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Leone Film Group’s Lotus Production shingle is setting up Lotus Factory, a new unit for high-profile genre projects out of Italy made for the international market.

These currently include a live action TV series in development on the origins of Santa Clause, for which Lotus chief Marco Belardi has recruited top U.S. talent: Oscar-nominated writer Jim Capobianco (“Ratatouille”) and Robert Lence.

“We are planning to make films of different genres from those that are usually produced in Italy,” Belardi told Variety, noting that Italy’s scripted content output is largely made up of “dramas, comedies and an occasional noir.”

For example, Italian film and TV content targeting family audiences is quite scarce, a gap Belardi is looking to fill with Lotus Factory.

Belardi has recruited young Italian director Nicola Abbatangelo, who recently completed “The Land of Dreams,” an English-language movie musical set in 1920s New York, to serve...

Distributor plots move into genre and family movies, beginning with Asghar Farhadi’s upcoming thriller.

Italian distribution company Lucky Red is planning to ramp up its production operation, with a focus on genre and family movies.

At an event held in Rome yesterday (June 26) to mark the company’s 30th anniversary, founder and CEO Andrea Occhipinti said: “Distribution will remain our core business, but we want to become one of the most important production companies in Italy.”

“Production may be a good way not to be too dependent on acquisitions, since it’s becoming harder to get the good movies. Instead a good Italian film can make a big difference at the box office”.

One of the most prestigious projects that Lucky Red is co-producing is Asghar Farhadi’s untitled Spanish-language thriller starring Penelope Cruz, Javier Bardem and Ricardo Darin (pictured, top).

As Screen announced during Cannes, the $12-13m project is a French-Spanish-Italian co-production with Lucky Red...

Distributor plots move into genre and family movies, beginning with Asghar Farhadi’s upcoming thriller.

Italian distribution company Lucky Red is planning to ramp up its production operation, with a focus on genre and family movies.

At an event held in Rome yesterday (June 26) to mark the company’s 30th anniversary, founder and CEO Andrea Occhipinti said: “Distribution will remain our core business, but we want to become one of the most important production companies in Italy.”

“Production may be a good way not to be too dependent on acquisitions, since it’s becoming harder to get the good movies. Instead a good Italian film can make a big difference at the box office”.

One of the most prestigious projects that Lucky Red is co-producing is Asghar Farhadi’s untitled Spanish-language thriller starring Penelope Cruz, Javier Bardem and Ricardo Darin (pictured, top).

As Screen announced during Cannes, the $12-13m project is a French-Spanish-Italian co-production with Lucky Red...

Over the last few years, there has been a cinematic emergence of one-location films that stretch the boundaries of the phrase. From The Raid’s single apartment complex to Locke and Buried’s car and coffin claustrophobia, filmmakers have been toying with how much tension, humanity, and narrative expansion they can squeeze out of a minimalist scale. Aside from the obvious geographic restraints inherent in this conceit, the filmmaker(s) must find a way to construct a bridge of pathos between the audience and the protagonist — despite them existing in a continual state of minute-to-minute struggle — as a means elevate the film beyond just an exercise in tension and suffering. In Mine, the feature debut of writing-directing duo Fabio Resinaro and Fabio Guaglione, this obstacle is overly-accounted for, resulting in a jumbled, hodgepodge of ideas and images that spoil the initially intriguing premise.

Mine opens in a way that foreshadows its own intrinsically flawed structure.

Welcome back to the Weekend Warrior, your weekly look at the new movies hitting theaters this weekend, as well as other cool events and things to check out.

Three New Movies May Have Trouble Making Much of a Mark

After a couple impressive March weekends with one new box office record, and a couple impressive openings, we’re now into April, and of the new movies, there just doesn’t seem like anything can defeat last week’s powerful duo of DreamWorks Animation’s The Boss Baby--which exceeded all predictions with $49 million, taking the top spot from Beauty and the Beast. Ghost in the Shell didn’t even do as well as I thought it may, opening with just $19 million, those late reviews helping to kill its weekend.

Sony Pictures Animation are giving the loveable blue Smurfs a third go at American audiences with The Smurfs: The Lost Village (Sony), after two previous movies,...

