Al Pacino is to play a mafia boss in the new thriller 'Captivated'.The 84-year-old actor is to feature alongside Katie Holmes and Toby Kebbell in the film that is billed as a new take on the infamous kidnapping of John Paul Getty III in 1973.The picture centres on Calabrian mafia boss Saro (played by Kebbell and Pacino at different stages of his life) who kidnaps the grandson of one of the richest men in the world, Jean Paul Getty, and puts his organisation in danger when he develops romantic feelings for his victim's mother (Holmes) during the ransom negotiations.Michael Benaroya, Michael Mammoliti and Manasvi Mamgai are producing the movie for 32Red Entertainment and it is being launched for sales in Cannes by International Film Trust.Mammoliti is the nephew of one of the main kidnappers Saro Mammoliti and has spent years working on the project – even taking issue...
- 5/20/2024
- by Joe Graber
- Bang Showbiz
Exclusive: Katie Holmes (Woman In Gold), Toby Kebbell (War For The Planet Of The Apes) and Oscar winner Al Pacino (The Irishman) have joined thriller Captivated, which International Film Trust is launching for sales in Cannes.
The film focuses on Calabrian mafia boss Saro who kidnaps the grandson of one of the world’s richest men, Jean Paul Getty, and endangers his entire organization when he falls in love with his victim’s mother (Holmes) during the fraught ransom negotiations.
Producers are Michael Benaroya, Michael Mammoliti and Manasvi Mamgai of 32Red Entertainment, and Andrea Bucko of Sugar Rush Pictures.
Mammoliti is the nephew of Saro Mammoliti, one of the main kidnappers, and has been working on a project about the events for years, even taking issue back in 2017 with the narrative of movie All The Money In The World. The events and motivations around...
The film focuses on Calabrian mafia boss Saro who kidnaps the grandson of one of the world’s richest men, Jean Paul Getty, and endangers his entire organization when he falls in love with his victim’s mother (Holmes) during the fraught ransom negotiations.
Producers are Michael Benaroya, Michael Mammoliti and Manasvi Mamgai of 32Red Entertainment, and Andrea Bucko of Sugar Rush Pictures.
Mammoliti is the nephew of Saro Mammoliti, one of the main kidnappers, and has been working on a project about the events for years, even taking issue back in 2017 with the narrative of movie All The Money In The World. The events and motivations around...
- 5/18/2024
- by Andreas Wiseman and Diana Lodderhose
- Deadline Film + TV
Mike Marcus of Echo Lake Entertainment producing with director Kaz Kiriya.
Swedish star Noomi Rapace has joined Ezra Miller in The Mourner, further boosting the appeal of Echo Lake Entertainment’s spiritual thriller that Paradigm and CAA represent for the world and will take to Afm next week.
The project is based on the bestselling Japanese novel of the same name by Arata Tendo and will see Rapace play a world-weary homicide detective on the trail of sex traffickers.
The investigator finds spiritual meaning in her life when she comes across a mystical young man (Miller) who mourns those dead...
Swedish star Noomi Rapace has joined Ezra Miller in The Mourner, further boosting the appeal of Echo Lake Entertainment’s spiritual thriller that Paradigm and CAA represent for the world and will take to Afm next week.
The project is based on the bestselling Japanese novel of the same name by Arata Tendo and will see Rapace play a world-weary homicide detective on the trail of sex traffickers.
The investigator finds spiritual meaning in her life when she comes across a mystical young man (Miller) who mourns those dead...
- 10/29/2019
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Justice League and Fantastic Beasts star Ezra Miller is attached to star in thriller The Mourner for producer Echo Lake Entertainment. Paradigm will begin sales on the project at the Efm in Berlin.
Casper Kiriya (Last Knights) is set to direct from a script by Robin Shushan (AMC’s Feed The Beast), based on the Japanese novel by Arata Tendo. Mike Marcus will produce for Echo Lake Entertainment, along with Kiriya. Production is planned for summer 2019.
The Mourner follows a jaded and embittered homicide detective on the trail of murderous sex traffickers, who discovers new spiritual meaning in her life when she comes across a mystical young man (Miller) whose calling in life is to mourn the dead who have no one else to mourn them. Tendo won the Naoki Prize in 2008 for the novel Itamu Hito (The Mourner). The book got a Japanese-language adaptation in 2015.
Miller will be...
Casper Kiriya (Last Knights) is set to direct from a script by Robin Shushan (AMC’s Feed The Beast), based on the Japanese novel by Arata Tendo. Mike Marcus will produce for Echo Lake Entertainment, along with Kiriya. Production is planned for summer 2019.
The Mourner follows a jaded and embittered homicide detective on the trail of murderous sex traffickers, who discovers new spiritual meaning in her life when she comes across a mystical young man (Miller) whose calling in life is to mourn the dead who have no one else to mourn them. Tendo won the Naoki Prize in 2008 for the novel Itamu Hito (The Mourner). The book got a Japanese-language adaptation in 2015.
