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Exclusive: UTA has signed rising Portuguese actress Sara Sampaio (Superman) for representation, Deadline has learned.

Sampaio is best known for landing the coveted role of Eve Teschmacher in Superman, which is currently in production with James Gunn at the helm. The first title in a revamped DC slate, Superman follows the titular character, played by David Corenswet, as he looks to reconcile his Kryptonian heritage with his human upbringing. He is the embodiment of truth, justice and the American way, guided by human kindness in a world that sees kindness as old-fashioned.

Created by Richard Donner and Mario Puzo, and first appearing in Superman and Superman II, Sampaio’s character is portrayed in the comics as Lex Luthor’s assistant turned love interest and right hand. Produced by DC Studios and to be distributed by Warner Bros, the film also stars Rachel Brosnahan as Lois Lane and Nicholas Hoult as Lex Luthor,...

Kevin Turen, the producer of HBO shows Euphoria and The Idol, died from multiple heart issues, according to a medical examiner’s report.

The official cause of death was acute cardiac dysfunction and hypertrophic heart disease, with coronary artery disease also cited.

Turen was driving his Tesla on a California freeway when stricken. His 10-year-old son managed to stop the car and take it to the side of the road. Turen was then taken to the hospital and died there.

Turen first produced Larry Clark’s Wassup Rockers, and later went on to work with Sam Levinson to produce Malcolm and Marie, Trey Shultz’s Waves, Nicholas Jarecki’s Arbitrage, Nate Parker’s The Birth of a Nation, Kornel Mondruczo’s Pieces of a Woman, Ramin Bahrani’s 99 Homes, and Ti West’s X trilogy.

The 44-year-old producer is survived by his wife, Evelina, and his two sons, Jack and James.

Kevin Turen, producer of Euphoria and The Idol, has died. He was 44.

Turen died suddenly over the weekend. His cause of death is not known at this time. The producer is survived by his wife, Evelina, and his two sons, Jack and James.

His father Edward Turen said in a statement Sunday night: “Kevin was so incredibly special, this world is going to be less without him.”

Turen first produced Larry Clark’s Wassup Rockers and later went on to work with Sam Levinson and produce Malcolm and Marie, Trey Shultz’s Waves, Nicholas Jarecki’s Arbitrage, Nate Parker’s The Birth of a Nation, Kornel Mondruczo’s Pieces of a Woman, Ramin Bahrani’s 99 Homes and Ti West’s X trilogy.

Turen’s work in television included Levinson’s Euphoria and The Idol as well as Olivier Assayas’a Irma Vep.

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Exclusive: Tim Daly (Wings) and Veronica Ferres (Hector and the Search for Happiness) have been tapped for roles in Unholy Trinity, rounding out the ensemble for the Western helmed by Robert the Bruce‘s Richard Gray. The actors join an ensemble that also includes Pierce Brosnan, Samuel L. Jackson, Brandon Lessard, and Q’orianka Kilcher, as previously announced.

Currently shooting under an Interim Agreement, the film written by Lee Zachariah is set against the turbulent backdrop of 1870s Montana. It picks up in the moments before the execution of Isaac Broadway, as he gives his estranged son, Henry (Lessard), an impossible task: murder the man who framed him for a crime he didn’t commit. Intent on fulfilling his promise, Henry travels to the remote town of Trinity, where an unexpected turn of events traps him in town and leaves him caught between Gabriel Dove (Brosnan), the town’s upstanding new sheriff,...

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German star Veronica Ferres (Rossini, Crisis, Salt & Fire) has joined the cast of sword and sorcery reboot Red Sonja.

Ferres will play the mother of Red Sonja and the Goddess Ashera in the new film, which is being pitched as more an adaptation of Robert E. Howard’s original Marvel comic than a reboot of the 1985 feature starring Brigitte Nielsen and Arnold Schwarzenegger. The 80s film was a notorious flop. Producers Millennium Media are also handling international sales.

Italian-American actress Matilda Lutz (Revenge) is playing Red Sonja. Wallis Day, Robert Sheehan, Michael Bisping, Martyn Ford, Eliza Matengu, Manal El-Feitury and Katrina Durden co-star.

M.J. Bassett (Rouge, Silent Hill: Revelation) is directing, taking over from Joey Soloway, who is still attached as an executive producer on the project. Red Sonja is currently shooting at Millennium’s Nu Boyana studios in Sofia, Bulgaria.

Ferres is...

Rts London Unveils Lineup & Warner Bros Discovery’s Priya Dogra As Chair

Priya Dogra, the big winner in the recent Warner Bros Discovery international reshuffle, will chair this year’s Royal Television Society (Rts) London Convention entitled The Fight For Attention, with bosses of all the major channels addressing the event. The day of talks and sessions is the first to be principally sponsored by the newly-combined entity. Dogra, who was recently promoted to become President & Managing Director for Emea in a major reshuffle, will set the tone for the one-day convention featuring keynotes from BBC Director General Tim Davie, ITV CEO Carolyn McCall, Channel 4 CEO Alex Mahon and Sky Executive Vice President & CEO, UK & Europe, Stephen van Rooyen. More speakers are incoming for the event, which moves between London and Cambridge each year. “With more choice than ever before of what to watch and how to watch it,...

