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Production has wrapped in Puerto Rico on the film noir Dime Detective starring Terrence Howard, which Cineville represents for sales at AFM.

The Moovy Studios LLC production in association with Lee Caplin/Picture Entertainment Corporation follows a detective in San Juan haunted by his father’s tragic death who sees parallels in the case of a murdered activist.

The cast includes Jacob Vargas, Daniel Zovatto, Lana Parrilla, Armando Riesco, and Luis Antonio Ramos. Leading Puerto Rican filmmaker Betty Kaplan, whose credits include Almost A Woman and Doña Bárbara, directs Dime Detective.

Producers include Lee Caplin, who produced Ali and True Detective,...

Producers plan September production start in northern California.

Angel Oak Films has finalised a raft of sales including North America, Latin America and Spain on upcoming Aaron Eckhart and Terrence Howard dramatic thriller Afterward.

The new Los Angeles and Brussels-based production outfit headed by Pascal Borno and Alain Gillissen has licensed North and Latin American rights to Grindstone Entertainment Group.

Deals have closed in Spain (YouPlanet), Middle East (Eagle Films), Italy (Adler Entertainment), and Portugal (Lusomundo). Al Munteanu’s SquareOne acquired German rights in an anchor deal early in the process.

The producers have earmarked a September start of principal photography in Humboldt County,...

Dito Montiel to direct.

Angel Oak Films, the new Los Angeles and Brussels-based production and sales company headed by Pascal Borno and Alain Gillissen, have announced with vice-president of development B.I. Rosen they will fully finance and produce the Aaron Eckhart thriller Afterward.

Dito Montiel will direct the story of a father who sets out on a quest for justice after his daughter dies in a small town mired in corruption and ruthless politics.

Angel Oak has started talks with buyers in Tiff and the producers have earmarked a second quarter 2020 production start.

Producing alongside Angel Oak Films are Eckhart...

In The Aftermath (1988) will be available on Blu-ray September 24th From Arrow Video

Following in the footsteps of Francis Ford Coppola and Peter Bogdanovich, Roger Corman protégé Carl Colpaert (The Crew) made his directorial debut by combining repurposed excerpts from a foreign film in this case, Mamoru Oshii s (Ghost In The Shell) spellbinding 1985 anime Angel s Egg with new live-action footage shot in America. The result is In The Aftermath, a haunting post-apocalyptic vision like no other.

In a radiation-soaked wasteland, two surviving soldiers, Frank and Goose, search for essential supplies amid the rubble. After a violent confrontation, Frank is haunted by visions of an angelic young girl holding a giant egg, herself a refugee from another world altogether. Could the egg be the key to saving both their worlds?

A unique mash-up of 1980s B-movie nuclear paranoia and hauntingly lyrical animation, In The Aftermath is presented in a...

In today’s film news roundup, Steve Coogan will receive the Charlie Chaplin award, Aaron Eckhart and Marisa Coughlan get cast and Swiss thriller “The Innocent” gets a Us release.

Award

Steve Coogan has been selected as the recipient of the Charlie Chaplin Britannia Award for Excellence in Comedy from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Los Angeles.

He joins previously announced honoree Jane Fonda, who will receive the Stanley Kubrick Britannia Award for Excellence in Film, and Jackie Chan, who will receive the Albert R. Broccoli Britannia Award for Worldwide Contribution to Entertainment. The awards will be presented on Oct. 25 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.

“Throughout his three-decade career, Coogan has mastered the art of making people laugh and continues to entertain audiences with his brilliant portrayal of comedic characters. His most popular creation – the politically incorrect media personality, Alan Partridge – garnered him worldwide recognition as one of the greatest TV characters,...

Following in the footsteps of Francis Ford Coppola and Peter Bogdanovich, Roger Corman protégé Carl Colpaert (The Crew) made his directorial debut by combining re-purposed excerpts from a foreign film – in this case, Mamoru Oshii’s spellbinding 1985 anime Angel’s Egg – with all new live action footage shot in America. The result is In The Aftermath, a haunting post-apocalyptic vision like no other.

Synopsis:

In a radiation-soaked wasteland, two surviving soldiers, Frank and Goose, search for essential supplies amid the rubble. Af...

Cineville has attached writer-director Dito Montiel to the independent dramatic thriller “Afterward,” Variety has learned exclusively.

Production is planned to start in the spring of 2019. Producers are Thomas D. Adelman, production manager on “The Usual Suspects”; Elizabeth Gast Napolitano; Frederic Demey (“Female Fight Squad”) and Carl Colpaert.

