EXCLUSIVE: Aardman, the iconic UK animation studio behind Wallace & Gromit and Chicken Run, has rejigged its top team and brought in a BBC Studios executive to oversee an IP push.
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EXCLUSIVE: Game Of Thrones star Lena Headey is set to reprise her role as an avenging mother in action-thriller Ballistic.
The 300 star will play alongside Amybeth McNulty (Stranger Things) in the project about a mother (Headey) who works for an ammunition manufacturing company but is devastated when her son serving in Afghanistan is killed. Despair gives way to rage and a desire for revenge when she discovers it was a bullet from her factory that was responsible for her son’s death.
Red Sea Media is handling worldwide sales on the movie, which is written and directed by Chad Faust (Girl). Producers are Thomas Michael of Fella Films (Backcountry) and executive producers are David Tish and Lee Nelson of Envision Media Arts (The Ice Road), and Roman Kopelevich and Crystal Hill of Red Sea Media.
The film is currently in pre-production, with Red Sea Media launching ahead of the upcoming European Film Market. Pic is financed and executive-produced by BondIt Media Capital; Luke Taylor negotiated the structure with the filmmakers and RSM.
The sales deal was negotiated by Roman Kopelevich on behalf of Red Sea Media and Danny Webber of Hall Webber on behalf of the filmmakers.
Headey will next be seen in Netflix series The Abandons. Faust wrote and directed the mystery thriller Girl starring Bella Thorne and Mickey Rourke. He also wrote the upcoming Dangerous Odds, directed by Marc Forster. Anne With An E actress McNulty recently starred in movie Maternal.
“This is a compelling script about the impact on everyday families of our military industrial complex and Americas’ near constant state of war, from Chad Faust and with Lena Headey as our lead. The film is a perfect fit for international audiences around the globe,” said Red
EXCLUSIVE: Aardman, the iconic UK animation studio behind Wallace & Gromit and Chicken Run, has rejigged its top team and brought in a BBC Studios executive to oversee an IP push.
Jericho Ridge which is coming to screens a little bit later this year from The Movie Partnership in the UK. Debut feature director Will Gilbey is behind the camera for this one, an action thriller set for a cinema release in April.is lead by the BAFTA nomintated Nikki Amuka-Bird (Knock At The Cabin) and also stars EastEnders’ Zack Morris and Chris Reilly (Slow Horses).
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the “Reign with Josh Smith” podcast Tuesday.The “Dune: Part Two” star, 40, said the person in question was an “absolute idiot of a co-star” who was “number one on the call sheet”“I did a film with an absolute idiot of a co-star and it doesn’t matter who it was. I’m going to try and not give this away,” she recalled.Ferguson clarified that it was not her “The Greatest Showman” or “Mission: Impossible” co-stars Hugh Jackman or Tom Cruise.“I remember there was a moment when this human being was being so insecure and angry because this person couldn’t get the scenes out,” she shared. “And I think I was so vulnerable and uncomfortable that I got screamed at.”“But because this person was number one on a call sheet, there was no safety net for me.
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