Exclusive: Soo Joo Park (Sense8), Brock O’Hurn (The Righteous Gemstones), Bella Thorne (Measure of Revenge), Laird Hamilton (Point Break) and Duke Nicholson (Us) are the latest additions to the cast of the dark comedy The Trainer, which Tony Kaye (American History X) is directing from a script by star Vito Schnabel and Jeff Solomon.

The film currently in production, after nearly a decade in development, is based on an original story by Schnabel. Unfolding over eight days of sleep-deprived chaos, it follows Jack (Schnabel), a down-on-his-luck fitness expert living with his mother in Los Angeles, who takes a maniacal swing at fame and fortune, trying to realize his version of the American dream. Julia Fox, Steven Van Zandt, Taylour Paige, Stephen Dorff, John McEnroe, Gina Gershon and Luka Sabbat are also set to star. Details with regard to the characters the newest additions to the cast will be playing are being kept under wraps.

Exclusive: Roadside Attractions, the Oscar winning distributor of such movies as Judy and Manchester by the Sea, saw a shake-up today with two of its longtime executives, Marketing Boss Dennis O’Connor and SVP of Publicity, David Pollick departing the company, in addition to other cuts in their departments.

Also departing is Head of Field Publicity Ronit Vanderlinden and David Hawkins in Distribution, we hear.

Roadside Attractions Co-Presidents and Co-Founders Howard Cohen and Eric d’Arbeloff tell Deadline, “As we emerge from Covid and assemble a new slate of films for the changing theatrical marketplace, we have decided to restructure Roadside’s marketing and distribution organization for the near-term future.”

Lionsgate continues to maintain a 40% stake in Roadside Attractions, and the distributor remains one committed to theatrical with their releases seeing subsequent PVOD, DVD and streaming windows.

“A number of veteran team members at Roadside will be taking on additional responsibilities:...

Exclusive: Producer and award-winning actress Veronica Ferres has signed with CAA and Fourward. Both entities will also represent Ferres’ film and TV production company, Construction Film, which she founded in 2013 as a female led label, and is dually based in Munich and Los Angeles.

The German-born Ferres can currently be seen opposite Anthony Hopkins in Zero Contact, the first feature film Nft, and has completed filming Paradise Highway opposite Morgan Freeman and Juliette Binoche for Lionsgate. Through her Construction Film banner, Ferres produced, alongside Sandra Bullock and Graham King, The Unforgivable, which stars Bullock and Viola Davis and premieres with a theatrical release in the US on November 24 and internationally on Netflix December 10.

She also recently produced Shattered for Lionsgate with John Malkovich, Lilly Krug and Frank Grillo, which will be released January 14, 2022.

Ferres began her career in the Academy Award and Golden-Globe nominated film Schtonk!, and went on to...

Luke Evans has been tapped to star in Apple’s Echo 3 action-thriller drama series, from Oscar winner Mark Boal (The Hurt Locker), Apple Studios and Keshet Studios.

Echo 3 is set in South America and follows Amber Chesborough, a brilliant young scientist, who is the emotional center of a small American family. When she goes missing along the Colombia-Venezuela border, her brother and her husband — two men with deep military experience and complicated pasts — struggle to find her in a layered, personal drama, set against the explosive backdrop of a secret war.

Evans will play the role of Bambi, Amber’s brother.

The 10-part series is based on the award-winning Keshet Broadcasting series When Heroes Fly, created by Omri Givon and inspired by the eponymous novel by Amir Gutfreund. Given a straight-to-series order by Apple last July, Echo 3 will be shot with English and Spanish dialogue.

Boal serves as showrunner alongside...

A few months ago, Nicholas Jarecki's Crisis was a hot ticket movie. Full disclosure - I'm a voting member of the Critics Choice Association. Given how positively the director's previous movie, Arbitrage, was received we were given early access to it for awards consideration. Very shortly after we received our copies, the allegations against Armie Hammer surfaced. Given that he's one of the three stars (opposite Gary Oldman and Evangeline Lilly),…...

Gary Oldman in Crisis. Nicholas Jarecki: 'I thought there was a lot of explosive energy with this cast that could generate good thriller tension' Photo: Quiver Distribution Writer/director Nicholas Jarecki isn’t scared to tackle hot-button issues. His debut fiction feature, Arbitrage took on the complexity of hedge-fund malfeasance and, now, almost a decade later, he’s back with Crisis, a multi-strand film that considers the pharmaceutical drugs crisis in America. In one plot arc, Fda agent Jake (Armie Hammer) is working on a major drugs sting, a complex situation that will lead his path to cross that of grieving mum Claire (Evangeline Lilly), who is taking the law into her own hands to find out what happened to her son. Elsewhere, a college professor (Gary Oldman), who has spent his career rubberstamping tests for Big Pharma discovers the latest opioid in his lab may not be the...

