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Buenos Aires-based sales outfit FilmSharks has closed major territories on dark comedy “Lobo Feroz,” from director Gustavo Hernández (“La Casa Muda”), and on “The Forgotten Killings,” the latest from Ines Paris (“Miguel and William”).

Produced by Uruguay’s Mother Superior, FilmSharks and Spains’ Bowfinger Intl. Pictures, “Lobo Feroz” is a remake of Israeli film “Big Bad Wolves” from Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado.

Bingo Films picked up “Lobo Feroz” rights for the U.K. following prior sales to Av Jet for Taiwan, Palace Films for Australia, AMC for Eastern Europe and Nashe Kino for Russia. Netflix picked up Spanish rights via Filmax, ViX will take Latin America and the U.S.

Negotiations for Korea, Japan, France and Germany are underway. FilmSharks handles remake sales for “Big Bad Wolves.”

“We’re very happy with the international performance of ‘Lobo Feroz.’ IP and film have proven outstanding and deals always bring more deals.

The acclaimed Israeli revenge thriller Big Bad Wolves has been freshly reimagined for the new Spanish movie Lobo Feroz, and Variety just debuted the remake’s trailer this morning.

Lobo Feroz (Ferocious Wolves) will release in Spanish theaters on January 27, 2023.

Gustavo Hernandez (The Silent House) directed the upcoming remake.

Variety details, “The mordant revenge thriller follows a detective as he tracks a suspected child killer, a former religious studies teacher who was arrested for the crime, but later released due to a clerical error. The detective eventually teams up with the mother of the most recent victim to mete out justice the law seems unable to provide.”

Javier Gutiérrez (“Campeones”), Adriana Ugarte (“Julieta”), Rubén Ochandiano (“Undercover)” and Juana Acosta (“El Inocente”) star in Lobo Feroz.

Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado directed the original Big Bad Wolves in 2013.

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“Lobo Feroz” (“Ferocious Wolves”), the Spanish-language remake of Israeli revenge thriller “Big Bad Wolves” by Uruguay’s Gustavo Hernandez, is launching its trailer exclusively with Variety, ahead of its Jan. 27 Spanish theatrical release via Filmax.

The mordant revenge thriller follows a detective as he tracks a suspected child killer, a former religious studies teacher who was arrested for the crime, but later released due to a clerical error. The detective eventually teams up with the mother of the most recent victim to mete out justice the law seems unable to provide.

Trailer opens with the detective slamming the suspect’s head against a pool table as he draws parallels with the “Little Red Riding Hood” fairy tale about the little girl who goes into the woods alone and comes across the big bad wolf.

Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado’s original “Big Bad Wolves” was hailed by Quentin Tarantino as...

Buenos Aires-based FilmSharks subsidiary The Remake Company has closed a remake deal with Italy’s Marco Belardi and his new label Bamboo Prod. for Ariel Winograd’s latest film “Today We Fix the World” (“Hoy se Arregla el Mundo”).

Produced by powerhouse shingle Patagonik, the family dramedy was picked up by Netflix for several key territories after its theatrical release by Disney’s Star early this year.

Mexico’s BH5 has also acquired the remake rights and is about to produce its version while talks are underway with Korean and French companies, said FilmSharks founder and CEO, Guido Rud. Winograd is already a known quantity in Italy. His last film “Ten Days Without Mom” topped the box office in Italy when it was released.

Dramedy stars Leonardo Sbaraglia from “Wild Tales” and “Pain and Glory” who finds out that he’s not the biological father of the nine-year-old boy at home.

Exclusive: Angela Bassett, the Oscar nominated What’s Love Got to Do With It actress, has boarded Netflix’s fantasy film Damsel, which also stars Millie Bobby Brown.

In the movie from Oscar nominated filmmaker Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, a princess is shocked to discover that she’ll be sacrificed to the kingdom’s sacred cave dragon, after being married to her prince charming. She must survive long enough until someone comes to save her – only no one is coming.

Bassett will play Lady Bayford in Damsel, the stepmother to Brown’s Elodie. Dan Mazeau wrote the movie. EPs are Brown for Pcma Productions, Mazeau, Zack Roth, Chris Castaldi and Sue Baden-Powell. Producers are Joe Roth and Jeff Kirschenbaum. Emily Wolfe is Co-producer.

Bassett recently shot Disney/Marvel’s highly anticipated sequel, Black Panther 2: Wakanda Forever. She was last seen in the Studio Canal feature, Gunpowder Milkshake, written and directed by Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado,...

