“Monster,” Hirokazu Kore-eda, Japan
Described by Variety critic Peter Debruge as a “convoluted portrait of a pre-teen in turmoil,” Kore-eda ‘s Palme d’Or best script and Queer Palm winner stars Sakura Andō as a mother who confronts a teacher after noticing odd changes in her son’s demeanor. Written by Yuji Sakamoto, it’s scored by the late Ryuichi Sakamoto.
“Peafowl,” Byun Sungbin, South Korea
Myung, a transgender, is estranged from her family because of who she is. She competes in a dance to earn some money for her sex-change surgery but it does not go well. One day, she is told that her father has died and that his will stipulates she could inherit his estate if she performed the Drum Dance during his memorial. Left with no other options, she returns to her hometown to do her father’s bidding.
“Waiting for Dali,” David Pujol, Spain
Fernando,...
Described by Variety critic Peter Debruge as a “convoluted portrait of a pre-teen in turmoil,” Kore-eda ‘s Palme d’Or best script and Queer Palm winner stars Sakura Andō as a mother who confronts a teacher after noticing odd changes in her son’s demeanor. Written by Yuji Sakamoto, it’s scored by the late Ryuichi Sakamoto.
“Peafowl,” Byun Sungbin, South Korea
Myung, a transgender, is estranged from her family because of who she is. She competes in a dance to earn some money for her sex-change surgery but it does not go well. One day, she is told that her father has died and that his will stipulates she could inherit his estate if she performed the Drum Dance during his memorial. Left with no other options, she returns to her hometown to do her father’s bidding.
“Waiting for Dali,” David Pujol, Spain
Fernando,...
- 9/25/2023
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
Jose Pozo, director of the celebrated Spanish short “Plastic Killer,” is traveling to the Western U.S. for his next feature film, “Unusual Cowboys,” which he plans to shoot this year.
The story follows Milton, a peaceful rancher and occasional musician who loses his daughter in a traffic accident. Her death has a further tragic impact on Milton’s life, leading him to sell his ranch and travel to Montana in search of Caleb, the man who failed to help his daughter in the accident.
It’s a film about two men who in other circumstances could have been good friends. Although separated by terrible circumstances, they share a common passion: Music.
Pozo is set to shoot the film later this year in Lockhart, Texas, and Butte, Montana, with additional sequences planned in Colorado and Wyoming.
The project garnered recognition in the 2020 Big Break Screenwriting Contest, where it landed in...
The story follows Milton, a peaceful rancher and occasional musician who loses his daughter in a traffic accident. Her death has a further tragic impact on Milton’s life, leading him to sell his ranch and travel to Montana in search of Caleb, the man who failed to help his daughter in the accident.
It’s a film about two men who in other circumstances could have been good friends. Although separated by terrible circumstances, they share a common passion: Music.
Pozo is set to shoot the film later this year in Lockhart, Texas, and Butte, Montana, with additional sequences planned in Colorado and Wyoming.
The project garnered recognition in the 2020 Big Break Screenwriting Contest, where it landed in...
- 3/14/2023
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
David Pujol, whose enchanting drama “Waiting for Dalí” premiered at the Malaga Film Festival on Sunday, has a new feature film project and an international TV series in the works.
Pujol has just completed the script for “Rehearsal for a Kiss,” the story of a passionate yet hapless movie theater owner in Barcelona whose love of classic movies has left his cinema in a precarious position. On the verge of losing the family business, he seeks help from his uncle in America, who has made a career for himself as a character actor in Hollywood. A flashy, larger-than-life personality, the uncle returns to his native city after 40 years to help his nephew save the theater while also reconnecting with his own past.
“The Flash Game,” meanwhile, is conceived as an eight-part series set in the 1960s world of paparazzi between Rome and London. It focuses on the rebellious son of a British publishing tycoon who,...
Pujol has just completed the script for “Rehearsal for a Kiss,” the story of a passionate yet hapless movie theater owner in Barcelona whose love of classic movies has left his cinema in a precarious position. On the verge of losing the family business, he seeks help from his uncle in America, who has made a career for himself as a character actor in Hollywood. A flashy, larger-than-life personality, the uncle returns to his native city after 40 years to help his nephew save the theater while also reconnecting with his own past.
