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Tahar Rahim, star of The Serpent one of the BBC s most popular dramas ever has found a way to make crime pay.
He will portray one of the drug kingpins behind the French connection, an underworld system that put dangerous narcotics on to American streets.
The untitled television series will be about Corsican gangsters Antoine and Barthelemy Guerini, known as the Guerini Brothers.
Tahar Rahim (pictured at Cannes Film Festival) will portray a drug kingpin behind the French connection, an underworld system that put dangerous narcotics on to American streets
The untitled television series will be about Corsican gangsters Antoine and Barthelemy Guerini. Pictured: Tahar Rahim during the opening ceremony of Cannes Film Festival
Leonine & Lionsgate Ink Three-Picture Pact
Leonine Studios secured the territory rights to
Borderlands, Eli Roth’s adaptation of the best-selling video game;
White Bird: A Wonder Story, the companion film drawn from the universe of the 2017 box office hit
Wonder; and the action-comedy
The deal comes after the successful collaboration between Lionsgate and Leonine Studios on global hit
Knives Out.
Fred Kogel, CEO of Leonine Studios, said: “We are proud to continue our close relationship with Lionsgate, an esteemed partner for top content, as we firmly believe in a strong box-office performance of high-quality event movies. We have built our theatrical slate as well as our digital and linear distribution based upon this strategy and will continue to do so.”Leonine StudiosLionsgate
Cate Blanchett speaking at C21’s International Drama Summit in 2019
German content company Leonine Studios has secured an all-rights distribution deal for Germany and Austria for three forthcoming Lionsgate films, starring actors including Cate Blanchett and Helen Mirren.
Based on the video game from Gearbox and 2K, Borderlands, which stars Blanchett alongside Jack Black and Jamie Lee Curtis, follows Lilith (Blanchett), an infamous outlaw with a mysterious past as she reluctantly returns to her home planet of Pandora to find a missing young woman.
The screenplay is written by Craig Mazin (Chernobyl, The Hangover franchise), with co-writer Eli Roth (Hostel) directing.
Lionsgate Is Betting Its Whole Summer On Hollywoodâs Biggest-Grossing Movie Star
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MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE - MARCH 02: Samuel L. Jackson at the world premiere of The Banker at the National Civil Rights Museum on March 02, 2020 in Memphis, Tennessee. The Banker opens in select theaters on March 6, before premiering on Apple TV+ on March 20. (Photo by Greg Campbell/Getty Images for AppleTV+)
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Lionsgate dropped a few new release dates yesterday. The big one was a June 29, 2022 (Wednesday) release date for
Shotgun Wedding. That rom-com stars Jennifer Lopez and Josh Duhamel (replacing Armie Hammer) as a couple dealing with their last-minute cold feet and their opinionated relatives as their destination wedding party gets taken hostage. If things remain as-is, that will give two Jennifer Lopez-starring romantic comedies for early-2022, with the Owen Wilson co-starring