Saban Films nabs Alexander Skarsgard’s “War on Everyone”May 13, 2016 - 18:10 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Saban Films is closing in on the deal to pick up the North American rights to Michael Pena and Alexander Skarsgard‘s “War on Everyone”, TheWrap has learned. The film premiered at Berlin Film Festival in February and then had its U.S. premiere at SXSW in March. In “War on Everyone,” Pena and Skarsgard play two corrupt cops in New Mexico who blackmail criminals, but things get sinister when they try to intimidate someone who is more dangerous than they are. Theo James and Tessa Thompson costar. “War on Everyone” is written and directed by John Michael McDonagh. “‘War on Everyone’ received great reactions out of both Berlin and SXSW and we feel very lucky to be working with John Michael McDonagh,” Saban Films’ Bill Bromiley said. “The cast unite to create an incredible comedic team which equates to a fun, clever and unique film that will appeal to both broad commercial audiences as well as film enthusiasts.” The film is produced by Chris Clark, Flora Fernandez Marengo and co-produced by Elizabeth Eves for Reprisal Films. Phil Hunt and Compton Ross also produced for Head Gear Films. Bankside Films is handling international sales. Bill Bromiley and Ness Saban negotiated deal on behalf of Saban Films. Saban Films recently acquired the domestic rights to Rob Zombie‘s “31” and Renny Harlin’s “Skiptrace.” Their upcoming slate includes “Cell” with John Cusack and Samuel L. Jackson and “I Am Wrath” with John Travolta. 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. |