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Idw Entertainment is teaming up with Steven Schneider and Roy Lee’s Spooky Pictures (Late Night with the Devil) to adapt the horror comic Dungeon by Scott Snyder and Hayden Sherman, THR reports today.

The serial killer tale ran as a five-issue comic miniseries in 2023 and 2024.

Dungeon begins “when a family moves from the Big Apple to upstate New York to escape the hustle and bustle. However, their father’s dream of a quiet rural life is shattered when he discovers a dungeon underneath their land, filled with torture devices, weapons, and a threatening message on the wall that reads, ‘Tell No One.’ The discovery sets up a paranoid serial kidnapping mystery where no one, not even the father’s child, is safe, and not even the FBI agent assigned to the case can help.”

Schneider and Lee will produce the adaptation along with Daniel Kendrick of Idw Entertainment, the screen arm of Idw Publishing.

Spooky Pictures, the company run by Steven Schneider and Roy Lee, has teamed up with Idw Entertainment to adapt Dungeon, the horror comic by Scott Snyder and Hayden Sherman.

Schneider and Lee will produce the adaptation along with Daniel Kendrick of Idw Entertainment, the screen arm of Idw Publishing.

The option deal comes as Snyder and Sherman have become among the top commodities in the comics field. Snyder, a longtime comics author, is currently writing Absolute Batman for DC, with that comic’s launch becoming the biggest-selling title of 2024. Sherman is illustrating Absolute Wonder Woman, which was also a massive launch that went to multiple printings.

Published as a five issue miniseries in 2023 and 2024, the story begins when a family moves from the Big Apple to upstate New York to escape the hustle and bustle. However, their father’s dream of a quiet rural life is shattered when he discovers a dungeon underneath their land,...

Netflix's latest movie, Ad Vitam, includes a small ensemble of talented French actors. Directed by Rodolphe Lauga, the Netflix international movie is currently the number one non-English film on the streaming platform. Ad Vitam follows Franck, a former member of the elite French tactical police, the Gign, as he is forced to delve into his past after his pregnant wife is kidnapped. While Ad Vitam uses a similar plotline that several films in the genre employ, it sets itself apart with its action and incredible performances from its cast.

Since most of the actors in Ad Vitam are French, they might not be familiar to an American audience, but they've featured in several French movies and TV Shows. The Netflix action movie is engaging from start to finish, with an intense storyline that makes audiences root for the primary protagonist. Although there's a lot to like about Ad Vitam,...

“The Substance” (Mubi) and “Flow” (Janus/Sideshow), two very independent specialized releases, add to their theatrical and awards successes with strong interest on home viewing.

“Wicked” (Universal), expecting even greater recognition repeats as #1 at both iTunes (ranking by transactions) and Fandango (by revenue) in its second week out. The studio, which like others rarely announces home video returns, said its first week out had $70 million in rentals and sales. They get 80 percent of this after a small carriage fee deduction, a much higher return than in theaters. This buttresses the claim of how vital PVOD is, even if its often early streaming release seems to intrude on theatrical play.

Netflix, meanwhile, underwent a wholesale turnover this week, with only three films listed last week still on their top 10. “Ad Vitam,” an original French thriller in the Liam Neeson-mold that follows a lone avenger saving a family member in danger,...

The central struggle of Netflix’s French action thriller, Ad Vitam, hinges upon the age-old question of whether the concept of nationalism equates loyalty to the state or to the ones who control the power dynamics of the state. While the execution of the theme left much to be desired due to a lackluster script, the performance by the ensemble cast was strong enough to keep the audience entertained.

Franck Lazarev Played By Guillaume Canet

French actor, director, and screenwriter Guillaume Canet has been active in the movie industry for over the last three decades and has starred in acclaimed movies like the crime noir Next Time, I’ll Aim for the Heart, the adventure drama titled The Beach, and the thrilling Tell No One, which was also directed by him.

In Ad Vitam, Guillaume Canet plays the lead role of former Gign Captain Franck Lazarev, whose quest to serve...

Last year saw Netflix unleash several hugely popular, and critically acclaimed, action movies, including the gritty crime thriller Rebel Ridge, the brutal and bloody revenge epic The Shadow Strays, and the Christmas action outing Carry-On. And it looks like the streamer is all set to continue that success, with the upcoming action thriller Ad Vitam promising to be the next Taken. That’s right, the beloved Liam Neeson movie that kick-started the renowned actor’s aged action hero career.

Directed by Rodolphe Lauga, the French action thriller Ad Vitam stars Guillaume Canet as Franck, a man with a mysterious past who, after surviving a home invasion, must save his kidnapped wife while facing the deadly consequences of his painful past. The rest of the cast includes Stéphane Caillard, Nassim Lyes, Zita Hanrot, Alexis Manenti, Johan Heldenbergh, Etienne Guillou-Kervern, and Rayan Bouazza. Ad Vitam is all set to land on Netflix...

Novelist Harlan Coben seemingly confirms his next streaming series after the success of Netflix's Missing You, which debuted on New Year's Day. Based on Coben's 2014 thriller novel, the Netflix show stars Rosalind Eleazar as British detective Kat Donovan as she uncovers the truth behind her father's death and her ex-fiancé's disappearance. The highly-anticipated series is the latest Coben adaptation following 2024's hit Netflix show, Fool Me Once.

