EXCLUSIVE: Vertical Entertainment has secured North American distribution rights to the Daniel Zelik Berk-directed film, Damascus Cover, a spy thriller starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Olivia Thirlby, Jurgen Prochnow, Navid Negahban, Igal Naor, Aki Avni, and the late John Hurt. The film is slated for a theatrical bow in…

The Boston Film Festival closed out its 33rd annual event with six awards to Sir John Hurt’s final film Damascus Cover. A political thriller, Damascus Cover is set in Syria and made its world premiere at the festival. It took home honors for Best Film, Best Director (Daniel Berk), Best Actor (Jonathan Rhys Meyers)…

Jonathan Rhys Meyers has been tapped for a starring role in Damascus Cover, a true life spy thriller set to begin shooting this week in Casablanca. Rhys Meyers plays an undercover agent sent to Syria in 1989 to smuggle a chemical weapons scientist and his family out of Damascus. John Hurt, Olivia Thirlby, Igal Maor…