Sam Worthington ("Avatar"), Ryan Kwanten ("True Blood"), Jim Sturgess ("Upside Down"), and Dutch actor Mark van Eeuwen are set to join Anthony Hopkins in the action-thriller "Kidnapping Freddy Heineken" from Informant Media.
The story chronicles the 1983 kidnapping of Dutch beer magnate Freddy Heineken and his driver Ab Doderer. The two were released after payment of a record ransom of around $50 million.
Daniel Alfredson ("The Girl Who Played with Fire") directs from a script by William Brookfield ("Rough Magic") based on a book by Peter R. de Vries.
Howard Meltzer, Judy Cairo and Michael A. Simpson will produce. Filming begins late October in Belgium.
Source: Variety...
The story chronicles the 1983 kidnapping of Dutch beer magnate Freddy Heineken and his driver Ab Doderer. The two were released after payment of a record ransom of around $50 million.
Daniel Alfredson ("The Girl Who Played with Fire") directs from a script by William Brookfield ("Rough Magic") based on a book by Peter R. de Vries.
Howard Meltzer, Judy Cairo and Michael A. Simpson will produce. Filming begins late October in Belgium.
Source: Variety...
- 10/9/2013
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Jim Sturgess, Sam Worthington and Ryan Kwanten have joined the cast of Kidnapping Freddy Heineken. Embankment Films handles pre-sales.
As previously announced by ScreenDaily, Anthony Hopkins will star in Daniel Alfredson’s action thriller. Alfredson is best known for directing two of the Millennium trilogy, The Girl Who Played With Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest.
Dutch actor Mark van Eeuwen and Australian newcomer Tom Cocquerel have also joined the production, set to begin shooting later this month in Belgium before moving on to Amsterdam and New Orleans.
Hopkins will portray brewery magnate Freddy Heineken, who was kidnapped along with his chauffeur in 1983 and eventually released for a 35 million Dutch guilder ransom, roughly equivalent to $50m by today’s standards.
William Brookfield adapted the screenplay from Dutch investigative reporter Peter de Vries’ bestseller.
Informant Media partners Judy Cairo and Michael A Simpson produce alongside Howard Meltzer under the Informant Europe label.
Informant partner...
As previously announced by ScreenDaily, Anthony Hopkins will star in Daniel Alfredson’s action thriller. Alfredson is best known for directing two of the Millennium trilogy, The Girl Who Played With Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest.
Dutch actor Mark van Eeuwen and Australian newcomer Tom Cocquerel have also joined the production, set to begin shooting later this month in Belgium before moving on to Amsterdam and New Orleans.
Hopkins will portray brewery magnate Freddy Heineken, who was kidnapped along with his chauffeur in 1983 and eventually released for a 35 million Dutch guilder ransom, roughly equivalent to $50m by today’s standards.
William Brookfield adapted the screenplay from Dutch investigative reporter Peter de Vries’ bestseller.
Informant Media partners Judy Cairo and Michael A Simpson produce alongside Howard Meltzer under the Informant Europe label.
Informant partner...
- 10/8/2013
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Jim Sturgess, Sam Worthington, Ryan Kwanten and Anthony Hopkins have joined the cast of Kidnapping Freddy Heineken. Embankment Films handles pre-sales.
Daniel Alfredson of The Girl Who Played with Fire and The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest fame will direct the action thriller.
Dutch actor Mark van Eeuwen and Australian newcomer Tom Cocquerel have also joined the production, set to begin shooting later this month in Belgium before moving on to Amsterdam and New Orleans.
Hopkins will portray the brewery magnate Freddy Heineken who was kidnapped along with his chauffeur in 1983 and eventually released for a 35mn Dutch guilder ransom, roughly equivalent to $50m by today’s standards. William Brookfield adapted the screenplay from Dutch investigative reporter Peter de Vries’ bestseller.
Informant Media partners Judy Cairo and Michael A Simpson produce alongside Howard Meltzer under the Informant Europe label.
Informant partner Eric Brenner serves as one of the executive producers and the project financiers are [link...
Daniel Alfredson of The Girl Who Played with Fire and The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest fame will direct the action thriller.
Dutch actor Mark van Eeuwen and Australian newcomer Tom Cocquerel have also joined the production, set to begin shooting later this month in Belgium before moving on to Amsterdam and New Orleans.
