Oscar-winning actor Michael Caine will star in Best Sellers, the directorial feature debut of Lina Roessler (Little Whispers: The Vow, Mustard Seed). Pic follows a has-been author, played by Caine, who is on a wild book tour with a young editor trying to save his boutique publishing house. Caine’s author is miserable…

EXCLUSIVE: DCR Finance Corp has launched a a $100 million film and media fund that will be used to finance small to midsize films across Europe and the U.S., with the goal to help filmmakers complete their movies and land distribution. The first pic to receive funds will be Roadside Attractions’ The Last Full Measure…

Roadside Attractions is planning a wide 2019 theatrical release for Todd Robinson’s The Last Full Measure. The distributor has acquired U.S. rights on the Vietnam drama that stars Avengers: Infinity War‘s Sebastian Stan along with Christopher Plummer, William Hurt, Samuel L. Jackson, Ed Harris, Peter Fonda, Diane…

Foresight Unlimited has teamed Hannibal Classics to co-rep the Simon West-helmed Tsunami LA, which will be presented to buyers at the Toronto Film Festival. The natural disaster pic, written by Scott Windhauser, centers on original the worst tsunami in history hitting present-day Los Angeles. Filming is slated to…

Phillip Noyce, who has directed such films as The Bone Collector and Salt, is on board to helm World War II action thriller The Devil's Brigade, which will begin principal photography at the end of this year in France. The film tells the true story of how Davie Berman, the only Jewish member of the Luciano mob, is…

Jeremy Irvine, Ethan Russell, Zach Roerig and Cody Walker round out the cast of Todd Robinson’s Vietnam War pic The Last Full Measure from Foresight Unlimited. They join the ensemble led by Sebastian Stan, Christopher Plummer, William Hurt, Samuel L. Jackson, Amy Madigan, John Savage and Bradley Whitford. Based on the…

As the Cannes Film Market is set to dawn, industry veteran Mark Damon’s Foresight Unlimited has hired Talia Goldman as Executive Director of Operations and Distribution. The company also has promoted Kyle Bellinger to Executive Director of Acquisitions and Development. In their new roles, Goldman will manage…

EXCLUSIVE: Disaster action thriller Category 5 has sold out the majority of the world for Mark Damon’s Foresight Unlimited here at the EFM. Announced just before the market with Rob Cohen (The Fast And The Furious, xXx) directing, it’s eyed as a franchise-starter and has drawn keen interest as a theatrical offering…

Foresight Unlimited today officially unveiled plans for a $120M-budged sci-fi action film titled Inversion, about what would happen if Earth lost its gravity. There’s no director yet, but financing is in place via Hong Kong’s Pegasus Motion Pictures and shooting is scheduled to start in January 2015. The script, from…

UPDATE: While they were quick to announce Hotel 33 with Nicolas Cage, Foresight Unlimited has the benefit of hindsight and is backing off a bit. “We have learned that the deal with Nicolas Cage on Hotel 33 is not yet closed,” the company said in a statement tonight. “We therefore feel it is prudent to let the parties…

After two years stuck in the mud, the movie Spinning Gold, with Justin Timberlake as 1970s record icon Neil Bogart, seems to be spinning. Scripted by Timothy Scott Bogart, the pic is set up to be financed and sold at Cannes by Foresight Unlimited. Bogart nurtured the career of Curtis Mayfield, Bill Withers, Gladys…