For those of you wondering just what the hell director Ryoo Seung-wan is up to, fret not! Lotte Entertainment is currently at AFM launching world sales and representing the celebrated filmmaker’s latest project, Mogadishu.
Liz Shackleton at Screen International Magazine reports that actress Yu Aoi will star in an untitled war drama from director Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Tokyo Sonata, To The Ends Of The Earth). Sales outlet Nikkatsu has the rights for the project set in Kobe, Japan in 1940 when a merchant witnesses a conspiracy and decides to take action, and his wife tries to stop him in order for his protection.
Justin P. Lange, director behind the 2018 Tribeca fave, The Dark, is set to direct his own script for exorcism thriller, The Seventh Day. Billed as Training Day meets The Exorcist, Guy Pearce (Memento, Domino) will lead the cast for the tale of a rookie priest whose first day of training with a renowned exorcist plunges them deeper into hell on earth, blurring the lines between good and evil as their own demons emerge.
Joe Manganiello (Sabotage) is still holding up despite not ever getting to don the costume of Deathstroke for Warner Bros. The actor will be starring in Archenemy from writer and director Adam Egypt Mortimer, hailing from SpectreVision with Voltage Pictures launching international sales.
Jeremy Kaster’s new siege horror thriller, The Dead Ones, is currently stirring about at AFM this week. Penned by Zach Chassler, the anarchy ensues when a masked, armed gang known as the Four Horseman Of The Apocalypse descend unto a high school, locking in four outcast teens punished into cleaning after a horrific incident, and hunting them down one by one.
Michael Keaton (American Assassin), Maggie Q (Divergent franchsie), and Samuel L. Jackson (The Hitman’s Bodyguard) will star in The Asset for Millennium Media (The Expendables franchise).
Actress Ivanna Sakhno (The Spy Who Dumped Me, Pacific Rim: Uprising) is readyimg to star in the new thriller, Let It Snow. World sales agent Arclight Films has boarded the flick for the American Film Market this week with Alex Hafner (Submergence, The Councellor), and Tinatin Dalakishvili (Abigail) also starring.
Going into AFM next week, Solstice Studios and Studio 8 will be revving up action thriller Hypnotic with reports that Robert Rodriguez will helm early 2020.
Evolutionary Films is now revving up to take Ross Boyask’s recent feature venture to the American Film Market in November with action sequel, I Am Vengeance: Retaliation. Stu Bennett and Vinnie Jones are on the newest piece of artwork along with Katrina Durden, Phoebe Robinson-Galvin and Bentley Kalu as presented by Evolutionary at their official website, as well as Boyask via social media on Tuesday
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