“The Flash Game,” meanwhile, is conceived as an eight-part series set in the 1960s world of paparazzi between Rome and London. It focuses on the rebellious son of a British publishing tycoon who,...
- 3/14/2023
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: The second season of Tori Spelling series @Home With Tori toplines the latest slate from a Fast channel MyTime Movie Network.
The reality shows follows the real life of Beverly Hills, 90210 star Spelling, with the first run ranging from pool parties to mother-daughter relationship moments as she juggled being a mother of five, producer, actor and celebrity. Several brands sponsored the ten-part show, which featured a variety of special celebrity guests.
Season one debuted this June on Vizio and AVoD channel MyTime Movie Network now has season two in pre-production.
The show is one of several that’s set for MyTime Movie Network, which focuses on celebrating and entertaining women and is a venture between a trio of production and distribution companies: Daro Film Distribution from Monaco in France, Corbi in Spain and Enlighten Content from the U.S.
To this point, the identity of the trio behind AVoD service MyTime has been unknown.
The reality shows follows the real life of Beverly Hills, 90210 star Spelling, with the first run ranging from pool parties to mother-daughter relationship moments as she juggled being a mother of five, producer, actor and celebrity. Several brands sponsored the ten-part show, which featured a variety of special celebrity guests.
Season one debuted this June on Vizio and AVoD channel MyTime Movie Network now has season two in pre-production.
The show is one of several that’s set for MyTime Movie Network, which focuses on celebrating and entertaining women and is a venture between a trio of production and distribution companies: Daro Film Distribution from Monaco in France, Corbi in Spain and Enlighten Content from the U.S.
To this point, the identity of the trio behind AVoD service MyTime has been unknown.
- 10/12/2022
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
The culinary drama shoots on the Costa Brava and in Barcelona for six weeks.
Spanish director David Pujol’s feature debut has commenced shooting in Spain, with UK sales outfit Embankment representing global sales and serving as executive producer.
The film is produced by FishCorb Films’ Roger Corbi and Yan Fisher, plus Arlong Productions’ David Ortiz, with Pujol also writing the screenplay.
The shoot will take place for six weeks on the Costa Brava and in Barcelona, in Spanish and in French. Embankment has released this first-look image from the production.
Waiting For Dali takes inspiration from the art of...
Spanish director David Pujol’s feature debut has commenced shooting in Spain, with UK sales outfit Embankment representing global sales and serving as executive producer.
The film is produced by FishCorb Films’ Roger Corbi and Yan Fisher, plus Arlong Productions’ David Ortiz, with Pujol also writing the screenplay.
The shoot will take place for six weeks on the Costa Brava and in Barcelona, in Spanish and in French. Embankment has released this first-look image from the production.
Waiting For Dali takes inspiration from the art of...
- 10/15/2021
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
North American release set for later this month.
After a busy summer of sales on survival thriller Let It Snow, Arclight Films has locked in another key deal for the UK, Australia and New Zealand.
Signature Entertainment will handle Stanislav Kapralov’s feature film debut in the territories.
The latest piece of business follows summer deals for Japan (Hark & Company), Middle East (Falcon Films) and Africa (Black Sheep Films), Greece (Spentzos), and McF Megacom (former Yugoslavia).
Grindstone has set a September 22 North American VoD release on Let It Snow, which stars Ivanna Sakhno as a snowboarder who gets separated...
After a busy summer of sales on survival thriller Let It Snow, Arclight Films has locked in another key deal for the UK, Australia and New Zealand.
Signature Entertainment will handle Stanislav Kapralov’s feature film debut in the territories.
The latest piece of business follows summer deals for Japan (Hark & Company), Middle East (Falcon Films) and Africa (Black Sheep Films), Greece (Spentzos), and McF Megacom (former Yugoslavia).
Grindstone has set a September 22 North American VoD release on Let It Snow, which stars Ivanna Sakhno as a snowboarder who gets separated...
- 9/11/2020
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
The snowbound thriller was recently picked up for on-demand release in North America.
Arclight Films has secured new international distribution deals for thriller Let it Snow, starring Ivanna Sakhno and directed by Stanislav Kapralov.
The film, about a free-riding snowboarder struggling to survive against nature and a masked masked snowmobile rider, goes to Hark & Company for Japan, Spentzos Films for Greece, McF Megacom for the former Yugoslavia, Falcon Films for the Middle East and Black Sheep Films for Africa.
