Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ 2 has received a major update. The Passion of the Christ is a 2004 epic period drama directed by Mel Gibson, following the final hours in the life of Jesus Christ, prior to his crucifixion. The film starred Jim Caviezel as Jesus, with a supporting cast thta included Monica Bellucci, Maia Morgenstern, Christo Jivkov, Francesco De Vito, Mattia Sbragia, Luca Lionello, and Hristo Shopov. The film was nominated for three Oscars, for Best Cinematography, Best Original Score, and Best Makeup.
As per Variety, an update is provided about The Passion of the Christ 2. Check out the full quote below:
All we can confirm is they were scouting locations recently. Not a lot to discuss at this early stage.
More to come...
Source: Variety...
As per Variety, an update is provided about The Passion of the Christ 2. Check out the full quote below:
All we can confirm is they were scouting locations recently. Not a lot to discuss at this early stage.
More to come...
Source: Variety...
- 9/19/2024
- by Hannah Gearan
- ScreenRant
Michael Lerner — an actor who is known for his roles in Barton Fink, Elf, Godzilla and more — has died at 81 years old, his family announced Sunday.
His nephew, Sam, took to Instagram to share the news, writing, “We lost a legend last night. It’s hard to put into words how brilliant my uncle Michael was, and how influential he was to me.”
The tribute included a carousel of photos of Michael throughout the years. One photo shows Micheal posed with famed comedian Eddie Murphy.
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“His stories always inspired me and made me fall in love with acting. He was the coolest, most confident, talented guy, and the fact that he was my blood will always make me feel special,” Sam wrote of his uncle.
“Everyone that knows him knows how insane he was— in the best way.
His nephew, Sam, took to Instagram to share the news, writing, “We lost a legend last night. It’s hard to put into words how brilliant my uncle Michael was, and how influential he was to me.”
The tribute included a carousel of photos of Michael throughout the years. One photo shows Micheal posed with famed comedian Eddie Murphy.
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“His stories always inspired me and made me fall in love with acting. He was the coolest, most confident, talented guy, and the fact that he was my blood will always make me feel special,” Sam wrote of his uncle.
“Everyone that knows him knows how insane he was— in the best way.
- 4/9/2023
- by Emerson Pearson
- ET Canada
The Passion Of The Christ producer, director and co-writer Mel Gibson is mourning Christo Jivkov, one of the stars of his 2004 blockbuster, who died Friday night in Los Angeles after a long private battle with cancer. He had just turned 48.
“My dear friend Christo has lost his heroic battle with cancer. Right to the last moment he was filled with hope and his spirit was strong,” Gibson said. “I’ll miss him but I know his suffering is over and he has eternal bliss. God keep him.“
Jivkov played John opposite Jim Caviezel and Monica Bellucci in The Passion Of the Christ, which grossed $612M worldwide. After the movie came out, he remained in touch with Gibson, with the two meeting a number of times over the past 19 years. Jivkov was expected to be involved in the long-rumored sequel if/when it came to fruition.
Actor-producer Jivkov also was known...
“My dear friend Christo has lost his heroic battle with cancer. Right to the last moment he was filled with hope and his spirit was strong,” Gibson said. “I’ll miss him but I know his suffering is over and he has eternal bliss. God keep him.“
Jivkov played John opposite Jim Caviezel and Monica Bellucci in The Passion Of the Christ, which grossed $612M worldwide. After the movie came out, he remained in touch with Gibson, with the two meeting a number of times over the past 19 years. Jivkov was expected to be involved in the long-rumored sequel if/when it came to fruition.
Actor-producer Jivkov also was known...
- 4/3/2023
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Actor-producer Christo Jivkov, known for his starring role as John in Mel Gibson’s 2004 blockbuster The Passion Of The Christ, died last night in Los Angeles after a long battle with cancer. He was 48.
