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Giant murderous bats are set to have their moment in the genre spotlight thanks to upcoming action-adventure horror “Dark Jungle.”

They’re also heading to Cannes, where Capture — the recently-launched joint venture between Capstone Global and Signature Entertainment — will be launching sales.

“Dark Jungle” is being produced by Neal Kingston & Michael Robertson of production company Thrills & Spills, Michael Boughen (“Killer Elite”) plus the film’s director Martin Wilson (“Great White”). Boughen also serves as writer.

Described as “a fresh action-adventure which introduces a new apex predator”, “Dark Jungle” follows a team of elite mercenaries deep in the jungle, who embark on a rescue mission only to find themselves hunted by a swarm of giant, deadly bats.

Global sales are being handled by Capture’s Ella Field, Asia Muci, Emilie Barra and Nathan Wang and will be introduced to buyers at the Cannes Marché du Film.

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A Working Man made its debut on digital platforms at the end of last week, but that hasn’t stopped the film from continuing to earn at the box office. Jason Statham’s latest action vehicle now sits at $36 million at the domestic box office and $51 million internationally for a worldwide cumulative total of $87 million. While this is still significantly less than The Beekeeper, the latest action movie collaboration between Statham and director David Ayer, it is enough to make it one of Statham’s 20 highest-grossing movies ever. Despite mixed reactions from fans and critics — 49% score from critics and 87% from audiences on Rotten Tomatoes — A Working Man has passed Snatch, which also stars Brad Pitt, to reach Statham’s top 20 list.

If A Working Man can scrounge together another $2 million at the global box office, it will move past Transporter 2 to become the 19th-highest-grossing Jason Statham movie of all time,...

Throughout his career, global action star Jason Statham has held his own opposite many Oscar-worthy stars. From Charlize Theronand Edward Norton in The Italian Job to Sylvester Stallonein The Expendables franchise, Statham manages to stand out in ensemble pictures while never overshadowing his legendary castmates. The same would be true when he played opposite cinematic icon Robert De Niro in 2011’s Killer Elite.

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When it comes to action films, stars like Keanu Reeves or Tom Cruise may come to mind first, but Jason Statham is arguably as well-known in the genre. Beginning with the Transporter trilogy, the actor has been renowned for his effortlessly cool-looking martial arts and has been in numerous other successful action franchises, including The Expendables, Crank, Fast & Furious, and The Mechanic.

Having said that, most people are unaware that, despite his unrivaled success in the Transporter films, Statham experienced a long, exhausting descent in his career during the early 2010s, when six of his movies flopped in succession. Nonetheless, he rose from the ashes to reestablish himself as the action king, eventually appearing in some of the most entertaining films, including Spy, Fast & Furious, and The Beekeeper. So, what...

Action movie icon Jason Statham once joined forces with an Oscar winner and Hollywood icon for more action-packed thrills and the movie is now free to stream. Titled Killer Elite, the action outing is currently available to watch via the likes of Tubi and Pluto TV, and finds The Stath teaming up with none other than Robert De Niro, with the pair facing off with Sin City and Children of Men star Clive Owen and his team of assassins.

Based on the 1991 novel "The Feather Men" by British explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes and directed by Gary McKendry, Killer Elite finds Statham leading a somewhat more grounded action flick, and stars Clive Owen, Yvonne Strahovski, Robert De Niro, Lachy Hulme, Dominic Purcell, Aden Young, and Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje. You can check out the official synopsis for the movie below.

Danny Bryce (Jason Statham), one of the world's deadliest special-ops agents, returns from self-imposed exile after his mentor,...

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Stephen King is one of the most prolific authors of our time. Not only does the man churn out work at a blistering pace, but in terms of sheer name recognition, he's surely one of the most well-known authors in history. That is in no small part thanks to the fact that many, many of his novels and short stories have been adapted for the screen over the years, both as movies and TV shows. Yet for all of those adaptations, there's still a book that King wrote that he believes would make a great movie. It just hasn't happened yet.

King spoke with Netflix's Tudum in 2022 in honor of the release of "Mr. Harrigan's Phone," which was directed by John Lee Hancock. During the conversation, the author was asked if there were any of his books that hadn't...

