efm 2015

EFM 2015: Iraq War Espionage Thriller, OFFICIAL SECRETS, Set To Film This Summer

Former President George W. Bush’s Iraq War was a pretty damming event in world history, and one that still stings to this day in more ways than several. For the field of film, however, it’s also great source material to magnify stories that would otherwise be overlooked in due time, and such a story belongs to whistleblower, Katherine Gun who is now the center of a new espionage thriller set to begin filming in the U.K. in May. For this and with the European Film Market set to kick off on February 11, The Solution Group is poised to bring its share of titles to the table, including the new espionage thriller, Official Secrets. Deadline has confirmed roles for an ensemble cast headlining actress Natalie Dormer, and actors Paul Bettany, Martin Freeman, Anthony Hopkins and Harrison Ford all based on people and events inked in the 2008 publication, “The Spy Who […]

EFM 2015: Scott Adkins Actioner, CLOSE RANGE Gets U.S. Distribution

Lee B. Golden III

Be ready for what comes later this year when cult action directorial favorite Isaac Florentine releases his latest new action thriller, Close Range. Production wrapped last week reuniting our dear director with elite Brit kicker and cinematic action hero, actor Scott Adkins who plays Colton McReady, a former soldier-turned-vigilante forced to defend his sister and niece in their own home against a ruthless drug cartel and a swarm of police under the command of their courrpt sheriff. Such a plot line bodes perfectly well for the Adkins/Florentine duo whose work dates back close to twelve years of making solid and memorable action movies together, now with co-star and martial artist, actor Jeremy Marinas taking the reigns as the action director. It’s an exciting feat to welcome this year, and even more so as it gained ground over at this year’s European Film Market in Berlin where the film, represented by […]

EFM 2015: Luke Evans Boards Crime Novel Pic, THREE SECONDS

Lee B. Golden III

While we await the good word on what will happen further in Universal’s revamped world of vampires and monsters, things have set sail over in Berlin where the EFM is already underway, and actor Luke Evans now has another role in his hands. With the actor’s schedule open after abandoning The Crow remake last month, official news has broken that Evans is now tapped to star in the new thriller, Three Seconds, based on the 2009 publication from award-winning Swedish crime authors Anders Roslund and Borge Hellstrom. Renouned director Otto Bathurst (Peaky Blinders, Black Mirror, Criminal Justice) is set to helm the film from a script by Matt Cook which sees Evans in the role of a man forced to escape prison and fight for his life when the FBI abandon him following a botched undercover mission behind bars to infiltrate the Polish mafia’s New York drug cartel. Basil Iwank […]