Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz will star in the biopic about the drug lord, which the company has introduced to buyers on the Croisette.
EuropaCorp will finance, distribute and co-produce with Pinguin Films and Dean Nichols Productions.
Fernando León de Aranoa will direct from his adapted screenplay charting the drug lord’s rise to power based on Virginia Vallejo’s 2008 Spanish-language bestselling memoir Loving Pablo, Hating Escobar.
Dean Nichols, Javier Bardem and EuropaCorp CEO Christophe Lambert produce, while Jere Hausfater, Dany Boon and Todd Nichols serve as executive producers. The producers anticipate a 2015 start.
Bardem and Cruz have collaborated on several films including Woody Allen’s Vicky Cristina Barcelona.
On Tuesday EuropaCorp announced the French graphic novel adaptation Valerian to star Dane DeHaan and Cara Delevingne, set to commence production at the end of this year.
EuropaCorp will finance, distribute and co-produce with Pinguin Films and Dean Nichols Productions.
Fernando León de Aranoa will direct from his adapted screenplay charting the drug lord’s rise to power based on Virginia Vallejo’s 2008 Spanish-language bestselling memoir Loving Pablo, Hating Escobar.
Dean Nichols, Javier Bardem and EuropaCorp CEO Christophe Lambert produce, while Jere Hausfater, Dany Boon and Todd Nichols serve as executive producers. The producers anticipate a 2015 start.
Bardem and Cruz have collaborated on several films including Woody Allen’s Vicky Cristina Barcelona.
On Tuesday EuropaCorp announced the French graphic novel adaptation Valerian to star Dane DeHaan and Cara Delevingne, set to commence production at the end of this year.
- 5/13/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Luc Besson's EuropaCorp announced Wednesday in Cannes that it will finance, distribute and co-produce with Pinguin Films and Dean Nichols Productions the Pablo Escobar biopic Escobar, starring Academy Award winners Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz. Based on Virginia Vallejo’s 2008 best-selling Spanish-language memoir Loving Pablo, Hating Escobar, Fernando Leon de Aranoa (A Perfect Day, Mondays in the Sun, Familia) will write and direct the biopic of the Colombian drug lord. Producers are Dean Nichols, Bardem and EuropaCorp CEO Christophe Lambert. Jere Hausfater, Dany Boon and Todd Nichols will serve as executive producers. Read More Cannes: Jake Gyllenhaal
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- 5/13/2015
- by Georg Szalai
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Toad the Wet Sprocket wants you to know they’re happy. On “New Constellation,” their first studio album in 16 years (and also their only album named after a song, not counting their best-of compilation “P.S.: A Toad Retrospective,” and I don’t), Glen Phillips, the lead singer/rhythm guitarist/main songwriter sings about happy accidents, love lost but then quickly regained, and just plain love of everything. (The chorus of the title track, which was once featured on the website of “Rolling Stone,” affirms, “Declare my love to all creation!”) Even on the country-tinged “California Wasted,” when he sings, “I still make the same mistakes,” he sounds downright enthusiastic. And unlike their last studio album, “Coil,” which featured a song with the line, “Life is suffering,” there’s actually a song on “New Constellation” titled “Life Is Beautiful,” sung and cowritten by lead guitarist Todd Nichols.
Toad the Wet Sprocket wants you to know they’re happy. On “New Constellation,” their first studio album in 16 years (and also their only album named after a song, not counting their best-of compilation “P.S.: A Toad Retrospective,” and I don’t), Glen Phillips, the lead singer/rhythm guitarist/main songwriter sings about happy accidents, love lost but then quickly regained, and just plain love of everything. (The chorus of the title track, which was once featured on the website of “Rolling Stone,” affirms, “Declare my love to all creation!”) Even on the country-tinged “California Wasted,” when he sings, “I still make the same mistakes,” he sounds downright enthusiastic. And unlike their last studio album, “Coil,” which featured a song with the line, “Life is suffering,” there’s actually a song on “New Constellation” titled “Life Is Beautiful,” sung and cowritten by lead guitarist Todd Nichols.
- 9/10/2013
- by Michael Perone
- Obsessed with Film
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