Danny DeVito and Andie MacDowell have made a festive movie.Vmi Worldwide have scooped the international sales rights to 'A Sudden Case of Christmas' and are set to present the holiday film - which also stars Wilmer Valderrama and the 'Twins' star's daughter Lucy - to buyers at this week's Cannes Market, Deadline reports.'The Space Between Us' filmmaker Peter Chelsom is directing the picture from a screenplay he co-wrote with Tinker Lindsay, Gianluca Bomprezzi, Neri Parenti, Dederico Baccomo and Francesco Patierno.'A Sudden Case of Christmas' follows Lawrence (Danny DeVito), who runs a grand hotel in the mountains of Italy, where he hosts his extended family for Christmas. However, he's shocked in August when his daughter (Lucy DeVito) and her husband (Valderrama) bring their 10-year-old daughter Claire (Antonella Rose) to visit, only to task him with the task of telling the youngster her parents are divorcing.When...
- 5/13/2024
- by Viki Waters
- Bang Showbiz
“Sound of Freedom” is being sold as a “conservative” thriller. It’s based on the true story of Tim Ballard, the former Department of Homeland Security special agent who has devoted himself to fighting child sex trafficking, and who took his crusade private when he founded Operation Underground Railroad, with backing from Glenn Beck. The movie stars Jim Caviezel, who in the 19 years since he played the title role of Mel Gibson’s “The Passion of the Christ” has been a go-to actor for the kind of faith-based projects the vast majority of Hollywood stars steer clear of. Wearing a trim dark beard and coppery blond hair, Caviezel plays Ballard as a beatific G.I. Joe meets George C. Scott in “Hardcore” meets an avenging Jesus.
The movie has a Christian undercurrent that occasionally becomes an overcurrent, as when Ballard explains why he’s fixated on the crime of trafficking: “Because...
The movie has a Christian undercurrent that occasionally becomes an overcurrent, as when Ballard explains why he’s fixated on the crime of trafficking: “Because...
- 7/3/2023
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
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