Helen Mirren to Star as Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir in Biopic
“Skin” director Guy Nattiv will direct “Golda” about the “Iron Lady of Israel”Brian Welk | April 6, 2021 @ 9:17 AM Last Updated: April 6, 2021 @ 9:21 AM
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Helen Mirren will star in a new biopic called “Golda” as Israel’s legendary and only female Prime Minister, Golda Meir.
Guy Nattiv, an Israeli director and Oscar winner for the short film “Skin,” will direct the film from a screenplay by “Florence Foster Jenkins” writer Nicholas Martin, who will also produce alongside Michael Kuhn.
“Golda” focuses on the intensely dramatic and high-stake responsibilities and decisions that Meir – also known as the “Iron Lady of Israel” – faced during the Yom Kippur War. Here’s the full synopsis:
Lionsgate Head of Worldwide Marketing Damon Wolf Exits
Wolf joined the studio in June 2018Brian Welk | March 12, 2021 @ 3:10 PM Last Updated: March 12, 2021 @ 3:28 PM
(L-R) Joe Drake, Gerard Butler, and Damon Wolf (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
Damon Wolf, Lionsgate Motion Picture Group’s chief marketing officer, is exiting his role at the studio, according to a memo Motion Picture Group chairman Joe Drake sent to staff on Friday.
Wolf also announced his own departure in a note obtained by TheWrap. Both letters explain that he and Drake had been in conversations over the past year about him moving on to his next chapter but that he remained on through the studio’s re-imagining process and through the pandemic.
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Just a few months after landing
Christopher Robin‘s Marc Forster to helm the film, Lionsgate’s
White Bird: A Wonder Story has begun building its cast as Oscar winner Helen Mirren (
Hobbs & Shaw) has signed on to join the cast.
Based on Palacio’s 2019 graphic novel, the story centers on Julian Albans, the 11-year-old bully who left Beecher Prep, who is still waiting for the insight of how kindness has the power to save lives when he is visited by his Grandmère from Paris and is transformed by her remarkable story of compassion and courage. Grandmère’s fairy-tale life before the war abruptly changes as the Nazis occupy France, and the outcast classmate who she once shunned becomes her savior and best friend.