CAA tonight signed David Leitch, the former stuntman who co-directed John Wick, and helmed Deadpool 2, Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw and Atomic Blonde. Agency also signed his wife and creative partner Kelly McCormick and their company 87North.
Leitch had been repped by WME and just recently was set to direct Bullet Train, the Sony Pictures action movie that will star Brad Pitt. That Zak Olkewicz scripted action film is based on the Japanese novel Maria Beetle by Kotaro Isaka. In the novel, five assassins find themselves on a fast-moving bullet train from Tokyo to Morioka with only a few stops in between. They discover their missions are not unrelated to one another. The question becomes, who will make it off the train alive and what awaits them at the terminal station. Leitch and McCormick produce Bullet Train with Antoine Fuqua and Kat Samick.
Between Hobbs & Shaw, Deadpool 2,...
Leitch had been repped by WME and just recently was set to direct Bullet Train, the Sony Pictures action movie that will star Brad Pitt. That Zak Olkewicz scripted action film is based on the Japanese novel Maria Beetle by Kotaro Isaka. In the novel, five assassins find themselves on a fast-moving bullet train from Tokyo to Morioka with only a few stops in between. They discover their missions are not unrelated to one another. The question becomes, who will make it off the train alive and what awaits them at the terminal station. Leitch and McCormick produce Bullet Train with Antoine Fuqua and Kat Samick.
Between Hobbs & Shaw, Deadpool 2,...
- 7/31/2020
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
“If I had had a home, I would have never ended up in Seoul station.”
Over the last decade, zombie movies have become something which many had never anticipated: a part of our pop culture. Looking back at the most prominent entries into the genre, from George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead” to Lucio Fulci’s “Zombie Flesh Eaters”, perhaps no none would have thought the undead would be on prime time television, attracting millions of viewers. However, while the themes of films like “28 Days Later”, “The Zombie Diaries” and “The Walking Dead” may have changed, the overall nature of the genre has not been touched. You can even go so far as to say the real artistry behind the zombie genre is truly to paradoxically bring new life, fresh ideas to the shuffling (or sometimes running) zombies.
Interestingly, and maybe due to the development of global pop culture,...
Over the last decade, zombie movies have become something which many had never anticipated: a part of our pop culture. Looking back at the most prominent entries into the genre, from George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead” to Lucio Fulci’s “Zombie Flesh Eaters”, perhaps no none would have thought the undead would be on prime time television, attracting millions of viewers. However, while the themes of films like “28 Days Later”, “The Zombie Diaries” and “The Walking Dead” may have changed, the overall nature of the genre has not been touched. You can even go so far as to say the real artistry behind the zombie genre is truly to paradoxically bring new life, fresh ideas to the shuffling (or sometimes running) zombies.
Interestingly, and maybe due to the development of global pop culture,...
- 11/13/2018
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
Playtime, the leading international sales and co-production companies behind Olivier Assayas’s “Non-Fiction” and Laszlo Nemes’s “Sunset,” is rolling into Mipcom with its first TV drama slate.
Headed by former Fox executive Virginie Boireaux, Playtime’s TV division has boarded a pair of high-concept shows with female protagonists — “Mental” (“Hp”), a comedy-drama series about Sheila, a twenty-something intern in psychiatry who discovers the burlesque and tragic world of madness; and “Helvetica,” a political thriller mini-series about Tina, a native of Albania in her forties who works as a maid in government offices in Switzerland, and turns into a double agent for the Balkan mob and the Swiss counter-terrorism agency.
“‘Mental’ and ‘Helvetica’ represent perfectly what Playtime is about regarding our international TV ambitions: strong scripts with high concepts,” said Boireaux, who is head of TV sales and acquisitions at Playtime.
“While ‘Mental’ brings out comedy and drama from off-beat situations in a unique setting,...
Headed by former Fox executive Virginie Boireaux, Playtime’s TV division has boarded a pair of high-concept shows with female protagonists — “Mental” (“Hp”), a comedy-drama series about Sheila, a twenty-something intern in psychiatry who discovers the burlesque and tragic world of madness; and “Helvetica,” a political thriller mini-series about Tina, a native of Albania in her forties who works as a maid in government offices in Switzerland, and turns into a double agent for the Balkan mob and the Swiss counter-terrorism agency.
“‘Mental’ and ‘Helvetica’ represent perfectly what Playtime is about regarding our international TV ambitions: strong scripts with high concepts,” said Boireaux, who is head of TV sales and acquisitions at Playtime.
“While ‘Mental’ brings out comedy and drama from off-beat situations in a unique setting,...
