She has just wrapped her sophomore project Le Consentement this past June and Vanessa Filho has already set her gaze on an intriguing-sounding fact-based story about a tandem of truly unique artists who were part of the resistance against the Nazi occupation. Screen Daily reports that Nina Hoss and Vanessa Paradis will be toplining the English-language period thriller Trespassers. We imagine there’ll be touches of French and German tossed in for a bit more authenticity. Production is set for the spring of 2023 in Jersey and France. The UK producers Evangelo Kioussis and Giles Foreman, and French producers are Gaël Cabouat and Boris Mendza are mounting the project.…...
- 8/23/2022
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
The period thriller tells the story of the campaign of resistance against the Nazi occupation in Jersey.
Vanessa Paradis and Nina Hoss are set to star in the English-language period thriller Trespassers, the third feature from French director Vanessa Filho, best known for Angel Face.
The film tells the true story of Lucy Schwob and Suzanne Malherbe – two surrealist artists, who worked under the pseudonyms Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore. The women were stepsisters and lovers, and launched the campaign of resistance against the Nazi occupation of the island of Jersey – a self-governing dependency of the British crown – during the Second World War.
Vanessa Paradis and Nina Hoss are set to star in the English-language period thriller Trespassers, the third feature from French director Vanessa Filho, best known for Angel Face.
The film tells the true story of Lucy Schwob and Suzanne Malherbe – two surrealist artists, who worked under the pseudonyms Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore. The women were stepsisters and lovers, and launched the campaign of resistance against the Nazi occupation of the island of Jersey – a self-governing dependency of the British crown – during the Second World War.
- 8/23/2022
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Electric Entertainment, the LA-based production, distribution and post-production company, has acquired North American rights to crime-thriller Heavy, starring Sophie Turner (Game of Thrones) and Daniel Zovatto (Penny Dreadful: City of Angels)
The feature centers on a couple living it up in the high-end drug scene of New York City. The Tvod release is due to rollout from February 9, 2021.
Directed by Jouri Smit and based on a screenplay by Seth Miller, the romantic crime-thriller sees Zovatto play Seven ‘Sev’ Max, a high-end drug dealer living in New York City. He has his game perfected: trust-fund clients, model parties, and crazed drug-fueled escapades. But troubled by his painful past and riddled with vices, he constantly tries to find comfort in all the wrong places. Sev realizes too late that his key to true happiness has been right in front of him all this time; his equally broken girlfriend and true love...
The feature centers on a couple living it up in the high-end drug scene of New York City. The Tvod release is due to rollout from February 9, 2021.
Directed by Jouri Smit and based on a screenplay by Seth Miller, the romantic crime-thriller sees Zovatto play Seven ‘Sev’ Max, a high-end drug dealer living in New York City. He has his game perfected: trust-fund clients, model parties, and crazed drug-fueled escapades. But troubled by his painful past and riddled with vices, he constantly tries to find comfort in all the wrong places. Sev realizes too late that his key to true happiness has been right in front of him all this time; his equally broken girlfriend and true love...
- 1/27/2021
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Paris-based sales company WTFilms has boarded sales.
Paris-based sales company WTFilms has boarded sales on Jouri Smit’s revenge thriller Heavy, co-starring Game Of Thrones actress Sophie Turner and Daniel Zovatto as a crazy couple living the high life against the backdrop of the high-end drugs scene.
Paris and Los Angeles-based FullDawa Films lifted the lid on the production – produced with Parts & Labor and JoBro productions – on the eve of Cannes.
Based on a screenplay by Seth Miller, the romantic crime-thriller stars Zovatto as a high-end drugs dealer opposite Turner as the love of his life. His life revolves around trust-fund clients,...
Paris-based sales company WTFilms has boarded sales on Jouri Smit’s revenge thriller Heavy, co-starring Game Of Thrones actress Sophie Turner and Daniel Zovatto as a crazy couple living the high life against the backdrop of the high-end drugs scene.
Paris and Los Angeles-based FullDawa Films lifted the lid on the production – produced with Parts & Labor and JoBro productions – on the eve of Cannes.
Based on a screenplay by Seth Miller, the romantic crime-thriller stars Zovatto as a high-end drugs dealer opposite Turner as the love of his life. His life revolves around trust-fund clients,...
- 5/8/2018
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Two American university film schools are represented on this year’s Oscar shortlist for Best Live Action Short Film, which have to win film festival awards to qualify. The Academy’s Short Films and Animation branch selected 10 live-action shorts (out of 165 qualified submissions) to contend for Oscar nominations. They will now vote for five nominees from the shortlist after attending January branch screenings in Los Angeles, London, New York and San Francisco.
