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Brad Silberling's war thriller An Ordinary Man, which stars Ben Kingsley has been picked up by Saban Films who will handle the picture in North America. The film, which co-stars Hera Hilmar (who will be seen in the upcoming Peter Jackson film Mortal Engines), will get a second quarter theatrical release from Saban. An…

Israeli helmer Eran Riklis is prepping Spider In The Web, a contemporary spy thriller with Ben Kingsley, Monica Bellucci and Israeli actor Itay Tiran (Lebanon) attached to star. Shooting begins in the spring on the Israel/Belgium/Holland/Portugal co-production. Fabien Westerhoff’s Film Constellation is co-financing…

EXCLUSIVE: Michael Aronov, Tony winner for last season’s best play, J.T. Rogers’ Oslo, has been cast as an Israeli operative hunting for Adolf Eichmann in MGM's upcoming film Operation Finale, joining a cast that includes Oscar Isaac, Ben Kingsley (as Eichmann), Melanie Laurent and Nick Kroll. The film chronicles the…

EXCLUSIVE: Ben Kingsley is set to play Adolf Eichmann in Operation Finale, the Chris Weitz-directed MGM thriller about the hunt and capture of the notorious Nazi war criminal in Argentina in the ’60s. Oscar Isaac plays Peter Malkin, the leader of a group of Israeli spies tasked with hunting down Eichmann. The Mossad…

Ben Kingsley, Benno Furmann and Tuva Novotny have been set to star in Death Of An Author, the first movie in a planned trilogy based on Swedish writer Hakan Nesser’s Intrigo thriller novels. Daniel Alfredson is directing the pic, and The Amazing Film Company is co-producing financing the three films with Enderby and…

EXCLUSIVE: EuropaCorp has set Peter Franzen, Carly Chaikin and Ben Kingsley to star in Underground, a thriller based on an idea by Luc Besson that Pal Oie will direct with production starting in August. Oie’s latest film, Villmark Asylum, was nominated for three Amanda Awards last year, which are Norway’s Oscars. The…

Henry Cavill, Ben Kingsley and Alexandra Daddario are set to star in David Raymond's psychological thriller Nomis. Fortitutde International will introduce the pic to buyers in Berlin this week. Raymond writes and directs the project and will also produce alongside Fortitude's Robert Ogden Barnum, Arise Pictures' Chris…

EXCLUSIVE: Independent producer Nevision has teamed with Ben Kingsley's banner Lavender Pictures to co-develop new drama series Cousin Bazilio, based on the 1878 book by Portuguese novelist by Eca de Queiroz. The story, billed as a tale of sexual fire and psychological truth set during one overheated summer in…

EXCLUSIVE: Stephen Brown’s Y Production just sealed a distribution deal with Mark Urman's Paladin for the war epic The Ottoman Lieutenant, likely the first movie to look at those on the other side of World War I. The film will be released for an Oscar-qualifying run in December before going wide in February of…

EXCLUSIVE: Divergent‘s Theo James is in early talks to join the cast of Per Fly’s Backstabbing For Beginners. The project is a political thriller inspired by international relations veteran Michael Soussan's memoir Backstabbing For Beginners: My Crash Course In International Diplomacy. If a deal gets done, James will…

From Danish helmer Per Fly, Backstabbing For Beginners is a political thriller inspired by international relations veteran Michael Soussan’s memoir Backstabbing For Beginners: My Crash Course In International Diplomacy. Josh Hutcherson and Ben Kingsley have boarded the project that’s produced by Parts & Labor…

The boy king delivered some almost pyramid-sized results for Spike last night in its big return to scripted television. With 1.7 million tuning in for the first night of Tut, the cable network hit its biggest Sunday night primetime audience since May 25, 2008. That was when an airing of the 1983 pic Star Wars Episode V…