“The Godmother” Catherine Zeta-Jones cocaine drama rounds out castOctober 31, 2014 - 12:45 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Catherine Zeta-Jones' Colombian cocaine drama The Godmother is taking shape, The Hollywood Reporter said. Jon Bernthal (Fury, The Wolf of Wall Street), Catalina Sandino Moreno (Maria Full of Grace), Oscar Jaenada (Cantifnflas, The Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides) and Mehdi Dehbi (A Most Wanted Man) have joined the cast of the biopic, which stars Zeta-Jones as infamous drug lord Griselda Blanco. In another boost for the project, Sierra/Affinity has come aboard to handle international sales and will introduce Godmother to international distributors at the upcoming American Film Market. Godmother, directed by Eva Sorhaug, will chronicle Blanco's rise to a major position of power within the Colombian drug cartel in the 1970s and 1980s as cocaine started flooding into the United States. Referred to as history's first female drug lord, Blanco played a key role in the notorious Miami drug wars before being arrested in 1986 in California. She served 18 years in prison before being released in 2004 and deported back to Colombia. She was murdered in 2012 in Medellin, Colombia. Daniela Cretu is producing Godmother under her First Born Films Banner, with Nicholas Pileggi executive producing alongside Meyer, Sierra's Marc Schaberg and Kelly McCormick. A spring start date is planned. It isn't Zeta-Jones' first turn in a movie about the drug trade. In 2000, she starred in Steven Soderbergh's Traffic, which earned more than $200 million at the global box office. Photo: Chris Pizzello/AP Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running” Partner news | Czech-Armenian military cooperation discussed in Yerevan A delegation led by the Director General for the Industrial Cooperation Division of the Ministry of Defence of the Czech Republic visited Armenia. U.S. welcomes efforts to define Armenia-Azerbaijan border The United States welcomes efforts to define the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan, says Vedant Patel. Biden honors resilience of Armenian people on April 24 U.S. President Joe Biden has issued a statement on the 109th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. Ex-Karabakh leader moved to solitary confinement cell in Baku, his son says David Vardanyan is the son of former Karabakh leader Ruben Vardanyan who who is currently imprisoned in Azerbaijan. |