Search results for: Hany Abu-Assad

Riz Ahmed and the yet to be named pair of Platform Jury teammates won't have much watching to do as this year's Platform section...

2013's Un Certain Regard section carries a whopping five first time feature filmmakers that'll be measuring themselves up against auteur cinema heavyweights. While we...

What an odd move it would make to see Hany Abu-Assad (who has been waiting, and waiting some more for his next project to unfold) to move from Paradise Now onto a screenplay written from the pair who gave us 3:10 to Yuma, currently lensing The A-Team and the "Wanted" franchise.

In what I imagine is like a speed dating between producers looking for coin and those looking to finance the next hot film project, there are a slew of names/projects (not only Canadian, but international) among the 43 listed below that have caught over attention.

Less than two weeks ago The Weinstein Company proudly announced their big screen adaptation intentions for Paulo Coelho's classic The Alchemist and now, Warner Bros. are quick to follow announcing that they have re-set a Coelho project originally set up at New Line. Variety reports that Hollywood Gang Prods. has set Hany Abu-Assad (Paradise Now) to direct the project and rewrite the script by Marcos Bernstein (Central Station).