Tahar Rahim owes his UTA agent, Ali Benmohamed, a huge thank you. If it weren't for Benmohamed's insistence that Rahim read the script for The Looming Tower, in spite of Rahim's blanket refusal to read anything that would cast Muslims as terrorists, he might never have played perhaps the most defining role of his…

Marie Monge, a Deadline One To Watch this year, received strong notices for her debut feature, Treat Me Like Fire (Joueurs) here in the Directors' Fortnight section. The film stars Tahar Rahim (A Prophet, The Looming Tower) and Stacy Martin, a breakout in Lars von Trier's Nymphomaniac. The trio visited the Deadline Can…

Marie Monge took inspiration for Directors' Fortnight selection Joueurs, her first feature, from her own experiences in the world of gambling, with a desire to "write about a very masculine world from the point of view of a woman." At the age of 22, she had a friend who was a gambler and, with him, discovered Paris's…

It’s 1998, and Americans are just beginning to understand the rising threat of Osama bin Laden and Al-Qaeda. Hulu’s new drama The Looming Tower traces that menace and ponders a big question: Did the rivalry between the FBI and CIA inadvertently set a path for the tragedy of 9/11 and the war in Iraq? Here’s the first…

Tahar Rahim has been tapped as one of the two leads in Hulu’s high-profile The Looming Tower, a straight-to-series drama based on Lawrence Wright's Pulitzer Prize-winning 9/11 exposé, from Oscar-nominated Dan Futterman (Foxcatcher), Oscar- and Emmy-winning documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney (Going Clear: Scientology and…

EXCLUSIVE: Tahar Rahim is in talks to play Judas Iscariot in Garth Davis’ Mary Magdalene opposite Rooney Mara in the lead role and Joaquin Phoenix as Jesus Christ. As Deadline previously reported, Chiwetel Ejiofor is also in talks to play Peter, one of Jesus' 12 apostles and his lead disciple. The character of Judas…

Sky is rolling out its new series The Last Panthers simultaneously to its 21 million subscribers in the UK, Ireland, Italy, Germany and Austria. The move, while not quite as impactful as the binge viewing pioneered by SVOD giant Netflix, does at least show the benefits of being a multi-territory operation following…

Cannes Critics’ Week has unveiled its lineup for the 2015 edition. Elie Wajeman’s The Anarchists, starring Adele Exarchopolous (La Vie d’Adele) and Tahar Rahim (A Prophet) star in the director’s follow-up to Aliyah. The film is set in 1899 Paris and tells the story of a poor and orphan brigadier who is selected to…

Tarak Ben Ammar’s Quinta Communications has brought the Doha Film Institute aboard as a co-producer of Black Gold, the Jean-Jacques Annaud-directed feature that began production in Tunisia on October 18. DFI, making its first foray into a major international feature production, will provide a mix of equity, services…

Warner Bros and Universal are sharing territories on Tunisian entrepreneur Tarak Ben Ammar's next feature Black Gold. The story revolves around the rivalry between Arabian rulers in the 1930s just as oil is being discovered, and the rise of a young, dynamic leader who unites the various tribes of the desert kingdoms…