The popular crime drama "Prison Break" ran for four seasons on Fox, returning for a successful revival season in 2017 and finding renewed success on Netflix. The series followed two brothers locked up in a maximum security prison looking to escape together and prove their innocence. As the story progresses, a large government conspiracy is uncovered while the brothers are on the run from the authorities. Led by series stars Dominic Purcell and Wentworth Miller, "Prison Break" boasts an impressive and extensive ensemble cast.

With so much time having passed since "Prison Break" began in 2005, its cast have since gone off in different directions in their lives and careers. Several major cast members have found even greater professional success elsewhere, while others have stepped away from acting or moved smaller projects. If you've been wondering what the main cast of "Prison Break" has been up to since the hit Fox series came to an end,...

Exclusive: Yvonne Strahovski is set to star and executive produce a series adaptation of A Woman of Intelligence, based on Karin Tanabe’s bestselling novel. UCP, a division of Universal Studio Group, is developing the project with Strahovski’s Anovi Peak Productions. A platform has yet to been determined.

Tom Bidwell serves as writer and executive producer.

In the series, overwhelmed with the relentlessness and loneliness of motherhood, a 1950’s housewife (Strahovski) finds a way to rediscover herself when she is asked by the FBI to infiltrate the Kgb. But before long, what started as a good way to get childcare fast turns into a nightmare and she realizes that her family’s future and the fate of the western world are in her hands.

Nina Tassler, Joan Boorstein, Mel McKeon and Laura Myones also will executive produce for Afa/Prime Talent Media.

Michael Dorman has signed with Verve for representation, Variety has learned exclusively. Dorman continues to be repped by Entertainment 360, Nathan Culliver in Australia, and attorney Jamie Feldman.

Variety recently reported that Dorman has joined the cast of the Amazon dark comedy pilot “The Nightbeast” alongside series lead Tatiana Maslany. Maslany stars as a suburban mother who begins an affair with the boogeyman living under her son’s bed. Dorman will star as Maslany’s character’s husband.

Dorman is perhaps best known in the for starring in the Paramount+ series “Joe Pickett” and the Amazon Prime Video series “Patriot.” Dorman played the title role in “Joe Pickett,” which ran for two seasons and was based on the character created by novelist C.J. Box. In “Patriot,” Dorman starred as CIA intelligence officer John Tavner alongside Kurtwood Smith, Michael Chernus, and Kathleen Munroe. That show also ran for two seasons at the streamer.

Evan Wright, the National Magazine Award-winning journalist and longtime Rolling Stone contributor whose reporting on the Iraq War served as the basis for the book and television series Generation Kill, has died at the age of 59. Wright’s wife confirmed his death to Rolling Stone. The cause of death was suicide.

As a writer for Rolling Stone, Wright journeyed to war zones like Afghanistan and Iraq, delivering harrowing first-person reporting from the battlefields. Wright’s series of articles on Iraq — where he was embedded with a U.S. Marine Corps. battalion...

Fans of the hit series “Prison Break” have reason to celebrate as Dominic Purcell and Wentworth Miller, the actors who portrayed brothers Lincoln Burrows and Michael Scofield, are set to reunite on screen in a new drama series titled “Snatchback.” The show, currently in development at Universal Television, promises to bring the duo’s dynamic chemistry back to television in an entirely new setting.

“Snatchback,” created by Scott Rosenbaum, known for his work on “The Shield,” “Chuck,” and “Queen of the South,” draws inspiration from the real-life experiences of an active covert intelligence officer. The series will follow a team of highly skilled operatives, led by Purcell and Miller’s characters, as they undertake dangerous missions to recover hostages from perilous locations around the globe.

Tish Cyrus-Purcell, founder of HopeTown Entertainment and Purcell’s wife, expressed excitement about the project, stating, “Rosenbaum has crafted an emotionally charged and high-stakes world...

The “Prison Break” brothers are getting back together.

Dominic Purcell and Wentworth Miller are set as the stars of “Snatchback,” a series in development at Universal Television. Scott Rosenberg serves as writer and executive producer, while Purcell also executive produces via HopeTown Entertainment.

The official logline for “Snatchback” reads, “Inspired by the life of a real covert intelligence officer who is still active in the field today, the series follows a highly skilled privately contracted team of operatives as they recover hostages across the globe from some of the most exotic, and equally dangerous locations on the planet.”

Purcell and Miller led Fox’s “Prison Break” as brothers Lincoln Burrows and Michael Scofield for four seasons from 2006 to 2009 followed by “The Final Break,” a TV movie that concluded the series before a revival was ordered; Season 5 aired on Fox in 2017. The pair also both appeared in the CW Arrowverse series...