Fabio Guaglione and Fabio Resinaro’s war-set thriller doesn’t unveil its grand conceit until about 20 minutes in, using nearly all of its first act to set up pieces it will inevitably knock back down and introducing character traits it will dismantle during the rest of its mostly interminable runtime. Set in the sprawling desert of North Africa, the film opens three months into Marine Mike Stevens’ (Armie Hammer) latest tour of duty, hiding out on the top of a salt flat along with his best pal Tommy Madison (Tom Cullen, saddled with a “thick-accented Southerner soldier” stereotype that gives him little to work with beyond drawing out his r’s), waiting for a long-promised target.

While it’s clear from the jump that Mike isn’t here to play games — “I’m not here to play games, man,” he actually tells Tommy at one point — the second there’s...

It always seems like Armie Hammer is just inches away from becoming a real A list actor. He is a definite talent, one continually on the rise. It’s just a matter of getting parts befitting that rising star. This week, Hammer has a role to really sink his teeth into with Mine, an almost one man show. It’s probably the best part he’s found since his big breakthrough in The Social Network. This won’t be nearly as big a deal, but it’s a similarly good showcase for his skills. If he keeps this up, some real awards attention will eventually come his way. As you’ll see below, this might even end up being his year… The film is a small scale war tale, closer to a psychological thriller than an epic. For Sargent Mike Stevens (Hammer), a Marine sniper, the dangers are aplenty. There...

Mine Director: Fabio Guaglione, Fabio Resinaro Written by: Fabio Guaglione, Fabio Resinaro Cast: Armie Hammer, Tom Cullen, Annabelle Wallis, Juliet Aubrey, Geoff Bell, Clint Dyer Opens: April 7, 2017 The movies are a perfect medium for the projection of war stories. That’s a no-brainer. Arguably the most exciting recent feature in that area, Clint Eastwood’s […]

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Not since James Franco had his arm pinned under a boulder in 127 Hours, Tom Hardy got behind the wheel of his BMW in Locke, or Ryan Reynolds was interred alive in Buried has a leading man remained stationary for as long as Armie Hammer in Mine. This creates challenges that Italian first-time feature writers-directors Fabio Resinaro and Fabio Guaglione only partly surmount in their stylishly made military thriller about one man stuck with his demons in a hostile desert. While the protagonist's backstory is not sufficiently original to sustain tension throughout, Hammer's committed performance keeps you watching, which should...

Us Marine Mike is in quite the pickle: he’s stepped on a landmine and if he lifts his foot it’ll explode. On top of that, he’s in the middle of a baking desert and is out of water. On top of that, his best friend just stepped on another landmine and exploded into bloody chunks. The good news is that he’s managed to radio command and request a rescue. The bad news is that he’ll have to wait 52 hours for them to get there. Eek.

Mine dramatizes this torturous waiting game, and the vast majority of the film is spent watching Mike, sweatily played by an increasingly gross-looking Armie Hammer, standing still (and sometimes kneeling) in the middle of a featureless desert as he struggles to stay sane and stay alive.

Written and directed by Italian duo Fabio Guaglione and Fabio Resinaro, Mine revels in...

Exclusive: Brisk business for Italian sales outfit at Efm.

Rome-based sales company True Colours struck multiple deals at this year’s European Film Market (Efm) for It’s The Law (pictured), One Kiss and Monolith.

Comedy duo Ficarra and Picone’s hit It’s The Law, about a village in Sicily that elects a straight-arrow professor as mayor, will be distributed in Latin America by Sun Distribution, in China by Hy Media, in Greece by Seven Films and in Bulgaria by Film Vision.

True Colours is also handling international remake rights for the film, which was produced by Tramp Limited and distributed in Italy by Medusa Film.

Ivan Cotroneo’s adult dramedy One Kiss, about three high school outsiders, was sold to Japan Italy Films and to Portugal’s Il Sorpasso. There were already deals in place for USA, UK (Tla), France (Optimale) and Germany (Pro-fun).

True Colours has also inked deals for English-language Italian thriller [link=tt...

