EFM 2017

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EFM 2017: Trio Cast For Action-Packed Mystery Caper CARTER & JUNE

Writer and director Nicholas Kalikow is on deck to helm action-packed mystery caper, Carter & June according to announcements made via EFM. The noted Concrete Blondes (2013) helmer will be joined by Napoleon Dynamite producer Sean Covel with Diane Richey and Kyle Roper of Sacred Bull Media producing.

Described as an “action-packed, stick ‘em up, who dunnit caper”, Carter & June is set in a world populated by Dixie-land thugs, strippers, scam artists and gangsters. Michael Raymond-James of Jack Reacher and ABC series Once Upon A Time fame will play down-and-out New Orleans con man, Carter Jennings, who finds himself way in over his head when he nicks from the loot of someone else’s bank robbery in an attempt to pay off a debt to ruthless strip club owner.

FOX series Lucifer and ABC show Galavant actor Timothy Omundson will play Spencer Rabbit, the club owner to whom he is indebted with ABC series Resurrection actress Samaire Armstrong rounding out the cast. Jack Campbell’s Octane Entertainment has been at EFM shopping the film which is host to an original soundtrack by Robby Krieger, best known as the guitarist for the famed rock group The Doors.

“We are thrilled to partner with Octane on this very special project,” said Richey. “With Jack Campbell’s expertise, we know the film is in good hands and have the utmost trust that his team will find the right home for the film in the global marketplace.”

“We are so excited with Carter & June. It’s an incredible combination of a well-crafted story with solid comedic beats. It has a real edge to it that takes it a notch above your usual heist fare,” added Campbell, President of Octane Entertainment. “We are seeing a lot of enthusiasm from our buyers already.”

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FONZO: Josh Trank To Direct Tom Hardy In Capone Gangster Drama

Chronicle helmer Josh Trank may not have earned a lot of favor with his most recent efforts on Fantastic Four, but he’s moving on and switching gears a bit with news out of Berlin following the annoucement of gangster drama, Fonzo. Pre-production is this summer with cameras slated to roll this Fall and with none other than Legend and Mad Max: Fury Road star, Academy Award® nominee Tom Hardy landing the title role.

A ruthless businessman and bootlegger who ruled Chicago with an iron fist, Alfonse Capone was the most infamous and feared gangster of American lore.  At the age of 47, following nearly a decade of imprisonment, dementia rots Alfonse’s mind and his past becomes present as harrowing memories of his violent and brutal origins melt into his waking life. 

Hardy will star from Trank’s script with Bron Studio’s Aaron L. Gilbert (Fences, Beatriz at Dinner, The Birth of a Nation), Addictive Pictures’s Russell Ackerman and John Schoenfelder, and Academy Award® nominee, A Band Apart’s Lawrence Bender (Inglorious Basterds, Good Will Hunting, Pulp Fiction) producing. Creative Wealth Media’s Jason Cloth and Andy Pollack are executive producing.

“I love the script and have full confidence in our director, Josh Trank,” said Gilbert. “With great partners in A Band Apart and Addictive; and one of the greatest actors of our time in Tom Hardy; I couldn’t be more thrilled about this group coming together.”

International sales outfit BLOOM is shopping the film in Berlin this week while CAA and WME Global, which arranged financing and packaged the film, are handling North American rights.

Hardy, currently starring in BBC1 series, Taboo, and will appear in Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk this June, is also confirmed to star in J.C. Chandor’s action thriller, Triple Frontier for Paramount Pictures. He is represented by Management 360, WME, and Mitch Smelkinson.

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EFM 2017: Muay Thai Prison Action Drama, A PRAYER BEFORE DAWN Lands At A24

In Klong Prem there are ten rules. If you break them you will almost certainly die. If you don’t break them you will definitely die. This is the true story of Billy Moore – jailed in one of the world’s toughest prisons, Klong Prem, the notorious “Bangkok Hilton.” Refusing to die there, Billy becomes a student of the lethal art of Muay Thai Boxing, and in the process finds a brotherhood that will help guide him on an incredible journey to redemption.

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EFM 2017: Participant, AC Pair Up For Ai Weiwei Refugee Crisis Doc, HUMAN FLOW

Speaking more on the matter as per the press release, Weiwei states, “Human Flow is a personal journey, an attempt to understand the conditions of humanity in our days. The film is made with deep beliefs in the value of human rights. In this time of uncertainty, we need more tolerance, compassion and trust for each other since we all are one. Otherwise, humanity will face an even bigger crisis.” Weiwei is producing along with Yap Chin-chin and Heino Deckert, and with AC Films’s Andy Cohen and Participant’s Jeff Skoll and Diane Weyermann executive producing.

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EFM 2017: José Padilha’s Untitled ENTEBBE Project Wraps Filming Ahead Of Berlin For Lionsgate

Narcos and Elite Squad helmer José Padilha’s newest taut political thrilller is officially taking the market stage after wrapping principal photography in the U.K. and in Malta. Tentatively named the Untitled Entebbe Project for Participant Media and Working Title Films, Lionsgate is presenting the film to sell to non-output territories at the European Film Market this week in Berlin as one of two titles on its slate with the other being alien invasion sci-fi, Captive State, as of last month.

