Secuoya Studios and Arrivelo Producciones are teaming to develop the first TV series focusing on the foundation and legacy of the Bacardi spirits company.
Inspired by the true story of Bacardi’s founding and rise to global recognition, the series is being developed in collaboration with The Bacardi Archives, a private collection managed by the Bacardi company.
Secuoya describes the show’s narrative as “one of ambition, adversity and family that begins with founder Don Facundo Bacardí Massó and his vision to create the world’s first light-bodied rum. The series will narrate how the company persevered from its humble beginnings in Cuba in 1800s through countless hardships, political turmoil, economic crisis, and forced exile from its homeland to become a global spirits empire.”
While specific details about what will be included in the show are still being developed, Secuoya says that the period drama will touch on era-appropriate themes such as “political revolution,...
Inspired by the true story of Bacardi’s founding and rise to global recognition, the series is being developed in collaboration with The Bacardi Archives, a private collection managed by the Bacardi company.
Secuoya describes the show’s narrative as “one of ambition, adversity and family that begins with founder Don Facundo Bacardí Massó and his vision to create the world’s first light-bodied rum. The series will narrate how the company persevered from its humble beginnings in Cuba in 1800s through countless hardships, political turmoil, economic crisis, and forced exile from its homeland to become a global spirits empire.”
While specific details about what will be included in the show are still being developed, Secuoya says that the period drama will touch on era-appropriate themes such as “political revolution,...
- 10/10/2024
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Paris-based MPM Premium has secured international rights to Chilean editor turned writer-director Diego Figueroa’s maniacal psychological thriller, “A Yard of Jackals” (“Patio de chacales”), starring acclaimed Chilean actors Néstor Cantillana and Blanca Lewin, whose chemistry was cemented when they featured in Pablo Larraín & Jonathan Jakubowicz HBO Series “Fugitives” (“Prófugos”).
Produced by Alejandro Ugarte at Santiago-based Infractor, which co-produced Malaga-winning title “Perro Bomba” alongside Chile’s Pejeperro Films and France’s Promenades Films, the film is set to add to the substantial catalog of Latin American fare backed by the sales outfit.
“We value MPM Premium’s reputation for excellence and diversity, and we believe that ‘A Yard of Jackals’ will further enrich their portfolio of films, offering a unique and exciting cinematic experience for viewers around the world,” Ugarte stated.
The film marks the debut feature for Figueroa and fleshes out the story arc of his short film, “Los Vecinos,...
Produced by Alejandro Ugarte at Santiago-based Infractor, which co-produced Malaga-winning title “Perro Bomba” alongside Chile’s Pejeperro Films and France’s Promenades Films, the film is set to add to the substantial catalog of Latin American fare backed by the sales outfit.
“We value MPM Premium’s reputation for excellence and diversity, and we believe that ‘A Yard of Jackals’ will further enrich their portfolio of films, offering a unique and exciting cinematic experience for viewers around the world,” Ugarte stated.
The film marks the debut feature for Figueroa and fleshes out the story arc of his short film, “Los Vecinos,...
- 9/23/2024
- by Holly Jones
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Venezuelan Filmmaker Jonathan Jakubowicz, best known for Resistance and Hands of Stone, has signed on to direct the feature Cottonwood for Eric Paquette’s Meridian Pictures.
The film will be produced by Paquette, Aaron Barnett, and The Exchange’s Brian O’Shea, with Claudine Jakubowicz serving as executive producer. The Exchange will be handling worldwide sales and arranging financing.
The story follows a single dad who left his troubled past behind but must confront his dark history when his former mentor, a dangerous gangster, resurfaces. As the mentor’s loyalty to him is tested, he becomes the target of the gangster’s own bloodthirsty son, forcing him to protect his 13-year-old son from a relentless killer.
Jakubowicz was the winner of the German Film Peace Prize 2020 for his film Resistance. His film Secuestro Express was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the British Independent Film Awards, and Hands of Stone premiered at Cannes.
The film will be produced by Paquette, Aaron Barnett, and The Exchange’s Brian O’Shea, with Claudine Jakubowicz serving as executive producer. The Exchange will be handling worldwide sales and arranging financing.
The story follows a single dad who left his troubled past behind but must confront his dark history when his former mentor, a dangerous gangster, resurfaces. As the mentor’s loyalty to him is tested, he becomes the target of the gangster’s own bloodthirsty son, forcing him to protect his 13-year-old son from a relentless killer.
Jakubowicz was the winner of the German Film Peace Prize 2020 for his film Resistance. His film Secuestro Express was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the British Independent Film Awards, and Hands of Stone premiered at Cannes.
- 5/2/2024
- by Zac Ntim and Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
More than 1,000 Jewish creatives, executives and Hollywood professionals have signed an open letter denouncing Jonathan Glazer’s “The Zone of Interest” Oscar speech.
The list of co-signees provided to Variety Monday morning covers a broad swath of the industry including actors, executives, creators (Amy Sherman-Palladino), directors, producers and representatives. About 500 more individuals have added their names to the nearly 500 who signed on when the open letter was first published.
The group’s statement says: “We refute our Jewishness being hijacked for the purpose of drawing a moral equivalence between a Nazi regime that sought to exterminate a race of people, and an Israeli nation that seeks to avert its own extermination.”
Glazer declined to comment.
With such high-profile co-signees as Jennifer Jason Leigh, “La La Land” producer Gary Gilbert and “The Americans” creators Joel Fields and Joe Weisberg, the statement adds, “The use of words like ‘occupation’ to describe an...
The list of co-signees provided to Variety Monday morning covers a broad swath of the industry including actors, executives, creators (Amy Sherman-Palladino), directors, producers and representatives. About 500 more individuals have added their names to the nearly 500 who signed on when the open letter was first published.
The group’s statement says: “We refute our Jewishness being hijacked for the purpose of drawing a moral equivalence between a Nazi regime that sought to exterminate a race of people, and an Israeli nation that seeks to avert its own extermination.”
Glazer declined to comment.
With such high-profile co-signees as Jennifer Jason Leigh, “La La Land” producer Gary Gilbert and “The Americans” creators Joel Fields and Joe Weisberg, the statement adds, “The use of words like ‘occupation’ to describe an...
- 3/18/2024
- by Tatiana Siegel
- Variety Film + TV
Miami– Gaumont USA, producer of “Narcos,” is powering up new series from both Oscar-winning “Birdman” co-writer Armando Bó and also Spain’s Manuel Martin Cuenca, director of Toronto winner “The Motive,” as well as multiple other talents. It is also readying it first movie slate.
Gaumont USA already co-produced the Bó showrun Amazon Original “El Presidente,” with Pablo and Juan de Dios Larraín’s Fabula and Argentine powerhouse Kapow, both partners on “La Jauría.”
News of new series projects comes as Gaumont USA is advancing on Lucía Puenzo’s near future android family saga “Futuro Desierto” (“Desolate Future”), part of a 2020 multi-project development pact with the Argentine writer-director.
Gaumont USA is currently developing titles with Jimena Montemayor (“Wind Traces”), Pedro Amorim (“The Dognapper”), Sebastian and Emiliano Zurita (“How to Survive Being Single”), Katina Medina Mora, Belen Macias (“Verano en Rojo”), among other top-level filmmakers. Other projects are from screenwriters Ruth García...
Gaumont USA already co-produced the Bó showrun Amazon Original “El Presidente,” with Pablo and Juan de Dios Larraín’s Fabula and Argentine powerhouse Kapow, both partners on “La Jauría.”
News of new series projects comes as Gaumont USA is advancing on Lucía Puenzo’s near future android family saga “Futuro Desierto” (“Desolate Future”), part of a 2020 multi-project development pact with the Argentine writer-director.
Gaumont USA is currently developing titles with Jimena Montemayor (“Wind Traces”), Pedro Amorim (“The Dognapper”), Sebastian and Emiliano Zurita (“How to Survive Being Single”), Katina Medina Mora, Belen Macias (“Verano en Rojo”), among other top-level filmmakers. Other projects are from screenwriters Ruth García...
