This summer John Cusack stars in one of my most anticipated films, 1408, and now he has signed on to star in the action thriller Stopping Power for Jan de Bont.

In Power Cusack is set to star as a test pilot who sets off on a series of high-speed chases to save his kidnapped daughter from an escaped thief. The screenplay is being penned by Skip Woods who wrote Swordfish, so who knows, maybe we will have some cool computer monitors with high-powered screensavers in this one too!

Power will be one of six films being sold by newly formed IM Global at this month's Cannes Film Festival. IM Global will sell a host of big-budget projects from Intermedia Films and a selection of international titles from IM Global president Stuart Ford's former company.

Another feature IM Global is backing and selling at Cannes will be The Frog King with Joseph Gordon-Levitt attached to star as the romatic lead. Gordon-Levitt plays a ne'er-do-well assistant editor whose penchant for messing up threatens a relationship with his dream girlfriend. That film will see Darren Star making his directorial debut and it is being penned by Eric Red (The Hitcher).

Other projects IM Global is selling include two Constellation Films projects, Agnieszka Vosloo's thriller After.Life, with Kate Bosworth attached, and Jodie Markell's The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond, written by Tennessee Williams and featuring a veteran ensemble cast, as well as Simon Crane's hired assassin thriller The Killer's Game, written by Simon Kinberg and produced by Intermedia and Mad Chance Prods.

Related post categories: Movie News : John Cusack, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond

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