AFM 2025: Renée Zellweger, Anthony Hopkins, Guy Pearce and more
AFM is launching some big projects, including new films starring Renée Zellweger, Anthony Hopkins, Guy Pearce, Shailene Woodley, Pamela Anderson, and Ed Helms.
Here’s a full breakdown of all the projects:
Phantom Son
Dir: David Yates (Harry Potter)
Stars: Renée Zellweger
Financier/Co-Prod/Sales: AGC Studios (Hit Man, The Order)
Sales rep: AGC and CAA
Official Synopsis:
Ronnie, a young runaway struggling to survive on the street, who is taken in by Audrey (Zellweger), a lonely woman whose own son was kidnapped 20 years prior. As Audrey becomes convinced that Ronnie actually is her long-lost son, a twisted game of cat and mouse develops, blurring the line between deception and delusion.
Seems to have a tinge of Titane.
Ibelin
Dir: Morten Tyldum (The Imitation Game)
Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Toni Collette, Stephen Graham, Charlie Plummer
Prod Co: Vendôme Pictures (CODA) and Pathé
International Sales rep: Black Bear
Domestic Sales Rep: CAA
Based on the Sundanec doc Ibelin, which centered on Mats Steen, a Norwegian gamer, who died of a degenerative muscular disease at the age of 25. His parents mourned what they thought had been a lonely and isolated life when they started receiving messages from online friends around the world.
Queen of the Falls
Dir/Wri: Rania Attieh (H.), Daniel A. Garcia (edit. Black Dog, Red Dog)
Star(s): Guy Pearce, Pamela Anderson
Prod: Pedro and Agustin Almodóvar (Argentina 1985)
Prod. Company: El Deseo (Sirât)
Sales Rep: Global Constellation (Lucky Lu)
Synopsis:
Two lovers on the lamb, roadkill cleaner (Anderson) and fugitive (Pearce), as they blaze toward Niagara Falls in a music-driven, high-voltage road romance about freedom, control, and the cost of escape.
Override
Dir: Jordan Downey (V/H/SBeyond)
Wri: Jackson Murray (The Cycle) and Kevin Stewart (V/H/S/Beyond)
Star(s): Frank Grillo (Peacemaker), Maria Bakalova (The Apprentice)
Prod: James Harris (47 Meters Down), Michael Downey (The Big Ugly)
Sales Rep: Capstone Global (Fall) and Signature Entertainment (Dracula)
Synopsis:
Futuristic soldier (Bakalova) who is left for dead is helped by a synthetic angel (Grillo), the latest in battlefield A.I., she must fight against the clock to survive a mortal wound.
Rocky the Troll
Dir: Andrea Eckerbom (casting assist. Headhunters)
Wri: Edward A. Dreyer (prod. Detektor)
Prod: Espen Horn (The 12th Man), John M. Jacobson (EP Pathfinder)
Sales Rep: Reinvent Yellow (Brave New Love)
Synopsis:
Centers on 12-year-old Gaia, who discovers her great-grandfather’s collection of rocks are troll eggs. When one of the egg hatches, Gaia forms a magical bond that soon draws her into an exciting yet dangerous adventure.
Silverback
Dir/Wri: Steve Kenny (Time Traveller)
Star(s): Jason Isaacs (The White Lotus) and Tom Vaughan-Lawlor (Avengers)
Prod. Company: Forty Foot Pictures (I Used to Be Famous)
Sales Rep: Bankside Films (The Ballad of Wallis Island)
Synopsis:
Follows a stay-at-home dad who must weigh the benefits of a new friendship with a notorious criminal who moves in next door against the deadly threat it poses to his family.
The Stunt Driver
Dir/Wri: Michael Dowse (Stuber, What If)
Star(s): Jay Baruchel (Goon, Blackberry) and Ed Helms (The Hangover)
Prods: Eoin Egan (EP The Astronaut), Macdara Kelleher (What If), Jennifer Wilson (EP Guides)
Sales Rep: Protagonist Pictures (The Brutalist)
Synopsis:
The film chronicles the daredevil stuntman Ken Carter’s quest to execute a bold stunt of launching a rocket car across the St. Lawrence River from Canada to the United States in the 1970s, facing absurd challenges along the way.
Lost Planet
Dir: Darius Dawson (Assit dir. The Greatest Beer Run Ever)
Wri: Brendan Bigelow (Assit Edit. Rufus)
Star(s): Alexandra Shipp (Barbie) and Brenton Thwaites (Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales)
Prods: John Sacchi (EP Killers) and Matthew Groesch (One of Us Is Lying)
Sales Rep: K5 International (The Diary of a Teenage Girl)
Synopsis:
When one colony suddenly goes dark, two astronauts, Ally Gage (Shipp) and Cal Bowman (Thwaites), are sent to investigate. When they arrive, though, there’s no trace of anyone.
And one more!
Big Little Lies’ Shailene Woodley is set to star in the psychological thriller Ultra, marking a return to high-stakes survival drama after films like Adrift (2018) and Divergent (2015). In Ultra, she plays Eve, embarking on an extreme athletic ordeal after her twin sister’s death, a role that invites Woodley to access the raw vulnerability that has anchored her most powerful performances.