- 1/24/2024
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
A group of screenwriters including Eli Roth, Graham Yost and Amy Chozick have issued an open letter decrying the Writers Guild of America’s silence on last week’s Hamas terrorist attacks in Israel.
In the letter, posted to the blog site Medium, the screenwriters mention the statements already issued by other Hollywood guilds, including SAG-AFTRA and the directors’ guild.
“When it comes to taking a stand, the Writers Guild of America has always led by example,” the statement said. “When employers sought to exploit our work, the Guild bravely spoke up. When the BLM movement took flight, the Guild rightfully spoke up. When the #MeToo reckoning came and Hollywood needed to change, again the Guild spoke up. But when terrorists invaded Israel to murder, rape, and kidnap Jews… the Guild stayed silent. It remains the only major Hollywood union to do so.”
SAG-AFTRA and the DGA were among the Hollywood studios,...
In the letter, posted to the blog site Medium, the screenwriters mention the statements already issued by other Hollywood guilds, including SAG-AFTRA and the directors’ guild.
“When it comes to taking a stand, the Writers Guild of America has always led by example,” the statement said. “When employers sought to exploit our work, the Guild bravely spoke up. When the BLM movement took flight, the Guild rightfully spoke up. When the #MeToo reckoning came and Hollywood needed to change, again the Guild spoke up. But when terrorists invaded Israel to murder, rape, and kidnap Jews… the Guild stayed silent. It remains the only major Hollywood union to do so.”
SAG-AFTRA and the DGA were among the Hollywood studios,...
- 10/15/2023
- by Jeremy Bailey
- The Wrap
Chilean editor-turned-filmmaker Diego Figueroa (“Los Vecinos”) is set to unveil his debut feature “Patio de Chacales”(“A Yard Of Jackals”) at Sanfic Industria’s prestige Works In Progress strand, offering a suspense-addled mindbender that pivots and retreats through the depths of its protagonists’ minds as atrocities unfurl close-to-home.
Produced by Alejandro Ugarte at Santiago-based Infractor, which co-produced the Juan Cáceres Malaga-winning title “Perro Bomba” alongside Chile’s Pejeperro Films and France’s Promenades Films, “Patio de Chacales” toys with the medium to present a singular take on clandestine crime networks.
“When Diego contacted me and proposed this subject, I found it very interesting. It’s a common and recursive theme in Chilean cinematography, but his point of view was fresh, interesting, something different from what was being done,” Ugarte told Variety. “To deal with these themes from this genre with an auteur’s vision, it’s very engaging, I think...
Produced by Alejandro Ugarte at Santiago-based Infractor, which co-produced the Juan Cáceres Malaga-winning title “Perro Bomba” alongside Chile’s Pejeperro Films and France’s Promenades Films, “Patio de Chacales” toys with the medium to present a singular take on clandestine crime networks.
“When Diego contacted me and proposed this subject, I found it very interesting. It’s a common and recursive theme in Chilean cinematography, but his point of view was fresh, interesting, something different from what was being done,” Ugarte told Variety. “To deal with these themes from this genre with an auteur’s vision, it’s very engaging, I think...
- 8/18/2023
- by Holly Jones
- Variety Film + TV
Sam Peckinpah's elegiac revisionist Western "The Wild Bunch" inspired leagues of filmmakers from Quentin Tarantino to Kathryn Bigelow. Its story of a gang of aging outlaws battling an ever-changing, rapidly mechanizing Western landscape shifted the trajectory of the Western picture, ensuring its place among the greatest films of all time. Hollywood has been trying to launch a "Wild Bunch" remake for over a decade now, beginning with a proposed Tony Scott version that stalled with his death in 2012, along with one directed by "Hands of Stone" filmmaker Jonathan Jakubowicz, and eventually, David Ayer was up to...
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- 3/9/2022
- by Anya Stanley
- Slash Film
“Why do they hate us?” It’s ostensibly a simple question, but one which underpins the entirety of Resistance, the latest War-time story to depict the heroic efforts of those who sought to protect Jewish children from the horrors of Nazi Germany. Though multiple answers are offered, the impact of the question is clear. The harrowing opening scene shows a family ripped apart and is coupled by a portentous, string-driven score. An ominous sign of things to come.
But the nominal lead of this film is, perhaps incredibly, Marcel Marceau (Jesse Eisenberg). Before he found fame as a world-renowned mime, Marceau worked with the French Resistance to save thousands of orphans from the clutches of the Nazis. Before even this, he was a frustrated actor working in his father’s butchers.
Though dreaming of life as an actor, Marceau’s is pulled into service by best friend Emma (Charlotte Poésy...
But the nominal lead of this film is, perhaps incredibly, Marcel Marceau (Jesse Eisenberg). Before he found fame as a world-renowned mime, Marceau worked with the French Resistance to save thousands of orphans from the clutches of the Nazis. Before even this, he was a frustrated actor working in his father’s butchers.
Though dreaming of life as an actor, Marceau’s is pulled into service by best friend Emma (Charlotte Poésy...
- 6/18/2020
- by Luke Walpole
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
‘Brock: Over the Top.’
Kriv Stenders’ feature documentary on motor racing legend Peter Brock, Brock: Over the Top will start to roll out in cinemas on Thursday before its Premium VOD release on July 3.
The movie produced by WildBear Entertainment’s Veronica Fury and other PVOD releases such as Ben Lawrence’s Hearts and Bones and Alexs Stadermann’s animated feature 100% Wolf are benefiting from the willingness of some independent cinemas to screen films just before or while they are available on home entertainment.
This is a boon for the VOD platforms recently launched by Dendy Cinemas, the Ritz Cinema in Sydney and Melbourne’s Classic, Lido and Cameo Cinemas and the Golden Age Cinema.
However the usual 90-day theatrical window is expected to be reinstated when cinemas around the country are back in business, except for alternate content releases such as musical concerts and National Theatre Live.
Bonsai Films’ Jonathan Page,...
Kriv Stenders’ feature documentary on motor racing legend Peter Brock, Brock: Over the Top will start to roll out in cinemas on Thursday before its Premium VOD release on July 3.
The movie produced by WildBear Entertainment’s Veronica Fury and other PVOD releases such as Ben Lawrence’s Hearts and Bones and Alexs Stadermann’s animated feature 100% Wolf are benefiting from the willingness of some independent cinemas to screen films just before or while they are available on home entertainment.
This is a boon for the VOD platforms recently launched by Dendy Cinemas, the Ritz Cinema in Sydney and Melbourne’s Classic, Lido and Cameo Cinemas and the Golden Age Cinema.
However the usual 90-day theatrical window is expected to be reinstated when cinemas around the country are back in business, except for alternate content releases such as musical concerts and National Theatre Live.
Bonsai Films’ Jonathan Page,...
- 6/15/2020
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Géza Röhrig: “Since Son of Saul I was privileged to work with Elizabeth McGovern and Jesse Eisenberg, Matthew Broderick. And so for me to work with these people, it’s the real school of life.” Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Géza Röhrig, star of László Nemes’ Oscar-winning Son Of Saul and a partner in crime with Matthew Broderick in Shawn Snyder’s To Dust, produced by Alessandro Nivola and Emily Mortimer, is cousin Georges to Jesse Eisenberg’s Marcel Marceau in Jonathan Jakubowicz’s Resistance with Clémence Poésy, Edgar Ramírez (Roberto Durán in Jakubowicz’s Hands of Stone) and Matthias Schweighöfer. Géza’s upcoming roles include playing Jesus in Terrence Malick’s The Last Planet, costumes by Carlo Poggioli, and Z in Chino Moya’s Undergods.
Jesse Eisenberg as Marcel Marceau with Clémence Poésy as Emma
Early last year, I moderated a post-screening discussion with Géza Röhrig and Shawn Snyder for the To Dust theatrical premiere.
