1. MARCH 12, 2017
NPR: 'CRIES FROM SYRIA' DOCUMENTARY LAYS BARE THE CONFLICT'S GRUESOME REALITIES
Director Evgeny Afineevsky and Syrian subject Kholoud Helmi talk about the new film, which chronicles the country's descent into civil war after initially hopeful demonstrations of the Arab Spring. READ MORE
2. MARCH 10, 2017
DEADLINE: HBO’S ‘CRIES FROM SYRIA’ TAKES NO-HOLDS-BARRED APPROACH TO DOCUMENTING REFUGEE CRISIS – SUNDANCE STUDIO
As Donald Trump’s presidency tries once more to pass legislation designed to restrict travel to the U.S. for citizens of some Muslim-majority countries, HBO Documentary Films gears up for the March 13 launch of Evgeny Afineevsky’s Sundance-premiering Cries From Syria, which takes a comprehensive and unflinching look back at the refugee crisis in Syria, and the barbarism of the Bashar al-Assad regime. READ MORE
3. MARCH 10, 2017
NEW YORK TIMES: "CRIES FROM SYRIA,' ON HBO, IS A GRIM LOOK AT THAT NATION'S WAR
Six years into the Syrian war, we’ve grown accustomed to the images of death and devastation. But from its first frames, in which water laps at the body of a boy washed ashore after the boat he was on capsized, it’s clear that “Cries From Syria” is still going to be hard to watch. READ MORE
4. MARCH 2, 2017
LOS ANGELES TIMES: HBO'S 'CRIES FROM SYRIA' FOCUSES ON CHILDREN IN REFUGEE CRISIS
Anyone with even a shred social conscience should find the comprehensive Syrian civil war documentary “Cries From Syria” a truly devastating experience. It should be required viewing for any public official involved with shaping any laws or policies regarding the fate of Syrian refugees.
Director Evgeny Afineevsky (Oscar-nominated for 2015’s “Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom”) has deftly assembled a wealth of astonishing, you-are-there footage, much of it shot by Syrian activists and ordinary citizens from early 2011, when the Arab Spring protests gave way to armed conflict, through 2016, as fighting continued with no end in sight. READ MORE
5. FEBRUARY 23, 2017
DEADLINE: ‘CRIES FROM SYRIA’ TRAILER: HBO SUNDANCE DOCUMENTARY LOOKS AT NATION IN CRISISHBO has released the official trailer for Cries From Syria, the documentary from Oscar-nominated Winter on Fire director Evgeny Afineevsky about the humanitarian crisis in Syria and the civil war there. READ MORE
6. FEBRUARY 21, 2017
DEADLINE: HELEN MIRREN TO NARRATE ‘CRIES FROM SYRIA’ FOR HBO BOWHelen Mirren has come aboard to narrate Cries From Syria, the documentary from Oscar-nominated Winter on Fire director Evgeny Afineevsky about the humanitarian crisis in Syria and the civil war there. HBO has set a March 13 bow for the docu; the date coincides with the sixth anniversary of the start of the war. READ MORE
7. JANUARY 20, 2017
VARIETY: CONTENT TAKES INTERNATIONAL SALES ON ‘CRIES FROM SYRIA’ AHEAD OF SUNDANCE PREMIEREContent Media Corp. has taken international sales rights to Evgeny Afineevsky’s “Cries From Syria” ahead of the documentary’s world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on Sunday. READ MORE
8. JANUARY 20, 2017
DEADLINE: CONTENT MEDIA BOARDS SUNDANCE DOC ‘CRIES FROM SYRIA’Content Media has boarded international rights on Sundance doc Cries From Syria. The film, directed by Oscar and Emmy nominee Evgeny Afineevsky, is world premiering in Park City. Content will begin introducing the pic to buyers at the EFM in Berlin next month. HBO acquired the important doc last week and will premiere it on March 13 domestically. READ MORE