- 10/15/2018
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Five tales of horror. Five masters of horror. After premiering at Fantasia, Bloody Disgusting has a handful of new images from Nightmare Cinema, which features shorts from five genre directors: Mick Garris (Critters 2, Sleepwalkers, “The Shining” miniseries), Joe Dante (Gremlins, The Howling, Piranha, The Hole), David Slade (30 Days of Night), Ryuhei Kitamura (Downrange, Versus) and Alejandro Brugues (Juan of the Dead). Meagan reviewed the […]...
- 9/5/2018
- by Brad Miska
- bloody-disgusting.com
Entering its 14th year of entertaining, educating, and enthralling audiences with ambitious genre movies, Arizona's International Horror & Sci-Fi Film Festival has another eclectic lineup this year, including To Hell and Back: The Kane Hodder Story, Downrange, David and Rebekah McKendry's All the Creatures Were Stirring, and the world premiere of Cynthia.
Read on for the list of highlighted films from the International Horror and Sci-Fi Film Festival lineup below, and visit HorrorSciFi.com and PhoenixFilmFestival.com for more information.
Press Release: It’s that time of year again Horror and Sci-Fi friends, that time to cozy up with your popcorn and cold beverage to watch the horrific, bizarre, otherworldly sights we have planned at the 14th Annual International Horror and Sci-Fi Film Festival which takes place at Harkins Scottsdale 101 from April 6th-15th.
We have expanded to 10 days and have more programming for your eyes to feast upon at the festival this year.
Read on for the list of highlighted films from the International Horror and Sci-Fi Film Festival lineup below, and visit HorrorSciFi.com and PhoenixFilmFestival.com for more information.
Press Release: It’s that time of year again Horror and Sci-Fi friends, that time to cozy up with your popcorn and cold beverage to watch the horrific, bizarre, otherworldly sights we have planned at the 14th Annual International Horror and Sci-Fi Film Festival which takes place at Harkins Scottsdale 101 from April 6th-15th.
We have expanded to 10 days and have more programming for your eyes to feast upon at the festival this year.
- 3/23/2018
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Japanese action star, actor Tak Sakaguchi will share the floor as a guest panelist among other headliners for this year’s sophomore entry of the Iron DragonTV ActionFest. Submissions are now underway for the upcoming event which will be held at the Galaxy Highland 10 Theater in Austin, Texas from August 10 through 12.
The humble Ishikawa native is a naturally well-known fan favorite credited for such films as “Battlefield Baseball”, “Versus”, “Alive”, “Samurai School”, “Yakuza Weapon” and Sono Sion’s “Why Don’t You Play In Hell?” to name a few. His latest action-packed starring role now sees him carving and beating armies of villains to a pulp for longtime friend and film partner Shimomura Yuji’s second directing effort, Re:Born, which has since been subject to a raft of critical praise from the festival circuit since last year.
Obligatory rules for Idtv Action Fest submissions and entries therein are listed in...
The humble Ishikawa native is a naturally well-known fan favorite credited for such films as “Battlefield Baseball”, “Versus”, “Alive”, “Samurai School”, “Yakuza Weapon” and Sono Sion’s “Why Don’t You Play In Hell?” to name a few. His latest action-packed starring role now sees him carving and beating armies of villains to a pulp for longtime friend and film partner Shimomura Yuji’s second directing effort, Re:Born, which has since been subject to a raft of critical praise from the festival circuit since last year.
Obligatory rules for Idtv Action Fest submissions and entries therein are listed in...
- 2/17/2018
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
The next in a plethora of horror anthologies is Cinelou Films’ Nightmare Cinema, which features shorts from five genre directors: Mick Garris (Critters 2, Sleepwalkers, “The Shining” miniseries), Joe Dante (Gremlins, The Howling, Piranha, The Hole), David Slade (30 Days of Night), Ryuhei Kitamura (Downrange, Versus) and Alejandro Brugues (Juan of the Dead). Centering on a group of down-on-their-luck individuals who enter the decrepit Rialto Theatre, […]...
- 1/24/2018
- by Brad Miska
- bloody-disgusting.com
Epix is set to launch a new version of The Contender, the Mark Burnett-produced boxing-competition reality TV franchise that ran on NBC, ESPN and Versus from 2005-2009. The new 12-episode will start production in 2018 with an anticipated debut later in the year. MGM Television is producing with Paramount Television. The upcoming series will feature 16 fighters in an elimination competition. "Boxing belongs on premium pay television and there is no better home for The Conte…...
- 1/22/2018
- Deadline TV
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