Here's the intense first trailer for Mine, a new thriller starring Armie Hammer as a soldier who gets caught between a rock and a hard place when he steps on a land mine in a foreign desert. If he moves, the bomb goes off and he's toast. So the majority of the movie appears to be devoted to throwing everything possible at this character to see if he'll be able to, as the tag line says, "stand [his] ground." It's a fresh twist on a familiar genre convention, and I'm looking forward to seeing if Hammer and co-writers/co-directors Fabio Guaglione and Fabio Resinaro can deliver on the nail-biting promise of this trailer.

Mine hits theaters on April 7, 2017.

After a failed assassination attempt, a soldier finds himself stranded in the desert. Exposed to the elements, he must survive the dangers of the desert and battle the psychological and physical toll of the treacherous conditions.

Armie Hammer is almost performing a one-man show in Mine. The Man from U.N.Cl.E. star isn’t alone in Fabio Guaglione and Fabio Resinaro‘s thriller, but he spends much of it on his own in the frame, with one foot resting not-so-comfortably on a landmine in the desert. To stay alive, he’ll have to survive the next 52 hours by […]

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"What if every step could be your last?" Well Go has debuted a trailer for an indie drama titled Mine, about a Us soldier stranded in the desert after his mission goes awry. I'm surprised we haven't heard about this film before? This is the first I've come across it at all. Armie Hammer stars as Mike, a Us soldier on an assassination mission in the Middle East. He ends up stranded standing on top of a mine in the desert for over two days, struggling to survive amidst the elements. The full cast includes Annabelle Wallis, Tom Cullen, Juliet Aubrey, Geoff Bell and Clint Dyer. This looks surprisingly quite good, not as bland or as cheesy as expected from the description. Hammer is a talented guy, and I'm intrigued to see him in this role. Here's the official trailer (+ poster) for Fabio Guaglione & Fabio Resinaro's Mine, direct from...

Spare a thought for Armie Hammer. The towering actor is just coming off Ben Wheatley’s star-studded Free Fire, a pulse-pounding action-comedy in which he plays Ord, a shady arms dealer that is thrust into the middle of a full-blown firefight once things go south. But for Hammer, it’s out of the frying pan and into the freezer – or should that be desert? – for Mine, Fabio Guaglione and Fabio Resinaro’s wartime thriller that centers on a U.S. soldier left stranded under the scorching desert sun.

Without any sign of rescue for the next 52 hours, up above you’ll see how Mine transforms into a gritty survival movie, as Armie Hammer’s haggard lead struggles to cope in one of the most inhospitable environments on the planet. To make matters worse, enemy forces begin to swarm in on his location, and it doesn’t take long before Hammer...

Armie Hammer has come a long way from playing the Winklevi twins. After that breakthrough role in “The Social Network,” the actor has appeared in everything from “J. Edgar” and “The Man from U.N.C.L.E.” to “The Birth of a Nation” and this year’s Sundance hit “Call Me by Your Name.” He’ll next be seen in “Mine,” whose first trailer just premiered. Watch it below.

Read More: ‘Final Portrait’ Review: Armie Hammer and Geoffrey Rush Star in Stanley Tucci’s Engaging Biopic — Berlinale 2017

Though it bears no official relation to the Oscar-nominated “Land of Mine,” Fabio Guaglione and Fabio Resinaro’s drama likewise concerns land mines. Hammer stars as a soldier who accidentally places one foot atop one such device after a failed mission in the desert; if he shifts his weight, the mine will explode. His only choice is to stay in place, fending off the elements and...

Armie Hammer is certainly the man of the moment. He’s still riding the buzz of “Call Me By Your Name” from Sundance, which continued into Berlin, where it not only screened for Euro audiences, but Hammer had another movie unspool, “Final Portrait” with Geoffrey Rush. And this spring, the actor will show yet another side with the lean and mean thriller “Mine.”

Read More: Berlin First Look: Armie Hammer Takes A Seat For Geoffrey Rush In Clip From ‘Final Portrait’

Co-directed by Fabio Guaglione and Fabio Resinaro, this is sort of an interesting twist on a single location movie, with the story following a U.S.

