cannes market 2024

THE BOOKIE & THE BRUISER: Adrien Brody And Vince Vaughn Topline ‘Brawl In Cell Block 99’ Director’s New Gangster Thriller

Vince Vaughn is reteaming with Dragged Across Concrete and Brawl In Cell Block 99 director S. Craig Zahler on new gangster thriller The Bookie & the Bruiser. The film will also star Clean and Asteroid City actor Adrien Brody as production slates a late 2024 start date. The Bookie & the Bruiser has Zahler directing from his script which is set in 1959 New York City. The story centers on “a pensive, Jewish fellow named Rivner and an oversized Italian-American tough named Boscolo from the Lower East Side, both of whom served overseas in World War II and returned changed men who no longer fit inside the lives they’d left behind.” The logline adds, “Uninterested in taking orders from bosses or playing by the rules of polite society, the two friends partner up as a bookmaker and an enforcer and create an illicit gambling operation that proves to be very […]

PIERCE: Take A Stab At The Suspenseful Teaser For Nelicia Low’s New Thriller

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Singaporean director Nelicia Low has come along way. A fencing athlete for five years before turning toward filmmaking, her feature debut now arrives with Taiwanese fencing thriller Pierce, starring Liu Hsiu-Fu, Tsao Yu-Ning, Ning Ding, and Rosen Mu. When his beloved but dangerous older brother is released from prison, high school fencer Zi-Jie (Liu) believes he is innocent and goes behind their mother’s back to help him, only to realize the brother he has idealized might only be a fantasy. The film is produced by Patrick Mao Huang and Evril Kuo of Flash Forward Entertainment, and Jeremy Chua and Sam Chua Weishi of Pōtocol, and John M. Lo. Magnolia’s sales single Magnify is taking the film to the Cannes market to rep global and U.S. sales. “We are thrilled to be working on Nelicia’s captivating, undeniably haunting debut,” said Magnify’s senior vice present of sales, Lorna Lee Torres, who will […]