As predicted, Roadshow’s The Dry has crossed the $20 million mark.

This means the Robert Connolly film, based on Jane Harper’s best selling novel, is now the 14th highest grossing Australian film of all time, surpassing titles such as The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, Muriel’s Wedding and The Dish (not adjusting for inflation).

And the mystery drama is likely to still have life in it, with star and producer Eric Bana doing a set of Q&As screenings this week.

“The astounding success of The Dry confirms what Roadshow has always known, that there will always be an appetite for quality Australian productions which can without a doubt rival their Hollywood counterparts at the box office,” said Roadshow Films CEO Joel Pearlman.

“We will continue working with local industry and our partners in exhibition to deliver these crowd favourites to the big screen.”

Now 12 weeks in release,...

When films like Steven Soderberg's Traffic used to take on the drugs trade, it was generally heroin or cocaine that was the 'bad guy' and now Nicholas Jarecki's latest turns its attention to the more everyday but equally deadly addiction caused by American's prescription opioid crisis. It's a big subject and Jarecki certainly doesn't lack ambition or good intent - as evidenced by his previous financial thriller Arbitrage.

He comes at the drug idea from multiple angles, although this time he struggles to make its dustier, more corporate elements fully gel with its more traditional thriller and melodrama trappings. There's the sort of amount of material here that used to form the basis for an entire series of The Shield, so even with a running time of two hours, it's difficult for anything to be dwelt on in detail although the high calibre acting and decent pace mean it's never less.

Even with new titles on VOD and streaming charts, the Oscar nominations may shake things up. Netflix received 35 total nominations among 14 titles, providing an unprecedented chance to see how many titles return to charts. The two top performers to date have been “Hillbilly Elegy” and “The Midnight Sky.” Nomination leader (with 10) “Mank” barely caused a wrinkle on the charts, placing tenth for a single day when it was released.

Currently, the dominant VOD titles are Sony’s standard-price ”Monster Hunter” and PVOD “The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run.” However, the other #1 is Nicholas Jarecki’s “Crisis” (Quiver) in its second week. The tripych of opiate-crisis stories starring Gary Oldman and Armie Hammer showed initial response last week and is now tops at Apple TV (which often foretells success later at other sites). For some reason (possibly a listed price of $9.99?), it doesn’t show up on the top 500 titles at Google Play.

Royalty is in vogue. Amazon Prime reported that its Eddie Murphy sequel “Coming 2 America,” per Screen Engine/Asi, had the most opening-weekend viewings of any original film in the past 12 months. Over the weekend, Prime Video also became the top downloaded Entertainment app on the App Store, and the #2 downloaded app across all free apps. Paramount Pictures initially planned to release the $60 million title in theaters last August, but sold worldwide rights to Amazon for a reported $125 million.

Another Paramount title, “SpongeBob: Sponge on the Run,” finally made its American debut as a Premium VOD for $19.99. It bested all premium titles and took #1 on the revenue-based FandangoNow chart. It’s the latest breakout success among animated films that includes “The Croods: A New Age,” “Soul,” and “Tom & Jerry.”

“Raya and the Last Dragon” also debuted this weekend in theaters and on Disney+ for those subscribers willing to pay...

Scene from the opioid crisis thriller Crisis, starring Gary Oldman, Evangeline Lilly, and Armie Hammer. Photo: Philippe Bosse. Courtesy of Quiver Distribution.

The crisis at the center of writer/director Nicholas Jarecki’s thriller Crisis is the opioid crisis. The fact-inspired thriller Crisis runs on three lines – a whistle-blowing scientist, a woman recovering from addiction to prescription painkillers unraveling a tragic mystery,, and an undercover DEA agent trying to break up a drug ring running prescription painkillers across the US-Canadian border. The triple thriller has a lot of threads to keep track of but Crisis features a sterling cast headed by Gary Oldman, Evangeline Lilly, and Armie Hammer.

Gary Oldman, Evangeline Lilly and Armie Hammer all head up separate narrative threads that represent different aspects of the vicious circle of the opioid crisis. Although the Covid pandemic has pushed all other crises off the headlines, this one has continued to...

This week brings more theatrical releases than American audiences have gotten in ages — and possibly more than they’re ready for now, as vaccine rollouts still leave people questioning whether it’s safe to do things like go to the movies.

Some, such as Warner Bros.’ “Tom & Jerry,” can also be viewed via streaming for HBO Max subscribers. Others — including Anthony Hopkins-starrer “The Father” (a subjective look at the impact of dementia on an elderly man) and the aptly named Armie Hammer movie “Crisis” — will be coming to VOD shortly, but are opening today only in cinemas.

For those who are either playing it safe or simply don’t have access to theaters, subscription streaming services are bringing a pair of high-profile music-themed movies. The first, Apple’s “Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry” gives audiences an intimate look at the pop star on her way up.