Brace yourself sci-fi fans. Space: 1999 is ready for another takeoff. Thanks to the valiant attempts of one filmmaker, a captivating documentary on the British-produced cult hit, which ran from 1975-1977, will find its way to the screen by 2025, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the show. But filmmaker Jeffrey Morris is putting a fabulous spin on the doc, honing the focus more on one of the stars of the series. Hint: It isn’t an actor. It’s a spaceship. In this case, the intrepid Eagle Transporter, which, like the U.S.S. Enterprise before it in Star Trek, captured viewers’ attention.

Morris’ Kickstarter campaign to fund a documentary, called The Eagle Has Landed, is gaining traction. The filmmaker was fascinated by the show when he first saw tuned in as a child back in 1975. Now, as an adult, he realized that he’s one of millions of fans who...

From the eight-time Oscar nominee “The Imitation Game” to the Korean revenge thriller “I Saw the Devil,” free streaming service Plex is giving audiences new and varied reasons to keep coming back to its library of over 50,000 titles.

As we ring in October, check out The Streamable’s top picks and build your to-watch list from all of the titles coming to the streamer this month!

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The gripping biopic “Experimenter” arrives to Plex to start the month. Based on the true story of social psychologist Stanley Milgram, the film focuses on the 1961 behavior experiments at Yale University that tested the willingness of ordinary humans to obey an authority figure while administering electric shocks to strangers, as well as the aftermath of the experiments and the public outcry of their ethics.

The Expendables 4 stunt coordinator Alan Ng praises the intense fight scene between Jason Statham and Iko Uwais in the upcoming sequel. Ng mentions that the fight scene was filmed in a short time frame, but both actors delivered incredible performances and did much of the fight themselves. Both Statham and Uwais have strong resumes when it comes to action, with the former having starred in the likes of The Transporter and Crank, and the latter being best known for The Raid and its sequel.

The Expendables 4 stunt coordinator Alan Ng hypes the film's intense head-to-head fight between Jason Statham and Iko Uwais. Directed by Scott Waugh, the upcoming sequel in the hit action franchise sees the titular mercenary team embark on a new mission to stop World War III. Statham returns in the film as Lee Christmas, with The Raid star Uwais set to play one of the film's antagonists.

Exclusive: Prison Break and Legends Of Tomorrow star Dominic Purcell is replacing the late Ray Stevenson in Paramount and Republic Pictures’ movie Cassino In Ischia, which is now back underway in Italy.

Production came to an abrupt halt in late May after lead actor Stevenson suffered sudden illness and was rushed to hospital where he passed away aged 58.

Purcell takes on the role of Nic Cassino, a former action star who is knocked off his perch by the next generation of action heroes. In an attempt to revive his career, he travels to Italy to make the first ever “Neo-Realist” action film with a down on his luck Italian director. When unresolved family struggles resurface, he is forced to reconcile all he left behind on his road to fame.

Pic is being produced by Martin Scorsese collaborator Barbara DeFina, whose credits with the filmmaker include Silence, Casino, Cape Fear, The Color Of Money,...

A number of great movies are leaving HBO Max at the end of March, so it’s time to prioritize these titles in your queue. Filmmaker James Gunn’s sequel/soft reboot “The Suicide Squad” will depart the streaming service on March 22 after first hitting HBO Max the same day it was released in theaters back in 2021. Similarly, “Space Jam: A New Legacy” was whisked away on March 1 after also getting a day-and-date release in 2021 (sorry/not sorry if you missed it).

You also only have until March 7 to stream “Just a Boy From Tupelo: Bringing Elvis to the Big Screen,” a short documentary on the making of the Oscar-nominated biopic “Elvis.”

Other noteworthy films leaving HBO Max this month include “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford,” “Contagion,” the extended version of “Dances with Wolves,” “Ghostbusters,” “Four Weddings and a Funeral,” “Love & Basketball” and “Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping.

Transfusion is a 2023 thriller movie written and directed by Matt Nable starring Sam Worthington and Phoebe Tonkin.

This is a movie that wants to “go beyond the script” and, precisely because of the script, never manages to do so. Good acting by Sam Worthington in a slow burning thriller that ends without a definition between a character drama and a thriller.

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An ex agent of the armed forces has a son with problems he will try to protect at all costs.