North American rights to the film were recently picked up by Lionsgate’s Grindstone Entertainment Group, with an on-demand release...
Arclight Films has secured new international distribution deals for thriller Let it Snow, starring Ivanna Sakhno and directed by Stanislav Kapralov.
The film, about a free-riding snowboarder struggling to survive against nature and a masked masked snowmobile rider, goes to Hark & Company for Japan, Spentzos Films for Greece, McF Megacom for the former Yugoslavia, Falcon Films for the Middle East and Black Sheep Films for Africa.
North American rights to the film were recently picked up by Lionsgate’s Grindstone Entertainment Group, with an on-demand release...
- 7/9/2020
- by 31¦John Hazelton¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
Solar Media produces snowboarding chiller.
Arclight Films has closed a North American distribution deal for the thriller Let It Snow with Grindstone Entertainment Group.
The film will be released on demand on September 22 and centres on Mia, a snowboarder who is separated from her fiancé after sneaking onto a restricted slope and must survive nature and a masked snowmobile rider out for blood
Ivanna Sakhno stars alongside Alex Hafner, and Tinatin Dalakishvili (Abigail).
Stanislav Kapralov makes his feature directorial debut and wrote the screenplay with Omri Rose.
Solar Media’s Serge Lavrenyuk served as producer, and executive producers are FishCorb...
Arclight Films has closed a North American distribution deal for the thriller Let It Snow with Grindstone Entertainment Group.
The film will be released on demand on September 22 and centres on Mia, a snowboarder who is separated from her fiancé after sneaking onto a restricted slope and must survive nature and a masked snowmobile rider out for blood
Ivanna Sakhno stars alongside Alex Hafner, and Tinatin Dalakishvili (Abigail).
Stanislav Kapralov makes his feature directorial debut and wrote the screenplay with Omri Rose.
Solar Media’s Serge Lavrenyuk served as producer, and executive producers are FishCorb...
- 6/29/2020
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
In today’s film news roundup, “Three Christs” finds a home, Participant chief David Linde will be honored and “Let It Snow” is set for sale at Afm.
Acquisition
IFC Films is acquiring U.S. rights to “Three Christs,” starring Peter Dinklage, Richard Gere, Walton Goggins and Bradley Whitford.
The film is directed by Jon Avnet and co-written by Avnet and Eric Nazarian, based on Milton Rokeach’s book, “The Three Christs of Ypsilanti.” The film was produced by Daniel Levin, Molly Hassel, Avnet and Dr. Aaron Stern. IFC Films will be releasing the film theatrically in January.
The story is based on a 1959 experiment at Michigan’s Ypsilanti State Hospital, with Gere portraying a doctor whose paranoid schizophrenic patient (Dinklage) believes he is Jesus Christ. Unwilling to use electroshock therapy, he begins a risky, unprecedented experiment by transferring his patient to live together with two other paranoid schizophrenics (portrayed...
Acquisition
IFC Films is acquiring U.S. rights to “Three Christs,” starring Peter Dinklage, Richard Gere, Walton Goggins and Bradley Whitford.
The film is directed by Jon Avnet and co-written by Avnet and Eric Nazarian, based on Milton Rokeach’s book, “The Three Christs of Ypsilanti.” The film was produced by Daniel Levin, Molly Hassel, Avnet and Dr. Aaron Stern. IFC Films will be releasing the film theatrically in January.
The story is based on a 1959 experiment at Michigan’s Ypsilanti State Hospital, with Gere portraying a doctor whose paranoid schizophrenic patient (Dinklage) believes he is Jesus Christ. Unwilling to use electroshock therapy, he begins a risky, unprecedented experiment by transferring his patient to live together with two other paranoid schizophrenics (portrayed...
- 10/30/2019
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Gary Hamilton sets debut market screenings.
Arclight Films has boarded as worldwide sales agent on the thriller Let It Snow starring Ivanna Sakhno, Alex Hafner, and Tinatin Dalakishvili (Abigail).
Chairman and CEO Gary Hamilton and his team will launch sales at Afm next week and has set debut market screenings for the feature directorial debut by Stanislav Kapralov from a screenplay he wrote with Omri Rose.
