Exclusive: Venezuelan Filmmaker Jonathan Jakubowicz, best known for Resistance and Hands of Stone, has signed on to direct the feature Cottonwood for Eric Paquette’s Meridian Pictures.
The film will be produced by Paquette, Aaron Barnett, and The Exchange’s Brian O’Shea, with Claudine Jakubowicz serving as executive producer. The Exchange will be handling worldwide sales and arranging financing.
The story follows a single dad who left his troubled past behind but must confront his dark history when his former mentor, a dangerous gangster, resurfaces. As the mentor’s loyalty to him is tested, he becomes the target of the gangster’s own bloodthirsty son, forcing him to protect his 13-year-old son from a relentless killer.
Jakubowicz was the winner of the German Film Peace Prize 2020 for his film Resistance. His film Secuestro Express was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the British Independent Film Awards, and Hands of Stone premiered at Cannes.
The film will be produced by Paquette, Aaron Barnett, and The Exchange’s Brian O’Shea, with Claudine Jakubowicz serving as executive producer. The Exchange will be handling worldwide sales and arranging financing.
The story follows a single dad who left his troubled past behind but must confront his dark history when his former mentor, a dangerous gangster, resurfaces. As the mentor’s loyalty to him is tested, he becomes the target of the gangster’s own bloodthirsty son, forcing him to protect his 13-year-old son from a relentless killer.
Jakubowicz was the winner of the German Film Peace Prize 2020 for his film Resistance. His film Secuestro Express was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the British Independent Film Awards, and Hands of Stone premiered at Cannes.
- 5/2/2024
- by Zac Ntim and Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
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Written and directed by Jonathan Jakubowicz, Resistance tells the true story of a group of Girls and Boy Scouts that created a network that went on to save nearly 10,000 orphans whose parents had been killed by the Nazis in the World War II. Jesse Eisenberg takes the lead role as an aspiring Jewish actor who has a need to help the children which leads him to the world of pantomime. As a result, he would become the iconic French mime Marcel Marceau.
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Written and directed by Jonathan Jakubowicz, Resistance tells the true story of a group of Girls and Boy Scouts that created a network that went on to save nearly 10,000 orphans whose parents had been killed by the Nazis in the World War II. Jesse Eisenberg takes the lead role as an aspiring Jewish actor who has a need to help the children which leads him to the world of pantomime. As a result, he would become the iconic French mime Marcel Marceau.
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- 3/27/2020
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: IFC Films has taken U.S. rights on Resistance, Jonathan Jakubowicz’s Second World War-set drama starring Jesse Eisenberg.
Edgar Ramirez, Ed Harris, Clémence Poésy, and Matthias Schweighöfer are also in the movie, which is the true story of a group of girl and boy scouts who created a network that saved the lives of ten thousand orphans whose parents had been killed by the Nazis.
It centers on an aspiring Jewish actor (Eisenberg) whose efforts to help the children leads him into the world of pantomime – he would go on to become the legendary French mime artist Marcel Marceau.
Producers are Claudine Jakubowicz, Dan Maag, Thorsten Schumacher, Carlos García de Paredes, Patrick Zorer and Jonathan Jakubowicz. IFC Films will release in 2020.
The deal was negotiated by Arianna Bocco, Evp of Acquisitions and Productions at IFC Films, Aijah Keith of IFC films and CAA Media Finance on behalf of the filmmakers.
Edgar Ramirez, Ed Harris, Clémence Poésy, and Matthias Schweighöfer are also in the movie, which is the true story of a group of girl and boy scouts who created a network that saved the lives of ten thousand orphans whose parents had been killed by the Nazis.
It centers on an aspiring Jewish actor (Eisenberg) whose efforts to help the children leads him into the world of pantomime – he would go on to become the legendary French mime artist Marcel Marceau.
Producers are Claudine Jakubowicz, Dan Maag, Thorsten Schumacher, Carlos García de Paredes, Patrick Zorer and Jonathan Jakubowicz. IFC Films will release in 2020.
The deal was negotiated by Arianna Bocco, Evp of Acquisitions and Productions at IFC Films, Aijah Keith of IFC films and CAA Media Finance on behalf of the filmmakers.