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This is a movie written, directed and starred by Matt Nable, which tries to offer us a different kind of movie in its treatment but, never manages to do so in the script. The hackneyed subject of “my son at all costs”, done so many times (even by actors not called Liam Neeson), stands up as far as a script goes, there is structure and empathy with the viewer,...

Screen Rant is excited to present an exclusive clip from Russell Crowe's new thriller, Poker Face. The movie follows tech billionaire and gambler Jake Foley (Crowe) as he invites his childhood friends to a surprisingly high-stakes game with the chance to win millions of dollars on the table. However, this is not the friendly game they are expecting. Jake reveals that this poker night is part of a plan to force his once-friends to reveal their secrets as he seeks revenge for their betrayals. With secrets being revealed and betrayals unmasked, the friends are forced together once more when a group of thieves breaks into Jake's home.

Crowe is the driving force behind Poker Face, not only starring in but also writing and directing the new thriller. Although this is the Academy Award-winning actor's first time as a feature screenwriter, it is his second time directing a feature film following the 2014 Water Diviner.

The decade-old thriller Killer Elite has risen to the top of Netflix’s most-watched film chart in the UK.

Released to poor reviews in 2011, the film is note-worthy for featuring a starry cast including Robert De Niro, Jason Statham, Clive Owen and Ben Mendelsohn.

Based on Sir Ranulph Fiennes’s 1991 novel The Feather Men, Killer Elite focuses on a retired assassin who has to kill three skilled mercenaries to save his mentor.

The film currently occupies the No 1 spot on Netfilx’s film ranking in the UK.

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, Killer Elite currently holds a rating of just 28 per cent – placing it firmly within the category of “rotten”.

Viewers have generally not been kind about the film’s merits, with one Twitter user describing it as “crummy”.

“Oof. Killer Elite aka The Feather Men now on Netflix,” another person wrote. “Totally guff and nonsense but an enjoyable action romp.

Warner Bros. Discovery has had a rough go of it recently. The newly-formed mega corporation’s decision to callously prune HBO Max’s servers of hours of content has led to mountains of bad PR and billions of dollars in market cap losses. Suffice it to say, a jam-packed list of new HBO Max releases for September 2022 would provide some welcome relief for the “House of the House of the Dragon.”

Unfortunately, HBO Max’s new releases this month are uncommonly light. It’s impossible to say whether this is the result of more Wbd meddling or simply some bad scheduling luck but either way it’s not going to make any executives’ seats less warm. There are only a handful of notable originals this month, led by season 2 of the Spanish language comedy Los Espookys on Sept. 16. That is joined by a pair of documentaries, Escape from Kabul on Sept.

Netflix is gearing up for a busy end to 2022.

September seems to be a calm before the storm-of-sorts – the storm being a deluge of films set to be awards contenders when Oscar season rolls around.

The first of the streaming service’s high-profile films, set to arrive in the tail-end of the year, will be Andrew Dominik’s Marilyn Monroe biopic Blonde, starring Ana de Armas.

Elsewhere, there is a bunch of non-Netflix films set to be added over the course of the month, as well as the return of everyone’s favourite Karate Kid spin-off TV series.

This list has been compiled by The Independent, with additional assistance from the team at What’s on Netflix – and you can find the full compilation of everything being removed this month here.

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Netflix is gearing up for a busy end to 2022.

September seems to be a calm before the storm-of-sorts – the storm being a deluge of films set to be awards contenders when Oscar season rolls around.

The first of the streaming service’s high-profile films, set to arrive in the tail-end of the year, will be Andrew Dominik’s Marilyn Monroe biopic Blonde, starring Ana de Armas.

Elsewhere, there is a bunch of non-Netflix films set to be added over the course of the month, as well as the return of everyone’s favourite Karate Kid spin-off TV series.

This list has been compiled by The Independent, with additional assistance from the team at What’s on Netflix – and you can find the full compilation of everything being removed this month here.

What new releases are coming to Netflix in September 2022?

Original Titles

Movies

1 September

Love in the Villa

Under Her Control...

Best-known for her action roles in “Skyscraper,” with Dwayne Johnson, and Simon West’s “Skyfire,” Asian star Hannah Quinlivan has joined director Jesse Atlas’s sci-fi feature “Soul Assassin.”

The film’s ensemble cast also includes Bruce Willis, Andy Allo, Nomzamo Mbatha, Dominic Purcell and Mustafa Shakir.

