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Mads Mikkelsen will star in new action-thriller The Black Kaiser, based on the Dark Horse graphic novel Polar by Victor Santos. The project reunites Mikkelsen with Swedish director Jonas Akerlund after the duo worked on Netflix's 2019 film Polar. Akerlund directs from a script written by Jayson Rothwell and…

EXCLUSIVE: Midas Man, the biopic of Beatles manager Brian Epstein, has hired a new director as it looks to get back into production as soon as possible. Sara Sugarman, known for directing movies including music comedy Vinyl, Lifetime’s House of Versace and Disney’s Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen, is newly…

EXCLUSIVE: Midas Man, the biopic of Beatles manager Brian Epstein, has shut down mid-shoot with director Jonas Akerlund unlikely to continue, we can reveal. Filming on the project began last month in Liverpool with cast including The Queen’s Gambit co-star Jacob Fortune-Lloyd as Epstein, Emily Watson, Eddie Marsan…

Midas Man, a biopic of The Beatles manager Brian Epstein, will be directed by multi-Grammy winner Jonas Akerlund (Lords Of Chaos). From producers Trevor Beattie Films and StudioPOW, the film will tell the story of the visionary music manager and impresario who was often referred to as the ‘Fifth Beatle’. He took the…

The Canadian music producer known as Deadmau5 is making his first foray into film scoring with Polar, a noir-tinged project by director Jonas Akerlund that arrives next year from Netflix and Constantin Film. The action film is an adaptation of Polar: Came From the Cold, the webcomic by writer-artist Victor Santos that…

A renowned Swedish director known for his boundary-pushing work in music videos, concert films and stage shows—among other things—it’s little surprise that writer/director Jonas Åkerlund is at Sundance with Lords of Chaos, a visually audacious, musically-oriented story. Starring Rory Culkin, Jack Kilmer, Sky…

Vice Films, Insurgent Media, Chimney Pot and 20th Century Fox area partnering on Jonas Akerlund’s Lords Of Chaos, which stars Rory Culkin and newly announced cast including Emory Cohen, Jack Kilmer and Sky Ferreira. Akerlund directed Beyonce: Lemonade and other music videos for bands like The Rolling Stones, Madonna…

EXCLUSIVE: Eurythmics co-creator and record producer Dave Stewart is moving forward on Zombie Broadway, a feature adaptation of his 2008 Virgin Comics graphic novel about an undead uprising on the Great White Way. Along with The Butler producers Pam Williams and David Jacobson, Stewart has tapped Cole Haddon (NBC’s Dra…