The shorts are listed below in alphabetical order. No film will be deemed a frontrunner until I have seen it.
Contenders:
“DeKalb Elementary,” Reed Van Dyk, director (UCLA)
“The Eleven O’Clock,” Derin Seale, director (Finch)
“Facing Mecca,” Jan-Eric Mack, director, and Joël Jent, producer (Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion)
“Icebox,” Daniel Sawka, director, and Camille Cornuel, producer (Iceboxthefilmco)
“Lost Face,” Sean Meehan, director, and Sam McGarry, producer (Soma Films)
“My Nephew Emmett,” Kevin Wilson, Jr., director (New York University)
“Rise of a Star,...
The shorts are listed below in alphabetical order. No film will be deemed a frontrunner until I have seen it.
Contenders:
“DeKalb Elementary,” Reed Van Dyk, director (UCLA)
“The Eleven O’Clock,” Derin Seale, director (Finch)
“Facing Mecca,” Jan-Eric Mack, director, and Joël Jent, producer (Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion)
“Icebox,” Daniel Sawka, director, and Camille Cornuel, producer (Iceboxthefilmco)
“Lost Face,” Sean Meehan, director, and Sam McGarry, producer (Soma Films)
“My Nephew Emmett,” Kevin Wilson, Jr., director (New York University)
“Rise of a Star,...
- 12/12/2017
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Short Films and Animation branch has selected its shortlist of 10 live-action short films (out of 165 qualified submissions) to contend for five Oscar nominations.
American film schools UCLA and Nyu both landed films on the list. “DeKalb University,” directed by UCLA’s Reed Van Dyk, premiered at the SXSW Film Festival and was nominated for the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences College Television Awards. “My Nephew Emmett,” from Nyu’s Kevin Wilson Jr., received the gold medal for narrative at the 2017 Student Academy Awards.
The 10 films are listed below in alphabetical order by title, with their production companies:
“DeKalb Elementary,” Reed Van Dyk, director (UCLA)
“The Eleven O’Clock,” Derin Seale, director (Finch)
“Facing Mecca,” Jan-Eric Mack, director, and Joël Jent, producer (Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion)
“Icebox,” Daniel Sawka, director, and Camille Cornuel, producer (Iceboxthefilmco)
“Lost Face,” Sean Meehan, director, and Sam McGarry,...
American film schools UCLA and Nyu both landed films on the list. “DeKalb University,” directed by UCLA’s Reed Van Dyk, premiered at the SXSW Film Festival and was nominated for the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences College Television Awards. “My Nephew Emmett,” from Nyu’s Kevin Wilson Jr., received the gold medal for narrative at the 2017 Student Academy Awards.
The 10 films are listed below in alphabetical order by title, with their production companies:
“DeKalb Elementary,” Reed Van Dyk, director (UCLA)
“The Eleven O’Clock,” Derin Seale, director (Finch)
“Facing Mecca,” Jan-Eric Mack, director, and Joël Jent, producer (Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion)
“Icebox,” Daniel Sawka, director, and Camille Cornuel, producer (Iceboxthefilmco)
“Lost Face,” Sean Meehan, director, and Sam McGarry,...
- 12/11/2017
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Short Films and Animation branch has selected its shortlist of 10 live-action short films (out of 165 qualified submissions) to contend for five Oscar nominations.
American film schools UCLA and Nyu both landed films on the list. “DeKalb University,” directed by UCLA’s Reed Van Dyk, premiered at the SXSW Film Festival and was nominated for the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences College Television Awards. “My Nephew Emmett,” from Nyu’s Kevin Wilson Jr., received the gold medal for narrative at the 2017 Student Academy Awards.
The 10 films are listed below in alphabetical order by title, with their production companies:
“DeKalb Elementary,” Reed Van Dyk, director (UCLA)
“The Eleven O’Clock,” Derin Seale, director (Finch)
“Facing Mecca,” Jan-Eric Mack, director, and Joël Jent, producer (Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion)
“Icebox,” Daniel Sawka, director, and Camille Cornuel, producer (Iceboxthefilmco)
“Lost Face,” Sean Meehan, director, and Sam McGarry,...
American film schools UCLA and Nyu both landed films on the list. “DeKalb University,” directed by UCLA’s Reed Van Dyk, premiered at the SXSW Film Festival and was nominated for the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences College Television Awards. “My Nephew Emmett,” from Nyu’s Kevin Wilson Jr., received the gold medal for narrative at the 2017 Student Academy Awards.
