woods as a private investigator to look into the death of an eccentric TV star’s wife.
Unbroken: Path To Redemption and Acts Of Vengeance actor David Sakurai‘s profile has been gradually increasing in the last several years. The star of Can Evenrol’s Monster Fest best director winner, Housewife, is soon to appear in David Yates’ Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes Of Grindelwald before long and now his latest prospects are circling at the American Film Market for upcoming action thriller, Angel’s Rage.
(Left) Jeff Spicer/Getty Images Europe; (Right) Getty Images EuropeChristian Mercuri’s Capstone Group is on hand through next week at the American Film Market where international sales will commences on forthcoming swashbuckler, Corto Maltese, based on the work of novelist and comic book author Hugo Pratt. Christophe Gans (Beauty And The Beast, Silent Hill, Brotherhood Of The Wolf, Crying Freeman) is directing the pic from a script by William Schneider, as announced by producer Samuel Hadida who will produce via his Davis Films banner next to Spain-based TriPictures, currently setting Tom Hughes (Victoria) to star in the title role.
There’s no way you can look at a title like Frédéric Petitjean’s new movie Cold Blood Legacy, and not get pulled in by the intrigue of such a title. I’m guessing that’s partly what the reps at Screen Media thought in the moments leading up to their announced acquisition of the film for its U.S. release.
Millenium was already turning the gears at Cannes this past summer for newly announced sequel, The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard, following Patrick Hughes’ inaugural hit last year starring Ryan Reynolds and Samuel L. Jackson. Going forward, production is expected to commence in March with Hughes back in the director’s chair and U.S. release plans now in the hands of Lionsgate according to Scott Roxborough’s update at The Hollywood Reporter.
Peter Mimi’s latest 1952-set thriller, Karmouz War, saw a release in Egypt over the summer and now the film will be setting sail in the marketplace courtesy of Premiere Entertainment Group. The Los Angeles-based company has launched talks with buyers for the film which stars Amir Karara opposite action star Scott Adkins, and is penned by Mimi from a story by producer Mohamed El Sobky.
Well this sounds exciting.
Oscar-nominated shorts director Tomek Bagiński first came on our radar several years ago with a series of Allegro-backed fantasy shorts titled Polish Legends. He’s attained other credits both before and after and he’s currently executive producing The Witcher series for Netflix while things are slowly gaining traction on the market front for his feature debut on live-action anime adaptation, Knights Of The Zodiac: Saint Seiya.
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