To coincide with the release of South of Heaven, the new film from acclaimed filmmaker Aharon Keshales, we had the pleasure of chatting to star Evangeline Lilly about her role in it. And, honestly, she was one of the best interviews we’ve ever done in our many years.

Convicted felon Jimmy (Jason Sudeikis) gets early parole after serving twelve years for armed robbery. Upon his release, he vows to give his girlfriend Annie (Evangeline Lilly), who is dying of cancer, the best last year of her life. But things are never that simple, and when he is given a “side job” from his parole officer (Shea Whigham), it sets off a series of events that leaves Jimmy in the crosshairs of a local crime boss (Mike Colter). Now, he must stop at nothing to save Annie and fight for whatever time they have left.

Lilly spoke to us about the lure of the film,...

Rlje Films, a business unit of AMC Networks, will release South Of Heaven on December 14, 2021 on DVD and Blu-ray. Here’s the trailer:

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Directed by Aharon Keshales (Big Bad Wolves), he co-wrote the film with Kai Mark and Navot Papushado (Gunpowder Milkshake). The film stars Jason Sudeikis (“Ted Lasso,” Colossal), Evangeline Lilly (Ant-Man franchise, “Lost”), Mike Colter (“Luke Cage”, “Evil”) and Shea Whigham (Joker, “Boardwalk Empire”). Rlje Films will release South Of Heaven on...

Universal Pictures has released the first official trailer for “Ambulance,” the latest action thriller from “Transformers” helmer Michael Bay. A remake of a 2005 Danish film of the same name directed by Laurits Munch-Petersen, Bay’s movie stars Jake Gyllenhaal and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II. The two actors play a pair of bank robbers who hijack an ambulance, operated by a paramedic (Mexican actress Eiza González) and carrying a patient in critical condition. The big-budget action title wrapped shooting in March 2021 and is slated for a theatrical release on February 18, 2022.

Set in Los Angeles over the course of a single day, the film stars Mateen as a hardworking guy with a wife and a kid. With his wife facing serious illness, he desperately needs $231,000 for her surgery. When he reaches out to a criminal friend (Gyllenhaal), he gets talked into taking part in a major bank heist that could net $32 million. Naturally,...

Heaven’s Grate: Keshales Settles for Watered Down Tropes in English Debut

Nearly a decade ago, directors Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado promised to usher in a new dawn of genre-flavored Israeli cinema with their first two offerings, Rabies (2010) and the somewhat controversial Big Bad Wolves (2013). Both have been wooed by English language filmmaking, pursing their own solo projects as director with Papushado unveiling Gunpowder Milkshake and Keshales offering up South of Heaven (which features Papushado as screenwriter alongside Kai Mark). Marrying a clutch of familiar narrative tropes, including the veritable Hitchcockian ‘wrong man’ syndrome and cancer melodrama, ‘nice guys’ may finish last, but they make it to the end credits—-unfortunately, there’s not enough characterization to care by the time we get there.…...

Any time a guy in a fancy coat says, “I’ll go ahead and explain. I’m a businessman,” it’s safe to assume you’re in for a parade of cliches. Or it would be, if the malicious parole officer and cancer patient wife weren’t already a dead giveaway of the kind of humorless melodrama on display in “South of Heaven,” starring Jason Sudeikis and Evangeline Lilly. It’s too bad that television’s favorite nice guy had to hone his Southern accent in such a dirge of a crime drama — it makes his dopey ex-con Jimmy feel like Ted Lasso’s charmless no-good cousin.

Filming for “South of Heaven” took place in March 2020; just before the pandemic upended the movie business (and everything else), and a few months before the first season of “Ted Lasso” debuted, which soon became an Emmy-winning hit. Had Sudeikis known what success lay in store for him,...

Jason Sudeikis has been cast in dramatic roles before, but nothing quite like the latest feature from Aharon Keshales, director of the 2013 Israeli cult horror classic Big Bad Wolves. Playing a recently released ex-con who becomes embroiled in a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse with a big-time gangster, the Ted Lasso star displays his macho bona fides while delivering a performance of nuance and depth. Unfortunately, his sterling efforts are not enough to overcome the overly convoluted plot machinations of South of Heaven.

The filmmaker credits Don Siegel’s great ’70s crime drama Charley Varrick as an inspiration for this effort, and it’s easy ...

Jason Sudeikis has been cast in dramatic roles before, but nothing quite like the latest feature from Aharon Keshales, director of the 2013 Israeli cult horror classic Big Bad Wolves. Playing a recently released ex-con who becomes embroiled in a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse with a big-time gangster, the Ted Lasso star displays his macho bona fides while delivering a performance of nuance and depth. Unfortunately, his sterling efforts are not enough to overcome the overly convoluted plot machinations of South of Heaven.

