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| Myriad Pictures at CANNES 25 Boulevard de La Croisette, 3rd floor May 17-23 |
FRIDAY Biopic | Pre-production Robin Friday played professional soccer for just three years. But he wasn't only a player who scored the greatest goal that some ever saw. He became the all-time cult hero for the fans that adored him. Based on the cult book, The Greatest Footballer You Never Saw, co-written by Paolo Hewitt. WRITER Julian Stone Paolo Hewitt DIRECTOR Andrew Levitas(Lullaby) CAST Sam Claflin(Me Before You, Love Rosie, The Hunger Games) |
JEEPERS CREEPERS 3
Horror | Post-production On the last day of the Creeper's twenty-three day feeding frenzy, skeptical Sargent Tubbs teams up with a task force hell bent on destroying the Creeper for good. The Creeper fights back in gory glory as its enemies grow closer than ever before to learning the secret of its dark origins. WRITER/DIRECTOR Victor Salva(Jeepers Creepers I & II, Powder) CAST Jonathan Breck(Jeepers Creepers I & II, W.) Meg Foster (They Live, Emerald Forest, Lords of Salem) Gabrielle Haugh(Mother May I Sleep with Danger, Midnight Man) Chester Rushing ("Stranger Things") Stan Shaw (Rocky, Fried Green Tomatoes, The Great Santini) Brandon Smith (No Country for Old Men, Powder, Jeepers Creepers) Gina Philips (Jeepers Creepers I, "Ally McBeal") New promo in Cannes |
RED DOG: TRUE BLUE
Family | Completed An iconic story of family, friendship and adventure, between a young boy and a scrappy one-of-a-kind dog that would grow up to become an Australian legend. WRITER Daniel Taplitz (Chaos Theory, The Angriest Man in Brooklyn) DIRECTOR KrivStenders (Red Dog, Kill me Three Times, Boxing Day) CAST Levi Miller (Pan, "Supergirl") Jason Isaacs ("Star Treck: Discovery", "The OA", Harry Potter) Bryan Brown (Australia, Gods of Egypt) Berlinale Official Selection Generation 2017 Sundance Kids Official Selection 2017 |
PAPER YEAR
Comedy | Post-production This romantic comedy-drama is in the vein of such films as Like Crazy and I Give It a Year. Paper Year is a fresh, modern and charming look at the messy nature of young love. It tells the story of Franny (Eve Hewson) and Dan (AvanJogia), a young but madly in love couple, who decide to get married despite their parents' lack of support. As their first and what is supposed to be best year of marriage drags on, new opportunities and multiple temptations put their relationship to the test. WRITER/DIRECTOR Rebecca Addelman("New Girl", "Love") CAST Eve Hewson (Robin Hood, Bridge of Spies, "The Knick") AvanJogia(A Midsummer Night's Dream, 10,000 Saints) Andie MacDowell (Four Weddings and A Funeral, Groundhog Day) Hamish Linklater (The Big Short, Fantastic Four) |
DRONE
Thriller | Completed Neil is a cog in the wheel of America's war on terror. A private drone operator, he spends his workdays flying covert missions for the CIA then returns to a family life of suburban mediocrity. But Neil's juggling act of husband, father and armchair warrior comes to a crashing halt when a whistle-blowing website reveals that he was at the controls of a number of deadly drone strikes. Believing Neil is responsible for the deaths of his wife and child, an enigmatic Pakistani businessman has tracked him down. A harrowing confrontation takes place in Neil's house and it proves to be far more complex than a simple act of revenge. WRITER Jason Bourque (Black Fly) Paul A. Birkett DIRECTOR Jason Bourque (Black Fly) CAST Sean Bean (Lord of the Rings, The Martian, "Game of Thrones") Patrick Sabongui(300, Godzilla, "Homeland") Mary McCormack ("In Plain Sight," Right at Your Door, K-PAX) Joel David Moore (Avatar, Dodgeball, CBGB, "Bones") U.S. Distributor: Screen Media |
THE QUEEN OF SPAIN
Comedy | Completed In THE QUEEN OF SPAIN, Penelope Cruz is the famous movie star Macarena Granada, who flees the glitz and glamour of 1950s Hollywood to return to her roots in Spain where she has signed on to star in an epic film as Queen Isabella of Spain. WRITER / DIRECTOR Academy Award© Winner Fernando Trueba(Belle Epoque, The Girl of Your Dreams) CAST Academy Award© Winner Penelope Cruz (Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Nine) Cary Elwes(The Princess Bride, Robin Hood) Mandy Patinkin ("Homeland", The Princess Bride) Clive Revill (Star Wars Episode V, Avanti!) Antonio Resines(Cell 211, The Girl of Your Dreams) Santiago Segura (Pacific Rim, Hellboy II) Chino Darin (Farsantes, Los Unicos) Berlinale Official Selection Gala 2017 |
BOYS IN THE TREES