The best-selling author has many of his novels adapted for movies and TV shows, including The Stranger, Tell No One, The Woods, and many others. All eight Netflix Harlan Coben television adaptations, before the latest series, have been rated "Fresh" (with more than a 60% approval rate) on Rotten Tomatoes, with Fool Me Once being one of Netflix's most-watched shows of 2024. The most recent, Missing You, is currently sitting at the No. 2 spot on the Top TV Shows in the U.S. However,...

Believe it or not, Rosalind Eleazar is used to playing wilder characters than Detective Kat Donovan in Netflix’s Missing You.

But it didn’t stop the shoot from getting pretty intense.

The latest in the streamer’s slate of Harlan Coben adaptations, Missing You follows the story of Slow Horses star Eleazar as a detective specializing in Missing Persons.

Eleven years ago, her fiancé Josh (played by Ashley Walters), the love of her life, vanished without a trace. Now, swiping profiles on a dating app, she sees his face, and her world threatens to explode all over again. The experience forces her to dive back into the mystery surrounding the murder of her father (Lenny Henry) and uncover long-buried secrets from her past. Coben said on a London panel the show has “the most emotional ending that I’ve experienced,” adding that he “actually cried.”

With twists and turns at every possible point,...

Harlen Coben’s Missing You comes to Netflix at the very start of 2025 – and here’s the trailer for the new Netflix production.

The Harlan Coben thriller is quickly becoming its own subgenre. So far, 12 of his high-octane, twisty novels have made their way to the screen. Among the highlights, Tell No One was adapted into a terrific French film of the same name in 2006, directed by Guillaume Canet and starring Francois Cluzet and Kristen Scott Thomas.

On television, The Five, Safe, Innocent, Just One Look, No Second Chance, The Stranger, The Woods, Gone For Good, Stay Close, Hold Me Tight and – most recently – Fool Me Once have all been adapted variously for Channel 5 and Netflix. It’s thanks to the huge success of Fool Me Once, which landed on Netflix last Christmas, that two more adaptations were commissioned.

The first is Missing You. The synopsis for which reads...

Harlan Coben (“Fool Me Once”) has a new thriller to captivate Netflix fans.

On Monday, Netflix revealed the full-length trailer for five-part limited series “Missing You,” which debuts globally on Netflix on New Year’s Day.

“Missing You” follows Kat Donovan (Rosalind Eleazar), a detective specializing in Missing Persons. For Kat, it’s not just a job. You see, 11 years ago her fiancé Josh (Ashley Walters) just up and vanished, and Kat hasn’t heard from him since. Until, that is, she sees his face on a dating app and “her world explodes all over again,” per the Netflix synopsis.

“Josh’s unexpected reappearance will force her to dive back into the mystery surrounding her father’s murder and uncover long-buried secrets from her past,” it continues.

The series also stars Richard Armitage, Sir Lenny Henry, Steve Pemberton, Jessica Plummer, Mary Malone, Lisa Faulkner, James Nesbitt, Marc Warren, Samantha Spiro,...

Today, Netflix released the full-length trailer for Missing You, Harlan Coben’s next thriller starring Rosalind Eleazar in the lead role. The five-part limited series will debut on Netflix globally on January 1, 2025.

Missing You focuses on Kat Donovan (Eleazar), a detective specializing in missing persons. Eleven years ago, her fiancé Josh, the love of her life, vanished without a trace and she hasn’t heard from him since.

Now, swiping profiles on a dating app, she suddenly sees his face and her world explodes all over again. Josh’s unexpected reappearance will force her to dive back into the mystery surrounding her father’s murder and uncover long-buried secrets from her past.

The series also stars Ashley Walters, Richard Armitage, Sir Lenny Henry, Steve Pemberton, Jessica Plummer, Mary Malone, Lisa Faulkner and James Nesbitt.

Missing You follows the success of Harlan Coben’s Fool Me Once, which was named as #1 most-viewed TV show,...

Outside of her acting and producing work, Reese Witherspoon is known to tout other people’s novels via her Reese’s Book Club. Soon, she’ll be touting a book of her own.

Witherspoon announced that she is co-writing a thriller novel with bestselling mystery author Harlan Coben. Witherspoon did not yet reveal the title of the book, but it is set for publication on Oct. 14, 2025, according to a preorder webpage. The site also says the novel is 352 pages and will be distributed by Grand Central Publishing.

“I’m beyond excited to share that I’m co-writing my very first thriller with #1 bestselling author, @harlancoben!” Witherspoon wrote on Instagram alongside a photo of her and Coben. “As a massive fan of Harlan’s work, I can’t believe he agreed to co-author a novel with me. I’m either the most persuasive person alive or the idea of this book is just Too Good!

Set at the height of the Roman Empire, Those About To Die is historical drama series from director Roland Emmerich. Created by Robert Rodat, and inspired by the nonfiction book of the same name by Daniel P. Mannix, the series will immerse viewers into the spectacular, complex, and corrupt world of chariot racing and gladiatorial fights in ancient Rome.