The filmmaker credits Don Siegel’s great ’70s crime drama Charley Varrick as an inspiration for this effort, and it’s easy ...

South of Heaven Trailer — Aharon Keshales‘ South of Heaven (2021) movie trailer has been released by Rlje Films. The South of Heaven trailer stars Jason Sudeikis, Evangeline Lilly, Shea Whigham, Mike Colter, Michael Pare, Amaury Nolasco, and Jeremy Bobb. Crew Aharon Keshales, Kai Mark, and Navot Papushado wrote the screenplay for South [...]

Continue reading: South Of Heaven (2021) Movie Trailer: Jason Sudeikis Gets Released from Prison for Terminally-ill Evangeline Lilly...

This very peculiar version of the famous Israeli flick Big Bad Wolves is being filmed in Andalusia by the director of The Silent House. In 2013, the Israeli film Big Bad Wolves, helmed by duo Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado, was victorious at the Sitges Film Festival (as well as many other international gatherings), where it scooped the Best Director Award. A short while later, the legend that is Quentin Tarantino included this title among his favourites from that year. Now, if one were to take a stroll around the spectacular province of Cádiz, one may well stumble upon the cast and crew of Lobo feroz (lit. “Fierce Wolf”), a peculiar reimagining of the aforementioned hit, being helmed by Uruguay’s Gustavo Hernández. This filmmaker has already made forays into the fantastic genre with his previous films: The Silent House (which even got the Hollywood remake treatment), Local God and You.

ScreenDaily shares a behind-the-scenes look at Ferocious Wolf, the Spain-Uruguay Spanish-language remake of Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado’s Israeli thriller Big Bad Wolves, which has just commenced shooting in Cadiz, Spain. Gustavo Hernandez, the Uruguayan director behind Silent House (La Casa Muda) that spawned the Hollywood remake starring Elizabeth Olsen, is behind the camera. “Ferocious Wolf centers on a detective […]...

Production has finally begun on Lobo Feroz the Spanish language adaptation of the Israeli revenge thriller Big Bad Wolves. We shared the news with you about this adaptation back in May 2019, but you know, plague and pestilence got in the way. But things have gotten better over in southern Spain so filming has finally begun, with Uruguayan horror director Gustavo Hernandez at the helm, in the autonomous region of Andalusia.   My friend Guido Rud from FilmSharks down in Buenos Aires is handling international sales of the new film. Rud sent over a bunch of behind the scenes pics from the production and a link to the announcement, en espanol, from Produ. I had just seen one of the original's directors, Aharon Keshales, post about...

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Jake Gyllenhaal wants in on some Bayhem so he’s in talks to star in Ambulance, the latest from Michael Bay. The script for the film, penned by Chris Fedak, has actually been kicking around for a while. At one point, Big Bad Wolves directors Navot Papushado & Aharon Keshales were attached to helm. But now, Bay has ahold of […]

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Exclusive: Mike Colter has joined the cast of thriller pic Till Death, which is being helmed by Big Bad Wolves director Aharon Keshales.

As we revealed back in November, Jason Sudeikis and Evangeline Lilly are top-lining the project. Ahead of shooting this month in Texas, Shea Whigham (Joker), Jeremy Bobb (Russian Doll), Michael Paré (Streets Of Fire), and Amaury Nolasco (Prison Break) have rounded out the cast.

Universal Content Group has world distribution rights to the pic.

The film was written by Keshales, Navot Papushado and Kai Mark. It follows convicted felon Jimmy (Sudeikis) who gets early parole after serving twelve years for armed robbery. Upon his release from prison, he vows to give Annie (Lilly), his childhood love, now dying from cancer, the best last year of her life.

“The response to this project has been truly amazing. When you’re writing a script, you imagine...

Exclusive: Dallas Sonnier’s Cinestate, the production outfit that also owns horror brand Fangoria, is ramping up its distribution activities and has hired Brandon Hill as VP of acquisitions and distribution.

Based in La, Hill will acquire films for Cinestate, including its horror label Fangoria, for distribution across theatrical and all other platforms.

The Dallas-based company has produced titles including S. Craig Zahler’s Bone Tomahawk, Brawl In Cell Block 99, and Dragged Across Concrete. Since acquiring Fangoria in 2018, it has also produced four titles through that label: Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich, Satanic Panic, and the upcoming Vfw and Castle Freak.

