Twelve Hours Shoots In New York
Exclusive: Filming is underway in New York on the sophomore feature from writer-director Bandar Albuliwi, whose 2013 debut Peace After Marriage starred Succession and Ramy actress Hiam Abbas. Starring are Adam Budron (Sundance 2020 entry Wild Indian), newcomer Emma Eudes, Mauricio Bustamante (Little Men) and Louis Anthony Arias (Uncut Gems). Albuliwi produces with Budron and Faruk Ozerten. Albuliwi, who is also working on U.S. projects Juliet and A Brotherhood, told us: “Twelve Hours is a tale of an accidental encounter between two former lovers that rekindles feelings that have been laying dormant all these years. Shooting the movie on location during the Covid-19 pandemic in NYC while taking extreme precautions has proven to be both exhilarating and challenging at the same time. Many people have come up to us on the street and have told us how happy they were to see a film production shooting once again,...
Exclusive: Filming is underway in New York on the sophomore feature from writer-director Bandar Albuliwi, whose 2013 debut Peace After Marriage starred Succession and Ramy actress Hiam Abbas. Starring are Adam Budron (Sundance 2020 entry Wild Indian), newcomer Emma Eudes, Mauricio Bustamante (Little Men) and Louis Anthony Arias (Uncut Gems). Albuliwi produces with Budron and Faruk Ozerten. Albuliwi, who is also working on U.S. projects Juliet and A Brotherhood, told us: “Twelve Hours is a tale of an accidental encounter between two former lovers that rekindles feelings that have been laying dormant all these years. Shooting the movie on location during the Covid-19 pandemic in NYC while taking extreme precautions has proven to be both exhilarating and challenging at the same time. Many people have come up to us on the street and have told us how happy they were to see a film production shooting once again,...
- 1/6/2021
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Julien Magnat's new thriller starring a "face blind" Milla Jovovich, Faces in the Crowd, began shooting a couple of days ago, and we have the official word along with full casting news for you!
From the Press Release
Oscar-nominated writer/director Julien Magnat’s feature length debut Faces In The Crowd began principal photography in and around Winnipeg, Canada on Saturday, May 8th.
Milla Jovovich (The Fourth Kind, Resident Evil) stars alongside Julian McMahon (Nip/Tuck, Fantastic Four) in the psychological thriller being produced for Minds Eye Entertainment, Forecast Pictures, Radar Films, and Frantic Films – the Canada/France team of Kevin DeWalt (Saskatchewan), Jean-Charles Lévy (France), Clément Miserez (France), and Jamie Brown (Manitoba) will produce alongside Hollywood veterans Scott Mednick and Sylvain White. Executive producers are Christopher Petzel and Milla Jovovich.
The film is a Saskatchewan-Manitoba interprovincial Canada-France co-production with key technical and creative personnel from both provinces. Principal...
From the Press Release
Oscar-nominated writer/director Julien Magnat’s feature length debut Faces In The Crowd began principal photography in and around Winnipeg, Canada on Saturday, May 8th.
Milla Jovovich (The Fourth Kind, Resident Evil) stars alongside Julian McMahon (Nip/Tuck, Fantastic Four) in the psychological thriller being produced for Minds Eye Entertainment, Forecast Pictures, Radar Films, and Frantic Films – the Canada/France team of Kevin DeWalt (Saskatchewan), Jean-Charles Lévy (France), Clément Miserez (France), and Jamie Brown (Manitoba) will produce alongside Hollywood veterans Scott Mednick and Sylvain White. Executive producers are Christopher Petzel and Milla Jovovich.
The film is a Saskatchewan-Manitoba interprovincial Canada-France co-production with key technical and creative personnel from both provinces. Principal...
- 5/11/2010
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
Oscar-nominated writer/director Julien Magnat's feature length debut Faces In The Crowd began principal photography in and around Winnipeg, Canada on Saturday, May 8. Milla Jovovich (The Fourth Kind, Resident Evil) stars alongside Julian McMahon (Nip/Tuck, Fantastic Four) in the psychological thriller being produced for Minds Eye Entertainment, Forecast Pictures, Radar Films and Frantic Films the Canada/France team of Kevin DeWalt (Saskatchewan), Jean-Charles Lévy (France), Clément Miserez (France) and Jamie Brown (Manitoba) will produce alongside Hollywood veterans Scott Mednick and Sylvain White. Executive producers are Christopher Petzel and Milla Jovovich. Joining Jovovich and McMahon in the cast are Michael Shanks (Stargate, 24), David Atrakchi (Transporter 3), Sarah Wayne Callies (Prison Break, Lullaby For Pi) and Marianne Faithful (Paris, Je Taime, Marie Antoinette).
