Vendôme Pictures, the production house behind Sian Heder’s Oscar-winning film “Coda,” is set to produce “Ibelin,” a feature film which will be directed by Morten Tyldum (“The Imitation Game”).
Penned by Kyle Killen (“Halo”), the film will be inspired by the real-life story of Mats Steen, a disabled boy from Norway who went by ‘Ibelin’ in the gaming world.
Vendôme Pictures’ Philippe Rousselet and Fabrice Gianfermi are producing alongside Tyldum and Guri Neby (“The Monkey and the Mouth”) for Neby-Tyldum As. Principal photography will take place in the U.S., suggesting that the action will take place in the U.S. rather than Norway. Production dates yet to be set.
Like “Coda,” “Ibelin” will likely be a heart-wrenching drama. Steen died at the age of 25 from Duchenne muscular dystrophy. His parents, Robert and Trude, mourned what they thought had been a lonely and isolated life for their disabled son.
Penned by Kyle Killen (“Halo”), the film will be inspired by the real-life story of Mats Steen, a disabled boy from Norway who went by ‘Ibelin’ in the gaming world.
Vendôme Pictures’ Philippe Rousselet and Fabrice Gianfermi are producing alongside Tyldum and Guri Neby (“The Monkey and the Mouth”) for Neby-Tyldum As. Principal photography will take place in the U.S., suggesting that the action will take place in the U.S. rather than Norway. Production dates yet to be set.
Like “Coda,” “Ibelin” will likely be a heart-wrenching drama. Steen died at the age of 25 from Duchenne muscular dystrophy. His parents, Robert and Trude, mourned what they thought had been a lonely and isolated life for their disabled son.
- 11/14/2022
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Los Angeles and Paris-based Vendôme Pictures, producer of the 2022 Academy Award Best Picture Coda, has announced new drama feature Ibelin, based on the real-life story of the disabled, British gamer Mats Steen, who went by the name of ‘Ibelin’ in the gaming world.
Morten Tyldum, who was Oscar-nominated in the best director category for The Imitation Game in 2015, is set to direct and Kyle Killen (Halo) will write the script.
Vendôme Pictures’ Philippe Rousselet and Fabrice Gianfermi are producing alongside Tyldum and producer Guri Neby, whose credits include The Monkey And The Mouth and the series Delete Me, for Neby-Tyldum As.
Principal photography will take place in the U.S. with production dates yet to be set.
When Steen died at the age of 25 from Duchenne muscular dystrophy, his parents Robert and Trude mourned what they thought had been a lonely and isolated life for their disabled son, who had...
Morten Tyldum, who was Oscar-nominated in the best director category for The Imitation Game in 2015, is set to direct and Kyle Killen (Halo) will write the script.
Vendôme Pictures’ Philippe Rousselet and Fabrice Gianfermi are producing alongside Tyldum and producer Guri Neby, whose credits include The Monkey And The Mouth and the series Delete Me, for Neby-Tyldum As.
Principal photography will take place in the U.S. with production dates yet to be set.
When Steen died at the age of 25 from Duchenne muscular dystrophy, his parents Robert and Trude mourned what they thought had been a lonely and isolated life for their disabled son, who had...
- 11/14/2022
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Story tells of beloved ‘World Of Warcraft’ community member Mats Steen.
Vendôme Pictures, producer of best picture Oscar winner Coda, has hired Morten Tyldum to direct Ibelin based on the inspirational life of online gamer Mats Steen.
Kyle Killen, whose credits include Halo, will write the screenplay about Steen, who died aged 25 from Duchenne muscular dystrophy. What his parents did not know and discovered on the day of his funeral was the youngster’s popularity, as people from all over Europe turned up to pay their respects to a beloved member of the World Of Warcraft community, where he went by the name Ibelin.
Vendôme Pictures, producer of best picture Oscar winner Coda, has hired Morten Tyldum to direct Ibelin based on the inspirational life of online gamer Mats Steen.
Kyle Killen, whose credits include Halo, will write the screenplay about Steen, who died aged 25 from Duchenne muscular dystrophy. What his parents did not know and discovered on the day of his funeral was the youngster’s popularity, as people from all over Europe turned up to pay their respects to a beloved member of the World Of Warcraft community, where he went by the name Ibelin.
- 11/14/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Story tells of beloved ‘World Of Warcraft’ community member Mats Steen.
Vendôme Pictures, producer of best picture Oscar winner Coda, has hired Morten Tyldum to direct Ibelin based on the inspirational life of online gamer Mats Steen.
Kyle Killen (Halo) will write the screenplay about Steen, who died aged 25 from Duchenne muscular dystrophy. What his parents did not know and discovered on the day of his funeral was the youngster’s popularity, as people from all over Europe turned up to pay their respects to a beloved member of the World Of Warcraft community, where he went by the name Ibelin.
