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Berlin: Killer Role For Colin Farrell, Joining Anthony Hopkins In ‘Solace’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday February 4, 2013 @ 8:58am PSTTags: Anthony Hopkins, Berlin, Big Deals Film, Colin Farrell, FilmNation
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Colin Farrell is closing a deal to star with Anthony Hopkins in Solace, the supernatural thriller that Afonso Poyart (Two Rabbits) will direct with production to begin in May. The film will be sold at Berlin by FilmNation’s Glen Basner, and domestic distribution rights are also up for grabs and are being repped by UTA.

The film’s scripted by Sean Bailey, Ted Griffin, James Vanderbilt and Peter Morgan. It has percolating long enough that the film’s first credited writer, Bailey, is currently president of production at Disney. The film originated at New Line but never came together quite right, and producers Beau Flynn of FlynnPictureCo, Tripp Vinson and Thomas Augsberger. Flynn finally got it back and got the financing through Claudia Bluemhuber’s Silver Reel. Matthias Emcke is exec producer with Bluemhuber, Gerd Schepers and Jacob Pechenik.

An FBI detective seeks the help of a retired and reclusive doctor, to try and solve a series of grisly murders. The doctor was a wiz at the murder game, but lost his mojo when his daughter died tragically. Desperate, the detective presses the doctor to come out of retirement for one more case. Farrell will play the serial killer, putting him mano a mano against Hopkins. That should be fun. They’ve yet to cast the detective. READ MORE »

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Hot Trailer: ‘Dead Man Down’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday January 2, 2013 @ 1:09pm PSTTags: Colin Farrell, Dead Man Down, FilmDistrict, Noomi Rapace

The first trailer for the Colin Farrell-starring Dead Man Down dropped today. Niels Arden Oplev directed the crime thriller, about a professional killer and right-hand man to an underground New York crime lord who’s seduced and blackmailed by a crime victim seeking retribution. The latter juicy role is … Read More »

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‘Dead Man Down’ Gets New Release Date

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday September 27, 2012 @ 4:50pm PDTTags: Colin Farrell, Dead Man Down

FilmDistrict has re-set the release date for the Niels Arden Oplev-helmed Dead Man Down to March 8, 2013, nearly a month earlier than its original April 5 date. It will now open against Buena Vista’s Oz: The Great And … Read More »

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William Hurt Joins Akiva Goldsman’s ‘Winter’s Tale’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday August 1, 2012 @ 10:03am PDTTags: Akiva Goldsman, Big Deals Film, Colin Farrell, Russell Crowe, Will Smith, William Hurt, Winter's Tale
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: William Hurt has been set in the final major role of Winter’s Tale, the Warner Bros adaptation of the Mark Helprin novel that marks the feature directing debut of Oscar-winning scribe Akiva Goldsman. Goldsman worked for … Read More »

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Hot Trailer: ‘Total Recall’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday June 27, 2012 @ 6:05pm PDTTags: Colin Farrell, Total Recall

Here’s a new trailer for Sony’s Len Wiseman-directed version of Total Recall, which stars Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale, Bryan Cranston, Bill Nighy, Jessica Biel, Ethan Hawke and John Cho. Opens August 3rd:

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‘Dead Man Down’ Gets Release Date

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday June 21, 2012 @ 11:26am PDTTags: Colin Farrell, Dead Man Down, FilmDistrict

FilmDistrict has announced an April 5, 2013 release date for the Niels Arden Oplev-helmed Dead Man Down. The film stars Colin Farrell as Victor, a professional killer and the right-hand man to an underground crime … Read More »

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Colin Farrell To Star In Disney’s ‘Saving Mr. Banks’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday June 15, 2012 @ 12:08pm PDTTags: Big Deals Film, Colin Farrell, Saving Mr. Banks, Tom Hanks, Walt Disney
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Colin Farrell is in talks to join the cast of Disney’s Saving Mr. Banks, the John Lee Hancock directed and Kelly Marcel-scripted saga of how Walt Disney waged a 14-year courtship to persuade Australian author P.L. Travers to sell … Read More »