Jivkov was born Feb. 18, 1975 in Sofia, Bulgaria. Shortly after graduating from the Bulgarian Film & Theater Academy where he majored in film directing, he was cast as the lead, Giovanni de Medici, in Ermanno Olmi’s 2001 feature The Profession of Arms, which swept the 2002 David di Donatello Awards with nine wins, including Best Film. That led to a career in Italian cinema and television.
Jivkov went on to play John opposite Jim Caviezel and Monica Bellucci in Gibson’s The Passion Of the Christ, which grossed $612M worldwide. He was expected to be involved in the long-rumored sequel if/when it came to fruition.
Jivkov was born Feb. 18, 1975 in Sofia, Bulgaria. Shortly after graduating from the Bulgarian Film & Theater Academy where he majored in film directing, he was cast as the lead, Giovanni de Medici, in Ermanno Olmi’s 2001 feature The Profession of Arms, which swept the 2002 David di Donatello Awards with nine wins, including Best Film. That led to a career in Italian cinema and television.
Jivkov went on to play John opposite Jim Caviezel and Monica Bellucci in Gibson’s The Passion Of the Christ, which grossed $612M worldwide. He was expected to be involved in the long-rumored sequel if/when it came to fruition.
- 4/1/2023
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Academy Award-winning actor, director, producer and screenwriter Mel Gibson has signed with APA.
Gibson had been at CAA, but left after the exit of his primary agents Jack Whigham and Michael Cooper. They went to Range Media Partners. Gibson moved to APA to join president Jim Osborne, who started his career as one of iconic ICM agent Ed Limato’s protege assistants. Limato was Gibson’s agent forever. Gibson went with Limato to WME but parted company with the agency after Limato died, in the wake of controversial comments the actor/director made at a troubled period in his life. He spent several years regaining his footing when he was managed by former CAA honcho Rick Nicita. When Nicita retired, Gibson went to CAA.
Gibson has been busy. He currently stars in three upcoming feature films: the Tim Kirkby-directed action/thriller Last Looks opposite Morena Baccarin and Charlie Hunnam...
Gibson had been at CAA, but left after the exit of his primary agents Jack Whigham and Michael Cooper. They went to Range Media Partners. Gibson moved to APA to join president Jim Osborne, who started his career as one of iconic ICM agent Ed Limato’s protege assistants. Limato was Gibson’s agent forever. Gibson went with Limato to WME but parted company with the agency after Limato died, in the wake of controversial comments the actor/director made at a troubled period in his life. He spent several years regaining his footing when he was managed by former CAA honcho Rick Nicita. When Nicita retired, Gibson went to CAA.
Gibson has been busy. He currently stars in three upcoming feature films: the Tim Kirkby-directed action/thriller Last Looks opposite Morena Baccarin and Charlie Hunnam...
- 9/15/2020
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Darker Than Midnight producer to shoot feature in October.
Rising Italian actress Angela Fontana, co-star of Venice 2016 hit Indivisible (Indivisibili), is to play the lead role in Italian featureLucania, a magical realist drama about a young mute girl caught in the middle of a clash between her farmer father and those who want to poison his fields.
Fontana will star alongside Maia Morgenstern (The Passion Of The Christ), Pippo Delbono (I Am Love), Christo Jivkov (The Passion Of The Christ) and actor-producer Joe Capalbo (At A Glance), who will play the role of the father.
Babylon Sisters filmmaker Gigi Roccati will direct the €1m-budgeted feature, which is due to shoot in southern Italy from October.
The Italian and Romanian-language project is produced by Federico Saraceni and Pilar Saavedra’s Moliwood Films together with Capalbo’s Fabrique Entertainment (Nightlife) in collaboration with Rai Cinema, which has taken TV rights.
The film has production support from Italy’s culture...
Rising Italian actress Angela Fontana, co-star of Venice 2016 hit Indivisible (Indivisibili), is to play the lead role in Italian featureLucania, a magical realist drama about a young mute girl caught in the middle of a clash between her farmer father and those who want to poison his fields.