Fangoria distributes some of its titles in-house, and acquires outside produced movies for platform distribution, an effort headed up by Rob Galluzzo in La. Now, the company is looking to expand beyond home entertainment as part of Cinestate’s wider push into theatrical releasing.

Hill joins from his role...

Exclusive: I hear that Jason Sudeikis and Evangeline Lilly have been cast in Till Death, the action thriller being helmed by Aharon Keshales, who co-directed 2013 breakout Israeli horror Big Bad Wolves.

In the film, convicted felon Jimmy gets early parole after serving twelve years for armed robbery. Upon his release, he vows to give Annie, his childhood love, now dying from cancer, the best last year of her life – unfortunately it’s not that simple. Keshales penned the script with Navot Papushado and Kai Mark.

The project comes from Dallas-based producers Cinestate and Arts District Entertainment, and is fully financed by London-based Media Finance Capital.

Uphe Content Group has already snapped up world rights to the package. Pic will go into production in January 2020.

SNL grad Sudeikis is making something of a genre departure on this high-octane action pic, following recent drama roles in Kodachrome and Driven, alongside his comedy work.

Stars: Lior Ashkenazi, Rotem Keinan, Tzahi Grad, Doval’e Glickman, Menashe Noy, Dvir Benedek, Nati Kluger, Ami Weinberg, Guy Adler | Written and Directed by Aharon Keshales, Navot Papushado

Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado made quite a splash at FrightFest a few years back with Rabies, the first Isreali horror film which made a little bit of history by being so popular that a third screening was arranged for it. I was in the audience for the film myself that year but on a day where I was possibly the most drunk I have ever been in my life, I unfortunately did myself a disservice and can’t recall all that much about it. Having some karma to re-balance, I took to Big Bad Wolves in the most positive frame of mind I could, buoyed by the fact that Quentin Tarantino had praised it as the best film of 2013 and that...

In today’s film news roundup, Seann William Scott’s “Already Gone” and “High Strung: Free Dance” get releases, and Tom Skerritt, Mira Sorvino and Chloe Coleman get cast.

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Gravitas Ventures has acquired worldwide rights to the Seann William Scott road drama “Already Gone,” executive produced by Keanu Reeves, Variety has learned exclusively.

Christopher Kenneally directed from his own script with Rainmaker Films producing. The film, which also stars Shiloh Fernandez, Justine Skye and Tyler Dean Flores, will be released in theaters and on demand on Aug. 16.

Flores plays a lonely teenager in Coney Island who uses his graffiti to escape from his abusive stepfather, portrayed by Scott. The teenager is in love with his stepfather’s girlfriend and they flee together to Colorado after the stepfather tries to pimp her out.

The film is produced by Jordan Yale Levine and Jordan Beckerman of Yale Productions, Russell Geyser of RainMaker Films,...

Adam Nagaitis, who had breakout roles in “The Terror” and “Chernobyl,” has landed a significant part in “Gunpowder Milkshake,” joining Karen Gillan and Paul Giamatti.

Lena Headey and Michelle Yeoh are also on board.

Navot Papushado and Ehud Lavski wrote the pic, with Papushado directing the action-thriller about a group of female assassins that come together after a hit goes wrong. StudioCanal and the Picture Company are producing with Andrew Rona and Alex Heinemann, and Aharon Keshales is executive producing. Principal photography is under way in Germany.

Nagaitis has also landed a role in Steven Knight’s adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic “A Christmas Carol,” starring alongside Guy Pearce, Charlotte Riley, Andy Serkis and Stephen Graham. The three-part series is being produced by Ridley Scott’s Scott Free, as well as Tom Hardy’s Hardy Son & Baker for BBC and FX.

Nagaitis previously played the lead villain in the...

Variety reported this weekend that there will be a Spanish language remake of Big Bad Wolves, the rather spectacular Israeli thriller from Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado. The working title is Lobo Feroz (Ferocious Wolf). The revenge-thriller tracks a detective on the trail of a suspected child killer, a former religious studies teacher who was originally arrested for the crime, but allowed to walk free after a clerical error. Taking the law into his own hands, the detective enlists the mother of the most recently murdered child to exact a justice the legal system couldn’t provide. Lobo Feroz will be directed by Uruguayan Gustavo Hernandez (You Shall Not Sleep and The Silent House) from a script written by his You Shall Not Sleep...

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Santiago Segura and Maria Luisa Gutierrez’s production labels, Madrid-based Bowfinger and Amiguetes, are joining Uruguay’s Mother Superior, headed by Gustavo Hernandez and Ignacio Cucovich, to produce a Spanish remake of Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado’s Israeli genre film “Big Bad Wolves.” Its working title is “Lobo Feroz” (Ferocious Wolf).