The cast includes multi-award winning cinema legend Sir Anthony Hopkins as Emperor Vespasian, Iwan Rheon (Game of Thrones) as Tenax, Tom Hughes as Titus Flavianus, Sara Martins as Cala, and Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson (Game of Thrones) as Viggo, Jojo Macari (Sex Education) as Domitian, Gabriella Pession (Crossing Lines) as Antonia, Dimitri Leonidas as Scorpus, Emilio Sakraya as Xenon, Moe Hashim Kwame, Rupert Penry Jones (Whitechapel) as Marsus.

HeyUGuys chatted to the cast about their experience working on the hotly anticipated series on set in Italy and about how much they all knew about that particular era.

International distributor Eccho Rights will be handling first window sales throughout Central and Eastern Europe on the Roland Emmerich-directed ancient Rome series “Those About to Die,” starring Anthony Hopkins as as Emperor Vespasian.

The Stockholm-headquartered Eccho Rights – which is owned by German investment and co-production outfit Night Train Media, headed by Herbert L. Kloiber – will be launching regional sales at the NATPE Budapest market later this month on the hotly anticipated 10-episode gladiator show.

The first season of “Those About to Die” is set to drop July 18 on Peacock in the U.S., as previously announced. The show is a Peacock Original and the streamer’s biggest budget production to date.

Eccho Rights will also be handling second window sales on “Those About to Die” in several unspecified Western European territories, according to a statement. An Eccho rep declined to specify on which Western European territories they have the second window rights.

Prime Video has debuted the trailer for the historical drama series ‘Those About To Die.’

Panem et Circenses – Bread and Entertainment; Rome in 79 A.D.: The centre of the Roman Empire is the wealthiest city in the world, and there is a heavy influx of slave labourers from the growing empire to take over the work. The Roman population—bored, restless, and increasingly violent—is kept in line mainly by two things: free food and spectacular entertainment, in the form of chariot racing and gladiator fights.

The series delves into the world of the games—a world characterized by bloodlust, greed for money, the pursuit of power, and corruption. The races at Circus Maximus are controlled by four Patrician-owned corporations, the Blue, Red, White, and Green factions, and shares in the four factions are the most valuable things in Rome. As the taste in entertainment of the populace becomes more jaded and bloodthirsty,...

Music Box Films has acquired U.S. distribution rights to “Daaaaaalí!,” the latest film by Quentin Dupieux whose upcoming movie “The Second Act” will world premiere on opening night at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.

A comedic and unpredictable tribute to Salvador Dalí, “Daaaaaalí!” premiered out of competition at the Venice Film Festival, followed by screenings at the BFI London Film Festival and Rotterdam.

In “Daaaaaalí!,” a French journalist repeatedly meets Dalí to begin an interview for a documentary film project that never starts shooting. Anaïs Demoustier stars as a journalist attempting to pin down the eccentric and elusive Salvador Dalí, who is played by five different actors, Edouard Baer, Jonathan Cohen, Gilles Lellouche, Pio Marmaï, and Didier Flamand.

Music Box Films will release “Daaaaaalí!” theatrically later this year with a home entertainment release to follow.

“We were thoroughly charmed by the playful, antic spirit of Quentin Dupieux’s film,...

French actor Guillaume Canet is starring, writing and producing the new Netflix thriller Ad Vitam.

Rodolphe Lauga (It’s Complicated) is directing the action film, which has begun shooting in Paris. Netflix will release the movie worldwide next year.

Canet plays Franck Lazareff who, after surviving an attempt on his life, finds his wife has been kidnapped by a mysterious group of armed men. Trying to rescue her, Frank finds his past catching up with him. Stéphane Caillard, Nassim Lyes, Zita Hanrot and Alexis Manenti co-star.

Canet and Lauga co-wrote the script to Ad Vitam in association with David Corona and Canet is producing, together with Jean Cottin for the Cabanes shingle.

Canet recently directed himself as Gallic comic book hero Asterix in the live-action feature Asterix & Obelix: The Middle Kingdom and appeared in the French thriller Breaking Point. from director Yvan Attal. The multi-hyphenate has directed several films, including...

After the huge success of Fool Me Once, Netflix have commissioned two more Harlan Coben adaptations, here are the details.

The Harlan Coben thriller is quickly becoming its own subgenre. So far, ten of his high-octane, twisty novels have made their way to the screen. Amongst the highlights, Tell No One was adapted into a terrific French film of the same name in 2006, directed by Guillaume Canet and starring Francois Cluzet and Kristen Scott Thomas.

On television, The Five, Safe, Innocent, Just One Look, No Second Chance, The Stranger, The Woods, Gone For Good, Stay Close, Hold Me Tight and – most recently – Fool Me Once have all been adapted variously for Channel 5 and Netflix.

It’s thanks to the huge success of Fool Me Once, which landed on Netflix over Christmas and stars Michelle Keegan, that the streaming service are pressing ahead with two more Coben adaptations, Deadline has revealed.

What links: a drug dealer in Trainspotting, a wrestling referee in The World According to Garp, a disgruntled restaurant guest in The Night Manager, an Aunt who slaps Madeline Brewer’s face in The Handmaid’s Tale, and a police officer in Jack Reacher: Never Go Back?

