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David Cronenberg’s ‘Maps To The Stars’ Finds Julianne Moore, John Cusack & EOne

By NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor | Thursday April 18, 2013 @ 7:15am PDTTags: Big Deals Film, David Cronenberg, Entertainment One, Julianne Moore, Robert Pattinson

Canadian giant Entertainment One will team with Martin Katz’s Prospero Pictures to back David Cronenberg‘s upcoming ensemble thriller Maps To The Stars. Julianne Moore, John Cusack, Robert Pattinson and Sarah Gadon are to star in the ghost story that’s described as a scathing attack on celebrity-obsessed LA. The script is by Wild Palms‘ Bruce Wagner.

EOne will also handle worldwide sales, which it plans to launch in Cannes next month, and distribute in the U.S., Canada, the UK, and Australia and New Zealand. Production starts in July in Toronto and LA. This is Cronenberg and Katz’s fourth collaboration. Katz and SBS Films’ Saïd Ben Saïd are producing. Sentient Entertainment’s Renee Tab, Cronenberg’s manager, will exec produce. EOne’s Benedict Carver is also exec producing and will oversee for the studio. Integral Films’ Alfred Hurmer is co-producing.

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David Cronenberg To Narrate Organ Trade Documentary

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Wednesday November 14, 2012 @ 9:18pm PSTTags: David Cronenberg, HBO

Cosmopolis director David Cronenberg has signed on to voice Tales From The Organ Trade. The documentary is produced by Toronto’s Associated Producers in association with HBO, Global TV and Canal D. Tales From The Organ Trade … Read More »

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Rachel Weisz Eyeing David Cronenberg’s ‘Maps To The Stars’; New Producer Aboard

By NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor | Thursday November 8, 2012 @ 4:01am PSTTags: David Cronenberg, Rachel Weisz

David Cronenberg‘s long-gestating Maps To The Stars is gaining momentum. Robert Pattinson, who starred in Cosmopolis, and Cronenberg regular Viggo Mortensen have already been linked to the Hollywood-set film. Rachel Weisz is now in the mix, according … Read More »

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Universal Sets Adam Berg To Helm ‘Videodrome’ Remake

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday August 22, 2012 @ 12:34pm PDTTags: Big Deals Film, David Cronenberg, Universal Pictures
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Celebrated commercials helmer Adam Berg is in talks to make his feature directing debut on Videodrome, the remake of the 1983 David Cronenberg-directed film that is set up at Universal Pictures. Ehren Kruger scripted … Read More »

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Hot Trailer: Cronenberg’s ‘Cosmopolis’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday July 11, 2012 @ 6:25pm PDTTags: Cosmopolis, David Cronenberg, Paul Giamatti, Robert Pattinson

Here’s a trailer for David Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis with Robert Pattinson, Paul Giamatti, Juliette Binoche and Samantha Morton. Based on Don DeLillo’s novel, the Entertainment One release opens August 17th:

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Tim Roth To Star In MRC’s ‘Knifeman’ Series From David Cronenberg And Rolin Jones

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday June 20, 2012 @ 11:49am PDTTags: Big Deals TV, David Cronenberg, Tim Roth
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar nominee Tim Roth has signed on to star in Media Rights Capital’s TV series project Knifeman. David Cronenberg is set to direct the pilot and executive produce the series, which centers on John Tattersall (Roth), a radical, self-educated surgeon … Read More »

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‘Cosmopolis’ To Open In U.S. On Aug. 17

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday June 7, 2012 @ 2:48pm PDTTags: Cosmopolis, David Cronenberg, eOne, Robert Pattinson

LOS ANGELES/TORONTO – JUNE 7, 2012 – Entertainment One Films US is thrilled to announce the US release date for David Cronenberg’s COSMOPOLIS has been set for August 17, 2012. The film had its world premiere at this year’s

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IFC Takes U.S. Rights To Brandon Cronenberg’s ‘Antiviral’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday June 6, 2012 @ 1:56pm PDTTags: Antiviral, Big Deals Film, Brandon Cronenberg, David Cronenberg, IFC Midnight
Mike Fleming

IFC Midnight acquired U.S. rights to Antiviral, the Brandon Cronenberg-directed film that stars Caleb Landry Jones, Sarah Gadon, Douglas Smith and Malcolm McDowell. Produced by Niv Fichman, the film had its world premiere last month in the Cannes Film Festival’s … Read More »