The brutal opioid crisis in America deserves an all-encompassing epic, and that is what filmmaker Nicholas Jarecki is determined to deliver with Crisis. And while his new film, which he both wrote and directed, certainly has the cast and the scope to succeed, there is not quite enough meat on its bones. In short, Jarecki’s narrative reach exceeds its grasp. Despite all that’s going on, there is precious little to latch on to.

The obvious (and perhaps lazy) cinematic comparison here is Steven Soderbergh’s Traffic, the celebrated drug war drama from the year 2000. Both films introduce multiple plot threads that all connect somewhere along the drug-trafficked chain. In Crisis, we follow Jake Kelly (Armie Hammer), a DEA agent at the razor’s edge of bringing down multiple elements of an international opioid smuggling operation; Claire Reimann (Evangeline Lilly), a recovering addict who’s struck a tragic blow...

Claire is an architect, mother, and recovering Oxy addict attempting to balance her life. Tyrone is a college professor who researches new medicines for a major conglomerate. Jake is a DEA agent posing as a drug trafficker who wants to bring down two major smuggling rings. Bill is a high-powered executive eager to push through his allegedly non-addictive new painkiller. Connected both loosely — often, very loosely — and sometimes inconceivably, by the raging opioid epidemic, each of the characters in Nicholas Jarecki’s scattered “Crisis” is at the mercy of appetites they can’t control. Taking an apparent nod from “Traffic,” though without its finesse or sprightliness,

Jarecki’s long-awaited follow-up to his similarly dry — but still entertaining and informative — 2012 narrative debut, “Arbitrage,” certainly has good intentions. The opioid crisis and the many lives it has upended and ruined is fertile ground for cinematic exploration, all the better to illuminate tragic stories for examination and reflection.

In the middle of a pandemic, Nicholas Jarecki is releasing a movie that tackles an U.S. epidemic.

“Remember before the pandemic, you would open up the New York Times, and every day the front page was an opioid story?” says Jarecki. The writer-director, who was behind the Wall Street corruption movie Arbitrage, is set to release his latest feature, Crisis. The movie tackles the opioid epidemic through three converging stories— an undercover federal officer organizing a smuggling operation, a recovering addict trying to find out the truth behind her son’s overdose, and a university professor at odds with his employer,...

In the middle of a pandemic, Nicholas Jarecki is releasing a movie that tackles an U.S. epidemic.

“Remember before the pandemic, you would open up the New York Times, and every day the front page was an opioid story?” says Jarecki. The writer-director, who was behind the Wall Street corruption movie Arbitrage, is set to release his latest feature, Crisis. The movie tackles the opioid epidemic through three converging stories— an undercover federal officer organizing a smuggling operation, a recovering addict trying to find out the truth behind her son’s overdose, and a university professor at odds with his employer,...

Crisis is a dramatic thriller that addresses the opioids epidemic from multiple points of view. A star-studded ensemble cast weaves together three separate storylines to a climactic juncture. Writer/director Nicholas Jarecki (Arbitrage) illustrates the root causes of opioid addiction from corporate production and criminal trafficking to the deadly results on city streets. The individual chapters are well-acted and sobering. But the film falls short in a predictable third act that becomes contrived and sanctimonious.

Crisis takes place in Detroit, Michigan, and across the Canadian border in Montreal. We're introduced to Claire Reimann (Evangeline Lilly) at an opioids support meeting. A divorced architect with a teenage son (Billy Bryk), Claire is a recovering oxycodone addict. Armie Hammer co-stars as DEA Agent Jake Kelly, he's been undercover for a year infiltrating a murderous fentanyl ring. Rounding out the primary cast is Dr. Tyrone Bower (Gary Oldman), a university professor who's been...

Setting out to be the Traffic of the opioid era, Nicholas Jarecki’s Crisis presents a trilogy of storylines whose tendrils involve everyone from big-pharma execs to undercover cops to addicts at various stages of despair.

Sprawling and serious but not nearly as involving as it should be, the pic — Jarecki’s sophomore feature, after 2012’s similarly topical Arbitrage — may well attract interest for unwanted reasons, as one of the films co-lead Armie Hammer completed before his current social media-stoked scandals hit. The actor’s stiff, uninteresting performance here is a reminder of how spotty his filmography has been to date....

Setting out to be the Traffic of the opioid era, Nicholas Jarecki’s Crisis presents a trilogy of storylines whose tendrils involve everyone from big-pharma execs to undercover cops to addicts at various stages of despair.

Sprawling and serious but not nearly as involving as it should be, the pic — Jarecki’s sophomore feature, after 2012’s similarly topical Arbitrage — may well attract interest for unwanted reasons, as one of the films co-lead Armie Hammer completed before his current social media-stoked scandals hit. The actor’s stiff, uninteresting performance here is a reminder of how spotty his filmography has been to date....

