‘Kitbag’: Apple To Finance & Produce Ridley Scott’s Napoleon Film Starring Joaquin Phoenix

Annika Pham Icelandic production powerhouse Sagafilm and Germany’s Splendid Film are teaming on the major feature project “Operation Napoleon,” to be lensed mostly in English.Budgeted at around €6 million ($7.2 million), the thriller is based on the eponymous best-selling novel by Iceland’s crime master Arnaldur Indriðason, whose earlier novel “Jar City” was successfully filmed by Baltasar Kormákur.Published locally in 2009 and translated into English in 2011, “Operation Napoleon” was awarded a

Angelique Jackson For more than two decades, Gareth Jones had spent late January and early February in snowy Park City, Utah at the Sundance Film Festival. But on Thursday night, Jones didn’t have to get on a plane to attend the annual film festival.

Ethan Hawke is joining Blumhouse’s upcoming feature The Black Phone, repping the actor’s ninth reteaming with producer Jason Blum.

Scott White has plead not guilty to the murder of American PhD student Scott Johnson in an alleged hate crime 32 years ago. White, who was 18 at the time of the murder, was arrested in May 2020 after a key informant came forward and helped break the cold case, and one of Sydney’s longest unresolved murders. Police allege that the pair met at a hotel in December 1988 before walking through bushland to a local gay beat spot at North Head.

Steven Gerrard confirms he wants to get Scott Wright in this month but knows "it's in Aberdeen's control". And he teased that there could be more announcements in the coming days as the Ibrox club look to get their business done.Attacking midfield Wright has signed a pre-contract deal and will move to Ibrox in the summer.Rangers were hoping to do a deal this month but the Dons have taken the swap deal option off the table.

COVID-19 vaccine, and wore an Avengers-themed mask to mark the occasion.Revealing the news of his jab on Instagram, Jackson said he was about to “bust back out” following his vaccination, and encouraging others to also get vaccinated.“At The Forum getting that 1st jab!!” he captioned his post, taken at the vaccination centre at the Forum music venue in Inglewood, California.Taking a selfie while in his car wearing a face mask themed on the Avengers, Jackson added the hopeful hashtags:

“It’s rare that you find a female character who is so challenging,” Elisabeth Moss says of her role as writer Shirley Jackson in the deeply fictional Shirley. “Challenging as to me as an actor and challenging to the other characters in the film and has so much vulnerability and so many soft spots, but is also so strong, so vocal and sometimes not very nice.

The Beast Must Die, the British drama series starring Jared Harris and Cush Jumbo, is headed to the U.S.

Elaine Low Senior TV WriterAMC Networks has acquired six-part revenge thriller “The Beast Must Die,” produced in partnership with BritBox UK, New Regency Television International and Ridley Scott’s Scott Free.The series, based on the novel by Nicholas Blake, centers on a grieving mother who infiltrates the life of the man she thinks murdered her son.

EXCLUSIVE: R&B recording artist Ledisi (Selma, American Soul) is set to play legendary gospel singer Mahalia Jackson in the biopic, Remember Me: The Mahalia Jackson Story.  Columbus Short (ABC’s Scandal, Stomp the Yard) will take on the role of Martin Luther King Jr., a close friend of Jackson’s. Janet Hubert (The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air) and Wendy Raquel Robinson (The Walking Dead, The Steve Harvey Show) also co-star.

Raised By Wolves will start filming its second season in Cape Town, South Africa, from mid-March, lead actress Amanda Collin has revealed to NME.Ridley Scott (Alien, Blade Runner) executive produced and directed the first two episodes of the futuristic thriller, which debuted to critical acclaim in September. The 10-part first season followed two androids (played by Collin and Abubakar Salim), who crash land on a strange planet after escaping from a dangerous war zone.

A lot of the discussion surrounding Christopher Nolan last year was how he wanted to release “Tenet” in theaters to help provide a spark for the industry to hopefully bring people back to cinemas and help resuscitate an industry that has been hit incredibly hard since the pandemic began.

More than 40 key figures from the film industry have written to UK Chancellor Rishi Sunak calling for more support for UK cinema, which they say is “standing on the edge of an abyss” as a result of the pandemic.

Kitbag, which stars Joaquin Phoenix, is set to be released via Apple TV+.Kitbag, which Scott will direct and produce, will see Phoenix take on the role of French emperor and military leader Napoleon Bonaparte.

Scott Wright to Aberdeen.The Aberdeen boss concedes the 23-year-old could depart this month with the Ibrox side nearing a pre-contract agreement for the winger. Wright has enjoyed a breakthrough season at Pittodrie and is being chased by a host of club in England as well as Steven Gerrard 's side.The Rangers boss admitted earlier on Friday that his side had a number of options and could use a player as a potential makeweight to sweeten any deal to land Wright now.But McInnes was primed and ready

Apple has landed theJoaquin Phoenix and Ridley Scott reteam Kitbag. Phoenix will star as the French military leader and emperor, Napoleon Bonaparte, in the film that will track his origins and, as the logline reads, "swift, ruthless climb to emperor, viewed through the prism of his addictive and often volatile relationship with his wife and one true love, Josephine."David Scarpa penned the screenplay.

Angelique Jackson The American Black Film Festival and IMDb are teaming up for a special celebration of Black film with a new digital series, titled “Hollywood Homecoming.”Jeff Friday Media is producing the series, which celebrates “iconic films that showcase Black humanity and provide balanced portrayals of the African American experience,” assembling the film’s director and cast to discuss the project.

Also Read: 'Alien' TV Series From Noah Hawley in the Works at FX“Napoleon is a man I’ve always been fascinated by. He came out of nowhere to rule everything — but all the while he was waging a romantic war with his adulterous wife Josephine.

Ridley Scott’s Napoleon Bonaparte biopic with Joaquin Phoenix has been given the green light by Apple Studios.