John Moore is set to direct N.O.C., an action thriller from Film House Germany. The Irish filmmaker, whose credits include A Good Day to Die Hard, Behind Enemy Lines and the upcoming I.T., work the case of a deep-undercover CIA operative who discovers that a faction of the agency is collaborating with the terrorist…

EXCLUSIVE: Ciro Guerra, whose Colombian film Embrace Of The Serpent is up for the Best Foreign Film Oscar, has signed to make his English-language directing debut on the dystopian adventure The Detainee, for Thunder Road Pictures and Film House Germany. The film is an adaptation of a trilogy by author-playwright Peter…

EXCLUSIVE: Film House Germany's Summerstorm Entertainment and Vandal Entertainment have acquired Byron Willinger & Phil De Blasi’s hot spec screenplay Command & Control. Vandal Entertainment's Navid McIlhargey is producing alongside Film House Germany and Summerstorm Entertainment's CEO Gabriela Bacher. The producers…

Kamala Films, Thunder Road and Film House Germany has teamed to secure the rights to The Swimmer, the debut novel by Swedish author Joakim Zander. Ben August is set to write it. The novel weaves three international stories to create an action thriller that revolves around an American spy who abandoned his newborn…

Navid McIllhargey, the former FilmEngine president is back with a new company — Vandal Entertainment — and he just optioned his first project under the new banner: a revenge thriller called The Feud. Financed by German investors Film House Germany and Summerstorm Entertainment, McIllhargey just purchased the spec by…

Former Warner Bros exec-turned-producer Basil Iwanyk makes the kind of star-driven big-budget films that offshore distributors were salivating over but couldn’t find enough of during Cannes. After previously leveraging that into a deal with London-based Cutting Edge Film Group that gives it music rights to five movies…