The 2013 original made an impression at Cannes, Toronto and Busan, and Quentin Tarantino called it “the best film of the year.”

The revenge abduction thriller is headlined by Jose Coronado, a four-time Spanish Academy Goya best actor nominee, and 2012 winner for his work in “No Rest for the Wicked.” Hernandez will direct with “You Shall Not Sleep” scribe Juma Fodde writing.

The revenge-thriller tracks a detective on the trail of a suspected child killer, a former religious studies teacher who was originally arrested for the crime, but allowed to walk free after a clerical error. Taking the law into his own hands,...

Exclusive: The Navot Papushado-directed action thriller Gunpowder Milkshake has set Carla Gugino as a lethal assassin in the film’s final piece of casting. Gugino will star alongside will star alongside Karen Gillan, Lena Headey, Michelle Yeoh, Angela Bassett and Paul Giamatti. The film shoots this summer in Berlin. Plot is being kept under wraps but it is described as a high-concept assassin story that has a rich mythology and spans several generations.

Gugino will play part of a secret sisterhood who come together to help Gillan’s character when things go south. Pic was scripted by Big Bad Wolves‘ helmer Papushado, and Ehud Lavski. It shoots at the Babelsberg FilmStudio June 3.

Studiocanal and The Picture Company partners Andrew Rona & Alex Heineman produce. Papushado’s Big Bad Wolves’ partner Aharon Keshales is exec producer. Studiocanal will release in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Germany and France, and is selling...

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Action thriller Gunpowder Milkshake is putting together an impressive cast, headlined by Guardians of the Galaxy’s Karen Gillan.

Gunpowder Milkshake may sound like an ill-conceived idea for a combustible cold dairy drink, but it’s actually an intriguing action thriller – starring Guardians of the Galaxy and Jumanji actress Karen Gillan – that’s coming to the table with quite the ensemble for what’s shaping up to be a female-fronted assassin mythos.

Studiocanal and The Picture Company are conjuring the big screen project, which will arrive under the direction of internationally debuting helmers in Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado, who achieved acclaim in their native Israel with the 2013 Hebrew-language horror film, Big Bad Wolves, and 2010 horror offering Rabies. The directorial duo wrote the Gunpowder script with Ehud Lavski.

The scarce early plot details on Gunpowder Milkshake reveal a story centered on a mother-daughter assassin team, played by...

Michelle Yeoh has committed to star in Gunpowder Milkshake, joining Avengers: Endgame and Guardian of the Galaxy‘s Karen Gillan, Game of Thrones‘ Lena Headey, Black Panther‘s Angela Bassett and Billions‘ Paul Giamatti. Pic is a female driven high-concept assassin film that has a rich mythology and spans multiple generations.

Written and Directed by Big Bad Wolves‘ Navot Papushado, the film begins shooting at the Babelsberg FilmStudio, Germany with principal photography commencing June 3. Ehud Lavski has co-written.

Studiocanal and The Picture Company partners Andrew Rona & Alex Heineman produce. Papushado’s Big Bad Wolves’ partner Aharon Keshales is exec producer.

Yeoh is coming off shooting the Avatar sequels, Crazy Rich Asians and Star Trek: Discovery. She returns to the action game after Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and the 007 film Tomorrow Never Dies.

She is represented by her Manager David Unger of Artist International.

Studiocanal will release in the UK, Australia,...

Paul Giamatti, who stars in Showtime’s acclaimed series Billions, has joined the high-powered cast of Gunpowder Milkshake, an action thriller from Studiocanal and The Picture Company.

Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado, the duo behind the dark Israeli breakout Big Bad Wolves, are directing the project, which already has Avengers: Endgame’s Karen Gillan, Game of Thrones’ Lena Headey and Angela Bassett (Black Panther) on the hit list as it heads toward a June 3 production start in Berlin.

Plot details are being kept in the shell casing but the script, which Keshales and Papushado wrote with Ehud Lavski, is described as centering ...

Paul Giamatti, who stars in Showtime’s acclaimed series Billions, has joined the high-powered cast of Gunpowder Milkshake, an action thriller from Studiocanal and The Picture Company.

Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado, the duo behind the dark Israeli breakout Big Bad Wolves, are directing the project, which already has Avengers: Endgame’s Karen Gillan, Game of Thrones’ Lena Headey and Angela Bassett (Black Panther) on the hit list as it heads toward a June 3 production start in Berlin.