9. JANUARY 20, 2017
SCREENDAILY: CONTENT MEDIA BOARDS ‘CRIES FROM SYRIA’
In its second Sundance pick-up, the company has acquired international sales rights to Evgeny Afineevsky’s Syrian civil war documentary ahead of Sunday’s world premiere in Sundance. HBO took US television rights to Cries From Syria earlier this month and will air the broadcast premiere on March 13. READ MORE
10. JANUARY 18, 2017
DEADLINE: ‘CRIES FROM SYRIA’ SUNDANCE CLIP: A CHILDREN’S STORY THAT’S HARD TO WATCHEXCLUSIVE: As the U.S. broadcast media remains laser-focused on all things Donald Trump, it’s easy to forget that there’s other news in the world. And we need to take notice of it. Take this clip of Cries From Syria, Evgeny Afineevsky’s documentary that HBO acquired last week and screens at Sundance. READ MORE
11. JANUARY 10, 2017
VARIETY: SUNDANCE: HBO PICKS UP SYRIAN CIVIL WAR DOCUMENTARYThe Sundance Film Festival doesn’t start for another month, but already the market for films is heating up. HBO has acquired U.S. TV rights for “Cries From Syria,” a documentary about the Syrian civil war. The film is directed by Evgeny Afineevsky, who previously oversaw the Emmy and Oscar-nominated “Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom.” READ MORE
12. JANUARY 10, 2017
THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER: SUNDANCE: HBO NABS TV RIGHTS TO DOC 'CRIES FROM SYRIA'
An original song from Diane Warren and Cher is included in the Evgeny Afineevsky-directed doc.HBO has acquired U.S. TV rights to the documentary Cries From Syria. READ MORE
13. JANUARY 10, 2017
DEADLINE: SUNDANCE-BOUND ‘CRIES FROM SYRIA’ ACQUIRED BY HBOHBO has acquired U.S. TV rights to Cries From Syria, the follow-up documentary from Evgeny Afineevsky, who helmed last year’s Oscar- and Emmy-nominated Winter On Fire. Syria is having its world premiere in the Sundance Film Festival’s Documentary Premieres section this month, and HBO will debut it on Monday, March 13. READ MORE
14. MAY 13, 2016
PEOPLE: THE PEOPLE REVIEW: GEORGE CLOONEY RINGS UP A GREAT PERFORMANCE IN MONEY MONSTERIn this satiric comedy-drama directed by Jodie Foster – it’s her fifth feature film – George Clooney plays Lee Gates, a Wall Street prophet of profit who hosts a Jim Cramer-like cable show. Lee talks a manic streak of highs and lows, winners and losers, buy-nows and sell-sooners, all syncopated to the nano-beat of computerized financial algorithms. READ MORE
15. MAY 12, 2016
DEADLINE: ‘MONEY MONSTER’ REVIEW: GEORGE CLOONEY & JULIA ROBERTS IN A SHARP MOVIE JUST RIGHT FOR THE TIMES – CANNESMovies don’t get much timelier than Money Monster, but I am not quite sure if the filmmakers were thinking that when they made this thriller about a disgruntled blue-collar worker (Jack O’Connell) who interrupts the live broadcast of a CNBC-style financial show and takes its showman-like host Lee Gates (George Clooney) hostage in front of a live TV audience. READ MORE
16. MAY 12, 2016
DEADLINE: ‘MONEY MONSTER’ PRODUCERS DANIEL DUBIECKI & LARA ALAMEDDINE ON A SUSPENSE THRILLER SEVEN YEARS IN THE MAKING – CANNES STUDIOThe Jodie Foster directed-thriller Money Monster starring George Clooney as a financial news talk-show host who is taken hostage on air by a crazed young man premieres tonight at the Cannes Film Festival out of competition. Julia Roberts plays Clooney’s TV producer Patty Fenn who tries to keep the situation together while Jack O’Connell plays a Kyle, a tortured young man who took the wrong stock tip from Clooney’s Lee Gates and lost his nest egg. READ MORE
