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After getting his start in his native Holland with wild, sexually explicit dramas like Spetters and Turkish Delight (a 1974 Oscar nominee for Best Foreign-Language Film), director Paul Verhoeven came to Hollywood in the Eighties and rebranded himself as a can-do-anything sci-fi filmmaker with a slightly satircal bent. If you needed to make a film about a cyborg cop ( Robocop ) or send Arnold Schwarzenegger to Mars ( Total Recall ), he was your man. But after tooling around postapocalytic Detroit and outer space, Verhoeven took a step back to his eroticsploitation, semi-perverse roots to make 1992’s Basic Instinct. Written by Joe Eszterhas, the film racked up more than $350 million at the box office faster than Sharon Stone could cross her legs, and pushed the boundaries of just how far a thriller could go in order to titillate its audience. So it’s hardly surprising that producers began lining up to try and make lightning strike twice by re-teaming Verhoeven and …

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Eileen Quast been named as Senior Vice President, Publicity at Epix . In her new role, she will be responsible for overseeing corporate communications, as well as scripted and unscripted original series campaigns, including talent relations awards and screenings. She is based in Los Angeles and will report to Michael Wright, who serves as President of both Epix and MGM Scripted Television. “I had the pleasure of working with Eileen during my tenure at TNT and TBS, and she is a smart, creative and strategic thinker,” said Wright. “We are fortunate to have Eileen join EPIX at a time when the network is expanding its original series lineup, and her ability to broaden the awareness for our premium programming and elevate the brand will be vital to our continued success.” “I’m thrilled to be working with Michael and the talented team at EPIX to raise the profile of the network’s exceptional original series, and the strong team of executives behind them,” added Quast. “I …

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At Deadline’s Contenders Film: International award-season event, director Eran Kolirin ( The Band’s Visit ) explained why he chose to adapt Sayed Kashua’s novel Let It be Morning , the film that has become Israel’s submission into the International Feature Oscar race. “I really like this situation where people are being thrown out of time and out of context in a very close, stressful atmosphere where you can have funny things going on,” he said during the virtual panel for the film, which will be released by Cohen Media Group in the U.S. next year. “ The Band’s Visit , for example, took place overnight where people are stranded somewhere. I think that’s a very cinematic setup.” Let It Be Morning stars Alex Bakri as Sami, a city boy from Jerusalem who is stranded in a village when it’s put into lockdown by Israeli soldiers. Bakri, who is also a director, joined Kolirin on the panel and spoke of his desire to work with him and learn from the filmmaker. He …

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