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Now in its 28th edition, the European Shooting Stars platform run by European Film Promotion brings another 10 promising European acting talents to the Berlin Film Festival, with the goal to help them build their careers internationally. From Feb. 14-17, the selected performers will participate in workshops and panels, as well as meetings with international journalists, producers and casting directors. The program culminates in a ceremony at the Berlinale Palast where they will each receive the European Shooting Stars Award.

This year’s Shooting Stars were selected by a jury comprised of Romanian director and screenwriter Radu Muntean, Swedish casting director Pauline Hansson, Swiss producer Amel Soudani, French actress and former Shooting Star Ludivine Sagnier and Montenegrin journalist and curator Vuk Perović. They were selected from candidates nominated by their national film promotion institutes and film centers.

What this year’s group of Shooting Stars has in common besides the potential...

Exclusive: Addam Bramich, Ryan Hamilton and Volodymyr Artemenko’s production banner Simple House Films is launching an international sales arm at the EFM.

The new division is headed by Anastazja Bankowska, who recently served as Global Sales Executive at Kino Swiat, the leading Polish distributor and Canal+ Group subsidiary, and had held senior positions overseeing international sales at broadcasting, production, and distribution companies for the last two decades.

The first title on her slate is survival thriller The Ascent by director Adam Green.

The picture follows a group of friends who arrive in Europe for a glamorous but daring destination wedding.

The fun and games turn into a nightmare when they find themselves precariously suspended above shark infested waters and in a battle for survival.

“We are thrilled to have a platform to produce and deliver important stories to audiences and work with talented and creative individuals across the industry,...

Exclusive: Plane and The Bricklayer actor Oliver Trevena has signed with Untitled Entertainment for management.

Trevena has most recently acted in Hotel Tehran (in post) with Liam Neeson and Zachary Levi, TIFF movie The Cut with Orlando Bloom, Mermaid with Mel Gibson, and Ice Fall, with Joel Kinnaman, for which he also served as executive producer.

Trevena was recently honored by the Rome Film festival with a Breakout Actor award from his Plane co-star Gerard Butler at the premiere of Trevena’s action-thriller The Paradox Effect in which he stars opposite Harvey Keitel and Olga Kurylenko. He also stars with the latter in Misdirection, which he also produced.

On the entrepreneurial side, Trevena launched tbe Caliwater beverage brand with business partner Vanessa Hudgens. The Brit actor and producer continues to be repped by Independent Talent Group and law firm Rosenfeld, Meyer & Susman.

Exclusive: Cara Jade Myers (Killers Of The Flower Moon) and Daniel Olson (A Murder At The End Of The World) have been set to star in indie romantic-drama Edendale, with production currently underway in Los Angeles.

Edendale centers on two millennial Angelinos who, exhausted from online dating and from the toll of their career ambitions, meet at a late summer Sunday Singles night. Cara Jade Myers plays Lillian, an aspiring writer/director who daylights as an art department researcher, who meets Evan, played by Daniel Olson, a lawyer struggling to determine his future. The pair continue to extend the night and roam the eastside of Los Angeles, first as strangers, then as blossoming lovers.

The film is writer-director Daniel Madore’s directorial debut. Producers are Courtney Tait and Melissa Goodall.

After her breakout role in Martin Scorsese’s Killers Of The Flower Moon, Myers most recently starred in Stefan Ruzowitzky...

Exclusive: Aaron Eckhart will star in the Jesse V. Johnson-directed action thriller Scorpion, written by Corey Large (Detective Knight trilogy) and Edward Drake (Gasoline Alley).

In the movie, a CIA assassin goes into hiding after he takes the fall for a failed mission. When he reappears on the grid so does his past to tie up loose ends, and the only way to protect his daughter is to take down the agency chief who set him up.

Scorpion is produced by Large through his 308 Enterprises. The film is executive produced by Arclight Films’ Gary Hamilton, Jordan Nott, Pia Patatian, Jamie Thompson and Jon Keeyes and financed by Pink 308. Arclight Films is handling global sales.

Eckhart received a Best Actor Musical or Comedy Golden Globe nomination for Jason Reitman’s Thank You for Smoking and received an Independent Spirit Award for Best Debut Performance in...

Arclight Films has unveiled the first look of Joel Kinnaman in Stefan Ruzowitzky’s thriller Ice Fall.

The story follows a young Indigenous game warden who arrests a poacher that knows the location of a plane carrying millions of dollars that has crashed in a frozen lake.

When a group of criminals and corrupt cops are alerted to the poacher’s whereabouts, the warden and the poacher must flee across the treacherous lake before the ice melts.

