Companies aim to finance series with international potential.
France’s Mediawan Group has partnered with Paris-based investment firm Entourage Ventures on a €100 million fund to develop global series.
The aim of the agreement is to finance TV series with “strong international potential” over the next 4-6 years, according to a joint statement from the groups on Monday.
Under the deal, Mediawan Group’s distribution subsidiary Mediawan Rights will partner with Entourage to co-develop, co-produce and co-distribute series geared towards global audiences. Both financing and revenue will be shared 50/50 between the two partners with Mediawan handling distribution of the series and...
France’s Mediawan Group has partnered with Paris-based investment firm Entourage Ventures on a €100 million fund to develop global series.
The aim of the agreement is to finance TV series with “strong international potential” over the next 4-6 years, according to a joint statement from the groups on Monday.
Under the deal, Mediawan Group’s distribution subsidiary Mediawan Rights will partner with Entourage to co-develop, co-produce and co-distribute series geared towards global audiences. Both financing and revenue will be shared 50/50 between the two partners with Mediawan handling distribution of the series and...
- 2/6/2023
- by Rebecca Leffler
- ScreenDaily
Companies aim to finance series with international potential.
France’s Mediawan Group has partnered with Paris-based investment firm Entourage Ventures on a €100 million fund to develop global series.
The aim of the agreement is to finance TV series with “strong international potential” over the next 4-6 years, according to a joint statement from the groups on Monday.
Under the deal, Mediawan Group’s distribution subsidiary Mediawan Rights will partner with Entourage to co-develop, co-produce and co-distribute series geared towards global audiences. Both financing and revenue will be shared 50/50 between the two partners with Mediawan handling distribution of the series and...
France’s Mediawan Group has partnered with Paris-based investment firm Entourage Ventures on a €100 million fund to develop global series.
The aim of the agreement is to finance TV series with “strong international potential” over the next 4-6 years, according to a joint statement from the groups on Monday.
Under the deal, Mediawan Group’s distribution subsidiary Mediawan Rights will partner with Entourage to co-develop, co-produce and co-distribute series geared towards global audiences. Both financing and revenue will be shared 50/50 between the two partners with Mediawan handling distribution of the series and...
- 2/6/2023
- by Rebecca Leffler
- ScreenDaily
French media group Mediawan Group, which grabbed headlines late last year with its acquisition of Brad Pitt’s Plan B Entertainment, has launched a €100 million (107 million) television development fund with backing from French private equity firm Entourage Ventures.
The fund, details of which were announced Monday, will see Mediawan and Entourage finance high-end television series with “strong international potential” over the next 4-6 years. Investment and revenue on the projects will be shared 50/50 between the two partners. The fund will look to bankroll all forms of small-screen entertainment, from drama series to animation and documentaries.
Mediawan’s sales arm, Mediawan Rights, will handle distribution of the resulting series and will work with Entourage to co-develop and co-produce the projects.
“We are giving ourselves the tools to continue to invest massively in the most ambitious productions but also to support a greater number of projects,” said Mediawan Pictures CEO Elisabeth d...
The fund, details of which were announced Monday, will see Mediawan and Entourage finance high-end television series with “strong international potential” over the next 4-6 years. Investment and revenue on the projects will be shared 50/50 between the two partners. The fund will look to bankroll all forms of small-screen entertainment, from drama series to animation and documentaries.
Mediawan’s sales arm, Mediawan Rights, will handle distribution of the resulting series and will work with Entourage to co-develop and co-produce the projects.
“We are giving ourselves the tools to continue to invest massively in the most ambitious productions but also to support a greater number of projects,” said Mediawan Pictures CEO Elisabeth d...
- 2/6/2023
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
France’s Mediawan Group and private equity firm Entourage Ventures have struck a co-development agreement underpinned by a €100M (107M) fund.
The pair will work together over a four- to six-year period to finance series “with strong international potential.” Underpinning the operation will be €100M Entourage Fund.
Mediawan is coming off the back of its attention-grabbing deal for Brad Pitt’s Plan B Entertainment, while Entourage Ventures is a film and TV financier that has invested more than €50M (54M) on 40 French films. It first pushed into TV series in 2020 through an agreement with producer Media Muskateers.
Entourage will work with Mediawan Rights, the sale arm of Mediawan, to co-developm, co-produce and co-distribute series.
Investments and revenue will be shared 50/50, with Mediawan handling series distribution and Entourage providing investment expertize and ecosystem of professional investors such as private equity firm 123 Investment Managers, film and audiovosual industry social protection group Audiens and the Hottinguer Bank.
The pair will work together over a four- to six-year period to finance series “with strong international potential.” Underpinning the operation will be €100M Entourage Fund.
Mediawan is coming off the back of its attention-grabbing deal for Brad Pitt’s Plan B Entertainment, while Entourage Ventures is a film and TV financier that has invested more than €50M (54M) on 40 French films. It first pushed into TV series in 2020 through an agreement with producer Media Muskateers.
Entourage will work with Mediawan Rights, the sale arm of Mediawan, to co-developm, co-produce and co-distribute series.
