Highland Film Group Launching Worldwide Sales at TIFF
Academy Award® winner Russell Crowe (Nuremberg, upcoming Highlander) and Priyanka Chopra Jonas (Netflix’s The White Tiger, Prime Video’s The Bluff and Heads of State) are set to star in the sci-fi action thriller Bluefly, it was announced today. Directed by Nimród Antal (Predators, “Stranger Things”), Bluefly is written by David Frigerio (Beast, Land of Bad), William Eubank (Underwater, The Signal) and Carlyle Eubank (Broke, Muzzle).
The sci-fi action thriller is produced by Michael Jefferson for Polite Society, David Frigerio for Broken Open Pictures, Deborah Glover for G2 Dispatch, Arianne Fraser and Delphine Perrier for Highland Film Group, and Vanessa Yao Guo. Bluefly is executive produced by Lia Buman, Guy Davies, RuthAnne Frigerio, Brian Kavanaugh-Jones, Jason Kringstein, Katie Leary, Scott Levenson and James Norbury.
Highland Film Group is handling worldwide rights, launching sales at TIFF. Principal photography is set to begin later this year In Australia.
Deep in the Congo, U.N. interpreter Myla Reese (Priyanka Chopra Jonas) is pulled into a black-ops mission led by special-ops commander Broyles (Russell Crowe) to recover a downed military aircraft that isn’t supposed to exist. As the Special Operations team pushes upriver through militia-held territory, the mission spirals into a deadly fight for survival, and the closer they get to the aircraft, the clearer it becomes that they were never meant to bring it home.
“We have a stellar cast led by Russell Crowe and Priyanka Chopra Jonas who will ignite the screen in this high-stakes, sci-fi thrill ride with layers of depth,” said Highland Film Group CEO Arianne Fraser. “Bluefly is heart-pounding entertainment with a complex story full of unexpected twists. With Nimród Antal at the helm and our wonderful cast, we cannot wait to introduce this fantastic project to our global buyers,” added company COO Delphine Perrier.
“Bluefly is an intense, character-driven thriller wrapped inside a bold science-fiction premise,” said director Nimród Antal. “It’s the kind of film I live to make — grounded, propulsive, and full of dread — and I couldn’t ask for a better cast or team to bring it to the screen.”
Crowe is a three-time Academy Award nominee and won the Best Actor Oscar for Gladiator. He recently starred in Sony Pictures Classics’ Nuremberg and will next be seen in Netflix’s thriller Unabomber, Vertical’s The Weight, Walden Media’s thriller Billion Dollar Spy, and Amazon MGM’s highly anticipated reboot, Highlander.
Chopra Jonas is an award winning actor, producer, and New York Times bestselling author. She recently led and produced Prime Video’s “The Bluff,” which debuted at #1 worldwide, and “Heads of State,” Prime Video’s fourth most-watched film, alongside Idris Elba and John Cena, which most recently earned an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Television Movie. Priyanka’s Purple Pebble Pictures recently Executive Produced the Oscar Nominated short film Anuja (2025), award-winning and Oscar-nominated feature documentary To Kill A Tiger (2024), and she starred in and Executive Produced Netflix’s Oscar-nominated film The White Tiger (2021.). Currently she stars in Prime Video’s spy thriller “Citadel,” alongside Stanley Tucci and Richard Madden, and next up, Priyanka will star in S.S. Rajamouli’s highly anticipated upcoming action-adventure epic film “Varanasi,” set to be released in April 2027. She is also set to star opposite Orlando Bloom in the upcoming survival thriller Reset.
Highland Film Group’s current slate also includes Lisette Feliciano’s Iron Jane starring Eiza Gonzalez and Brandon Sklenar; Neil Burger’s action thriller Barracuda starring Anthony Mackie and Dafne Keen; Justin Chadwick’s action spy-thriller The Mark starring Jessica Alba, Tom Hopper and Elsa Pataky; Pierre Morel’s action thriller The Good Samaritan starring Daisy Ridley, Josh Duhamel and Sharlto Copley; the espionage action thriller Stratagem starring Noomi Rapace and Teo Yoo and Brad Anderson’s psychological thriller Moral Capacity starring Dacre Montgomery, Diane Lane, Sofia Boutella and Tim Robbins.
Crowe is repped by Brillstein Entertainment Partners and Goodman Genow Schenkman Smelkinson & Christopher, LLP (GGSSC). Chopra Jonas is repped by United Talent Agency and A-Series;
Antal is repped by Range Media Partners; William Eubank is repped by Anonymous Content and CAA; Carlyle Eubank is repped by Atlas Literary.