- 11/10/2019
- by Tom Grater and Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Four-time Oscar nominee Ed Harris (The Hours), Edgar Ramirez (Carlos) and Cléménce Poesy (The Tunnel) are among an impressive lineup of U.S. and international actors joining Jesse Eisenberg (The Social Network) in World War II story Resistance.
Harris will portray General George S. Patton in the film based on the inspirational true story of iconic French mime artist Marcel Marceau who worked with the French Resistance to help save the lives of thousands of orphans during the war. The film will chart how groups of Girl and Boy Scouts created a network to help save children whose parents had been killed by the Nazis. Marceau, an orthodox Jew whose father was killed in Auschwitz, is said to have learned to mime partly in order to help the children escape.
According to the film’s producers, Eisenberg, whose mother was a professional clown, has been working on his mime...
Harris will portray General George S. Patton in the film based on the inspirational true story of iconic French mime artist Marcel Marceau who worked with the French Resistance to help save the lives of thousands of orphans during the war. The film will chart how groups of Girl and Boy Scouts created a network to help save children whose parents had been killed by the Nazis. Marceau, an orthodox Jew whose father was killed in Auschwitz, is said to have learned to mime partly in order to help the children escape.
According to the film’s producers, Eisenberg, whose mother was a professional clown, has been working on his mime...
- 10/30/2018
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Pair in negotiations to play resistance fighter and SS commander respectively.
Haley Bennett (The Magnificent Seven) and Matthias Schweighöfer (Thomas Vinterberg’s upcoming Kursk) are in talks to take key roles in Jonathan Jakubowicz’s Resistance.
Jesse Eisenberg is playing legendary mime artist Marcel Marceau in the film, which details his involvement in the French Resistance during the Second World War.
Bennett will play a resistance fighter who plays a vital role in inspiring Marceau to join her to rescue thousands of children, while Schweighöfer will play a notorious SS commander who is personally assigned by Adolf Hitler to dismantle the Resistance.
Rocket Science is co-financing and producing the project and is selling it at this week’s European Film Market (Efm). CAA handles domestic rights.
Pantaleon are co-financing and producing, with Epicentral co-producing. Producers are Claudine Jakubowicz, Carlos Garcia de Paredes and Dan Maag.
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Haley Bennett (The Magnificent Seven) and Matthias Schweighöfer (Thomas Vinterberg’s upcoming Kursk) are in talks to take key roles in Jonathan Jakubowicz’s Resistance.
Jesse Eisenberg is playing legendary mime artist Marcel Marceau in the film, which details his involvement in the French Resistance during the Second World War.
Bennett will play a resistance fighter who plays a vital role in inspiring Marceau to join her to rescue thousands of children, while Schweighöfer will play a notorious SS commander who is personally assigned by Adolf Hitler to dismantle the Resistance.
Rocket Science is co-financing and producing the project and is selling it at this week’s European Film Market (Efm). CAA handles domestic rights.
Pantaleon are co-financing and producing, with Epicentral co-producing. Producers are Claudine Jakubowicz, Carlos Garcia de Paredes and Dan Maag.
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- 2/17/2018
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
Shanghai and Los Angeles-based Bliss Media has acquired Chinese distribution rights to Resistance, starring Jesse Eisenberg.
Written and directed by Jonathan Jakubowicz (Hands of Stone), the film follows the life of legendary mime Marcel Marceau (Eisenberg) and his involvement in the French resistance during World War II. Principal photography is set to commence in early 2018.
Resistance will be produced by Claudine Jakubowicz, Carlos Garcia de Paredes and Dan Maag, with Baptiste Marceau, Marcel's oldest son, serving as executive producer. Rocket Science, which is co-financing and producing the project with Pantaleon and Epicentral, is handling international sales at...
Written and directed by Jonathan Jakubowicz (Hands of Stone), the film follows the life of legendary mime Marcel Marceau (Eisenberg) and his involvement in the French resistance during World War II. Principal photography is set to commence in early 2018.
Resistance will be produced by Claudine Jakubowicz, Carlos Garcia de Paredes and Dan Maag, with Baptiste Marceau, Marcel's oldest son, serving as executive producer. Rocket Science, which is co-financing and producing the project with Pantaleon and Epicentral, is handling international sales at...