Investments and revenue will be shared 50/50, with Mediawan handling series distribution and Entourage providing investment expertize and ecosystem of professional investors such as private equity firm 123 Investment Managers, film and audiovosual industry social protection group Audiens and the Hottinguer Bank.
- 2/6/2023
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
Passage Pictures is developing a TV series “Dream Girl” starring Inbar Lavi, who will also serve as producer. Inspired by Lavi’s own life, the project will be developed by the production company’s founder Uri Singer.
“Inbar’s standout work in ‘Imposters’ really caught my eye, and after finding her to be a fellow Israeli making her way in the industry, it feels natural to partner with her on a story like this,” Singer said. “It cannot be anymore perfect for right now.”
Described as a mix of “Entourage” and “Sex and the City,” “Dream Girl” follows a Hollywood actress who plays the girl of everyone’s dreams on screen while living a polar-opposite, single life in reality.
Lavi is most recently known for playing Eve, the first woman on Earth, on the hit Netflix drama series “Lucifer.” Previously, she had a starring role as the skilled con artist Maddie in Bravo’s “Imposters,...
“Inbar’s standout work in ‘Imposters’ really caught my eye, and after finding her to be a fellow Israeli making her way in the industry, it feels natural to partner with her on a story like this,” Singer said. “It cannot be anymore perfect for right now.”
Described as a mix of “Entourage” and “Sex and the City,” “Dream Girl” follows a Hollywood actress who plays the girl of everyone’s dreams on screen while living a polar-opposite, single life in reality.
Lavi is most recently known for playing Eve, the first woman on Earth, on the hit Netflix drama series “Lucifer.” Previously, she had a starring role as the skilled con artist Maddie in Bravo’s “Imposters,...
- 3/9/2021
- by Natalie Oganesyan
- Variety Film + TV
“The Seventh Function of Language,” a novel by French author Laurent Binet, is getting the feature film treatment. Uri Singer, the CEO of TaleFlick, a production company that specializes in adapting books into movies and TV shows, has obtained screen rights to the popular work of fiction.
Singer will produce “The Seventh Function of Language” with Midnight Road Entertainment’s Vincent Sieber, who previously produced “The Chronicles of Narnia.”
The New York Times described Binet’s novel as being “at once a buddy-cop plot, a fish-out-of-water comedy and a spy thriller.” A whodunit set against the backdrop of 1980s France, “The Seventh Function of Language” centers on a literary critic Roland Barthes, who gets hit by a laundry van and dies after having lunch with the presidential candidate François Mitterand. But as the world mourns his death, one question arises: What if it wasn’t an accident at all?
Binet’s first novel,...
Singer will produce “The Seventh Function of Language” with Midnight Road Entertainment’s Vincent Sieber, who previously produced “The Chronicles of Narnia.”
The New York Times described Binet’s novel as being “at once a buddy-cop plot, a fish-out-of-water comedy and a spy thriller.” A whodunit set against the backdrop of 1980s France, “The Seventh Function of Language” centers on a literary critic Roland Barthes, who gets hit by a laundry van and dies after having lunch with the presidential candidate François Mitterand. But as the world mourns his death, one question arises: What if it wasn’t an accident at all?
Binet’s first novel,...
- 2/11/2021
- by Rebecca Rubin
- Variety Film + TV
Historical reimagining to shoot in South America, Europe.
Mediawan-owned Païva Studio and Mediawan Rights have acquired adaptation rights to Laurent Binet’s novel Civilizations and are partnering with Los Angeles-based Anonymous Content to produce the series.
The property will be shot in South America and Europe in several languages and is being set up as a major international production.
Binet’s bestseller imagines an alternate reality in which the Incas prevail over the Conquistadors, Christopher Columbus never reaches America, and Incan leader Atahualpa invades Europe.
In reality Atahualpa, the last of the Incan rulers, was executed by Spanish forces in the early 16th century.
Mediawan-owned Païva Studio and Mediawan Rights have acquired adaptation rights to Laurent Binet’s novel Civilizations and are partnering with Los Angeles-based Anonymous Content to produce the series.
The property will be shot in South America and Europe in several languages and is being set up as a major international production.
Binet’s bestseller imagines an alternate reality in which the Incas prevail over the Conquistadors, Christopher Columbus never reaches America, and Incan leader Atahualpa invades Europe.
In reality Atahualpa, the last of the Incan rulers, was executed by Spanish forces in the early 16th century.
- 7/6/2020
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
Hollywood super-indie banner Anonymous Content is partnering with Païva Studio, a production label owned by French media group Mediawan, on “Civilizations,” an ambitious series based on Laurent Binet’s (“HHhH”) bestselling novel.
The epic series, set to be shot in South America and Europe in several languages, delivers a plausible rewriting of global history in which Christopher Columbus never discovered America and the Incas came to Europe.