Correct! They were all cameo appearances in films and TV shows made by the author of the original books. While writers are as a rule happier out of the limelight thinking up their metaphors while hunched solo over a keyboard, every so often they straighten their spines to walk self-consciously through the back of shot in a movie based on one of their books. It’s fun for them. Gets them out of the house.

Best-selling thriller author Harlan Coben (the man behind the ever-growing Harlan Coben Screen Universe) is no different. Of the dozen TV series adapted from his twist-packed novels, he’s...

Exclusive: Mathieu Kassovitz has quit the Paris Has Fallen television series citing creative differences. He has been replaced by Spiral actor Tewfik Jallab.

Deadline can reveal the casting switch as StudioCanal has released first-look images from the series, which is based on Gerard Butler‘s Has Fallen film franchise and is shooting in London and Paris.

The eight-part drama is made by StudioCanal, War of the Worlds producer Urban Myth Films, and two companies behind the film franchise: Millennium Media and Butler’s G-Base. Eclectic Pictures is also attached.

Kassovitz, best known for his 1995 film La Haine, is recovering from a motorbike accident last month, though his departure from Paris Has Fallen was for creative reasons. In his place, Jallab will play Vincent Taleb, a protection officer to a French Minister, who is the target of a terror group led by villain Jacob.

Vincent works with MI6 operative Zara (Ritu Arya...

Self-destructive characters who grift and deceive are ever the province of French filmmakers, from Claude Chabrol to “Tell No One” director Guillaume Canet. In Sébastien Marnier’s sinister and sly domestic thriller “The Origin of Evil,” Laure Calamy plays a woman whose lies can’t stop falling out of her mouth. Calamy is one of the MVPs of the French show business satire “Call My Agent!,” in which she plays a flustered assistant at a fictional talent agency run by ridiculous people. In “The Origin of Evil,” Calamy gives an unsettling performance as Stéphane, a grifter crawling out of a busted relationship and a toxic job at a cannery and into the life of a wealthy man, Serge, played by Jacques Weber. She contacts him out of the blue and insists she’s his long-lost daughter, and the two form a parasitic relationship that recalls the uneasy power dynamics of...

Exclusive: Roland Emmerich is heading to next month’s Mipcom Cannes to present first-look footage from upcoming Gladiator epic Those About to Die.

AGC Studios and High End Productions will host an invite-only presentation on the first afternoon of the mid-October market, showcasing the footage along with a Q&a with the Godzilla auteur.

The $150M Anthony Hopkins-starring series will launch on Peacock in the U.S. later next year but AGC boss Stuart Ford recently told Deadline the producers eschewed a “worldwide streamer type deal” when putting together the financial package. Prime Video has bought the show in a wealth of European nations and the free TV rights outside the exclusive distribution window are still being negotiated with various licensees across Europe, according to Constantin Film in August. Principal photography is nearly complete at Rome’s Cinecittà Studios and the show, which falls outside of SAG-AFTRA strike restrictions,...

Harlan Coben's Myron Bolitar series, featuring the intriguing sports agent-turned-detective, has captivated readers for nearly 30 years with its standalone detective thrillers and compelling protagonist. Despite the popularity of the Myron Bolitar character, he is notably absent from Harlan Coben's Shelter series on Amazon Prime Video due to licensing issues and Coben's exclusive deal with Netflix. The exclusion of Myron Bolitar in the series does not rule out the possibility of future appearances, but given the exclusive contracts with different streaming platforms, it is unlikely to happen anytime soon.

The Myron Bolitar series is author Harlan Coben's most famous work, but the legendary reluctant detective is conspicuously absent from Harlan Coben's Shelter series. Publishing his first novel back in 1990, Harlan Coben has amassed a bibliography of gripping thrillers that have helped to make him one of the most prolific authors of the modern era. His Myron Bolitar series began in...

Roland Emmerich’s upcoming gladiator series Those About to Die has been picked up by Prime Video across Europe.

High End Productions, a Jv forged by Herbert G. Kloiber and Constantin Film, struck the deal for the show produced by Centropolis, Hollywood Gang and Street Entertainment.

When it becomes available on Prime in Europe, the show will become a rare example of a Peacock series that can be watched on a different streamer in other territories. Germany, the UK, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland, Ireland, Poland, Turkey, Andorra, Monaco, Luxembourg, and Belgium have all picked up the rights. The free TV rights outside the exclusive distribution window on Prime Video are currently still being negotiated with various licensees across Europe, according to Constantin Film.

The Peacock original stars Anthony Hopkins as Emperor Vaspasian during the height of the Roman Empire. The Roman population—bored, restless, and increasingly...

Prime Video has acquired the Ancient Rome gladiator drama series “Those About to Die” in multiple European territories. The show is directed by “Independence Day” helmer Roland Emmerich and Marco Kreuzpaintner.

The 10-episode first season will debut exclusively on Prime Video in Germany, the U.K., France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland, Ireland, Poland, Turkey, Andorra, Monaco, Luxembourg and Belgium. As previously reported, streaming platform Peacock has secured the U.S. rights.

