Exclusive: Alexandra Shipp, most recently seen reprising her role as Storm in Dark Phoenix, has landed a role in Kung Fury 2, joining Michael Fassbender, Arnold Schwarzenegger, David Hasselhoff, and David Sandberg, who is also the writer and director of the pic.
Argent Pictures is financing and producing the project with Creasun Entertainment USA. Production is currently underway in Bulgaria and will also film in Germany.
It’s Sandberg’s followup to his highly-viewed YouTube short, Kung Fury. The action-comedy is set in 1985 Miami, which is kept safe under the watchful eye of Kung Fury, the greatest damn cop of all time. His Thundercops are the ultimate police force assembled from across history to defeat the villainous Kung Fuhrer, Adolf Hitler.
After the tragic death of one of their members causes the group to disband, a mysterious villain emerges from the shadows to aid in the Fuhrer’s quest to attain the ultimate weapon.
Argent Pictures is financing and producing the project with Creasun Entertainment USA. Production is currently underway in Bulgaria and will also film in Germany.
It’s Sandberg’s followup to his highly-viewed YouTube short, Kung Fury. The action-comedy is set in 1985 Miami, which is kept safe under the watchful eye of Kung Fury, the greatest damn cop of all time. His Thundercops are the ultimate police force assembled from across history to defeat the villainous Kung Fuhrer, Adolf Hitler.
After the tragic death of one of their members causes the group to disband, a mysterious villain emerges from the shadows to aid in the Fuhrer’s quest to attain the ultimate weapon.
- 7/26/2019
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
Edwardian England-set science fiction stars Rafe Spall and Eleanor Tomlinson.
ITV Studios Global Entertainment (Itvs Ge) has unveiled a slew of pre-sales for its upcoming big-budget drama The War Of The Worlds as the Mipcom content market kicks off in Cannes.
A Mammoth Screen production for the BBC, co-produced with Creasun Media in association with Red Square, the series is based on an adaptation of H.G. Wells’ 1897 science-fiction classic by Peter Harness, whose credits include Wallander and Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell.
Itvs Ge said it had achieved pre-sale deals covering more than 80 territories, including to France (TF1), Spain...
ITV Studios Global Entertainment (Itvs Ge) has unveiled a slew of pre-sales for its upcoming big-budget drama The War Of The Worlds as the Mipcom content market kicks off in Cannes.
A Mammoth Screen production for the BBC, co-produced with Creasun Media in association with Red Square, the series is based on an adaptation of H.G. Wells’ 1897 science-fiction classic by Peter Harness, whose credits include Wallander and Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell.
Itvs Ge said it had achieved pre-sale deals covering more than 80 territories, including to France (TF1), Spain...
- 10/15/2018
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Derek Jacobi and Fleabag‘s Jenny Galloway have joined the cast of Come Away, the fantasy Peter Pan-Alice in Wonderland origin story movie that stars Angelina Jolie and David Oyelowo. Brave Oscar winner Brenda Chapman is directing the script from Marissa Kate Goodhill. The pic has been shooting in the UK before moving to Los Angeles in October.
Meanwhile, ahead of a sales push at the upcoming Toronto Film Festival, Steve Richards has joined the project as producer, with his Endurance Media, Alex Lebovici and Steve Ponce’s Hammerstone Studios and Christian Mercuri’s Capstone Group joining Fred Films and Oyelowo’s Yoruba Saxon Productions as production partners. Additional financing is coming from Ace Pictures, Creasun Entertainment USA and Tin Res Entertainment..
Capstone is now set to launch international sales oronto, where UTA and Wme are repping domestic rights.
The pic is set before Alice went to Wonderland and Peter became Pan,...
Meanwhile, ahead of a sales push at the upcoming Toronto Film Festival, Steve Richards has joined the project as producer, with his Endurance Media, Alex Lebovici and Steve Ponce’s Hammerstone Studios and Christian Mercuri’s Capstone Group joining Fred Films and Oyelowo’s Yoruba Saxon Productions as production partners. Additional financing is coming from Ace Pictures, Creasun Entertainment USA and Tin Res Entertainment..
Capstone is now set to launch international sales oronto, where UTA and Wme are repping domestic rights.
The pic is set before Alice went to Wonderland and Peter became Pan,...
- 9/5/2018
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
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