Paiva Studio and Mediawan Rights, the commercial arm of the group, have acquired the adaptation rights to “Civilizations” which was published in August 2019 in French and was awarded the prestigious “Grand Prix du Roman” 2019 by the Académie Française. The translation rights for “Civilizations” have already been acquired for 16 languages. Binet’s (pictured) most famous novel is “HHhH” which was translated into 34 languages and adapted for the big screen in 2017 by Cédric Jimenez, with a cast headlined by Jason Clarke and Rosamund Pike.
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The epic series, set to be shot in South America and Europe in several languages, delivers a plausible rewriting of global history in which Christopher Columbus never discovered America and the Incas came to Europe.
Paiva Studio and Mediawan Rights, the commercial arm of the group, have acquired the adaptation rights to “Civilizations” which was published in August 2019 in French and was awarded the prestigious “Grand Prix du Roman” 2019 by the Académie Française. The translation rights for “Civilizations” have already been acquired for 16 languages. Binet’s (pictured) most famous novel is “HHhH” which was translated into 34 languages and adapted for the big screen in 2017 by Cédric Jimenez, with a cast headlined by Jason Clarke and Rosamund Pike.
Juggling...
- 7/6/2020
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Author: Zehra Phelan
To celebrate the release of The Man with the Iron Heart on Blu-ray and DVD, we have an exclusive featurette taking us behind the scenes on the making of the film with cast members Rosamund Pike, Jason Clarke and Jack O’Connell sharing their thoughts on their latest project.
The latest offering from director Cédric Jimenez (The Connection) is based on the bestselling novel HHhH from Laurent Binet and tells the story of how the brave men and women of the Resistance sacrificed everything in the name of freedom.
Jason Clarke (Dawn of the Planet of the Apes) takes on the title character, the steely-eyed and unflinching Reinhard Heydrich, also known as ‘the blond beast’ and behind some of the worst atrocities of the war; Rosamund Pike (Oscar-nominated for Gone Girl) stars as Heydrich’s wife Lina; and Stephen Graham (Al Capone in Boardwalk Empire) is the diabolical SS general Heinrich Himmler.
To celebrate the release of The Man with the Iron Heart on Blu-ray and DVD, we have an exclusive featurette taking us behind the scenes on the making of the film with cast members Rosamund Pike, Jason Clarke and Jack O’Connell sharing their thoughts on their latest project.
The latest offering from director Cédric Jimenez (The Connection) is based on the bestselling novel HHhH from Laurent Binet and tells the story of how the brave men and women of the Resistance sacrificed everything in the name of freedom.
Jason Clarke (Dawn of the Planet of the Apes) takes on the title character, the steely-eyed and unflinching Reinhard Heydrich, also known as ‘the blond beast’ and behind some of the worst atrocities of the war; Rosamund Pike (Oscar-nominated for Gone Girl) stars as Heydrich’s wife Lina; and Stephen Graham (Al Capone in Boardwalk Empire) is the diabolical SS general Heinrich Himmler.
- 1/5/2018
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Lior Ashkenazi: "I admire David Bowie. The thing he had the biggest success with, let's say Ziggy Stardust, and then he changed to something else." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
In 2017, Lior Ashkenazi starred with Richard Gere in Joseph Cedar's Norman: The Moderate Rise And Tragic Fall Of A New York Fixer and opposite Sarah Adler as the parents of an Israeli soldier (Yonaton Shiray) in Samuel Maoz's Venice International Film Festival Silver Lion winner and Oscar Foreign Language shortlisted film Foxtrot.
Coming up for Lior is his portrayal of Yitzhak Rabin in José Padilha's 7 Days In Entebbe, starring Rosamund Pike (Cédric Jimenez's The Man With The Iron Heart, based on Laurent Binet's novel HHhH) and Daniel Brühl, and Julie Delpy's My Zoe with Gemma Arterton, Richard Armitage, and Brühl. In Dragos Buliga's The Wanderers: The Quest Of The Demon Hunter, with Armand Assante,...
In 2017, Lior Ashkenazi starred with Richard Gere in Joseph Cedar's Norman: The Moderate Rise And Tragic Fall Of A New York Fixer and opposite Sarah Adler as the parents of an Israeli soldier (Yonaton Shiray) in Samuel Maoz's Venice International Film Festival Silver Lion winner and Oscar Foreign Language shortlisted film Foxtrot.
Coming up for Lior is his portrayal of Yitzhak Rabin in José Padilha's 7 Days In Entebbe, starring Rosamund Pike (Cédric Jimenez's The Man With The Iron Heart, based on Laurent Binet's novel HHhH) and Daniel Brühl, and Julie Delpy's My Zoe with Gemma Arterton, Richard Armitage, and Brühl. In Dragos Buliga's The Wanderers: The Quest Of The Demon Hunter, with Armand Assante,...
- 12/27/2017
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Operation Anthropoid, in which a team of Czechoslovak British-trained paratroopers assassinated Nazi leader Reinhard Heydrich during World War II, has been Hollywood movie bait dating back to the 1940s. The story was last depicted on the big screen as recently as 2016, when Cillian Murphy and Jamie Dornan starred in “Anthrophoid,” but it looks like we’ll be getting another version of the story in the coming months.
