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EXCLUSIVE: Emile Hirsch (Into the Wild) has signed on to star in the crime thriller Gemini Lounge, marking the first feature from Rush Hour producer Arthur Sarkissian’s new media and entertainment company Global Ascension Studios. In the film directed by Danny A. Abeckaser (Mob Town), demoted detective Bobby Belucci…

EXCLUSIVE: The Nile Hilton Incident director Tarik Saleh has become attached to helm The Red Circle, a remake of Jean-Pierre Melville’s classic 1970 cat-and-mouse thriller. Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight, an Oscar nominee for Dirty Pretty Things, has written the script. Arthur Sarkissian Prods and Graham King’s G…

EXCLUSIVE: Prolific TV director Rosemary Rodriguez has been set to helm Grandma’s Shoes From Poland, a feature film to be produced by Arthur Sarkissian and Fred Roos that she will shoot after directing the pilot for CBS’ Cagney and Lacey reboot. The pic, penned by Fredric Lebow (co-writer, While You Were Sleeping) is…

EXCLUSIVE: Arthur Sarkissian, the producer of the Rush Hour franchise who launched Brett Ratner’s directing career and worked with him on three of those films, told Deadline today that he is “really horrified” and “just can’t believe it” in regards to sexual harassment allegations against Ratner. The producer and…

EXCLUSIVE: There are currently three competing Hatton Garden projects about the elderly London thieves who pulled off what’s billed as the biggest burglary in English legal history. One of them hails from producer Arthur Sarkissian and Chinese producing partner Bruno Wu. That version has now set Dick Clement and Ian…

EXCLUSIVE: It’s a true story written for the big screen and producer Arthur Sarkissian is bringing it: Four older men — aged 76, 74, 67 and 58 — were the ringleaders in what has been dubbed the biggest burglary in English legal history. It happened during Easter weekend of last year, and they made off with a haul of…

EXCLUSIVE: Graham King’s GK Films has partnered with StudioCanal and Arthur Sarkissian Prods. to produce the remake of the classic French film Le Cercle Rouge (The Red Circle). The cat-and-mouse thriller that follows two escaped criminals from the West who plan an eleborate heist while trying to avoid a local crime…

EXCLUSIVE: Arthur Sarkissian and writer-director Tony Kaye are teaming to bring the story of Peg Entwistle to light as a movie. She is the blond-haired, blue-eyed actress who committed suicide by jumping off the ‘H’ of the Hollywood sign in 1932 after she was cut out of the David O. Selznick film Thirteen Women. She…