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AFM 2017: THE BOUNCER Taps Jean-Claude Van Damme To Star

International sales outlet Other Angle has been at work this week at the American Film Market shopping its package to buyers. Their efforts currently include $10 million dollar actioner, The Bouncer, obliging fans of action star Jean-Claude Van Damme for a their attention as production readies for a January shoot. Van Damme will star as Lukas, a nightclub bouncer in his fifties who’s taken punches, literally and figuratively, and struggles to raise his 8-year-old daughter. One day, Lukas loses control during an altercation with a client and ends up in jail, while his daughter gets placed under the care of social services. But things take an unexpected turn when Interpol recruits Lukas to bring down a Dutch ringleader operating from Belgium in exchange for his daughter’s custody. A Bluebird In My Heart and Yves Saint Laurent, writer Burn Out and The Night Eats the World co-scribe, fledgling screenwriter Jérémie Guez […]

Nicolas Benamou's French Road Flick, FULL SPEED Now In Post Production

Lee B. Golden III

French helmer Nicolas Benamou made headway in 2014 with his French comedy franchise, Babysitting, and its sequel is also a hit as of late last year. This, much to his credit, has set him on the path to something slightly different with the new road action dramedy, Full Speed, with backing by Marci Cherqui’s Chic Films and Thomas Langmann’s Oscar-winning La Petite Reine. According to Variety, Benamou describes the film as largely reflective of his influences rooted in Todd Phillip’s 2010 roadie, Due Date with tones similar to Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris’s 2006 road dramedy, Little Miss Sunshine and Jan de Bont’s 1995 hit, Speed. The film itself will take place in real-time within a span of three hours, centered on an eccentric family going on a holiday, only to end up in a series of crises after their brand-new minivan gets stuck in cruise control at 80mph with […]