Read More: Weinstein Company Picks Up U.S. Rights to Nazi Thriller ‘HHhH’
“HHhH,” based on the international bestseller of the same name by Laurent Binet, marks the English-language debut of French director Cédric Jimenez (“The Connection”). Rising talents Jack O’Connell and Jack Raynor play the two paratroopers whose high stakes mission resulted in Heydrich’s assassination. Jason Clarke is playing the Nazi Officer, while Rosamund Pike and Mia Wasikowska round out the cast
The Weinstein Company picked up U.S. distribution...
Read More: Weinstein Company Picks Up U.S. Rights to Nazi Thriller ‘HHhH’
“HHhH,” based on the international bestseller of the same name by Laurent Binet, marks the English-language debut of French director Cédric Jimenez (“The Connection”). Rising talents Jack O’Connell and Jack Raynor play the two paratroopers whose high stakes mission resulted in Heydrich’s assassination. Jason Clarke is playing the Nazi Officer, while Rosamund Pike and Mia Wasikowska round out the cast
The Weinstein Company picked up U.S. distribution...
- 4/14/2017
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
If there has been a theme so far to the Donald Trump presidency, it’s been resistance. And it makes the timing right for “HHhH,” which details a WWII operation with the goal of taking down a ruthless Nazi leader.
Read More: The 100 Most Anticipated Films Of 2017
Starring Jason Clarke, Rosamund Pike, Jack O’Connell, Jack Reynor, and Mia Wasikowska, based on the novel by Laurent Binet, and directed by Cédric Jimenez, the film will tell the true story of the plot to assassinate Head of the SS, Reinhard Heydrich.
Continue reading First Trailer For ‘HHhH’ Starring Jason Clarke, Rosamund Pike, Jack O’Connell, Jack Reynor & Mia Wasikowska at The Playlist.
Read More: The 100 Most Anticipated Films Of 2017
Starring Jason Clarke, Rosamund Pike, Jack O’Connell, Jack Reynor, and Mia Wasikowska, based on the novel by Laurent Binet, and directed by Cédric Jimenez, the film will tell the true story of the plot to assassinate Head of the SS, Reinhard Heydrich.
Continue reading First Trailer For ‘HHhH’ Starring Jason Clarke, Rosamund Pike, Jack O’Connell, Jack Reynor & Mia Wasikowska at The Playlist.
- 4/14/2017
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Rosamund Pike stars with David Oyelowo in Amma Asante's potent A United Kingdom Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
The last time I spoke with Rosamund Pike was on the opening night of the 52nd New York Film Festival for the World Premiere of David Fincher's Gone Girl, co-starring Ben Affleck. At The Peninsula in New York, we sat down for A United Kingdom conversation on her role as Ruth Williams, the wife of the man who would become the first president of Botswana, Seretse Khama. A betrayal by Winston Churchill, costume designer Anushia Nieradzik, Isabelle Huppert's advice on footwear, Amma Asante's desire to inject female elements into the script by Guy Hibbert, Cédric Jimenez's The Man With The Iron Heart, based on Laurent Binet's novel HHhH, and José Padilha's Entebbe were discussed.
Rosamund Pike on Seretse (David Oyelowo): "He is a very striking man...
The last time I spoke with Rosamund Pike was on the opening night of the 52nd New York Film Festival for the World Premiere of David Fincher's Gone Girl, co-starring Ben Affleck. At The Peninsula in New York, we sat down for A United Kingdom conversation on her role as Ruth Williams, the wife of the man who would become the first president of Botswana, Seretse Khama. A betrayal by Winston Churchill, costume designer Anushia Nieradzik, Isabelle Huppert's advice on footwear, Amma Asante's desire to inject female elements into the script by Guy Hibbert, Cédric Jimenez's The Man With The Iron Heart, based on Laurent Binet's novel HHhH, and José Padilha's Entebbe were discussed.
Rosamund Pike on Seretse (David Oyelowo): "He is a very striking man...
- 2/7/2017
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Charlotte Le Bon and Anna Geislerová in Valentino with Cillian Murphy Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Sean Ellis's Anthropoid, co-written with Anthony Frewin, stars Jamie Dornan and Cillian Murphy with Anna Geislerová, Charlotte Le Bon, Toby Jones, Alena Mihulová, Bill Milner, Detlef Bothe, Sean Mahon, Jan Hájek, and Brian Caspe.
Sally Potter's The Party with Emily Mortimer, Patricia Clarkson, Kristin Scott Thomas, Timothy Spall, Bruno Ganz, and Cherry Jones (currently starring in The Glass Menagerie at the Edinburgh Festival) and Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk with Tom Hardy, Mark Rylance, and Kenneth Branagh are in store for Cillian Murphy.
Anna Geislerová: "I knew I wanted to be Lenka before I read the script." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Cédric Jimenez's adaptation of Laurent Binet's novel HHhH will star Rosamund Pike, Mia Wasikowska, Jason Clarke, Jack O'Connell, and Jack Reynor. Calvary director John Michael McDonagh had mentioned the book - which...