Plot details are being kept in the shell casing but the script, which Keshales and Papushado wrote with Ehud Lavski, is described as centering ...

Exclusive: 9-1-1 star Angela Bassett has signed on to co-star in Gunpowder Milkshake, the action thriller from Studiocanal and The Picture Company. Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado are directing the film from a script that they wrote with Ehud Lavski. Bassett, whose recent credits include the smash hit Black Panther, Bumblebee, and Mission: Impossible – Fallout, is joining previously announced stars Lena Headey and Avengers: Endgame’s Karen Gillan.

The pic is said to be a high-concept female-centric assassin thriller that spans multiple generations. Angela will play Anna May, one of the unassuming leaders of a massive armory.

The Picture Company partners Andrew Rona and Alex Heineman will produce through their overall deal with Studiocanal.

Bassett, a Golden Globe winner for her iconic performance as Tina Turner in What’s Love Got to Do with It, is a mainstay on FX’s American Horror Story anthology series, which has earned her multiple Emmy nominations.

While the SXSW Film Festival is kicking off in Austin this week, the Tribeca Film Festival will continue to shine a spotlight on upcoming genre films in April and May, including Joe Begos' Bliss, Ant Timpson's Come to Daddy (starring Elijah Wood and Stephen McHattie), and Something Else (directed by Jeremy Gardner and Christian Stella).

From the Press Release: "New York – March 5, 2019 – The 2019 Tribeca Film Festival, presented by At&T, today unveiled its feature film lineup. Continuing its tradition of elevating exceptional storytelling rooted in today’s global film communities, the 18th annual Festival will showcase debut works from emerging talent and new works from notable filmmakers. The program includes discoveries, comedies, music-centered, political and social films. The 2019 Tribeca Film Festival takes place April 24 - May 5.

The feature program includes 103 films from 124 filmmakers. The films selected in the three competition sections consist of 50% women directed films. The lineup includes 81 World Premieres,...

Exclusive: She’s still got a final season of Game of Thrones to come, but Lena Headey is moving on. She has been set to co-star in Gunpowder Milkshake, the action thriller that Aharon Keshales & Navot Papushado will direct for Studiocanal and The Picture Company. Headey joins Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle‘s Karen Gillan, who was set to star earlier this year.

Pic was a hot title as Afm last fall that sold around the world and begins production this spring in Berlin. The Big Bad Wolves team of Keshales & Papushado wrote the script along with Ehud Lavski. Gunpowder Milkshake is a high-concept action thriller with a rich mythology that revolves around a multi-generational ensemble cast.

The Picture Company partners Andrew Rona and Alex Heineman will produce through their overall deal with Studiocanal.

Beyond her final season as the ruthless Queen Cersei in GoT that premieres in April, Headey...

Karen Gillan (Guardians of the Galaxy and Jumanji) is set to star in a new action thriller called Gunpowder Milkshake, and I just have to say I love that title!

The film is described as being an assassin film "with a story that spans multiple generations." Also, it's said that the entire cast will be filled with women.

Other than that there are no story details to share, but I'm a huge fan of Gillan and I'm happy to see she's found another fun film project to be a part of.

Gunpowder Milkshake will be directed by Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado, who previously helmed the dark Israeli breakout Big Bad Wolves. They also write the script with Ehud Lavski. As for the tone and style that they are going for, its explained:

Kill Bill, the opus by Big Bad Wolves fan Quentin Tarantino, and Edgar Wright’s Baby Driver...

Guardians of the Galaxy and Jumanji star Karen Gillan has signed on to topline Gunpowder Milkshake, an action thriller from Studiocanal and The Picture Company.

Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado, the duo behind the dark Israeli breakout Big Bad Wolves, are directing the project. The pair also wrote the script with Ehud Lavski.

Plot details are being kept muzzled, but the pic is described as being in the assassin genre with a story that spans multiple generations. The entire cast is envisioned as being all-female, with Gillan the cornerstone.

Kill Bill, the opus by Big Bad Wolves fan Quentin Tarantino, and Edgar Wright’s Baby Driver are the ...

Guardians of the Galaxy and Jumanji star Karen Gillan has signed on to topline Gunpowder Milkshake, an action thriller from Studiocanal and The Picture Company.

Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado, the duo behind the dark Israeli breakout Big Bad Wolves, are directing the project. The pair also wrote the script with Ehud Lavski.

Plot details are being kept muzzled, but the pic is described as being in the assassin genre with a story that spans multiple generations. The entire cast is envisioned as being all-female, with Gillan the cornerstone.