Production on Ice Fall wrapped recently in Bulgaria.

The cast includes Cara Jade Myers, Danny Huston, Graham Greene, Martin Sensmeier, Oliver Trevena, and DeVaughn Nixon.

A first-look image has been released of Academy Award-winning filmmaker Stefan Ruzowitzkys upcoming thriller Ice Fall. The image features leading man Joel Kinnaman, known for projects such as James Gunns 2021 action comedy The Suicide Squad, John Woos 2023 action thriller Silent Night. Kinnaman will be starring in Ice Fall alongside Cara Jade Myers, known for Martin Scorseses recent Oscar-nominated Killers of the Flower Moon), Danny Huston of Warner Bros. Wonder Woman fame, Graham Greene of Kevin Costner's Dances with Wolves and Frank Darabonts The Green Mile, and Martin Sensmeier, known for Taylor Sheridans thriller Wind. Arclight Films Gary Hamilton and Ying Ye, Addam Bramich, Top Films Volodymyr Artemenko and Eugene Stupka, Ryan Hamilton and Rob Van Norden are producing Ice Fall, with Arclight Films handling internation sales, and co-repping with Capstone Global on domestic sales.

The cast of the Stefan Ruzowitzky-directed thriller Ice Fall expands with Danny Huston (Wonder Woman), Graham Greene, Martin Sensmeier (Yellowstone), Oliver Trevena, and DeVaughn Nixon (Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty) joining Joel Kinnaman and Cara Jade Myers for a race against time to recover millions.

Ruzowitzky directs Ice Fall from a script by George Mahaffey, with cameras rolling in Bulgaria. According to Deadline‘s exclusive report, Ice Falls revolves around a “young Indigenous game warden who arrests an infamous poacher only to discover that the poacher knows the location of a plane carrying millions of dollars that has crashed in a frozen lake. When a group of criminals and dirty cops are alerted to the poacher’s whereabouts, the warden and the poacher team up to fight back and escape across the treacherous lake before the ice melts.”

Speaking about the thrill of adding notable talents to the ensemble cast,...

Exclusive: Danny Huston (Wonder Woman), Oscar nominee Graham Greene (Dances with Wolves), Martin Sensmeier (Yellowstone), Oliver Trevena (Plane) and DeVaughn Nixon (Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty) are joining Joel Kinnaman and Cara Jade Myers in thriller Ice Fall.

Also joining are Frida Gustavsson (Vikings Valhalla) and Will Fletcher (The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power)

As we previously revealed, Stefan Ruzowitzky (The Counterfeiters) is directing from a script by George Mahaffey (Chief of Station). Filming is underway in Bulgaria.

The film centers on a young Indigenous game warden who arrests an infamous poacher only to discover that the poacher knows the location of a plane carrying millions of dollars that has crashed in a frozen lake. When a group of criminals and dirty cops are alerted to the poacher’s whereabouts, the warden and the poacher team up to fight back and escape across the...

Arclight Films has announced that Aaron Eckhart and Ben Kingsley star in Renny Harlin’s survival thriller Deep Water, which is in post. Arclight continues worldwide sales at EFM this week.

The first feature greenlit by the stand-alone label Simmons/Hamilton Productions wrapped at the end of last year in New Zealand and Spain.

The lead cast includes Molly Wright (Lionsgate’s upcoming The Best Christmas Pageant Ever), Angus Sampson (FX’s Fargo), Kelly Gale (Lionsgate’s Plane), Li Wenhan from Chinese-Korean K-Pop group Uniq, and Chinese actress Nashi (Creation Of The Gods I: Kingdom Of Storms).

Harlin, whose credits include Die Hard 2,...

Exclusive: Joel Kinnaman (The Suicide Squad) and Cara Jade Myers (Killers of the Flower Moon) are set to star in the thriller Ice Fall.

Stefan Ruzowitzky, director of Oscar-winning crime-drama The Counterfeiters, will helm the film which is written by George Mahaffey (Chief Of Station). Production is set to start in March in Europe.

Pic is produced by Arclight Films, Top Film, Addam Bramich, Ryan Hamilton and Rob Van Norden. Top Film is also financing. Arclight Films is handling worldwide rights and will commence sales at the European Film Market.

The story follows a young Indigenous game warden who arrests an infamous poacher only to discover that the poacher knows the location of a plane carrying millions of dollars that has crashed in a frozen lake. When a group of criminals and dirty cops are alerted to the poacher’s whereabouts, the warden and the poacher team up to fight...