Sean Ellis's Anthropoid, co-written with Anthony Frewin, stars Jamie Dornan and Cillian Murphy with Anna Geislerová, Charlotte Le Bon, Toby Jones, Alena Mihulová, Bill Milner, Detlef Bothe, Sean Mahon, Jan Hájek, and Brian Caspe.
Sally Potter's The Party with Emily Mortimer, Patricia Clarkson, Kristin Scott Thomas, Timothy Spall, Bruno Ganz, and Cherry Jones (currently starring in The Glass Menagerie at the Edinburgh Festival) and Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk with Tom Hardy, Mark Rylance, and Kenneth Branagh are in store for Cillian Murphy.
Anna Geislerová: "I knew I wanted to be Lenka before I read the script." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Cédric Jimenez's adaptation of Laurent Binet's novel HHhH will star Rosamund Pike, Mia Wasikowska, Jason Clarke, Jack O'Connell, and Jack Reynor. Calvary director John Michael McDonagh had mentioned the book - which...
- 8/7/2016
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
After highlighting 50 films that are most certainly worth seeing this year, it’s time we venture into the unknown. While a multitude of 2016 previews simply regurgitate a list of dated releases, we’ve set out to focus on 100 films we’re genuinely looking forward to, regardless of their marketing budgets. While some might not have a release date — let alone any confirmed festival premiere — most have wrapped production and will likely debut at some point in 2016, so make sure to check back for updates over the next twelve months and beyond.
It should be noted that there are a number of films we’re greatly looking forward to, but whose release we aren’t confident about, including the next features from Claire Denis and Michael Haneke. (Rest assured, however, that we’ll have updates as they come in.)
Lastly, despite not coming out last year, as was planned, Orson Welles...
It should be noted that there are a number of films we’re greatly looking forward to, but whose release we aren’t confident about, including the next features from Claire Denis and Michael Haneke. (Rest assured, however, that we’ll have updates as they come in.)
Lastly, despite not coming out last year, as was planned, Orson Welles...
- 1/11/2016
- by TFS Staff
- The Film Stage
The distributor has licensed the Nazi thriller starring Jason Clarke, Rosamund Pike, Jack O’Connell, Jack Reynor and Mia Wasikowska that is currently shooting in Budapest.
HHhH is one of two projects on the market about the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, the architect of The Final Solution who was killed by a Czech and a Slovak.
Cedric Jimenez directs and adapted the screenplay with David Farr and Audrey Diwan from Laurent Binet’s 2012 book of the same name.
Alain Goldman of Paris and Los Angeles-based Légende Films and Daniel Crown of Red Crown are the producers and Goldman and Wme Global brokered the deal with TWC.
FilmNation co-financed with Echo Lake Entertainment and kicked off talks with international buyers in Cannes. HHhH stands for Himmlers Hirn Heisst Heydrich, or Himmler’s brain is called Heydrich.
The other Heydrich assassination project on the market is Sean Ellis’ Anthropoid starring Cillian Murphy and Jamie Dornan that began filming in the...
HHhH is one of two projects on the market about the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, the architect of The Final Solution who was killed by a Czech and a Slovak.
Cedric Jimenez directs and adapted the screenplay with David Farr and Audrey Diwan from Laurent Binet’s 2012 book of the same name.
Alain Goldman of Paris and Los Angeles-based Légende Films and Daniel Crown of Red Crown are the producers and Goldman and Wme Global brokered the deal with TWC.
FilmNation co-financed with Echo Lake Entertainment and kicked off talks with international buyers in Cannes. HHhH stands for Himmlers Hirn Heisst Heydrich, or Himmler’s brain is called Heydrich.
The other Heydrich assassination project on the market is Sean Ellis’ Anthropoid starring Cillian Murphy and Jamie Dornan that began filming in the...
- 10/28/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
The Weinstein Company, which found success with Quentin Tarantino's Nazi-killing counter-history "Inglourious Basterds" (above) in 2009, is returning to the period with "HHhH," director Cédric Jimenez’s World War II-era drama about the true-life pair of exiled operatives who assassinated Nazi official and Holocaust architect Reinhard Heydrich. The Weinstein Co. has acquired U.S. distribution rights for the film, based on Laurent Binet’s 2012 novel and currently in production in Budapest. "HHhH," whose title is shorthand for "Himmlers Hirn heisst Heydrich," or "Himmler's brain is called Heydrich," follows Jozef Gabcík and Jan Kubiš from their dramatic escape from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia to their fatal attack on Heydrich and their own brutal deaths in the basement of a Prague church. The film, adapted by Jimenez, David Farr, and Audrey Diwan, stars Jason Clarke, Rosamund Pike, Jack O'Connell, and Mia Wasikowska.
