EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a hot one for action aficionados. Gerard Butler (Greenland) is eyeing the starring role in heist thriller movie Just Watch Me, which John Wick creator and Nobody scribe Derek Kolstand is set to script from the novel by Jeff Lindsay (Dexter).
‘The Housemaid’ Filmmaker Derek Nguyen Signs With Cinetic Media For Management
19.01.2022 - 04:16 / deadline.com
EXCLUSIVE: Derek Nguyen, the award-winning writer, director and producer behind horror-romance The Housemaid (Cô Hầu Gái), has signed with Cinetic Media for management.
The Vietnamese American multihyphenate’s first feature follows an orphaned Vietnamese girl who is hired to be a housemaid at a haunted rubber plantation in French Indochina during the 1950s. IFC Films released it in theaters in 2016.
Nguyen also is producing an American adaptation of The Housemaid called Grave Hill from director Deon Taylor, which is slated for production this year, having penned the script with Oscar winner Geoffrey Fletcher. He exec produced the Tribeca-premiering thriller Catch the Fair One with Darren Aronofsky and has served as an associate producer on titles including The Long Dumb Road, The Tale, Buster’s Mal Heart, Lovesong and Addicted to Fresno. He is also a partner at the production company The Population with Mynette Louie.
Nguyen was a fellow at the Sundance Institute’s Screenwriters Lab, there workshopping the screenplay adaptation of his play, Monster. He was also a Screenwriting Fellow at the New York Foundation for the Arts. His short, The Potential Wives of Norman Mao, narrated by George Takei, screened at LA Shorts Fest and the Asian American International Film Festival, among other festivals.
Nguyen recently won a grant from Starfish—a hybrid social enterprise investing in ideas from BIPOC creators—to develop Burning Bayou, a crime mystery series to be released on the upcoming Lunar New Year in podcast form.
The series, which Nguyen is also developing for television, is inspired by true events. It picks up after two Vietnamese American teen boys are murdered outside New Orleans in the 1980s, watching as two FBI agents hunt
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Drake Just Unfollowed Rihanna a Day After She Announced Her Pregnancy With ASAP Rocky
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31.01.2022 / 23:09
‘Underworld’ Co-Creator Kevin Grevioux Partners With ‘Free Dead Or Alive’ Filmmaker Erik Bernard To Launch Gemini Filmworks
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31.01.2022 / 22:20
‘Served Like A Girl’ Filmmaker Lysa Heslov Inks With Gersh
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31.01.2022 / 00:21
Drake Gets Hilarious French Lesson From 4-year-old Son Adonis
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29.01.2022 / 08:07
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Drake Julia Fox Secretly Hooked Up Before She Dated Kanye—Here’s How Ye Reacted
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Riverdale's Madelaine Petsch & Emily in Paris' Camille Razat Meet Up at Fendi Show
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27.01.2022 / 19:15
Gold House Names Future Gold Fellowship Filmmaker Recipients
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Pawo Choyning Dorji, Director of ‘Lunana: A Yak in The Classroom,’ on Breaking Boundaries for Bhutan Through The Oscars
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Lady Gaga Fans Out to Jake Gyllenhaal About Her ‘Donnie Darko’ Obsession: ‘It’s Religion’
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