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Production has begun in the Czech Republic on The Zookeeper’S Wife, adapted from Diane Ackerman’s nonfiction book of the same name which was based on the diaries of Antonina Żabiński. Focus Features will release the film domestically; Universal Pictures International has distribution rights to the film in the U.K., France, Germany, Scandinavia, Latin America, and Eastern Europe.

Two-time Academy Award nominee Jessica Chastain stars in the title role, as Antonina Żabiński. The Zookeeper’S Wife director Niki Caro’s previous films include Whale Rider and North Country.

The Zookeeper’S Wife dramatizes a real-life story of heroism. The time is 1939. The place is Poland, homeland of Antonina Żabiński (portrayed by Ms. Chastain) and her husband, Dr. Jan Żabiński (Johan Heldenbergh, a European Film Award nominee for the Academy Award-nominated The Broken Circle Breakdown). The Warsaw Zoo flourishes under Jan’s stewardship and Antonina’s care. When their...

Dan Mor in Arrowhead

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Playing the lead in the sci-fi adventure telemovie Arrowhead, Dan Mor is in Coober Pedy working 12-hour days and battling intense heat, flies, dust and wind and, 12 metres underground, bats.

All that is physically demanding but the Israeli-born actor is relishing the chance to play Kye, a character who embarks on a psychological and emotional journey after his spacecraft crashes on a desert moon.

It.s the feature writing and directing debut of Jesse O.Brien, produced by TV1 in association with Us-based Gorilla Pictures. O.Brien wrote the script in 2009 and teamed up with Gorilla Pictures. Eric Johnson and Eric Machiela, whom he and DoP Samuel Baulch met when they were at film school in Grand Rapids, Michigan, 10 years ago.

The plot follows Kye, a military prisoner who is forced to transform his body and soul to survive, accompanied by a computer named Reef.. The...