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EXCLUSIVE: Disney is working on a live action fantasy and sci-fi-infused movie inspired by the classic Middle East folk tale collection, One Thousand And One Nights, aka Arabian Nights. The Walt Disney Pictures project, currently titled 1001 Nights, is being penned and exec-produced by Arash Amel…

The chance to review something from Walt Disney Studios these days that doesn’t come from Marvel, Star Wars or animation brands is a refreshing change, which is why it is a pleasure to report the new Disney+ film Rise is a worthy release chronicling the Greek-Nigerian Antetokounmpo brothers, who grew up to become…

EXCLUSIVE: Reese Witherspoon and Bruna Papandrea’s adaptation of Ruth Ware’s suspense novel In A Dark Dark Wood is kicking up a gear after finding a writer. The film, which is set up at New Line with fellow producers The Gotham Group, is being written by A Private War scribe Arash Amel. Amel will adapt the New York Tim…

EXCLUSIVE: Two-time Academy Award nominee and Cannes jury member Jessica Chastain will star in Seducing Ingrid Bergman, and she and her Freckle Films has joined YRF Entertainment to produce it. Arash Amel wrote the script and is also producing. It’s based on the 2012 novel by Chris Greenhalgh which tells the story of…

EXCLUSIVE: Jackie Chan and Sylvester Stallone are teamed to star in Ex-Baghdad, a timely action thriller that Scott Waugh has been set to direct. It is an $80 million budget action film that becomes one of the biggest budget films to come out of China. Chan will serve as a producer through his company SR Media, with…

EXCLUSIVE: Channel 4 has picked up Arash Amel’s series Butterfly with Bo Odar (WB’s Sleepless Night) attached to direct the pilot. The show is based on the BOOM! Studios comic book created by Arash Amel and written by Amel & rising comic book star Marguerite Bennett (A-Force, Angela). Amel (Grace of Monaco) will write…

What a long, strange trip it's been for Grace Of Monaco. The Nicole Kidman starrer was crowned Cannes' opening-night film amid much French fanfare in 2014 and then quickly fizzled on the Croisette, beset as it was by harsh reviews. It didn't help that it also was the subject of a battle over cuts between U.S…

EXCLUSIVE: James Mangold will direct an adaptation of the Chris Greenhalgh book Seducing Ingrid Bergman, which Mangold wanted to go by the title Blood And Champagne but it looks like that might be hard to clear. The script has been written by Arash Amel and is being financed by Uday Chopra’s YRF Entertainment. Amel is…

MGM is negotiating with Dean Israelite to direct and Arash Amel to script WarGames, the remake of the smart 1983 John Badham-directed film that starred Matthew Broderick and Ally Sheedy as teenage hackers who unwittingly find a back door into a Defense Department computer. They start a game with the machine that puts…

EXCLUSIVE: Grace Of Monaco scribe Arash Amel and that film’s financier Uday Chopra have found another untold story involving an iconic actress as their next project together. Chopra’s YRF has optioned Seducing Ingrid Bergman, a book by Chris Greenhalgh that will be published in the U.S. next year. Amel is writing the…

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros has closed deals with Akiva Goldsman and Overbrook Entertainment to produce another installment of I Am Legend, the 2007 hit film. The intention is for Will Smith to reprise his role as scientist Robert Neville, who was the last man on Earth doing battle with a mutated mob in New York City after…

EXCLUSIVE: French helmer Olivier Dahan has signed on to direct the Arash Amel script Grace Of Monaco. Dahan, who directed Marion Cotillard to an Academy Award for La Vie En Rose, has been in on meetings that producer Pierre-Ange Le Pogam has taken as they figure out the right young actress who’ll play…