Fontana will star alongside Maia Morgenstern (The Passion Of The Christ), Pippo Delbono (I Am Love), Christo Jivkov (The Passion Of The Christ) and actor-producer Joe Capalbo (At A Glance), who will play the role of the father.
Babylon Sisters filmmaker Gigi Roccati will direct the €1m-budgeted feature, which is due to shoot in southern Italy from October.
The Italian and Romanian-language project is produced by Federico Saraceni and Pilar Saavedra’s Moliwood Films together with Capalbo’s Fabrique Entertainment (Nightlife) in collaboration with Rai Cinema, which has taken TV rights.
The film has production support from Italy’s culture...
- 8/9/2017
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Barbarossa: Siege Lord
Stars: Rutger Hauer, Raz Degan, F. Murray Abraham, Christo Jivkov, Antonio Cupo, Cécile Cassel, Kasia Smutniak | Written by Renzo Martinelli, Giorgio Schottler | Directed by Renzo Martinelli
Rutger Hauer stars as Germanic Emperor Frederick Barbarossa in this bloodthirsty tale of a deadly medieval siege. Set in Northern Italy, Barbarossa plans to capture the regions of South and Centre and recreate the empire, which many years ago belonged to Charlemagne. As deadly clashes break out between the people of the land, fighting for independence and social status, Barbarossa struggles to keep control. Barbarossa’s problems are further exacerbated when a young man from Milan, along with his army of 900 men known as the “Company of Death”, challenge the Emperors reign.
An ambitious Italian/Romanian co-production, Barbarossa is an epic of historic proportions that despite its flaws is actually a solidly made affair. Originally aired in a 200 minute cut in its native Italy,...
Stars: Rutger Hauer, Raz Degan, F. Murray Abraham, Christo Jivkov, Antonio Cupo, Cécile Cassel, Kasia Smutniak | Written by Renzo Martinelli, Giorgio Schottler | Directed by Renzo Martinelli
Rutger Hauer stars as Germanic Emperor Frederick Barbarossa in this bloodthirsty tale of a deadly medieval siege. Set in Northern Italy, Barbarossa plans to capture the regions of South and Centre and recreate the empire, which many years ago belonged to Charlemagne. As deadly clashes break out between the people of the land, fighting for independence and social status, Barbarossa struggles to keep control. Barbarossa’s problems are further exacerbated when a young man from Milan, along with his army of 900 men known as the “Company of Death”, challenge the Emperors reign.
An ambitious Italian/Romanian co-production, Barbarossa is an epic of historic proportions that despite its flaws is actually a solidly made affair. Originally aired in a 200 minute cut in its native Italy,...
- 4/3/2011
- by Phil
- Nerdly
In Memory of Myself
BERLIN -- Saverio Costanzo won Italy's David award as best new director in 2005 for "Private", in which he looked at the conflict between Israel and Palestine. For his second film, "In Memory of Myself", the Italian filmmaker stays closer to home with a somber study of what makes young men become Catholic priests.
Handsomely shot on location at the spectacular former monastery San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice, the film follows one young man, Andrea (Christo Jivkov), as he enters the novitiate for a period of rigorous examinations of character and conscience. As the Father Superior (Andre Hennicke) says, the novices are there to test the order, but the order also will test the novices.
Reverently filmed at a stately pace, the story hinges on whether Andrea, who has been very successful in the material world (although we are told nothing of it) will find the solace and reward he is seeking in the spiritual environs of the church.
With its very narrow focus, there is not the slightest glance at any of the controversies that embroil the Catholic Church around the world. Costanzo is concerned purely with what Andrea would call his soul.
Mamas whose babies grow up to the priesthood will be reassured by the process depicted and by the strict but kindly men who govern the novices. Those of a more secular bent will find the proceedings inexplicable and a bit worrying.
