Jean Reno Joins ‘Stranger Things’ Star Noah Schnapp And Anjelica Huston In ‘Waiting For Anya’
by Andreas Wiseman March 26, 2018 7:00am Mark Mann Jean Reno (Leon: The Professional) is joining Stranger Things star Noah Schnappand Anjelica Huston in World War II drama Waiting For Anya, which is now underway in France. Also new to the Goldfinch Studios project are actors Frederick Schmidt (Taboo), Josephine De La Baum (Madame) and Sadie Frost (Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie). The film […]
In ‘The Forgiven,’ Desmond Tutu faces off with a white separatist
Peter Rainer Film critic The film’s strength lies in the dialogue between the characters, portrayed by Forest Whitaker and Eric Bana. Courtesy of Saban Films MARCH 9, 2018 —An intermittently powerful drama loosely derived from real events, Roland Joffé’s “The Forgiven” takes place in newly post-apartheid South Africa and is based on a play by Michael […]
Forest Whitaker’s Archbishop Tutu faces off against Eric Bana’s convict in The Forgiven trailer
CLARK COLLIS February 21, 2018 AT 12:00 PM EST Almost two decades after Eric Bana turned in a career-making performance playing much-jailed criminal Mark Read in Chopper, the Australian actor once again finds himself behind bars in The Forgiven. Directed by Roland Joffé (The Killing Fields) and based on a play by Michael Ashton, the film stars Forest […]
‘Stranger Things’ Noah Schnapp and Anjelica Huston To Star In WWII Drama ‘Waiting For Anya’
by Peter White February 16, 2018 10:30pm Stranger Things star Noah Schnapp and Anjelica Huston will star in World War II drama Waiting For Anya for Goldfinch Studios. Schnapp will play a young shepherd, Jo, in the film alongside Huston’s widow Horcada in the adaptation of the book by War Horse author Michael Morpurgo. The film is set in […]
James Caan, Danny Glover to star in ‘Bang Bang’
James Caan, Danny Glover to star in ‘Bang Bang’ BY JENN SHERMAN15 FEBRUARY 2018 SOURCE: LIA DARJES James Caan and Danny Glover are set to star in Brendan Walsh’s drama Bang Bang, which 13 Films represents for sales at the EFM in Berlin. The film follows a former boxing champion as he returns home to Detroit to […]
Kathy Bates Joins Robert Graves Biopic ‘The Laureate’
9:46 AM PST 2/9/2018 by Etan Vlessing John Russo/Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. Kathy Bates The drama about British poet and novelist Robert Graves also stars Tom Hughes, Dianna Agron and Laura Haddock. Kathy Bates has joined The Laureate, a drama about British poet and novelist Robert Graves from writer/director William Nunez. The film about Graves’ first marriage amid […]
EVANESCENCE’s AMY LEE Wins ‘Hollywood Music And Media Award’ For ‘Speak To Me’ From Film ‘Voice From The Stone’
Amy Lee of the group EVANESCENCE won the Hollywood Music And Media Award for “Best Original Song – Independent Film” for the track “Speak To Me” from the film “Voice From The Stone” (starring Emilia Clarke). The song was written by Lee and Michael Wandmacher. The Hollywood Music And Media Awards (HMMA) ceremony — which took place Thursday night, November 16 at The Avalon in Hollywood — honors music in […]
Karl Urban, Ashley Greene to Star in Action-Adventure ‘Snowblind’
By Dave McNary Karl Urban, Ashley Greene, and Forrest Goodluck will star in the action-adventure “Snowblind.” Marcus Alqueres (“The Flying Man”) will direct “Snowblind.” The film is developed by the Coalition Group’s Johnny Wunder and Luisa Iskin, who join Traveling Picture Show Company’s Carissa Buffel, Kevin Matusow, and Steve Prince in producing the film under their newly formed […]
George Gallo’s Bodybuilding Pic ‘Bigger’ Finds Its Young Arnold Schwarzenegger
by Anthony D’Alessandro October 16, 2017 11:38am EXCLUSIVE: George Gallo’s movie Bigger about Joe and Ben Weider, the founders of the Mr. Olympia bodybuilding contest, has tapped Mr. Universe 2014 Calum Von Moger to play Arnold Schwarzenegger onscreen. The brothers, who co-founded the International Federation of Bodybuidling, discovered Schwarzenegger and encouraged him to come to […]
‘Bigger’ Bodybuilding Pic Gains Victoria Justice & Colton Haynes
by Anthony D’Alessandro September 28, 2017 3:25pm EXCLUSIVE: Victoria Justice and Colton Haynes have boarded George Gallo’s Bigger about fitness forefathers the Weider Brothers. Actress-singer Justice who has made her mark in in Fox’s Rocky Horror Picture Show, Nickelodeon’s Victorious and Blumhouse/MTV’s Eye Candy, will portray Kathy, Joe Weider’s (Tyler Hoechlin) first wife. Haynes will play the role of iconic fitness guru Jack LaLanne, who during the 1950s and ’60s […]