Latest in Operation Finale

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar Isaac, who most recently starred in and produced Chris Weitz’s MGM movie Operation Finale and is reprising the role of Poe Dameron in Star Wars: Episode IX, has signed with WME for representation in all areas. Isaac, who won a Golden Globe in 2016 for HBO’s Show Me a Hero, has several film projects in…

7th Writethru, Monday AM after Sunday, Saturday, Friday night, and mid-day write-thrus:  Warner Bros.’ Crazy Rich Asians continues to be extremely robust. While industry estimates had the romantic comedy at $30M over four days in its third weekend, it’s now looking like $28.3M, with Warner Bros. reporting $22.1M for…

“We’re all animals,” says Sir Ben Kingsley’s Adolf Eichmann in this intense trailer for Operation Finale. “Some of us just have bigger teeth than others.” So it goes in director Chris Weitz’s thriller about the Israeli “catch and extract” operation in Argentina to bring to justice the chief architect of…

EXCLUSIVE: MGM’s Operation Finale, which follows a team of secret agents in their pursuit of Holocaust Nazi architect Adolf Eichmann 15 years after World War II, is moving up from its Sept. 14 opening to August 29, the Wednesday before the four-day Labor Day stretch. We hear the film tested quite well in the mid 80s…

In a nod to its recent deal to distribute the 25th James Bond installment overseas, Universal showed off the morphing of the studio’s and 007's logos ahead of its presentation at CineEurope. Uni won rights for international as well as for home entertainment to the next 007 in a deal with EON Productions and MGM last…

“My job was simple,” says the man heard here in this new trailer for MGM’s Operation Finale. “Save the country I loved from being destroyed.” Self-justifying to the end, that man is Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi logistical mastermind responsible for the deaths of millions of Jews in concentration camps. Portrayed by Ben Kin…

Glee alum Iqbal Theba has just been cast opposite Mahershala Ali in the Peter Farrelly-directed drama, Green Book, based on a true story about Italian-American bouncer Tony Lip, who becomes the driver of prodigy pianist on tour through the racially charged 1960s American south. Farrelly co-wrote the script with Nick…

EXCLUSIVE: Ohad Knoller, Greg Hill, Torben Liebrecht (X Company), Mike Hernandez, Greta Scacchi (Brideshead Visited) and Pêpê Rapazote (Netflix's Narcos) have joined the cast of MGM's thriller Operation Finale, which is currently filming in Argentina. Chris Weitz (A Better Life) is directing the project from a script…

EXCLUSIVE: Michael Aronov, Tony winner for last season’s best play, J.T. Rogers’ Oslo, has been cast as an Israeli operative hunting for Adolf Eichmann in MGM's upcoming film Operation Finale, joining a cast that includes Oscar Isaac, Ben Kingsley (as Eichmann), Melanie Laurent and Nick Kroll. The film chronicles the…

EXCLUSIVE: Melanie Laurent has been set to play the female lead and Nick Kroll has been set to play an Israeli operative in Operation Finale. They join Oscar Isaac in the MGM drama about the successful hunt and capture of notorious Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in Argentina in the 1960s. Ben Kingsley is playing…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar Isaac, who just starred in The Promise about the Armenian genocide with Christian Bale, is taking to another historical drama — this one about the hunt for one of the most hated men of WWII. Isaac is sealing a deal to star in Operation Finale (previously known as Eichmann) for MGM and director Chris We…