Exclusive: Zachary Levi (Shazam!) is set to topline Hotel Tehran, a new action thriller marking the fourth feature from writer-director Guy Moshe (Bunraku).
In the film heading into production in May, Levi plays Tucker, who leads a unit of disgraced, war-torn ex-CIA operators into the heart of Tehran to take down a life-changing score.
Moshe wrote the script with Mark Bacci (Prisoner’s Daughter), from an original idea by Bazzel Baz (The Blacklist), a former CIA special operations group officer. Oakhurst Entertainment is financing. Oakhurst’s Marina Grasic is producing alongside Matthew G. Zamias (Boxing Day), co-founder of the new financing and production company Astral Future, as well as Wendy Sweetmore of Dreamtime Films. Astral Future’s Harel Kodesh and Arbel Kodesh are exec producing alongside Moshe, Baz, Justin C. Oberman, and William Doyle (The Killer). Kerry Barden and Paul Schnee (Spotlight) are handling casting.
In a statement to Deadline,...
In the film heading into production in May, Levi plays Tucker, who leads a unit of disgraced, war-torn ex-CIA operators into the heart of Tehran to take down a life-changing score.
Moshe wrote the script with Mark Bacci (Prisoner’s Daughter), from an original idea by Bazzel Baz (The Blacklist), a former CIA special operations group officer. Oakhurst Entertainment is financing. Oakhurst’s Marina Grasic is producing alongside Matthew G. Zamias (Boxing Day), co-founder of the new financing and production company Astral Future, as well as Wendy Sweetmore of Dreamtime Films. Astral Future’s Harel Kodesh and Arbel Kodesh are exec producing alongside Moshe, Baz, Justin C. Oberman, and William Doyle (The Killer). Kerry Barden and Paul Schnee (Spotlight) are handling casting.
In a statement to Deadline,...
- 1/9/2024
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
The line between animation and live action is brilliantly blurred in “Blue Eye Samurai,” the 2D/3D hybrid animated action series set during Edo-period Japan. It’s “Mulan” meets “Game of Thrones,” in which Mizu (voiced by Maya Erskine) — a mixed-race, lone-wolf warrior — lives in disguise seeking revenge on the four white men who made her a “creature of shame”.
“Blue Eye Samurai” represents a bold, cinematic leap in TV adult animation that’s driven by the period-authentic scope and spectacle. All eight episodes are treated as a different genre, and the graphic violence and sex are enhanced by the stylistic poetry of the animated form (the characters are inspired by Bunraku puppets and the visual style by ukiyo-e woodblock prints). Crucially, though, its exploration of race and gender through the dark lens of anti-hero Mizu is refreshing and relatable.
The series was created by the married team of Amber Noizumi...
“Blue Eye Samurai” represents a bold, cinematic leap in TV adult animation that’s driven by the period-authentic scope and spectacle. All eight episodes are treated as a different genre, and the graphic violence and sex are enhanced by the stylistic poetry of the animated form (the characters are inspired by Bunraku puppets and the visual style by ukiyo-e woodblock prints). Crucially, though, its exploration of race and gender through the dark lens of anti-hero Mizu is refreshing and relatable.
The series was created by the married team of Amber Noizumi...
- 11/4/2023
- by Bill Desowitz
- Indiewire
Major props to filmmaker Guy Moshe and his hyperactive imagination. He not only wrote and directed but also edited and produced Lx 2048, a modestly budgeted, near-future dystopian, cautionary tale. Though obviously inspired by Blade Runner, Black Mirror and practically everything in between, Lx 2048 stands on its own for its loopy, surrealistic, risk-embracing charms. Lx 2048 overflows with the kind of wildly ambitious, provocative Big Ideas atypical for a genre that too often has tilted towards action over story or character. There’s little actual action in Lx 2048, at least the way contemporary action tends to be defined as a combination of physical stunt-work and budget-busting visual effects. Instead, the action in Lx 2048 revolves around character-revealing character and an overabundance of...
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- 9/28/2020
- Screen Anarchy
Delroy Lindo, Anna Brewster, Gina McKee also star.
Bleiberg/Dimbort has acquired international sales rights to Guy Moshe’s sci-fi noir Lx 2048 starring James D’Arcy and Delroy Lindo, riding high on rave reviews for Spike Lee’s Da 5 Bloods.
The sales team will kick off talks with TIFF buyers this week on the story, which takes place in the year 2048 as global warming has forced humanity to avoid the sun’s glare and exist in a virtual realm while popping state-sanctioned anti-depressants.
Darcy will play a dying family man who refuses to engage with the virtual realm and...
Bleiberg/Dimbort has acquired international sales rights to Guy Moshe’s sci-fi noir Lx 2048 starring James D’Arcy and Delroy Lindo, riding high on rave reviews for Spike Lee’s Da 5 Bloods.
The sales team will kick off talks with TIFF buyers this week on the story, which takes place in the year 2048 as global warming has forced humanity to avoid the sun’s glare and exist in a virtual realm while popping state-sanctioned anti-depressants.
Darcy will play a dying family man who refuses to engage with the virtual realm and...
- 9/10/2020
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Welcome to the latest installment in our regular Movies You May Have Missed series here on Nerdly, in which I highlight some of, what I think, are the best movies that have flown under the radar of many or have been “forgotten” in the intervening years since its release. This time round its the amazing “balletic” action flick Bunraku…
Stars: Josh Hartnett, Gackt, Woody Harrelson, Ron Perlman, Kevin McKidd, Demi Moore | Written and Directed by Guy Moshe
Official Synopsis:
A mysterious drifter (Hartnett) and an ardent young Japanese warrior Yoshi (Japanese superstar Gackt), both arrive in a town that is terrorized by outrageous and virulent criminals. Each is obsessed with his separate mission, and guided by the wisdom of The Bartender (Harrelson) at the Horseless Horseman Saloon, the two eventually join forces to bring down the corrupt and contemptuous reign of Nicola (Perlman), the awesomely evil “woodcutter” and his right...
Stars: Josh Hartnett, Gackt, Woody Harrelson, Ron Perlman, Kevin McKidd, Demi Moore | Written and Directed by Guy Moshe
Official Synopsis:
A mysterious drifter (Hartnett) and an ardent young Japanese warrior Yoshi (Japanese superstar Gackt), both arrive in a town that is terrorized by outrageous and virulent criminals. Each is obsessed with his separate mission, and guided by the wisdom of The Bartender (Harrelson) at the Horseless Horseman Saloon, the two eventually join forces to bring down the corrupt and contemptuous reign of Nicola (Perlman), the awesomely evil “woodcutter” and his right...
- 6/5/2018
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
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