Uninvolving from start to finish, the would-be thriller Anonymous traffics in a certain bland slickness, placing it squarely in the international crime subset of generic action features. Kazakh director Akan Satayev’s first English-language feature is technically proficient but devoid of a beating heart. As it juggles half-formed and feebly dramatized notions of the dark web, black markets, cybercrime and hacktivism, the success or failure of the hoaxes enacted by its young hackers and thieves matters not a whit.
In large part that’s because the screenplay, credited to Sanzhar Sultan and Timur Zhaksylykov, substitutes a clumsy excess of voiceover narration for...
In large part that’s because the screenplay, credited to Sanzhar Sultan and Timur Zhaksylykov, substitutes a clumsy excess of voiceover narration for...
- 11/28/2016
- by Sheri Linden
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Thanks to TorontoFilm.Net here is the Toronto Film Production Update for November 2016, including "Designated Survivor", "12 Monkeys" "The Handmaid's Tale" and a whole lot more:
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12 Monkeys Season 3
TV Series
Gep 12 Monkeys B Inc.
Prod.: Michael Wray
Exec. Prod.: David Grossman, Terry Matalas
Oct 17 - Feb 17/17
Alias Grace
Mini Series
Halfire Entertainment
Prod.: Sarah Polley, DJ Carson
Dir.: Mary Harron
Aug 15 - Nov 15/16
Anne
TV Series
CBC/Netflix
Prod.: Susan Murdoch
Exec. Prod.: Miranda de Pencier, Moira Walley-Beckett
Sep 22/16 - Feb 03/17
Anne Of Green Gables
TV Movie
Gables 23 Productions Inc.
Prod.: Jim Corston
Exec. Prod.: Joan Lambur, Peter Williamson
Dir.: John Kent Harrison
Sep 12 - Nov 4/16
Black Mirror
TV Series (one episode)
T5 Mirror Productions Inc.
Exec. Prod.: Annabelle Jones, Charlie Brooker
Dir.: Jodie Foster
Nov 7 – Nov 30/16
Business Ethics
Feature
Business Ethic Film Inc.
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12 Monkeys Season 3
TV Series
Gep 12 Monkeys B Inc.
Prod.: Michael Wray
Exec. Prod.: David Grossman, Terry Matalas
Oct 17 - Feb 17/17
Alias Grace
Mini Series
Halfire Entertainment
Prod.: Sarah Polley, DJ Carson
Dir.: Mary Harron
Aug 15 - Nov 15/16
Anne
TV Series
CBC/Netflix
Prod.: Susan Murdoch
Exec. Prod.: Miranda de Pencier, Moira Walley-Beckett
Sep 22/16 - Feb 03/17
Anne Of Green Gables
TV Movie
Gables 23 Productions Inc.
Prod.: Jim Corston
Exec. Prod.: Joan Lambur, Peter Williamson
Dir.: John Kent Harrison
Sep 12 - Nov 4/16
Black Mirror
TV Series (one episode)
T5 Mirror Productions Inc.
Exec. Prod.: Annabelle Jones, Charlie Brooker
Dir.: Jodie Foster
Nov 7 – Nov 30/16
Business Ethics
Feature
Business Ethic Film Inc.
- 10/27/2016
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
Carolina Bartczak, most recently seen in X-Men: Apocalypse as Erik Lehnsherr/ Magneto’s wife Magda, has been cast in the Nick Wernham-directed comedy Business Ethics. From Innis Lake Entertainment and Know Rules Media, Bartczak will play the hard-edged Amanda Dean, Zachery Cranston's (Larenz Tate) business nemesis. The pic is based on Wernham’s short about a man who sets out to run a Ponzi scheme. Sanzhar Sultan will produce, with Tate, Richard Wernham, Loudon Owen, Jai…...
- 10/6/2016
- Deadline
See that happy man on the boat? That is Jamie M. Dagg and currently he is location scouting for his debut film River in Laos. His debut film is being produced by Pontypool producer Nick Sorbara. Burning Daylight producer Sanzhar Sultanov is co-producing and Jai Khanna (Something Wicked) will exec-produce. The story centres on a traumatized American volunteer doctor on leave in Laos who flees into the interior after he intervenes to help the victim of a sexual assault and kills the assailant.Not to take away from these gentlemen and all that they will accomplish, but, our friend Mattie Do, Laos' only female director and director of Chantalay and the upcoming Dear Sister. Mattie is one super cool chick and if you have had to chance to...
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- 12/3/2014
- Screen Anarchy
Exclusive: Xyz Films has picked up North American sales rights to the thriller from debut writer-director Jamie M Dagg.
The story centres on a traumatised American volunteer doctor on leave in Laos who flees into the interior after he intervenes to help the victim of a sexual assault and kills the assailant.
Casting is underway on River, which is scheduled to commence principal photography in Laos and Thailand in January.
