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EXCLUSIVE: The big-screen adaptation of the bestselling video game Just Cause has landed Michael Dowse as director. Dowse, whose work includes Stuber and Coffee & Kareem, has been set to helm the co-production between Constantin Film and Prime Universe. Scripted by Derek Kolstad (the John Wick trilogy), the film is…

Jeff Wadlow, the director of Sony’s upcoming Fantasy Island big-screen adaptation, is set to direct Danger Girl for Constantin Film AG with shooting to begin in 2020. Danger Girl, described as a priority production for the Munich-based Constantin Film, will adapt the namesake comic book series co-created by…

EXCLUSIVE: Constantin Film and Prime Universe have teamed to turn the Vault Comic title Heathen into a film with a kickass female Viking warrior protagonist. Script will be written by Kerry Williamson, whose credits include Alex Cross, Netflix’s What Happened to Monday and who’s adapting the fantasy series Sandman Slim…

Constantin Film acquired rights to the comic book series Danger Girl, and will team with Jeremy Bolt's Bolt Pictures and Adrian Askarieh's Prime Universe Films to produce a film and develop a TV show from the property. Constantin's Robert Kulzer will produce along with Bolt and Askarieh. Constantin's Martin Moszkowicz…

EXCLUSIVE: Justin Monjo is set to rewrite Alien Sleeper Cell, a sci-fi spy alien invasion thriller that has V For Vendetta‘s James McTiegue attached to direct. The film’s financing is being facilitated by Solidarity, the new company formed by Joni Sighvatsson. Sighvatsson is teamed with Prime Universe Films’ Adrian Ask…

EXCLUSIVE: Voltage Pictures and Prime Universe Films have made a pre-emptive acquisition of an untitled supernatural/horror spec by Bryan Edward Hill that is likened to Se7en, with a female protagonist. Voltage will finance the film, with Nicolas Chartier and Ara Keshishian set to produce with Prime Universe’s Adrian A…

EXCLUSIVE: Producer Adrian Askarieh's Prime Universe Films has entered into a 2-year first look deal with Constantin Film. Under the deal, Askarieh will bring feature film and television projects to Constantin on a first look basis. Askarieh has produced such films as Fox’s vidgame adaptation Hitman: Agent 47, and has…