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EXCLUSIVE: Joe Penna has been set to direct Paramount’s World War II action pic Blessed Event. Temple Hill's Marty Bowen, Issac Klausner and John Fischer will produce the project with Adam Goldworm serving as executive producer. The film is based on a screenplay by Jeremy Lott. Set in the South Pacific during WWII…

Daniel Dae Kim is joining Anna Kendrick and Toni Collette, along with Shamier Anderson, in Joe Penna's sci-fi thriller Stowaway. This is the second feature from Penna and Ryan Morrison, the duo behind last year’s Cannes Official Selection Arctic, which released domestically in February. Penna is directing and co-wrote…

EXCLUSIVE: Shamier Anderson, most recently seen opposite Nicole Kidman in Destroyer, has boarded the cast of Stowaway, the Joe Penna-directed thriller that has Anna Kendrick and Toni Colette attached to star. Anderson will play an unintended stowaway who, on a mission headed to Mars, accidentally causes severe damage…

Topic Studios has signed a first look film and television deal with filmmakers Joe Penna and Ryan Morrison, whose feature Arctic made its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival last May as an official selection in the Midnight section. The deal expands the relationship between Topic, Penna and Morrison who recently…

Deadline's portrait and video studio at the Cannes Film Festival kicked off eight talent-filled days on the Croisette with visits by Arctic director Joe Penna and actors Mads Mikkelsen and Maria Thelma Smaradottir; Michael Shannon and Sofia Boutella from HBO’s Fahrenheit 451; and Tahar Rahim from Treat Me Like…

The day following the world premiere of Arctic in the Midnight Official Selection section at the Cannes Film Festival, star Mads Mikkelsen and director Joe Penna stopped by for a chat at Deadline’s Cannes Studio. This was the same day that Bleecker Street acquired North American distribution rights and select…

Bleecker Street has acquired North American distribution rights and select international territories on Joe Penna's Arctic. The director’s feature-film debut stars Mads Mikkelsen and had its world premiere last night in an Official Selection Midnight berth here at the Cannes Film Festival. The title follows a man…

Joe Penna never thought that seeing his debut feature in Cannes' Official Selection was "a remote possibility", but here he is with a primo spot as a Midnight Screening with a film starring Mads Mikkelsen. Arctic sees Mikkelsen's character stranded after a plane crash. As he is finally about to receive a long-awaited…

EXCLUSIVE: Above is a first-look clip at director Joe Penna’s Arctic which is screening in the Midnight section of the Cannes Film Festival. Mads Mikkelsen stars as a man stranded after a plane crash who is finally about to receive his long-awaited rescue. But when his opportunity is lost, he must decide whether to…