Babak Najafi will direct the thriller for Nordic studio Svensk Filmindustri.
Svensk beat off other bidders to acquire the original spec script written by Josh Campbell and Matt Stuecken, who recently wrote 10 Cloverfield Lane for Jj Abrams.
Horizon Line is a a suspense thriller that follows a couple on a small airplane that loses its way over the Pacific Ocean.
The film will soon start casting ahead of an autumn shoot.
Fredrik Wikström Nicastro will produce for Svensk Filmindustri and Jonas Fors, CEO of Svensk Filmindustri, will executive produce.
Najafi previously directed Berlin award-winner Sebbe and has London Has Fallen launching next month
Campbell and Stuecken reunite with Wikstrom Nicastro after having written the English-language remake Easy Money.
Wikstrom Nicastro said, “I am thrilled to continue the fruitful and creative collaboration with director Babak Najafi and such talented writers as Josh Campbell and Matt Stuecken. Horizon Line is one of the most suspenseful, original scripts...
Svensk beat off other bidders to acquire the original spec script written by Josh Campbell and Matt Stuecken, who recently wrote 10 Cloverfield Lane for Jj Abrams.
Horizon Line is a a suspense thriller that follows a couple on a small airplane that loses its way over the Pacific Ocean.
The film will soon start casting ahead of an autumn shoot.
Fredrik Wikström Nicastro will produce for Svensk Filmindustri and Jonas Fors, CEO of Svensk Filmindustri, will executive produce.
Najafi previously directed Berlin award-winner Sebbe and has London Has Fallen launching next month
Campbell and Stuecken reunite with Wikstrom Nicastro after having written the English-language remake Easy Money.
Wikstrom Nicastro said, “I am thrilled to continue the fruitful and creative collaboration with director Babak Najafi and such talented writers as Josh Campbell and Matt Stuecken. Horizon Line is one of the most suspenseful, original scripts...
- 2/10/2016
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
As unlikely as it may seem (or maybe not, when you consider the surprisingly high box office receipts), Gerard Butler and Aaron Eckhart’s White House takeover pic Olympus Has Fallen will be getting an equally ludicrous, action-packed sequel with the upcoming London Has Fallen. And despite Olympus helmer Antoine Fuqua and Charlie Countryman filmmaker Fredrik Bond both backing away from the project over its creative direction, Millenium Films isn’t giving up. Now, we’re hearing that Scandinavian director Babak Najafi is being eyed to take the reins.
Though he’s hardly a household name, Najafi has a solid resume and is best known for directing Joel Kinnaman in another sequel, Easy Money II: Hard to Kill. He has also helmed episodes of the action-packed Cinemax series Banshee and made his debut on the acclaimed drama Sebbe. According to Deadline, Najafi is the favorite to helm London Has Fallen,...
Though he’s hardly a household name, Najafi has a solid resume and is best known for directing Joel Kinnaman in another sequel, Easy Money II: Hard to Kill. He has also helmed episodes of the action-packed Cinemax series Banshee and made his debut on the acclaimed drama Sebbe. According to Deadline, Najafi is the favorite to helm London Has Fallen,...
- 9/29/2014
- by Isaac Feldberg
- We Got This Covered
Easy Money II director Babak Najafi could be directing London Has Fallen.
Fredrik Bond exited the project over creative differences earlier this month.
Najafi is said to be in discussions to direct the Millennium Films sequel action drama, Deadline reports.
The film will see the return of leading star Gerard Butler and Morgan Freeman.
London Has Fallen is slated for an October 2, 2015 release in the Us with a UK release yet to be announced.
Najafi's directorial credits include Sebbe and the TV series Banshee.
Fredrik Bond exited the project over creative differences earlier this month.
Najafi is said to be in discussions to direct the Millennium Films sequel action drama, Deadline reports.
The film will see the return of leading star Gerard Butler and Morgan Freeman.
London Has Fallen is slated for an October 2, 2015 release in the Us with a UK release yet to be announced.
