Mr. Robot creator Sam Esmail will write, and is attached to direct, a new take on Universal's Bermuda Triangle project.
Earlier drafts of the untitled project were written by Miles Millar & Alfred Gough, and Juliet Snowden & Stiles White. Details of the plot are being kept under wraps. The mysterious Caribbean area known as the Bermuda Triangle stretches between the Florida Straits, Bermuda and Puerto Rico. Over the years, several ships and planes have disappeared in the area under mysterious circumstances. Theories about paranormal or alien causes have long swirled around these strange disappearances.
Dylan Clark (Planet of the...
Earlier drafts of the untitled project were written by Miles Millar & Alfred Gough, and Juliet Snowden & Stiles White. Details of the plot are being kept under wraps. The mysterious Caribbean area known as the Bermuda Triangle stretches between the Florida Straits, Bermuda and Puerto Rico. Over the years, several ships and planes have disappeared in the area under mysterious circumstances. Theories about paranormal or alien causes have long swirled around these strange disappearances.
Dylan Clark (Planet of the...
- 7/21/2017
- by Rebecca Ford
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Keep up with the wild and wooly world of indie film acquisitions with our weekly Rundown of everything that’s been picked up around the globe. Check out last week’s Rundown here.
– Gravitas Ventures has acquired the U.S. theatrical, digital and video rights to “Elián,” the story of Elián González, a five-year-old Cuban boy plucked from the Florida Straits on Thanksgiving Day in 1999, and how the fight over his future sparked a flashpoint for U.S. and Cuban tensions. Directed by Ross McDonnell and Tim Golden, the film is executive produced by Alex Gibney’s Jigsaw Productions.
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“Elián” is slated for a platform theatrical release beginning in New York and Los Angeles on May 19. The film will also be premiering at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival on...
– Gravitas Ventures has acquired the U.S. theatrical, digital and video rights to “Elián,” the story of Elián González, a five-year-old Cuban boy plucked from the Florida Straits on Thanksgiving Day in 1999, and how the fight over his future sparked a flashpoint for U.S. and Cuban tensions. Directed by Ross McDonnell and Tim Golden, the film is executive produced by Alex Gibney’s Jigsaw Productions.
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“Elián” is slated for a platform theatrical release beginning in New York and Los Angeles on May 19. The film will also be premiering at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival on...
- 4/14/2017
- by Graham Winfrey
- Indiewire
Tim Golden and Ross McDonnell co-direct story of Elián Gonzalez, the Cuban boy who made headlines when he was rescued at sea and become centre of custody battle.
CNN Films has acquired television broadcast and CNN-branded authenticated television exhibition rights and Content has picked up international sales rights from Fine Point Films and introduces to Berlin buyers this week.
Elián recounts the story of five-year-old Elián Gonzalez, a Cuban boy rescued from the Florida Straits in 1999 after his mother and ten others died at sea while fleeing Cuba.
The film uses personal testimony, candid interviews, and news archives to explore the custody battle between the boy’s Cuban father and his Miami-based relatives, and the political fall out that resulted from the case.
Trevor Birney produced through his Fine Point Films banner, with Alex Gibney and CNN Worldwide executive vice-president for talent and content development Amy Entelis serving as executive producers. Vice-president of [link...
CNN Films has acquired television broadcast and CNN-branded authenticated television exhibition rights and Content has picked up international sales rights from Fine Point Films and introduces to Berlin buyers this week.
Elián recounts the story of five-year-old Elián Gonzalez, a Cuban boy rescued from the Florida Straits in 1999 after his mother and ten others died at sea while fleeing Cuba.
The film uses personal testimony, candid interviews, and news archives to explore the custody battle between the boy’s Cuban father and his Miami-based relatives, and the political fall out that resulted from the case.
Trevor Birney produced through his Fine Point Films banner, with Alex Gibney and CNN Worldwide executive vice-president for talent and content development Amy Entelis serving as executive producers. Vice-president of [link...
- 2/6/2017
- ScreenDaily
Fidel Castro, Cuba's longtime revolutionary leader who defied the United States for nearly half a century, died Friday. He was 90 years old.
Castro had been suffering from declining health for several years. The communist dictator, known for bringing the Cold War to the Western Hemisphere in 1959, "devilling 11 American presidents and briefly pushing the world to the brink of nuclear war," as The New York Times reported, ceded his power to his younger brother, Raul Castro, due to an intestinal illness eight years ago. Fidel officially resigned as president in February 2008, and Raul took over permanently.
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Raul announced his brother's death Friday on Cuban television. Following the news, many political figures, journalists and celebrities took to social media to share their reactions on Castro, who famously survived numerous assassination attempts by the CIA and anti-Castro exiles...
Castro had been suffering from declining health for several years. The communist dictator, known for bringing the Cold War to the Western Hemisphere in 1959, "devilling 11 American presidents and briefly pushing the world to the brink of nuclear war," as The New York Times reported, ceded his power to his younger brother, Raul Castro, due to an intestinal illness eight years ago. Fidel officially resigned as president in February 2008, and Raul took over permanently.