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Exclusive: Italian sales outfit picks up Ride, It’s The Law, and Two Irenes.

Rome-based sales company True Colours has added English-language extreme sports drama Ride, Italian box office hit It’s The Law and Generation Kplus title Two Irenes (As Duas Irenes) to its Efm slate.

Brazilian filmmaker Fabio Meira’s Two Irenes - about two girls with the same name and an unexpected connection – marks the first non-Italian production for Rome-based True Colours since it launched in 2015.

Ride is a horror thriller about extreme sports shot entirely on GoPro cameras by writing and directing duo Fabio Guaglione and Fabio Resinaro. It follows their military thriller Mine, starring Armie Hammer, which was picked up by Well Go USA Entertainment for North America.

The company has acquired sales on comedy duo Ficarra and Picone’s new hit It’s The Law (L’Ora Legale) about a village in Sicily that elects a straight-arrow professor as mayor. The film...

Keep up with the wild and wooly world of indie film acquisitions with our weekly Rundown of everything that’s been picked up around the globe. Check out last week’s Rundown here.

– Exclusive: Zeitgeist Films has acquired Anna Muylaert’s (“The Second Mother”) newest feature, “Don’t Call Me Son,” which premiered at this year’s Berlinale. The film is a fact-based drama that follows “17-year-old Pierre [who] is informed that he was kidnapped at birth and that the working-class woman who raised him is not his mother. He is obliged to take up a new life with the middle-class family who has spent 17 years obsessed by his disappearance. His tentative explorations of sexual identity, barely remarked upon by the mother he knew, prove deeply unsettling to the mother he didn’t.

The film will open in New York City at Film Forum on November 2, with a national rollout to follow.

The Safran Company military thriller starring Armie Hammer will get an autumn North American release.

Well Go USA has acquired North American rights to military thriller Mine, written and directed by Fabio Guaglione and Fabio Resinaro and starring Armie Hammer.

Well Go says the film, produced by The Safran Company in association with Roxbury, Poznan Film Group and Sun Film, will play on the festival circuit this autumn and subsequently get a theatrical, digital and home video release throughout the Us and Canada.

Hammer stars as a Us soldier who is stranded after a mission goes awry and must fight for survival against his enemies and an unforgiving desert environment. Annabelle Wallis and Tom Cullen co-star and Peter Safran produces. Executive producers are Hammer, Miguel Angel Faura, Natalia Safran, Guaglione and Resinaro.

Well Go USA Entertainment president and CEO Doris Pfardrescher said: “An excellent thriller can surprise and shock audiences, and [link=tt...

Well Go USA Entertainment has acquired North American rights on the Fabio Guaglione & Fabio Resinaro-directed Mine, the military thriller that stars Armie Hammer. Peter Safran produced through The Safran Company. The pic is an action-packed military thriller with Hammer playing a U.S. soldier who is stranded after a mission goes awry. He battles for survival against hostile forces, the desert heat and the psychological toll of the situation. Annabelle Wallis Tom Cullen…...

'The Man from U.N.C.L.E.' 2015: Henry Cavill and Armie Hammer. 'The Man from U.N.C.L.E.' movie is a domestic box office bomb: Will it be saved by international filmgoers? Directed by Sherlock Holmes' Guy Ritchie and toplining Man of Steel star Henry Cavill and The Lone Ranger costar Armie Hammer, the Warner Bros. release The Man from U.N.C.L.E. has been a domestic box office disaster, performing about 25 percent below – already quite modest – expectations. (See also: “'The Man from U.N.C.L.E.' Movie: Bigger Box Office Flop Than Expected.”) This past weekend, the $80 million-budget The Man from U.N.C.L.E. collected a meager $13.42 million from 3,638 North American theaters, averaging $3,689 per site. After five days out, the big-screen reboot of the popular 1960s television series starring Robert Vaughn and David McCallum has taken in a mere $16.77 million. For comparison's sake:...

