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EXCLUSIVE: A Prayer Before Dawn and Johnny Mad Dog director Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire is set to direct a feature based on the remarkable life and career of World War II soldier Freddy Spencer Chapman. Great Point Media and Under The Shadow producers Wigwam are developing the project, which is being penned by Ben Mac…

Three years in the making, Joe Cole starrer A Prayer Before Dawn will start its theatrical release this weekend. The A24 title, which debuted at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival, is based on a non-fiction book written by Billy Moore, played by Cole in the feature, which opens in select cities Friday. The Wolfpack…

Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire’s prison drama, A Prayer Before Dawn, is based on the true-life account of troubled British boxer, Billy Moore, which he detailed in his bestselling novel of the same title. Moore was sent to two of Thailand’s most notorious jails and became immersed in a world of drugs and gang violence…

The first trailer for Thailand prison drama A Prayer Before Dawn has been released, a warm-up to the film’s planned 2018 release. In a splashy Berlin sale this year, A24 closed a deal for North American rights to the pic, a Jean-Stephane Sauvaire-directed action film that provides a breakout opportunity for Peaky Blind…

A24, the company founded in 2012 by Daniel Katz, David Fenkel and John Hodges, has been hitting the motherlode—for indie companies, anyway—with smart film choices and even smarter ways of bringing them to marketplace, particularly in their increasingly innovative—and, yes, disruptive—use of digital marketing. It not…

EXCLUSIVE: In a splashy Berlin sale, A24 has closed a deal for North American rights to A Prayer Before Dawn, the Jean-Stephane Sauvaire-directed action film that provides a breakout opportunity for Peaky Blinders star Joe Cole. The film is based on the true-life experience of Billy Moore, who survived his Thai prison…