The story centers on a father’s struggle to deal with the passing of his daughter, which leads him on a quest for truth and justice against corruption and small town politics.

Montiel made his feature directorial debut on 2006’s “A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints,” followed by “Fighting,” “The Son of No One,” “Empire State,” “Boulevard,” “Man Down,” and “The Clapper.”

“I’m excited to have Cineville behind me as we guide ‘Afterward’ into production,” he said. “While I’m hardly said to have a particular style or type of film I gravitate towards, ‘Afterward’ represents a challenging change of direction and a personal project for me,...

• Mark Wahlberg may star in the Bp oil rig explosion film Deepwater Horizon from All Is Lost director J.C. Chandor. The movie is adapted from The New York Times article “Deepwater Horizon’s Final Hour” and is based on the true story of the men who worked on the rig in the Gulf of Mexico when it exploded in 2010, causing one of the worst oil spills in history. Wahlberg would play the No. 2 manager on site. Matthew Michael Carnahan (World War Z) has adapted the latest draft based on an original version written by Matthew Sand. [Deadline]

• Warner Bros. has acquired...

Washington, August 15: David Arquette has reportedly been dumped from his upcoming film project 'Something About Her' for being drunk on the set.

A source revealed to Radar Online that the director had no other choice but to sack him as everyone in the set was disappointed and irritated by the 41-year-old actor.

The insider said that Arquette wasn't prepared that day and later on it was realised that he had shown up in an inebriated condition.

However, Carl Colpaert the director of the flick insisted that Arquette left the project simply because Anthony Michael Hall was better suited for the role and later replaced.

Title: Black Limousine Directed by: Carl Colpaert Starring: David Arquette, Bijou Phillips, Vivica A. Fox, Tom Bower, Nicholas Bishop and Lin Shaye Running time: 101 minutes, Rated R Special Features: None Jack MacKenzie is a former award-winning film composer, and divorced father who is trying to pick up the pieces of his shattered life after an accident that claimed the life of one of his daughters, by getting a job as a limo driver in Hollywood. He struggles with his alcohol addiction while going to AA meetings and tries to inch his way back into the business by chatting up his clientele. Surrealism abounds! This film is amateurish and depressing  [ Read More ]...

From Anchor Bay Entertainment, actor David Arquette delivers an effectively twitchy performance for director Carl Colpaert, in the Hollywood-set 2010 drama "Black Limousine", available on DVD, July 10, 2012 :

"...'James MacKenzie' (Arquette). once a Hollywood film composer, has fallen on hard times. Having resorted to take a draining job as an La limo driver, just to make ends meet, he is a broken man, trying to put his life back together by picking up the pieces of a shattered family and career. Jack's split and sanity have been crushed by the loss of his first daughter and he has turned to alcohol to deal with the grief.

"Jack catches a break when he is assigned to drive A-List actor 'Thomas Bower'to the set of his latest film. On the set he starts up a sexually-charged relationship with 'Erica Long' (Bijou Phillips) a skanky model and singer struggling with demons of her own.

We have an exclusive cilp from the upcoming Anchor Bay title Black Limousine, debuting on DVD July 10. David Arquette stars as Jack MacKenzie, a former movie composer who now makes a living as a limo driver, and forms a friendship with a top Hollywood actor. Take a look at this scene where Jack applies for the limo driver position.

Black Limousine - Exclusive Job Interview

Jack MacKenzie (Arquette), once a hot Hollywood composer, has fallen on hard times. Having resorted to taking a draining job as a limo driver just to make ends meet, he is a broken man, trying to put his life back together by picking up the pieces of a shattered family and career. Jack's sprit and sanity have been crushed by the loss of his first daughter and he has turned to alcohol to deal with the grief.

Jack catches a break when he is assigned...

DVD Release Date: July 10, 2012

Price: DVD $22.98

Studio: Anchor Bay

The darkness at the end of the tunnel is David Arquette in Black Limousine.

David Arquette (Scream 4) and Bijou Phillips (Bully) star in the 2010 drama Black Limousine, tagged by its marketers as “a ghost story set in the city of dreams.”