The Italian co-directing and writing team of Fabio Guaglione and Fabio Resinaro, whose short film Afterville won the Melies d'Argent at Sitges in 2008, are hard at work in post-production on their first feature directing job, Mine. (True Love, which they wrote and produced, played the festival circuit in 2012/2013). A Spanish-Italian-us co-production, it's produced by Peter Safran (Buried, The Conjuring) and M.A. Faura (Painless, Enemy).If that isn't enough great genre pedigree, The Lone Ranger's Armie Hammer stars. Shot mainly in the Canary Islands, Mine is a psychological thriller about a soldier who, after a failed assassination attempt, finds himself trapped in the desert, where he must battle nature, guerillas, and his own deteriorating mental and physical state.We've got two exclusive photos for you, one...

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Armie Hammer and Elizabeth Chambers are inseparable—especially due to the fact that their firstborn child will be born in just a few weeks! The pregnant Bird Bakery owner posed with her husband on the set of Mine and shared a picture via Instagram Wednesday. "Military prom pose. #tippytoes," she wrote. Chambers also revealed that she's eight and a half months pregnant! The mom-to-be recently shared a photo of her "precious husband and his crew cut" while on location in Corralejo, Fuerteventura. Fabio Guaglione and Fabio Resinaro wrote the script and are directing the psychological thriller. Hammer, who is also an executive producer, plays a soldier who gets stranded in the desert after a...

• Anthony Hopkins has been cast in Go With Me. The film comes from helmer Daniel Alfredson, whom Hopkins worked with on Kidnapping Freddy Heineken. Adapted from the 2008 novel by Castle Freeman Jr., the story follows a young woman who is harassed by cop-turned-crimelord Blackway upon returning home in the Pacific Northwest. Rather than leave, she seeks the help of ex-logger (Hopkins) and his right-hand man to fight back. Joe Gangemi and Gregory Jacobs are adapting the novel for the screen. A joint production, Rick Dugdale is producing for Enderby Entertainment alongside Lindsay Williams and Ellen Goldsmith-Vein for The Gotham Group.

Exclusive: British actress Annabelle Wallis has boarded psychological thriller Mine from writer-directors Fabio Guaglione and Fabio Resinaro, the team behind award-winning short Afterville. Armie Hammer stars as Mike, a soldier who finds himself stranded in the desert after a failed assassination mission. There, he has to survive many dangers while also battling the psychological toll of his situation. Wallis will play Jenny, the girlfriend with whom Mike has a complicated relationship. The desire to reconcile with her helps him endure. Peter Safran is producing through The Safran Company. Production starts this month in the Canary Islands. Wallis has been keeping busy of late, segueing from television to film in the U.S. and the UK. Her credits include Pan Am, along with Peaky Blinders, X-Men: First Class and the upcoming Conjuring spinoff, Annabelle, which opens domestically on October 3. She’s also one of the female leads opposite Sacha Baron Cohen...

Indie production company Mercurio Domina (True Love) is at Cannes with a new project, Glitch, and co-writers/producers Fabio Guaglione and Fabio Resinaro provided us with an exclusive look at the film's teaser sales art.

Enrico Clerico Nasino will direct Glitch under the supervision of the Fabios.

"We loved so much the experience of working on an independent and self-contained movie that right now we're developing a mini-slate of micro budget movies with our company," says Guaglione.

"The first of them is going to be Glitch, a psychological thriller with a sci-fi background… or at least it seems so. Is it sci-fi or not? It's a movie about paranoia, about questioning what's real and what it isn't," he adds.

"We don't want to reveal anything yet, not even the main concept, but we can say that the story deals with how internet influences more and more people's perception of reality,...

Exclusive: K5 International has snapped up psychological thriller Mine, produced by Peter Safran (The Conjuring) and starring Armie Hammer.

K5 will present the project to buyers on the Croisette from today.

Mine, co-directed and written by Fabio Guaglione and Fabio Resinaro, follows Hammer as a soldier who finds himself stranded in the desert after a failed assassination mission. Tired and thirsty, he is horribly exposed to the elements and must survive the many dangers of the desert while also battling the psychological toll of his treacherous situation.

Safran is producing the film through the Safran Company, which will also finance the project. Hammer is executive producer with Joan Mao co-producing. Production is set to start September in the Canary Islands.