Atlas’ feature debut, “Soul Assassin” is described as a female-led, mind-bending sci-fi thriller. In it, a female former black ops soldier joins an experimental drone warfare program to hunt down her husband’s killer. When the technology is stolen, however, the hunter becomes the hunted.

“This is a groundbreaking genre film bound to be an audience favorite and an international dream cast of both veterans and rising stars adds even more appeal,” said Atlas, who wrote “Soul Assassin” along with Aaron Wolfe, based on their short film “Let Them Die Like Lovers.”

Quinlivan’s casting news comes as “Soul Assassin,” which is financed...

This article contains Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins spoilers.

It’s been a long time since we’ve been to the movies and an even longer time since we’ve seen a ninja flick on the big screen. Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins is a dazzling return to the underrated ninja genre – a breakout premiere in the shadow of the pandemic.

Ninja films rarely earn a theatrical showing anymore. They are pigeon-holed as B-grade movie fodder, and justifiably so. Back in the 1980, ninja films proliferated when second and third-run movie theaters ruled. Campy, low budget ninja pictures were popular fare there back then, right alongside slasher films and teen sex comedies. But with the advent of home entertainment, those cheap flea-ridden theater seats atop soda-sticky floors are long gone. Nowadays, most new ninja films go straight to streaming so to see one on the big screen is quite a treat for fans of the genre.

Sam Worthington is set to play a former Special Forces operative in Transfusion, the directorial debut from Aacta-nominated actor Matt Nable (Hacksaw Ridge, Killer Elite).

With production now underway in Sydney, Altitude has added the muscular thriller to its sales slate and will launch international sales at Cannes’ virtual market.

Also starring Phoebe Tonkin, Transfusion tells the story of an ex army specialist thrust into the criminal underworld to keep his only son from being taken from him. A Stan original Film, it is set to premiere on streaming service Stan in Australia in 2022 after a cinema release through Madman Entertainment in Australia and ...

Sam Worthington is set to play a former Special Forces operative in Transfusion, the directorial debut from Aacta-nominated actor Matt Nable (Hacksaw Ridge, Killer Elite).

With production now underway in Sydney, Altitude has added the muscular thriller to its sales slate and will launch international sales at Cannes’ virtual market.

Also starring Phoebe Tonkin, Transfusion tells the story of an ex army specialist thrust into the criminal underworld to keep his only son from being taken from him. A Stan original Film, it is set to premiere on streaming service Stan in Australia in 2022 after a cinema release through Madman Entertainment in Australia and ...

We have a brand new trailer for Great White. Hailing from the folks at Rlje Films and Shudder, this is bringing the shark movie action to the big screen this summer. Dating back to Steven Spielberg's Jaws, shark movies have been a staple of the summer moviegoing season for years. Now, we have a new entry to the subgenre from first-time feature director Martin Wilson, with Katrina Bowden starring. By the looks of it, they've crafted a tense, isolated survival thriller set in the middle of the ocean with sharks aplenty.

A Great White poster previewing the shark action to come had previously been released. But this trailer gives us a far better idea of what to expect from the movie. The trailer doesn't waste much time in getting to the point, as we open with a shot of someone being ripped under the water, presumably by a hungry shark,...

From “Executive Producers of the 47 Meters Down series,” Tucker and Dale vs. Evil actress Katrina Bowden stars in Great White, swimming to U.S. theaters and VOD July 16. Michael Boughen (Tomorrow, When The War Began, Killer Elite, The Loved Ones) wrote the script, while commercial director Martin Wilson makes his feature directorial debut. “A fun filled flight to a remote […]...

Shark attack movie Great White, an aquatic nightmare starring Tucker and Dale vs. Evil actress Katrina Bowden, is swimming our way this year, and we’ve got your first look. Michael Boughen (Tomorrow, When The War Began, Killer Elite, The Loved Ones) wrote the script, while commercial director Martin Wilson makes his feature directorial debut. Take a bite out of the […]...

From the producers of Black Water: Abyss comes this year’s brand new shark attack movie Great White, a survival thriller starring Tucker and Dale vs. Evil actress Katrina Bowden. Michael Boughen (Tomorrow, When The War Began, Killer Elite, The Loved Ones) wrote the script, while commercial director Martin Wilson makes his feature directorial debut. Check out the official trailer for Great White below, which […]...

