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Idol's Eye

Production has been shuttered on Idol’s Eye, the crime drama from director and writer Olivier Assayas based on the 2007 Playboy article “Boosting the Big Tuna” by Hillel Levin.

Deadline reports that the film’s production company and financier Benaroya Pictures has decided to cut off financing for the movie due to the producers’ failure to meet financing deadlines; the film was expected to begin filming in Chicago and Toronto in October. The film would have starred Robert DeNiro, Robert Pattinson, and Rachel Weisz.

Benaroya Pictures released a statement regarding the production’s shut down:

Idol’s Eye is a multilayered crime thriller surrounding the mob world, following the true story of a crew of robbers who were murdered after robbing the home of Chicago mob boss Tony “Big Tuna” Accardo in 1978. Assayas has recently been on the festival circuit celebrating his most recent film, Clouds of Sils Maria, starring Juliette Binoche and Kristen Stewart.

Benaroya Pictures did not immediately return EW’s request for comment.

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