Najafi's directorial credits include Sebbe and the TV series Banshee.
- 9/29/2014
- Digital Spy
Exclusive: Looks like Gerard Butler won’t be alone for London Has Fallen, the Millennium Films sequel to the action hit Olympus Has Fallen. Babak Najafi, best known for helming Easy Money II: Hard to Kill (better known as the sequel to Snabba Cash) is now in discussions to helm the action film that is being transplanted to the Blighty.
This has been a hot open assignment since Charlie Countryman helmer Fredrik Bond bristled at the scale of the movie and exited. He got the job after the helmer of the original, Antoine Fuqua, didn’t like the sequel direction and decided not to take part.
Several up and comers went after the job, and were rumored to be getting on a plane and heading to meet Butler. One was Wayne Blair, helmer of The Sapphires. Now, I’m told that the job will belong to Najafi if his reps...
This has been a hot open assignment since Charlie Countryman helmer Fredrik Bond bristled at the scale of the movie and exited. He got the job after the helmer of the original, Antoine Fuqua, didn’t like the sequel direction and decided not to take part.
Several up and comers went after the job, and were rumored to be getting on a plane and heading to meet Butler. One was Wayne Blair, helmer of The Sapphires. Now, I’m told that the job will belong to Najafi if his reps...
- 9/28/2014
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline
Babak Najafi ("Snabba Cash 2," "Sebbe") is attached to direct the action thriller "Inside The Machine" at CBS Films and Contrafilms.
The story follows an El Paso-based undercover Atf agent who risks his life to destroy a murder-for-hire gang that is run from within a prison by a criminal mastermind.
Marc Maurino penned the script while Beau Flynn and Tripp Vinson are producing.
Source: Deadline...
The story follows an El Paso-based undercover Atf agent who risks his life to destroy a murder-for-hire gang that is run from within a prison by a criminal mastermind.
Marc Maurino penned the script while Beau Flynn and Tripp Vinson are producing.
Source: Deadline...
- 5/7/2013
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Exclusive: CBS Films has attached Babak Najafi to direct the action thriller Inside The Machine. Najafi, who just helmed Snabba Cash 2 (aka Easy Money 2), will helm a drama that follows an El Paso-based undercover Atf agent who risks his life to destroy a murder-for-hire gang that is run from within a prison by an untouchable criminal mastermind. The script is by Marc Maurino, and Beau Flynn and Tripp Vinson of Contrafilms are producing. Vinson called Najafi “an incredibly talented filmmaker who is going to blow audiences away with his ability to deliver an adrenaline-fueled thriller.” Najafiu will work closely with Maurino on developing the script. Najafi made his directorial debut with Sebbe, which won Best Debut Film at Berlin in 2010. He’s separately attached to Unlocked for Endgame. UTA and manager Shelley Browning of Magnolia Entertainment rep him, and CBS’ Mark Ross and Ryan Conroy are overseeing the project.
- 5/6/2013
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
Ola Rapace, Noomi Rapace, Beyond Actress-turned-director Pernilla August’s directorial debut, Beyond topped the 2010 Guldbagge Award nominations. The psychological family drama earned eight nods for the "Swedish Oscars," including Best Film and Best Director. Beyond tells the story of a woman (Rapace) who faces her dying, abusive mother. Winner of the 2010 Venice Film Festival's International Critics Week award, Beyond stars Best Actress nominee Noomi Rapace, internationally known as the anti-heroine of the Millennium trilogy films — The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest. [List of Guldbagge nominations.] In the Best Film category, the 34-member jury also selected Babak Najafi’s Sebbe and Andreas Öhman’s Simple Simon, Sweden’s submission for the 2011 Best Foreign Language Film Oscar. In the Best Director category, Öhman was replaced by Pure's Lisa Langseth. In Sebbe, the bullied fifteen-year-old title character (Sebastian Hiort af Ornäs, [...]...