Exclusive: Open Road Films, back under the oversight of its founder Tom Ortenberg, has acquired domestic on the feature adaptation of the Anna Todd YA sequel After We Collided from Voltage.

Open Road has set a limited theatrical day and date release with PVOD for Oct. 23. Cruel Intentions’ Roger Kumble directs off a screenplay by Todd and Mario Celaya. Josephine Langford and Hero Fiennes Tiffin reprise their roles as star-crossed lovers Tessa Young and Hardin Scott, who contend with an intense breakup and its aftermath in part 2. Louise Lombard, Selma Blair and Dylan Sprouse also star. Producers are Mark Canton, Courtney Solomon, Nicolas Chartier, Jennifer Gibgot, Brian Pitt and Todd. EPs are Jonathan Deckter and Andrew Panay.

The first movie, After, made for $14M, grossed close to $70M WW last year, spawning immediately a sequel, plus a threequel, After We Fell, and a fourthquel, After Ever Happy, which were announced...

Exclusive: In a big shot in the arm for the independent distribution game as Virtual Cannes gets underway, Open Road Films is back up and running. Funding is in place from New York-based private equity firm Raven Capital Management. Open Road Films will be led by Raven principal James Masciello with key support from Matt Sidari. The shingle will resume acquiring and releasing films in partnership with Tom Ortenberg’s Briarcliff Entertainment.

Ortenberg was founding CEO who launched Open Road in 2011 for theater chains AMC and Regal, and steered the company to success that culminated in Best Picture winner Spotlight, along with such indie hits as A Haunted House, Chef, Dope, End of Watch, The Grey, Mother’s Day, Homefront, Killer Elite, Marshall, Nightcrawler, The Nut Job, Side Effects, Snowden and Triple 9.

The distributor will get up and running with the Mark Williams-directed action/thriller Honest Thief, starring Liam Neeson,...

Katrina Bowden and Aaron Jakubenko.

Us actor Katrina Bowden and Aaron Jakubenko lead the cast of survival thriller Great White, which is now shooting in Queensland.

Scripted by Michael Boughen and directed by Tvc director Martin Wilson in his feature debut, the plot follows five people who are stranded on a seaplane far from shore.

Their challenge is to try to make it to land before they either run out of supplies or are devoured by sharks.

Bowden, who played Florence Fulton in The Bold and the Beautiful and Cerie in 30 Rock, and Jakubenko play the seaplane operators and lovers Kaz Fellows and Charlie Brody.

Cast as the hapless passengers are Tim Kano (Neighbours) as Joji, Kimie Tsukakoshi as his wife Michelle and Te Kohe Tuhaka (The Dead Lands) as the cook Benny.

In their second collaboration following Andrew Traucki’s survival thriller Black Water : Abyss, currently in post,...

“The Handmaid’s Tale” star Yvonne Strahovski has closed a deal to star in Chris Pratt’s sci-fi film “Ghost Draft,” an individual with knowledge of the project told TheWrap.

Chris McKay (“Lego Batman”) is directing the Skydance project. “Ghost Draft,” a working title, is written by Zach Dean and is about a man who is drafted to fight in a future war which forces him to confront his past. Strahovski will play a woman Pratt meets in the future.

Producers are David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, Don Granger, David Goyer, Jules Daly and Adam Kolbrenner. Matt Grimm is overseeing the project for Skydance.

Production is set to begin this summer.

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Anthony Hayes.

Anthony Hayes will direct and co-star with Sam Worthington in Gold, a thriller about two guys who discover the world’s biggest gold nugget in the Australian desert.

Due to shoot in South Australia in September, the film will be produced by Deeper Water Films’ John and Michael Schwarz and Hayes’ Rogue Star Pictures.

Hayes co-wrote the script with his partner, former costumer Polly Smyth, her first writing credit.

The plot sees the men hatch a plan to excavate the gold as one leaves to secure equipment while the other stays behind to protect the discovery.

Saboteur Films, which reps Kriv Stenders’ Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan produced by Red Dune Productions’ Martin Walsh and the Schwarz brothers, is pitching the project at the Cannes film market.

Hayes tells If: “Polly and I wanted to come up with a smart film with few cast and one location.

Raven Capital Management said it has completed its $87.5 million purchase of Open Road Films assets, including rights to 45 titles such as the Oscar-winning Spotlight, Chef and End of Watch.

