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EXCLUSIVE: Pierce Brosnan has signed on to star in Fast Charlie, a hitman thriller from director Phillip Noyce (Salt, Clear and Present Danger), which is scheduled to enter production in January, Boomtown Media Partners & Screen Media Ventures announced today. The film is based on Victor Gischler’s Edgar…

EXCLUSIVE:  One of the few titles up for sale at TIFF this year was Phillip Noyce’s thriller Lakewood starring Naomi Watts, and Vertical Entertainment and Roadside Attractions have landed North American rights to the the female-driven thriller. The movie, which was fully financed by Boies Schiller Entertainment and…

When it comes to action movies rallying at the box office, Phillip Noyce knows what works, and his résumé counts a plethora of successes including the Angelina Jolie spy movie Salt and the Tom Clancy movies Patriot Games and Clear and Present Danger.  But with Lakewood, he’s gone outside the studio system to make a…

The global pandemic has provided filmmakers opportunities to get creative in order to make films in unusual circumstances. Already at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, we have seen The Guilty with Jake Gyllenhaal in what is essentially a one-man show connected to the outside world simply by a phone in…

Shot in 2017, the noirish, Southern-fried crime thriller Above Suspicion finally hits North America this week after distribution delays, followed by Covid delays, kept it from screens. The Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions release finally will hit digital platforms and should find a welcoming audience for the kind of…

EXCLUSIVE: We’ve learned that Salt filmmaker Phillip Noyce is set to direct Alive Day, a feature adaptation of Samuel Hill’s military taskforce novel Six Days to Zeus: Alive Day.  Mike Medavoy's Phoenix Pictures and Voyage Media's Nat Mundel will produce from Kathleen McLaughlin's screenplay. Alive Day follows Hill’s…

Fox has given a cast-contingent pilot order to Blood Relative, a forensic genealogy-themed crime drama  from writer-producer Chris Levinson (Tyrant) and producer Liza Chasin (Tales of the City). Phillip Noyce (The Resident) has come on board to direct the potential pilot, from Paramount Television Studios and…

EXCLUSIVE: Show Me What You Got, the directorial debut of Inside Job cinematographer Svetlana Cvetko, has wrapped production. The under-the-radar pic is backed by Blitz Films and counts award-winning filmmaker Phillip Noyce among its executive producers. Billed as a modern-day Jules & Jim, Show Me What You Got stars…

Australian documentary filmmaker James Ricketson was convicted today of espionage for an unnamed country by the Cambodian government and sentenced to six years in that country’s prison system. Ricketson was arrested in June 2017 and charged with endangering national security by flying a drone over an opposition party…

Phillip Noyce is set to direct Fox’s untitled drama pilot based on the best-selling book Gone Baby Gone by Dennis Lehane. The project hails from 20th Century Fox TV, where Noyce is under a first-look deal, and Miramax, which was behind the 2007 movie adaptation directed by Ben Affleck in his directorial debut. Written…

Australian helmer Phillip Noyce is prepping Rats of Tobruk, a World War II feature inspired by experiences his father shared of a brave band of untrained Oz soldiers. Nascent Canberra- and Los Angeles-based DEMS Entertainment is partnering to co-produce and finance the drama which is eyeing a 2019 production…

ABC has given a put pilot commitment to drama Eight Hundred Grapes, based on Laura Dave’s book, from The Path co-executive producer Julia Brownell, Phillip Noyce, 20th Century Fox TV and studio-based Temple Hill Entertainment. Written and executive produced by Brownell, Eight Hundred Grapes centers on Georgia Ford…