- 5/11/2010
- bloody-disgusting.com
As I was about to comment on the happy news that Laurie Woodrow's Trans-Pacific has been acquired by Fierce Entertainment, I received the shocking and tragic news that Richard Glasser, one of the most beloved pioneers of a small special niche of people serving international film acquisitions called buyers reps suffered a massive stroke 4 days ago and is on life support. He essentially died in Giovanna's arms after a loving reunion on his return from his Berlin trip for the Efm. He was home having a normal great time with Giva for just an hour before it occurred.
Richard was one of a small group called Buyers Reps which began as a small group of very specialized acquisitions executives buying for the larger international distributors. Gordon Steele was one of the earliest of these pioneers and he repped (still does) the largest most prestigious distributors from around the world.
Richard was one of a small group called Buyers Reps which began as a small group of very specialized acquisitions executives buying for the larger international distributors. Gordon Steele was one of the earliest of these pioneers and he repped (still does) the largest most prestigious distributors from around the world.
- 2/26/2010
- by Sydney
- Sydney's Buzz
Familiar faces hawking under new banners is a theme during AFM as veterans of the market circuit take up the battle to secure financing for projects after seeing the hard-hit sales sector suffer and companies disappear.
This year's AFM will boast a brace of familiar faces from Stateside boasting new companies and two newly formed international sales companies operating under the banners Metropolis International Sales and Timeless Films from the U.K.
Veteran sales agent Reiko Bradley -- who recently survived a brain hemorrhage -- has launched Eclipse International, a sales and distribution company. Bradley is the CEO, and Stephen Durham is the president of the L.A.-based company.
The company wheels into the market with four films, including science fiction thriller "New World Order" detailing a time-traveling quest to prevent terrorists from attacking an international peace summit in 2012.
In late 2006, Bradley, now 47, suffered a brain hemorrhage,...
This year's AFM will boast a brace of familiar faces from Stateside boasting new companies and two newly formed international sales companies operating under the banners Metropolis International Sales and Timeless Films from the U.K.
Veteran sales agent Reiko Bradley -- who recently survived a brain hemorrhage -- has launched Eclipse International, a sales and distribution company. Bradley is the CEO, and Stephen Durham is the president of the L.A.-based company.
The company wheels into the market with four films, including science fiction thriller "New World Order" detailing a time-traveling quest to prevent terrorists from attacking an international peace summit in 2012.
In late 2006, Bradley, now 47, suffered a brain hemorrhage,...
- 11/4/2009
- by By Stuart Kemp
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
NEW YORK -- The teaming of Jet Li and Jason Statham results in a union that's less than the sum of its parts in War, one of the many entries in the annual late summer B-movie onslaught. Lacking even the galvanizing action sequences that would have compensated for suffering through its formulaic plot, this is a thoroughly forgettable exploitationer that will not enhance its stars' resumes. The film opened Friday without being screened for the press.
The film works in plenty of the familiar elements, from the tough cop out for revenge to the mysterious assassin on a mission to the usual convoluted plot machinations involving the Asian underworld. When the partner and family of FBI agent Crawford (Statham) are brutally murdered, he vows to get revenge on the mysterious assassin who subsequently disappeared. Cut to three years later, when the killer named Rogue (Li) returns to become involved in a turf war between the Chinese Triads and the Japanese yakuzas. About 90 minutes later, the audience finally gets what it came to see, a protracted hand-to-hand combat between the stars.
Unfortunately, that altercation -- edited in the obligatory hyperactive style -- is less than overwhelming, as is everything that has come before it. Although there is plenty of violence on display -- including shootouts, car chases and sword battles -- none of the sequences compare in excitement to virtually anything seen in Li or Statham's oeuvre.
Statham glowers with his usual effectiveness, but has little opportunity to show off his intense charisma. And Li, wearing a slight smirk throughout the entire proceedings, rarely displays the amazing physicality of which he's still clearly capable.
Lee Anthony Smith and Gregory J. Bradley's screenplay attempts to throw in some character-defining quirks -- the cop is afraid of his wife finding out he still smokes, the killer has really organized closets, etc. -- to little effect. And the final would-be surprising revelation, involving a pretty extensive plastic surgery job, is too little, too late.
