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For me, one of the joys of last September’s Toronto Film Festival was watching Isabelle Huppert go for broke playing a disturbed lonely woman in the suspense thriller Greta. It falls into a genre we don’t see as much anymore, at least on this scale, echoing movies like Fatal Attraction, Misery, The Hand That Rocks the…

Focus Features has taken the wraps off Greta, the stalker suspense thriller starring Chloë Grace Moretz and Isabelle Huppert that it fought for and won for $6 million during an all-night auction earlier this fall at the Toronto Film Festival. Neil Jordan directed and co-wrote with Ray Wright. The film has March 1…

Greta, the suspense thriller starring Chloë Grace Moretz and Isabelle Huppert that Focus Features acquired at the last Toronto Film Festival for $6 million after winning a bidding battle, now has a release date. The pic will hit theaters on March 1, 2019. In the film directed by Oscar winner Neil Jordan, Moretz plays…

A surprise hit at this year's TIFF was Neil Jordan's Greta, a female-centred thriller in which Chloë Grace Moretz plays a young girl who falls prey to an older lady named Greta (Isabelle Huppert) after finding her handbag on the subway. Although the reviews were kind, none exactly made claims for great art, so it was…

EXCLUSIVE: After an all-night auction in Toronto, Focus Features is finalizing a big deal for Greta, a foray into elevated genre by writer/director Neil Jordan with Chloe Grace Moretz and Isabelle Huppert. The auction was feverish, with Netflix, Lionsgate and NEON also bidding, but Focus stalked the stalker tale…

Oscar nominee Stephen Rea, Colm Feore and English actress Zawe Ashton are set for Neil Jordan’s upcoming thriller The Widow from Sidney Kimmel Entertainment. The pic, which begins filming this month, also co-stars Isabelle Huppert, Chloë Grace Moretz and Maika Monroe. Written by Ray Wright, the film, set in New York…

EXCLUSIVE: Along with co-starring in Sky Atlantic’s upcoming drama Riviera, Adrian Lester will direct two episodes of the sun-soaked thriller. Currently filming in the south of France, Riviera is created by Neil Jordan with a cast led by Julia Stiles and Lena Olin. Lester has already directed for the BBC series…

EXCLUSIVE: Liam Neeson has signed on to star in horse-training drama The Trainer, directed by Neil Jordan and written by David Donohue, James Villemaire and Sully scribe Todd Komarnicki. HanWay Films is launching the title to buyers at the American Film Market this week. Red-hot actor Neeson, whose past collaborations…

Adrian Lester, Iwan Rheon and Lena Olin are among the full cast that has been set to join Julia Stiles-starrer Riviera, Sky's pan-European thriller that’s just starting filming in the South of France. Created by Neil Jordan, the 10-part drama is based on an idea from U2’s former manager, Paul McGuinness. Kris Thykier…

Alex Marshall has been tapped as chief operating officer of Archery Pictures, the film and TV banner launched by producer Kris Thykier and former Scott Free UK head Liza Marshall last year. Marshall leaves Warp Films, where he had been COO since 2008 and exec produced many of their productions including Four Lions as…

EXCLUSIVE: The saga of The Borgias is coming to an end. The current third season of Showtime‘s medieval drama will be its last, with the June 16 season finale serving as series finale. Created by Neil Jordan, The Borgias stars Jeremy Irons as Pope Alexander VI, the cunning, manipulative patriarch of the infamous…

IFC Films just unveiled an official trailer for Byzantium, Neil Jordan’s mother-daughter vampire pic starring Saoirse Ronan and Gemma Arterton. IFC acquired US rights out of Toronto and has it set for a June 28 theatrical release. Check it out…