17. MAY 12, 2016
DEADLINE: PHOTOS: DEADLINE STUDIO AT CANNES 2016 – PART 1 – WOODY ALLEN, SUSAN SARANDON, JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE, KRISTEN STEWART AND MOREDeadline’s studio at the Cannes Film Festival kicked off seven talent-filled days on the Croisette with visits by Woody Allen, director of opening night’s Café Society, along with actors Jesse Eisenberg, Blake Lively, Corey Stoll and Kristen Stewart. Also stopping by the studio were Money Monster producers Lara Alameddine and Daniel Dubiecki, Roy Price of Amazon Studios, Tom Bernard and Michael Barker of Sony Pictures Classics, and many more. READ MORE
18. MAY 5, 2016
MOVIEFONE: WATCH GEORGE CLOONEY AND JULIA ROBERTS GO B-A-N-A-N-A-S IN CARPOOL KARAOKE
Have you been waiting your whole life to hear George Clooney rap/sing, "This sh-t is bananas," then define -- in his own interpretation -- what it means to be a "Hollaback Girl"? Well, you are in luck! Clooney, Julia Roberts, Gwen Stefani, and James Corden went completely B-A-N-A-N-A-S in the latest Carpool Karaoke video, ending with a rousing rendition of Queen's "We Are the Champions," despite the song not really being relevant to anyone in the vehicle. It was still awesome. READ MORE
19. MAY 4, 2016
DEADLINE: ‘CARPOOL KARAOKE’ COPS CLICKS WITH GWEN STEFANI, GEORGE CLOONEY & JULIA ROBERTSJames Corden’s latest Carpool Karaoke video is careening toward its first 1 million YouTube views this morning, featuring Gwen Stefani, while demonstrating how to grow the franchise being sold as a syndicated series. This time, it’s about the back seat. James picked up two pals in order to take advantage of the HOV+4 lane. As luck would have it, Money Monster co-stars George Clooney and Julia Roberts had nothing else to do at that moment, and were good sports about taking a back seat to The Voice judge and CBS Late Late Show host. READ MORE
20. MAY 4, 2016
ROLLING STONE: GWEN STEFANI ENLISTS GEORGE CLOONEY, JULIA ROBERTS FOR 'CARPOOL KARAOKE'Gwen Stefani sat shotgun with James Corden for an extended session of "Carpool Karaoke" on The Late Late Show Wednesday that included two bonus passengers: Money Monster co-stars George Clooney and Julia Roberts. READ MORE
21. MAY 4, 2016
VARIETY: WATCH: GWEN STEFANI JOINS JAMES CORDEN, GEORGE CLOONEY AND JULIA ROBERTS FOR CARPOOL KARAOKEGwen Stefani joined James Corden for another installment of “The Late Late Show” host’s Carpool Karaoke on Wednesday night — and they enlisted a couple of friends to come along for the ride. READ MORE
22. MAY 4, 2016
PEOPLE: WATCH: GEORGE CLOONEY AND JULIA ROBERTS FACE AN UNHINGED INVESTOR IN THIS EXCLUSIVE MONEY MONSTER CLIPIn this tense exclusive clip from the upcoming film Money Monster, an unhinged investor who lost everything menacingly paces around the studio of a financial show modeled after CNBC’s Mad Money while it’s live on the air. READ MORE
23. APRIL 13, 2016
VARIETY: DAVID OYELOWO TO STAR IN ‘A DAY IN THE DEATH OF AMERICA’
David Oyelowo will star in and produce the movie “A Day in the Death of America,” which focuses on the 10 children killed by guns on Nov. 23, 2013. Production companies are the Allegiance Theater, headed by Daniel Dubiecki and Lara Alameddine, and Eric Eisner’s Double E Pictures. They have acquired exclusive feature film and life rights to Gary Younge’s nonfiction book of the same name. READ MORE
24. APRIL 13, 2016