Nick Sorbara of Reach Me and Pontypool fame is producing via his RedLab Digital and Sanzhar Sultanov co-produces through his company Know Rules Media. Brillstein Entertainment’s Jai Khanna serves as executive producer.
The shoot will mark the first for a North American film in Laos and is scheduled for delivery in September. The producers are working with Laotian authorities to lobby for production incentives and the local producer partner is Mattie Do of Lao Art Media.
“Xyz takes great pride in our track record of identifying...
The story centres on a traumatised American volunteer doctor on leave in Laos who flees into the interior after he intervenes to help the victim of a sexual assault and kills the assailant.
Casting is underway on River, which is scheduled to commence principal photography in Laos and Thailand in January.
Nick Sorbara of Reach Me and Pontypool fame is producing via his RedLab Digital and Sanzhar Sultanov co-produces through his company Know Rules Media. Brillstein Entertainment’s Jai Khanna serves as executive producer.
The shoot will mark the first for a North American film in Laos and is scheduled for delivery in September. The producers are working with Laotian authorities to lobby for production incentives and the local producer partner is Mattie Do of Lao Art Media.
“Xyz takes great pride in our track record of identifying...
- 12/2/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Dean Devlin’s Electric Entertainment has secured all worldwide rights to the international thriller and started talks with Afm buyers.
Akan Satayev directed the film from Sanzhar Sultanov and Timur Zhaksylykov’s screenplay about three young coders who fall foul of the authorities and the shadowy operators behind their criminal paymasters.
Hacker shot in New York, Hong Kong, Toronto and Bangkok and stars Callan McAuliffe, Lorraine Nicholson, Daniel Eric Gold and Clifton Collins Jr.
Sultanov’s production company Know Rules Media produced with Satayev’s SataiFilm. Loudon Owen and Jai Khanna from Brillstein Entertainment Partners are the executive producers.
“We were immediately intrigued by Hacker because it is very topical and timely,” said Electric’s head of international distribution Sonia Mehandjiyska. “It deals with a scary situation that could unfortunately become a reality for all of us one day.”
“When we finished the film, we felt confident that we have a good film,” said Satayev...
Akan Satayev directed the film from Sanzhar Sultanov and Timur Zhaksylykov’s screenplay about three young coders who fall foul of the authorities and the shadowy operators behind their criminal paymasters.
Hacker shot in New York, Hong Kong, Toronto and Bangkok and stars Callan McAuliffe, Lorraine Nicholson, Daniel Eric Gold and Clifton Collins Jr.
Sultanov’s production company Know Rules Media produced with Satayev’s SataiFilm. Loudon Owen and Jai Khanna from Brillstein Entertainment Partners are the executive producers.
“We were immediately intrigued by Hacker because it is very topical and timely,” said Electric’s head of international distribution Sonia Mehandjiyska. “It deals with a scary situation that could unfortunately become a reality for all of us one day.”
“When we finished the film, we felt confident that we have a good film,” said Satayev...
- 11/6/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Callan McAuliffe is set to star in Hackers alongside Lorraine Nicholson, reports Deadline. The indie film is being directed by Akan Satayev where McAuliffe will play Alex Danyliuk, an ambitious teen member of DarkWeb, a secret Internet criminal network. Nicholson will play Kira Whittal, also in DarkWeb. Satayev also wrote the story alongside Timur Zhaxylykov, which Sanzhar Sultanov scripted. Producing are Knows Rules Media while Brillstein Entertainment Partners are executive producing the film which has a $5 million budget, and starts shooting in Toronto at the end of November.
- 11/11/2013
- Upcoming-Movies.com
The Toronto-lensed feature "Burning Daylight", directed by Sanzhar Sultanov, is based on two short stories and one novel by author Jack London.
The 3-part anthology is set against the backdrop of 1920’s New York:
"...Part I depicts the lives of two low-life thieves enjoying a post-heist euphoria while developing a subtle rivalry. Part II is an intricate dance between a manipulative, wealthy woman and a seemingly inane, destitute thief. Part III features a duel between a legendary, self-made, Klondike Gold millionaire and the masterminds of a Wall Street scam..."
"Burning Daylight" stars Robert Knepper ("Heroes"), Paul Calderon ("Four Rooms"), Sultanov, Christopher DeMeo, and Adrian Cowan.
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The 3-part anthology is set against the backdrop of 1920’s New York:
"...Part I depicts the lives of two low-life thieves enjoying a post-heist euphoria while developing a subtle rivalry. Part II is an intricate dance between a manipulative, wealthy woman and a seemingly inane, destitute thief. Part III features a duel between a legendary, self-made, Klondike Gold millionaire and the masterminds of a Wall Street scam..."
"Burning Daylight" stars Robert Knepper ("Heroes"), Paul Calderon ("Four Rooms"), Sultanov, Christopher DeMeo, and Adrian Cowan.
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- 7/29/2010
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
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