‘Elvis’ star, Austin Butler, has landed the role of a crime boss in the adaptation of Don Winslow’s novel, ‘City on Fire.’
‘City on Fire’ is the first title in a novel trilogy, it focuses on two criminal empires — one Irish, the other Italian — that control all of New England. A modern-day Helen of Troy event tears them apart and starts a brutal war. Butler will play the main character, Danny Ryan, forced to grow from a street soldier into a ruthless leader to protect his friends, his family and the home he loves. Fighting the Mafia, the local cops and the feds, Danny intends to build a dynasty or die trying.
Butler will also be producing for the first time alongside David Heyman and Shane Salerno. A director and screenwriter are still be announced.
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‘City on Fire’ is the first title in a novel trilogy, it focuses on two criminal empires — one Irish, the other Italian — that control all of New England. A modern-day Helen of Troy event tears them apart and starts a brutal war. Butler will play the main character, Danny Ryan, forced to grow from a street soldier into a ruthless leader to protect his friends, his family and the home he loves. Fighting the Mafia, the local cops and the feds, Danny intends to build a dynasty or die trying.
Butler will also be producing for the first time alongside David Heyman and Shane Salerno. A director and screenwriter are still be announced.
Also in news – Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny to premiere at Cannes...
- 4/4/2023
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Exclusive: In his first star role set since his Oscar nominated turn as Elvis Presley, Austin Butler will star in City On Fire, the Sony 3000 Pictures adaptation of the Don Winslow novel. This will be Butler’s first film as producer, alongside David Heyman and Shane Salerno. Studio has made this a high priority, and will be meeting with writers and filmmakers immediately.
Deal brings Butler back with Sony Pictures, where he had his first breakout turn in the Quentin Tarantino-directed Once Upon A Time…In America. City on Fire is the first title in a novel trilogy, so the hope is for Butler to have his first turn on the ground floor of a film franchise, after starring in the Baz Luhrmann-directed Elvis.
The HarperCollins/Morrow novel takes elements of The Iliad, Odyssey, Aeneid and Greek tragic dramas and places them in a world of contemporary crime.
Deal brings Butler back with Sony Pictures, where he had his first breakout turn in the Quentin Tarantino-directed Once Upon A Time…In America. City on Fire is the first title in a novel trilogy, so the hope is for Butler to have his first turn on the ground floor of a film franchise, after starring in the Baz Luhrmann-directed Elvis.
The HarperCollins/Morrow novel takes elements of The Iliad, Odyssey, Aeneid and Greek tragic dramas and places them in a world of contemporary crime.
- 4/3/2023
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Peter Sarsgaard on Jackie composer Mica Levi: "She is incredible. She did the score for [Jonathan Glazer's] Under the Skin." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Natalie Portman is First Lady Jackie Kennedy in Pablo Larraín's Jackie, screenplay by Noah Oppenheim. The film, shot by the great Stéphane Fontaine (Paul Verhoeven's Elle, starring Isabelle Huppert), features Greta Gerwig, Billy Crudup, John Hurt, Max Casella, John Carroll Lynch, Richard E Grant, Beth Grant and Caspar Phillipson as President John Kennedy.
On Pablo Larraín's Jackie: "You know, it's in the mind almost." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Peter Sarsgaard, who portrays Robert Kennedy told me: "Bobby was tough". He also had some thoughts on Michael Almeryda's Marjorie Prime which stars Lois Smith, Tim Robbins, Jon Hamm, and Geena Davis, after his role as Stanley Milgram with Winona Ryder in Experimenter.
Jeff Nichol's Loving, starring Ruth Negga and Joel Edgerton, credits then United States...
Natalie Portman is First Lady Jackie Kennedy in Pablo Larraín's Jackie, screenplay by Noah Oppenheim. The film, shot by the great Stéphane Fontaine (Paul Verhoeven's Elle, starring Isabelle Huppert), features Greta Gerwig, Billy Crudup, John Hurt, Max Casella, John Carroll Lynch, Richard E Grant, Beth Grant and Caspar Phillipson as President John Kennedy.
On Pablo Larraín's Jackie: "You know, it's in the mind almost." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Peter Sarsgaard, who portrays Robert Kennedy told me: "Bobby was tough". He also had some thoughts on Michael Almeryda's Marjorie Prime which stars Lois Smith, Tim Robbins, Jon Hamm, and Geena Davis, after his role as Stanley Milgram with Winona Ryder in Experimenter.
Jeff Nichol's Loving, starring Ruth Negga and Joel Edgerton, credits then United States...
- 11/28/2016
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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Mildred Loving encountered many harrowing obstacles on her journey to end the ban on interracial marriage, but Ruth Negga found one incident in Loving’s life especially difficult to portray onscreen.
The Ethiopian-Irish actress stars as the reluctant civil rights activist in Jeff Nichol’s Loving, which tells the true story of how Mildred and her husband Richard helped to end anti-miscegenation laws in America.
Long before their case went to the Supreme Court, Mildred, a young African-American woman, was arrested for cohabiting with her white husband. (They had married in Washington D.
Mildred Loving encountered many harrowing obstacles on her journey to end the ban on interracial marriage, but Ruth Negga found one incident in Loving’s life especially difficult to portray onscreen.
The Ethiopian-Irish actress stars as the reluctant civil rights activist in Jeff Nichol’s Loving, which tells the true story of how Mildred and her husband Richard helped to end anti-miscegenation laws in America.
