Gerard Butler to topline psychological thriller “Keepers”November 1, 2016 - 19:34 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Gerard Butler, Peter Mullan, and Joe Alwyn will star in the psychological thriller “Keepers” with Cross Creek Pictures on board to fully finance, Variety reports. Production company Mad as Birds is planning for an early 2017 shoot in the U.K. Protagonist Pictures will launch foreign sales during the American Film Market, which opens Wednesday, November 2. TV director Kristoffer Nyholm will helm “Keepers” from a script by Celyn Jones and actor/writer Joe Bone. “Keepers” is set on an uninhabited island 20 miles from the Scottish coast as three lighthouse keepers arrive for their six-week shift. They stumble upon something that isn’t theirs to keep, triggering a tense battle for survival as personal greed replaces loyalty amid isolation and paranoia. Producers are Andy Evans, Ade Shannon, and Sean Marley for Mad as Birds; Butler and Alan Siegel for G-Base; and Brian Oliver for Cross Creek Pictures. The project was brought to Cross Creek by Jason Seagraves, who is executive producing. It was also recently annouced that Butler will star again as Secret Service agent Mike Banning in “Angel Has Fallen,” the third film in the “Fallen” franchise comprised of “Olympus Has Fallen” and “London Has Fallen.” That project is also selling at AFM. Mullan’s credits include “Tyrannosaur,” “War Horse,” and “Trainspotting.” Alwyn stars in Ang Lee’s “Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk.” Nyholm directed “The Killing” from Denmark’s DR, the U.K. miniseries “The Enfield Haunting,” and the upcoming period adventure “Taboo,” starring Tom Hardy for FX and BBC. Cross Creek’s credits include “Hacksaw Ridge” and “Black Mass.” Top stories Paris Center Pompidou Musée National d’Art Moderne will host the screening of Sergei Parajanov’s "Triptych" on December 15. 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”. Partner news | Russia clarifying reports on Baku’s alleged arms supply to Ukraine Russia says is carefully working to verify reports about alleged arms supplies from Azerbaijan to Ukraine Russia warns Armenia against “falling into West’s trap” Zakharova maintained, however, that anything that will benefit the people of Armenia can only be welcomed. CSTO: Armenia has not participated in secretariat’s work recently Recently Armenia has not participated in the work of the secretariat of the CSTO, Imangali Tasmagambetov said. Meeting with U.S., EU not against third parties, says Armenia The meeting scheduled for April 5 is dedicated to strengthening of the Armenia-EU-US cooperation, Yerevan added. |