European rights are being handled by High End Productions, the joint venture set up by Herbert G. Kloiber and Constantin Film. AGC Studios holds rights for the rest of the world.

Servus TV has taken the free TV window for Austria. The free TV rights outside the exclusive distribution window on Prime Video are still being negotiated with various licensees across Europe. Further presales will be announced at a later date.

The show stars Anthony Hopkins as Emperor Vespasian,...

French actor and director Guillaume Canet has revealed he is feeling the pressure ahead of the release next week of his ambitious 70M production Asterix & Obelix: The Middle Kingdom.

Canet directs and stars in the film as iconic plucky Gaul Asterix in an all-star ensemble cast also featuring Gilles Lellouche as Obelix, Vincent Cassel as Julius Caesar, Marion Cotillard as Cleopatra and Swedish soccer star Zlatan Ibrahimović as Caesar’s bodyguard Antivirus.

The production is Canet’s eighth feature after 2006 breakout Tell No One, 2010 hit Little White Lies, Brooklyn-set, English-language debut Blood Ties and the smaller more personal pandemic-shot film Lui.

Long-time collaborator Alain Attal at Trésor Films produces with Pathé and Yohan Baiada at Les Enfants Terribles.

Pathé will launch Asterix & Obelix: The Middle Kingdom on 1,200 screens on February 1. Local media is hailing the release as the biggest film event of early 2023.

Canet has said he...

Studiocanal is set to launch Quentin Reynaud’s timely disaster thriller “The Blaze” ahead of its world premiere at the BFI London Film Festival.

The film reteams Reynaud with popular French actor Alex Lutz, who headlined the director’s feature debut “Final Set.” Lutz stars alongside revered French actor André Dussolier (“Tell No One”).

“The Blaze” follows Simon and his father Joseph who embark on a race-against-the-clock to escape a wildfire.

The first-look image features Simon and Joseph who must leave everything behind to escape their coastal region alongside multiple evacuees who are fighting to survive.

The film was shot in France’s tree-covered southwest region where thousands of hectares were destroyed by wildfires this summer, but Quentin Reynaud told Variety that the movie wrapped shooting a year ago.

“I grew up in this beautiful region and I know every corner of it. It has a very dense landscape with a strong local culture,...

Amazon Studios has given a series order to its YA action-thriller pilot Harlan Coben’s Shelter, an adaptation of Coben’s Mickey Bolitar novels with Jaden Michael (Colin in Black and White) starring as Bolitar. The project, co-produced by MGM International Television Productions and Amazon Studios, will premiere on Prime Video.

The Shelter pilot, written by Harlan Coben and Charlotte Coben and directed by Patricia Cardoso, wrapped filming in Coben’s home state of New Jersey at the end of 2021. In addition to Michael as Mickey Bolitar, the cast also includes Constance Zimmer as Shira Bolitar, Adrian Greensmith as Arthur “Spoon” Spindell, Abby Corrigan as Emma Winslow, and Sage Linder as Rachel Caldwell, with Brian Altemus joining the cast as Troy.

Based on the first novel in the bestselling author Coren’s Mickey Bolitar trilogy, Shelter tells the story of high school junior Mickey Bolitar (Michael) as he navigates his...

Edouard Weil and Alice Girard, the producers of Audrey Diwan’s Venice Golden Lion-winning “Happening” and Valerie Lemercier’s Celine Dion movie “Aline,” won the Toscan du Plantier Award at a fancy Paris ceremony hosted by the Cesar Academie.

Weil and Girard, who run the Paris-based production banner Rectangle Productions, were selected by 1,557 voters, including all the artists and crew members who have been nominated at the Cesar Awards since 2008, as well as the 164 members of the Association for the Promotion of Cinema.

Besides “Happening” and “Aline,” Rectangle Productions delivered several other critically acclaimed films within the last year, including Jean-Christophe Meurisse’s “Bloody Oranges” and Gaspar Noé’s “Vortex” which played at Cannes.

Since being created by Weil in 2003, the company has also produced films by international auteurs, including Elia Suleiman. Girard, an industry veteran who previously held a senior executive position at French broadcasting group France Televisions, joined...

Hollywood and the French film industry are paying tribute to French actor Gaspard Ulliel.

The actor, who stars in Marvel’s upcoming “Moon Knight” series, died on Wednesday following a skiing accident. He was 37.

Gaspard began acting while still at school. At the age of 12 he appeared in French TV movie “Une Femme En Blanc” (“A Woman in White”) in an uncredited role. In 2007 he took on his first major English-speaking role in “Hannibal Rising,” playing Hannibal, and in 2014 played fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent in the critically acclaimed film “Saint Laurent.”

He will make one of his final on-screen appearances in Marvel’s upcoming Disney Plus series “Moon Knight,” in which Ulliel played Midnight Man opposite Oscar Isaac.

A spokesperson for Disney told Variety: “We are deeply saddened to learn of the tragic passing of our friend and colleague Gaspard Ulliel. Our thoughts are with his family and friends during this time.

