Exclusive: Kirill Sokolov set to direct TriStar Pictures’ thriller Ultra, with script penned by Colin Bannon. TriStar preemptively purchased the spec amid significant buzz in November 2021, just before it placed in the Top 10 on the Black List in December. Plot details are being kept under wraps.
Sukee Chew of Sugar23 is producing. Caellum Allan is overseeing the project on behalf of TriStar.
Sokolov made his feature directorial debut with Why Don’t You Just Die, which screened in competition at Sitges. His follow-up film, No Looking Back, premiered at SXSW 2022. Sokolov is represented by CAA and Good Fear.
Bannon most recently sold his Black List script First Ascent to Netflix in a bidding war. The project is being produced by Chew and Scott Free. Bannon is repped by Verve and Sugar23.
Chew joined Sugar23 last June and was previously at Hopscotch Pictures which she founded. There, she was most recently...
Sukee Chew of Sugar23 is producing. Caellum Allan is overseeing the project on behalf of TriStar.
Sokolov made his feature directorial debut with Why Don’t You Just Die, which screened in competition at Sitges. His follow-up film, No Looking Back, premiered at SXSW 2022. Sokolov is represented by CAA and Good Fear.
Bannon most recently sold his Black List script First Ascent to Netflix in a bidding war. The project is being produced by Chew and Scott Free. Bannon is repped by Verve and Sugar23.
Chew joined Sugar23 last June and was previously at Hopscotch Pictures which she founded. There, she was most recently...
- 8/23/2022
- by Justin Kroll
- Deadline Film + TV
Follows calls from the Ukrainian Film Academy to boycott Russian cinema
The Glasgow Film Festival has pulled two Russian titles from its upcoming edition following the invasion of Ukraine.
The festival, which runs March 2-13, has withdrawn Kirill Sokolov’s No Looking Back and Lado Kvataniya’s The Execution.
A statement from the festival said: “This decision is not a reflection on the views and opinions of the makers of these titles. We just believe that it would be inappropriate to proceed as normal with these screenings in the current circumstances.”
The move follows a plea from the Ukrainian Film Academy,...
The Glasgow Film Festival has pulled two Russian titles from its upcoming edition following the invasion of Ukraine.
The festival, which runs March 2-13, has withdrawn Kirill Sokolov’s No Looking Back and Lado Kvataniya’s The Execution.
A statement from the festival said: “This decision is not a reflection on the views and opinions of the makers of these titles. We just believe that it would be inappropriate to proceed as normal with these screenings in the current circumstances.”
The move follows a plea from the Ukrainian Film Academy,...
- 2/28/2022
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
The Russian director’s ‘No Looking Back’ is benig sold by M-Appeal in the EFM.
Russian director Kirill Sokolov is in advanced development on the comedy drama To Banya, set in the steamy world of Finnish saunas, which he aims to shoot in the summer. Artem Vasilyev’s Metrafilms is producing together with Sergey Selyanov’s Ctb and Yellow Film & TV in Finland.
The story takes place against the backcloth of the world sauna championships in Helsinki as a Russian man tries to earn some much needed money.
Sokolov’s latest feature No Looking Back (pictured) is being sold...
Russian director Kirill Sokolov is in advanced development on the comedy drama To Banya, set in the steamy world of Finnish saunas, which he aims to shoot in the summer. Artem Vasilyev’s Metrafilms is producing together with Sergey Selyanov’s Ctb and Yellow Film & TV in Finland.
The story takes place against the backcloth of the world sauna championships in Helsinki as a Russian man tries to earn some much needed money.
Sokolov’s latest feature No Looking Back (pictured) is being sold...
- 2/13/2022
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
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