DEADLINE: DAVID OYELOWO TO STAR IN GUN VIOLENCE PIC ‘ANOTHER DAY IN THE DEATH OF AMERICA’ FROM ‘MONEY MONSTER’ PRODUCERS
David Oyelowo has been attached to star in and produce Another Day In The Death Of America, the haunting upcoming nonfiction book by The Guardian journalist Gary Younge. It’s based on the true story of the writer who investigated 10 children shot dead in one random day in America, a wrenching journey which led to his book. The Allegiance Theater, headed by Daniel Dubiecki and Lara Alameddine — they have the Cannes-bound Money Monster teed up as its first production READ MORE
25. APRIL 1, 2016
PEOPLE: PRIMETIME THRILLER: SEE JULIA ROBERTS AND GEORGE CLOONEY AS HOSTAGES ON LIVE TELEVISION IN EXCLUSIVE MONEY MONSTER POSTER With fear in her eyes, Julia Roberts bravely stands by George Clooney during an on-air hostage situation in the upcoming Money Monster. READ MORE
26. MARCH 15, 2016
VARIETY: JODIE FOSTER, GEORGE CLOONEY’S ‘MONEY MONSTER’ TO PLAY CANNES FILM FESTIVALJodie Foster’s thriller “Money Monster,” starring George Clooney and Julia Roberts, will screen at the 69th Cannes Film Festival, Variety has confirmed. READ MORE
27. MARCH 15, 2016
THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER: GEORGE CLOONEY, JULIA ROBERTS' 'MONEY MONSTER' TO SCREEN AT CANNES FILM FESTIVAL Jodie Foster directed the thriller, about a financial talk show host who is held hostage by an irate viewer. Jodie Foster's Money Monster — starring George Clooney and Julia Roberts — has landed a berth at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival, sources tell The Hollywood Reporter. READ MORE
28. JANUARY 12, 2016
PEOPLE: GEORGE CLOONEY AND JULIA ROBERTS MAKE THE ULTIMATE TEAM IN FIRST MONEY MONSTER TRAILERGeorge Clooney and Julia Roberts are together again on screen. The Oscar winners star in the new political thriller Money Monster helmed by director Jodie Foster. READ MORE
29. JANUARY 12, 2016
DEADLINE: ‘MONEY MONSTER’ TRAILER: GEORGE CLOONEY HAS ‘NETWORK’-ING SKILLSHere’s the first trailer for Money Monster, a monster in its own right when TriStar Pictures won rights to the real-time thriller in 2014. It’s Jodie Foster directing and George Clooney starring as a Jim Cramer-like TV stock wiz Lee Gates, who with his ace producer (Julia Roberts) is held hostage on air by a man (Jack O’Connell) who followed Gates’ advice, lost his money and put his young family in precarious straits. Jamie Linden, Alan DiFiore & Jim Kouf wrote the script. Dominic West, Giancarlo Esposito, and Caitriona Balfe co-star. READ MORE
30. JANUARY 12, 2016
THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER: 'MONEY MONSTER' TRAILER: GEORGE CLOONEY, JULIA ROBERTS TAKE ON ACTIVE SHOOTER, WALL STREETJodie Foster directs the real-time thriller.The Money Monster trailer sees George Clooney as Lee Gates, the Wall Street newsman who gets held hostage onscreen by an irate investor (Unbroken's Jack O'Connell) after one of his tips turns out badly. READ MORE
31. JANUARY 12, 2016
VARIETY: GEORGE CLOONEY AND JULIA ROBERTS IN ‘MONEY MONSTER’ TRAILER
George Clooney becomes a hostage on network TV in the first trailer for TriStar Pictures’ “Money Monster.” Clooney is playing a glib investment guru with the TV show “Money Monster” who has to deal with a gun-toting investor — played by Jack O’Connell of “Unbroken” — after the investor takes a bath on a tech stock. READ MORE
32. MAY 6, 2015
VARIETY: FOCUS BOARDS ‘HEAD FULL OF GHOSTS’ WITH ROBERT DOWNEY JR.