- 1/5/2011
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Noomi Rapace, Beyond Pernilla August-Noomi Rapace Drama Beyond Tops Guldbagge Nominations Best Film Simple Simon Sebbe Beyond Best Foreign Language Film Fish Tank, dir Andrea Arnold Lourdes, dir Jessica Hausner The Social Network, dir David Fincher Best Director Pernilla August, Beyond Lisa Langseth, Pure Babak Najafi, Sebbe Best actress in a leading role Pernilla August, Miss Kicki Noomi Rapace, Beyond Alicia Vikander, Pure Best actor in a leading role Sebastian Hiort af Ornäs, Sebbe Joel Kinnaman, Easy Money Bill Skarsgård, Simple Simon Best actress in a supporting role Tehilla Blad, Beyond Cecilia Forss, Simple Simon Outi Mäenpää, Beyond Best actor in a supporting role Peter Dalle, Behind Blue Skies David Dencik, Cornelis Ville Virtanen, Beyond Best screenplay Pernilla August and Lolita Ray, Beyond Lisa Langseth, Pure Jonathan Sjöberg and Andreas Öhman, Simple Simon Best cinematography Göran Hallberg, Behind Blue Skies Erik Molberg Hansen, Beyond Aril Wretblad, Easy Money Best documentary Familia,...
- 1/5/2011
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Mumbai, Oct 27 – The international competition section at the ongoing 12th Mumbai Film Festival this year has a curious pattern. The 14 films, almost meticulously selected to represent the world, have narratives mostly by first timers. Sharing the stage together, were 11 directors who shared their cinematic experience and problems of making their own films.
Putting the untrodden experience of filmmaking into perspective, Iran born Swedish filmmaker Babak Najafi Tuesday said: ‘Once I was young and beautiful, making my first film has made me an old man. It took me five years.’ He is showcasing his film ‘Sebbe’ at the fest.
Though.
Putting the untrodden experience of filmmaking into perspective, Iran born Swedish filmmaker Babak Najafi Tuesday said: ‘Once I was young and beautiful, making my first film has made me an old man. It took me five years.’ He is showcasing his film ‘Sebbe’ at the fest.
Though.
- 10/27/2010
- by realbollywood
- RealBollywood.com
Cologne, Germany -- Roman Polanski's political thriller "The Ghost Writer," Mike Leigh's melancholic drama "Another Year" and Berlin Film Fest winner "Honey" from Turkish director Semih Kaplanoglu are among the features on the European Film Academy's 46-title long list for this year's European Film Awards.
Other high-profile films on the Efa long list include Samuel Maoz's Venice Film Fest winner "Lebanon," Stephen Frears' comic-book adaptation "Tamara Drewe" and "Oliver Assayas' five-and-a-half hour terrorist biopic "Carlos."
The 20 countries with the most Efa Members each picked a national feature, with the remaining 12 selected by the Efa selection committee. The 2,300 European Film Academy members will vote for the official nominees, which will be announced at the Sevilla Film Festival in Spain on Nov. 6.
The 23rd European Film Awards will be held in Tallinn, Estonia Dec. 4.
The long list of nominees for the 2010 European Film Awards:
European Film Awards 2010
"3 Seasons In Hell,...
Other high-profile films on the Efa long list include Samuel Maoz's Venice Film Fest winner "Lebanon," Stephen Frears' comic-book adaptation "Tamara Drewe" and "Oliver Assayas' five-and-a-half hour terrorist biopic "Carlos."
The 20 countries with the most Efa Members each picked a national feature, with the remaining 12 selected by the Efa selection committee. The 2,300 European Film Academy members will vote for the official nominees, which will be announced at the Sevilla Film Festival in Spain on Nov. 6.
The 23rd European Film Awards will be held in Tallinn, Estonia Dec. 4.
The long list of nominees for the 2010 European Film Awards:
European Film Awards 2010
"3 Seasons In Hell,...
- 9/9/2010
- by By Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
With Berlinale wrapped, let's take one last looksie at random celebs working the premieres and photo ops. Part of our irregular red carpet lineup tradition. And then the awardage.