Watch: Khloe Kardashian Says She's 'So Blessed to Be Able to Appreciate Another's Culture' Amid Stirring Controversy with 'Fidel' Pic in Cuba
Raul announced his brother's death Friday on Cuban television. Following the news, many political figures, journalists and celebrities took to social media to share their reactions on Castro, who famously survived numerous assassination attempts by the CIA and anti-Castro exiles...
- 11/26/2016
- Entertainment Tonight
Skydance Productions is reportedly developing a film based on the legendary and mysterious Caribbean area of the Bermuda Triangle.
Doug Miro and Carlo Bernard ("Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time," "The Sorcerer's Apprentice") are rewriting an original screenplay by Damian Shannon and Mark Swift (2009's "Friday the 13th").
Running between the Florida Straits, Bermuda and Puerto Rico, the inexplicable disappearances of planes and ships in the area over the years have been rumored to be due to paranormal or extraterrestrial causes.
The area is hot right now for filmmakers as both Universal and Warner Bros. Pictures are also developing movies about the area. "Ouija" screenwriters Juliet Snowden and Stiles White are presently rewriting the script for the Universal version. There's also another version penned by Dan Kunka which is sitting at Warners and which Charles Roven is slated to produce.
Source: Heat Vision...
Doug Miro and Carlo Bernard ("Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time," "The Sorcerer's Apprentice") are rewriting an original screenplay by Damian Shannon and Mark Swift (2009's "Friday the 13th").
Running between the Florida Straits, Bermuda and Puerto Rico, the inexplicable disappearances of planes and ships in the area over the years have been rumored to be due to paranormal or extraterrestrial causes.
The area is hot right now for filmmakers as both Universal and Warner Bros. Pictures are also developing movies about the area. "Ouija" screenwriters Juliet Snowden and Stiles White are presently rewriting the script for the Universal version. There's also another version penned by Dan Kunka which is sitting at Warners and which Charles Roven is slated to produce.
Source: Heat Vision...
- 6/17/2015
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
You’ve got to laugh sometimes at the way Hollywood works – despite last fall’s Ouija being absolutely, appallingly awful on nearly every count, the horror pic grossed a surprisingly strong $102.5 million against a chump-change $5 million budget. And so, Juliet Snowden and Stiles White, the scribes behind that faulty frightener (which rests at 7% on Rotten Tomatoes), aren’t just finding more work – they’re being brought in to improve already-written scripts.
Universal has tapped the screenwriters, who also wrote The Possession and Knowing (both bad), to rewrite its untitled Bermuda Triangle pic, which centers on the conspiracy-laden stretch of water between the Florida Straits, Bermuda and Puerto Rico, where multiple ships and planes have inexplicably disappeared over the years. Alfred Gough and Miles Millar brought the pitch for the pic to Universal back in March of 2012 – along with Scott Stuber and Dylan Clark, they’ll be involved as producers.
White...
Universal has tapped the screenwriters, who also wrote The Possession and Knowing (both bad), to rewrite its untitled Bermuda Triangle pic, which centers on the conspiracy-laden stretch of water between the Florida Straits, Bermuda and Puerto Rico, where multiple ships and planes have inexplicably disappeared over the years. Alfred Gough and Miles Millar brought the pitch for the pic to Universal back in March of 2012 – along with Scott Stuber and Dylan Clark, they’ll be involved as producers.
White...
- 6/3/2015
- by Isaac Feldberg
- We Got This Covered
Diana Nyad's 110-mile swim from Cuba to Florida has generated positive publicity and adoration for the 64-year-old endurance athlete - along with skepticism from some members of the small community of marathon swimmers who are questioning whether she accomplished the feat honestly. On social media and the online Marathon Swimmers Forum, long-distance swimmers have been debating whether Nyad got a boost from the boat that was accompanying her - either by getting in it or holding onto it - during a particularly speedy stretch of her swim. They also question whether she violated the traditions of her sport -...
- 9/9/2013
- by Associated Press
- PEOPLE.com
‘Una Noche’: Lucy Mulloy debut feature presented with ‘urgent, rough-hewn simplicity’ (photo: Anailín de la Rúa de la Torre, Javier Núñez Florián, Dariel Arrechaga in the movie ‘Una Noche’) The story of three Havana teenagers attempting to escape Cuba for a better life in America is conveyed with urgent, rough-hewn simplicity in director Lucy Mulloy’s Una Noche. Making very effective use of Cuban non-pro actors, Mulloy takes us around the mean streets of Havana, where the shops are empty, but private homes stock everything from jewelry to motors to HIV meds. What the British-born, first-time feature director might lack in narrative polish, she makes up for with a genuine sense of empathy for her yearning, troubled characters and an artist’s eye for the beauty of decay. Mulloy even went to great trouble to shoot in 35mm instead of digital, a testament to her production moxie and desire for visual authenticity,...
- 9/5/2013
- by Mark Keizer
- Alt Film Guide
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