Let It Snow follows Mia, a free-spirited snowboarder who gets separated from her fiancé after sneaking onto a restricted slope and must not only survive against nature, but a masked snowmobile rider in black out for blood.
Arclight Films has boarded as worldwide sales agent on the thriller Let It Snow starring Ivanna Sakhno, Alex Hafner, and Tinatin Dalakishvili (Abigail).
Chairman and CEO Gary Hamilton and his team will launch sales at Afm next week and has set debut market screenings for the feature directorial debut by Stanislav Kapralov from a screenplay he wrote with Omri Rose.
Let It Snow follows Mia, a free-spirited snowboarder who gets separated from her fiancé after sneaking onto a restricted slope and must not only survive against nature, but a masked snowmobile rider in black out for blood.
- 10/30/2019
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
The Fosters actor Christopher Meyer and Jalyn Hall, who stars in CW’s new series All American, have been cast in the Netflix drama All Day and a Night, written and directed by Black Panther scribe Joe Robert Cole. The pic stars Moonlight breakout Ashton Sanders as Jah, a young man who committed a homicide and is facing just that. The drama is seen through his Pov as he deals with the repercussions of his actions. Hall will play the younger version of Jah, and Meyer is Lamark, Jah’s best friend. Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson of Color Force and Jared Ian Goldman are producing. Meyer is currently appearing on the fourth season of Showtime’s The Affair, while Hall can next be seen in Universal’s The House With a Clock in Its Walls. Meyer is repped by Pantheon, Stride Management, and attorney Chris Abramson. Hall is also...
- 8/6/2018
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
“I’ll underwrite any escape you can arrange,” the millionaire prisoner tells his framed fellow inmate. Only problem is, their penitentiary is a remote island, and “there’s no way off.”
Tell that to Henri “Papillon” Charrière — who intones, “There’s always a way.” Then again, the punishment for attempted escape is two years in solitary. One’s second attempt is met with a life sentence on said Devil’s Island.
Here is the first trailer for Papillon, director Michael Noer’s remake of the 1973 film that starred Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman and was co-penned by Dalton Trumbo. Charlie Hunnam and Rami Malek step into their respective roles as safecracker Charrière and quirky counterfeiter Louis Dega. Together, the mismatched pair navigate a gauntlet of bullets, whips, even sharks as they struggle for to attain freedom.
The redo is scripted by Aaron Guzikowski based on Charriere’s books Papillon and Banco,...
Tell that to Henri “Papillon” Charrière — who intones, “There’s always a way.” Then again, the punishment for attempted escape is two years in solitary. One’s second attempt is met with a life sentence on said Devil’s Island.
Here is the first trailer for Papillon, director Michael Noer’s remake of the 1973 film that starred Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman and was co-penned by Dalton Trumbo. Charlie Hunnam and Rami Malek step into their respective roles as safecracker Charrière and quirky counterfeiter Louis Dega. Together, the mismatched pair navigate a gauntlet of bullets, whips, even sharks as they struggle for to attain freedom.
The redo is scripted by Aaron Guzikowski based on Charriere’s books Papillon and Banco,...
- 5/22/2018
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
Charlie Hunnam and Rami Malek star in the adventure based on the bestselling 1969 memoir of convicted French felon and fugitive Henri Charriere.
Papillon shot for 51 days in Belgrade, Serbia, as well as various locations in Montenegro and the Mediterranean Film Studioswater tanks in Malta.
Michael Noer directs from a screenplay by Aaron Guzikowski. The story charts Charriere’s escape attempts from the brutal penal colony on French Guiana.
Red Granite’s Joey McFarland, David Koplan and Riza Aziz produce with Ram Bergman and Roger Corbi.
Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman starred in the 1973 version.
Condé Nast Entertainment has hired Bruce Perlmutter as senior vice-president of production to oversee the company’s digital video content. Perlmutter most recently produced BuzzFeed’s live election night coverage, and the Heaven Sent live skydiving event for Fox, Facebook Live and Snapchat. FilmRise has acquired North American rights to Nancy Buirski’s documentary By Sidney Lumet. The film premiered...
Papillon shot for 51 days in Belgrade, Serbia, as well as various locations in Montenegro and the Mediterranean Film Studioswater tanks in Malta.
Michael Noer directs from a screenplay by Aaron Guzikowski. The story charts Charriere’s escape attempts from the brutal penal colony on French Guiana.