From left to right: I didn't know what Michael Winterbottom looked like, so I've included him here. He's a boyish 48. I think his career is pretty fascinating because it covers so much global ground and differing genre terrain. He's so prolific while still making intelligent films. I'm impatient so prolific works for me. That said, his new noir The Killer Inside Me might be one I'll have to skip. If festival types are so horrified by the violence I'm sure it's more than I can take.
Julianne Moore looking foxy on her way to fifty. She's gone a bit goth here with smoky eyes, black dress and black fingernails. More on her in a bit.
Two-time Oscar nominee Isabelle Adjani, who hasn't been working much,...
From left to right: I didn't know what Michael Winterbottom looked like, so I've included him here. He's a boyish 48. I think his career is pretty fascinating because it covers so much global ground and differing genre terrain. He's so prolific while still making intelligent films. I'm impatient so prolific works for me. That said, his new noir The Killer Inside Me might be one I'll have to skip. If festival types are so horrified by the violence I'm sure it's more than I can take.
Julianne Moore looking foxy on her way to fifty. She's gone a bit goth here with smoky eyes, black dress and black fingernails. More on her in a bit.
Two-time Oscar nominee Isabelle Adjani, who hasn't been working much,...
- 2/21/2010
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Turkish director Semih Kaplanoglu's film Bal (Honey) won the Berlin Film Festival's prestigious Golden Bear prize Saturday.
The movie, about about a young boy who goes in search of his father after his father fails to return home was one of 20 films competing for the 60th anniversary Berlinale's top honours.
Relating how a bear smelling honey approached the production team as they were shooting the film, Kaplanoglu said "the bear is now back".
The festival's main programme included 18 world premieres, with three debut features.
Romanian director Florin Serban won two prizes for "Eu cand vreau sa fluier, fluiere" (If I Want To Whistle, I Whistle), about a young man in a youth detention centre who is facing up to the new realities that have emerged in the wake of the fall of Communism across Eastern Europe.
In addition to the Alfred Bauer prize for opening up new perspectives in cinema,...
The movie, about about a young boy who goes in search of his father after his father fails to return home was one of 20 films competing for the 60th anniversary Berlinale's top honours.
Relating how a bear smelling honey approached the production team as they were shooting the film, Kaplanoglu said "the bear is now back".
The festival's main programme included 18 world premieres, with three debut features.
Romanian director Florin Serban won two prizes for "Eu cand vreau sa fluier, fluiere" (If I Want To Whistle, I Whistle), about a young man in a youth detention centre who is facing up to the new realities that have emerged in the wake of the fall of Communism across Eastern Europe.
In addition to the Alfred Bauer prize for opening up new perspectives in cinema,...
- 2/21/2010
- by IANS
- DearCinema.com
What do Central Station (1998), The Thin Red Line (1999) and Paul Thomas Anderson's Magnolia (2000) all have in common? They were awarded the top honor at the Berlin Film Festival and you can add Honey, the final leg in Semih Kaplanoglu's trilogy which commenced with Egg and last year's Milk, to that grouping. - What do Central Station (1998), The Thin Red Line (1999) and Paul Thomas Anderson's Magnolia (2000) all have in common? They were awarded the top honor at the Berlin Film Festival and you can add Honey, the final leg in Semih Kaplanoglu's trilogy which commenced with Egg and last year's Milk, to that grouping. Florin Serban's If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle, which won Alfred Bauer Prize, also claimed 2nd place prize in the Silver Bear - The Jury Grand Prize - thus continuing the wave of film festival winning Romanian cinema.
