EXCLUSIVE: DCR Finance Corp has launched a a $100 million film and media fund that will be used to finance small to midsize films across Europe and the U.S., with the goal to help filmmakers complete their movies and land distribution. The first pic to receive funds will be Roadside Attractions’ The Last Full Measure…

EXCLUSIVE: Shaun Sanghani’s SSS Entertainment, producer of films such as the upcoming, Al Pacino-starring World War II drama Axis Sally, has closed a $20 million revolving credit facility with Louisiana-based Red River Bank. SSS Film Capital, a newly created unit, will leverage the new funds for secured and unsecured…

Roadside Attractions is planning a wide 2019 theatrical release for Todd Robinson’s The Last Full Measure. The distributor has acquired U.S. rights on the Vietnam drama that stars Avengers: Infinity War‘s Sebastian Stan along with Christopher Plummer, William Hurt, Samuel L. Jackson, Ed Harris, Peter Fonda, Diane…

Jeremy Irvine, Ethan Russell, Zach Roerig and Cody Walker round out the cast of Todd Robinson’s Vietnam War pic The Last Full Measure from Foresight Unlimited. They join the ensemble led by Sebastian Stan, Christopher Plummer, William Hurt, Samuel L. Jackson, Amy Madigan, John Savage and Bradley Whitford. Based on the…

Laysla De Oliveira will co-star opposite Robbie Amell and Stephen Amell in the sci-fi thriller Code 8, with Jeff Chan on board to direct. Currently in production, the pic is set in a world where 4% of the population is born with varying supernatural abilities, known as “specials," who are impoverished and face…

EXCLUSIVE: John Savage, whose career was launched nearly four decades ago with the Best Picture Oscar-winning Vietnam picture The Deer Hunter, has joined the cast of Todd Robinson’s Vietnam-themed The Last Full Measure for Foresight Unlimited. It seems that Hollywood has really turned its attention to projects about…

EXCLUSIVE: Amy Madigan and Peter Fonda are joining what has turned out to be an impressive ensemble cast for writer-director Todd Robinson’s The Last Full Measure. LisaGay Hamilton (Take Shelter) and Robert Pine (CHIPS) also have boarded the film about the cover-up and ultimate sacrifice and heroism of a 21-year-old…

LisaGay Hamilton is set to play opposite Steve Carell and Amy Ryan in Amazon’s drug-addiction film Beautiful Boy, from Plan B, with Felix van Groeningen attached to direct. The film is based on David Sheff's 2008 memoir, Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction and Groeningen co-wrote the…

EXCLUSIVE: Foresight Unlimited has set The Flash star Grant Gustin to join The Last Full Measure, the political drama that Todd Robinson will direct from his script. Shooting on the film begins this weekend in Atlanta and Costa Rica. Gustin will play actual Medal of Honor recipient William Pitsenbarger, a special…

Samuel L. Jackson has joined Sebastian Stan, Christopher Plummer, William Hurt, Bradley Whitford, Michael Imperioli, Linus Roache, John Savage and Diane Ladd in writer/director Todd Robinson’s political drama The Last Full Measure. Principal Photography begins in Atlanta and Costa Rica later this month. Based on the…

EXCLUSIVE: Fast-rising Scott Eastwood (Suicide Squad) and Ed Harris (Pollock) will star in The Last Full Measure for Emmy winner Todd Robinson (The Legend Of Billy The Kid), who directs based on his screenplay. Laurence Fishburne (The Matrix) is in final negotiations to board the project with Morgan Freeman (Million Do…