Jessica Chastain revealed that The 355 came out of seeing little to no action films featuring women ensembles. After learning about the women involved in international espionage while working on Zero Dark Thirty, the producer and star said she knew a story about women spies was worth telling.
During the New York Comic…
EXCLUSIVE: Chilling Adventures of Sabrina star Kiernan Shipka and Diane Kruger (Inglourious Basterds, The Bridge) are set as the leads in Swimming With Sharks,Quibi’s drama series from Lionsgate.
Billed as a contemporary update of George Huang's 1994 film that both celebrates and skewers the Hollywood studio system…
EXCLUSIVE:The Operative is heading for U.S. movie screens after Vertical Entertainment acquired North American rights to the spy thriller toplined by Diane Kruger, Martin Freeman and Cas Anvar. A third-quarter 2019 release is being eyed for the pic, which world premiered in February out of competition at the Berlin…
The Berlin Film Festival has added movies by Agnès Varda, Agnieszka Holland, Hans Petter Moland, Isabel Coixet and Wang Quan’an to its competition programme. Chiwetel Ejiofor’s directorial debut The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind will play in the Berlinale Special strand. Scroll down for the full list of additions to the…
EXCLUSIVE: Martin Freeman, last seen in the Disney/Marvel blockbuster Black Panther, will star opposite Diane Kruger in the espionage-thriller, The Operative, from director Yuval Adler. Endeavor Content is handling U.S. sales while Bloom will continue to sell the foreign rights in Cannes.
The film follows Rachel…
David Cronenberg's classic horror film Rabid is getting remade after Shout! Studios acquired the U.S rights to the reboot, which is being made by Dead Hooker In A Trunk filmmakers Jen and Sylvia Soska. The remake of the film, which they adapted with John Serge and tells the story of a woman who feeds on people's blood…
Diane Kruger and Eric Bana are in talks to star in The Operative, an espionage thriller written and to be directed by Yuval Adler. The pic will be introduced to buyers next week at the kickoff of the European Film Market in Berlin, with Endeavor Content handling U.S. sales and Bloom repping international.
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After taking the Best Actress prize for Diane Kruger in Cannes last May, Fatih Akin's In The Fade scooped the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film tonight. This is the German director's first win and beat out other Cannes favorites The Square and Loveless as well as Angelina Jolie's First They Killed My Father…
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Although the town is its usual uber-quiet self during this week between Christmas and New Year's, the earlier than ever dates for the January deluge of awards shows is providing no vacation time for those event planners. The last parade float will be…
Magnolia Pictures has already set a December 27 theatrical release for Fatih Akin’s thriller In the Fade, which earned star Diane Kruger the Best Actress trophy at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. It is Germany’s entry into the Oscar Foreign Language race.
The Germany-born Kruger, in her first German-language role…
The Grey Goose Cocktails & Conversation Moderated by Deadline panel series at the Toronto Film Festival wraps up today at 11:15 AM ET Â withIn The Fade, the new movie from German director Fatih Akin. The gritty drama centers on Katja (Diane Kruger), a grief-stricken woman struggling with the emotional aftermath of a…