- 11/3/2017
- by Patrick Brzeski
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Shanghai and Los Angeles-based Bliss Media has acquired Chinese distribution rights to Resistance, starring Jesse Eisenberg.
Written and directed by Jonathan Jakubowicz (Hands of Stone), the film follows the life of legendary mime Marcel Marceau (Eisenberg) and his involvement in the French resistance during World War II. Principal photography is set to commence in early 2018.
Resistance will be produced by Claudine Jakubowicz, Carlos Garcia de Paredes and Dan Maag, with Baptiste Marceau, Marcel’s oldest son, serving as executive producer. Rocket Science, which is co-financing and producing the project with Pantaleon and Epicentral, is handling international sales at Afm.
Marceau was the son ...
Written and directed by Jonathan Jakubowicz (Hands of Stone), the film follows the life of legendary mime Marcel Marceau (Eisenberg) and his involvement in the French resistance during World War II. Principal photography is set to commence in early 2018.
Resistance will be produced by Claudine Jakubowicz, Carlos Garcia de Paredes and Dan Maag, with Baptiste Marceau, Marcel’s oldest son, serving as executive producer. Rocket Science, which is co-financing and producing the project with Pantaleon and Epicentral, is handling international sales at Afm.
Marceau was the son ...
- 11/3/2017
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Shanghai and Los Angeles-based Bliss Media has acquired Chinese distribution rights to Resistance, starring Jesse Eisenberg.
Written and directed by Jonathan Jakubowicz (Hands of Stone), the film follows the life of legendary mime Marcel Marceau (Eisenberg) and his involvement in the French resistance during World War II. Principal photography is set to commence in early 2018.
Resistance will be produced by Claudine Jakubowicz, Carlos Garcia de Paredes and Dan Maag, with Baptiste Marceau, Marcel’s oldest son, serving as executive producer. Rocket Science, which is co-financing and producing the project with Pantaleon and Epicentral, is handling international sales at Afm.
Marceau was the son ...
Written and directed by Jonathan Jakubowicz (Hands of Stone), the film follows the life of legendary mime Marcel Marceau (Eisenberg) and his involvement in the French resistance during World War II. Principal photography is set to commence in early 2018.
Resistance will be produced by Claudine Jakubowicz, Carlos Garcia de Paredes and Dan Maag, with Baptiste Marceau, Marcel’s oldest son, serving as executive producer. Rocket Science, which is co-financing and producing the project with Pantaleon and Epicentral, is handling international sales at Afm.
Marceau was the son ...
- 11/3/2017
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
“Resistance” the story of the famed mime Marcel Marceau and how he learned to mime in order to survive and to save the lives of Jewish orphans in World War II France, written and to be directed by “Hands of Stone” director Jonathan Jakubowicz and produced by Claudine Jakubowicz and Carlos Garcia de Paredes, will star the curly haired and fast talking Jesse Eisenberg who played Mark Zuckerberg in the 2010 film “The Social Network”. Baptiste Marceau, the oldest son of Marcel, has been closely involved in the research for this European coproduction that CAA is packaging and representing in Cannes. Marceau the artist of silence gave his first major performance to 3,000 American troops after the liberation of Paris in August 1944.
Michael Jackson and Marcel Marceau
The producers of last year’s Norwegian hit, “The Wave”, have turned their attention to Marius Holst’s “Betrayed”, the story of the Norwegian Jews...
Michael Jackson and Marcel Marceau
The producers of last year’s Norwegian hit, “The Wave”, have turned their attention to Marius Holst’s “Betrayed”, the story of the Norwegian Jews...
- 6/5/2017
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Resistance is a new film project in development that will be based on the true events of Marcel Marceau, a French actor and mime most famous for his stage persona, “Bip The Clown." Marceau became an orphan when his father, a kosher butcher, was killed in Auschwitz. Afterward, he took up the art of miming to bring hope to other orphans who had lost their parents to the Nazis.
According to Variety, "The film will focus on Marceau’s involvement in the French resistance when his country was occupied by the Nazis during World War II."