Wme, who represents Hammer is handling the film’s Us sale with Safran. K5 is handling all other international rights.

Hammer, star of The Social Network, will next be seen in The Man From Uncle in the...

The classic "Human versus The Elements" formula has been finding new life at the multiplex in recent years. Liam Neeson turned it into a surprise hit a few years back with The Grey, and Sandra Bullock gave us an even more successful version of that story with last year's Gravity. In a world where it's easy to start stacking A-list cast members in a story of survival, it's sometimes the best idea to focus on just one very talented actor that could use a break. Which is exactly the situation Armie Hammer has found himself in after last year's disastrous The Lone Ranger, and as luck (or a really good agent) would have it, he's landed himself just that type of role in a project named Mine. Co-directed and co-written by relative unknowns Fabio Guaglione and Fabio Resinaro, Variety describes Mine as a film about: "A soldier who, after a...

Variety reports that Armie Hammer, 27, will star in “Mine,” a psychological thriller by Fabio Guaglione and Fabio Resinaro. In “Mine,” Hammer is set to play a soldier who becomes stranded in the desert after a failed assassination mission. He faces the physical dangers of being alone in an uninhabitable environment whilst also enduring the psychological toll that comes along with it. In addition to starring in the project, Hammer is executive producing alongside producers Joan Mao (“Undisputed 3: Redemption”) and Peter Safran (“The Conjuring”). Production is slated to begin in the fall. Hammer first garnered attention for his scene-stealing [...]

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Mine

Armie Hammer is set to star in Fabio Guaglione and Fabio Resinaro's psychological thriller "Mine" at the Safran Company. Filming begins this Fall.

Hammer will play a soldier who, after a failed assassination mission, finds himself stranded in the desert where he struggles to survive. [Source: Variety]

Patient

Adrien Brody, Dustin Hoffman and Alain Delon will star in producer Valery Saharyan's "Patient" which deals with the Armenian Genocide.

The story follows Armenian composer Komitas, who after witnessing the horrors of the genocide, was not able to recover from the shock he experienced. He died after staying in a psychiatric clinic in Paris for 20 years. [Source: Arka]

The B Team

John Cleese has joined the cast of Chris Cottam's spy spoof "The B Team" for American Entertainment and Meyers Media Group. The story follows much of the cast of "Baywatch" who reunite to take down an arch-criminal (Cleese) who is a big fan of the show.

• Allison Janney (The West Wing) and Morena Baccarin (Homeland) will both play CIA agents in Paul Feig’s Spy, which is currently filming in Europe. The comedy, about a CIA analyst who gets a shot at field work, reunites the Bridesmaids director with Melissa McCarthy and Rose Byrne, while Jude Law, Jason Statham, and Bobby Cannavale round out the ensemble cast. [Deadline; THR]

• Rob Lowe has boarded Monster Trucks. Plot details are being kept under wraps for the live-action/animation hybrid, which will also feature Thomas Lennon, Danny Glover, Jane Levy, Amy Ryan, and Lucas Till. [Deadline]

• Tim Blake Nelson (O Brother, Where Art Thou?...

Armie Hammer is set to star in the psychological thriller Mine, which is being set up by The Conjuring producer Peter Safran.

The story centers on a soldier who becomes stranded in the desert after failing at an assassination mission. He must try to endure not only the dangerous desert elements, but the psychological toll it has taken on him.

Fabio Guaglione and Fabio Resinaro are directing from their own original screenplay, with Peter Safran producing and financing the project through his Safran Company. Armie Hammer is serving as executive producer, with Joan Mao set to co-produce. Shooting is scheduled to begin this fall, with the producer and William Morris Endeavor shopping the international rights at the Cannes Film Festival next month.

