Netflix has landed John Lee Hancock‘s fact-based authorized drama characteristic Monsanto. Glen Powell, Anthony Mackie and Laura Dern star within the high-profile package deal that was acquired at this yr’s Cannes movie market. Hancock (The Blind Facet) directs the film from a script he wrote with Michael Wisner, Alexandra Duparc and Ned Benson. Producers on … Read more
Gravitas Ventures has picked up the documentary Stylebender, on the UFC Middleweight phenomenon and former world champion Israel Adesanya, for North America. Zoë McIntosh adopted Adesanya, recognized within the ring as “the final stylebender” for 5 years making the non-fiction function, which premiered on the Tribeca movie pageant final 12 months. Stylebender is much less … Read more
Anthony Hopkins, who has embodied a solid of real-life characters in his lengthy profession, starting from Richard Nixon (in Nixon) and Sigmund Freund (Freud’s Final Session) to Alfred Hitchcock (Hitchcock), and Adolf Hitler (1981 TV film The Bunker), is about to play composer George Frideric Handel within the upcoming characteristic The King of Covent Backyard. … Read more
The brand new initiatives from two-time Palme d’Or winner Ruben Östlund (The Triangle of Disappointment, The Sq.); Irish director Lorcan Finnegan (Vivarium and upcoming Nicolas Cage drama The Surfer); and Polish filmmaker Agnieszka Smoczyńska, director of Letitia Wright/Tamara Lawrance-starrer The Silent Twins, can be pitching to potential backers at this yr’s Cannes Traders Circle, an … Read more