Some problems can’t be solved with a prescription. Attempting to do for the opioid epidemic what “Traffic” did for the war on drugs, Nicholas Jarecki’s “Crisis” sets up three separate storylines — a grieving mama with a grudge (Evangeline Lilly), an undercover DEA operative with an imminent bust (Armie Hammer) and a compromised research professor with a conscience (Gary Oldman) — and proceeds to braid them together for maximum melodrama.

It’s compelling, relevant filmmaking designed to cover all aspects of this ever-escalating national-health issue, thrown for a loop by an unforeseen crisis of its own: the very public scrutiny of Armie Hammer’s own alleged addictions. Dense but never difficult to follow, “Crisis” is crammed with screaming matches, shootouts and plenty of those bleary-eyed scenes where desperate relatives try to process the impact of drug abuse on their loved ones — which is to say, there’s no shortage of...

Crisis Trailer — Nicholas Jarecki‘s Crisis (2021) movie trailer has been released by Quiver Distribution. The Crisis trailer stars Armie Hammer, Gary Oldman, Evangeline Lilly, Michelle Rodriguez, Greg Kinnear, Luke Evans, Lily-rose Depp, Scott “Kid Cudi” Mescudi, Indira Varma, Mia Kirshner, and Martin Donovan. Crew Nicholas Jarecki wrote the screenplay for Crisis. [...]

Continue reading: Crisis Trailer: Gary Oldman & Armie Hammer star in Nicholas Jarecki’s 2021 Ensemble Opioid Epidemic Movie...

Quiver distribution has debuted a new trailer for Nicholas Jarecki’s ‘Crisis’ starring Gary Oldman and Evangeline Lilly.

A drug trafficker arranges a multi-cartel Fentanyl smuggling operation. An architect recovering from an Oxycodone addiction tracks down the truth behind her son’s disappearance. A university professor battles unexpected revelations about his employer, a pharmaceutical company bringing a new “non-addictive” painkiller to market. Set against the backdrop of the opioid epidemic, their stories collide in this dramatic thriller from writer/director Nicholas Jarecki (Arbitrage).

Written and directed by Nicholas Jarecki, the film stars Gary Oldman, Armie Hammer, Evangeline Lilly, Greg Kinnear, Michelle Rodriguez, Luke Evans, Lily-Rose Depp, Scott “Kid Cudi” Mescudi, Duke Nicholson, Veronica Ferres, and Martin Donovan.

Also in trailers – Benedict Cumberbatch stars in trailer for ‘The Courier’

The film has a US cinema release of February 26th and on Digital and On Demand March 5th.

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"It's not our responsibility." "Then who's is it?!" Quiver Distribution has revealed an official US trailer for an indie thriller titled Crisis, set around the opioid drug crisis. Crisis features three interwoven stories that highlight the greed, violence and tragedy of the drug war. A drug trafficker arranges a multi-cartel Fentanyl smuggling operation, an architect recovering from an oxycodone addiction tracks down the truth behind her son's disappearance and a university professor battles unexpected revelations about his employer, a pharma giant bringing a new "non-addictive" painkiller to market. The film's surprisingly impressive ensemble cast features Gary Oldman, Armie Hammer, Evangeline Lilly, Greg Kinnear, Michelle Rodriguez, Luke Evans, Lily-Rose Depp, Scott "Kid Cudi" Mescudi, Duke Nicholson, Veronica Ferres, and Martin Donovan. That epic cast should get everyone's attention, but so will this trailer. Looks damn good. Here's the first official trailer (+ poster) for Nicholas Jarecki's Crisis, direct from Quiver's YouTube...

Mank isn’t the only film that Gary Oldman leads during this extended awards season. He also stars in Nicholas Jarecki’s Crisis, which marks the director’s first film in nearly a decade, following 2012’s Arbitrage. Also featuring Armie Hammer, Evangeline Lilly, Greg Kinnear, Michelle Rodriguez, Luke Evans Lily-Rose Depp, Scott “Kid Cudi” Mescudi, Duke Nicholson, Veronica Ferres, and Martin Donovan, the first trailer has now landed ahead of a release later next month.

The film follows a number of storylines, as the synopsis notes: A drug trafficker arranges a multi-cartel Fentanyl smuggling operation. An architect recovering from an Oxycodone addiction tracks down the truth behind her son’s disappearance. A university professor battles unexpected revelations about his employer, a pharmaceutical company bringing a new “non-addictive” painkiller to market. Set against the backdrop of the opioid epidemic, their stories collide.

Watch the trailer below.

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The first trailer for the upcoming thriller “Crisis” has been released.

Set against the backdrop of the opioid epidemic, “Crisis” features three interwoven stories that highlight the greed, violence and tragedy of the drug war. An agent named Jake Kelly (Armie Hammer) is tracking down a drug trafficker that arranged a multi-cartel Fentanyl smuggling operation between Canada and the U.S. His mission appears to intertwine with Claire Reimann’s (Evangeline Lilly), who is an architect recovering from an oxycodone addiction searching for the truth behind her son’s involvement with narcotics and subsequent disappearance. Meanwhile, Dr. Tyrone Brower (Gary Oldman) is a university professor who battles unexpected revelations about his employer, a pharmaceutical giant bringing a new “non-addictive” painkiller to market.