Focus Features is developing a movie based on Paul Tremblay’s upcoming thriller “A Head Full Of Ghosts” with Robert Downey Jr.’s Team Downey and Dan Dubiecki’s Allegiance Theater producing. Focus won an auction for the rights, topping several bidders including TriStar. READ MORE
33. MAY 6, 2015
DEADLINE: FOCUS FEATURES WINS AUCTION FOR PAUL TREMBLAY NOVEL ‘A HEAD FULL OF GHOSTS’
EXCLUSIVE: Focus Features just won an auction for rights to make an elevated genre movie from A Head Full Of Ghosts, the upcoming thriller novel by Paul Tremblay. William Morrow publishes the book next month. Focus prevailed in an auction that also had TriStar in hot pursuit. Deals are being closed for Ben Collins & Luke Piotrowski to write the script and for Dan Dubiecki’s Allegiance Theater to produce with Team Downey, the shingle run by Robert Downey Jr and Susan Downey. READ MORE
34. MAY 1, 2015
VARIETY: CANNES: DAKOTA FANNING, HELEN HUNT STARRING IN DRAMA ‘PLEASE STAND BY’
In a pre-Cannes move, Dakota Fanning and Helen Hunt have been set to star in road-trip drama “Please Stand By” with Ben Lewin (“The Sessions”) directing. Embankment Films is handling international sales. CAA is handling the U.S. sale. Daniel Dubiecki and Lara Alameddine of Los Angeles-based the Allegiance Theater are producing. Todd Wagner and Mark Cuban’s 2929 Productions are financing. READ MORE
35. MAY 1, 2015
SCREEN DAILY: DAKOTA FANNING, HELEN HUNT ON 'PLEASE STAND BY'
EXCLUSIVE: Mark Cuban’s 2929 backs road-trip heart-warmer sold by Embankment.
Dakota Fanning (The Twilight Saga) and Helen Hunt (The Sessions) are on board to star in road-trip movie Please Stand By, from The Sessions director Ben Lewin and producers Daniel Dubiecki (Up in the Air) and Lara Alameddine (Money Monster). READ MORE
36. MARCH 5, 2015
DEADLINE: GIANCARLO ESPOSITO JOINS GEORGE CLOONEY & JULIA ROBERTS IN ‘MONEY MONSTER’Giancarlo Esposito, who will next be seen in Fox’s second film in its YA franchise The Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials, has joined the cast of Jodie Foster’s Money Monster with George Clooney and Julia Roberts. READ MORE
37. FEBRUARY 25, 2015
DEADLINE: ‘THE AFFAIR’S DOMINIC WEST JOINS ‘MONEY MONSTER’EXCLUSIVE: Dominic West, between seasons of Showtime’s first-year hit drama The Affair, has signed on to star opposite George Clooney, Julia Roberts and Jack O’Connell in the Jodie Foster-directed Money Monster at TriStar Pictures. READ MORE
38. JANUARY 29, 2015
THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER: 'OUTLANDER' STAR JOINING GEORGE CLOONEY, JULIA ROBERTS IN 'MONEY MONSTER' Jodie Foster is directing TriStar's financial thriller. Caitriona Balfe, the star of the Starz TV show Outlander, is joining the high-profile cast of Money Monster, TriStar’s financial thriller being directed by Jodie Foster. READ MORE
39. DECEMBER 15, 2014
DEADLINE: ‘CATHERINE THE GREAT’ LEADS THE BLACKLIST 2014: FULL LISTCatherine The Great, about the rise and life of the famous (sometimes notorious) 18th-Century Russian monarch, was the top vote-getter among 70 scripts chosen for the 2014 Black List of the year’s best un-produced scripts. READ MORE
40. DECEMBER 15, 2014
VARIETY: THE BLACK LIST ANNOUNCES 2014 SCREENPLAYS“Catherine the Great” by Kristina Lauren Anderson took the No. 1 spot on this year’s Black List of the 70 top unproduced screenplays. READ MORE
41. NOVEMBER 14, 2014
THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER: JULIA ROBERTS, JACK O’CONNELL IN TALKS FOR JODIE FOSTER'S 'MONEY MONSTER'Tom Rothman’s TriStar is behind the project. Julia Roberts and Jack O’Connell are in talks to join George Clooney in Money Monster, a financial drama being directed by Jodie Foster. READ MORE
42. NOVEMBER 14, 2014
VARIETY: ‘UNBROKEN’ STAR JACK O’CONNELL AND JULIA ROBERTS JOIN GEORGE CLOONEY IN ‘MONEY MONSTER’
