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EXCLUSIVE: Vertical Entertainment has snapped up North American and UK rights to the horror film Blood, from award-wining director Brad Anderson (The Machinist, The Call). While the feature will be released to both theaters and digital platforms, a release date has not yet been disclosed. The film penned by Will…

EXCLUSIVE: Brad Anderson, the multi-hyphenate behind the iconic Christian Bale thriller The Machinist, has signed with Paradigm for representation. Anderson is a writer, director and producer whose 2004 breakout feature told the story of industrial worker Trevor Reznik (Bale), who began to doubt his own sanity after…

Frank Grillo (Kingdom) has signed on to star in the thriller The Dagon, from director Brad Anderson (The Machinist), which will soon head to Cannes. Independent Entertainment’s Head of International Sales Sarah Lebutsch will handle international at the Marché du Film, co-representing North American rights with CAA’s…

EXCLUSIVE: Michelle Monaghan will star in the psychological thriller Blood with Brad Anderson directing. Will Honley penned the script which follows Jess (Monaghan), a separated mother and nurse who moves with her daughter and young son Owen back into her old family farmhouse. Shortly after settling in, Owen is bitten…

EXCLUSIVE: Brad Anderson has been set to direct In Search of Captain Zero, a film based on Allan Weisbecker's true-life novel of the same name that has been adapted by Michael Bacall. The project hails from Ken Kao's Waypoint Entertainment, which recently produced Yorgos Lanthimos’ Oscar-nominated The Favourite, with…

EXCLUSIVE: Brad Anderson (The Call) is attached to direct horror Book Of Leaves, which The Exchange will be launching in Cannes next week. The original screenplay by Jonathan Hirschbein (The Fix) centers on a single mother and former nun who has lost her faith. When she is hired by the Vatican’s General Council to…

EXCLUSIVE: Existence, a survival story based on a screenplay by Anthony Jaswinski who penned the hit thriller The Shallows, will be directed by Brad Anderson (The Machinist) and produced by Tucker Tooley Entertainment. The harrowing story was inspired by the 1981 ill-fated shipwreck of a research vessel that became…

Lily Rabe, who can be seen in Annapurna’s Dick Cheney biopic Vice, in which she plays daughter Liz Cheney,  is on onboard for the Brad Anderson-directed Netflix film, along with Stephen Tobolowsky (One Day At A Time, The Goldbergs), Adjoa Andoh (Invictus), and Lucy Capri (Queen America). Sam Worthington was previously…

Avatar star Sam Worthington is attached to headline a Netflix untitled thriller that will be directed by Beirut and The Machinist helmer Brad Anderson. It’s about a man who must find his courage and hold onto his sanity when his wife and daughter disappear in the middle of an ER visit. Alan B. McElroy (Spawn, The Retur…

Well, better late than never. It has taken screenwriter Tony Gilroy’s script of Beirut only 27 years to reach the screen, but it was well worth the wait especially in that it gives its leading man Jon Hamm a movie role worthy of his talents. So why did it take so long for the script Gilroy wrote near the beginning of…

"These issues and these stories don't go away," says Jon Hamm of the Middle East conflicts detailed in the 1982-set Beirut directed by Brad Anderson and penned Tony Gilroy. "What I think is evergreen or important about the story is it gets to the root of what the problem is," adds the Emmy winner of the Bleecker…

"These issues and these stories don't go away," says Jon Hamm of the Middle East conflicts detailed in the 1982-set Beirut directed by Brad Anderson and penned Tony Gilroy. "What I think is evergreen or important about the story is it gets to the root of what the problem is," adds the Emmy winner of the Bleecker…