Géza Röhrig, star of László Nemes’ Oscar-winning Son Of Saul and a partner in crime with Matthew Broderick in Shawn Snyder’s To Dust, produced by Alessandro Nivola and Emily Mortimer, is cousin Georges to Jesse Eisenberg’s Marcel Marceau in Jonathan Jakubowicz’s Resistance with Clémence Poésy, Edgar Ramírez (Roberto Durán in Jakubowicz’s Hands of Stone) and Matthias Schweighöfer. Géza’s upcoming roles include playing Jesus in Terrence Malick’s The Last Planet, costumes by Carlo Poggioli, and Z in Chino Moya’s Undergods.
Jesse Eisenberg as Marcel Marceau with Clémence Poésy as Emma
Early last year, I moderated a post-screening discussion with Géza Röhrig and Shawn Snyder for the To Dust theatrical premiere.
- 3/28/2020
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The Wages of Ham: Jakubowicz Mimes Melodrama in Offkey Resistance
For his third film, Venezuelan born Jonathan Jakubowicz falls headlong into an acceptable faux pas of English language cinema with the woeful, tonally inept Resistance, a portrait of the famed mime Marcel Marceau’s teenage years in Nazi occupied France. Starring Jesse Eisenberg, utilizing accented English and at least a decade older and then his subject, one can’t blame Jakubowicz’s headliner for the film’s eventual triteness, whose performance is enjoyable enough as this odd entry point in what is otherwise a shapeless succession in melodramas which could easily be constituted as Holocaust exploitation.…...
For his third film, Venezuelan born Jonathan Jakubowicz falls headlong into an acceptable faux pas of English language cinema with the woeful, tonally inept Resistance, a portrait of the famed mime Marcel Marceau’s teenage years in Nazi occupied France. Starring Jesse Eisenberg, utilizing accented English and at least a decade older and then his subject, one can’t blame Jakubowicz’s headliner for the film’s eventual triteness, whose performance is enjoyable enough as this odd entry point in what is otherwise a shapeless succession in melodramas which could easily be constituted as Holocaust exploitation.…...
- 3/28/2020
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
The specialty box office space has quickly adapted to the changing film landscape as many are shifting to virtual theatrical openings. Many indie and arthouse titles do day and date releases and are VOD-only so the transition, for the most part, is familiar territory for many distributors and production companies.
Written and directed by Jonathan Jakubowicz, Resistance tells the true story of a group of Girls and Boy Scouts that created a network that went on to save nearly 10,000 orphans whose parents had been killed by the Nazis in the World War II. Jesse Eisenberg takes the lead role as an aspiring Jewish actor who has a need to help the children which leads him to the world of pantomime. As a result, he would become the iconic French mime Marcel Marceau.
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Written and directed by Jonathan Jakubowicz, Resistance tells the true story of a group of Girls and Boy Scouts that created a network that went on to save nearly 10,000 orphans whose parents had been killed by the Nazis in the World War II. Jesse Eisenberg takes the lead role as an aspiring Jewish actor who has a need to help the children which leads him to the world of pantomime. As a result, he would become the iconic French mime Marcel Marceau.
More from DeadlineKino Marquee Virtual Arthouse Program Expands To 150 Cinemas With Alamo Drafthouse & Laemmle In Streaming Cannes Winner 'Bacurau'Searchlight,...
- 3/27/2020
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
Jesse Eisenberg as “Marcel” in Jonathan Jakubowicz’s Resistance. Courtesy of IFC Films. An IFC Films Release.
Who knew legendary mime Marcel Marceau was a member of the French Resistance as a very young man? That startling and intriguing fact is the basis of Resistance, a well-made inspirational historical film which follows the young French-born Polish Jewish aspiring actor, as he is drawn into the fight against the Nazis in France in World War II.
The great strength of Resistance is its remarkable true-story basis, bolstered by a top-notch cast and high-quality production values. The film is more drama and biopic than historical thriller, although it has some suspenseful action sequences. Jesse Eisenberg stars as Marcel Marceau, who starts out life as Marcel Mangel, the son of a Polish-born Jewish butcher who resists his father’s efforts to draw him into the family butcher shop business in Strasbourg, then a...
Who knew legendary mime Marcel Marceau was a member of the French Resistance as a very young man? That startling and intriguing fact is the basis of Resistance, a well-made inspirational historical film which follows the young French-born Polish Jewish aspiring actor, as he is drawn into the fight against the Nazis in France in World War II.
The great strength of Resistance is its remarkable true-story basis, bolstered by a top-notch cast and high-quality production values. The film is more drama and biopic than historical thriller, although it has some suspenseful action sequences. Jesse Eisenberg stars as Marcel Marceau, who starts out life as Marcel Mangel, the son of a Polish-born Jewish butcher who resists his father’s efforts to draw him into the family butcher shop business in Strasbourg, then a...
- 3/27/2020
- by Cate Marquis
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
On paper, everything about Resistance suggests a surefire Academy Award juggernaut. After all, it’s a film that has multiple Oscar nominees in the cast, is set during World War II, centers on the plight of European Jews against the Nazis, and is a biopic of a famous person in the arts. Start carving the statue now, right? Well, not so fast. While Resistance is worthy of a recommendation, it’s mostly a decent picture elevated by a really strong performance by Jesse Eisenberg. Hitting VOD tomorrow, it’s a would be prestige player that can scratch the itch for classy cinema during an otherwise rough (for so many reasons) late March. The movie is a biopic and historical drama, looking at a pivotal time in the early life of Marcel Marceau (Eisenberg), after a prologue (as well as a bookend during the climax) with General George S. Patton (Ed Harris...
- 3/26/2020
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
Did you know that the iconic French mime Marcel Marceau (1923-2007) was once an unsung hero of the French Resistance, smuggling Jewish children across the border into Switzerland with the Nazis in pursuit? This fact-based World War II story is the core of Resistance, starring Jesse Eisenberg as Marcel Mangel (only later did he adapt the stage name of Marceau), the son of a Jewish butcher (Karl Markovics) living in Strasbourg, France. Though Eisenberg acts with physical finesse, the film is quick to make clear that Marcel never saw himself as a savior.
- 3/26/2020
- by Peter Travers
- Rollingstone.com
Here’s the case for “Resistance”: You literally can’t leave your house right now, it’s a reasonably diverting drama available to stream, and it features Jesse Eisenberg, Ed Harris, Édgar Ramírez, Clémence Poésy, Géza Röhrig, and Bella “Lady Mormont” Ramsey.
Here’s the case against it: Jonathan Jakubowicz’s drama doesn’t add as much to the beyond-crowded World War II genre as it could despite the genuinely compelling true story on which it’s based.
Eisenberg stars as Marcel Marceau, a real-life mime whose Chaplin-esque act becomes a balm for a depressingly large group of Jewish orphans; the reliably neurotic screen presence has many gifts, but a few minutes of this movie is enough to prove that French accents aren’t one of them. Look past that admittedly distracting flaw, and it’s a charming performance vaguely reminiscent of Roberto Benigni’s in “Life Is Beautiful...
Here’s the case against it: Jonathan Jakubowicz’s drama doesn’t add as much to the beyond-crowded World War II genre as it could despite the genuinely compelling true story on which it’s based.
Eisenberg stars as Marcel Marceau, a real-life mime whose Chaplin-esque act becomes a balm for a depressingly large group of Jewish orphans; the reliably neurotic screen presence has many gifts, but a few minutes of this movie is enough to prove that French accents aren’t one of them. Look past that admittedly distracting flaw, and it’s a charming performance vaguely reminiscent of Roberto Benigni’s in “Life Is Beautiful...
- 3/25/2020
- by Michael Nordine
- The Wrap
One might
think that a film set in Nazi-occupied France with a lead and most of a cast that
can’t convincingly pull off a French accent would be a problem for a movie (which
it is), yet the astonishing failure of pretty much every other aspect of “Resistance”
manages to overshadow even that. Writer/director Jonathan Jakubowicz tries
to balance light-hearted and funny with punishingly cruel and mean, teasing at
both yet succeeding at neither.