- 10/28/2015
- by Matt Brennan
- Thompson on Hollywood
Read More: The Weinstein Company Picks Up Natalie Portman's Long-Delayed 'Jane's Got A Gun' After finding success with "Inglourious Basterds" and "The Imitation Game," The Weinstein Company is heading back to World War II, having announced its acquisition for U.S. rights to the French Nazi thriller "HHhH." Based on the international bestseller of the same name by Laurent Binet, "HHhH" is director Cedric Jimenez's follow-up to "The Connection." "HHhH" is an acronym for “Himmlers Hirn heisst Heydrich” (“Himmler’s brain is called Heydrich”). In the film, Jason Clarke ("Dawn of the Planet of the Apes") plays Reinhard Heydrich, perhaps the most lethal man in Hitler's cabinet until he was killed in 1942 by two exiled operatives, a Slovak and a Czech. The film traces the journey of those two operatives from their initial escape from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia up through their assassination of Heydrich and its own...
- 10/28/2015
- by Tarek Shoukri
- Indiewire
The Weinstein Company said today it is acquiring U.S. rights to HHhH, the Nazi-era thriller from The Connection director Cédric Jimenez that was one of the hot titles up for grabs during this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Jason Clarke, Rosamund Pike, Jack O'Connell, Jack Reynor and Mia Wasikowska are attached to star and production began this month in Budapest. Based on Laurent Binet's bestselling historical novel, the story revolves around the true story of two exiled…...
- 10/28/2015
- Deadline
The Weinstein Company has acquired U.S. rights to Cedric Jimenez’s Nazi-era thriller HHhH. David Farr, Audrey Diwan and Jimenez wrote the screenplay, which is based on Laurent Binet’s 2012 international bestseller of the same name. Jason Clarke, Rosamund Pike, Jack O’Connell, Jack Reynor and Mia Wasikowska star in HHhH, which stands for "Himmlers Hirn heisst Heydrich," or "Himmler's brain is called Heydrich." The most lethal man in Hitler's cabinet, Reinhard Heydrich, seemed indestructible until two exiled operatives, a Slovak and a Czech, killed him and changed the course of history. HHhH follows Jozef Gabcik and Jan Kubis from their dramatic escape from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia to their fatal attack on Heydrich and their
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- 10/28/2015
- by Tatiana Siegel
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Weinstein Company is set to acquire U.S. rights to the Nazi-era thriller "HHhH" which Cedric Jimenez ("The Connection") is directing and which just began production in Budapest.
Based on Laurent Binet's bestselling historical novel, the story revolves around the true story of two exiled operatives who escaped Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia and successfuly assassinated key Hitler cabinet member Reinhard 'The Butcher Of Prague' Heydrich.
The duo changed the course of history, but in doing so met brutal deaths in the basement of a Prague church. Jason Clarke, Rosamund Pike, Jack O'Connell, Jack Reynor and Mia Wasikowska are attached to star.
David Farr, Audrey Diwan and Jimenez wrote the screenplay.
Source: Deadline...
Based on Laurent Binet's bestselling historical novel, the story revolves around the true story of two exiled operatives who escaped Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia and successfuly assassinated key Hitler cabinet member Reinhard 'The Butcher Of Prague' Heydrich.
The duo changed the course of history, but in doing so met brutal deaths in the basement of a Prague church. Jason Clarke, Rosamund Pike, Jack O'Connell, Jack Reynor and Mia Wasikowska are attached to star.
David Farr, Audrey Diwan and Jimenez wrote the screenplay.
Source: Deadline...
- 10/28/2015
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
The Australian actor has found himself working for Oliver Stone, Michael Mann and Terrence Malick but can also lend blockbusters a more thoughtful face
Jason Clarke, the star of Everest, is a mountain of a man: six foot two with square shoulders and a vast sheer cliff of a forehead. When Christian Bale dropped out of this adventure story, based on real events, it was Clarke who stepped into his climbing boots to play Rob Hall, leader of a commercial expedition to the summit in May 1996 that went horribly wrong. Clarke, blokey and dependable, has the look of someone you would follow confidently into a fight, whereas Bale comes across as the sort of man who would start one. What makes the 46-year-old Australian more intriguing than a standard tough nut is the wounded quality in his eyes. Easygoing in nature, he always seems to have something on his mind.
Jason Clarke, the star of Everest, is a mountain of a man: six foot two with square shoulders and a vast sheer cliff of a forehead. When Christian Bale dropped out of this adventure story, based on real events, it was Clarke who stepped into his climbing boots to play Rob Hall, leader of a commercial expedition to the summit in May 1996 that went horribly wrong. Clarke, blokey and dependable, has the look of someone you would follow confidently into a fight, whereas Bale comes across as the sort of man who would start one. What makes the 46-year-old Australian more intriguing than a standard tough nut is the wounded quality in his eyes. Easygoing in nature, he always seems to have something on his mind.
- 9/17/2015
- by Ryan Gilbey
- The Guardian - Film News
While there.s certainly no shortage of dramas set during the Second World War, the upcoming thriller Hhhh looks to break the mold in a genre that.s had more than its share of entries. Reportedly taking a nuanced, character-centric approach, the film features an impressive cast, looking to bring this historic tale of an elaborate assassination mission to the big screen. According to a report from Variety, the biographical World War II drama, Hhhh, based on the novel of the same name by Laurent Binet, will see the addition of a primary cast that mixes established commodities along with up-coming names that already makes the film sound promising. Let.s take a look at the lineup. Jason Clarke as "Reinhard Heydrich" The rapid, post-Zero Dark Thirty rise of Clarke, which yielded a starring role in last year.s Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and will see...
