Ehud Bleiberg and Nick Donnermeyer will introduce worldwide buyers on the Croisette to Bb Film Productions and Bleiberg Entertainment’s globetrotting heist project Predilection.

Marcio Garcia will direct from a screenplay by man-of-the-hour Nate Parker, whose The Birth Of A Nation scored a record on-site worldwide deal with Fox Searchlight at Sundance.

Predilection is inspired by Garcia’s short Predileção, about a low-level criminal and a legendary thief who meet in prison and hatch a plot for an elaborate robbery.

Uri Singer, Bleiberg and Parker are producing and Donnermeyer serves as executive producer.

The project is out to casting and the producers have targetted a late 2016 start.

It's that time of the year again, as producers and sales companies take their packaged (and un-packaged) projects to the Cannes film market (Marché du Film) to present to potential international buyers... At the upcoming 2016 event which takes place concurrently with the Cannes Film Festival next month, Bb Film Productions and Bleiberg Entertainment will shop a globetrotting heist project from Nate Parker, titled "Predilection," which Parker wrote, and which will be directed by Marcio Garcia. "Predilection" is inspired by Garcia’s short "Predileção," which follows a low-level criminal and a legendary thief who meet in prison and hatch a...

Bleiberg Entertainment has partnered up with Bb Film Productions to produce the upcoming thriller Predilection, directed by Marcio Garcia and written by The Birth of a Nation writer-director-star Nate Parker. An adaptation of Garcia’s 2009 short film Predileção, the globe-trotting heist story follows a low level criminal given an enormous opportunity to move up in the world when he meets a legendary thief during a brief jail sentence. Together, the pair devise an…...

Bb Film Productions (“Experimenter”) and Bleiberg Entertainment (“The Iceman”) have come on to produce “Predilection,” a globetrotting heist film written by “The Birth of a Nation” filmmaker Nate Parker, it was announced Thursday. Marcio Garcia will direct the film, which draws inspiration from his award-winning short “Predileção.” The story follows a low-level criminal who meets a legendary thief during a brief stint in jail. Together, they hatch a plan and assemble an international team for an elaborate bank robbery. Also Read: Nate Parker to Write Drama About Disabled Wrestlers and Espn Lisa Fenn Parker is producing the film with Uri Singer and Ehud.

Following his success with "Birth of a Nation" at Sundance, filmmaker Nate Parker is set to pen the script for the heist thriller "Nate Parker" at 2016 Bb Film Productions and Bleiberg Entertainment.

Marcio Garcia will helm the film inspired by his short "Predilecao". That follows a low-level criminal who meets a legendary thief during a brief jail stint. Together, they hatch a plan and assemble an international team for an elaborate bank robbery.

Uri Singer, Ehud Bleiberg and Parker are producing, and filming begins later this year.

Source: Variety...

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Here's your daily dose of an indie film in progress; at the end of the week, you'll have the chance to vote for your favorite. In the meantime: Is this a movie you’d want to see? Tell us in the comments. "Unsolved" Tweetable Logline: Female Detectives in the 1940's on the trail of a killer Elevator Pitch: Set in Los Angeles in the 1940s, Unsolved is a thriller about two female detectives investigating the murder of an aspiring actor. Production Team:Julia Camara - Producer/Director/ Writer Julia Camara is a Brazilian award winning writer/filmmaker. Julia’s second feature film, “Open Road,” a road movie she wrote and produced, directed by Brazilian TV star Marcio Garcia, starring Camilla Belle, Colin Egglesfield, Juliette Lewis and Andy Garcia, is scheduled for release in 2013. Sarah Lynn Dawson - Producer Maieka Saint-Albin - Producer Brianna Francis - Costume Designer Kenya Bonita -...

Chicago – So you’re a young woman who decides to fall asleep in your car parked just off the highway. You’re awoken by the rapping fist of a chiseled cop who leers at you with the sexual appetite of a drooling wolf. Sounds like a meet cute straight out of Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho.” But in Marcio Garcia’s head-slapping dud, “Open Road,” it’s supposed to be heartwarming.

See, the cop, David (Colin Egglesfield), has such an instantaneous infatuation with the woman, Angie (Camilla Belle), that he practically can’t contain his excitement when she complains that her car won’t start. So David checks to see what’s wrong with the car, and since he’s off-camera, we assume that he’s hacking away at the engine with his nightstick. After treating her to a meal, David suggests that Angie stay with him in his trailer for...

Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: May 21, 2013

Price: DVD $Tba, Blu-ray $Tba

Studio: Universal Studios Home Entertainment

Camilla Belle (Father of Invention) looks for a new life in drama movie Open Road.

Belle plays Angie, a free-spirited Brazilian artist who leaves her past behind her to journey around the country in search of happiness. Along the way, she makes a connection with an aging drifter, a handsome cop and his sympathetic sister. As Angie learns to care for her new friends, she’s torn between the freedom of her nomadic life and the joy of becoming part of a community that loves her.

The coming-of-age film was directed by award-winning Brazilian director Marcio Garcia and also stars Andy Garcia (City Island), Juliette Lewis (Sympathy for Delicious), Colin Egglesfield (Something Borrowed) and John Savage (Bereavement).

Open Road wasn’t screened in theaters in the U.S., debuting on DVD and Blu-ray instead.

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Here's a quick spotlight on some interesting and/or noteworthy projects that were recently added to IMDbPro's database of development titles:

Trance –Oscar winner Danny Boyle's considering a return to his Shallow Grave roots with this London-set heist thriller. If funding comes through from Searchlight and Pathe, then filming will begin this fall.

Cry Macho – Looking to reduce California's unemployment numbers, former action star-turned-former Governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, has agreed to topline this indie drama about a grizzled horse trainer who gets caught up in a kidnapping scheme. Al Ruddy produces.

California Solo – Robert Carlyle stars in this indie drama from Blue State director Marshall Lewy and producer Mynette Louie. The film's storyline was not disclosed.

Open Road – World famous footballer Ronaldo's set to make his big screen debut as the bad guy opposite Andy Garcia and Juliette Lewis in this thriller about a young Brazilian artist on the run. Marcio Garcia directs.

Saving Seymour – Real Genius director Martha Coolidge is developing this comedy about a struggling San Francisco law student who's forced to take care of the grandfather she never knew she had. Jerry Stiller's in negotiations to play grandpa.

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