Exclusive: In some powerhouse two-hander casting, we can reveal that Oscar nominees Jake Gyllenhaal (Brokeback Mountain) and Vanessa Kirby (Pieces Of A Woman) have been set to lead survival thriller Suddenly, which quickly becomes one of the must-have packages at the Cannes virtual market. The movie will be the sophomore directorial outing for acclaimed screenwriter Thomas Bidegain, known for scripting films such as A Prophet, Rust And Bone and Dheepan, which won the Palme d’Or. Bidegain is also scripting the English-language project.

The feature is based on Isabelle Autissier’s French-language novel Soudain Seuls, which follows a couple who become stranded on an island in the South Atlantic and must fight for survival when their dream journey becomes a nightmare. The novel shines a light on the dynamics of their relationship and also holds a mirror up to modern society.

Studiocanal is launching world sales this week and is...

In 2006, the French feature film adaptation of Harlan Coben’s “Tell No One” set a precedent that the author’s work could not only be adapted to the screen, winning a slew of awards including four Cesars, but that it could do so outside of the stories’ native U.S.

In 2018, with a host of popular series and film versions of his stories having been produced across the U.K. and Europe, Netflix’s own adaptation of “Safe” prompted the company to lock down the creator to a five-year deal in which 14 of his novels are to be developed into original Netflix series or films. The first was another U.K. adaptation, this time of his novel “The Stranger” with Poland’s “The Woods” coming shortly after. Most recently, Coben teamed with Spanish thriller maestro Oriol Paulo on “The Innocent” (“El inocente”), which will premiere globally on April 30. Up next...

Federation Entertainment is developing “Carlos Ghosn, The Fugitive,” a thriller mini-series starring Francois Cluzet as Ghosn, once one of the most powerful figures in the global car industry who is now an international fugitive.

“Carlos Ghosn, The Fugitive” will be directed by Frederic Jardin, whose credits include the hit crime series “Spiral” and “Braquo,” as well as the thriller “Nuit Blanche.”

The six-part series was created by Stéphane Osmont, whose screenwriting credits include Costa-Gavras’ “Le Capital” and Dan France’s “La vie devant elles.” The script of the series is loosely based on Régis Arnaud and Yann Rousseau’s book “Le Fugitif,” published by Stock in 2020.

Fanny Riedberger and Pascal Breton at Federation Entertainment are producing the event mini-series, which will chart the rise and fall of Ghosn, the former highly respected chief executive of Nissan who fled Japan to Lebanon in Dec. 2019 after facing a trial over allegations of financial misconduct.

Amazon Studios has ordered a YA pilot based on the Harlan Coben novel “Shelter,” Variety has learned exclusively.

Shelter” is the first novel in Coben’s Mickey Bolitar book series. MGM has acquired the rights to all the other books in the Mickey Bolitar series as well. According to an individual with knowledge of the project, should “Shelter” get ordered to series, it could go either to Amazon Prime Video or to IMDb TV. The pilot will begin filming this summer.

In “Shelter,” Bolitar witnesses his father’s death and sends his mom to rehab. He is forced to live with his estranged aunt and switch high schools. Fortunately, he’s met a great girl, Ashley, and it seems like things might finally be improving. But then Ashley vanishes. Mickey follows Ashley’s trail into a seedy underworld that reveals that Ashley isn’t who she claimed to be. And neither was Mickey’s father.

Exclusive: Osy Ikhile (The Kill Team) and Caoilinn Springall (The Midnight Sky) are set as series regulars opposite Richard Madden and Priyanka Chopra Jonas in Citadel, Agbo’s upcoming global thriller multi-series for Amazon Studios. Additionally, Stanley Tucci, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Susan Lynch, Sara Martins, Leo Woodall, Gráinne Good and Leo Ashizawa will recur in the series, a co-production with Midnight Radio.

The epic Citadel is described as action-packed spy series with a compelling emotional center.

Josh Appelbaum, André Nemec, Jeff Pinkner, and Scott Rosenberg of Midnight Radio serve as writers and executive producers. Patrick Moran, Mike Larocca, and Joe and Anthony Russo serve as executive producers. The Italian series will be co-produced with Amazon Studios and Cattleya (Gomorrah), part of ITV Studios, and the Indian series will be developed by Raj Nidimoru and Krishna D.K. (The Family Man) and produced with Amazon Studios.

Ikhile’s recent credits include Donmar Warehouse’s Olivier-nominated production of Sweat,...

UTA has signed acclaimed bestselling author, creator, and producer Harlan Coben.

Coben has penned over thirty novels, including No.1 New York Times bestsellers The Boy From The Woods, Fool Me Once, Tell No One and the renowned Myron Bolitar series. He has over 80 million books in print worldwide, which have been published in more than 40 languages globally. Harlan’s next novel Win will be released by Grand Central Publishing on March 17.

On the television side, he currently has several projects in development at Netflix, Apple, Amazon, IMDb and MGM International. Stay Close is the latest Netflix project for Coben, as part of his current five-year deal with the streamer. The other Netflix dramas based on his novels includde The Innocent (Netflix Spain) and Gone For Good (Netflix France) have also recently finished filming. Previously, he was creator and executive producer of several Netflix series including The Stranger, Safe, The Five and The Woods.

Harlan Coben has signed on for representation with UTA.