Vendôme Pictures, producer of best picture Oscar winner Coda, has hired Morten Tyldum to direct Ibelin based on the inspirational life of online gamer Mats Steen.
Kyle Killen (Halo) will write the screenplay about Steen, who died aged 25 from Duchenne muscular dystrophy. What his parents did not know and discovered on the day of his funeral was the youngster’s popularity, as people from all over Europe turned up to pay their respects to a beloved member of the World Of Warcraft community, where he went by the name Ibelin.
- 11/14/2022
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
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Morten Tyldum, the Norwegian director of The Imitation Game, Headhunters and Passengers, has signed on to direct Ibelin, based on the true-story of Norwegian gamer Mats Steen.
Steen, who suffered from Duchenne muscular dystrophy, died in 2014 at the age of 25. On the day of his funeral, held in a chapel in Oslo, people from all over Europe showed up to pay tribute to Mats, who they knew by his World of Warcraft handle Ibelin, giving heartfelt speeches about how he had enriched and changed their lives. On the surface, Mats Steen lived an isolated and lonely life alone with his parents. Online, he helped create and support a global community that transcended age, geography and time.
“Ever since hearing about Mats and meeting his family, this is a story I felt needed to be shared with the world,” Tyldum said in a statement.
Morten Tyldum, the Norwegian director of The Imitation Game, Headhunters and Passengers, has signed on to direct Ibelin, based on the true-story of Norwegian gamer Mats Steen.
Steen, who suffered from Duchenne muscular dystrophy, died in 2014 at the age of 25. On the day of his funeral, held in a chapel in Oslo, people from all over Europe showed up to pay tribute to Mats, who they knew by his World of Warcraft handle Ibelin, giving heartfelt speeches about how he had enriched and changed their lives. On the surface, Mats Steen lived an isolated and lonely life alone with his parents. Online, he helped create and support a global community that transcended age, geography and time.
“Ever since hearing about Mats and meeting his family, this is a story I felt needed to be shared with the world,” Tyldum said in a statement.
- 11/14/2022
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: Filmmaker Nick Cassavetes and Sunset Blvd Films are developing a movie about iconic 70s rock group The Allman Brothers Band.
Cassavetes, known for box office successes John Q, The Notebook and The Other Woman, will write and direct the film based on Scott Freeman’s book. The Untitled Allman Brothers biopic will revisit the tale of Gregg and Duane Allman, two brothers raised by a single mother, whose shared love for blues and R&b music evolved into a career marked by platinum-selling records, sold-out stadium concerts, a marriage to Hollywood royalty (Cher) and a relationship with president Jimmy Carter. The feature will tell of the brothers’ difficult childhood, their impressive self-education in the world of Southern blues and R&b, their unsuccessful early musical incarnations and their triumph as they rose to great wealth and success. It will explore Gregg’s marriage to Cher and his commitment to...
Cassavetes, known for box office successes John Q, The Notebook and The Other Woman, will write and direct the film based on Scott Freeman’s book. The Untitled Allman Brothers biopic will revisit the tale of Gregg and Duane Allman, two brothers raised by a single mother, whose shared love for blues and R&b music evolved into a career marked by platinum-selling records, sold-out stadium concerts, a marriage to Hollywood royalty (Cher) and a relationship with president Jimmy Carter. The feature will tell of the brothers’ difficult childhood, their impressive self-education in the world of Southern blues and R&b, their unsuccessful early musical incarnations and their triumph as they rose to great wealth and success. It will explore Gregg’s marriage to Cher and his commitment to...
- 11/17/2021
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Here’s a hot one. Oscar-winner Jamie Foxx (Ray), Emmy-nominee Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Game Of Thrones), Golden Globe-nominee January Jones (Mad Men), Maika Monroe (It Follows) and Andrew Dice Clay (Entourage) are set to star in action-thriller God Is A Bullet, we can reveal.
Written and to be directed by Nick Cassavetes (The Notebook), based on the novel of the same name by Boston Teran, the film will follow vice detective Bob Hightower (Coster-Waldau) who finds his ex-wife murdered and daughter kidnapped by a satanic cult. Frustrated by the botched official investigations, he quits the force, gets tattoos, and infiltrates the cult to hunt down the cult leader with the help of the cult’s only female victim escapee, Case Hardin (Monroe). We understand Foxx will play the pivotal supporting role of ‘The Ferryman’.
The film will be produced by Michael Mendelsohn from Patriot Pictures and Don Allen. Kim H. Winther...
Written and to be directed by Nick Cassavetes (The Notebook), based on the novel of the same name by Boston Teran, the film will follow vice detective Bob Hightower (Coster-Waldau) who finds his ex-wife murdered and daughter kidnapped by a satanic cult. Frustrated by the botched official investigations, he quits the force, gets tattoos, and infiltrates the cult to hunt down the cult leader with the help of the cult’s only female victim escapee, Case Hardin (Monroe). We understand Foxx will play the pivotal supporting role of ‘The Ferryman’.