Academy Award® nominee Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl) and Golden Globe Award nominee Daniel Brühl (Captain America: Civil War) star in the film from a screenplay by Gregory Burke, bringing to focus the longstanding conflict between Israel and Palestine through the story of a daring military rescue following the 1976 hijacking of an Air France flight en route from Tel Aviv to Paris. Eddie Marsan (Sherlock Holmes), Ben Schnetzer (Snowden), Lior Ashkenazi (Footnote), and Denis Ménochet (Inglourious Basterds) round out the film’s international cast.

Participant Media who financed through Amblin Partners, produced the film with Working Title’s Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner, and producers Kate Solomon, Michelle Wright and Ron Halpern. Participant’s Jeff Skoll and Jonathan King are executive producing with Olivier Courson, Jean-Claude Darmon, Angela Morrison, Liza Chasin, and Jo Burn.

Focus Features will release the film in North America while eOne slates the film for releases United Kingdom, Australia/New Zealand, Spain and throughout the Benelux union.

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EFM 2017: Brenton Thwaites Cast In GHOSTS OF WAR

The Butterfly Effect and Final Destination film series co-helmer, writer and director Eric Bress is bringing the supernatural to the forefront of World War II in Ghosts Of War. Highland Film Group is selling the film in Berlin this year with actor Brenton Thwaites, set for appearances in this year’s Office Uprising and Pirates Of The Carribean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, starring.

Thwaites will play a battle-fatigued military leader and strategist among five U.S. soldiers forced to confront a mysterious, terrifying and otherworldly entity within the confines of a French Chateau after seizing it from NAZI high command as World War II nears its end. D. Todd Shepherd, Joe Simpson and Shelley Madison of Miscellaneous Entertainment are producing and financing the project with Adrian Jayasinha serving as executive producer.

H/T: Deadline

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EFM 2017: Action Adventure Thriller, SNOW PONIES, Casts Gerard Butler To Star, Produce With 87eleven

With Hollywood action and stunt training facility 87eleven becoming more prolific in the last several years in film production, expect more to come from the outlet as they now have officially paired with actor Gerard Butler for the new action adventure thriller, Snow Ponies. Friday’s announcement hails the directorial debut of Darrin Prescott whose electric 20+ year career in stunt work has since escalated him into second unit direction with projects such as Drive (2011), Captain America: Civil War (2016), the 87eleven-produced 2014 hit thriller, John Wick, as well as its forthcoming sequel from director Chad Stahelski.

Snow Ponies is based on a 2006 Blacklist script by Pat Healy in which Butler leads the story of seven hardened men trekking across a vicious landscape to deliver a mysterious package only to have their mettle tested to the extreme. With murderous bandits stalking them and brutal obstacles at every turn, they are forced to choose between survival and honor, loyalty and deceit, all the while wondering what secrets their precious cargo may contain. Other casting details remain pending as 87eleven spearheads the production with producer Kelly McCormick, and Butler producing through his shared G-BASE banner with Alan Siegel. Nick Meyer and Marc Schaberg of Sierra/Affinity who are financing the film and presenting at the upcoming European Film Market in Berlin, are executive producing as are Healy, and Bryan Bucks. WME Global and CAA are co-representing domestic rights for the film.

“The combination of a globally respected actor in Gerard and a dynamic emerging filmmaker in Darrin Prescott give this action film great potential to engage audiences and take them on a journey into a world full of dangerous characters and plot twists,” said Nick Meyer, CEO of Sierra/Affinity. “We are pleased to again be working with Kelly and the team at 87eleven who continue to identify not only unique and compelling material, but also cultivate the next generation of filmmakers.”

McCormick added, “We are so excited about SNOW PONIES because it breaks the standard revenge model by focusing on the dynamics of a group of men being pushed and pulled and picked off by forces beyond their control. The violence is heavy and the action is brutal, but not repellent because it fits in with the mood of this icy and hostile world. Darrin is the perfect director to deliver the punishing, unique action and the characters that deliver and endure it.”

87eleven, the premiere stunt and action design firm in Hollywood best known for some of today’s biggest A-list titles and talent in film and stunts, also shares its credits in titles like John McTiernan’s Ninja Assassin, Jurassic World, Jonathan Liebesman’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and its sequel from director Dave Green, Lionsgate’s The Hunger Games and Expendables franchises, as well as James Mangold’s The Wolverine and upcoming March 3 follow-up, Logan starring Hugh Jackman.

As of a week ago, Butler, who was last confirmed for Angel Has Fallen as of last October following the $200 million dollar global success of London Has Fallen, is currently in production on Christian Gudegast’s directorial debut crime thriller, Den Of Thieves, and is also to appear in Dean Devlin’s Geostorm for Warner Bros. Pictures. He is represented by CAA and Alan Siegel Entertainment.

Prescott, an SAG award-winning stunt coordinator having notably left his mark on Paul Greengrass’s The Bourne Ultimatum (2007) and also shares second unit directing credits for Marvel’s Black Panther from director Ryan Coogler, is represented by WME and McCormick. Healy is represented by The Gersh Agency and Luber and Rocklin.

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