Tag: Casting News: Foreign Films
Love At First Bite: Thomas Cailley Reins In Exarchopoulos, Romain Duris & Paul Kircher for “Le Règne animal”
Winner of multiple awards in Cannes (C.I.C.A.E. Award, FIPRESCI Prize, Label Europa Cinemas, SACD Prize) along with major wins for Best First Film via...
Alicia Vikander is Next on the Throne: Karim Aïnouz’s Firebrand Finds a Replacement for Michelle Williams
Fresh off the Cannes preemed docu Mariner Of The Mountains and a jury duty stint at the Berlinale just last week, Karim Aïnouz is setting...
Can’t Keep Quiet: Joachim Lafosse Casts Emmanuelle Devos & Benoît Poelvoorde for “Un silence”
Belgian filmmaker Joachim Lafosse is wasting little time between projects and will be teaming with veterans thesps Emmanuelle Devos and Benoît Poelvoorde for his tenth...
Take Shelter: Oppenheimer’s Bunker-Musical “The End” includes Neon, Swinton, George Mackay & Stephen Graham
The bygone era of the Rodgers & Hammerstein type of American '50s musicals might be revisited in tone, and tune as Joshua Oppenheimer, the...
A Touch of Evil: Denis Côté Casts “Répertoire des villes disparues”
At ease in both the fiction, docu and in hybrid forms, Denis Côté is moving back to fiction with a fantasy drama offering and...
Gloria Meet Gioria: Fabrice Du Welz Finds Lead for “Adoration” (EXCLUSIVE)
Showcased as part of the fierce acting quartet in the Venice Film Festival Silver Lion winning Xavier Legrand's Custody (Jusqu'à la garde), child actor...
Buoyant Bangalore: Kolinka, Banerjee, Descas & Johanna ter Steege Set for Hansen-Løve’s “Maya”
The set pieces (people and locations) are finalized and put in place for Mia Hansen-Løve's Maya, the multiple territory, global trotting think piece on...
You, Me, & Denis: Binoche & Depardieu Up for “Les Lunettes Noir”
In October of 2016, French actress Juliette Binoche revealed several new projects while being interviewed in Hungary, one of which she cited as a...
Exclusive: Isabelle Huppert & Benoît Jacquot Reteam on “Eva” Remake
In Nicholas Bell's sit down with the distinguished French actress Isabelle Huppert, who is currently promoting the U.S. release of Paul Verhoeven's Elle, we...
Mystery Train: Lisa Langseth & Alicia Vikander Reteam for “Euphoria”
With nice looking paycheques from her roles in Tomb Raider and Jason Bourne, Screen Daily reports that Oscar-winning actress Alicia Vikander is setting up her own production...
Fast & Furious: Alexandros Avranas’ Moving into “Love Me Not”
With Cannes in major prep mode, we have more international sales agent slate nuggets of info on international filmmakers we're tracking. One of those...
Along Came a Dessie: Dakota is Taken for Kaminski’s “The Postcard Killings”
As reported just a couple of months back, Steven Spielberg's righthand man cinematographer Janusz Kaminski is prepping his first feature outing as a director...
On Set Spat: Amalric, Gainsbourg, Cotillard & Garrel Desplechin’s “Les Fantomes d’Ismaël”
Charlotte Gainsbourg, Marion Cotillard, Louis Garrel and often used muse Mathieu Amalric are part of the heavyweight cast we expect to see in Arnaud...
Mao Mao: Stacy Martin & Louis Garrel as JLG in Hazanavicius’ “Redoubtable”
She was his post Anna Karina muse and they would collaborate on La chinoise (67), Week End (67) and Sympathy for the Devil (70). A...
Sean Bean & Mark Stanley Runoff Towards Clio Barnard’s “Dark River”
Potentially taking on his most significant film in recent "memory", Deadline reports that Sean Bean and up-and-coming actor Mark Stanley (Mike Leigh's Mr. Turner)...
The English Patience: Sally Hawkins & Jack Lowden Board Szász’s “Cross My Mind”
Shooting star Jack Lowden (Yann Demange's '71) and often Mike Leigh used thesp Sally Hawkins will potentially get too close for comfort in János Szász's English...
From Dheepan to Deadpan: Joaquin Phoenix is Hired Help in Audiard’s “The Sisters Brothers”
More fastidious about the projects he embarks on, Deadline reports that Joaquin Phoenix is in early talks to join the cast of Jacques Audiard’s...
Ruth Wilson Flowing Towards Barnard’s “Dark River”
Known for collecting accolades and her scrappy protags portraits under the new wave of Kitchen Sink realism label, Clio Barnard is moving ahead with...
Whale of a Tale: Stephan Elliott Harpons Guy Pearce & Kylie Minogue for “Flammable Children”
According to Variety, Guy Pearce and Kylie Minogue (Holy Motors) are officially are set to offer not much parental supervision alongside the already cast...