The finalizing of the agreement first disclosed in November adds another notable film library to Raven’s collection of assets. In 2015, it teamed with Ambi Media Group to buy the catalog of Exclusive Media Group. That agreement included rights (including certain sequel and remake rights) to a diverse group of 400-plus titles, including Begin Again, Cruel Intentions, Donnie Darko, Memento, Rush, The Skulls and Sliding Doors.

“We are excited to add Open Road to our portfolio of media and entertainment investments,” said James Masciello, Principal and Portfolio Manager of Raven. “We pride ourselves on our industry focus and have already seen great successes with our 2015 acquisition of the Exclusive Media film library as well as our financing of select independent films.

Film library includes Spotlight, Nightcrawler, Chef, Dope.

Private equity firm Raven Capital Management has completed an $87.5m Usd purchase of select assets of Open Road Films including the rights to 45 film titles, among them best picture Oscar winner Spotlight.

The Open Road film library offers significant licensing opportunities and includes Nightcrawler, Chef, Dope, End Of Watch, The Grey, Killer Elite, and Snowden.

Prior to acquiring Open Road, private Raven teamed with Ambi Media Group to acquire the Exclusive Media Group library of more than 400 titles including Memento, Donnie Darko, Rush, and The Mexican.

Raven has also been active in financing...

Ron Moore’s upcoming Apple series is filling out its main cast.

Joel Kinnaman, Michael Dorman, and Sarah Jones have all been cast in the series, which takes place in a world where global space race never ended. Kinnaman will play Edward Baldwin, one of the top Nasa astronauts. Dorman and Jones have been cast as Gordo and Tracy Stevens, a prominent Nasa couple.

The role keeps Kinnaman in the TV sci-fi space, with the actor recently starring in the first season of the Netflix series “Altered Carbon.” He is also attached to the Amazon series adaptation of the film “Hanna” in a lead role. He is also known for his roles on the shows “House of Cards” and “The Killing.” On the film side, he starred in “Suicide Squad,” “Child 44,” and the “RoboCop” reboot. He is repped by Wme and Magnolia Entertainment.

Dorman currently stars in the Amazon series “Patriot,...

By now, there shouldn’t be a horror fan reading this who isn’t familiar with the work of Leigh Whannell. Having previously penned films such as Saw, Insidious and Dead Silence, the screenwriter/actor has proven himself to be quite the asset for studios looking for bold new intellectual properties.

So, as was the case with Insidious: Chapter 3, he’s writing and directing the upcoming science fiction/action flick Upgrade, which I must admit is taking me by surprise. As you can imagine, I naturally thought this to be a horror movie upon first hearing that Whannell was behind it, but I’m pleasantly pleased that the footage I’ve thus far seen has defied my expectations.

In short, the picture “centers on Grey Trace, a technophobe in a utopian near-future when computers control nearly everything – from cars to crime-surveillance – who’s paralyzed in a freak mugging. But when...

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Screen Star and prolific Producer Mem Ferda has joined Actor / Director Martin Copping to bring to us a new exciting psychological thriller set in Australia on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula, ‘The Dunes’.

‘The Dunes’, which is written by Copping, is a story about a renowned journalist for the La Times, who returns to his hometown of The Dunes and while he’s there, a mysterious figure from his past re-emerges and threatens his entire existence.

The film is peppered with underlying themes of substance abuse. The director and lead actor (Copping), wrote the screenplay after the tragic loss of his own mother to Alcoholism.

Co-Producer Mem Ferda (London Heist, Smoking Guns) commented;- ‘this film is of such importance, in spreading awareness and educating the public about the vulnerabilities of addiction. I myself lost a dear friend to addiction and feel this delicately woven story will highlight and...

“Would you believe that heroism has become old fashioned?” So says a character in Sam Peckinpah‘s underseen 1975 gem “The Killer Elite.” Peckinpah, a man who spent his entire career dealing with the theme of what it means to be a hero, was also known as “Bloody Sam,” which gives you all the details you need […]

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He helmed the 2009 remake of Wes Craven’s The Last House on the Left and took viewers to a party they wouldn’t soon forget in 2013’s +1. Now director Dennis Iliadis is hard at work on his latest film, He’s Out There, which has started filming in Canada:

Press Release: Montreal, July 29, 2016 – Principal photography has begun on Screen Gems’ suspense thriller, He’s Out There. Yvonne Strahovski stars, along with Justin Bruening, Anna Pniowsky, Abigail Pniowsky, Julian Bailey and Ryan McDonald. Dennis Iliadis directs, from a script by Mike Scannell. Producers are Adrienne Biddle and Bryan Bertino of Unbroken Pictures. Glenn Gainor is executive producer.

