Michael Keaton and Seth Rogen will star in King of the Jungle, a comedy to be directed by Glenn Ficarra and John Requa from a script by Golden Globe® and Emmy® Award winners Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski. King of The Jungle is based on a true story first published in Condé Nast’s Wired magazine by Joshua Davis. The film is from Condé Nast Entertainment, Zaftig Films, MadRiver Pictures and Endurance Media, who have come on board to co-finance, and Epic Entertainment. IMR International is introducing King of the Jungle to international buyers at the AFM with CAA Media Finance representing the U.S. rights. The film will be produced by Jeremy Steckler of Condé Nast Entertainment, Zaftig’s Charlie Gogolak, Glenn Ficarra and John Requa, MadRiver’s Marc Butan, Endurance’s Steve Richards, and Epic’s Joshua Davis. Based on the Wired magazine article John McAfee’s Last Stand, the film tells the wild true story of rogue tech magnate John McAfee (Keaton), creator of the McAfee Antivirus software, who cashed-in his fortune, left civilization, and moved to the jungle in Belize. There, he set-up a Colonel Kurtz-like compound of guns, sex and madness. In the film, Wired magazine investigator Ari Furman (Rogen) accepts what he thinks is a run-of-the-mill assignment to interview McAfee, but once he arrives in Belize, he finds himself pulled into McAfee’s escalating paranoia, slippery reality, and murder.
H.E. Maryam Eid AlMheiri, CEO of Media Zone Authority – Abu Dhabi and twofour54, as the entity marks its 10th milestone, comments: “It has been a remarkable 10 years, during which we have built a thriving and sustainable media industry in Abu Dhabi ...
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Amanda Duthie is the new Head of Production, Development, Attraction and Studios for the South Australian Film Corporation, (SAFC) and is responsible for investment in screen content...
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Solmaz Azizi, the newly appointed head of Berlinale Series, has played a major role in establishing the programme in 2015 and has been closely involved in the selection of series throughout. After successfully bringing together the Berlinale Series programme and the EFM industry event Drama Series Days at the Zoo Palast in 2018...
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Sahar Kupersmidt’s role has been expanded at Nordic Entertainment Group (NENT Group) as she is elevated to SVP & Head of Nordic DTH TV. In her new role Sahar will lead the region wide development of NENT Group’s Viasat satellite operator business...
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Francesa Manno, Managing Director and CEO of Summerside International, attends AFM, with a number of t new titles for international buyers. Among them is Rock The World, an extraordinary new documentary that merges the Jamaican Ska sound with Italia...
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SF Studios has strengthened its theatrical team with Mattias Lundin named Marketing and Publicity Manager. Lundin oversees all of SF Studios theatrical activities with responsibility for strategies, budgets and plans as well as publicity and media investments....
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Local film festivals around the world are galvinising and encouraging the local and regional film industry talent offering a platform to celebrate talent in front and behind the camera. Ugu Film Festival 2018 was a success despite challenges and lived up to its promise of becoming bigger and better event, with a high leve...
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Cathy Brady Makes Her Directorial Debut Wildfire With Crystel Fournier As DOP
Award-winning cinematographer Crystel Fournier (pictured above) is the Director of Photography (DOP) on Wildfire, the highly anticipated feature debut from award-winning Irish director Cathy Brady and a multi award-winning team of producers: Tempesta Films’ Carlo Cresto-Dina, Cowboy Films’ Charles Steel, and Samson Films’ David Collins (Oscar and Sundance winner Once, Float Like A Butterfly). An Irish-UK co-production, Wildfire was supported through development and production by the BFI, Screen Ireland, Northern Ireland Screen and the Wellcome Trust. Film4, Sulcata Productions, Illium and Lexis Media also co-financed production. Lizzie Francke, Celine Haddad, Lauren Dark, Emma Duffy, Robert Halmi and Jim Reeve are the executive producers. Wildfire is a six week shoot on location in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. Cathy Brady’s journey in making this film began by casting the lead actors Nika McGuigan and Nora-Jane Noone, and deciding on Fournier as DOP. From there, over a year-long workshop process of improvisations, transcript, rehearsal, voice and dance drills, she created the story and wrote the script. “What excited us by Wildfire was firstly Cathy’s energy and talent,” said the producers, “but also the unique generative process Cathy wanted for this: trying to create a film that is different because it’s made differently.” Great Point is handling world sales and Head of Sales Nada Cirjanic and her team is introducing the project to buyers at AFM Market. Cirjanic said: “We were moved by the piercing emotional truth of this story of a family in crisis, and captivated by Cathy’s clear and powerful vision for bringing it to life.”
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