Mexican actor Gael Garcia Bernal is one actor whose career we always like to keep a track of considering his keen eye for directorial talent. He grew to prominence with roles in the films of Alejandro González Iñárritu ("Amores Perros," "Babel"); has since worked with names like Michel Gondry ("The Science Of Sleep"), Pedro Almodóvar ("Bad Education"), Walter Salles ("The Motorcycle Diaries") and Jim Jarmusch ("The Limits Of Control"); and has also been loosely attached to star in Martin Scorsese's next film, "Silence." The actor is now set to team with first time director Cyril Cohen as well as French thespian Marina Fois (most recently seen in the Cannes award winning "Polisse") for a Tel Aviv-set dramedy based on Alona Kimhi's novel "Weeping Susannah." Film takes place in the aftermath of the murder of Israeli prime...
- 12/12/2011
- The Playlist
One’s been having a great, multi-year run that nobody takes notice of, the other was able to use a TV show to stage a comeback. Now, Variety reports that Marisa Tomei and Joshua Jackson are starring in Inescapable, the newest feature from Cairo Time director Ruba Nadda, which also stars Alexander Siddig. The film follows “a Syrian expatriate (Siddig) whose journalist daughter goes missing in Damascus.” He returns home “to find her despite the risks and calls on a former love (Tomei) to help him,” and an “embassy official (Jackson) is at first helpful but may have an agenda of his own.”
Myriad will produce the and sell the project, which the company’s head, Kirk D’Amico, calls a “compelling and emotionally-charged story [which] should provide audiences with a unique view into an unstable and dangerous place that we only seem to know about from news headlines.” Being able...
Myriad will produce the and sell the project, which the company’s head, Kirk D’Amico, calls a “compelling and emotionally-charged story [which] should provide audiences with a unique view into an unstable and dangerous place that we only seem to know about from news headlines.” Being able...
- 12/9/2011
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
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