Armie Hammer most recently starred in Disney's The Lone Ranger, and he will next be seen in Warner Bros.' The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

Here's some casting news for the following leading men: Armie Hammer is set to star in co-writers/directors Fabio Guaglione and Fabio Resinaro's psychological thriller, Mine. Rob Lowe is the latest addition to the live-action/animation hybrid picture, Monster Trucks, also starring Danny Glover, Jane Levy, Amy Ryan, Lucas Till, Holt McCallany, Thomas Lennon, and Barry Pepper. Step Up Revolution and Pretty Little Liars star Ryan Guzman has joined Jon M. Chu's 80s cartoon adaptation, Jem and the Holograms. Hit the jump for more on each casting announcement. First up from Variety is news that Hammer will star in Mine, a psychological thriller produced by The Conjuring's Peter Safran.  Hammer will play a soldier stranded in the desert after a failed assassination mission.  In order to survive, he must battle exposure to the elements while resisting the psychological damages brought on by his precarious situation.  Production is expected to begin this fall.

Armie Hammer. I love that name. He's the dude who played the titular Lone Ranger in last year's action flick, and this year he heads to the desert for a little psychological torment. Read on, Hammer-Heads!

Variety reports that Hammer has been cast as the lead in Mine, a new thriller being produced by Peter Safran (The Conjuring). The film will be co-directed and was written by Fabio Guaglione and Fabio Resinaro.

Hammer plays a soldier who, after a failed assassination mission, finds himself stranded in the desert. Exposed to the elements, he must survive the dangers of the desert while also battling the psychological toll of the treacherous situation.

Safran will produce through the Safran Company which will also finance the project. Hammer will exec produce with Joan Mao co-producing.

Production is set to start this fall. Wme is co-repping the sale with Safran which the two selling international...

The Lone Ranger and The Social Network star Armie Hammer is set to headline an upcoming psychological thriller titled Mine , Variety reports. Fabio Guaglione and Fabio Resinaro are attached to both direct and provide the screenplay. Mine will star Hammer as a soldier stranded in the desert after a failed mission, forced to survive both the elements and an ongoing struggle with his own psychological state. Hammer can soon be seen starring opposite Henry Cavill in director Guy Ritchie's The Man From U.N.C.L.E. . That film hits theaters January 16, 2015. The Conjuring producer Peter Safran is producing Mine through his Safran Company alongside Joan Mao. Hammer is also attached to executive produce with production slated to begin this fall. (Photo Credit: Judy...

Armie Hammer may not have seen the career boost he might have expected when The Lone Ranger failed to connect with audiences, but he’s still booking films. Variety reports that he’ll star in a psychological thriller called Mine.No, the film won’t see him playing a live-action version of the seagulls from Finding Nemo. He’s actually set to play a soldier who finds himself stranded in the desert after a failed assassination mission. Exposed to the rigours of the harsh environment, he’ll have to battle life-threatening dangers and psychological trauma as he tries to survive. We're guessing there might be landmines involved as well, but possibly we're overthinking the title there.Fabio Guaglione and Fabio Resinaro are set to co-write and direct the film, aiming to star work in the autumn, with The Conjuring's producer Peter Safran overseeing the shoot. We’re just hoping...

In Italy they're known as Fabio&Fabio, a directing and screenwriting duo born in the Eighties and clearly influenced by everything released in the next two decades. Their real names are Fabio Guaglione and Fabio Resinaro and their story doesn't differ much from what we've heard from hundreds of other directors: Fabio&Fabio started  doing their own stuff without bothering to attend a film school or any kind of workshop. They just practiced the craft.  In the last decade they both worked and shared any kind of filmmaking experience, directing four short movies that traveled through the sci-fi genre festival circuit. First one was Ti chiamo io (I'll call you), then the breakthrough with E:d:e:n (2004), The Silver Rope (2006) and Afterville (2008). For all these years...

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With the 12th annual Screamfest L.A. Film Festival running this Friday, October 12th, thru the 20th, we chatted with True Love Italian producers and screenwriters Fabio Guaglione and Fabio Resinaro, regarding their psychological abduction flick.

Look for its La debut this coming Sunday, October 14th, at 6:00pm. Read on for the trailer and exclusive stills!

Written and produced by Guaglione and Resinaro (with other producer credits going to Mario Gianani, Lorenzo Mieli, Fausto Brizzi, Marco Martani and Peter Safran) and directed by Enrico Clerico Nasino, True Love stars Ellen Hollman, John Brotherton, Gabriel Myers, Jay Harrington, Clare Carey and Tyrees Allen, and (according to the film’s synopsis) revolves around, ’Kate and Jack, late 20's, who on the surface are happy. But like everyone, they carry secrets that neither is prepared to reveal. After their wedding they awake from a deep sleep, each alone in a sealed room...