Long before their case went to the Supreme Court, Mildred, a young African-American woman, was arrested for cohabiting with her white husband. (They had married in Washington D.
- 10/19/2016
- by m34miller
- PEOPLE.com
Ryan Lambie Sep 2, 2016
Flashbacks, prequels and spin-offs - are all these things taking the sense of mystery out of movies? Ryan fears they might be.
“Apparently, she saw an alien once...”
The really effective thing about the Alien movies - particularly the first two - is their sense of mystery. Just as Ridley Scott and James Cameron’s films are united by their intense use of shadow, meaning the title creatures are glimpsed only in part, so Alien and Aliens suggest huge chunks of back-story with a throwaway line or a solitary scene.
Looking again at the 1979 original, it’s evident how pared back its plot is, especially compared to 2016’s crop of summer films. The assorted tensions and histories of Alien’s central characters are hinted at but never expressly shown, meaning we’re allowed to fill in the blanks ourselves. We don’t need acres of exposition to...
Flashbacks, prequels and spin-offs - are all these things taking the sense of mystery out of movies? Ryan fears they might be.
“Apparently, she saw an alien once...”
The really effective thing about the Alien movies - particularly the first two - is their sense of mystery. Just as Ridley Scott and James Cameron’s films are united by their intense use of shadow, meaning the title creatures are glimpsed only in part, so Alien and Aliens suggest huge chunks of back-story with a throwaway line or a solitary scene.
Looking again at the 1979 original, it’s evident how pared back its plot is, especially compared to 2016’s crop of summer films. The assorted tensions and histories of Alien’s central characters are hinted at but never expressly shown, meaning we’re allowed to fill in the blanks ourselves. We don’t need acres of exposition to...
- 9/1/2016
- Den of Geek
"I'm going to raise my family here; I don't care what they do to us." Focus Features has unveiled the first beautiful full trailer for Jeff Nichol's new film Loving, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this summer. The film tells the story of the legendary interracial couple, Richard and Mildred Loving, played by Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga, who married and then spent the next nine years fighting for the right to live as a family in their small town in Virginia. The cast includes Alano Miller, Martin Csokas, Nick Kroll, and Michael Shannon. I saw this in Cannes and was moved to tears. I wrote in my review that it's a "a tender and heartfelt film. It relies so much on the relationship between them and how beautiful that is to see - there are no questions about their love, only about those who challenge it.
- 7/12/2016
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Graduation, It’s Only The End Of The World and The Unknown Girl all made their bows on today’s Jury Grid.
As Cannes 2016 enters its final stretch, three new films debuted on Screen’s Jury Grid on day 9 of this year’s festival.
Xavier Dolan’s It’s Only The End Of The World – the 27-year-old director’s sixth feature, all but one of which (Tom At The Farm) have premiered at Cannes – registered a disappointing overall score of 1.3, leaving it bottom of the grid.
Usually a firm favourite at the festival, Dolan’s latest particularly failed to impress France’s Julien Gester and Didier Peron, and the UK’s Nick James, who awarded it a no-score X rating. The film also attracted four solitary one-star scores, a joint low this year with Nicole Garcia’s From The Land Of The Moon.
One of the day’s other new entries – Cristian Mungiu’s Graduation – fared significantly...
As Cannes 2016 enters its final stretch, three new films debuted on Screen’s Jury Grid on day 9 of this year’s festival.
Xavier Dolan’s It’s Only The End Of The World – the 27-year-old director’s sixth feature, all but one of which (Tom At The Farm) have premiered at Cannes – registered a disappointing overall score of 1.3, leaving it bottom of the grid.
Usually a firm favourite at the festival, Dolan’s latest particularly failed to impress France’s Julien Gester and Didier Peron, and the UK’s Nick James, who awarded it a no-score X rating. The film also attracted four solitary one-star scores, a joint low this year with Nicole Garcia’s From The Land Of The Moon.
One of the day’s other new entries – Cristian Mungiu’s Graduation – fared significantly...
- 5/19/2016
- ScreenDaily
Guneet Monga’s Mumbai-based Sikhya Entertainment began production on Thursday on the drama starring Melissa Leo, Sam Keeley, and Kal Penn.
The Ashram is an English-language spiritual fantasy thriller set in the mystical world of yogis in the Himalayas.
The story centres on a sceptical American who travels to the Indian Himalayas to pick up on the trail of his disappeared girlfriend and discovers a secretive community led by a guru who may or may not be involved in her disappearance.
Hera Hilmar and Indian leading lady Radhika Apte round out the key cast. Former Im Global executive Ben Rekhi directs from a script by Rekhi and Binky Mendez.
Guneet Monga is producing The Ashram, while Brian Kavanaugh-Jones, who produced Jeff Nichol’s current Us release Midnight Special, serves as executive producer.
The film is scheduled to shoot from March 31-May 18 in Manali, India.
The Ashram is an English-language spiritual fantasy thriller set in the mystical world of yogis in the Himalayas.
The story centres on a sceptical American who travels to the Indian Himalayas to pick up on the trail of his disappeared girlfriend and discovers a secretive community led by a guru who may or may not be involved in her disappearance.
Hera Hilmar and Indian leading lady Radhika Apte round out the key cast. Former Im Global executive Ben Rekhi directs from a script by Rekhi and Binky Mendez.
Guneet Monga is producing The Ashram, while Brian Kavanaugh-Jones, who produced Jeff Nichol’s current Us release Midnight Special, serves as executive producer.
The film is scheduled to shoot from March 31-May 18 in Manali, India.
- 3/31/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
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