Continue reading ‘Resistance’: Jesse Eisenberg Can’t Fill The Shoes Of Teen Marcel Marceau In This Tonal Mess [Review] at The Playlist.
think that a film set in Nazi-occupied France with a lead and most of a cast that
can’t convincingly pull off a French accent would be a problem for a movie (which
it is), yet the astonishing failure of pretty much every other aspect of “Resistance”
manages to overshadow even that. Writer/director Jonathan Jakubowicz tries
to balance light-hearted and funny with punishingly cruel and mean, teasing at
both yet succeeding at neither.
Continue reading ‘Resistance’: Jesse Eisenberg Can’t Fill The Shoes Of Teen Marcel Marceau In This Tonal Mess [Review] at The Playlist.
- 3/24/2020
- by Warren Cantrell
- The Playlist
Marcel Marceau’s first public performance was in front of three thousand troops after Paris was liberated during World War II. It wasn’t some Uso stunt, though. General Patton didn’t hire the Strasbourg native to give a show because his men needed a laugh. If anything he gave the stage to the as yet unknown “Bip the Clown” as a reward for everything he did as a member of the French resistance and a liberator himself by taking hundreds of Jewish children across the Swiss Alps to freedom. Those kids were his private audience—orphans seeking solace after many witnessed the murder of their own parents at the hands of the Nazis. They’re the ones who softened his ego-driven dream of dramatic stardom to recognize comedy’s unparalleled cathartic power.
As writer/director Jonathan Jakubowicz’s film Resistance describes it, however, Marceau’s (Jesse Eisenberg) evolutionary thaw also involved a woman,...
As writer/director Jonathan Jakubowicz’s film Resistance describes it, however, Marceau’s (Jesse Eisenberg) evolutionary thaw also involved a woman,...
- 3/24/2020
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
It might sound like a backhanded compliment to say that Jesse Eisenberg’s antic performance as French mime Marcel Marceau is the best thing about Jonathan Jakubowicz’s “Resistance,” but it’s not. Well, it’s not a backhanded compliment to Eisenberg, anyway. The giddy standout of a bizarre and half-baked Holocaust thriller that’s otherwise absent any clear sense of self, the star of “The Social Network” is an inspired — if also logical — choice to play another Jewish icon who changed the world from behind the flat screen of their own neuroses. And for the better, in this case.
If only this film made any real use of history’s famous mime. Few people know that Marceau helped thousands of orphaned children escape the Nazis before he ever painted his face white, but Jakubowicz only uses that incredible factoid as the hook for a shoddy and generic war saga...
If only this film made any real use of history’s famous mime. Few people know that Marceau helped thousands of orphaned children escape the Nazis before he ever painted his face white, but Jakubowicz only uses that incredible factoid as the hook for a shoddy and generic war saga...
- 3/23/2020
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
At the time of his death in 2007, Marcel Marceau was the world’s most famous mime. But in 1938-’39, when World War II rescue drama “Resistance” takes place, Jewish-born Marcel Mangel was just 15 years old and had not yet adopted his stage name, much less the stage. As it happens, this would be the most exciting chapter of his life — and one about which the tight-lipped performer seldom spoke — making for a fresh entry point to an otherwise familiar if ever relevant subject.
Drawn from research and firsthand interviews with Marceau’s cousin, Jewish Boy Scouts leader Georges Loinger, the historical thriller tells of Marceau’s heroic efforts to save hundreds of orphans from the Holocaust. It’s an ambitious project for “Secuestro Express” director Jonathan Jakubowicz, and his approach feels more in line with Roberto Benigni’s “Life Is Beautiful” — whose clownish protagonist sought to distract his son from...
Drawn from research and firsthand interviews with Marceau’s cousin, Jewish Boy Scouts leader Georges Loinger, the historical thriller tells of Marceau’s heroic efforts to save hundreds of orphans from the Holocaust. It’s an ambitious project for “Secuestro Express” director Jonathan Jakubowicz, and his approach feels more in line with Roberto Benigni’s “Life Is Beautiful” — whose clownish protagonist sought to distract his son from...
- 3/9/2020
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
Saudi Arabia’s nascent Red Sea International Film festival has unveiled its inaugural lineup featuring the Middle East premiere of Harvey Weinstein-inspired workplace abuse drama “The Assistant” amid a fresh mix of feature films and docs from Europe, the U.S., Asia, and Africa launching in the region on top of a robust representation of Arab films.
Significantly, the opener will be “The Book of Sun” by debuting Saudi directorial duo Faris and Suhaib Godus, about a teenager named Husam who, prompted by the growing phenomenon of Saudi YouTube content, embarks with a group of geeks on a mission to make a no-budget horror pic. Production of this film was supported by the fest.
Oliver Stone will preside over the competition jury.
Red Sea festival chief Mahmoud Sabbagh in a statement called “Book of Sun” “a testament to the passionate community of pioneering filmmakers who have inspired and drive Saudi cinema culture.
Significantly, the opener will be “The Book of Sun” by debuting Saudi directorial duo Faris and Suhaib Godus, about a teenager named Husam who, prompted by the growing phenomenon of Saudi YouTube content, embarks with a group of geeks on a mission to make a no-budget horror pic. Production of this film was supported by the fest.
Oliver Stone will preside over the competition jury.
Red Sea festival chief Mahmoud Sabbagh in a statement called “Book of Sun” “a testament to the passionate community of pioneering filmmakers who have inspired and drive Saudi cinema culture.
- 2/17/2020
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
"We need to train them to survive." "What good does it do to teach them fear? I think it's important to help the children laugh... in the middle of this war." IFC Films has unveiled the first official trailer for a WWII film titled Resistance, about a young French actor who joins the French Resistance at the beginning of the second World War. Jesse Eisenberg stars as Marcel Mangel, who fought with the resistance in Limoges and helped save the lives of ten thousand Jewish orphans in France. The full cast includes Edgar Ramírez, Clémence Poésy, Bella Ramsey, Matthias Schweighöfer, Géza Röhrig, Karl Markovics, Félix Moati, Alicia von Rittberg, and Vica Kerekes. This looks very powerful and inspiring, even with a few of the cliche war movie moments. Eisenberg, despite not being French, looks to be giving it his all as Marcel. Here's the first official trailer for Jonathan Jakubowicz's Resistance,...
- 2/8/2020
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Argentinian Oscar winner Juan José Campanella to present comedy The Weasels.
The 37th Miami Film Festival will open on March 6 with The Burnt Orange Heresy and close with Netflix’s recent Sundance world premiere Mucho Mucho Amor on March 15.
Besides the roster of more than 125 feature narratives, documentaries and short films from 30 countries, festival director Jaie Laplante and his team have selected Amy Ryan to receive the Precious Gem Awards on March 9 accompanied a screening of another Sundance selection, Liz Garbus’ Lost Girls.
Midsommar director Ari Aster, Stella Meghie (The Photograph starring Issa Rae) and The Farewell director Lulu Wang...
The 37th Miami Film Festival will open on March 6 with The Burnt Orange Heresy and close with Netflix’s recent Sundance world premiere Mucho Mucho Amor on March 15.
Besides the roster of more than 125 feature narratives, documentaries and short films from 30 countries, festival director Jaie Laplante and his team have selected Amy Ryan to receive the Precious Gem Awards on March 9 accompanied a screening of another Sundance selection, Liz Garbus’ Lost Girls.
Midsommar director Ari Aster, Stella Meghie (The Photograph starring Issa Rae) and The Farewell director Lulu Wang...
- 2/3/2020
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Spy Kids franchise and Predators producer Elizabeth Avellán and Full Tilt Boogie and Kicking & Screaming producer Rana Joy Glickman are opening the doors to their new global multimedia production company Tealhouse Entertainment which will develop and produce content across horror thrillers, comedies, dramas, docs and auteur-driven narratives, including films from underrepresented voices. Tealhouse will have offices in Austin, TX and Los Angeles, CA. The first pics that are being produced under Tealhouse include supernatural horror feature The Whistler, an English-language reimagining of the award-winning South American film El Silbón: Orígenes. Gisberg Bermúdez, who co-wrote, directed, co-produced and edited the original movie, will direct the new pic. There’s also Quincy Rose’s Margaux From Manhattan, the story of a renowned memoirist from Manhattan who is forced to move to Brooklyn after a nasty divorce turns her world upside-down. Grappling with her new identity and sexual freedom, Margaux once again finds herself coming of age.