Hopkins will portray the brewery magnate Freddy Heineken who was kidnapped along with his chauffeur in 1983 and eventually released for a 35mn Dutch guilder ransom, roughly equivalent to $50m by today’s standards. William Brookfield adapted the screenplay from Dutch investigative reporter Peter de Vries’ bestseller.
Informant Media partners Judy Cairo and Michael A Simpson produce alongside Howard Meltzer under the Informant Europe label.
Informant partner Eric Brenner serves as one of the executive producers and the project financiers are [link...
- 10/8/2013
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Jim Sturgess, Sam Worthington, Ryan Kwanten and Anthony Hopkins have joined the cast of Kidnapping Freddy Heineken. Embankment Films handles pre-sales.
Daniel Alfredson of The Girl Who Played with Fire and The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest fame will direct the action thriller.
Dutch actor Mark van Eeuwen and Australian newcomer Tom Cocquerel have also joined the production, set to begin shooting later this month in Belgium before moving on to Amsterdam and New Orleans.
Hopkins will portray the brewery magnate Freddy Heineken who was kidnapped along with his chauffeur in 1983 and eventually released for a 35mn Dutch guilder ransom, roughly equivalent to $50m by today’s standards. William Brookfield adapted the screenplay from Dutch investigative reporter Peter de Vries’ bestseller.
Informant Media partners Judy Cairo and Michael A Simpson produce alongside Howard Meltzer under the Informant Europe label.
Informant partner Eric Brenner serves as one of the executive producers and the project financiers are [link...
Daniel Alfredson of The Girl Who Played with Fire and The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest fame will direct the action thriller.
Dutch actor Mark van Eeuwen and Australian newcomer Tom Cocquerel have also joined the production, set to begin shooting later this month in Belgium before moving on to Amsterdam and New Orleans.
Hopkins will portray the brewery magnate Freddy Heineken who was kidnapped along with his chauffeur in 1983 and eventually released for a 35mn Dutch guilder ransom, roughly equivalent to $50m by today’s standards. William Brookfield adapted the screenplay from Dutch investigative reporter Peter de Vries’ bestseller.
Informant Media partners Judy Cairo and Michael A Simpson produce alongside Howard Meltzer under the Informant Europe label.
Informant partner Eric Brenner serves as one of the executive producers and the project financiers are [link...
- 10/8/2013
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Ryan Kwanten ("True Blood"), Jim Sturgess ( Cloud Atlas ) and Sam Worthington ( Avatar ) are set to star opposite the previously-announced Anthony Hopkins in Kidnapping Freddy Heineken , Variety reports. Daniel Alfredson ( The Girl Who Played with Fire ) is directing from a script by William Brookfield, in turn based on Peter R. de Vries. book of the same name. The true crime thriller, which, as the title implies, details the 1983 kidnapping of the beer magnate, Alfred Henry "Freddy" Heineken and his driver. Kidnapping Freddy Heineken is set to shoot this month in Belgium with additional production planned for both Amsterdam and New Orleans. Judy Cairo and Michael A. Simpson are producing through Informant Media, as is Howard Meltzer for Informant...
- 10/8/2013
- Comingsoon.net
“Tracking Shot” is a monthly featurette here on Ioncinema.com that looks at a dozen or so projects that are moments away from lensing and this October we see a couple of items that we could certainly circle as potential Cannes 2014 bait. Thanks to our friends at Production Weekly for the helping hand in curating our list of future must see items.
Among the top foreign film productions, The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover‘s Peter Greenaway is looking at a late October, possible November start to begin filming a fragment of the great Soviet master filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein’s bio timeline. Eisenstein In Guanajuato will cover the portion of the filmmaker’s post Battleship Potemkin career, with Eisenstein landing in Mexico after Hollywood studios balked at the idea of working with him and in its place finds romance. The Girl Who Played with Fire‘s Daniel Alfredson...
Among the top foreign film productions, The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover‘s Peter Greenaway is looking at a late October, possible November start to begin filming a fragment of the great Soviet master filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein’s bio timeline. Eisenstein In Guanajuato will cover the portion of the filmmaker’s post Battleship Potemkin career, with Eisenstein landing in Mexico after Hollywood studios balked at the idea of working with him and in its place finds romance. The Girl Who Played with Fire‘s Daniel Alfredson...