An official trailer has arrived for Enrico Clerico Nasino's new film True Love, and Dread Central is pleased to be the exclusive home of its debut!

True Love (formerly known as Y/N: You Lie, You Die) stars John Brotherton, Ellen Hollman, Gabriel Myers, and Jay Harrington. Fabio Guaglione and Fabio Resinaro are the film's co-writers and producers.

Synopsis

On the surface Kate and Jack, both in their late 20s, are happy. But like everyone, they carry secrets that neither is prepared to reveal. After their wedding they awake from a deep, dark sleep, each alone in a sealed room with no doors or windows - only images projected on the walls and a monitor with two buttons: one for "yes", one for "no".

As the horror of their situation unfolds, surveillance films showing their life together appear on the wall as the monitor asks questions, each more strange and terrifying than the last.

Billed as 'claustrophobic, dramatic and a little bit sinister', True Love's dissection of a marriage fails to impress

True Love – which had its world premiere at Sci-Fi London on Friday – attempts to deconstruct a marriage by placing a couple in separate cells and forcing each to watch incriminating CCTV footage of the other, while an electronic voice repeats, "Love is truth".

At the beginning of the film, before the awfulness of the production had fully revealed itself, I had wondered which science experiments had influenced the script. Research on punishment, incarceration and separation by Stanley Milgram, Harry Harlow, Philip Zimbardo, or even the prisoner's dilemma? During the Q&A I asked the writer/producer team, Fabio Resinaro and Fabio Guaglione, about their science influences. I was told there were none and they didn't really think the film belonged in the science-fiction genre. I reflected on the film's objectified nod to...

TF1 International will distribute Enrico Clerico Nasino's first feature film Y/N: You Lie, You Die in early 2012. This thriller involves a couple, a terrifying situation and a test of love and commitment. This film is near completion and fans of thrillers can have an early look at the film's early poster and at a surreal movie still below. The photo highlights one of the film's dazzling sets and based on the photos this couple is being tested by an external and malevolent force. Enjoy this early preview as Y/N: You Lie, You Die completes production.

TF1 International is a French based acquisition and distribution house that focuses primarily on television while developing film from various genres. TF1 International also develops films globally, so expect this picture to be seen in North America shortly.

Tagline: "Do you trust your love?"

Director: Enrico Clerico Nasino.

Writers: Fabio Guaglione and Fabio Resinaro.

What is the international watch list you ask? In their own words it's "an unofficial list of the American film industry's favorite foreign feature and short films from the past year." which is compiled from over fifty Us film executives and their assistants who vote for five foreign features and shorts. Why are we sharing this with you? Well first off to show that there are some people in Hollywood who actually have some good taste in film (shocking, I know) and the other is that we've actually covered many of the films and shorts on this list, and in fact were the first news site (at least among the larger English film community) to bring you news of the top short film with 10 votes, Afterville, and two of the features on the list, Before the Fall and The Square. Not surprisingly, Let the right one in is the top...

We have the full list of the Sitges International Film Festival of Catalonia 2008 award winners. Among those taking home prizes was "Surveillance," a film by Jennfier Chambers Lynch which captured the Best Motion Picture award. Lynch writes alongside Kent Harper, the crime drama/thriller which stars Julia Ormond, Bill Pullman, Pell James and Ryan Simpkins. Also taking significant awards was Brian Cox for his work on "Red," Fernando Meilelles' "Blindness" drama starring Julianne Moore and Mark Ruffalo and "Let the Right One In." What is Sitges? The number one fantasy film festival in the world and represents, at the same time, the cultural expression with the most media impact in Catalonia. With a solid experience, the Sitges Festival is a stimulating universe of encounters, exhibitions, presentations and screenings of fantasy films from all over the world. As announced, here are the winners announced by Sitges: Surveillance, by Jennifer Lynch, Best...