Kill Bill, the opus by Big Bad Wolves fan Quentin Tarantino, and Edgar Wright’s Baby Driver are the ...

San Sebastian — Gustavo Hernández and Ignacio Cucucovich’s Mother Superior, producer of Hernandez’s “La Casa Muda” and “You Shall Not Sleep,” has acquired Spanish-language remake rights to cult movie “Big Bad Wolves,” a film Quentin Tarantino described at Busan Festival in 2013 as best film of the year.

The move is sure to make waves with a long litany of potential producer partners, conjoining the talents of two of Latin America’s foremost genre pioneers with a movie which sparked some travel reviews and boasts the tonal shifts and social underbelly of much modern genre movies.

Directed by Israel’s Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado, produced by United Channels Movies (Ucm) and inspired in part, its directors maintained, by the movies of Tarantino himself and the Coen brothers, “Big Bad Wolves” turns on a vigilante cop out to snare the author of a series of brutal murders, a kind of...

Exclusive: Studiocanal and The Picture Company came out on the winning end of an auction for Gunpowder Milkshake, an action film that will be the next directorial outing for Big Bad Wolves directors Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado. The duo wrote the script with Ehud Lavski.

Andrew Rona and Alex Heineman will produce through their Studiocanal-based The Picture Company banner. The aim is to go in production by the fall.

Pic is a high-concept action-thriller with a rich mythology, a female protagonist, and franchise potential. The Israeli filmmakers will begin casting the movie with a start date and progress to production as part of its Studiocanal deal.

Papushado and Keshales are best known for writing and directing genre bending thrillers like their 2014 breakout, Big Bad Wolves. Several suitors lined up for this package, looking to start a franchise with them. Studiocanal’s Ron Halpern and Shana Eddy were key to securing the deal.

It’s been awhile since we’ve seen a good vampire movie, so it’s all the more exciting that Big Bad Wolves and Rabies writer-directors Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado will adapt the modern-day vampire thriller We Are All Monsters Here for Crystal City Entertainment. The logline is pretty cool as We Are All Monsters Here follows a collegiate […]...

While it might seem that Warner Bros. and DC Films are greenlighting everything under the sun at the moment, it appears they do have some measure of consideration before flipping the switch. Long before the Dceu train started flying around the tracks, the studio was keen on making “Justice League Dark,” and had Guillermo Del Toro to make the movie. Eventually, he moved on and mini merry-go-round of the filmmakers kicked the tires including Fede Alvarez (“Evil Dead,” “Don’t Breathe”), Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado (“Big Bad Wolves“), and Doug Liman who quickly signed on and just as quickly bailed.

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Exclusive: Navot Papushado & Aharon Keshales have been set to direct Ambulance, the Good Universe/Mythology Entertainment remake of the 2005 Danish film Ambulancen. The filmmakers, who come from Israel and made their mark with the thrillers Big Bad Wolves and Rabies, will direct a script by Chuck co-creator Chris Fedak. The film is an action-thriller whose ambition is to combine the elevated character elements of Dog Day Afternoon with the adrenaline of Speed and the…...

Bruce Willis has a Death Wish.

As a matter of fact, he’s had one for a while, given he first signed on to headline Paramount and MGM’s long-brewing remake more than a year ago. Creative troubles plagued the project during its formative stages in development, when co-directors Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado made for the exit door. Thankfully, it didn’t take too long before the studios drafted in a replacement in the form of Eli Roth, instigating a casting process that has already roped in the likes of Vincent D’Onofrio, comedian/actor Mike Epps, and Breaking Bad‘s Dean Norris. Now, we finally have word of Death Wish‘s official due date: November 22nd, 2017.

Pitched as an old-timey action flick based on Brian Garfield’s novel, which also inspired the 1974 cult classic of the same name, Death Wish follows a “man named Paul Kersey (Willis) whose...

“Resistance” the story of the famed mime Marcel Marceau and how he learned to mime in order to survive and to save the lives of Jewish orphans in World War II France, written and to be directed by “Hands of Stone” director Jonathan Jakubowicz and produced by Claudine Jakubowicz and Carlos Garcia de Paredes, will star the curly haired and fast talking Jesse Eisenberg who played Mark Zuckerberg in the 2010 film “The Social Network”. Baptiste Marceau, the oldest son of Marcel, has been closely involved in the research for this European coproduction that CAA is packaging and representing in Cannes. Marceau the artist of silence gave his first major performance to 3,000 American troops after the liberation of Paris in August 1944.

Michael Jackson and Marcel Marceau

The producers of last year’s Norwegian hit, “The Wave”, have turned their attention to Marius Holst’s “Betrayed”, the story of the Norwegian Jews...