- 10/1/2013
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Aaron Eckhart will star in the action film "The Expatriate." According to Variety, Philipp Stolzl ("North Face") will direct from a screenplay by A.E. Amel.Eckhart will play a former CIA agent who looks to rebuild his relationship with his estranged 15-year-old daughter. He moves to Belgium to work as a security expert and one day discovers that his colleagues have mysteriously disappeared and an assassin has been hired to kill him and his daughter.Informant Media's Judy Cairo ("Crazy Heart"), Michael A. Simpson ("Crazy Heart") and Howard Meltzer are producing along with Harry Winer of Smash Media. Shooting begins in early 2011 in Belgium and Montreal. Eckhart will be seen in John Cameron Mitchell's upcoming drama "Rabbit Hole," opposite Nicole Kidman.
- 11/5/2010
- by Adnan Tezer
- Monsters and Critics
Exclusive: Aaron Eckhart will star in The Expatriate, playing an ex-cia agent in a drama that will begin production early next year in Belgium and Montreal. Philipp Stolzl (North Face) is directing a script by A.E. Amel. Informant Media's Judy Cairo is producing with Smash Media's Harry Winer and Michael A. Simpson and Howard Meltzer. Essential Entertainment is handling international sales at Afm, and will be executive producer. The film is being financed partly through the Informant Media Film Fund. In The Expatriate, Eckhart plays a former CIA agent who hopes to make a fresh start with his estranged 15-year old daughter. He takes a job in Belgium as a security expert for a multinational corporation and arrives one day to find the corporation no longer exists, his coworkers are gone, and his assistant is really a trained operative out to kill him and his daughter. Father and daughter...
- 11/4/2010
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
By Lisa Horowitz
Following up its first film, Oscar winner "Crazy Heart," Informant Media has set its production slate for 2010.
Partners Judy Cairo, Michael A. Simpson and Eric Brenner also announced that Informant has added producer Howard Meltzer as partner. He produced feature film "Tenderness" and executive produced TV movie "Hell on Heels: The Battle of Mary Kay," among others.
Informant's upcoming features include "Hysteria," a romantic comedy by Stephen and Jonah Lisa Dyer set in Victorian England, about the invention of the vibrator. S...
Following up its first film, Oscar winner "Crazy Heart," Informant Media has set its production slate for 2010.
Partners Judy Cairo, Michael A. Simpson and Eric Brenner also announced that Informant has added producer Howard Meltzer as partner. He produced feature film "Tenderness" and executive produced TV movie "Hell on Heels: The Battle of Mary Kay," among others.
Informant's upcoming features include "Hysteria," a romantic comedy by Stephen and Jonah Lisa Dyer set in Victorian England, about the invention of the vibrator. S...
- 4/22/2010
- by Lisa Horowitz
- The Wrap
Shannen Doherty has signed for a holiday-themed Hallmark Channel original movie.
The former "Beverly Hills, 90210" star has been cast in "Growing the Big One," which centers on a woman who inherits her debt-ridden family farm and enters a pumpkin-growing contest in hope of avoiding foreclosure. Along the way, she falls in love with her partner in the contest.
The movie has begun production in Vancouver and will premiere in October 2010.
"Growing" is produced by Gbo Films, with Howard Meltzer ("The Brooke Ellison Story"), Jane Goldenring ("Pizza My Heart") and Ted Bauman ("Pictures of Hollis Woods") executive producing. Mark Griffiths ("Our House") is directing from a script by Diane Mettler and Anna Sandor.
The former "Beverly Hills, 90210" star has been cast in "Growing the Big One," which centers on a woman who inherits her debt-ridden family farm and enters a pumpkin-growing contest in hope of avoiding foreclosure. Along the way, she falls in love with her partner in the contest.
The movie has begun production in Vancouver and will premiere in October 2010.
"Growing" is produced by Gbo Films, with Howard Meltzer ("The Brooke Ellison Story"), Jane Goldenring ("Pizza My Heart") and Ted Bauman ("Pictures of Hollis Woods") executive producing. Mark Griffiths ("Our House") is directing from a script by Diane Mettler and Anna Sandor.
- 10/13/2009
- by By James Hibberd
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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