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Beyonce, Colin Farrell, Josh Hutcherson, Amanda Seyfried, Steven Tyler Lead Voice Cast For Fox Animated Film ‘Epic’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday May 31, 2012 @ 10:32am PDTTags: Beyonce, Big Deals Film, Blue Sky Studios, Colin Farrell, Epic
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: 20th Century Fox Animation and Blue Sky Studios have set its voice cast for Epic, the new 3D CG-animated film by the makers of Ice Age and Rio. The Dan Shere-scripted film, which had been developed under the title … Read More »

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FilmDistrict Buys U.S. Rights To Colin Farrell-Noomi Rapace Pic ‘Dead Man Down’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday May 17, 2012 @ 10:37am PDTTags: Cannes Film Festival, Colin Farrell, Dead Man Down, FilmDistrict, Noomi Rapace
Mike Fleming

Colin Farrell Dead Man DownEXCLUSIVE: FilmDistrict has closed a deal for U.S. distribution rights to Dead Man Down, a romantic thriller being directed by Niels Arden Oplev and starring Colin Farrell, Noomi Rapace, Terrence Howard and Dominic Cooper. Rapace and Oplev teamed in The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, and she next stars in the Ridley Scott-directed Prometheus.

It is the second significant acquisition of the Cannes Film Festival by FilmDistrict, which also acquired the horror film Oculus from Intrepid Pictures.

Noomi Rapace Dead Man DownScripted by J.H. Wyman (Fringe), Dead Man Down stars Farrell as the right-hand man to an underground crime lord in New York City who is seduced and blackmailed by Beatrice (Rapace), a crime victim seeking retribution. Their chemistry and intense relationship leads them to execute a violent and cathartic plan for revenge.

The $30 million film is being financed by IM Global and WWE Studios. Original Films’ Neal H. Moritz is producing with Wyman through his Frequency Films shingle. FilmDistrict CEO Peter Schlessel is executive producer along with Ori Marmur, Stuart Ford, Brian Kavanaugh-Jones, Deepak Nayar, and WWE Films’ Michael Luisi. The film began shooting in Philadelphia and New York in April and FilmDistrict will release it in the fall of 2013. Read More »

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Isabelle Huppert Joins ‘Dead Man Down’

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Monday April 30, 2012 @ 12:30pm PDTTags: Cannes Film Festival, Colin Farrell, Dead Man Down

Isabelle Huppert Dead Man DownEXCLUSIVE: Add Isabelle Huppert to the cast of Dead Man Down. The two-time Cannes Film Festival Best Actress winner will join Colin Farrell, Noomi Rapace, Terrence Howard and Dominic Cooper in the underworld thriller. Niels Arden Oplev, who helmed the original 2009 Swedish version of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, is directing. The movie started filming last week in Philadelphia; Huppert begins her filming later in May. Read More »

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Colin Farrell Not Starring In ‘Arthur & Lancelot’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday March 29, 2012 @ 6:58pm PDTTags: Arthur & Lancelot, Colin Farrell, David Dobkin, Warner Bros
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Setting the leads for Arthur & Lancelot is proving as elusive as pulling the sword from the stone. Colin Farrell, who’d been in early talks to play Lancelot in the latest configuration of the David Dobkin-directed film for … Read More »

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Warner Bros Reconsidering ‘Arthur & Lancelot,’ With Colin Farrell In Lead Role

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday March 14, 2012 @ 10:49am PDTTags: Arthur & Lancelot, Colin Farrell, David Dobkin
Mike Fleming

BREAKING: Warner Bros, which late last year put the brakes on David Dobkin’s Arthur & Lancelot, is once again in active talks to make the movie. I’m hearing that Colin Farrell is in the center of talks that aim to … Read More »

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Spirit Awards: Colin Farrell, Willem Dafoe, John Waters To Present

By BRIAN BROOKS | Tuesday February 21, 2012 @ 4:30pm PSTTags: Anna Kendrick, Colin Farrell, Spirit Awards, Willem Dafoe

EXCLUSIVE: Colin Farrell, Willem Dafoe, John Waters, Anna Kendrick and Olivia Wilde are on tap as presenters at this weekend’s Film Independent Spirit Awards. Anthony Mackie and Kate Beckinsale unveiled the nominees for this year’s awards in … Read More »

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New Regency Signs Len Wiseman’s Sketch Films To First-Look Producing Pact

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday December 1, 2011 @ 5:03pm PSTTags: Arnon Milchan, Brad Weston, Colin Farrell, Len Wiseman, New Regency
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: New Regency has signed a two-year first look producing deal with Len Wiseman and David Bernardi’s Sketch Films. The deal was made by New Regency CEO Brad Weston, whose mandate under Arnon Milchan is to turn New Regency into … Read More »

