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Exclusive: Inbar Lavi and Jack Kesy have signed on to star in Vronika, a psychological thriller from writer/director Geert Heetebrij.

Heetebrij’s debut feature centers on strong-willed Roni (Lavi) and her ambitious husband Stephen (Kesy), a stay-at-home crypto-currency day trader who manifests a twin version of his wife named Vronika (also played by Lavi), to assist him in winning trades.

Vronika is being exec produced by Sid Jansma, Jr. and Kelly James Clark with Wolverine Films in cooperation with producers Eric Machiela, Zach Runge, and Ross Vande Waa of Grla. Pic is currently in production, filming in locations throughout West Michigan.

Lavi has appeared on the TV side in series including Lucifer, Stumptown, Imposters, Prison Break and The Last Ship. On the film side, she has appeared in Collin Friesen’s Sorry for Your Loss, Breck Eisner’s The Last Witch Hunter and more.

Justin Bartha (The Hangover) and Geoffrey Owens have joined the ensemble cast of Syfy’s dark comedy pilot (Future) Cult Classic from Shay Hatten (Ballerina), Lorne Michaels’ Broadway Video and Universal Content Productions.

Written by Hatten, (Future) Cult Classic combines the genres of slasher films, high school drama and speculative satire. It is set 18 years in the future and centers on a group of teens whose community is rocked by a 1990s slasher-movie obsessed serial killer. Our heroes quickly realize they’re being targeted and decide to take matters into their own hands and track down the killer—before time runs out.

Bartha will play Jeff, Bree’s (Emily Alyn Lind) father who is a formerly successful true-crime novelist whose career has dried up now that murder has been virtually eradicated. What’s good for society has been bad for him and his family– and leaves him in a desperate...

The Tribeca Film Festival has finalized its juries for the 2018 fest, two days before it kicks off its 17th edition. Names including Martha Coolidge, Norman Reedus, André Holland, Ray Liotta, Chris Messina, Zosia Mamet, Sasheer Zamata, Alyssa Reiner, Josh Charles, Haifaa Al Mansour and Lakeith Stanfield have been set to oversee the features, shorts, Storyscapes section and awards categories.

The fest launches Wednesday night with the world premiere of the Gilda Radner documentary Love, Gilda. Tribeca runs April 18-29 in New York City.

Here’s the full list of jurors:

Feature Film Competition Categories

The jurors for the 2018 Us Narrative Competition section are:

Justin Bartha: Actor Justin Bartha has co-starred in two be-loved billion dollar franchises: The Hangover and National Treasure. Some of Bartha’s other notable film credits include White Girl, Holy Rollers, Dark Horse, The Rebound, opposite Catherine Zeta-Jones, and Failure to Launch with Matthew McConaughey and Sarah Jessica Parker.

Bruce Greenwood, Justin Bartha, and Bravo’s Imposters star Inbar Lavi join indie comedy Sorry For Your Loss from Middle Child Films and Farpoint Films. Currently in production in Winnipeg, the pic is being helmed by first-time director Collin Friesen, who also penned the script. It’s about a new dad, Ken (Bartha) who returns home to bury his estranged father only to have things take a turn for the complicated as the dead man’s final wish is to have his ashes scattered on…...

Bruce Greenwood, Justin Bartha and Inbar Lavi have nabbed the lead roles in Sorry for Your Loss, the directorial debut of writer Collin Friesen (Schitt's Creek, The Big White).

Bartha (The Hangover) plays Ken, a new dad who returns home to bury his estranged father, only to find the dead man's final wish is to have his ashes scattered on the field of his beloved football team. Greenwood plays the estate's slick executor who secretly courts Ken's mom, portrayed by Inbar Lavi (Imposters).

Filming on Sorry for Your Loss from Farpoint Films and Middle Child Films is underway in Winnipeg,...

Bruce Greenwood, Justin Bartha and Inbar Lavi have nabbed the lead roles in Sorry for Your Loss, the directorial debut of writer Collin Friesen (Schitt's Creek, The Big White).

Bartha (The Hangover) plays Ken, a new dad who returns home to bury his estranged father, only to find the dead man's final wish is to have his ashes scattered on the field of his beloved football team. Greenwood plays the estate's slick executor who secretly courts Ken's wife, portrayed by Inbar Lavi (Imposters).

Filming on Sorry for Your Loss from Farpoint Films and Middle Child Films is underway ...

Bruce Greenwood, Justin Bartha and Inbar Lavi have nabbed the lead roles in Sorry for Your Loss, the directorial debut of writer Collin Friesen (Schitt's Creek, The Big White).

Bartha (The Hangover) plays Ken, a new dad who returns home to bury his estranged father, only to find the dead man's final wish is to have his ashes scattered on the field of his beloved football team. Greenwood plays the estate's slick executor who secretly courts Ken's wife, portrayed by Inbar Lavi (Imposters).

Filming on Sorry for Your Loss from Farpoint Films and Middle Child Films is underway ...

If you're an enthusiast of heist flicks, the upcoming Canadian film The Con Artist should interest you. For that matter, the trailer of the film can be seen.

Vince (Rossif Sutherland) is an ex-con on parole after a five year stint in prison. Unable to go straight due to a vicious crime boss (Donald Sutherland) on his heels, Vince returns to stealing cars. But his luck begins to shift when Belinda (Rebecca Romijn), a sexy art dealer, discovers Vince has more to offer than just a tricky past.

The film also stars Sarah Roemer, Russell Peters, Mac Fyfe, Jed Rees, Mary Walsh, Deborah Theaker, Cory Lee, Terra Vnesa, Pedro Miguel Arce and Joel Hynes.

The story was penned by Michael Melski and Collin Friesen.

Finally, no release date has been announced for this film directed by Risa Bramon Garcia. However, the film is currently being showcased at the 2010 Cannes Film Market.

Collin Friesen is suiting up for writing duties on Man in Uniform, a New Line Cinema comedy that has Kevin James attached to star. Bob Cooper is producing via his Landscape Entertainment. The story follows an everyman (James) whose life changes when he takes possession of a policeman's missing uniform. The script originally was written by Michael Galvin and Peter Speakman. Richard Brener and Cale Boyter are overseeing for the studio. Friesen wrote The Big White, a crime caper with Robin Williams, Holly Hunter and Woody Harrelson. He also is writing Money, Money, Money for Universal. Friesen is repped by Endeavor, Principato-Young and attorney Rob Szymanski.

NEW YORK -- British helmer Mark Mylod has been attached to direct the feature comedy The Big White for Landscape Pictures and Ascendant Pictures from a script by Collin Friesen. Landscape said Monday that the project is in active development, with Mylod involved in supervising the final script. Artisan Pictures is on board to distribute the film domestically, with Ascendant's Christopher Eberts and Chris Roberts producing with Empire Pictures' Michael Birnbaum. David Faigenblum is also shouldering producing duties. Set in Alaska, Big White follows a hapless travel agent whose wife suffers from psychosomatic Tourette's Syndrome. Convinced a warmer climate might cure her ailment, he hatches a scheme to cash in on a million-dollar life insurance policy by stealing a corpse and pretending it's his long-missing brother.