He will continue to be represented by literary agent Lisa Erbach Vance of The Aaron Priest Literary Agency and attorney Michael Gendler of Gendler & Kelly.

Coben has penned over thirty novels, includingNew York Times bestsellers “The Boy From The Woods,” “Run Away,” “Fool Me Once,” “Tell No One,” and the Myron Bolitar series. He has over 80 million books in print worldwide, which have been published in more than 40 languages globally. Harlan’s next novel, “Win,” will be released by Grand Central Publishing on March 17.

He currently has multiple television projects in the works at Apple, Netflix, Amazon, IMDb, and MGM International. The series “Stay Close” is his latest Netflix project under his five-year deal with the streamer. The cast will include Cush Jumbo, James Nesbitt, Richard Armitage, Sarah Parish, and Eddie Izzard. Netflix Spain is also adapting his books “The Innocent...

Hey, "Magnum P.I." fans. We are back with another brand new spoiler session for you wonderful people. Now that episode 5 has officially wrapped up, it's time to set our sights on the next, new episode 6 of Magnum Pi's current season 3, which is due out next Friday night, January 22, 2021. So, that's exactly what we're going to do. The lovely folks over at CBS served up a new, official press release for episode 6. It contains a couple of new episode 6 teaser descriptions. So, that is what we're going to tell you about in this spoiler session. Let's get started. First thing's first. Episode 6 does have an official title. The producers named it, "Tell No One."...

As foreign Oscar submissions start to roll out, France is sending Filippo Meneghetti’s feature debut “Two of Us” to the 93rd Academy Awards. This tale of a decades-long, secret lesbian romance will be distributed stateside on February 5 by Magnolia Pictures, which scooped it out of the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival. Check out the exclusive to IndieWire trailer below.

Here’s the official synopsis: “Two retired women, Nina (Barbara Sukowa) and Madeleine (Martine Chevallier), have been secretly in love for decades. Everybody, including Madeleine’s family, thinks they are simply neighbors sharing the top floor of their building. They come and go between their two apartments, enjoying the affection and pleasures of daily life together, until an unforeseen event turns their relationship upside down and leads Madeleine’s daughter to gradually unravel the truth about them.”

This story of a pair of lovers in their 70s was inspired by Meneghetti...

Kristin Scott Thomas made her Hollywood debut in the 1986 Prince vehicle “Under the Cherry Moon.” It was not an acclaimed breakthrough. “It was what people like to call ‘a turkey,’” Thomas says in a crisp British accent that actually makes the word “turkey” sound elegant and prestigious. The reviews were vicious. “After being told you’re a better cure for insomnia than a glass of warmed milk, I’m amazed I ever got back in front of the camera,” Thomas says with a laugh.

Thomas stresses that the filming experience was wonderful. “To this day, I feel very, very lucky and privileged to have been involved,” she notes. “But it was all a difficult thing to take at the tender age of 24.” For her work, she got two Golden Raspberry Award nominations, for worst supporting actress and worst new star. She returned to France, where she has lived since the age of 19, and,...

The director also stars in the film, alongside Virginie Efira, Laetitia Casta, Mathieu Kassovitz, Nathalie Baye, Patrick Chesnais and Gilles Cohen. A Trésor Films production sold by Pathé. Final stretch for the shoot of Lui by Guillaume Canet, his 7th feature film as a director after Anything You Say, Tell No One, Little White Lies, Blood Ties (out of competition in Cannes in 2013), Rock’n Roll and Little White Lies 2.The cast includes the director himself (seen recently in La Belle Époque and In the Name of the Land), Belgian actress Virginie Efira (currently in French cinemas in Night Shift,...

Exclusive: After and After We Collided seller and exec-producer Voltage Pictures is launching world sales (excluding Italy) on Eagle Pictures’ YA romantic dramedy Out Of My League (Sul Piu Bello), the company’s first Italian-language pic.

Director Alice Filippi’s (’78: The Getaway) movie, which will be released by Eagle in Italy on October 21, charts the story of a teenage orphan suffering from a major illness who refuses to let her tough hand get the better of her. Armed with a sharp wit and a heap of positivity she goes after the most handsome boy in the neighbourhood.

We can also reveal that the film will get its world premiere at the Rome Film Festival in the Alice In The City section.

Starring are rising Italian actor Giuseppe Maggio (Baby), newcomer Ludovica Francesconi and Eleonora Gaggero (Unique Brothers). Above is the film’s subtitled trailer.

Roberto Proia (Tell No One...

Juliette Binoche is wondrous as a woman with a fantasy identity in an exploration of the perils and pleasures of life online

There’s something peculiarly timely about this deliciously twisty, romantic thriller, with its themes of virtual isolation and physical separation. Freely adapted from a novel by Camille Laurens, Who You Think I Am boasts a kaleidoscopic performance by Juliette Binoche as a fiftysomething woman who has been rendered invisible by society (at one point a character literally looks at her without seeing her) but finds a new face for herself online. Pitched somewhere between the icy satire of late-period Claude Chabrol and the guilty thrills of Guillaume Canet’s Tell No One, Safy Nebbou’s mysterious tale of love and obsession will strike a chord with anyone who has worried about the random interactions of the internet while remaining inexorably drawn to the seductive glow of their iPhone.