- 2/21/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
George Pistereanu, Ada Condeescu in Florin Serban’s If I Want To Whistle, I Whistle (top); Grigory Dobrygin, Sergei Puskepalis in Alexei Popgrebsky’s How I Ended This Summer (upper middle); Shinobu Terajima in Koji Wakamatsu’s Caterpillar (lower middle); Sebastian Hiort af Ornäs in Babak Najafi’s Sebbe (bottom) Romanian filmmaker Florin Serban won two prizes for If I Want To Whistle, I Whistle at the 2010 Berlin Film Festival: the Grand Prix Silver Bear and the Alfred Bauer prize for innovative filmmaking. If I Want To Whistle, I Whistle focuses on an incarcerated young man who takes a social worker hostage shortly before he is to be released from a youth detention center. The film is one more example of Romania’s [...]...
- 2/21/2010
- by Arthur Leander
- Alt Film Guide
Turkish director Semih Kaplanoglu's film Bal (Honey) won the Berlin Film Festival's prestigious Golden Bear prize Saturday.The movie, about about a young boy who goes in search of his father after his father fails to return home was one of 20 films competing for the 60th anniversary Berlinale's top honours.Relating how a bear smelling honey approached the production team as they were shooting the film, Kaplanoglu said 'the bear is now back'.The festival's main programme included 18 world premieres, with three debut features.Romanian director Florin Serban won two prizes for 'Eu cand vreau sa fluier, fluiere' (If I Want To Whistle, I Whistle), about a young man in a youth detention centre who is facing up to the new realities that have emerged in the wake of the fall of Communism across Eastern Europe.In addition to the Alfred Bauer prize for opening up new perspectives in cinema,...
- 2/20/2010
- Filmicafe
Soon to debut in the Generation section of the Berlinale, the first trailer has arrived for Babak Najafi's Sebbe. The story of a high school boy driven to violence, this looks like a very serious, very powerful treatment of what can lead to a Columbine-style incident.
Sebbe is fifteen and lives with his mother in an apartment that is much too small. He does his best. He never hits back. Sebbe loves his mother because he can't do otherwise. Sebbe escapes to the junk yard, and in his hands, dead things come to life. He has the power to create. Here he is free, but alone. His detachment increases at the same pace that his world shrinks, until finally, one day he is completely isolated, without anyone except his mother. When she fails him, all else fails.
Check the trailer below!
Sebbe is fifteen and lives with his mother in an apartment that is much too small. He does his best. He never hits back. Sebbe loves his mother because he can't do otherwise. Sebbe escapes to the junk yard, and in his hands, dead things come to life. He has the power to create. Here he is free, but alone. His detachment increases at the same pace that his world shrinks, until finally, one day he is completely isolated, without anyone except his mother. When she fails him, all else fails.
Check the trailer below!
- 1/28/2010
- Screen Anarchy
Cologne, Germany -- "Youth in Revolt," Miguel Arteta's romantic comedy starring Michael Cera and Portia Doubleday, is one of the higher profile titles screening at Generation -- the Berlin Film Festival's youth cinema sidebar -- but the title could be used for the 2010 lineup as a whole. For its 33rd edition, Generation has decided to stir things up, mixing genres and styles, big names and unknowns.
Acclaimed Indian filmmaker Dev Benegal will open Generation's main 14plus competition with his latest off-Bollywood production "Road Movie." "Alamar," a docu-drama from Mexican director Pedro Gonzalez-Rubio kicks off the Generation Kplus section of younger-skewing titles.
No longer a ghetto for kid flicks, Generation has established itself as a strong brand and platform for launching films in its own right -- a fact illustrated by the ten world premieres this year. These range from "Last of the Line" from Finnish directors Anastasia Lapsui and Markku Lehmuskallio,...
Acclaimed Indian filmmaker Dev Benegal will open Generation's main 14plus competition with his latest off-Bollywood production "Road Movie." "Alamar," a docu-drama from Mexican director Pedro Gonzalez-Rubio kicks off the Generation Kplus section of younger-skewing titles.
No longer a ghetto for kid flicks, Generation has established itself as a strong brand and platform for launching films in its own right -- a fact illustrated by the ten world premieres this year. These range from "Last of the Line" from Finnish directors Anastasia Lapsui and Markku Lehmuskallio,...
- 1/13/2010
- by By Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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