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Post by The Ultimate Nullifier on May 27, 2014 19:54:31 GMT -6
www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/robert-de-niro-star-opposite-707364French filmmaker Olivier Assayas is directing the heist action-thriller. Robert De Niro will star opposite Robert Pattinson in Olivier Assayas' Idol's Eye, with Michael Benaroya's Benaroya Pictures coming aboard to finance and produce. Assayas -- whose Clouds of Sils Maria played in competition at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival -- is set to begin shooting the heist action-thriller in October in Chicago and Toronto. Plot details are being kept under wraps. Charles Gillibert developed the project, and is producing alongside CG Cinema, Bluegrass Films' Scott Stuber, Film 360's Scott Lambert, Alexandra Milchan and Benaroya. Ben Sachs is executive producing for Benaroya Pictures. CAA, which arranged financing for the film, will represent domestic rights along with WME. International Film Trust, the foreign sales outfit co-founded by Benaroya, will sell the film internationally. De Niro is represented by CAA.
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Post by The Ultimate Nullifier on May 28, 2014 12:34:59 GMT -6
variety.com/2014/film/news/rachel-weisz-in-talks-to-star-in-assayas-idols-eye-exclusive-1201194933/PARIS — Oscar-winning actress Rachel Weisz is in negotiations to join Robert Pattinson and Robert De Niro for Olivier Assayas’ sprawling Chicago-set gangster drama “Idol’s Eye,” which is due to start shooting in the fall. Charles Gillibert at Paris-based CG Cinema is lead-producing the film with American partners Benaroya Pictures, which is financing and producing, as well as Bluegrass Films’ Scott Stuber, Film 360’s Scott Lambert, Alexandra Milchan and Michael Benaroya. Ben Sachs is exec producing for Benaroya Pictures. Previously titled “Hubris,” the project is based on a 2007 Playboy article called “Boosting The Big Tuna” by Hillel Levin. It follows a group of thieves who rob a man who turns out to be Chicago mafia boss Tony Accardo. Script is penned by Assayas, who won a Golden Globe for “Carlos the Jackal,” his mini-series starring Edgar Ramirez as Venezuelan revolutionary Ilich Ramirez Sanchez. International Film Trust, the outfit topped by Christian De Gallegos and launched last year by Benaroya and Miscellaneous Entertainment, is repping foreign sales on “Idol’s Eye.” CAA, which arranged financing, will represent domestic rights along with WME. Weisz is repped by Independent Talent Group, CAA and Brillstein Entertainment Partners. Assayas’ latest film, “Clouds of Sils Maria,” produced by Gillibert’s CG Cinema, competed at Cannes.
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