• Arab Stars of Tomorrow 2023: Noor Taher, actor (Jordan)
    Features

    Arab Stars of Tomorrow 2023: Noor Taher, actor (Jordan)

    2023-12-01T10:25:00Z

    The actor, dancer, model and social media influencer starred in Netflix’s 2021 Arabic original AlRawabi School For Girls.

  • The Stoning Of Soraya M
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    The Stoning Of Soraya M

    2008-09-08T18:55:00Z

    Dir. Cyrus Nowrasteh. US. 2008. 116mins.This harrowing, if cinematically flawed, account of a male mob’s murder of a young wife and mother according to Shariah law in an Iranian village in 1986, just a few years after Khomeini took power, takes on particular relevance today. Exposes ...

  • High Fliers picks up The Stoning Of Soraya M
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    High Fliers picks up The Stoning Of Soraya M

    2010-06-10T16:51:00Z

    The UK based company has secured UK distribution rights for the film from MPower Distribution.

  • News

    Primeridian lines up Future

    2013-05-22T11:16:00Z

    Primeridian Entertainment has hired Roger L Simon to write its second feature project, tentatively titled The Future Is Now. 

  • News

    Primeridian launches with Solzhenitsyn biopic

    2013-05-17T09:22:00Z

    Primeridian Entertainment has arrived on the scene and hired The Stoning Of Soraya M. director Cyrus Nowrasteh to write and direct a feature about the life of Soviet dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn.

  • News

    1492 Pictures, Rise Entertainment sign five-year pact

    2012-11-27T21:44:00Z

    Under the deal Michael Witherill’s Rise will invest in development and financing of the slate at Christopher Columbus’ company, kicking off with the Anne Rice adaptation Christ The Lord.

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    Toronto reviews

    2008-09-04T14:37:00Z

    Gala PresentationsBurn After Reading (Joel and Ethan Coen)Dean Spanley (Toa Fraser)The Duchess (Saul Dibb)Fifty Dead Men Walking (Kari Skogland)La Fille De Monaco (Anne Fontaine)The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond (Jodie Markell)Nothing But The Truth (Rod Lurie)One Week (Michael McGowan)The Other Man (Richard Eyre)Passchendaele (Paul Gross)Pride And Glory (Gavin O'Connor)Rachel Getting ...