Oscar nominees Annette Bening and Michelle Pfeiffer are boarding director Gideon Raff's thriller Turn of Mind, a feature adaptation of the Alice LaPlante New York Times bestseller. Pulitzer Prize winner Doug Wright is adapting the psychological thriller, which centers on a retired orthopedic doctor (Bening) suffering…

Netflix has obtained global distribution rights, excluding China, to The Red Sea Diving Resort, the Chris Evans-starring biopic from writer/director Gideon Raff and BRON Studios. The film, which Netflix will release later this year, is based on one of the most remarkable rescue missions in history. It was previously…

STXinternational has boarded international distribution on Chris Evans-starrer The Red Sea Diving Resort, in what becomes a hot title for the upcoming AFM. STX will also directly distribute the Gideon Raff-directed drama in the UK and Ireland. The story is based on one of the most remarkable rescue missions in…

EXCLUSIVE: Chris Chalk, who currently recurs as Lucius Fox on Fox’s Gotham series, is set to co-star opposite Chris Evans in Gideon Raff's spy drama The Red Sea Diving Resort, based on the true-life mission to rescue Ethiopian Jews from Sudan to Israel in the early 80s.  Haley Bennett, Alessandro Nivola, Michael K…

EXCLUSIVE: Chris Evans is set to star in Red Sea Diving Resort, the Gideon Raff-directed drama that will be financed by Bron Studios. The drama revolves around the rescue and transport of Ethiopian Jews to Israel in 1981. Raff wrote the script and Alexandra Milchan is producing. Evans will play Ari Kidron, a charming…

Top Israeli writer-producer-director Gideon Raff has signed with CAA for representation. Raff was the creator of the hit Israeli series Prisoners of War, which received nine of the country’s top TV awards, including Best Drama Series and Best Directing for Raff. Prisoners of War was adapted in the U.S. as Showtime’s Ho…

NBC has kicked off the drama buying season with two high-profile buys: Salvation (working title), from Law & Order veteran Warren Leight, Paul Haggis (Crash) and Sony TV, which has received a pilot production commitment, and Walking Lions, from Homeland and Tyrant co-creator Gideon Raff, Keshet and Universal TV, which…

Universal Cable Productions and Hypnotic have teamed to develop a television series based on the New York Times bestselling novel The Increment. Gideon Raff (Homeland) is set to write the adaptation and direct. A tale of deception, betrayal and moral ambiguity, The Increment explores today’s post-treaty Iran, a place…

BREAKING: Fox Searchlight has acquired Operation Brothers, a pitch that Tyrant exec producer and co-creator Gideon Raff will write and direct about the 1981 rescue of Ethiopian Jews and their relocation to Israel. Alexandra Milchan will produce with Raff. The story has overtones that have it compared to Argo meets Hote…

At the onset of USA’s Dig panel at Comic-Con, the creators and pilot director behind the action miniseries tubthumped extensively how their project is an anomaly in so far that it’s a show set in Jerusalem, shot in Jerusalem. “Shooting there is paramount to the story in capturing the vividness and emphasizing the…

“This is an adopted child for me,” Howard Gordon told TV critics this afternoon about FX‘s controversial drama series Tyrant. “I’m the midwife… it came to me and this is what it is.” Gordon came to TCA Summer TV Press Tour 2014 to discuss the series that debuted last month. He was joined onstage by representatives of…

A scheduled hiatus in production on USA Network‘s new series Dig has been extended a week while producers assess the situation and decide if they can continue to shoot the six-episode series in Jerusalem. “This caught us off-guard and we are assessing,” Gideon Raff told TV critics at TCA Summer TV Press Tour 2014, of…