Tag: Foxtrot
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Fremantle Forges Partnership With Creative Alliance of Nine Production Companies
Fremantle has forged a ground-breaking three-year partnership agreement with a creative alliance of nine leading independent production companies to help them develop and fund high-quality international dramas series and films.Called The Creatives, the alliance spans eight countries and has been spearheaded by France’s Haut Et Court, the production and distribution banner behind “The Returned” and…
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‘World War Z’ Writer Makes Directing Debut on Fact-Based ‘Mosul,’ Shot in Secret in Morocco
Screenwriter Matthew Michael Carnahan is making his directorial debut with “Mosul,” a film about a Swat team’s desperate fight to rid the Iraq city of Isis militants that shot in secret in Morocco last spring with a local cast.“Mosul,” for which Carnahan wrote the screenplay, explores the true story of an elite police unit made…
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Harvey Keitel to Star in Pavel Lungin’s ‘Esau,’ Modern Retelling of Biblical Story
Harvey Keitel, Lior Ashkenazi (“Foxtrot”) and Mark Ivanir (“Homeland”) will headline “Esau,” the first English-language film from acclaimed Russian-French director Pavel Lungin.“Esau,” which is being adapted from the novel of the same name by Israeli author Meir Shalev, follows a 40-year-old writer who returns to his family home after half a lifetime to face the…
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Specialty Box Office Heads for Cliff After Oscars
The specialty market has thrived this awards season, which will boost Sunday’s winners before diving off a precipitous cliff unless some fresh strong titles arrive to save the day. The problem is that little has opened recently to fill the Oscar void that will be left when award season hits led by “The Shape of…
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Feng Xiaogang’s ‘Youth’ heads winners at Asian Brilliant Stars
Period drama wins Special Jury, Screenwriter and New Talent prizes.Chinese director Feng Xiaogang’s Youth was the big winner at the 2nd Asian Brilliant Stars Awards in Berlin, scooping the Special Jury Award and two other prizes.The hit period drama, which premiered at Toronto International Film Festival last year, was also awarded best screenwriter for Yan…
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Israel Boycotts Opening of Film Festival in Paris Over ‘Foxtrot’
The Israeli government is boycotting the opening of a Paris film festival it helped fund, out of anger that organizers chose a controversial movie centering on the Israeli military as the event’s headliner.Samuel Maoz’s “Foxtrot,” which explores grief and military duty among three generations of an Israeli family, is set to open the Israeli Film…
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Diane Kruger, Eric Bana circle Efm-bound spy thriller ‘The Operative’ (exclusive)
Bloom boards international sales; Israeli wunderkind Yuval Adler makes English-language directorial debut.Diane Kruger and her Troy co-star Eric Bana are in negotiations to headline spy thriller The Operative, a red-hot package that Bloom will introduce to buyers at the Efm in Berlin next week.Israeli wunderkind Yuval Adler will make his English-language feature directorial debut and…