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TOLDJA! EOne Picks Up Rights To ‘Cosmopolis’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday May 3, 2012 @ 1:40pm PDTTags: Cannes Film Festival, Cosmopolis, David Cronenberg, eOne

Related: Another Pre-Cannes Deal: EOne Closing In On David Cronenberg’s ‘Cosmopolis’

LOS ANGELES/TORONTO/LONDON – MAY 3, 2012 – Entertainment One (“eOne”) is pleased to announce that it has acquired the US and UK distribution rights to COSMOPOLIS in all media, from Paris-based Kinology. As previously announced, eOne will also handle the theatrical release of the film in Canada.

Based on award-winning writer Don DeLillo’s novella of the same name, Cosmopolis is a contemporary thriller about a hedge fund trader who is stalked while his fortune evaporates under the weight of his cynical bets against the survival of the global economy.

Directed by the highly-esteemed and multi-award winning David Cronenberg, the film stars Robert Pattinson, Juliette Binoche and Paul Giamatti. Cosmopolis is a presentation of Paulo Branco and Martin Katz. The film is produced by Paulo Branco of Alfama Films and Martin Katz of Prospero Pictures and is co-produced by Grégoire Melin of Kinology.

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Hot Teaser: ‘Cosmopolis’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday March 22, 2012 @ 11:57am PDTTags: Cosmopolis, David Cronenberg, Robert Pattinson

David Cronenberg wrote and directed Cosmopolis based on Don DeLillo’s novel, a study of capitalism in a slightly futuristic metropolis. It stars Robert Pattinson and is a sure bet to be headed for Cannes in May. It is being released first May 23 in France, where it is the first … Read More »

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MRC Teams With David Cronenberg & Sam Raimi For ‘Knifeman’ Series Project

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday March 12, 2012 @ 5:03pm PDTTags: David Cronenberg, MRC, Sam Raimi
Nellie Andreeva

Beverly Hills, CA (March 12, 2012) – Media Rights Capital announced today that director David Cronenberg will direct the pilot and serve as Executive Producer on its latest television series “KNIFEMAN,” which marks his first foray into television.  Cronenberg

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David Cronenberg, Ralph Fiennes To Get BFI Fellowships

By TIM ADLER in London | Tuesday October 4, 2011 @ 2:03am PDTTags: A Dangerous Method, BFI London Film Festival, Coriolanus, David Cronenberg, Ralph Fiennes

The British Film Institute will award David Cronenberg, director of A Dangerous Method, and Ralph Fiennes, director of Coriolanus, a BFI Fellowship each. It’s the highest award the BFI can offer. Previous fellows include Clint Eastwood, Elizabeth Taylor and David … Read More »

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Gotham Awards Career Tributes To Charlize Theron, David Cronenberg, Gary Oldman

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday September 22, 2011 @ 2:09pm PDTTags: Charlize Theron, David Cronenberg, Gary Oldman, Jason Reitman, Tom Rothman
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Career tributes will be awarded to Charlize Theron, director David Cronenberg and Gary Oldman at the 21st Gotham Independent Film Awards  on Nov. 28. That trio will join Fox Filmed Entertainment chairman/CEO Tom Rothman, who was previously announced by … Read More »

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HAMMOND: Controversial ‘Shame’ Arrives, Stirring Telluride Talk And Scaring Distribs; David Cronenberg’s ‘A Dangerous Method’

By PETE HAMMOND | Monday September 5, 2011 @ 2:20am PDTTags: 38th Annual Telluride Film Festival, David Cronenberg, George Clooney, Michael Fassbender, Midnight In Paris, Steve McQueen, Tilda Swinton, Woody Allen
Pete Hammond

On the heels of their world premieres at the Venice Film Festival, David Cronenberg’s A Dangerous Method and Steve McQueen’s Shame had their North American premieres at Telluride on Sunday. Both films star Michael Fassbender, and in the controversial latter film… Read More »

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VENICE: David Cronenberg’s Psych Class On ‘A Dangerous Method’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Saturday September 3, 2011 @ 12:41pm PDTTags: 68.Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica, A Dangerous Method, David Cronenberg, Venice Film Festival