Red Granite’s Joey McFarland, David Koplan and Riza Aziz produce with Ram Bergman and Roger Corbi.
Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman starred in the 1973 version.
Condé Nast Entertainment has hired Bruce Perlmutter as senior vice-president of production to oversee the company’s digital video content. Perlmutter most recently produced BuzzFeed’s live election night coverage, and the Heaven Sent live skydiving event for Fox, Facebook Live and Snapchat. FilmRise has acquired North American rights to Nancy Buirski’s documentary By Sidney Lumet. The film premiered...
- 12/5/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Charlie Hunnam stars in the re-telling of the 1973 classic.
Red Granite International’s Danny Dimbort and Christian Mercuri have begun sales here on Papillon starring Charlie Hunnam.
The film is styled as a contemporary and gritty re-telling of Franklin J. Schaffner’s 1973 classic that starred Steve McQueen as Henri Charrière, a petty criminal sent to the notorious Devil’s Island penal colony in French Guiana after he is unjustly convicted of murder.
Charrière befriends a counterfeiter who offers to fund his escape in return for protection.
Danish director Michael Noer is lining up to start production outside the Us this summer from a script by Aaron Guzikowski. CAA represents Us rights to the classic adventure story.
Riza Aziz, Joey McFarland, Ram Bergman and Roger Corbi produce, while Dimbort and Mercuri are among the executive producers with David Koplan, Yan-Fischer-Romanovsky, Joshua D. Mauer, Terrence Chang and Martin Hellstern.
Red Granite International’s Danny Dimbort and Christian Mercuri have begun sales here on Papillon starring Charlie Hunnam.
The film is styled as a contemporary and gritty re-telling of Franklin J. Schaffner’s 1973 classic that starred Steve McQueen as Henri Charrière, a petty criminal sent to the notorious Devil’s Island penal colony in French Guiana after he is unjustly convicted of murder.
Charrière befriends a counterfeiter who offers to fund his escape in return for protection.
Danish director Michael Noer is lining up to start production outside the Us this summer from a script by Aaron Guzikowski. CAA represents Us rights to the classic adventure story.
Riza Aziz, Joey McFarland, Ram Bergman and Roger Corbi produce, while Dimbort and Mercuri are among the executive producers with David Koplan, Yan-Fischer-Romanovsky, Joshua D. Mauer, Terrence Chang and Martin Hellstern.
- 5/12/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
"Sons of Anarchy" star Charlie Hunnam is in talks to take on the role made famous by Steve McQueen in a remake of the legendary 1973 prison escape drama "Papillon" for Red Granite.
McQueen played a man unjustly convicted of murder in 1930s France and condemned to life in a South American prison. He plots his escape, aided by a counterfeiter (Dustin Hoffman) who finances prison escapes in exchange for protection. Dalton Trumbo and Lorenzo Semple Jr. penned the Franklin J Schaffner-directed original.
Danish director Michael Noer is attached to helm the remake from a script by "Prisoners" scribe Aaron Guzikowski. Riza Aziz, Joey McFarland, Ram Bergman and Roger Corbi will produce and filming will begin this Fall.
Hunnam has completed shooting both Guy Ritchie's "King Arthur: Knights Of The Roundtable" and James Gray's "Lost City of Z".
Source: Deadline...
McQueen played a man unjustly convicted of murder in 1930s France and condemned to life in a South American prison. He plots his escape, aided by a counterfeiter (Dustin Hoffman) who finances prison escapes in exchange for protection. Dalton Trumbo and Lorenzo Semple Jr. penned the Franklin J Schaffner-directed original.
Danish director Michael Noer is attached to helm the remake from a script by "Prisoners" scribe Aaron Guzikowski. Riza Aziz, Joey McFarland, Ram Bergman and Roger Corbi will produce and filming will begin this Fall.
Hunnam has completed shooting both Guy Ritchie's "King Arthur: Knights Of The Roundtable" and James Gray's "Lost City of Z".
Source: Deadline...
- 5/4/2016
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Red Granite is developing a remake of the classic 1973 Steve McQueen prison drama "Papillon".
Based on the autobiography by the French convict Henri Charriere and the final screenplay of acclaimed writer Dalton Trumbo, McQueen played a criminal who is unjustly convicted of murder in 1930s France and condemned to life in a South American prison.