Bad Moves will be releasing Untenable, their second full-length album, later this spring. The D.C. power-pop-punk quartet’s new record comes two years after their critically acclaimed debut Tell No One, which earned the band opening slots for everyone from the Hold Steady to the Beths, as well as a slot on Rob Sheffield’s 25 Best Songs of 2018.

Bad Moves — comprising Emma Cleveland, David Combs, Katie Park and Daoud Tyler-Ameen —recorded their second record at Philadelphia’s Headroom studios with Hop Along’s Joe Reinhart.

The band has shared its lead single,...

Harlan Coben has been a bestselling mystery author for decades, but until a few years ago the only adaptation of his books was the acclaimed 2006 French feature film “Tell No One.” Fast-forward 14 years, and the New Jersey-based author has a 14-book deal with Netflix that’s already resulted in British-set series “The Five,” “Safe” and now “The Stranger” in partnership with Nicola Shindler’s Red Production Company. As writer and producer, he’s coming up with both original ideas and adapting his prolific output of novels, as well as getting involved in everything from casting to hairdos.

“The Stranger,” the story of a suburban dad who gets drawn into a dark conspiracy when his wife goes missing, is currently one of Netflix’s buzziest shows. Stars include Richard Armitage of “Hannibal,” “The Crying Game” star Stephen Rea, “Absolutely Fabulous” actress Jennifer Saunders and “Happy Valley” star Siobhan Finneran.

Coben is...

To say that ‘Nous finirons ensemble’ suffers from many of the same problems as its predecessor should come as no surprise. “Les petits mouchoirs” (released as “Little White Lies” in English-speaking territories) was the second most popular film in France in 2010, behind “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,” so one cannot fault writer-director Guillaume Canet for wanting to give Gallic audiences more of what they loved the first time around. However, we can fault Canet for the result, a jabbering and ingratiating followup filled with narrative dead ends, unexplored themes and late-inning plot contrivances.

None of these issues seem to bother local audiences, who have made “Nous finirons ensemble” (which translates to “We will end up together”) a hit, albeit a smaller one than its predecessor. Fortunately, considering the first film’s mediocre performance in North America — where it earned just $206,088 of its more than $48 million haul — foreknowledge of “Les petits mouchoirs” is not mandatory,...

Director Christian Carion and his frequent star Guillaume Canet show off their very particular sets of skills in “My Son” (“Mon garçon”), a polished, if mechanical, vigilante thriller that attempts to combine the psychological deep dive of Denis Villeneuve’s “Prisoners” with the adrenaline shot of Pierre Morel’s “Taken.” Falling well short of those superior films, this limited-release offering — which did modest business when it opened in France back in 2017 — squanders a compelling performance by top-billed Canet, playing an absentee father searching for his kidnapped son in the mountains of southeast France. Themes of parental guilt and the effects of broken families on children are hinted at early but discarded in favor of genre pleasures, which Carion provides to increasingly formulaic effect.

“My Son” is Carion’s fifth feature and his first in a contemporary setting since his 2001 César-nominated debut, “The Girl from Paris.” Since then, he’s tackled World War I,...

In the latest episode of CinemAddicts we review Non-Fiction, a witty and well acted tale headlined by Juliette Binoche (Let The Sunshine In) and Guillaume Canet (Tell No One).

Set in the Paris, the narrative centers on Alain (Canet), a publisher who engages in an affair with his co-worker Laure (Christa Théret). His wife Selena suspects [...]

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Olivier Assayas and Juliette Binoche deliver a very contemporary comedy about modern life and twitter. The characters all freely unload their opinions of our technical computer-driven age, life on the internet and how twitter, facebook, and texting obsess and drive our daily lives. Dramatically unrelenting observations of these (very interesting!) themes.

To say the least it is thought provoking and, as done here, very funny.

Endlessly talky, the film works for me as the characters’ — modern Parisians all — speculate on how the new and endlessly changing internet age has affected their lives. Thought provoking because the talk is brainy and challenging.

Juliette Binoche and Guillaume Canet reunite with seasoned director Olivier Assayas for this dialogue heavy, slyly seductive tale. And the internet.

Set in the world of the latter day bohemian intelligentsia of the Parisian publishing world, Non-Fiction traces the romantic and emotional fallout that results when a controversial writer...

Three series from strong creative voices – Shane Meadows’ “The Virtues,” Nir Bergman’s “Just for Today” and the Fabrice Gobert-directed, and Netflix-backed, “Mytho” – shared major honors at an enlarged, hectic 10th Series Mania, now firmly established in festival, industry and discussion forum terms as one of the major TV events in Europe.

A story of redemption, unexpected love and imperfect fatherhood – a growing trend among drama series, Eurodata TV’s Avril Blondelot said at Series Mania – “The Virtues” won the Series Mania Grand Prix and best actor for Stephen Graham, a standout in Meadows’ “This is England,” who puts in profoundly affecting performance, by common consensus, as Joseph, a man who travels to Ireland to confront the demons left by a childhood in its care-system.

“From the first frame, ‘The Virtues’ moves you with its deep humanity. Masterfully directed, written and acted, the show is a prime example...