Marceau was made Grand Officier de la Légion d’Honneur in 1998 and was awarded the National Order Of Merit in France for his work in the resistance. He also won an Emmy along with many other awards.
Resistance is already being compared to the film Life is Beautiful, which is about a man who...
According to Variety, "The film will focus on Marceau’s involvement in the French resistance when his country was occupied by the Nazis during World War II."
Marceau was made Grand Officier de la Légion d’Honneur in 1998 and was awarded the National Order Of Merit in France for his work in the resistance. He also won an Emmy along with many other awards.
Resistance is already being compared to the film Life is Beautiful, which is about a man who...
- 5/23/2017
- by Koren Butkovich
- GeekTyrant
Jonathan Jakubowicz to write and direct.
Jesse Eisenberg will play the legendary mime Marcel Marceau in Resistance, a feature that will focus on his involvement in the French resistance during the Second World War.
The film will be in the vein of Life Is Beautiful, in which comedy was used as a device to help children survive the Holocaust.
Jonathan Jakubowicz, whose last film Hands Of Stone starring Edgar Ramirez and Robert De Niro premiered in Cannes last year, will direct from his screenplay.
Production is earmarked for early 2018 and the project is being set up as a European coproduction due to Jakubowicz’s EU citizenship.
Marcel Marceau learned to mime to survive and to save the lives of Jewish orphans whose parents had been killed by the Nazis.
He was born Marcel Mangel and grew up speaking Yiddish as the son of a kosher butcher from Strasbourg. His father was eventually killed in Auschwitz.
Marceau was most...
Jesse Eisenberg will play the legendary mime Marcel Marceau in Resistance, a feature that will focus on his involvement in the French resistance during the Second World War.
The film will be in the vein of Life Is Beautiful, in which comedy was used as a device to help children survive the Holocaust.
Jonathan Jakubowicz, whose last film Hands Of Stone starring Edgar Ramirez and Robert De Niro premiered in Cannes last year, will direct from his screenplay.
Production is earmarked for early 2018 and the project is being set up as a European coproduction due to Jakubowicz’s EU citizenship.
Marcel Marceau learned to mime to survive and to save the lives of Jewish orphans whose parents had been killed by the Nazis.
He was born Marcel Mangel and grew up speaking Yiddish as the son of a kosher butcher from Strasbourg. His father was eventually killed in Auschwitz.
Marceau was most...
- 5/19/2017
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Cannes Film Festival adds Jonathan Jakubowicz-directed boxing drama to Official Selection.
Robert De Niro is to return to the Cannes Film Festival (May 11-22) for the world premiere of boxing drama Hands Of Stone. The film has been added to Cannes’ Official Selection as part of the Special Screenings strand and the festival will use the premiere to pay tribute to De Niro.
The Raging Bull star, who was president of the Cannes jury in 2011, has stepped back into the ring for the true story of Panamanian boxer Roberto Duràn (Edgar Ramírez). De Niro plays manager and coach Ray Arcel, who took Duràn to worldwide success in the 1970s and ’80s, which included legendary fights against Sugar Ray Leonard (played by music star Usher).
De Niro will attend the Cannes world premiere on May 16 in the Palais des Festivals’ Grand Theatre Lumière with Venezuelan director Jonathan Jakubowicz, star Ramírez and actress Ana de Armas.
“I’m excited...
Robert De Niro is to return to the Cannes Film Festival (May 11-22) for the world premiere of boxing drama Hands Of Stone. The film has been added to Cannes’ Official Selection as part of the Special Screenings strand and the festival will use the premiere to pay tribute to De Niro.
The Raging Bull star, who was president of the Cannes jury in 2011, has stepped back into the ring for the true story of Panamanian boxer Roberto Duràn (Edgar Ramírez). De Niro plays manager and coach Ray Arcel, who took Duràn to worldwide success in the 1970s and ’80s, which included legendary fights against Sugar Ray Leonard (played by music star Usher).
De Niro will attend the Cannes world premiere on May 16 in the Palais des Festivals’ Grand Theatre Lumière with Venezuelan director Jonathan Jakubowicz, star Ramírez and actress Ana de Armas.
“I’m excited...
- 5/3/2016
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
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