The supporting cast includes the superb John Lone, here wasted as a crime boss, and Mathew St. Patrick and Andrea Roth, both of whom have been seen to much better effect in their TV gigs on HBO's Six Feet Under and FX's Rescue Me, respectively. One of the film's best unintentional laughs comes with Devon Aoki's ordering some tough guys at gunpoint to get her some salad, fast, with the dressing on the side.
WAR
Lionsgate
Cast:
Director: Philip G. Atwell
Screenwriters: Lee Anthony Smith, Gregory J. Bradley
Producers: Steven Chasman, Christopher Petzel, Jim Thompson
Executive producer: Mike Elliott
Director of photography: Pierre Morel
Production designer: Chris August
Costume designer: Cynthia Ann Summers
Cast:
Rogue: Jet Li
Crawford: Jason Statham
Chang: John Lone
Kira: Devon Aoki
Benny: Luis Guzman
Dr. Sherman: Saul Rubinek
Shiro: Ryo Ishibashi
Running time -- 99 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
The film works in plenty of the familiar elements, from the tough cop out for revenge to the mysterious assassin on a mission to the usual convoluted plot machinations involving the Asian underworld. When the partner and family of FBI agent Crawford (Statham) are brutally murdered, he vows to get revenge on the mysterious assassin who subsequently disappeared. Cut to three years later, when the killer named Rogue (Li) returns to become involved in a turf war between the Chinese Triads and the Japanese yakuzas. About 90 minutes later, the audience finally gets what it came to see, a protracted hand-to-hand combat between the stars.
Unfortunately, that altercation -- edited in the obligatory hyperactive style -- is less than overwhelming, as is everything that has come before it. Although there is plenty of violence on display -- including shootouts, car chases and sword battles -- none of the sequences compare in excitement to virtually anything seen in Li or Statham's oeuvre.
Statham glowers with his usual effectiveness, but has little opportunity to show off his intense charisma. And Li, wearing a slight smirk throughout the entire proceedings, rarely displays the amazing physicality of which he's still clearly capable.
Lee Anthony Smith and Gregory J. Bradley's screenplay attempts to throw in some character-defining quirks -- the cop is afraid of his wife finding out he still smokes, the killer has really organized closets, etc. -- to little effect. And the final would-be surprising revelation, involving a pretty extensive plastic surgery job, is too little, too late.
The supporting cast includes the superb John Lone, here wasted as a crime boss, and Mathew St. Patrick and Andrea Roth, both of whom have been seen to much better effect in their TV gigs on HBO's Six Feet Under and FX's Rescue Me, respectively. One of the film's best unintentional laughs comes with Devon Aoki's ordering some tough guys at gunpoint to get her some salad, fast, with the dressing on the side.
WAR
Lionsgate
Cast:
Director: Philip G. Atwell
Screenwriters: Lee Anthony Smith, Gregory J. Bradley
Producers: Steven Chasman, Christopher Petzel, Jim Thompson
Executive producer: Mike Elliott
Director of photography: Pierre Morel
Production designer: Chris August
Costume designer: Cynthia Ann Summers
Cast:
Rogue: Jet Li
Crawford: Jason Statham
Chang: John Lone
Kira: Devon Aoki
Benny: Luis Guzman
Dr. Sherman: Saul Rubinek
Shiro: Ryo Ishibashi
Running time -- 99 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
- 8/27/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Jet Li and Jason Statham will star in the thriller Rogue for Lionsgate. Music video helmer Phillip G. Atwell is on board to direct. Penned by Lee Anthony Smith and Gregory J. Bradley, the story follows Rogue (Li), an infamous assassin who has set off a crime war between two rival Asian mobs. FBI agent Jack Crawford (Statham), whose partner is killed by Rogue, embarks on a deadly cat-and-mouse game to settle the score. Cory Yuen will be the film's martial arts action designer. Lionsgate is eyeing a spring production start date. The film will be produced by Steve Chasman and Fierce Entertainment's Christopher Petzel and Jim Thompson in association with Lionsgate.
- 1/24/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Fierce Entertainment, founded by Christopher Petzel and Scott Karol, has struck an overall strategic relationship with Madonna and Guy Oseary's Maverick Films. The deal will see the two companies collaborate on various film projects with Fierce bringing its transaction and financing experience in film, television and video games to support Maverick's roster of producers. As part of the deal, Fierce will move into Maverick's Beverly Hills offices. "We are extremely excited to be working with Maverick and look forward to creating real long-term value for them," Karol said. Added Maverick's Mark Morgan, "In today's toughening environment, it seems imperative to bring such experience closer (in-house) in order to expand the options and opportunities for getting projects made."...
- 10/17/2002
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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