- 5/11/2015
- cinemablend.com
French director Cédric Jimenez (The Connection, Aux Yeux De Tous) has landed several great actors and actresses for his next movie. Variety is reporting that Rosamund Pike, Jason Clarke, Jack O'Connell, Jack Reynor and Mia Wasikowska are set to star in Hhhh, a World War II-set drama based on the Laurent Binet historical novel of the same name. Hhhh will follow Operation Anthropoid, the assassination of high ranking Nazi official Reinhard Heydrich, which was carried out...
- 5/7/2015
- by Jesse Giroux
- JoBlo.com
Jack O'Connell ("Unbroken"), Rosamund Pike ("Gone Girl"), Jason Clarke ("Dawn of the Planet of the Apes"), Mia Wasikowska ("Jane Eyre") and Jack Reynor ("Transformers: Age of Extinction") are set to star in Cedric Jimenez's WWII-set drama "Hhhh" at Legende Films, Adama Pictures, Echo Lake Entertainment and FilmNation.
Clarke will play Reinhard Heydrich, the highest-ranked Nazi officer who was considered to be the mastermind of the 'Final Solution'. He was assassinated by two resistance paratroopers (to be played by O’Connell and Reynor) in 1942, paratroopers personally selected by Winston Churchill and President of Czechoslovakia Edvard Benes.
Pike will play Lina Heydrich, an aristocrat married to Reinhard and who reportedly introduced her husband to the Nazi ideology. Wasikowska will play a Czech resistance fighter.
David Farr, Audrey Diwan and Jimenez adapted the script from Laurent Binet’s first novel. Alain Goldman and Simon Istolainen will produce. Shooting will begin in...
Clarke will play Reinhard Heydrich, the highest-ranked Nazi officer who was considered to be the mastermind of the 'Final Solution'. He was assassinated by two resistance paratroopers (to be played by O’Connell and Reynor) in 1942, paratroopers personally selected by Winston Churchill and President of Czechoslovakia Edvard Benes.
Pike will play Lina Heydrich, an aristocrat married to Reinhard and who reportedly introduced her husband to the Nazi ideology. Wasikowska will play a Czech resistance fighter.
David Farr, Audrey Diwan and Jimenez adapted the script from Laurent Binet’s first novel. Alain Goldman and Simon Istolainen will produce. Shooting will begin in...
- 5/7/2015
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Co-writer/director Cédric Jimenez (The Connection) has rounded up quite the cast for his next film, which despite sounding like an error in the subbing stage at a magazine, is actually called Hhhh. It’ll star Rosamund Pike, Jason Clarke, Jack O’Connell and Mia Wasikowska.The film is based on Laurent Binet’s novel and tracks the ascent of Reinhard Heydrich (Clarke), a key part of Hitler’s Third Reich (he was known as the ‘Reich Protector’) and one of the terrifying architects of the Final Solution. He also became known as the highest-ranking Nazi officer killed during World War II, when he was assassinated by Jan Kubis (O’Connell) and Jozef Gabcik (Reynor), resistance paratroopers.Pike is set as Lina Heydrich, the aristocratic wife who first introduced her husband to the ideology that would come to rule his life and lead to him losing it. Wasikowska, meanwhile, will...
- 5/7/2015
- EmpireOnline
The A-list cast on FilmNation’s Nazi thriller is taking shape as it emerged that Jason Clarke, Rosamund Pike, Jack O’Connell, Jack Reynor and Mia Wasikowska have come on board.
FilmNation will be meeting with buyers on the Croisette to discuss Hhhh, a second Heydrich assassination story in the market alongside Altitude’s Anthropoid, which sees Sean Ellis lining up to direct Jamie Dornan and Cillian Murphy.
Cedric Jimenez will direct Hhhh, about the rapid rise and stunning assassination of the ‘Final Solution’ architect Reinhard Heydrich.
Principal photography is scheduled for early August in Prague and Budapest. Legende Films, Adama Pictures, Echo Lake Entertainment and FilmNation are financing. Wme Global handles Us rights.
Clarke will play Heydrich, who became the highest ranking Nazi killed during WWII when he was slain by paratroopers in 1942. The actor stars as John Connor in summer tentpole Terminator: Genisys and will be seen in September release Everest.
Pike, an Oscar...
FilmNation will be meeting with buyers on the Croisette to discuss Hhhh, a second Heydrich assassination story in the market alongside Altitude’s Anthropoid, which sees Sean Ellis lining up to direct Jamie Dornan and Cillian Murphy.
Cedric Jimenez will direct Hhhh, about the rapid rise and stunning assassination of the ‘Final Solution’ architect Reinhard Heydrich.