Jack O’Connell and Julia Roberts are in negotiations to co-star with George Clooney in TriStar Pictures’ “Money Monster.” Jodie Foster is directing, with Tom Rothman’s TriStar financing the pic. READ MORE
43. JULY 25, 2014
VARIETY: GEORGE CLOONEY’S ‘MONEY MONSTER’ SET UP AT TRISTAR
TriStar Pictures will finance and release “Money Monster,” starring George Clooney as a stock picker held hostage on TV. Jodie Foster is directing the project from Jamie Linden’s script, in which the hostage taker is a man who lost his money after following the tout’s advice — and threatens to kill him if the cameras are turned off. READ MORE
44. MARCH 6, 2014
VARIETY: ‘THE WOLVERINE’ WRITER MARK BOMBACK HEADS TO ‘VERONICA’S ROOM’
TWC-Dimension has signed Mark Bomback to write “Veronica’s Room,” the movie adaptation of the 1973 Broadway thriller. Bomback’s credits include”The Wolverine” and “Unstoppable.” He also did a production re-write on “50 Shades of Grey.” TWC-Dimention announced in December that it had come on board to finance and distribute “Vernonica’s Room,” based on Ira Levin’s play. The film will be produced by the Allegiance Theater’s Daniel Dubiecki and Lara Alameddine. READ MORE
45. DECEMBER 4, 2013
VARIETY: WEINSTEINS HEADING TO ‘VERONICA’S ROOM’ THE FILM WILL BE PRODUCED BY THE ALLEGIANCE THEATER’S DANIEL DUBIECKI AND LARA ALAMEDDINE, WHO BROUGHT THE PROJECT TO THE WEINSTEINS’ TWC-DIMENSION.
Project based on 1973 Broadway play. Bob and Harvey Weinstein will exec produce, finance and distribute a film adaptation of “Veronica’s Room,” based on Ira Levin’s 1973 Broadway thriller. The film will be produced by the Allegiance Theater’s Daniel Dubiecki and Lara Alameddine, who brought the project to the Weinsteins’ TWC-Dimension. READ MORE
46. DECEMBER 4, 2013
THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER: TWC-DIMENSION TO FINANCE, DISTRIBUTE ADAPTATION OF 'VERONICA'S ROOM' DANIEL DUBIECKI AND LARA ALAMEDDINE ARE PRODUCING THE ADAPTATION OF THE 1973 PLAY BY IRA LEVIN, THE AUTHOR OF "ROSEMARY'S BABY."
TWC-Dimension, the genre label run by Bob and Harvey Weinstein, is bringing Broadway thriller Veronica’s Room to the big-screen. The company will finance, distribute and exec produce the adaptation of the 1973 play by Ira Levin, the author who also wrote Rosemary’s Baby and The Stepford Wives. Daniel Dubiecki, who exec produced Juno and Up In the Air, and Lara Alameddine are producing via their Allegiance Theater banner. The duo brought the project to TWC-Dimension, after optioning the rights. READ MORE
47. OCTOBER 11, 2012
THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER: JODIE FOSTER TO DIRECT FINANCIAL DRAMA 'MONEY MONSTER'The filmmaker-actress is set to start shooting in early 2013. Jodie Foster is attached to direct financial drama Money Monster for IM Global and Daniel Dubiecki's The Allegiance Theater. READ MORE
48. OCTOBER 11, 2012
DEADLINE: JODIE FOSTER TO DIRECT ‘MONEY MONSTER’ Los Angeles, October 11: Jodie Foster has attached to direct MONEY MONSTER for film financing and sales company IM Global and Daniel Dubiecki’s The Allegiance Theater. READ MORE
49. APRIL 9, 2012
THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER: 'JUNO' PRODUCER LAUNCHES AUSTRALIAN OUTPOST WITH PROJECT FROM 'RED HILL' DIRECTOR
The branch will be run by Dan Dubiecki’s Australian partner Torus Tammer and hits the ground running with two projects in development, including one involving Patrick Hughes, the director of the acclaimed Aussie thriller 'Red Hill' READ MORE
50. FEBRUARY 7, 2012
DEADLINE: 'UP IN THE AIR' PRODUCER LAUNCHES THE ALLEGIANCE SHINGLE WITH IM GLOBAL-FUNDED 'MONEY MONSTER'
EXCLUSIVE: Daniel Dubiecki has launched The Allegiance Theater, a company designed to create a haven where talent and financiers can hatch film and TV projects. READ MORE