Dustin Hoffman played a counterfeiter who agrees to finance Papillon's prison escapes in exchange for protection in prison. Danish director Michael Noer is attached to helm the remake from a script by Aaron Guzikowski ("Prisoners").
Riza Aziz, Joey McFarland, Ram Bergman and Roger Corbi will produce.
Source: Variety...
Based on the autobiography by the French convict Henri Charriere and the final screenplay of acclaimed writer Dalton Trumbo, McQueen played a criminal who is unjustly convicted of murder in 1930s France and condemned to life in a South American prison.
Dustin Hoffman played a counterfeiter who agrees to finance Papillon's prison escapes in exchange for protection in prison. Danish director Michael Noer is attached to helm the remake from a script by Aaron Guzikowski ("Prisoners").
Riza Aziz, Joey McFarland, Ram Bergman and Roger Corbi will produce.
Source: Variety...
- 10/8/2015
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Exclusive: UK sales outfit acquires international rights to doc about late golf legend.
Salt has picked up worldwide sales rights, excluding Spain, to Seve Ballesteros documentary Seve.
Produced by Stephen Evans, Jonathan Evans and Romilly Evans of Renaissance Films, John-Paul Davidson directs the story of the Spanish golf legend.
The documentary charts Ballesteros’ early life learning to play golf with a broken club on the beach of his small home town to becoming the youngest ever Open champion of the modern era. The charismatic Spaniard went on to win the Masters, five majors and become world number one.
In 2011, Ballesteros died aged 54 following a battle with brain cancer.
Filming has recently completed in Spain on the film, which is a combination of archive footage and dramatic reconstruction, and was with the support of the Seve Ballesteros Foundation.
Executive producers are Roger Corbi and Yan Fisher of Fish/Corb Films.
Oscar-nominated Tariq Anwar (The King’s Speech) is editor...
Salt has picked up worldwide sales rights, excluding Spain, to Seve Ballesteros documentary Seve.
Produced by Stephen Evans, Jonathan Evans and Romilly Evans of Renaissance Films, John-Paul Davidson directs the story of the Spanish golf legend.
The documentary charts Ballesteros’ early life learning to play golf with a broken club on the beach of his small home town to becoming the youngest ever Open champion of the modern era. The charismatic Spaniard went on to win the Masters, five majors and become world number one.
In 2011, Ballesteros died aged 54 following a battle with brain cancer.
Filming has recently completed in Spain on the film, which is a combination of archive footage and dramatic reconstruction, and was with the support of the Seve Ballesteros Foundation.
Executive producers are Roger Corbi and Yan Fisher of Fish/Corb Films.
Oscar-nominated Tariq Anwar (The King’s Speech) is editor...
- 10/23/2013
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Canadian production company Muse Entertainment has announced the beginning of principal photography for a new television adapation of Ben Hur. The finished film will air as a miniseries with a cast that includes Joseph Morgan, Stephen Campbell, Ray Winstone, Kristen Kreuk (Lana Lang in Smallville), Alex Kingston and Art Malik.
Muse is co-producing Ben Hur with companies from Spain, Morocco, Germany and the United States. Shooting is currently taking place in Morocco. Among the people named as producers is David Wyler, the son of William Wyler. The senior Wyler directed the 1959 film version of Ben Hur starring Charlton Heston. That film won 11 Academy Awards.
The press release from Muse announcing the start of filming is below.
Los Angeles, Barcelona, Berlin, Montreal: May 5, 2009 - The legendary story of Ben Hur began principal photography May 4, 2009 and is being produced for the first time for television. Based on the original 1880’s novel by Lew Wallace,...
Muse is co-producing Ben Hur with companies from Spain, Morocco, Germany and the United States. Shooting is currently taking place in Morocco. Among the people named as producers is David Wyler, the son of William Wyler. The senior Wyler directed the 1959 film version of Ben Hur starring Charlton Heston. That film won 11 Academy Awards.
The press release from Muse announcing the start of filming is below.
Los Angeles, Barcelona, Berlin, Montreal: May 5, 2009 - The legendary story of Ben Hur began principal photography May 4, 2009 and is being produced for the first time for television. Based on the original 1880’s novel by Lew Wallace,...
- 5/6/2009
- CinemaSpy
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