Principal photography is scheduled for early August in Prague and Budapest. Legende Films, Adama Pictures, Echo Lake Entertainment and FilmNation are financing. Wme Global handles Us rights.
Clarke will play Heydrich, who became the highest ranking Nazi killed during WWII when he was slain by paratroopers in 1942. The actor stars as John Connor in summer tentpole Terminator: Genisys and will be seen in September release Everest.
Pike, an Oscar...
- 5/6/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
A star-studded lineup of promising actors and great material… how could this go wrong? But remember, as "Child 44" taught us, anything is possible. So while this sounds awesome, we've got our guard up... Variety reports that Jason Clarke, Jack O’Connell, Mia Wasikowska, Rosamund Pike and Jack Reynor will star in "Hhhh," a title which will surely give some marketing team an interesting headache to overcome. Based on the novel by Laurent Binet and adapted by director Cedric Jimenez ("The Connection" starring Jean Dujardin) along with David Farr and Audrey Diwan, the film will tell the story of Nazi Reinhard Heydrich, who was the mastermind of the "Final Solution" and was assassinated by two resistance paratroopers. Here's the book synopsis: HHhH: “Himmlers Hirn heisst Heydrich,” or “Himmler’s brain is called Heydrich.” The most lethal man in Hitler’s cabinet, Reinhard Heydrich seemed indestructible—until two exiled...
- 5/6/2015
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Exclusive: Sean Ellis to direct, Cillian Murphy to co-star in assassination film.
Jamie Dornan and Cillian Murphy are to lead cast in WWII thriller Anthropoid, about the attempted assassination of prominent Nazi official Reinhard Heydrich.
The film’s title refers to the code-name for the Allied operation to assassinate Heydrich, the head of the SS who was one of the main architects of the Holocaust and was widely considered number three in the Nazi ranks behind Hitler and Himmler .
Operation Anthropoid was led by two soldiers (trained by British forces) from Czechoslovakia’s army-in-exile who were parachuted into their homeland to carry out the mission against the Nazi nicknamed “The Butcher of Prague”.
Oscar and BAFTA-nominated British filmmaker Sean Ellis (Metro Manila, Cashback) will direct from a script co-written by Ellis with Anthony Frewin (Colour Me Kubrick: A True…ish Story).
Producers are Leonard Glowinski (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly) for 22h22, Anita Overland ([link...
Jamie Dornan and Cillian Murphy are to lead cast in WWII thriller Anthropoid, about the attempted assassination of prominent Nazi official Reinhard Heydrich.
The film’s title refers to the code-name for the Allied operation to assassinate Heydrich, the head of the SS who was one of the main architects of the Holocaust and was widely considered number three in the Nazi ranks behind Hitler and Himmler .
Operation Anthropoid was led by two soldiers (trained by British forces) from Czechoslovakia’s army-in-exile who were parachuted into their homeland to carry out the mission against the Nazi nicknamed “The Butcher of Prague”.
Oscar and BAFTA-nominated British filmmaker Sean Ellis (Metro Manila, Cashback) will direct from a script co-written by Ellis with Anthony Frewin (Colour Me Kubrick: A True…ish Story).
Producers are Leonard Glowinski (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly) for 22h22, Anita Overland ([link...
- 3/2/2015
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Rom-com and sci-fi top industry selection of hot unproduced screenplays.Scroll down for full list
Romantic comedy Matinee Idol by writer Richard Galazka and sci-fi Gateway 6 by Malachi Smyth lead this year’s Brit List, the industry selection of hot unproduced screenplays.
Both scripts recorded nine industry votes to top the list.
Rooks Nest Entertainment are producing Matinee Idol, about a cinephile who tries to win a girl’s heart by pretending to be someone he’s not, only to learn that it takes more than grand gestures to turn fantasy into reality.
Sentinel Entertainment are behind futuristic sci-fi Gateway 6, in which on a war-ravaged Earth, four soldiers man the last bastion – an outpost in a sea-covered continent.
Jay Basu’s The Pier, produced by 42, and Krysty Wilson-Cairns’ Aether, from FilmNation, followed with eight votes.
The list is compiled by a combination of UK producers, agents, distributors and sales companies.
There were 140 entries...
Romantic comedy Matinee Idol by writer Richard Galazka and sci-fi Gateway 6 by Malachi Smyth lead this year’s Brit List, the industry selection of hot unproduced screenplays.
Both scripts recorded nine industry votes to top the list.
Rooks Nest Entertainment are producing Matinee Idol, about a cinephile who tries to win a girl’s heart by pretending to be someone he’s not, only to learn that it takes more than grand gestures to turn fantasy into reality.
Sentinel Entertainment are behind futuristic sci-fi Gateway 6, in which on a war-ravaged Earth, four soldiers man the last bastion – an outpost in a sea-covered continent.
Jay Basu’s The Pier, produced by 42, and Krysty Wilson-Cairns’ Aether, from FilmNation, followed with eight votes.
The list is compiled by a combination of UK producers, agents, distributors and sales companies.
There were 140 entries...
- 11/20/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
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