- 1/27/2020
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Jesse Eisenberg‘s reasons for taking on the real-life story of mime Marcel Marceau in Resistance are deeply personal.
The upcoming World War II drama follows Marcel’s real-life story after his Jewish family was forced to flee his hometown during the German occupation of France when he was 16. The young performer was recruited into the resistance by his cousin Georges, the Head of the Jewish Boy Scouts of Strasburg who would go on to save hundreds of Jewish orphans by helping them escape to Switzerland.
Marcel was trained in the Paris suburbs and found his skills by helping with...
The upcoming World War II drama follows Marcel’s real-life story after his Jewish family was forced to flee his hometown during the German occupation of France when he was 16. The young performer was recruited into the resistance by his cousin Georges, the Head of the Jewish Boy Scouts of Strasburg who would go on to save hundreds of Jewish orphans by helping them escape to Switzerland.
Marcel was trained in the Paris suburbs and found his skills by helping with...
- 1/21/2020
- by Ale Russian
- PEOPLE.com
Exclusive: IFC Films has taken U.S. rights on Resistance, Jonathan Jakubowicz’s Second World War-set drama starring Jesse Eisenberg.
Edgar Ramirez, Ed Harris, Clémence Poésy, and Matthias Schweighöfer are also in the movie, which is the true story of a group of girl and boy scouts who created a network that saved the lives of ten thousand orphans whose parents had been killed by the Nazis.
It centers on an aspiring Jewish actor (Eisenberg) whose efforts to help the children leads him into the world of pantomime – he would go on to become the legendary French mime artist Marcel Marceau.
Producers are Claudine Jakubowicz, Dan Maag, Thorsten Schumacher, Carlos García de Paredes, Patrick Zorer and Jonathan Jakubowicz. IFC Films will release in 2020.
The deal was negotiated by Arianna Bocco, Evp of Acquisitions and Productions at IFC Films, Aijah Keith of IFC films and CAA Media Finance on behalf of the filmmakers.
Edgar Ramirez, Ed Harris, Clémence Poésy, and Matthias Schweighöfer are also in the movie, which is the true story of a group of girl and boy scouts who created a network that saved the lives of ten thousand orphans whose parents had been killed by the Nazis.
It centers on an aspiring Jewish actor (Eisenberg) whose efforts to help the children leads him into the world of pantomime – he would go on to become the legendary French mime artist Marcel Marceau.
Producers are Claudine Jakubowicz, Dan Maag, Thorsten Schumacher, Carlos García de Paredes, Patrick Zorer and Jonathan Jakubowicz. IFC Films will release in 2020.
The deal was negotiated by Arianna Bocco, Evp of Acquisitions and Productions at IFC Films, Aijah Keith of IFC films and CAA Media Finance on behalf of the filmmakers.
- 11/10/2019
- by Tom Grater and Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Edgar Ramírez, the double Golden Globe and Emmy nominated actor who played Gianni Versace in FX’s lauded limited series The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story has boarded Jennifer Garner’s Netflix movie Yes Day.
Ramírez will play Carlos, the husband to Garner’s character, Allison Torres. He joins Jenna Ortega who we announced is playing Katie Torres, their daughter.
Adapted by Justin Malen (Office Christmas Party), Yes Day is based on the children’s book by Tom Lichtenheld and Amy Krouse Rosenthal. The concept revolves around parents attempting to make it through an entire day by only saying “yes” to their children’s requests, a tradition Garner practices with her own children. With Miguel Arteta (Like a Boss) attached as director, the film is produced by Garner, Lawrence Grey, Ben Everard, Nicole King, Adam Marshall, Mark Moran and Daniel Rappaport. Entertainment 360 and Grey Matter Productions are also producing.
Ramírez will play Carlos, the husband to Garner’s character, Allison Torres. He joins Jenna Ortega who we announced is playing Katie Torres, their daughter.
Adapted by Justin Malen (Office Christmas Party), Yes Day is based on the children’s book by Tom Lichtenheld and Amy Krouse Rosenthal. The concept revolves around parents attempting to make it through an entire day by only saying “yes” to their children’s requests, a tradition Garner practices with her own children. With Miguel Arteta (Like a Boss) attached as director, the film is produced by Garner, Lawrence Grey, Ben Everard, Nicole King, Adam Marshall, Mark Moran and Daniel Rappaport. Entertainment 360 and Grey Matter Productions are also producing.
- 10/17/2019
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Middle East distributor and producer Front Row Filmed Entertainment and production, finance and sales company Rocket Science have entered into a joint venture to form Yalla Yalla, a Dubai-based film and television company focused on Arabic-language entertainment.
Yalla Yalla will develop, package, produce and finance television and feature film projects for the fast expanding Middle East and North Africa market, with a view to expanding beyond the region. The team has already been active in acquiring remake rights as well as developing original content for both theatrical and television with the aim of having four feature films and two television series produced within the first 18 months.
Rocket Science will leverage its talent, producing and financing relationships in the U.S. and Europe, while Front Row and its partner, Kuwait National Cinema Company, will harness their regional relationships with filmmakers, tastemakers and financiers.
The company will collaborate with former Wild Bunch head of acquisitions,...
Yalla Yalla will develop, package, produce and finance television and feature film projects for the fast expanding Middle East and North Africa market, with a view to expanding beyond the region. The team has already been active in acquiring remake rights as well as developing original content for both theatrical and television with the aim of having four feature films and two television series produced within the first 18 months.
Rocket Science will leverage its talent, producing and financing relationships in the U.S. and Europe, while Front Row and its partner, Kuwait National Cinema Company, will harness their regional relationships with filmmakers, tastemakers and financiers.
The company will collaborate with former Wild Bunch head of acquisitions,...
- 5/14/2019
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Rocket Science has come on board to finance and handle international sales on Hallie Meyers-Shyer’s (Home Again) drama Goodrich, which is fronted by Spotlight and Birdman star Michael Keaton.
Sales will commence at Cannes this week on the hot project, with CAA Media Finance and ICM Partners co-representing the U.S. rights to the film. CAA Media Finance and ICM Partners also arranged for the film’s financing.
As we revealed last month, pic was written by and will be directed by Meyers-Shyer and centers on a man named Andy Goodrich (Keaton) who seeks the help of his adult daughter to raise his young twins after his second wife leaves him.
Former Sony head Amy Pascal (Ghostbusters) is producing for Pascal Pictures alongside Keaton and Meyers-Shyer. Principal photography is planned to commence this fall.
Meyers-Shyer’s 2017 directorial debut comedy-drama Home Again, starring Reese Witherspoon, took close to $40M global.
Sales will commence at Cannes this week on the hot project, with CAA Media Finance and ICM Partners co-representing the U.S. rights to the film. CAA Media Finance and ICM Partners also arranged for the film’s financing.
As we revealed last month, pic was written by and will be directed by Meyers-Shyer and centers on a man named Andy Goodrich (Keaton) who seeks the help of his adult daughter to raise his young twins after his second wife leaves him.
Former Sony head Amy Pascal (Ghostbusters) is producing for Pascal Pictures alongside Keaton and Meyers-Shyer. Principal photography is planned to commence this fall.
Meyers-Shyer’s 2017 directorial debut comedy-drama Home Again, starring Reese Witherspoon, took close to $40M global.
- 5/13/2019
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Oscar nominees Annette Bening and Michelle Pfeiffer are boarding director Gideon Raff’s thriller Turn of Mind, which is the feature adaptation of the Alice Laplante New York Times bestseller.
Pulitzer Prize winner Doug Wright is adapting the psychological thriller which centers around a retired orthopedic doctor suffering from Alzheimer’s who is trying to figure out – in her moments of clarity – if she killed the person the police claim she had, or if she’s being deceived.
Producing are Gail Berman through The Jackal Group, Well Told Entertainment’s Rory Koslow, and Raff. Rocket Science will finance the film and launch international sales at Cannes next week. CAA Media Finance represents the U.S. domestic rights.