Jack MacKenzie (Arquette), once a hot Hollywood composer, has fallen on hard times, a feeling fueled by alcoholism. Having resorted to taking a draining job as a limo driver just to make ends meet, Jack catches a break when he is assigned to drive A-List Actor Thomas Bower (Nicholas Bishop (TV’s Body of Proof) back-and-forth to the set of his latest film, during which time the two build a friendship of sorts. Bower appears interested and willing to help re-establish Jack, who also strikes up a sexually charged relationship with model-singer Erica Long (Phillips) who is struggling with her own problems.

Updated Sept. 7 at 10:03 pm Beijing time

Toronto -- The audience award at the Montreal World Film Festival was shared by Spanish director Emilio Aragon's "Paper Birds" and "The Day I Was Not Born," by German director Florian Cossen.

Cossen's debut feature about a young German woman who comes upon a painful family secret while passing through Argentina also earned the Fipresci critics prize and shared the Ecumenical Prize with the juried Grand Prix of the Americas winner, Hans Van Nuffel's "Oxygen."

It's been a busy 10 days for Van Nuffel. The Belgian director was in Montreal last week to debut his first-feature in Montreal, before jumping a plane to open the Film Festival of Ostend back home on Sept. 3 with "Oxygen."

Then Monday night, Van Nuffel was expected back in Montreal to receive the festival's top jury prize ahead of a Belgian theatrical release on Sept. 8 for his...

Toronto -- Jeff Lipsky's family drama "Twelve Thirty" and Carl Colpaert's "The Land of the Astronauts," starring David Arquette as a once-hot composer driving a limo to make ends meet, have joined the official competition at the upcoming Montreal World Film Festival, organizers said Tuesday.

The American films will compete against 20 features and 16 shorts from 24 countries in the World Competition in Montreal, including two Canadian entries: Louis Belanger's "Route 132," which will open the festival on Aug. 26, and "Silence Lies," directed by Julie Hivon.

France is sending four competition titles to Montreal, including Jacques Doillon's "Three-Way Wedding," with three film from Japan, two from Germany, and Gianfrancesco Lazotti's "From the Waist On by" flying the flag for Italy.

In all, Montreal booked 430 films from 80 countries for its 34th edition, of which 113 features will be world or international premieres.

The festival has also scheduled tributes for actresses Nathalie Baye and Stefania Sandrelli,...

NEW YORK -- William Faulkner's 1948 suspense novel Intruder in the Dust is returning to the big screen from Picture Entertainment and Plum Pictures.

The Nobel Prize-winning author's novel focuses on a black man in rural Mississippi falsely accused of shooting a white neighbor in the back. The imprisoned man must stave off a lynch mob with the help of an unlikely band of locals who search for the evidence that will prove his innocence.

Dust was first adapted to film by director Clarence Brown for MGM in 1949. Production on the new project is expected to begin in 2009.

Plum partners Celine Rattray, Galt Niederhoffer and Daniela Taplin will produce Dust with Picture chairman Lee Caplin. Carl Colpaert will executive produce, and Joy Goodwin will co-produce.

Other film adaptations of Faulkner's works include 1958's The Long, Hot Summer, 1959's The Sound and the Fury and the upcoming short Red Leaves from actor-director James Franco.

Picture executive produced "Ali" for Sony. Plum is developing several projects, including The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt with Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese attached at Paramount, and another literary adaptation, Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar, starring Julia Stiles.

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NEW YORK -- A surrealistic portrait of a soldier struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder upon his return home from a tour of duty in Iraq, "G.I. Jesus" is a stylistically audacious effort that doesn't quite succeed in its artistic ambitions. But there is no denying its relevance and passion, and the film contains powerful moments that more than justify its rougher spots.

The titular character of the film is Jesus Feliciano (Joe Arquette), who lives with his beautiful wife (Patricia Mota) and young daughter in a Los Angeles trailer park. Having joined the Marines with the hope of gaining U.S. citizenship for himself and his family, he has been called back for another tour of duty.

The stress of his previous experiences and fateful future weighs heavily on him as he begins to experience a series of hallucinations, including lengthy conversations with an Iraqi (Maurizio Farhad) that no one else can see and visions of sinister U.S. military leaders. These sequences are rendered in various visual styles, many of which involve greenish tints that resemble the nightvision scenes of warfare seen on TV. Snippets of real-life Iraq War footage also are incorporated to powerful effect.

Director-screenwriter Carl Colpaert is less concerned with narrative structure or coherence than in providing fractured visual representations of his main character's tortured psyche, with the result that the story and characterizations never quite connect with the desired emotional resonance. But the film scores points for timeliness and for its laudable effort to treat its important subject matter in a manner that avoids the usual cliches.