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…
Fatih Akin’s In The Fade, the German drama for which Diane Krugerwon the Best Actress award in Cannes last May, has been selected as the country’s submission to the Foreign Language Oscar race this year. The film, set in the aftermath of a terrorist bombing, was chosen by an independent jury out of 11 candidates.
The…
The 70th anniversary edition of the Cannes Film Festival is over and the prizes handed out on a night that surprisingly had no real surprises.
I am not sure why some pundits are acting with eyebrows lifted  toward the announcement by Pedro Almodovar’s Cannes Film Festival jury that Sweden’s The Square from director…