“Turn of Mind is an edge of your seat emotional thriller. A story of a warped friendship between two brilliant, sharp, forceful women who are bonded equally by their love for and jealousy of one other,...
Pulitzer Prize winner Doug Wright is adapting the psychological thriller which centers around a retired orthopedic doctor suffering from Alzheimer’s who is trying to figure out – in her moments of clarity – if she killed the person the police claim she had, or if she’s being deceived.
Producing are Gail Berman through The Jackal Group, Well Told Entertainment’s Rory Koslow, and Raff. Rocket Science will finance the film and launch international sales at Cannes next week. CAA Media Finance represents the U.S. domestic rights.
“Turn of Mind is an edge of your seat emotional thriller. A story of a warped friendship between two brilliant, sharp, forceful women who are bonded equally by their love for and jealousy of one other,...
- 5/11/2019
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: On the eve of the Cannes market, Rocket Science has come on board to finance and handle international sales on dark comedy package Queenpins, starring Leslie Jones (Ghostbusters) and Kristen Bell (The Good Place).
CAA Media Finance arranged the financing and is handling U.S. rights. Linda McDonough (Drive) is producing.
Written and to be directed by husband and wife team Aron Gaudet and Gita Pullapilly (Beneath The Harvest Sky), the film is inspired by the true story of the largest counterfeit coupon caper in history. It centers on two Phoenix best-friends who create a scheme to counterfeit coupons and soon find themselves running a $40M scam.
Saturday Night Live alum Jones has The Angry Birds Movie 2 upcoming. Veronica Mars and Forgetting Sarah Marshall star Bell is in production on Frozen 2.
Rocket Science’s Cannes slate also includes Ana Lily Amirpour’s female-led reboot of survival blockbuster Cliffhanger...
CAA Media Finance arranged the financing and is handling U.S. rights. Linda McDonough (Drive) is producing.
Written and to be directed by husband and wife team Aron Gaudet and Gita Pullapilly (Beneath The Harvest Sky), the film is inspired by the true story of the largest counterfeit coupon caper in history. It centers on two Phoenix best-friends who create a scheme to counterfeit coupons and soon find themselves running a $40M scam.
Saturday Night Live alum Jones has The Angry Birds Movie 2 upcoming. Veronica Mars and Forgetting Sarah Marshall star Bell is in production on Frozen 2.
Rocket Science’s Cannes slate also includes Ana Lily Amirpour’s female-led reboot of survival blockbuster Cliffhanger...
- 5/9/2019
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Ana Lily Amirpour is attached to direct the remake of Sylvester Stallone’s 1993 film “Cliffhanger,” which will now be led by a female cast.
Rocket Science announced on Wednesday that it has acquired the rights to “Cliffhanger” and will produce alongside Neal Moritz’s Original Film. Casting is underway for the film, and “Aquaman” star Jason Momoa is in talks to make a cameo.
Sascha Penn (“Creed II”) wrote the script about a heist and chase set among the treacherous Rocky Mountains.
Also Read: 'The Bad Batch' Review: Cannibals Battle Skateboarders in Confusing Saga
Moritz and Toby Jaffe will produce under their Original Film banner, alongside Thorsten Schumacher and partner Lars Sylvest for Rocket Science, which will also finance.
Rocket Science acquired the rights to “Cliffhanger” from StudioCanal and will be handling international sales when it introduces the film to buyers at Cannes. CAA Media Finance initially brokered...
Rocket Science announced on Wednesday that it has acquired the rights to “Cliffhanger” and will produce alongside Neal Moritz’s Original Film. Casting is underway for the film, and “Aquaman” star Jason Momoa is in talks to make a cameo.
Sascha Penn (“Creed II”) wrote the script about a heist and chase set among the treacherous Rocky Mountains.
Also Read: 'The Bad Batch' Review: Cannibals Battle Skateboarders in Confusing Saga
Moritz and Toby Jaffe will produce under their Original Film banner, alongside Thorsten Schumacher and partner Lars Sylvest for Rocket Science, which will also finance.
Rocket Science acquired the rights to “Cliffhanger” from StudioCanal and will be handling international sales when it introduces the film to buyers at Cannes. CAA Media Finance initially brokered...
- 5/8/2019
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Michelle Pfeiffer, Tracy Letts and Academy Award-nominee Lucas Hedges have signed on to star in the surrealist comedy “French Exit,” based on the international best-selling book by Patrick deWitt.
DeWitt (“The Sisters Brothers”) adapted his novel for the big screen, and Azazel Jacobs (“The Lovers”) is set to direct the film.
The film will follow 60-year-old penniless Manhattan socialite Frances Price (Pfeiffer), whose plan it was “to die before the money ran out,” but things didn’t go as planned. Price’s husband Franklin has been dead for 20 years and with his vast inheritance gone, she cashes in the last of her possessions and resolves to live out her twilight days anonymously in a modest apartment in Paris, accompanied by her directionless son, Malcolm (Hedges), and the embodiment of Franklin in the form of “Small Frank” (Letts), the family cat.
Also Read: Quentin Tarantino's 'Once Upon a Time in Hollywood...
DeWitt (“The Sisters Brothers”) adapted his novel for the big screen, and Azazel Jacobs (“The Lovers”) is set to direct the film.
The film will follow 60-year-old penniless Manhattan socialite Frances Price (Pfeiffer), whose plan it was “to die before the money ran out,” but things didn’t go as planned. Price’s husband Franklin has been dead for 20 years and with his vast inheritance gone, she cashes in the last of her possessions and resolves to live out her twilight days anonymously in a modest apartment in Paris, accompanied by her directionless son, Malcolm (Hedges), and the embodiment of Franklin in the form of “Small Frank” (Letts), the family cat.
Also Read: Quentin Tarantino's 'Once Upon a Time in Hollywood...
- 5/3/2019
- by Trey Williams
- The Wrap
CAA Media Finance represents Us rights to surrealist comedy.
Michelle Pfeiffer, Lucas Hedges, and Tracy Letts will star in the surrealist comedy French Exit with Azazel Jacobs attached to direct, and Rocket Science and Wild Bunch partnering on international sales for Cannes.
CAA Media Finance represents Us rights to the project, which sees Jacobs reunite with Letts from The Lovers, and is based on Patrick deWitt’s adapted screenplay from his novel, whish was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize.
Thorsten Schumacher’s Rocket Science is financing and producing French Exit, and Canada’s Elevation Pictures is also producing.
The story centres on Frances Price,...
Michelle Pfeiffer, Lucas Hedges, and Tracy Letts will star in the surrealist comedy French Exit with Azazel Jacobs attached to direct, and Rocket Science and Wild Bunch partnering on international sales for Cannes.
CAA Media Finance represents Us rights to the project, which sees Jacobs reunite with Letts from The Lovers, and is based on Patrick deWitt’s adapted screenplay from his novel, whish was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize.
Thorsten Schumacher’s Rocket Science is financing and producing French Exit, and Canada’s Elevation Pictures is also producing.
The story centres on Frances Price,...
- 5/3/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Peter BelstioThis was the best film I saw in my Sundance — Slamdance week recently. This is the best film I’ve seen in the past year. So good waw it, that when I left the theater at the Slamdance top of Main Street in Park City I thought, ‘I might as well go home now, I’ll not see anything here close to this.’Mountain Inn, home ofr Slamdance
Well, I stayed, saw others and this remained the best film for me there. Won the Slamdance grand prize for dramatic features too.
The film is U.S. dramatic. Period — U.S. midwest small town in the ‘50s.
A young boy-girl couple — teenage friends, not lovers — run a manual switchboard for phones, using old fashioned plugs to connect callers. They listen to radio.
Then strange sounds begin emanating from the switchboard and they do not know what it is and decide to find out.
Well, I stayed, saw others and this remained the best film for me there. Won the Slamdance grand prize for dramatic features too.
The film is U.S. dramatic. Period — U.S. midwest small town in the ‘50s.
A young boy-girl couple — teenage friends, not lovers — run a manual switchboard for phones, using old fashioned plugs to connect callers. They listen to radio.