Additional cast members include Greg Kinnear, Michelle Rodriguez, Luke Evans, Lily-Rose Depp, Kid Cudi, Duke Nicholson, Veronica Ferres and Martin Donovan. “Crisis” is writer and director Nicholas Jarecki...

Is the opioid crisis finally getting a movie and perhaps getting the “Traffic” treatment from multiple perspectives on the cause and effect? That seems to be the case with Nicholas Jarecki’s upcoming dramatic-thriller “Crisis” starring Academy Award-winner Gary Oldman (“Darkest Hour,” “Mank“) and Golden Globe-nominees Armie Hammer (“Call Me By Your Name,” “The Social Network“) and Evangeline Lilly (“Antman and The Wasp,” “The Hurt Locker“), to name just a few in a big ensemble cast.

Continue reading ‘Crisis’ Trailer: Nicholas Jarecki’s Opioid Crisis Thriller Stars Gary Oldman, Armie Hammer, Evangeline Lilly, Michelle Rodriguez & More at The Playlist.

Exclusive: Deadline can tell you first that Beauty and the Beast Gaston star Luke Evans will play The Coachman in Disney’s live-action retelling of Pinocchio, directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring Tom Hanks as Geppetto.

The movie, which was recently announced at Disney Investor Day in December as making its destination on streaming service Disney+, not theaters, is written by Zemeckis and Chris Weitz. Andrew Miano and Weitz are producing through their company Depth of Field. The 1940 Disney animated classic tells the tale of a living puppet who, with the help of a cricket as his conscience, must prove himself worthy to become a real boy. Box Office Mojo lists the movie with a lifetime gross close to $122M worldwide, however, the original animated feature has always been a vault cash cow for Disney.

Evans is appearing in Nicholas Jarecki’s Crisis feature opposite Gary Oldman, and he currently...

You thought Gary Oldman’s only shot at an Oscar this year was for his leading role in the David Fincher film, “Mank,” didn’t you? Well, surprise, surprise, we now have a second contending drama in the works that just announced a February release date, titled “Crisis.”

Read More: David Fincher Admits His Directing Style Was “Exhausting” For Gary Oldman During ‘Mank’

According to distributor Quiver, “Crisis” is now scheduled for a February release date, from writer-director Nicholas Jarecki.

Continue reading ‘Crisis’ First Look: Gary Oldman, Evangeline Lilly, Armie Hammer & More Star In Drama About Opioid Crisis at The Playlist.

Exclusive: The indie film upstart Quiver Distribution has acquired U.S. rights to Arbitrage writer-director Nicholas Jarecki’s dramatic thriller Crisis. Oscar winner Gary Oldman, Armie Hammer and Evangeline Lilly lead an ensemble cast that includes Greg Kinnear, Michelle Rodriguez, Luke Evans, Lily-Rose Depp, Scott “Kid Cudi” Mescudi, Duke Nicholson, Veronica Ferres and Martin Donovan. Quiver will release the film in theaters nationwide on February 26, 2021, followed by a digital and on-demand release March 5.

The film will be qualified for inclusion in awards season. Pic sets out to do for the opioid crisis what Traffic did for cocaine and the war on drugs during the crack scourge. In a series of interwoven story lines: a drug trafficker arranges a multi-cartel Fentanyl smuggling operation; an architect recovering from an Oxycodone addiction tracks down the truth behind her son’s disappearance; a university professor battles unexpected revelations about his employer, a pharmaceutical company...

Quiver Distribution has nabbed the the U.S. rights to writer and director Nicholas Jarecki’s dramatic thriller Crisis, which stars Gary Oldman, Armie Hammer and Evangeline Lilly.

The ensemble cast includes Greg Kinnear, Michelle Rodriguez, Luke Evans and Lily-Rose Depp.

Quiver will release the film in theaters on Feb. 26, 2021. followed by a digital and on-demand release on March 5.

Crisis follows a drug trafficker who arranges a multi-cartel Fentanyl smuggling operation, with an architect recovering from an Oxycodone addiction tracking down the truth behind her son’s disappearance.

“The devastating impact of the opioid epidemic reaches all corners of society....

Quiver Distribution has nabbed the the U.S. rights to writer and director Nicholas Jarecki’s dramatic thriller Crisis, which stars Gary Oldman, Armie Hammer and Evangeline Lilly.

The ensemble cast includes Greg Kinnear, Michelle Rodriguez, Luke Evans and Lily-Rose Depp.

Quiver will release the film in theaters on Feb. 26, 2021. followed by a digital and on-demand release on March 5.

Crisis follows a drug trafficker who arranges a multi-cartel Fentanyl smuggling operation, with an architect recovering from an Oxycodone addiction tracking down the truth behind her son’s disappearance.

“The devastating impact of the opioid epidemic reaches all corners of society....