Miller will be...
- 2/5/2019
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Opens
Friday, Sept. 26
NEW YORK -- An undeniable air of authenticity permeates this indie effort about an all-girl punk rock band, co-written by Cheri Lovedog based on her own experiences and directed by veteran music supervisor Alex Steyermark. While the story line often comes uncomfortably close to melodrama, "Prey for Rock and Roll", opening Sept. 26 in Los Angeles, is an entertaining and sometimes even moving portrait of a veteran band that never quite hits the big time. Although the film will have to face the commercial hurdle faced by most rock-themed efforts, the sexy and charismatic star presence of Gina Gershon in yet another lesbian role shouldn't hurt at all.
Gershon plays Jacki, the 40-year-old lead guitarist and singer of a female punk rock band, which despite many years of effort, is still playing L.A. clubs and dives in search of that ever-elusive record contract. The band's other members are bassist Tracy (Drea De Matteo), who has problems with both drugs and men
lead guitarist Faith (Lori Petty), who augments her income by teaching guitar to highly untalented if enthusiastic teens
and drummer Sally (Shelly Cole), Faith's sweet younger lover.
Among the various plot elements in Lovedog and Robin Whitehouse's meandering screenplay, based on a stage play by the former, is the arrival of "Animal" (Marc Blucas), Sally's older brother, who has just been released from prison after serving a murder sentence. The heavily tattooed and muscular Animal initially seems a threatening figure, but he turns out to be a virginal nice guy who quickly develops the hots for the older Jacki. Uninterested at first, Jacki, who happens to run her own tattoo parlor, soon finds herself drawn to the gentle ex-con, whose crime turns out to have been highly personal in nature.
PREY FOR ROCK AND ROLL
MAC Releasing
Credits:
Director: Alex Steyermark
Screenwriters: Cheri Lovedog, Robin Whitehouse
Producers: Donovan Mannato, Gina Resnick, Gina Gershon
Executive producer: Robin Whitehouse
Co-producer: Alexis Magagni-Seely
Director of photography: Antonio Calvache
Production designer: John Chichester
Editor: Allyson C. Johnson
Costume designer: Vanessa Vogel
Original music: Cheri Lovedog
Cast:
Jacki: Gina Gershon
Tracy: Drea De Matteo
Faith: Lori Petty
Sally: Shelly Cole: Animal: Marc Blucas
Nick: Ivan Martin
Chuck: Eddie Driscoll
Running time -- 104 minutes
No MPAA rating...
Friday, Sept. 26
NEW YORK -- An undeniable air of authenticity permeates this indie effort about an all-girl punk rock band, co-written by Cheri Lovedog based on her own experiences and directed by veteran music supervisor Alex Steyermark. While the story line often comes uncomfortably close to melodrama, "Prey for Rock and Roll", opening Sept. 26 in Los Angeles, is an entertaining and sometimes even moving portrait of a veteran band that never quite hits the big time. Although the film will have to face the commercial hurdle faced by most rock-themed efforts, the sexy and charismatic star presence of Gina Gershon in yet another lesbian role shouldn't hurt at all.
Gershon plays Jacki, the 40-year-old lead guitarist and singer of a female punk rock band, which despite many years of effort, is still playing L.A. clubs and dives in search of that ever-elusive record contract. The band's other members are bassist Tracy (Drea De Matteo), who has problems with both drugs and men
lead guitarist Faith (Lori Petty), who augments her income by teaching guitar to highly untalented if enthusiastic teens
and drummer Sally (Shelly Cole), Faith's sweet younger lover.
Among the various plot elements in Lovedog and Robin Whitehouse's meandering screenplay, based on a stage play by the former, is the arrival of "Animal" (Marc Blucas), Sally's older brother, who has just been released from prison after serving a murder sentence. The heavily tattooed and muscular Animal initially seems a threatening figure, but he turns out to be a virginal nice guy who quickly develops the hots for the older Jacki. Uninterested at first, Jacki, who happens to run her own tattoo parlor, soon finds herself drawn to the gentle ex-con, whose crime turns out to have been highly personal in nature.
PREY FOR ROCK AND ROLL
MAC Releasing
Credits:
Director: Alex Steyermark
Screenwriters: Cheri Lovedog, Robin Whitehouse
Producers: Donovan Mannato, Gina Resnick, Gina Gershon
Executive producer: Robin Whitehouse
Co-producer: Alexis Magagni-Seely
Director of photography: Antonio Calvache
Production designer: John Chichester
Editor: Allyson C. Johnson
Costume designer: Vanessa Vogel
Original music: Cheri Lovedog
Cast:
Jacki: Gina Gershon
Tracy: Drea De Matteo
Faith: Lori Petty
Sally: Shelly Cole: Animal: Marc Blucas
Nick: Ivan Martin
Chuck: Eddie Driscoll
Running time -- 104 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 10/13/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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