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NY Film Fest Adds Galas For David Cronenberg And Pedro Almodovar Films

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday August 15, 2011 @ 10:27am PDTTags: A Dangerous Method, David Cronenberg, New York Film Festival, Pedro Almodovar, The Film Society of Lincoln Center, The Skin I Live In
Mike Fleming

New York, NY, August 15, 2011 – The Film Society of Lincoln Center announced the first-time addition of two Galas to join the Opening, Centerpiece and Closing Night Galas for the upcoming 49th New York Film Festival (September 30 – October 16) with David Cronenberg’s A DANGEROUS METHOD set to screen on Wednesday, October 5 and Pedro Almodovar’s THE SKIN I LIVE IN on Wednesday, October 12.

“We’re delighted to be welcoming David Cronenberg to the festival for the first time and to be welcoming back one of the NYFF’s closest friends, Pedro Almodovar,” says Richard Peña, Selection Committee Chair & Program Director, The Film Society of Lincoln Center. “It’s a special pleasure to introduce our audiences to exciting new work by two of contemporary cinema’s most challenging artists.”

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Toronto Fest Sets Canadian Premieres

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday August 9, 2011 @ 7:32am PDTTags: David Cronenberg, Jason Patric, Jay Baruchel, Jean-Marc Vallee, Liev Schreiber, Mary Harron, Michael Dowse, Rob Lowe, Seann William Scott, Toronto Film Festival
Mike Fleming

While most of the industry views the Toronto International Film Festival as a place to showcase films for acquisition or Oscar runs, festival organizers always stock the program with homegrown films. The festival just announced that part of the program, … Read More »

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MRC Buys Black Hole Thriller For Cronenberg

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday August 5, 2011 @ 12:05pm PDTTags: Alice Braga, David Cronenberg, Garrett Basch, Jodie Foster, Matt Damon, Media Rights Capital, Robert Pattinson, Sharlto Copley, Steve Zaillian
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Media Rights Capital has made a pre-emptive acquisition of the Jonathan Lethem novel As She Climbed Across the Table, in a package that has David Cronenberg directing, Bruce Wagner writing and Film Rites’ Steve Zaillian and Garrett Basch producing. Lethem is the author of Motherless Brooklyn.

The novel is a love triangle among an academic, his particle-physicist girlfriend, and the black hole that comes as the result of her lab experiments to replicate the origins of the universe. The physicist dumps her boyfriend to spend all her time with the black hole — which she calls Lack — and the university professor will do anything to win her back, even confronting his rival for her affections and risking a trip down a cosmic rabbit hole. The premise has comedic and thriller elements, and Film Rites brought it first to Cronenberg, who has covered dangerous and creepy obsessions in films ranging from The Fly to Crash and Dead Ringers. The film reteams Cronenberg with Wagner. Cronenberg was exec producer on Wagner’s adaptation of his own novel, I’m Losing You. Read More »

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Rosario Dawson And Vincent Cassel To Join James McAvoy In Danny Boyle’s ‘Trance’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday July 27, 2011 @ 1:00pm PDTTags: Christian Colson, Danny Boyle, David Cronenberg, James McAvoy, John Hodge, Rosario Dawson, Trance, Vincent Cassel
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Rosario Dawson has won the hotly contested female lead in the Danny Boyle-directed Fox Searchlight drama Trance. She is poised to join James McAvoy and Vincent Cassel, who are both in negotiations to play the male leads in a film that will start production in September. McAvoy’s in talks to play the inside man in an art heist that goes wrong. He runs afoul of an accomplice (Cassel), and Dawson will play a woman who develops an unusual relationship with both men in a thriller that is as moderately budget and edgy as Shallow Grave and Trainspotting. Joe Ahearne and John Hodge wrote the script.

Deadline was first to reveal Trance in early May, when Boyle decided to work in a follow-up to 127 Hours even as he prepares to direct the opening ceremonies of next summer’s Olympics in London. He’s re-teaming with frequent producing collaborator Christian Colson. They will shoot the movie in the fall in London, then put it on a shelf while Boyle devotes himself to the Olympics beginning in January. When the games are over, Boyle will start cutting the film in August 2012 with the goal of having the picture ready for Fox Searchlight to release it in March 2013. Read More »

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