![]() ![]() Why did this disaster happen? New evidence suggests that there was a mole in the CIA ranks, and Henry has been ordered to ferret out the betrayer. The terrorists wound up killing everyone onboard (over 100 people), including themselves. ![]() In 2012, a Turkish airliner was hijacked by jihad terrorists as it sat on the runway of the Vienna airport. He is called in by his former boss at the Vienna office (played by Laurence Fishburne with a tone just neutral enough to be untrustworthy) to look into an old case. Pine’s Henry Pelham is a veteran CIA operative, the kind of case agent who wins the trust of his sources with his fluency in their language and his aura of empathy. Instead of simply slamming romance and terrorist politics into one movie, “All the Old Knives” weaves them together into a kind of thriller lanyard. The film is based on a novel by Olen Steinhauer, who also wrote the screenplay, and it has a novelistic flavor in the best sense. The film jumps back and forth between a couple of time periods and settings, and while in some thrillers that kind of thing can be annoying - a way of goosing inert action - in this one, the director, Janus Metz (the former documentarian who made 2017’s “Borg vs. Watching “All the Old Knives,” you never forget why Chris Pine and Thandiwe Newton (warning! dated term coming) are movie stars. It’s not John le Carré, but it’s not thinly patched together pulp either. So I’m glad to report that “All the Old Knives” is a minor but engrossing genre movie: tightly wound, more or less rooted in the real world, with taut dialogue and espionage gambits that fall just this side of contrived. (Ho-hum product has always been with us but there’s more of it now.) When you see that a couple of actors as good as Chris Pine and Thandiwe Newton have teamed up for a spy thriller that’s being released by Amazon Studios, and that it’s called “ All the Old Knives” (a title that sounds like it could be about anything or nothing), you wonder - a little more than you might have 30 years ago - if it’s a project that makes good on their talents or whether it’s another ho-hum slab of product. Cloud is repped by UTA, Sam Lutfi and Jamie Afifi at Afifi Law.The streaming era, with its glut of viewing options and its omnipresent yet thinly spread advertising, often makes it harder for audiences to get an advance read on a movie. In 2021 he was seen as ‘Walker’ in Mikey Alfred’s independent feature North Hollywood opposite Miranda Cosgrove, Nico Haraga, and Vince Vaughn. ![]() Also upcoming, Cloud has shot lead roles in Dan Brown’s independent feature, Your Lucky Day, and Ethan Berger’s The Line opposite Alex Wolff, Halle Bailey, John Malkovich and more. ![]() Set in Oakland in 1987, the film (inspired by Fleck’s experience growing up in the bay area) is comprised of four interconnected stories each featuring distinct characters, real life locations and noteworthy historical events (some real, some imagined). Cloud recently wrapped filming on Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden’s film, Freaky Tales, for eOne and Macro he will be seen in a supporting role with Ben Mendelsohn, Pedro Pascal, Jay Ellis and Jack Champion as leads. The actress is repped by WME, Entertainment 360 Hansen, Jacobson, Teller, Hoberman, Newman, Warren, Richman, Rush, Kaller, Gellman, Meigs & Fox.Ĭloud stars as ‘Fezco’ on HBO’s Emmy winning series, Euphoria, which will return for a third season in 2024. She has worked with Jean-Marc Vallee and Andrea Arnold in Big Little Lies, Martin McDonagh in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri, Peter Hedges in Ben is Back, and Greta Gerwig in Lady Bird. Previously, Newton starred in Pokemon Detective Pikachu for Legendary, Netflix’s The Society, and Blockers for Universal, which was the highest earning R-rated comedy of 2018. In 2020, she starred as the female lead opposite Vince Vaughn in Universal’s Freaky. The actress can also be seen as the lead of Amazon’s The Map of Tiny Perfect Things. She also just wrapped production on Focus Feature’s film, Lisa Frankenstein opposite Cole Sprouse last fall. Newton can most recently be seen in Marvel’s Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, in which she stars as ‘Cassie Lang’ opposite Paul Rudd. The teams also collaborated on 2022’s Scream which reinvigorated the Scream franchise. Scream VI set a franchise record opening at opening. Tripp Vinson will produce as well with Radio Silence and Project X, who are recently coming off the $169M global grossing success of Scream VI that Bettinelli-Olpin & Gillett directed, Project X produced and Radio Silence’s Villella executive produced. ![]()
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