Australia production start scheduled for October.
Asian stars Juju Chan Szeto from Wu Assassins and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon – Sword Of Destiny and Chris Pang of Crazy Rich Asians will star in action thriller X Vengeance, which US-based Access Entertainment has launched at Cannes Marché.
Ken DuBow is talking to buyers on the story of an assassin known as X who goes after the psychopathic crime boss responsible for the death of her younger brother. Robert Mammone and Chris Pang also star in the film, set against the backdrop of north Queensland’s beaches and rainforests.
Production is scheduled to...
Asian stars Juju Chan Szeto from Wu Assassins and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon – Sword Of Destiny and Chris Pang of Crazy Rich Asians will star in action thriller X Vengeance, which US-based Access Entertainment has launched at Cannes Marché.
Ken DuBow is talking to buyers on the story of an assassin known as X who goes after the psychopathic crime boss responsible for the death of her younger brother. Robert Mammone and Chris Pang also star in the film, set against the backdrop of north Queensland’s beaches and rainforests.
Production is scheduled to...
- 7/10/2021
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Iranian-American director Matt Eskandari is attached to helm Breakers, a political action-thriller written by Janice Eymann and David Rollins.
Breakers is based on the 2009 presidential elections in Iran and the ‘firewall’ the regime put up to try to choke dissent.
It follows two parallel stories that merge; one of students writing algorithms to pierce the firewall, and a retired CIA agent who takes a team of four ex-Special Forces into Iran to rescue their female asset who has proof the election was rigged.
Eskandari’s recent credits include three Bruce Willis-actioners: Hard Kill, Survive The Night and Trauma Center. The director immigrated to the US as a child with his family following the Iranian revolution.
Eymann, CEO of Filmworks Company, and Rollins are producing the project with Tim Maddocks of Maddfilms. The executive producer is Jomon Thomas (Hotel Mumbai).
Eymann tells If the script for Breakers has been compared to Argo,...
Breakers is based on the 2009 presidential elections in Iran and the ‘firewall’ the regime put up to try to choke dissent.
It follows two parallel stories that merge; one of students writing algorithms to pierce the firewall, and a retired CIA agent who takes a team of four ex-Special Forces into Iran to rescue their female asset who has proof the election was rigged.
Eskandari’s recent credits include three Bruce Willis-actioners: Hard Kill, Survive The Night and Trauma Center. The director immigrated to the US as a child with his family following the Iranian revolution.
Eymann, CEO of Filmworks Company, and Rollins are producing the project with Tim Maddocks of Maddfilms. The executive producer is Jomon Thomas (Hotel Mumbai).
Eymann tells If the script for Breakers has been compared to Argo,...
- 2/15/2021
- by Jackie Keast
- IF.com.au
(L-r) Pam Collis, Antony Szeto, Juju Chan, Janice Eymann, Wayne Borg,Tony Cheng and Kent Chen.
Chinese/American actress Juju Chan, hailed as a female Bruce Lee by her fans, is in negotiations to play the lead role in Pepper, an action-thriller scripted by Janice Eymann.
Australian-born, Hong Kong-based director/actor/producer Antony Szeto is set to direct the film, the saga of a secret agent who comes to Far North Queensland in search of her missing brother, a fellow agent.
Eymann and fellow producers Pam Collis and Paul O.Kane are developing the project with Tony Cheng, the chairman of Beijing Tong Fa Group, and Kent Chen, the group.s director/general manager. .
The aim is to shoot the film next year, possibly as a Chinese-Australian co-production, which would benefit from the favorable terms of releasing Chinese films in mainland cinemas.
Juju.s credits include Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon:...
Chinese/American actress Juju Chan, hailed as a female Bruce Lee by her fans, is in negotiations to play the lead role in Pepper, an action-thriller scripted by Janice Eymann.
Australian-born, Hong Kong-based director/actor/producer Antony Szeto is set to direct the film, the saga of a secret agent who comes to Far North Queensland in search of her missing brother, a fellow agent.