The difficulty that Costanzo faces in the film's structure is that all of the drama goes on in Andrea's head, and we see a lot of him strolling the massive halls at night, looking quizzical about the other novices behind their locked doors.
Silence is an issue, too, as it appears to be part of the general discipline except when the audience needs a bit of exposition, at which point somebody explains to Andrea what's going on.
It becomes evident that one of the novices has decided to abandon the novitiate and, through dark corners and spooky music, Costanzo conjures up a little tension, but little comes of it. There is a puzzling scene in which the other novices are invited to offer criticisms of Andre and he is denounced as being vain, arrogant, distant, cold, curious and indiscreet. How they intuited this remains a mystery.
When another novice, Zanna (Filippo Timi) declares that he also plans to leave, Andrea decides that he's had enough too. But as the time nears, and the fathers present their theological case in more detail, it only remains to be seen if either Andrea or Zanna -- or both of them -- will decide to leave or stay. By that time, only the very devout will care.
In Memory of Myself (In memoria di me)
Medusa Film and Offside
Credits:
Writer-director: Saverio Costanzo
Producer: Mario Gianini
Cinematographer: Mario Amura
Production designer: Maurizio Leonardi
Costume designer: Antonella Cannarozzi
Editor: Francesca Calvelli
Music: Alter Ego
Cast:
Andrea: Christo Jivkov
Zanna: Filippo Baliani
Father Master: Marco Baliani
Father Superior: Andre Hennicke
Panella: Fausto Russo Alesi
No MPAA rating, running time 118 mins.
Handsomely shot on location at the spectacular former monastery San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice, the film follows one young man, Andrea (Christo Jivkov), as he enters the novitiate for a period of rigorous examinations of character and conscience. As the Father Superior (Andre Hennicke) says, the novices are there to test the order, but the order also will test the novices.
Reverently filmed at a stately pace, the story hinges on whether Andrea, who has been very successful in the material world (although we are told nothing of it) will find the solace and reward he is seeking in the spiritual environs of the church.
With its very narrow focus, there is not the slightest glance at any of the controversies that embroil the Catholic Church around the world. Costanzo is concerned purely with what Andrea would call his soul.
Mamas whose babies grow up to the priesthood will be reassured by the process depicted and by the strict but kindly men who govern the novices. Those of a more secular bent will find the proceedings inexplicable and a bit worrying.
The difficulty that Costanzo faces in the film's structure is that all of the drama goes on in Andrea's head, and we see a lot of him strolling the massive halls at night, looking quizzical about the other novices behind their locked doors.
Silence is an issue, too, as it appears to be part of the general discipline except when the audience needs a bit of exposition, at which point somebody explains to Andrea what's going on.
It becomes evident that one of the novices has decided to abandon the novitiate and, through dark corners and spooky music, Costanzo conjures up a little tension, but little comes of it. There is a puzzling scene in which the other novices are invited to offer criticisms of Andre and he is denounced as being vain, arrogant, distant, cold, curious and indiscreet. How they intuited this remains a mystery.
When another novice, Zanna (Filippo Timi) declares that he also plans to leave, Andrea decides that he's had enough too. But as the time nears, and the fathers present their theological case in more detail, it only remains to be seen if either Andrea or Zanna -- or both of them -- will decide to leave or stay. By that time, only the very devout will care.
In Memory of Myself (In memoria di me)
Medusa Film and Offside
Credits:
Writer-director: Saverio Costanzo
Producer: Mario Gianini
Cinematographer: Mario Amura
Production designer: Maurizio Leonardi
Costume designer: Antonella Cannarozzi
Editor: Francesca Calvelli
Music: Alter Ego
Cast:
Andrea: Christo Jivkov
Zanna: Filippo Baliani
Father Master: Marco Baliani
Father Superior: Andre Hennicke
Panella: Fausto Russo Alesi
No MPAA rating, running time 118 mins.
- 2/11/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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