Then strange sounds begin emanating from the switchboard and they do not know what it is and decide to find out.
- 2/14/2019
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Descendants of Marcel Marceau have disavowed World War II drama “Resistance,” saying that they are “in no way associated with the production,” which stars Jesse Eisenberg as the legendary performer and mime artist.
In a statement to Variety, children and heirs of Marceau said the project was erroneously “reported in the press and on social media as ‘the true story of Marcel Marceau and the French Resistance.'” They said that Baptiste Marceau, one of the performer’s sons, “was wrongly cited as an associate producer, although he and the rest of his family have in no way agreed to participate in the production of this American film.”
“Resistance,” directed and written by Jonathan Jakubowicz (“Hands of Stone”), follows the story of Marceau and his efforts to save Jewish children whose parents were killed in the Holocaust. Marceau’s own father died in Auschwitz.
His descendants object to the film...
In a statement to Variety, children and heirs of Marceau said the project was erroneously “reported in the press and on social media as ‘the true story of Marcel Marceau and the French Resistance.'” They said that Baptiste Marceau, one of the performer’s sons, “was wrongly cited as an associate producer, although he and the rest of his family have in no way agreed to participate in the production of this American film.”
“Resistance,” directed and written by Jonathan Jakubowicz (“Hands of Stone”), follows the story of Marceau and his efforts to save Jewish children whose parents were killed in the Holocaust. Marceau’s own father died in Auschwitz.
His descendants object to the film...
- 12/7/2018
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Four-time Oscar nominee Ed Harris (The Hours), Edgar Ramirez (Carlos) and Cléménce Poesy (The Tunnel) are among an impressive lineup of U.S. and international actors joining Jesse Eisenberg (The Social Network) in World War II story Resistance.
Harris will portray General George S. Patton in the film based on the inspirational true story of iconic French mime artist Marcel Marceau who worked with the French Resistance to help save the lives of thousands of orphans during the war. The film will chart how groups of Girl and Boy Scouts created a network to help save children whose parents had been killed by the Nazis. Marceau, an orthodox Jew whose father was killed in Auschwitz, is said to have learned to mime partly in order to help the children escape.
According to the film’s producers, Eisenberg, whose mother was a professional clown, has been working on his mime...
Harris will portray General George S. Patton in the film based on the inspirational true story of iconic French mime artist Marcel Marceau who worked with the French Resistance to help save the lives of thousands of orphans during the war. The film will chart how groups of Girl and Boy Scouts created a network to help save children whose parents had been killed by the Nazis. Marceau, an orthodox Jew whose father was killed in Auschwitz, is said to have learned to mime partly in order to help the children escape.
According to the film’s producers, Eisenberg, whose mother was a professional clown, has been working on his mime...
- 10/30/2018
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Mike Pence, formerly of The Firm, has been hired by Bliss Media as a Los Angeles-based creative executive and talent manager as part of an expansion of the Chinese company’s U.S. operations. Bliss, which also has offices in Shanghai, handled the Chinese distribution of Mel Gibson’s Hacksaw Ridge, which grossed more than $70 million and set a box office record for its genre.
The company, which also engages in international film financing, development, production and talent management, recently began wholly financing and producing films, starting with the Chinese action feature S.M.A.R.T. Chase (aka The Shanghai Job) which starred Orlando Bloom. The company also co-financed and co-produced 2016’s Jackie, which was nominated for three Oscars including Best Actress for star Natalie Portman. It did the same with the 2017 film Kings, directed by Deniz Ergüven and starring Daniel Craig and Halle Berry.
Bliss Media invests...
The company, which also engages in international film financing, development, production and talent management, recently began wholly financing and producing films, starting with the Chinese action feature S.M.A.R.T. Chase (aka The Shanghai Job) which starred Orlando Bloom. The company also co-financed and co-produced 2016’s Jackie, which was nominated for three Oscars including Best Actress for star Natalie Portman. It did the same with the 2017 film Kings, directed by Deniz Ergüven and starring Daniel Craig and Halle Berry.
Bliss Media invests...
- 6/19/2018
- by Anita Busch
- Deadline Film + TV
Pair in negotiations to play resistance fighter and SS commander respectively.
Haley Bennett (The Magnificent Seven) and Matthias Schweighöfer (Thomas Vinterberg’s upcoming Kursk) are in talks to take key roles in Jonathan Jakubowicz’s Resistance.
Jesse Eisenberg is playing legendary mime artist Marcel Marceau in the film, which details his involvement in the French Resistance during the Second World War.
Bennett will play a resistance fighter who plays a vital role in inspiring Marceau to join her to rescue thousands of children, while Schweighöfer will play a notorious SS commander who is personally assigned by Adolf Hitler to dismantle the Resistance.
Rocket Science is co-financing and producing the project and is selling it at this week’s European Film Market (Efm). CAA handles domestic rights.
Pantaleon are co-financing and producing, with Epicentral co-producing. Producers are Claudine Jakubowicz, Carlos Garcia de Paredes and Dan Maag.
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Haley Bennett (The Magnificent Seven) and Matthias Schweighöfer (Thomas Vinterberg’s upcoming Kursk) are in talks to take key roles in Jonathan Jakubowicz’s Resistance.
Jesse Eisenberg is playing legendary mime artist Marcel Marceau in the film, which details his involvement in the French Resistance during the Second World War.
Bennett will play a resistance fighter who plays a vital role in inspiring Marceau to join her to rescue thousands of children, while Schweighöfer will play a notorious SS commander who is personally assigned by Adolf Hitler to dismantle the Resistance.
Rocket Science is co-financing and producing the project and is selling it at this week’s European Film Market (Efm). CAA handles domestic rights.
Pantaleon are co-financing and producing, with Epicentral co-producing. Producers are Claudine Jakubowicz, Carlos Garcia de Paredes and Dan Maag.
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- 2/17/2018
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
Haley Bennett (Girl on the Train, The Red Sea Diving Resort) and German star Matthias Schweighofer (The Manny, Kursk) are in talks for key roles in Resistance, writer-director Jonathan Jakubowicz’s upcoming biopic of legendary mime artist Marcel Marceau.
Oscar nominee Jesse Eisenberg (The Social Network) has already been cast in the lead.
The film, which Warner Bros. has now acquired for Germany, will follow the life of Marceau and his key involvement in the French Resistance during World War II. Schweighofer is set to play notorious SS commander Klaus Barbie, who was personally assigned by Adolf Hitler to dismantle the Resistance, while ...
Oscar nominee Jesse Eisenberg (The Social Network) has already been cast in the lead.
The film, which Warner Bros. has now acquired for Germany, will follow the life of Marceau and his key involvement in the French Resistance during World War II. Schweighofer is set to play notorious SS commander Klaus Barbie, who was personally assigned by Adolf Hitler to dismantle the Resistance, while ...
- 2/17/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Haley Bennett (Girl on the Train, The Red Sea Diving Resort) and German star Matthias Schweighofer (The Manny, Kursk) are in talks for key roles in Resistance, writer-director Jonathan Jakubowicz’s upcoming biopic of legendary mime artist Marcel Marceau.
Oscar nominee Jesse Eisenberg (The Social Network) has already been cast in the lead.
The film, which Warner Bros. has now acquired for Germany, will follow the life of Marceau and his key involvement in the French Resistance during World War II. Schweighofer is set to play notorious SS commander Klaus Barbie, who was personally assigned by Adolf Hitler to dismantle the Resistance, while ...
Oscar nominee Jesse Eisenberg (The Social Network) has already been cast in the lead.
The film, which Warner Bros. has now acquired for Germany, will follow the life of Marceau and his key involvement in the French Resistance during World War II. Schweighofer is set to play notorious SS commander Klaus Barbie, who was personally assigned by Adolf Hitler to dismantle the Resistance, while ...
- 2/17/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Shanghai and Los Angeles-based Bliss Media has acquired Chinese distribution rights to Resistance, starring Jesse Eisenberg.
