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British filmmaker Coz Greenop is presenting his latest indie feature, The Last Mermaid, to international buyers at this year’s Cannes market. The film wrapped principal photography in Vietnam earlier this season and stars Jessica Truong (The Sympathizer) and Jack McEvoy (Vikings). Greenop, whose previous work The Last Heist earned him Best Director at the Marbella International Film Festival, has teamed with Mont Fort Films and his own Green 13 Films to bring the project to life.

Greenop wrote and directed the script, which follows Aron (McEvoy), a grieving writer journeying across Vietnam’s coast and highlands. He encounters a mysterious woman (Truong) who guards an ancient, otherworldly secret. Producers Christina de la Sala (Tomorrow) and Donny Chen (Cookster: The Darkest Days) joined Greenop on the producing team, securing “substantial” cooperation from the Vietnamese Film Commission for locations, local crews and logistical support.

“The landscape of Vietnam tested us physically and inspired us creatively,...

Exclusive: Jessica Truong (The Sympathizer) and Jack McEvoy (Vikings) are leading a romantic drama with sci-fi beats from British director Coz Greenop.

The Last Mermaid recently wrapped shooting in Vietnam and The Last Heist director Greenop is in Cannes this week selling international rights to the indie pic.

Greenop, who also directed Dark Beacon and House Red, produces alongside Christina de la Sala (Tomorrow) and Donny Chen (Cookster: The Darkest Days). Mont Fort Films produces in association with Greenop’s Green 13 Films.

The pic was shot entirely in Vietnam with “substantial” support from the Vietnamese Film Commission, according to the producers.

Based on Greenop’s script, the romantic drama tells the story of Aron (McEvoy), a young grieving writer traveling around Vietnam, who sparks up a romance with a woman (Truong) harboring a dark and primordial secret.

“Shooting this film in Vietnam was simultaneously the most breathtakingly beautiful experience and...

Clint Eastwood is one of the most iconic and talented actors and directors. With films like Escape from Alcatraz, The Bridges of Madison County, and Gran Torino, Eastwood has earned praise from viewers and critics, and a loyal following. Michael Connelly is a prolific crime author who's written almost forty novels. Connelly's detective stories share an interconnected universe, with multiple main characters leading their own book series but coming together to collaborate with each other.

Blood Work was Michael Connelly's seventh novel, a story of detective fiction that introduced FBI profiler Terry McCaleb. In 2002, Clint Eastwood produced, directed and starred in the movie adaptation of Michael Connelly's Blood Work, playing the FBI detective McCaleb. Yet while many fans might not know, it's that this decades-old Clint Eastwood movie shares many connections with the critically acclaimed Prime Video procedural drama Bosch, more than just the author behind the source material.

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Asia Argento (“The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things”), Frances Barber (“A Bird Flew In”), Tamer Hassan (“The Football Factory”), Laura Whitmore (“Sadhbh”) and child actor Erin Ainsworth have joined the cast of “A Mother for an Hour.”

The film, which is being directed by Giga Agladze, follows the story of a woman who poses as the lost mother of a dying child and discovers through this act a world of deceit and violence.

Agladze’s most recent movie is surrealistic drama “The Other Me” (2022), starring Jim Sturgess and Andrea Pejic, executive produced by David Lynch.

“A Mother for an Hour” is being produced by Kirsty Bell, Goldfinch CEO and co-founder of The Number 44, and Ben Charles Edwards, also a co-founder of The Number 44. The executive producers are Phil McKenzie and David Kereselidze. It is shooting in the North of England, predominantly in Newcastle, Hartlepool and surrounding areas.

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Exclusive: Denis O’Sullivan and Jeff Kalligheri’s Compelling Pictures have closed a deal to produce and finance a feature adaptation of Michael Connelly’s recent New York Times bestseller Fair Warning which is being seen as a potential franchise. Connelly will write the screen adaptation and produce alongside O’Sullivan and Kalligheri. Two-time Emmy nominee Jeffrey Pollack (Laurel Canyon) will also produce.

Fair Warning was released this summer and is the third in Connelly’s series of books about investigative journalist Jack McEvoy, who has often been cited as the character most closely resembling the author in real life, with Connelly himself having been a crime reporter for years.

The murder mystery is set around the rapidly evolving ‘wild west’ world of DNA sequence data harvesting; specifically in regard to such data being sold for profit within an industry that has no oversight. It delves into the murky moral questions...

Paramount's action-thriller The Rhythm Section has extended its production hiatus, after star Blake Lively suffered a hand injury on the set last month. The actress had surgery on her hand after the accident, but sources claim the surgery did not go as planned, and the actress now needs a second operation that could delay production upwards of five months. Here's what the producers had to say in a statement, confirming the production shut-down.

"Hiatus on the production of The Rhythm Section has been extended due to the hand injury Blake Lively sustained while filming an action sequence on the action thriller at the end of last year."

No details have been given about when production may resume on this action-thriller, which made headlines in November after production started, when Ryan Reynolds trolled his wife Blake Lively about her rather unflattering movie makeover for this role. While the social media...