Netflix used the second night of its See What’s Next: Asia content gathering in Singapore to unveil eight new original films for its India market, including a regional release for Bleecker Street and ShivHans Pictures’ long-gestating Hotel Mumbai, which the streaming giant has rights to in the South and Southeast Asian territories.
The film, directed by Anthony Maras and starring Dev Patel, Armie Hammer, Nazanin Boniadi, Anupam Kher and Jason Isaacs, had been in limbo as part of The Weinstein Company bankruptcy. A 2019 U.S. release date is likely for the movie, which depicts the events of the 2008 terrorist attacks on the iconic Taj Mahal Palace Hotel.
Other films in the works include Firebrand, a Marathi Film directed by Aurna Raje and produced by Priyanka Chopra that follows a successful lawyer (Usha Jadhav), a sexual assault victim, as she tackles difficult family cases while also dealing with intimacy issues in her own marriage.
The film, directed by Anthony Maras and starring Dev Patel, Armie Hammer, Nazanin Boniadi, Anupam Kher and Jason Isaacs, had been in limbo as part of The Weinstein Company bankruptcy. A 2019 U.S. release date is likely for the movie, which depicts the events of the 2008 terrorist attacks on the iconic Taj Mahal Palace Hotel.
Other films in the works include Firebrand, a Marathi Film directed by Aurna Raje and produced by Priyanka Chopra that follows a successful lawyer (Usha Jadhav), a sexual assault victim, as she tackles difficult family cases while also dealing with intimacy issues in her own marriage.
- 11/9/2018
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Today, the first day of the European Film Market and the Berlin Film Festival itself has buzz around The International, the opening night film by favorite son Tom Tykwer. Festival head Dieter Kosslick says the fictional portrait of the financial world it portrays is mild compared to what's going on today. At the opening press conference yesterday for EFM, Kosslick also mentioned the Wall Street type scandal of China in 1899 depicted in Taiwan's Empire of Silver (Bai Yin Di Guo) by Christina Yao is a mirror of today's events. Kosslick, a vegetarian also touts Food, Inc. as a "must-see" of the festival. The halls of the Martin Gropius Bau are sparsely populated but compared to IFTA's venue, the Maritim Hotel, quite a schlep from the rest of the market, MGB is positively humming. This is in line with the turn down this year from Cannes, AFM and Toronto, and it's reported that attendance at NATPE was also very thin. Tom Ortenberg, recently of LionsGate, is here with his new company, The Weinstein Company and Chris Paton, formerly vice chairman of DDA PR, is now senior VP acquisitions and development with Fortissimo. Newly launched IMDb.de has a new way to highlight the Berlinale as does IMDb.com itself with a special mini site for the Berlinale featuring a new blog by Christian Gaines of Withoutabox. Sundance's opening night film Max and Mary has been picked up by Gaumont for France, Benelux and Switzerland and will show in the Generation 14plus sidebar. Wild Bunch has announced a new sales arm for 3D films called, what else, Wild Bunch 3D. Reliance Big Pictures who has a major stake in Dreamworks is in Berlin with a new international sales division headed by Jawahar Sharma with backup from former Miramax senior VP Colleen Seldin as a consultant. The slate is of Indian films which were previously self distributed in U.S., U.K. and the U.A.E. The four largest Egyptian production companies are uniting under one banner for international sales with backing of the Egyptian ministry of trade and industry (Expolink). Headed by Bassma Kandil, they are also looking for international coproductions.
- 2/5/2009
- Sydney's Buzz
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