The 10 films are listed below in alphabetical order by title, with their production companies:
“DeKalb Elementary,” Reed Van Dyk, director (UCLA)
“The Eleven O’Clock,” Derin Seale, director (Finch)
“Facing Mecca,” Jan-Eric Mack, director, and Joël Jent, producer (Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion)
“Icebox,” Daniel Sawka, director, and Camille Cornuel, producer (Iceboxthefilmco)
“Lost Face,” Sean Meehan, director, and Sam McGarry,...
- 12/11/2017
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
Protagonist Pictures has concluded sales in several territories for Israel Horovitz’s feature debut My Old Lady, starring Maggie Smith, Kevin Kline and Kristin Scott Thomas; shooting to begin in Paris on Sept 26.
The film has sold to the UK (Curzon Film World), Australia and New Zealand (Hopscotch/eOne), Germany and Switzerland (Ascot Elite), Scandinavia (Svensk), Benelux (Imagine), South Africa (Nu Metro), Israel (Lev Films), Greece and Cyprus (Feelgood), Middle East (Front Row), Portugal (Lusomundo), and Airlines (Eim).
Cohen Media Group’s acquistition of the film for North America was announced last week.
The cast is led by Maggie Smith, Kevin Kline, Kristin Scott Thomas and Dominique Pinon.
BBC Films is backing the project.
The film is written by Horovitz, on whose award-winning play the screenplay is based. Horovitz’ screenwriting credits include Istvan Szabo’s Sunshine, Author! Author!, and Cannes Prix du Jury winner The Strawberry Statement.
In My Old Lady, Kline plays Mathias...
The film has sold to the UK (Curzon Film World), Australia and New Zealand (Hopscotch/eOne), Germany and Switzerland (Ascot Elite), Scandinavia (Svensk), Benelux (Imagine), South Africa (Nu Metro), Israel (Lev Films), Greece and Cyprus (Feelgood), Middle East (Front Row), Portugal (Lusomundo), and Airlines (Eim).
Cohen Media Group’s acquistition of the film for North America was announced last week.
The cast is led by Maggie Smith, Kevin Kline, Kristin Scott Thomas and Dominique Pinon.
BBC Films is backing the project.
The film is written by Horovitz, on whose award-winning play the screenplay is based. Horovitz’ screenwriting credits include Istvan Szabo’s Sunshine, Author! Author!, and Cannes Prix du Jury winner The Strawberry Statement.
In My Old Lady, Kline plays Mathias...
- 9/9/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Kristin Scott Thomas joins cast to play Maggie Smith’s daughter.
Cohen Media Group has acquired all Us and Canadian rights to My Old Lady.
Kristin Scott Thomas has joined Maggie Smith, Kevin Kline and Dominique Pinon have joined the cast of Israel Horovitz’s feature debut.
The project starts shooting in Paris on Sept 26. Protagonist Pictures is handling international sales.
The North American deal was negotiated by Cohen Media Group Executive VP Gary Rubin and Cinetic Media’s John Sloss and Steven Farneth on behalf of the producers.
The story is about a New Yorker (Kline) who goes to sell a flat he inherited from his estranged father. He discovers a refined older woman (Smith) living there with her daughter (Scott Thomas).
Producers are Rachael Horovitz (Moneyball), Gary Foster (Sleepless in Seattle) Nitsa Benchetrit and David Barrot.
Co-producing on the ground in Paris are David Atrakchi, Boris Mendza and Gael Cabouat for Fulldawa Films. Charles Cohen and [link...
Cohen Media Group has acquired all Us and Canadian rights to My Old Lady.
Kristin Scott Thomas has joined Maggie Smith, Kevin Kline and Dominique Pinon have joined the cast of Israel Horovitz’s feature debut.
The project starts shooting in Paris on Sept 26. Protagonist Pictures is handling international sales.
The North American deal was negotiated by Cohen Media Group Executive VP Gary Rubin and Cinetic Media’s John Sloss and Steven Farneth on behalf of the producers.
The story is about a New Yorker (Kline) who goes to sell a flat he inherited from his estranged father. He discovers a refined older woman (Smith) living there with her daughter (Scott Thomas).
Producers are Rachael Horovitz (Moneyball), Gary Foster (Sleepless in Seattle) Nitsa Benchetrit and David Barrot.
Co-producing on the ground in Paris are David Atrakchi, Boris Mendza and Gael Cabouat for Fulldawa Films. Charles Cohen and [link...
- 9/6/2013
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
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