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EXCLUSIVE: Vertical Entertainment has acquired North American rights to writer-director Eytan Rockaway's crime drama Lansky, starring Harvey Keitel and Sam Worthington. The film also stars AnnaSophia Robb, Minka Kelly, John Magaro, David James Elliott, David Cade and Danny A. Abeckaser. Vertical is planning a…

EXCLUSIVE: Ron Perlman (Hellboy), Oscar nominee Harvey Keitel (Pulp Fiction), Elias Koteas (The Thin Red Line), Joel David Moore (Avatar) and newcomer Emma Ho (Code 8) are set to star in action-drama The Baker. The movie will chart the story of a quiet, stoic man (played by Perlman) living a monk-like existence in…

EXCLUSIVE: Leading Middle East distributor Front Row Filmed Entertainment has struck a deal with Italian sales agent Iuvit Media Sales for MENA rights to Unto The Son, the crime drama starring Harvey Keitel, Abbie Cornish, and Tom Arnold. The film follows a young man and his family’s journey after the mysterious…

EXCLUSIVE: Harvey Keitel (Pulp Fiction), Abbie Cornish (Jack Ryan), Peter Facinelli (Nurse Jackie), Tom Arnold (True Lies), Danny A. Abeckaser (The Iceman), Adam Karst (Snowfall), Marta Pozzan (A Dark Foe), Marwan Salama (Here And Now) and Miles Szanto (The Elephant Princess) have been set to star in the crime drama Un…

Faith-based films, as they now are known, have been a staple of the movie industry almost from the moment it began. But the movement toward more contemporary stories of faith differs from Hollywood’s past infatuation with religion and period movies from The Song of Bernadette to The Ten Commandments to The Story of Rut…

Will the movies ever let religion back into the mainstream? It doesn't seem likely,  given the secular bent of most critics, festivals, and film awards. But the question could certainly occur to any thoughtful viewer of Marco Pontecorvo's Fátima, which is set for release by Picturehouse in theaters and via PVOD on…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar conversations around town bring differing opinions about what might win in an exceptional year for auteur cinema. It was surprising how many people add: boy would it be nice to see Martin Scorsese get an Oscar for his final mob epic, The Irishman. Sure he won for The Departed, but he got robbed on Taxi…

LA-based production, distribution and post-production outfit Electric Entertainment has acquired worldwide distribution rights to Just Noise, starring Harvey Keitel and Malcolm McDowell. The feature, which begins production this month in Malta, is produced and written by Jean-Pierre Magro, produced by Pedja Miletic…

In its most ambitious ever theatrical rollout plan for one of its original productions, Netflix will give The Irishman a 27-day theatrical window before the film makes its streaming service bow November 27. Netflix will launch on November 1 in Los Angeles and New York the epic crime drama that reunites director Martin…

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a first clip of striking Venice and Toronto premiere The Painted Bird, the black-and-white, 35mm adaptation of the Jerzy Kosinski (Being There) novel of the same name. Vàclav Marhoul's dark drama will play in competition on the Lido and is the first Czech film to do so in more than 25…

The upcoming Danny A. Abeckaser film First We Take Brooklyn is set to be released with the launch of 2B Films’ new distribution division. The gritty drama is directed, co-written and stars Abeckaser as well as Harvey Keitel and AnnaLynne McCord. The New York-set film is cut from the same cloth as American Gangster and…

EXCLUSIVE: After making his breakthrough on the Martin Scorsese exec produced HBO series Boardwalk Empire, Jack Huston has been set by Scorsese to join the cast of The Irishman, the fact-based mob epic that Scorsese will direct for Netflix. Scorsese has Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci, Harvey Keitel, Bobby…