Exclusive: Billy Bryk (Wynonna Earp) has joined the cast of Jesse Eisenberg’s directorial debut When You Finish Saving the World, which, as we revealed earlier this year, will star Finn Wolfhard and Julianne Moore.

The A24 movie, a mother-son comedy-drama, has been scripted by Eisenberg and is being produced by Emma Stone and her SNL writer-director partner Dave McCary alongside Moore.

Inspired by Eisenberg’s Audible project of the same name, the film will have a slightly different focus than the audiobook, which was scripted by and starred Eisenberg. Set over three decades, the six-part audio show follows three members of a family: Nathan, a father learning to connect with his newborn son; Rachel, a young college student seeking to find her place in a relationship and in life; and Ziggy, a teenager hoping to figure out where he came from, and where he’s headed.

Bryk, who hosts...

Greg Kinnear will take over the role of Atticus Finch in Broadway’s To Kill A Mockingbird, producers announced today. Kinnear, in his Broadway debut, will follow Ed Harris, who took over the role last fall from Jeff Daniels.

Kinnear, a 1998 Oscar nominee for As Good As It Gets, will begin performances in Aaron Sorkin’s stage adaptation of the Harper Lee novel on April 21; Harris’ final performance is April 19.

Harris has been playing Atticus since November, when he took over for Daniels, who had originated the role with a Tony Award-nominated performance a year earlier.

Kinnear’s casting was announced by lead producers Scott Rudin and Barry Diller. Kinnear’s upcoming film projects include Ira Sachs’ Frankie, Philippa Lowthorpe’s comedy Misbehaviour, and Nicholas Jarecki’s thriller Dreamland. His previous credits include Sabrina, You’ve Got Mail and Mystery Men, among others.

Tomorrow, Harris and the rest of the Broadway...

Shooting is due to begin in Ireland this April.

George MacKay and Lily-Rose Depp have signed to star in writer-director Nathalie Biancheri’s Wolf, about a man who believes he is a wolf trapped in a human body. Shooting is due to begin in Ireland this April.

Bankside Films has taken worldwide sales rights to the film and will be introducing it to buyers at the European Film Market next week.

Biancheri’s previous film Nocturnal starring Sadie Frost and Cosmo Jarvis premiered at the BFI London Film Festival last year.

“The inspiration comes from a real condition, species dysphoria,...

"Lana just, like, loves Duke," says film director Nicholas Jarecki. "I think in the same way that we all do."

Jarecki is referring to chanteuse Lana Del Rey and Duke Nicholson, 20, whose résumé so far boasts one significant credit (as a creepy carny in Jordan Peele's Us) plus a modeling gig for the cover of Del Rey's Grammy-nominated album, Norman Fucking Rockwell.

Oh, and Duke is the grandson of Jack Nicholson, 82, who hosted family Thanksgiving this year at his Mulholland Drive compound. "It's usually pretty small. Me, my Uncle Ray,...

"Lana just, like, loves Duke," says film director Nicholas Jarecki. "I think in the same way that we all do."

Jarecki is referring to chanteuse Lana Del Rey and Duke Nicholson, 20, whose résumé so far boasts one significant credit (as a creepy carny in Jordan Peele's Us) plus a modeling gig for the cover of Del Rey's Grammy-nominated album, Norman Fucking Rockwell.

Oh, and Duke is the grandson of Jack Nicholson, 82, who hosted family Thanksgiving this year at his Mulholland Drive compound. "It's usually pretty small. Me, my Uncle Ray,...

The project is a feature film remake of Sally Wainwright’s 2009 drama series.

German director Nora Fingscheidt has been signed to direct Sandra Bullock in Netflix’s untitled feature film remake of Sally Wainwright’s 2009 drama series Unforgiven, about a woman seeking personal redemption after committing a violent crime as a teenager.

It will be a first English-language production for Fingscheidt after her debut German-language feature System Crasher about a problematic violent nine-year-old girl who is a danger to herself and those around her.

The film is Germany’s submission to the best international film category of the 2020 Academy Awards,...

Tiff 19: Part I: Awaiting the plane at Lax to Toronto International Film Festival, September 4–11, 2019Lax by Paul Revere Williamss,FaiaTiff this year, under the new direction of Cameron Bailey and Joana Vicente, felt the same and different at the same time. Talk of the multiplex Scotia theater’s demise in the next few years made us wonder how Tiff would evolve in the next few years. For the first time in this “new location”, I realized the distance between the old and new sites is quite close and that Tiff’s spreading throughout the city, like the Berlinale does, could be a very cool idea.

Awaiting the plane going to Tiff with me was Cassian Elwes, this era’s first male champion films by women, Sundance mentor, working with Tiff with the shorts lab and a major producer of the best indie films to boot. To finally have time...

Exclusive: Penelope Ann Miller and Mia Kirshner are set as the leads in Lifetime’s upcoming movie The College Admissions Scandal following the story of over 50 wealthy and elite families that tried to cheat the college admissions system. Additionally, Canadian actor Michael Shanks portrays college admissions consultant Rick Singer. Production is set to begin this month.