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Woody Harrelson Joins Martin McDonagh’s ‘Seven Psychopaths’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday November 9, 2011 @ 1:12pm PSTTags: Christopher Walken, Colin Farrell, Graham Broadbent, Martin McDonagh, Mickey Rourke, Olga Kurylenko, Peter Czernin, Sam Rockwell, Tessa Ross, Woody Harrelson
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Woody Harrelson, Tom Waits and Olga Kurylenko have joined Colin Farrell, Sam Rockwell and Christopher Walken in Seven Psychopaths. Directed and scripted by In Bruges’ Martin McDonagh, the film began production this week in Los Angeles. CBS Films is … Read More »

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AFM: IM Global Selling ‘Dead Man Down’ With Colin Farrell And ‘Dragon Tattoo’s Niels Arden Oplev And Noomi Rapace

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday November 1, 2011 @ 12:01pm PDTTags: Colin Farrell, IM Global, Neal Moritz, Niels Arden Oplev, Noomi Rapace, Stuart Ford
Mike Fleming

Los Angeles, October 28: Leading independent financing, production and sales company IM Global will fully finance DEAD MAN DOWN, to be produced by Neal H. Moritz’s Original Film and screenwriter J.H. Wyman of Frequency Films, it was announced today by IM Global founder and CEO Stuart Ford and Moritz.

Niels Arden Oplev (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) will direct the $30 million action thriller, which stars Colin Farrell (Total Recall, Horrible Bosses, Miami Vice, S.W.A.T.) and Noomi Rapace (Prometheus, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows).

Moritz (The Fast and the Furious franchise, I Am Legend, XXX) will produce alongside screenwriter J.H. Wyman (Fringe, The Mexican). Original’s Ori Marmur will executive produce with Reid Shane of Frequency.

Following the cinematic phenomenon The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, director Oplev and leading lady Rapace reunite for another thrilling tale of vengeance, with Colin Farrell joining the prestigious team as Victor, right hand man to an underground crime lord in New York City who is seduced and blackmailed by Beatrice (Rapace), a crime victim seeking retribution. Their intense chemistry leads them spiraling into payback delivered in violent catharsis.

DEAD MAN DOWN, a powerful action thriller and portrait of two people caught in the crosshairs of revenge, is scheduled to start shooting in early 2012.

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No ‘Expendables’ Sequel For Mickey Rourke; He’s In Talks For Martin McDonagh’s ‘Seven Psychopaths’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday October 18, 2011 @ 9:51am PDTTags: Christopher Walken, Colin Farrell, Graham Broadbent, Henry Cavill, Martin McDonagh, Mickey Rourke, Peter Czernin, Sam Rockwell, Sylvester Stallone, Tarsem Singh, Tessa Ross
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Mickey Rourke is negotiating to star with Colin Farrell, Sam Rockwell and Christopher Walken in Seven Psychopaths, the next film by In Bruges writer/director Martin McDonagh. That means Rourke will not be reprising his role in the Simon West-directed … Read More »

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CBS Films In Deal For Martin McDonagh’s ‘Seven Psychopaths’ With Colin Farrell, Sam Rockwell And Chris Walken

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday September 30, 2011 @ 11:39am PDTTags: Amy Baer, CBS Films, Christopher Walken, Colin Farrell, Graham Broadbent, Martin McDonagh, Peter Czernin, Sam Rockwell, Scott Shooman, Tessa Ross, Wolfgang Hammer
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: CBS Films is negotiating to co-finance Seven Psychopaths, the next film by In Bruges writer/director Martin McDonagh. CBS Films will distribute the film in the United States. The film reunites McDonagh with his In Bruges star Colin Farrell, who … Read More »

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Autopsy Report: DreamWorks’ ‘Fright Night’

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Sunday August 21, 2011 @ 12:44pm PDTTags: Autopsy Report, Colin Farrell, Craig Gillespie, Domestic Box Office

Not even a shortish 101-minute running time, or Dr. Who‘s David Tennant, or jokes about the Twilight franchise, or borrowing cinematographer Javier Aguirresarobe from Twilight Saga: New Moon could save this film at the box office. Least of … Read More »

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