Written and directed by Jonathan Jakubowicz (Hands of Stone), the film follows the life of legendary mime Marcel Marceau (Eisenberg) and his involvement in the French resistance during World War II. Principal photography is set to commence in early 2018.
Resistance will be produced by Claudine Jakubowicz, Carlos Garcia de Paredes and Dan Maag, with Baptiste Marceau, Marcel's oldest son, serving as executive producer. Rocket Science, which is co-financing and producing the project with Pantaleon and Epicentral, is handling international sales at...
Written and directed by Jonathan Jakubowicz (Hands of Stone), the film follows the life of legendary mime Marcel Marceau (Eisenberg) and his involvement in the French resistance during World War II. Principal photography is set to commence in early 2018.
Resistance will be produced by Claudine Jakubowicz, Carlos Garcia de Paredes and Dan Maag, with Baptiste Marceau, Marcel's oldest son, serving as executive producer. Rocket Science, which is co-financing and producing the project with Pantaleon and Epicentral, is handling international sales at...
- 11/3/2017
- by Patrick Brzeski
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Shanghai and Los Angeles-based Bliss Media has acquired Chinese distribution rights to Resistance, starring Jesse Eisenberg.
Written and directed by Jonathan Jakubowicz (Hands of Stone), the film follows the life of legendary mime Marcel Marceau (Eisenberg) and his involvement in the French resistance during World War II. Principal photography is set to commence in early 2018.
Resistance will be produced by Claudine Jakubowicz, Carlos Garcia de Paredes and Dan Maag, with Baptiste Marceau, Marcel’s oldest son, serving as executive producer. Rocket Science, which is co-financing and producing the project with Pantaleon and Epicentral, is handling international sales at Afm.
Marceau was the son ...
Written and directed by Jonathan Jakubowicz (Hands of Stone), the film follows the life of legendary mime Marcel Marceau (Eisenberg) and his involvement in the French resistance during World War II. Principal photography is set to commence in early 2018.
Resistance will be produced by Claudine Jakubowicz, Carlos Garcia de Paredes and Dan Maag, with Baptiste Marceau, Marcel’s oldest son, serving as executive producer. Rocket Science, which is co-financing and producing the project with Pantaleon and Epicentral, is handling international sales at Afm.
Marceau was the son ...
- 11/3/2017
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Shanghai and Los Angeles-based Bliss Media has acquired Chinese distribution rights to Resistance, starring Jesse Eisenberg.
Written and directed by Jonathan Jakubowicz (Hands of Stone), the film follows the life of legendary mime Marcel Marceau (Eisenberg) and his involvement in the French resistance during World War II. Principal photography is set to commence in early 2018.
Resistance will be produced by Claudine Jakubowicz, Carlos Garcia de Paredes and Dan Maag, with Baptiste Marceau, Marcel’s oldest son, serving as executive producer. Rocket Science, which is co-financing and producing the project with Pantaleon and Epicentral, is handling international sales at Afm.
Marceau was the son ...
Written and directed by Jonathan Jakubowicz (Hands of Stone), the film follows the life of legendary mime Marcel Marceau (Eisenberg) and his involvement in the French resistance during World War II. Principal photography is set to commence in early 2018.
Resistance will be produced by Claudine Jakubowicz, Carlos Garcia de Paredes and Dan Maag, with Baptiste Marceau, Marcel’s oldest son, serving as executive producer. Rocket Science, which is co-financing and producing the project with Pantaleon and Epicentral, is handling international sales at Afm.
Marceau was the son ...
- 11/3/2017
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
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- 10/9/2017
- by Celia Fernandez
- Popsugar.com
“Resistance” the story of the famed mime Marcel Marceau and how he learned to mime in order to survive and to save the lives of Jewish orphans in World War II France, written and to be directed by “Hands of Stone” director Jonathan Jakubowicz and produced by Claudine Jakubowicz and Carlos Garcia de Paredes, will star the curly haired and fast talking Jesse Eisenberg who played Mark Zuckerberg in the 2010 film “The Social Network”. Baptiste Marceau, the oldest son of Marcel, has been closely involved in the research for this European coproduction that CAA is packaging and representing in Cannes. Marceau the artist of silence gave his first major performance to 3,000 American troops after the liberation of Paris in August 1944.
Michael Jackson and Marcel Marceau
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Michael Jackson and Marcel Marceau
The producers of last year’s Norwegian hit, “The Wave”, have turned their attention to Marius Holst’s “Betrayed”, the story of the Norwegian Jews...
- 6/5/2017
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Resistance is a new film project in development that will be based on the true events of Marcel Marceau, a French actor and mime most famous for his stage persona, “Bip The Clown." Marceau became an orphan when his father, a kosher butcher, was killed in Auschwitz. Afterward, he took up the art of miming to bring hope to other orphans who had lost their parents to the Nazis.
According to Variety, "The film will focus on Marceau’s involvement in the French resistance when his country was occupied by the Nazis during World War II."
Marceau was made Grand Officier de la Légion d’Honneur in 1998 and was awarded the National Order Of Merit in France for his work in the resistance. He also won an Emmy along with many other awards.
Resistance is already being compared to the film Life is Beautiful, which is about a man who...
According to Variety, "The film will focus on Marceau’s involvement in the French resistance when his country was occupied by the Nazis during World War II."
Marceau was made Grand Officier de la Légion d’Honneur in 1998 and was awarded the National Order Of Merit in France for his work in the resistance. He also won an Emmy along with many other awards.
Resistance is already being compared to the film Life is Beautiful, which is about a man who...
- 5/23/2017
- by Koren Butkovich
- GeekTyrant
Jesse Eisenberg dabbled with biographical films in 2010’s The Social Network, where he played Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg. Now Variety reports the Now You See Me 2 star is going full biopic for an upcoming movie about Marcel Marceau, the internationally renowned mime and actor who was a part of the French Resistance in his youth. Eisenberg will play Marceau, who joined the French underground in Limoges, where he would alter the ages on the identification cards of other Jewish teens in an effort to keep them out of the labor camps. He also hid Jewish children from the Gestapo, and even posed as a Boy Scout leader to smuggle them into Switzerland. Sadly, when he returned to his hometown of Strasbourg, he learned his father had been captured and sent to Auschwitz, where he was killed along with so many others.
Jonathan Jakubowicz is writing and directing the ...
Jonathan Jakubowicz is writing and directing the ...
- 5/19/2017
- by Danette Chavez
- avclub.com
Jonathan Jakubowicz to write and direct.
Jesse Eisenberg will play the legendary mime Marcel Marceau in Resistance, a feature that will focus on his involvement in the French resistance during the Second World War.
The film will be in the vein of Life Is Beautiful, in which comedy was used as a device to help children survive the Holocaust.
Jonathan Jakubowicz, whose last film Hands Of Stone starring Edgar Ramirez and Robert De Niro premiered in Cannes last year, will direct from his screenplay.
Production is earmarked for early 2018 and the project is being set up as a European coproduction due to Jakubowicz’s EU citizenship.
Marcel Marceau learned to mime to survive and to save the lives of Jewish orphans whose parents had been killed by the Nazis.
He was born Marcel Mangel and grew up speaking Yiddish as the son of a kosher butcher from Strasbourg. His father was eventually killed in Auschwitz.
Marceau was most...
Jesse Eisenberg will play the legendary mime Marcel Marceau in Resistance, a feature that will focus on his involvement in the French resistance during the Second World War.
The film will be in the vein of Life Is Beautiful, in which comedy was used as a device to help children survive the Holocaust.
Jonathan Jakubowicz, whose last film Hands Of Stone starring Edgar Ramirez and Robert De Niro premiered in Cannes last year, will direct from his screenplay.
Production is earmarked for early 2018 and the project is being set up as a European coproduction due to Jakubowicz’s EU citizenship.
Marcel Marceau learned to mime to survive and to save the lives of Jewish orphans whose parents had been killed by the Nazis.
He was born Marcel Mangel and grew up speaking Yiddish as the son of a kosher butcher from Strasbourg. His father was eventually killed in Auschwitz.
Marceau was most...
- 5/19/2017
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
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