The College Admissions Scandal will debut this fall as part of Lifetime’s Ripped From the Headlines movie slate, which includes Escaping the Nxivm Cult: A Mother’s Fight to Save Her Daughter, Abducted: The Mary Stauffer Story and Trapped: The Alex Cooper Story.

The College Admissions Scandal follows two wealthy mothers, Caroline (Miller), a sought after interior designer and Bethany (Kirshner), an owner of a successful financial services firm, who share an obsession with getting their teenagers into the best possible college.

Fitness companies Equinox and SoulCycle are currently being boycotted after it was revealed billionaire owner Stephen Ross is hosting a Hamptons fundraiser for Donald Trump, but he’s hardly the only major executive giving financial support to the president. Armie Hammer took to social media August 9 to call out Isaac Perlmutter, the former CEO and current chairman of Marvel Entertainment.

“Hey, while everyone seems to be on this Equinox thing, it might be a good time to mention that one of Trump’s largest financial contributors is the chairman of Marvel Entertainment (Isaac Perlmutter),” Hammer wrote. “Just saying.”

Perlmutter became a member of Marvel Comics’ board of directors in April 1993. The executive was serving as vice chairman of Marvel by November 2001, followed by chief executive officer of Marvel Comics in January 2005. Perlmutter remained the CEO of Marvel Entertainment following the company’s acquisition by Disney and to this day serves as chairman.

Dracula actors Gary Oldman and Luke Evans posed for a photo together posted on the latter's Twitter account, and it's a real treat for big fans of vampire movies. Of course, both actors have portrayed the iconic vampire in unconnected movies, each offering vastly different performances for the character. Captioned as "When Dracula met Dracula," the actors are shown bearing their teeth for the camera, with Evans actually wearing prop fangs. As seriously as the two played the roles in their respective movies, it's amusing to see the two of them together enjoying their reminiscing over previously playing the same monster in their movie careers.

Luke Evans and Gary Oldman were likely working on the upcoming movie Dreamland when the photo was snapped, as Evans inserted a hashtag referencing the movie on his tweeted photo. Written and directed by Nicholas Jarecki, Dreamland will also star Evangeline Lilly, Armie Hammer, Veronica Ferres,...

Luke Evans, Mia Kirshner, Tony winner Michael Aronov and Martin Donovan are the latest to join Nicholas Jarecki‘s dramatic thriller Dreamland. They’ll co-star opposite Gary Oldman, Armie Hammer, Evangeline Lilly, Greg Kinnear, Michelle Rodriguez, and Lily-Rose Depp in the opioid crisis pic, which is shooting in Montreal.

Dreamland follows three colliding stories: A drug trafficker (Hammer) arranges a multi-cartel Fentanyl smuggling operation between Canada and the U.S.; an architect (Lilly) recovering from an OxyContin addiction tracks down the truth behind her son’s involvement with narcotics; and a university professor (Oldman) battles unexpected revelations about his employer, a drug company with deep government influence bringing a new “non-addictive” painkiller to market.

Evans will play a pharmaceutical executive on the verge of a major breakthrough.

Nicholas Jarecki’s opioid crisis thriller is now in production in Montreal, Canada.

Sam Worthington, Scott ‘Kid Cudi’ Mescudi and Indira Varma are the latest additions to the cast of Nicholas Jarecki’s opioid crisis thriller Dreamland, with the film now in production in Montreal, Canada.

They join previously announced cast members Gary Oldman, Armie Hammer, Evangeline Lilly, Greg Kinnear, Michelle Rodriguez and Lily Rose Depp.

Jarecki directs the film from his own original script. Lisa Wilson handles foreign sales through her Solution Entertainment Group with Myles Nestel. William Morris Endeavor represents Us rights with Lgna Legal.

Worthington plays a...

In today’s film news roundup, Sam Worthington gets cast in “Dreamland,” Jacob Tremblay’s “Burn Your Maps” gets distribution and Lynn Shelton’s “Sword of Trust” will open the Seattle Film Festival.

Castings

Sam Worthington, Scott “Kid Cudi” Mescudi and “Game of Thrones” star Indira Varma are joining Nicholas Jarecki‘s opioid crisis thriller “Dreamland.”

Previously announced cast includes Gary Oldman, Armie Hammer, Evangeline Lilly, Greg Kinnear, Michelle Rodriguez, and Lily Rose Depp. The film is in production in Montreal.

Worthington plays a pharmaceutical scientist and Mescudi portrays an Fda investigator delving deep into prescription safety. Varma plays a university administrator in the crosshairs of an emotional investigation.

Acquisition

Vertical Entertainment has acquired U.S. distribution rights to “Burn Your Maps,” starring Jacob Tremblay, Vera Farmiga and Virginia Madsen.

The theatrical release is planned for the second quarter, with Warner Bros. handling international distribution. Tremblay plays an eccentric 8-year-old...