Phoenix Pictures Movie Updates

Having wrapped his English-language debut Stoker for Fox Searchlight, South Korean helmer Chan-wook Park (Oldboy) is in talks to direct S. Craig Zahler's Black List oater The Brigands of Rattleborge.

Mythology Entertainment, the recently minted banner formed by Brad Fischer, Laeta Kalogridis and James Vanderbilt, has acquired feature rights to Richard Morgan's sci-fier Altered Carbon.

Ray Bradbury's semi-autobiographical Dandelion Wine is coming to the big screen with Mike Medavoy and Doug McKay producing.

Producer Mike Medavoy has acquired rights to the story of the 33 mine workers who were trapped underground for 69 days in the fall and rescued in front of worldwide news cameras. Oscar-nominated screenwriter Jose Rivera (Motorcycle Diaries) will adapt the movie, which is scheduled to go into production next year.

Oscar-winning Hollywood producer Mike Medavoy and Shanghai Film Group president Ren Zhonglun will co-produce an English-language feature film set in World War II Shanghai and a related six-hour television miniseries focused on the Jews who fled oppression in Europe for China only to see their Eastern refuge overrun by Japanese. ...

Phoenix Pictures’ Mike Medavoy, David Thwaites, and Brad Fischer are in Toronto to fan the Oscar buzz for the ultra-serious film "Black Swan". But they’ve set as the next Phoenix project a comedy that will be directed by former Monty Python troupe member Terry Jones. They'll produce "Absolutely Anything", fro ...

Brad Fischer ("Shutter Island") is developing S. Craig Zahler's Western drama "The Brigands of Rattleborge" after snapping up the rights amid competitive bidding.