EXCLUSIVE: Embankment boards ballet comedy also starring Vera Farmiga. Peter Sarsgaard and Vera Farmiga are due to star in ballet comedy Prima, which sales outfit Embankment Films has newly boarded ahead of Cannes. Choreography will come from acclaimed Black Swanchoreographer Benjamin Millepied, recently appointed director of dance...
EXCLUSIVE: Mad Men star to lead horror from American Hustle producer Richard Suckle; Embankment to sell. Elisabeth Moss, star of TV dramas Mad Men and Top of the Lake, has signed on to lead the cast of writer-director Bryan Bertino’s horror There Are Monsters, which will...
EXCLUSIVE: Edge of Tomorrow star to take on role of female bull-rider. Edge of Tomorrow and Into the Woods star Emily Blunt is attached to play the lead role in bull-riding drama Bronco Belle from first-time writer-director Khurram Longi. Blunt is set to star as Raylene Jackson, a...
The sales agent has commenced international sales on the Sigma Films and Thruline Entertainment horror supported by Creative Scotland. Former Screen UK Star Of Tomorrow Sophie Cookson, riding high on the success of global hit Kingsman: The Secret Service, plays a young woman who runs a...
EXCLUSIVE: Queen of the Desert star joins Mia Wasikowska, Guy Pearce. Robert Pattinson and Carice Van Houten (Black Book, Game of Thrones) have joined Mia Wasikowska and Guy Pearce in writer-director Martin Koolhoven’s (Winter in Wartime) thriller Brimstone, which Embankment has launched at Berlin’s EFM (Feb 5-13). Set...
EXCLUSIVE: Embankment boards western thriller. Mia Wasikowska and Guy Pearce are to lead cast of Martin Koolhoven’s thriller western Brimstone, which UK sales outfit Embankment Films has boarded ahead of Berlin’s EFM (Feb 5-13). Stoker star Wasikowska will play Liz, a heroine on the run from her past and...
EXCLUSVE: Cast rounds on US-Swedish drama set to star Glenn Close. Frances McDormand (Fargo), Logan Lerman (Fury), Brit Marling (Arbitrage), Christian Slater (Nymphomaniac) and Jonathan Pryce (Woman in Gold) have joined Glenn Close in US-Swedish drama The Wife. Ahead of the EFM, Tim Haslam and Hugo Grumbar’s...
EXCLUSIVE: Seth Rogen, Jacki Weaver, Megan Fox, Will Ferrell to star; Embankment to sell. London-based sales and finance outfit Embankment Films has boarded James Franco’s comedy-drama Zeroville, which is now shooting in California, and is shaping up to be among the most-intriguing and fun new projects...
Kate Winslet and Judy Davis lead cast of the new film from director Jocelyn Moorhouse. Production has begun on The Dressmaker at Docklands Studios Melbourne, directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse (Proof,A Thousand Acres). As previously announced, the cast includes Oscar-winning actress Kate Winslet, Judy Davis, Liam Hemsworth and...
Embankment to handle sales on thriller from August: Osage County producer. Armadillo director Janus Metz is set to direct Matthias Schoenaerts in Jean Doumanian Productions’ adaptation of Nic Pizzolatto’s novel Galveston. Rust and Bone star Schoenaerts is on board to lead cast in the thriller in which...
Dustin Hoffman starrer “Boychoir” is showing traction overseas, with the music drama selling to 35 international territories in the wake of its unveiling at the American Film Market. Hoffman met with buyers to tout the film — which shoots in February — at an AFM event...
New sales exec was most recently at French broadcaster TF1. Sara May has joined Embankment Films to steer activities in European sales, co-productions and acquisitions. She was most recently evp of acquisitions and co-productions at TF1, where she spent nearly 10 years and acquired distribution rights for...