Johnny Depp and Penélope Cruz team up again day drinkerMarc Webb will direct a thriller for Lionsgate.
The company launched international sales of the film this week at the U.S. Film Market. This is Depp’s most high-profile attempt to return to Hollywood following his much-controversial divorce from actress Amber Heard. The actor has appeared in French costume dramas in recent years Jeanne Dubary last year and directed independent films from the period Modi: Three days on the wings of madness It just screened at the Rome Film Festival, but these are not commercial dramas and are produced by European sponsors.
drinker It falls squarely into the money-making action genre, and has the players to prove it. Produced by Thunder Road’s Basil Iwanyk and Erica Lee, who produced John Wick The Lionsgate franchise. Adam Kolbrenner, whose works include this tomorrow war, free manand Denis Villeneuve’s prisoneralso produced with Zach Dean. Dean made his name in action movies Tomorrow’s battle, hurry up and Scott Derrickson’s upcoming thriller canyonwrote the original spec script.
exist drinkerWhen a cruise ship bartender meets a mysterious day drinker, both find themselves drawn into the dark side of crime and connected in unexpected ways.
“day drinker “This film combines a highly commercial concept with an extremely twisty plot, all set in an incredible world, and there is no better filmmaker than Mark,” said the chairman of Lionsgate Film Group. And there are no two actors more perfect than Johnny and Penelope to bring this world to life.
Chelsea Kujawa is overseeing the project for Lionsgate. Dan Friedman negotiated the deal for the studio.
The project is the second recent collaboration between Lionsgate and 30WEST, which has also collaborated on power balladis a musical-themed comedy directed by John Carney and starring Paul Rudd and Nick Jonas. Currently in post-production.
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Weber is a Hollywood-shortlisted director with his Sundance film 500 days of summer Then continue directing The Amazing Spider-Man and The Amazing Spider-Man 2. He’s filming a live-action version of snow White For Disney.
Depp is represented by Range Media Partners and attorney Lisa Nitti, while Cruz is represented by CAA, Untitled Entertainment and Kuranda Management.
Weber is represented by CAA and Lichter, while Grossman and Dean are represented by CAA, Kolbrenner’s Lit Entertainment Group and attorney Andrew Hurwitz.