Eymann and fellow producers Pam Collis and Paul O.Kane are developing the project with Tony Cheng, the chairman of Beijing Tong Fa Group, and Kent Chen, the group.s director/general manager. .
The aim is to shoot the film next year, possibly as a Chinese-Australian co-production, which would benefit from the favorable terms of releasing Chinese films in mainland cinemas.
Juju.s credits include Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon:...
- 7/10/2017
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Producer Janice Eymann is teaming with Full Clip Productions. Sam Worthington, John Schwarz and Michael Schwarz for an action TV series based on the Primal novels.
The books by Jack Silkstone (a nom de plume) follow a team of elite operatives recruited by a Pacific island-based Arab billionaire who is determined to bring peace to the world.
Each novel sees the agency waging a secret war against powerful criminals, greedy corporations and corrupt politicians, stepping in where governments fail.
Eymann (who was executive producer of Jon Amiel.s Creation) contacted. 'Silkstone' and bought an option on the novels. Then she approached John Schwarz, who met with the producer and the author in Adelaide during the production of Deadline: Gallipoli, which Full Clip produced by Matchbox Pictures.
Full Clip has agreed to co-buy the option and to produce the series, with John Schwarz as the lead producer.
She tells If she...
The books by Jack Silkstone (a nom de plume) follow a team of elite operatives recruited by a Pacific island-based Arab billionaire who is determined to bring peace to the world.
Each novel sees the agency waging a secret war against powerful criminals, greedy corporations and corrupt politicians, stepping in where governments fail.
Eymann (who was executive producer of Jon Amiel.s Creation) contacted. 'Silkstone' and bought an option on the novels. Then she approached John Schwarz, who met with the producer and the author in Adelaide during the production of Deadline: Gallipoli, which Full Clip produced by Matchbox Pictures.
Full Clip has agreed to co-buy the option and to produce the series, with John Schwarz as the lead producer.
She tells If she...
- 1/13/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Distributors in the Us, UK and Germany have bought Drown, an Australian drama which its director Dean Francis describes as confronting and controversial. Adapted from Stephen Davis. play which prompted walk outs when it was staged by the Queensland Theatre Company, the film centres on three surf lifesavers whose big night out is marred by jealousy, homophobic fears, unrequited lust and violence.
The night culminates in a tragic, booze-fuelled episode of bullying. There is a graphic gay sex scene, says Francis, who does not want to speculate on the likely film classification.
The international sales agent, London-based High Point Films & TV, showed a work-in-progress to potential buyers at the Cannes Film Market.
German distributor Salzgeber quickly signed a deal and is planning a national cinema release. Subsequently Strand Releasing bought the rights for the Us, where it will have a niche theatrical release, and Peccadillo Pictures, which specialises in art house,...
The night culminates in a tragic, booze-fuelled episode of bullying. There is a graphic gay sex scene, says Francis, who does not want to speculate on the likely film classification.
The international sales agent, London-based High Point Films & TV, showed a work-in-progress to potential buyers at the Cannes Film Market.
German distributor Salzgeber quickly signed a deal and is planning a national cinema release. Subsequently Strand Releasing bought the rights for the Us, where it will have a niche theatrical release, and Peccadillo Pictures, which specialises in art house,...
- 7/16/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Daniel Feuerriegel (Spartacus: Blood and Sand) is attached to play the lead in Mayday Hill, an Australian horror/thriller inspired by true events.
The film will be shot at the former Beechworth Lunatic Asylum in Victoria, a notorious institution known as Mayday Hills to the locals. The asylum, which was the site of deaths, abuse and gruesome medical treatment, closed in 1995 after operating for 128 years.
The screenplay by Matthew Barker centres on a couple (Daniel and an actress who is now in negotiation) who visit the location and are confronted by the horrors of the past.
Director Dean Francis, who made his feature debut with 2010.s Road Train, told If the film melds true events with demonology and medical malpractice.. "It ties in with the gentrification of institutions into apartments, which hide a dark history," he said.