It could be said that there was disappointment when Big Bad Wolves and Rabies directors Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado bowed out of the Death Wish remake. Yet I think we would all agree that we would rather see something original from the Israeli directing duo. I know I was a wee bit disappointed with that turn of events then someone who had read their script, Once Upon A Time in Palestine, said no, no, this is way better. So when Variety reported that they have begun shopping their new flick to financiers at Cannes I could not be happier to read this news. “Once Upon a Time in Palestine” is an “at times funny and at times nerve-wracking portrayal of Israel’s birth...

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Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado, the directors behind 2013’s stellar black comedy/thriller Big Bad Wolves (review), have announced that their next film will be titled Once Upon a Time in Palestine, per Variety. The film takes place in 1946 British-ruled… Continue Reading →

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Daredevil and Heisenberg, look away now. Deadline is reporting that the Eli Roth-directed Death Wish has enlisted Vincent D’Onofrio and Breaking Bad‘s Dean Norris.

A remake of the Charles Bronson thriller of the same name – itself an adaptation of Brian Garfield’s novel – D’Onofrio and Dean Norris will now join Bruce Willis in the overhaul, which has set up shop over at MGM and Paramount. Indeed, this two-fold casting coup is a real sign of progress for Death Wish, given the project has spent the past few years languishing on the fringes of development.

During that time, Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado (Big Bad Wolves) were in line to helm Paramount’s remake before last-minute script changes forced the directing pair to bow out. Joe Carnahan (The Grey and, soon, Bad Boys For Life) also contributed to the screenplay during its formative years, before Scott Alexander...

Actor Bruce Willis, will star in a remake of "Death Wish", to be directed by Aharon Keshales & Navot Papushado, rebooting director Michael Winner's 1974 vigilante action feature:

The original Paramount Pictures thriller was loosely based on the novel "Death Wish" by author Brian Garfield, following former WWII and Korean war vet, 'Paul Kersey'.

Kersey, a 'liberal' thinking architect, becomes an unstoppable late-night vigilante killer, targeting muggers, after a deadly assault against his wife and daughter pushes him over the deep end.

At the time of its initial release, critics were displeased with the film, considering it an 'immoral threat to society' and an encouragement of 'antisocial behavior'.

Despite the negative reviews, producers sensed the 'primal' appeal of the premise with audiences and released five "Death Wish" films.

Titles include "Death Wish II" (1982), "Death Wish 3" (1985), "Death Wish 4: The Crackdown" (1987) and "Death Wish V: The Face of Death...

Way back in the hazy days of 2006, it was announced that Sylvester Stallone would be directing a remake of Charles Bronson’s classic revenge movie Death Wish, presumably stepping into the murderous boots of vigilante Paul Kersey. It was an interesting prospect, but Stallone eventually left the project. There was still life left in the remake though, and in 2012, it was resurrected once again, with Narc, Smoking Aces, and The A-Team’s Joe Carnahan on board to direct. Carnahan eventually departed, and Narcos director Gerado Naranjo cam on board. This, too, fell through, and for a few years, the project wandered aimlessly through Hollywood. It once again reared it’s head earlier this year, with Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado, the directing duo behind the fantastic Israeli comedy horror Big Bad Wolves, being brought on to steer new Paul Kersey, Bruce Willis, on his revenge fuelled killing spree. As is...

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The remake of Death Wish gets a November release date in the Us...

Eli Roth's remake of Death Wish, with Bruce Willis in the lead role, is pretty much finished now, with Roth in post-production locking down his final cut. Turns out too that it's going to be arriving sooner than was expected too, with a 2017 release date confirmed - in the Us at least - for the movie. After being impressed with an early cut of the film, a November 22nd release has been announced in America. As of yet, no UK release date has been confirmed, but we'll let you know when we hear of one.

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Hollywood’s determined to remake Death Wish. And why not? If anything, the property seems more timely than ever. Joe Carnahan was on board as writer/director for a while, and then it looked like Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado were set to direct it. Today, it’s being reported that Eli Roth is now set to direct from a script by Scott Alexander & Larry Karaszewski, working from Carnahan’s earlier drafts, with Bruce Willis still attached to star. The big winner here is Roth. I thought his last film Knock Knock demonstrated some growth from him as a filmmaker, and knowing that he’s going to be starting with a script that’s been worked on by writers as good as Carnahan and Alexander & Karaszewski is encouraging. What I’m really curious about is how he gets along with Willis. I assume they have to have met already to...