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‘Dead Man Down’ Filming Set As WWE Studios Joins IM Global In Co-Financing

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday April 20, 2012 @ 4:34pm PDTTags: Dead Man Down, IM Global, Niels Arden Oplev, Noomi Rapace, WWE Studios

Principal photography for Dead Man Down, a romantic thriller directed by Niels Arden Oplev, is slated to begin Monday in Philadelphia. The movie stars Colin Farrell, Noomi Rapace, Terrence Howard and Dominic Cooper. Oplev directed Rapace in an earlier revenge-themed movie, the Swedish version of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. Farrell plays a crime lord’s right-hand man who is seduced by Rapace’s character in a scheme to exact retribution. Financing, sales and distribution company IM Global founder and CEO Stuart Ford and WWE Studios President Michael Luisi also announced that WWE Studios has joined IM Global as co-financier on the project. Neal Moritz’s Original Film and screenwriter J.H. Wyman of Frequency Films are producing the $30 million movie.

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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
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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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Niels Arden Oplev In Talks To Direct ‘Game Theory’ For Summit & Participant Media

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday July 5, 2011 @ 6:48pm PDTTags: Alex Goldstone, Anonymous Content, Niels Arden Oplev, Participant Media, Summit Entertainment, Temple Hill Entertainment

EXCLUSIVE: Niels Arden Oplev is in negotiations to direct Game Theory, a feature for Summit Entertainment and Participant Media. The screenplay, written by Michael Alan Lerner, centers on a college professor and game theorist who gets sucked into a large-scale … Read More »

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Sean Penn, Christian Bale Circle ‘The Last Photograph’ Along With Dark Castle

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday April 12, 2011 @ 1:47pm PDTTags: Andrew Rona, Christian Bale, Deborah Snyder, Gianni Nunnari, Joel Silver, Kurt Johnstad, Liam Neeson, Niels Arden Oplev, Sean Penn, Zack Snyder
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Sean Penn is circling The Last Photograph, and I’m told he plans to join Christian Bale in the Kurt Johnstad-scripted drama that will be directed by Niels Arden Oplev, director of the Swedish The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. The film is moving from Warner Bros, and is in negotiations to move to Dark Castle, whose Joel Silver and Andrew Rona would board the project as producers and put up the financing. Zack and Deborah Snyder are producing with Hollywood Gang’s Gianni Nunnari.

The film came from an idea by Snyder, who set it up  at Warner Bros with his wife and Nunnari after they all worked together on 300. Set in Afghanistan, it is a timely drama that has elements of The Searchers and Taken. Bale plays a war correspondent who witnesses and is the only survivor of an attack on a group of Americans. Penn is circling the role of a retired ex-special ops soldier who comes to the scene determined to free a family member who has been kidnapped. The journalist agrees to help identify the kidnappers and travel the rough terrain to find them, in exchange for the story. The road brings them in confrontation with tribal regions of Afghanistan, and none of the diplomats will help. Read More »

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Poppy Montgomery Set As The Lead Of CBS Drama Pilot

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday February 28, 2011 @ 1:24pm PSTTags: Ed Redlich, John Bellucci, Niels Arden Oplev, Poppy Montgomery, TV, TV Casting, TV Deals, TV Pilots
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: Without a Trace co-star Poppy Montgomery is returning to CBS as the star of the network’s untitled Ed Redlich/John Bellucci pilot. The project, which will be directed by The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo helmer Niels Arden Oplev, centers … Read More »

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CBS’ Redlich/Bellucci Pilot Is A Go, ‘Girl With The Dragon Tattoo’ Helmer To Direct

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday February 2, 2011 @ 11:39am PSTTags: CBS, CBS Pilots, Ed Redlich, John Bellucci, Niels Arden Oplev, TV
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: CBS’ untitled Ed Redlich/John Bellucci drama pilot, which was rolled over from last season, has been given a formal green light, with Niels Arden Oplev, director of  The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, on board to direct.

The project, co-produced … Read More »

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