The producers are Janice Eymann (executive producer of Jon Amiel.s Creation), who brought the project to Francis,...
The film will be shot at the former Beechworth Lunatic Asylum in Victoria, a notorious institution known as Mayday Hills to the locals. The asylum, which was the site of deaths, abuse and gruesome medical treatment, closed in 1995 after operating for 128 years.
The screenplay by Matthew Barker centres on a couple (Daniel and an actress who is now in negotiation) who visit the location and are confronted by the horrors of the past.
Director Dean Francis, who made his feature debut with 2010.s Road Train, told If the film melds true events with demonology and medical malpractice.. "It ties in with the gentrification of institutions into apartments, which hide a dark history," he said.
The producers are Janice Eymann (executive producer of Jon Amiel.s Creation), who brought the project to Francis,...
- 3/25/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Hong Kong-based Australian filmmaker Antony Szeto has signed to direct the action thriller Weekend Warriors.
Scripted by Trevor Howis, the film follows a young Army reserve officer who tries to save his men and his brother from his psychopathic former mentor who is hell bent on revenge.
Szeto.s latest film is Fist of the Dragon, a martial arts actioner produced by the legendary Roger Corman. Shot in Nanhai, China, the film sees a retired Mma fighter (Ufc star Josh "The Punk" Thomson) head to the Far East to meet his new lover Meili (Hong Kong martial artist Juju Chan). When he inadvertently takes possession of a package sought by an international arms dealer, mayhem ensues.
That was Szeto.s second collaboration with Corman following The Haunted, a horror movie about a Western documentary crew who discover a story about a head concubine who violently murdered another concubine.
Howis tells...
Scripted by Trevor Howis, the film follows a young Army reserve officer who tries to save his men and his brother from his psychopathic former mentor who is hell bent on revenge.
Szeto.s latest film is Fist of the Dragon, a martial arts actioner produced by the legendary Roger Corman. Shot in Nanhai, China, the film sees a retired Mma fighter (Ufc star Josh "The Punk" Thomson) head to the Far East to meet his new lover Meili (Hong Kong martial artist Juju Chan). When he inadvertently takes possession of a package sought by an international arms dealer, mayhem ensues.
That was Szeto.s second collaboration with Corman following The Haunted, a horror movie about a Western documentary crew who discover a story about a head concubine who violently murdered another concubine.
Howis tells...
- 10/29/2013
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
An Australian producer has acquired the rights to a series of books by an Australian author.
Janice Eymann, producer and CEO of Filmworks, acquired the rights to the ‘Special Agent Vin Cooper’ series of five books by Pan MacMillan author David Rollins.
Eymann has teamed with American producer Bill Mechanic, CEO of Pandemonium Films and former CEO of Fox Filmed Entertainment.
Mechanic said of the series: “I read one and I was hooked, and only stopped reading them when I’d finished the series. Cooper is the classic hero, basically a good guy but cynical and flawed. I think he will make a fantastic franchise character.”
The first film to come out of the book series will be based on Ghost Watch, set in Afghanistan, the USA and Africa and is expected to go into production in 2013.
Eymann said of Mechanic, who produced the Oscar-nominated Coraline, and was executive producer...
Janice Eymann, producer and CEO of Filmworks, acquired the rights to the ‘Special Agent Vin Cooper’ series of five books by Pan MacMillan author David Rollins.
Eymann has teamed with American producer Bill Mechanic, CEO of Pandemonium Films and former CEO of Fox Filmed Entertainment.
Mechanic said of the series: “I read one and I was hooked, and only stopped reading them when I’d finished the series. Cooper is the classic hero, basically a good guy but cynical and flawed. I think he will make a fantastic franchise character.”
The first film to come out of the book series will be based on Ghost Watch, set in Afghanistan, the USA and Africa and is expected to go into production in 2013.
Eymann said of Mechanic, who produced the Oscar-nominated Coraline, and was executive producer...
- 5/8/2012
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
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