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EXCLUSIVE: We are hearing reports that Argentinean filmmaker Damian Szifron has been moved off of Warner Bros.’ The Six Billion Dollar Man. The movie, which is set for release on May 31, 2019, was set to go before the cameras in two months. We understand that Szifron was pulled from the project over creative…

The upcoming movie remake of 1970s sci-fi/action TV series The Six Million Dollar Man — adjusted for inflation, of course — now has a release date. TWC-Dimension has announced that The Six Billion Dollar Man, starring Mark Wahlberg as the cybernetic hero, will hit theaters December 22, 2017. As with the 1973-78 ABC…

Coming off a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar nomination for Wild Tales and a first big Hollywood movie assignment writing The Six Million Dollar Man remake, Damián Szifrón is eying his first U.S. TV series. The Argentinian filmmaker has closed a deal with MRC to to write and direct The Stranger, a sci-fi limited…

We can rebuild him. We have the technology. And now we have a screenwriter. Damián Szifron is set to pen The Six Billion Dollar Man, TWC-Dimension’s fiscally updated take on the 1970s action series. The Argentine filmmaker scored a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar nom this year for Wild Tales, which he wrote and…

EXCLUSIVE: TriStar has made a deal for the first English-language film from Damian Szifron. He is the acclaimed director of Wild Tales, which premiered in Cannes and then opened in South America last August and became the biggest indigenous hit in his native Argentina. It also was Oscar nominated for Best Foreign Langu…

Wild Tales helmer Damián Szifrón calls Warner Bros International's EVP of Europe & Latin America Distribution, Monique Esclavissat, the "godmother” of his film. The exec was responsible for the studio coming aboard the project at script stage, releasing it in Argentina and ultimately across Latin America. Esclavissat…

Here’s the final entry in my annual assessment of movies that have a chance to pass the first stage of the Foreign Language Oscar race. We expect the shortlist to come out tomorrow and I’m expecting a number of the films I’ve profiled below, and here and here, will make the grade. I spoke with the directors of the…