Horror Thriller | Completed BOYS IN THE TREES is the dazzling, spooky, and emotionally rich feature film debut from director Nicholas Verso. This genre thriller is a unique coming-of-age tale about teenage former friends whose all-night trek one spooky Halloween night becomes a descent into old fears and nightmares. As the night goes on more strange and surreal events unfold. WRITER/DIRECTOR Nicholas Verso (The Last Time I Saw Richard) CAST Gulliver McGrath (Hugo, Lincoln) Toby Wallace (Galore) Mitzi Ruhlmann(Yardbird, "Home and Away") Justin Holborow ("Neighbours") World Premiere - Venice International Film Festival 2016 North American Premiere - Toronto International Film Festival 2016 U.S. Distributor: Netflix |
HEARTBEATS
Dance Romance | Completed This is the story of a feisty American hip hop dancer who travels to India with her family for a wedding and falls in love -- both with a new style of dance, and with the determined young man who introduces it to her. WRITER/DIRECTOR Duane Adler (Step Up Franchise, Make Your Move) PRODUCERS Sriram Das (November Man, How to Make Love Like an Englishman) Andrea Chung (Seoul Searching) Karine Martin (Maina) CAST Krystal Ellsworth (Iron Man 2, Fame) Amitash Pradhan (Velaiyilla Pattathari) Daphne Zuniga (Spaceballs, "Melrose Place") Justin Chon (Twilight) Paul McGillion(Tomorrowland, Star Trek) Music from Jay Z's Roc Nation |
BORDERLINE
Comedy - Thriller| Pre-Production A comedic thriller, Borderline tells the story of Ed Porter (Broderick), who lives the torturously dull life of a US border patrolman stationed at the least dangerous border in the United States - where Montana meets Canada. But one day Ed happens upon a small plane crash which could be connected to terrorism. Suddenly Ed has an opportunity to find validity in his job and his own life. Things becomes even more complicated when he falls for a beautiful young college student (Rush). WRITER/DIRECTOR Ira Ungerleider ("Friends", "How I Met Your Mother") CAST Matthew Broderick (Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Inspector Gadget, Election) Rashida Jones ("Parks and Recreation", "Web Therapy", Celeste & Jesse Forever) Odeya Rush (The Giver, Goosebumps) |
THE LAST WORD
Comedy | Completed A one-time highly successful business woman, Harriet Lawler (Shirley MacLaine) has micro-managed every single aspect of her life. Why would her obituary be any different? And so she assigns the task of writing her obituary to a local writer, Anne Sherman (Amanda Seyfried). When the first draft doesn't meet her expectations, Harriet sets out to rewrite her life's story before it's too late, with Anne being dragged along as an unwilling accomplice. But as Anne slowly comes to realize, it's not only Harriet's legacy she's helping to shape, it's her own. WRITER Stuart Ross Fink DIRECTOR Mark Pellington (Arlington Road, The Mothman Prophecies, Henry Poole is Here) CAST Amanda Seyfried (Les Miserables, Mamma Mia, Ted 2) Shirley MacLaine Academy Award© Winner (Terms of Endearment, The Apartment, Bernie) Anne Heche (DonieBrasco, Psycho, Six Days Seven Nights) Philip Baker Hall (The Talented Mr. Ripley, Bruce Almighty) Tom Everett Scott ("Southland", That Thing You Do!) Ann'Jewel Lee Sundance Official Selection 2017 U.S. Distributor: Bleecker Street |
HOLIDAY JOY (F.K.A. DIFFERENT FOLKS)
Comedy | Completed Joy Hockstatter has been trying to help her dad, Bob, hold the family together after her Mother's death a few years earlier. Although only 15, she has tried to become a kind of surrogate Mom to her one older and one younger brother. Every day she looks across the street to the perfect house and family of the Wellmans. After a freak accident, which involves some suspicious cards, Joy wakes up as one of the Wellmans with a new mother, father and older sister. Her new life initially seems to have changed for the better, only now Bob and her brothers have taken a huge turn for the worse and the only one who recognizes Joy from her previous life is her old dog, Levi. WRITER Holly Goldberg (Made in America, The Big Green, Angels in the Outfield) DIRECTOR Kirk D'Amico CAST Bailee Madison (Just Go With It, Brothers) French Stewart (3rd Rock from the Sun, "Mom") Sandy Jobin-Bevans (Dawn of the Dead, Life with Boys) Jennifer Robertson (Wingin' It, Comedy Inc) Kolton Stewart (My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2, "Some Assembly Required") US Broadcaster: Freeform (formerly ABC Family) |
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