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November 13, 2020
Jack Huston Steps Into ‘Wash Me In The River’ Lead
EXCLUSIVE: Jack Huston has stepped in to play the male lead in Wash Me in the River, joining Robert De Niro and John Malkovich in the Randall Emmett-directed action drama. Taylor Kitsch exited the role, this after agreeing to replace Colson “Machine Gun Kelly” Baker. The action-thriller is in the vein of No Country for Old Men....
November 13, 2020
Cautious Optimism Emerges as American Film Market Winds Down Virtual Events
The 41st American Film Market was the first AFM to take place online, thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, but the the world of independent film has kept its chin up amid daunting challenges. “I would say it’s a comfortable mixture of cautious but buoyant,” said David Garrett, CEO of Mister...
November 12, 2020
Highland’s Dynamic Duo on Selling Louise Linton, Charlotte Kirk Movies and Creating “Good Old-Fashioned” Entertainment
Fresh off of launching their own domestic distribution outfit, Arianne Fraser and Delphine Perrier’s prolific sales, financing and production company returns to AFM with a full slate of star-driven genre fare. In 2010, sales agent Arianne Fraser learned that a rival had scooped up foreign rights to sell Paranormal Xperience 3D,...
November 10, 2020
Jonathan Rhys Meyers & Connor Paolo Join Aaron Eckhart In Action Thriller ‘Ambush’ – AFM
The Aaron Eckhart action thriller Ambush has added Vikings and The Tudors star Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Connor Paolo from ABC’s Revenge. The Mark Earl Burman directed and written feature follows a group of young elite commandos, led by Captain Drummond (Eckhart), who are tasked with collecting highly classified information that can change the fate of the war. On the edge...