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Clive Owen
Reimagining of Hamlet through the eyes of its doomed heroine. Based on the award-winning novel by Lisa Klein. Set in the 14th century but spoken in a contemporary voice, Ophelia is put center stage.
The 66th Berlin International Film Festival came to a close over the weekend and awarded the prized Golden and Silver Bears to the festival’s most esteemed films, filmmakers, and actors.
In the past couple of days, some star players in Hollywood have scored some major deals including Harrison Ford’s Iraq war drama, Official Secrets and the George Clooney-directed Suburbicon.
Owen will topline the sci-fi thriller, written and directed by Andrew Niccol, which is set in a world with no privacy, ignorance, or anonymity.
Set in a world with no privacy, ignorance, or anonymity, the thriller centers on a detective that stumbles upon a young woman who doesn’t exist and discovers it may not be the end of crime but the beginning.
Pop singer-turned-actress Rihanna has joined the cast of Luc Besson’s sci-fi epic Valerian. Besson took to instagram to announce the casting and though he wasn’t specific as to what role she would play, he did hint that the part was a big one.
A fallen warrior rises against a corrupt and sadistic ruler to avenge his master.
Logline: A young boy and his estranged father spend some time together while the boy’s mother and her new husband go to a religious retreat. When things start to go wrong, the boy and father realize they have more in common than they thought.
Logline: Set in downtown New York in 1900, “The Knick” is centered on the Knickerbocker Hospital and the groundbreaking surgeons, nurses and staff who work there, pushing the bounds of medicine in a time of astonishingly high mortality rates and zero antibiotics.
The British star gets caught up in a love triangle in the indie rom-com.
An English teacher and an art teacher meet each other at a small New England prep school where they begin a complicated relationship.
After being released from prison, Chris attempts to lead a normal life while his brother pursues a career of police work. Their relationship is tested though when Chris’ past begins to catch up with him.
Logline: A young woman tries to have it all in New York City.
After being released from prison, Chris attempts to lead a normal life while his brother pursues a career of police work. Their relationship is tested though when Chris’ past begins to catch up with him.
Logline: A State Department employee at the U.S. embassy in the U.K. is targeted by the same terrorist group responsible for killing her entire team and must race against the clock to stop a large scale terrorist attack.
Logline: Story follows Alexander Fox, an elegant gent who leaves the States to start a new life in the tiny nation of Andorra. He’s quickly drawn to two women — a tall, cool Australian blonde with a giant dog, and the reserved, heartbroken daughter of the town’s matriarch. When a dead body turns up in the harbor Fox finds he’s the prime suspect.
Logline: A group of warriors seek vengeance against the emperor who killed their master.
Centers on a young woman who after being arrested over an aborted bombing attempt in London is forced to reveal her IRA and MI5 informant past if she wishes to see her children again.
Logline: An English teacher and an art teacher meet each other at a small New England prep school where they begin a complicated relationship.
Logline: A middle-aged boat salesman is blackmailed by a teenager who has evidence of his extramarital affair.
Logline: Follows an NSA agent trying to piece together the events of a botched hostage rescue operation. As he begins to recall events and unearth the truth, he finds he can trust neither his fellow soldiers nor his own mind.
Logline kept under wraps, but the movie will be based on the photographer, Robert Mapplethorpe’s life.
“Children of Men” star to join drama based on the famed photographer!
“Children of Men” star signs on for IRA thriller!
Logline: Story follows an ex-con, working undercover for the police, who is sent into a maximum security prison to break a criminal organization’s stranglehold on amphetamine dealings on the inside.
Logline: Centers on a young woman who after being arrested over an aborted bombing attempt in London is forced to reveal her IRA and MI5 informant past if she wishes to see her children again.
Logline: In 1936, Ernest Hemingway, already a legend, met novelist and war correspondent Martha Gellhorn in a local bar in Key West. A meeting that would begin their tumultuous romance and subsequent five-year marriage that took them to the Spanish Civil War as Gellhorn stood toe-to-toe with the literary master, putting his famous bravado and iconic style to the test. Gellhorn’s competitive nature inspired the novelist to pen one of its most famous novels, For Whom the Bell Tolls.
Logline: Thriller centers on two brothers trying to discover what their relationships will be after one is released from a 10-year prison sentence, and the other has become a cop.
Logline: In order to bring down a band of cold-blooded contract killers, an elite group of vigilantes is formed from the ranks of England’s select paramilitary operatives.