Screen International is rounding up the key projects launched before and during this year’s American Film Market (AFM), which runs November 5-10 at the Palms Casino Resort.
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Misty Green
Chris Rock will direct and star in the story of a talented actress with a habit of getting in her own way. She is offered the role of a lifetime from a director. The only snag is they have history. From MACRO Film Studios and Confluential Films.
Sales: Neon International
Paper Tiger
Adam Driver, Jeremy Strong and Anne Hathaway will star for James Gray in the crime drama, which The Veterans is introducing to buyers at AFM next week, with CAA Media Finance representing US rights. Principal photography is scheduled to begin in the first quarter of 2025,
Sales: The Veterans
Twilight Of The Dead
Milla Jovovich is battling zombies again in the culmination of George A. Romero’s Dead canon from Roundtable Entertainment in collaboration with the Romero estate. Brad Anderson directs and the cast includes Betty Gabriel from Get Out. Production is scheduled for March 2025.
Sales: Fortitude International
The Journeyman
Dev Patel will star for Tarsem Singh as a down-on-his-luck tennis pro drawn into the dark world of match-fixing. Production is set to commence next year. AGC Studios will fully finance and produce, and CAA Media Finance co-represents US rights.
Sales: AGC International
Fear The Rider
John Michael McDonagh is set to direct and produce a horror thriller set in Australia, adapted from novel The Hunted by Gabriel Bergmoser, with Ben Mendelsohn and Abbey Lee to star. It is the first in a trilogy of thrillers. Brookstreet Pictures (The Brutalist) are among producers.
Sales: Film Constellation, CAA Media Finance
The Last Druid
Russell Crowe will play a Celtic druid battling the Roman Empire. Range Media Partners and CAA Media Finance jointly represent US rights. Will Eubank will direct.
Sales: AGC International
Cliffhanger reboot
Lily James and Pierce Brosnan to star in reboot of the Sylvester Stallone mountain action classic. Jaume Collet-Serra is directing from a script by Ana Lily Amirpour.
Sales: Rocket Science (international), CAA Media Finance (North America, China)
Molepeople
A Manhattan-set horror from UK filmmaker Rob Savage, the director of Host and The Boogeyman, and produced by the teams behind Woman Of The Hour and Halloween. Anthony Ramos and Ben Mendelsohn star.
Sales: Embankment; CAA Media Finance, Range and WME co-rep US
The Players
Steve Coogan and John C. Reilly reunite after Stan & Ollie for a comedy about rival 1800s thespians, directed by The Full Monty’s Peter Cattaneo. 42 produces.
Sales: Protagonist Pictures, CAA rep US
Good Boy
Stephen Graham, Andrea Riseborough and Anson Boon lead a completed thriller from director Jan Komasa and producers Jeremy Thomas, Ewa Piaskowskaand Jerzy Skolimowski. A 19-year-old is kidnapped and wakes up in an isolated home.
Sales: HanWay
Brides
Maika Monroe reunites with Watcher director Chloe Okuno on a 1960s Italy-set feminist take on the Dracula myth. Likely Story is producing the horror, with production scheduled to commence in spring 2025.
Sales: FilmNation, UTA Independent Film Group
Lone Wolf
Lily Gladstone and Bryan Cranston star for director in Mark Pellington in a conspiracy thriller about a troubled veteran who learns she is being set up in an operation to assassinate a high-level politician. Indie stalwarts Christine Vachon and Ted Hope are producing.
Sales: Great Escape
See You When I See You
Jay Duplass directs Astute Films’ comedic family drama about grief and healing. Cooper Raiff, David Duchovny, Hope Davis, Kaitlyn Dever, Lucy Boynton, and Ariela Barer star. Production has begun in Atlanta, Georgia.
Sales: CAA Media Finance
Mr. Sunny Sky
Guy Pearce, Hannah Waddingham and Daniel Inge lead a crime thriller about a former pop star who becomes embroiled in a risky romance, that unfurls in a Canary Island hotel. Ellipsis Pictures and Peach House produce.
Sales: Bankside
Wings Of Freedom
Eva Longoria and Nicholas Galitzine are to lead the voice cast of Studiocanal’s Mexico-set animated adventure, from the creators of Ballerina. Laurent Zeitoun directs.
Sales: Studiocanal
Victorian Psycho
The Substance star Margaret Qualley stars in this psychological thriller, set in a 1858 gothic horror manor. Zachary Wigon directs, with Dan Kagan (Longlegs) producing alongside Anton’s Sebastien Raybaud.
Sales: Anton; UTA Independent Film Group, CAA Media Finance and Anton co-rep US
Faster Than Horses
Ansel Elgort leads James Erskine’s survival thriller, that’s based on a true story. a A former Olympian attempts a series of marathons across the Sahara Desert, that turns into a battle for survival. Bear Grylls is among the producers.
Sales: Upgrade
One Night Only
Belfast star Colin Morgan and Calam Lynch star in an Irish comedy-drama from David Gleeson. The manager of a small-town cinema is subjected to the Friday night from hell as a sequence of calamities unfold.
Sales: Myriad Pictures
Dangerous Games To Play
Angel Gomez’s supernatural horror is produced by Basil Iwanyk and Scott Strauss, through their nascent joint venture Badlands. A group of friends find playing occult games has some unwanted consequences.
Sales: Altitude Film Sales; CAA Media Finance for US
The Light Fantastic
Jeremy Irvine, Rupert Everett, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett and Layton Williams star in a fresh take on the world of competitive ballroom dancing. Chris Cottam Debbie Gray of Genesius Pictures produces.
Sales: Cornerstone
The Housekeeper
Uma Thurman, Anthony Hopkins and Phoebe Dynevor star, with Richard Eyre directing, in this fictionalised take on the inspiration behind Daphne Du Maurier’s Rebecca.
Sales: Embankment Films; CAA Media Finance co-reps US with Embankment
Eye For An Eye
Music video director Colin Tilley’s debut feature is a revenge horror set in the marshlands of Florida, where a young woman grieves her parents’ untimely death. Whitney Peak stars.
Sales: HanWay Films; WME Independent for US
Monkey Hill
Olivia Wilde and Gael García Bernal star in this psychological thriller, from Sarah Adina Smith. An heiress accused of a white-collar crime hides away with her husband at a luxury resort in India, unaware of civil unrest intensifying outside the resort gates.
Sales: Upgrade; 2AM and WME Independent co-rep
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