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Netflix has acquired What Happened To Monday?, a post-apocalyptic sci-fi pic directed by Tommy Wirkola and starring Noomi Rapace, Glenn Close and Willem Dafoe. Max Botkin and Kerry Williamson wrote the script. The deal which includes U.S. rights was sealed at the Toronto Film Festival, where it was screened for…

EXCLUSIVE: Even though Noomi Rapace emerged from Prometheus as one of the few survivors and the one who seemed most to want to follow the adventure forward with Michael Fassbender’s character, it was long reported she would not be back to reprise her role as Elizabeth Shaw in Ridley Scott’s next installment Alien: Cove…

Lotus Entertainment has come aboard to finance, executive produce and handle international sales on Kirsten Sheridan's Amy Winehouse biopic that has Noomi Rapace (The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo) in talks to star as the tragic singer. Sheridan, daughter of Jim and an Academy Award nominee for In America, has penned…

Willem Dafoe has joined the cast of Noomi Rapace-starrer What Happened to Monday? The film, directed by Tommy Wirkola, has started shooting  in Bucharest at the Castel Film Studios. Dafoe and Rapace are joined by Glenn Close in the sci-fi action thriller, which takes place in a not-so-distant future. Marwan Kenzari…

Deadline returned to the Cannes Film Festival twofold this year, attracting an A-list crowd to both its interview studio at Nikki Beach's Le Petit Bar at the Carlton Hotel as well as our annual Cocktails on the Croisette party at Nikki Beach.  Those sitting down to chat with Deadline’s Nancy Tartaglione, Joseph Utichi…

Noomi Rapace has had a pretty voracious appetite for challenging roles since before she became an international name thanks to the Swedish-language Millennium trilogy. In that series she played tough-as-nails Lisbeth Salander. It takes a rare talent to go from that to, in a few short years, taking on world-famous…

Noomi Rapace is set to play iconic opera singer Maria Callas in the feature biopic Callas. Niki Caro (McFarland USA) is attached to direct from a screenplay she adapted from Alsfonso Signorini's biography Too Proud, Too Fragile. Content Media has come aboard to handle world sales. The biopic focuses on the passionate…

Noomi Rapace and Glenn Close are starring in Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters director Tommy Wirkola’s What Happened To Monday?, a high concept sci-fi/actioner. France’s SND is fully financing and has local distribution. It will also sell international rights to the project in Cannes just as the cameras are set to roll…

If you want to see the new Tom Hardy thriller Child 44 based on the 2008 bestselling novel, you’re more apt to find it on the back of a milk carton than in a movie theater. After the Lionsgate/Summit film opened April 17 to a paltry $622K, and then fell off 67% in its second weekend on the same 510 screens, you can…

It’s not really surprising to see that the new Cold War thriller, Child 44, about a Soviet-era child murderer, has just been banned in Russia…

Michael Apted has added Oscar nominees John Malkovich and Toni Collette to his female-driven action thriller Unlocked, starring Noomi Rapace. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo star anchors the pic as a CIA interrogator who unwittingly gives info to terrorists and must race against the clock to stop their biological…

Summit has set an April 17, 2015 release date for Child 44, the thriller from Swedish director Daniel Espinosa (Easy Money, Safe House) starring Tom Hardy as Leo Demidov, a Russian secret police officer in 1950s Stalinist Russia who’s framed for treason and sent to a remote outpost, where he uncovers a series of…