Meat is…: Jessica Brown Findlay Takes a Bow on Mark Gill’s “Morrissey”
While they've got The Smiths frontman in actor Jack Lowden ('71) and it becomes only a matter of time before the production to announce who'll play...
Surreal Madrid: Antonio de la Torre Joins Maribel Verdú in Pablo Berger’s “Abracadabra”
Landing Antonio de la Torre as the co-lead to the already announced Maribel Verdú, we are chalking up Pablo Berger's third feature film as a...
Chloé Robichaud Prefers to Elect: Filmmaker Lands Cast for “Pays”
While Canadians are days away from hitting the polls to determine the next government, Chloé Robichaud, the filmmaker who broke out with her Cannes...
Strange Case of Serge Bozon: Huppert, Depardieu & Duris Join “Madame Hyde”
Arte France Cinéma’s Director General Olivier Père dropped development news on future French cinema offerings with three new projects that will be supported by the...
Nouveau Western: Audiard Teams with John C. Reilly for “The Sisters Brothers”
Not one to waste too much time in development between projects (he is just as prolific as the Dardennes with a film output of...
Our Children….One Roof: Cédric Kahn Joins Bejo in “Lafosse’s L’economie d’un couple”
Cineuropa reports that Red Lights/Roberto Succo director Cédric Kahn will be the significant other in Joachim Lafosse’s L’economie d’un couple. Kahn who often moonlights as...
Oslo Accords: Rory Culkin & Caleb Landry Jones Join Jonas Åkerlund’s “Lords Of Chaos”
Indie actor Rory Culkin (Electrick Children, Gabriel) and Caleb Landry Jones (who'll see Heaven Knows What receive its theatrical release at the end of...
Dolan Doubles Down: It’s Only the End of the World for Cotillard, Seydoux, Cassel, Ulliel & Nathalie Baye
Joining the ranks of filmmakers with insatiable appetites such as Michael Winterbottom, Francois Ozon and Woody Allen, Xavier Dolan doesn't take too much down...
Love At First Sight: The Dardennes ID Adèle Haenel as “La fille inconnue”
Potentially adding to their list of strong, infatigable and memorable film heroines in the line of Rosetta (Émilie Dequenne), Lorna (Arta Dobroshi), Samantha (Cécile...
No Disappearing Act: Bruno Dumont & Juliette Binoche Re-Team on “Slack Bay”
Bruno Dumont is set to continue his fixation for the nineteen-tens as Screen Daily has confirmed that filmmaker will indeed reteam with his Camille Claudel 1915 thesp Juliette...
Good Grief: Mimi Brănescu Measures Brain Waves in Cristi Puiu’s “Sierra-Nevada”
Cristi Puiu has reteamed with his The Death of Mr. Lazarescu actor Mimi Brănescu on the filmmaker's fifth feature film currently filming in Bucharest...
Teacher’s Pet; Stacy Martin Joins “The Childhood of a Leader”
After having worked in a supporting player capacity in Melancholia, Brady Corbet has turned to Lars Von Trier's Nymphomaniac for some creative persuasion in...
The Dreamers: Valérie Donzelli Completes Casting for “Marguerite et Julien” (aka Abandoned Truffaut Project)
Valérie Donzelli, the actress-turned director who we most recently caught as a supporting player in the garishly dressed Saint Laurent, Bertrand Bonello's stylized biopic...
Berenice Bejo Dwells on the Past; Replaces Binoche on Corbet’s “The Childhood of the Leader”
Sometimes life doesn't play out like in the movies, or rather, sometimes the movies don't play out like in real life. Actor-director Brady Corbet...
Dakota Johnson Makes “A Bigger Splash” Than Margot Robbie; Guadagnino Finally Starts Lensing
He slayed international auds with I Am Love, and now it would appear that Luca Guadagnino is finally moving back into feature films (docs...
Carnie Folk; Haenel & Lola Duenas Among Performers in Léa Fehner’s “Les ogres”
Respectively coming off red-hot Cannes' Directors' Fortnight titles in big winner Les Combattants and Alleluia, actresses Adèle Haenel and Lola Dueñas are reteaming (they...
Get Him to the Greek; John C. Reilly Completes Lanthimos’ “The Lobster” Ensemble
Supporting players in John C. Reilly, Ashley Jensen, Michael Smiley and Jessica Barden are joining the already cast, diverse set of Colin Farrell, Rachel...
Melanie Thierry, del Toro, Robbins & Kurylenko are Doctors Without Borders in Fernando Leon de Aranoa’s A Perfect Day
Known for his portraits of people and connection to their employment such as Princesas (or unemployment via Mondays in the Sun), Fernando Leon de...