The film will be produced by Michael Mendelsohn from Patriot Pictures and Don Allen. Kim H. Winther...
- 3/18/2021
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Anonymous Content’s Charlie Scully and Tara Timinsky have joined The Gotham Group as Managers, Deadline has learned first hand.
Scully will be a Manger in the Gotham Group’s literary division while Timinsky will be a Manager in the books/packaging division.
A University of Texas grad whose first job in the biz was interning for award-winning filmmaker Terrence Malick, Timinsky began her career as a trainee at Anonymous Content and subsequently worked in Business and Legal Affairs before moving over to help open up the company’s Media Rights Department, where she was promoted to Manager, working with a range of critically acclaimed and bestselling authors including Cecelia Ahern, Francisco Cantú, Ishmael Beah, Sebastian Junger and Nathaniel Rich, as well as publications including The New York Times. Coming over to Gotham with her is internationally bestselling author Lori Nelson Spielman.
Scully recently was at Anonymous Content for...
Scully will be a Manger in the Gotham Group’s literary division while Timinsky will be a Manager in the books/packaging division.
A University of Texas grad whose first job in the biz was interning for award-winning filmmaker Terrence Malick, Timinsky began her career as a trainee at Anonymous Content and subsequently worked in Business and Legal Affairs before moving over to help open up the company’s Media Rights Department, where she was promoted to Manager, working with a range of critically acclaimed and bestselling authors including Cecelia Ahern, Francisco Cantú, Ishmael Beah, Sebastian Junger and Nathaniel Rich, as well as publications including The New York Times. Coming over to Gotham with her is internationally bestselling author Lori Nelson Spielman.
Scully recently was at Anonymous Content for...
- 6/18/2020
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: In an intriguing Berlin Efm addition, Oscar-winner Anthony Hopkins has been set to star in Cus And Mike, the story of Mike Tyson’s legendary trainer Cus D’Amato and how he moulded the fighter into becoming the youngest heavyweight title winner ever and one of the most ferocious boxers of his generation.
The Patriot Pictures film, which is set to be a character study as well as a sports-biopic, will be directed and written by The Notebook and John Q filmmaker Nick Cassavetes, based on the original screenplay by Desmond Nakano, and the book Mike Tyson: Money, Myth, and Betrayal by Montieth Illingworth.
Xyz Films and Patriot are handling world sales at the Efm in Berlin and are aiming to shoot in spring/summer 2020.
The film will chart how the tough but brilliant D’Amato became a father-figure to the wayward adolescent Tyson who would go on to become...
The Patriot Pictures film, which is set to be a character study as well as a sports-biopic, will be directed and written by The Notebook and John Q filmmaker Nick Cassavetes, based on the original screenplay by Desmond Nakano, and the book Mike Tyson: Money, Myth, and Betrayal by Montieth Illingworth.
Xyz Films and Patriot are handling world sales at the Efm in Berlin and are aiming to shoot in spring/summer 2020.
The film will chart how the tough but brilliant D’Amato became a father-figure to the wayward adolescent Tyson who would go on to become...
- 2/20/2020
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
There is either a couple of football fans or Jerry Maguire/Moneyball with this year’s most liked unproduced screenplay. Close to 300 hundred film executives provided with the Black List creators a top ten of their favorite screenplays of the year and the consensus first overall pick (with 65 votes) comes from the recently featured in Variety (10 Screenwriters to Watch 2012) tandem of Rajiv Joseph & Scott Rothman and their drama which has nothing to do with enlisting in the armed forces. Draft Day – about the day in the life of a fictitious Buffalo Bills Gm appears to currently be in turnaround — which only means I expect to see this greenlight perhaps a little later than sooner – worth noting: top spot almost guarantees that the film will indeed go into production (2006, 2010 and 2011 are the exceptions.) Among the more alluring logline subjects we find on the list, I’d be keen on reading the...
- 12/18/2012
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
After the success of Pinkberry: The Movie, the spoof film that was generated internally by Wme staff for a quarterly meeting, the agency lit department has unveiled a sequel: Staff Meeting: The Movie. The new spoof made its debut at the all company meeting last Friday, and somebody put it on YouTube, which is where I found it. While Pinkberry mainly took swipes at actual Wme agents, this film spreads the pain to other agencies as well. Back as the Ari-esque agency head is Miles Fisher, who has a pretty good film career going as a result of the fact everybody in Hollywood saw Pinkberry. The new movie was directed by Dave Green, scripted by Henry Gayden, with Charlize Theron, Shawn Levy and Max Landis joining in the mischief as well as a host of agents including Adam Venit, Phil Raskind, Danny Greenberg and Rick Rosen. I particularly love the...
- 4/2/2012
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
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