On vacation at a remote lake house, a mother and her two young daughters must fight for survival after falling into a terrifying and bizarre nightmare.

Yvonne Strahovski’s film roles include I, Frankenstein, The Guilt Trip and Killer Elite, and she will next...

With A History Of Violence, Tom Breihan picks the most important action movie of every year, starting with the genre’s birth and moving right up to whatever Vin Diesel’s doing this very minute.

The Octagon (1980)

There’s a scene in The Killer Elite, a not-great Sam Peckinpah movie from 1975, where Burt Young, the man who would go on to play Paulie in Rocky a year later, fights a ninja on the deck of a battleship. The ninja does not prove to be much of a problem for him. Young casually picks up the ninja and dumps him overboard. If the ninja even resists, we don’t see it. Instead, we see him go screaming into the water. And we see Young—squat, balding, portly, not exactly a physical wonder—leaning on the guardrail and watching him plunge. Then he makes this noise: “Hmp.” Like, “That was ...

There's no doubt that Robert De Niro is a great actor, but there's also little argument that his cinematic choices since the turn of the millennium have been rather questionable. As a result, like various acting legends who've reached their elderly years, these days he's been labelled a 'paycheck actor' in various reviews for films like "Dirty Grandpa," "What Just Happened" and "Killer Elite".

Why has this happened to not just him but many other famed acting legends of the 1980s and 1990s? One of De Niro's old co-stars and highly respected actress in her own right, Illeana Douglas, has a theory and says the fault lies less with De Niro and more with the current movie-making environment. Appearing on Bret Easton Ellis' podcast recently, she spoke about her own experiences working with him on films like "Goodfellas" and "Cape Fear":

"I think that, and I can only...

(This is the first in an occasional series in which I remember some of the best double features I’ve been lucky enough to see projected in a theater.)

The New Beverly Cinema, the oldest surviving revival theater in Los Angeles, has this week dished up a time-capsule glimpse into America’s popular obsession with Cb, or citizen’s band, radio and the largely mythological outlaw trucker culture through which it crackled. If you’re of a certain age (mine), and you ever cruised around town or down the highway jabbering to friends and strangers on an open channel frequency (I did—my handle was The Godfather!), given the opportunity I don’t see how you could possibly resist the chance to see the ultimate trucker-cb action-comedy pairing, Hal Needham’s Smokey and the Bandit and Sam Peckinpah’s Convoy. (I couldn’t!) As of this writing, the morning of...

Re-teaming with Darclight, the company behind her most recent movie Zhongkui: Snow Girl And The Dark Crystal, Bingbing Li will next head for The Nest. She's producing and will star in the arachnophobic sci-fi thriller. Kimble Rendall (Second-Unit on the Matrix sequels, I, Robot and Killer Elite) is directing.The plot involves a team of scientists who, in order to get to the "discovery of the century", must negotiate a labyrinth of carnivorous spiders. There's always bloody something, isn't there?It's a Chinese-Australian co-production: the fourth to come about through an arrangement between Screen Australia and the China Film Co-Production Corporation since 2006. It's being touted as the biggest-budget project to come out of that deal so far, although the number isn't being specified. Given that the previous three co-productions - Children Of The Silk Road, The Dragon Pearl and 33 Postcards - amount to a combined total budget of about $60m,...

Below you will find our favorite films of the 68th Locarno Film Festival, as well as an index of our coverage.Daniel Kasmantop Picksi. L’Accademia delle Muse, CosmosII. Thithi, Happy Hour, Right Now, Wrong ThenIII. Deux Rémi, deux, 88:88COVERAGEDay 1: James White (Josh Mond), Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Don Siegel)Day 2: Infinitas (Marlen Khutsiev), I Am Twenty (Marlen Khutsiev), The Ballad of Cable Hogue (Sam Peckinpah)Day 3: Cosmos (Andrzej Żuławski), The Wild Bunch (Sam Peckinpah)Day 4: Thithi (Raam Reddy), Te prometo anarquía (Julio Hernández Cordón), Chant d'hiver (Otar Iosseliani), July Rain (Marlen Khutsiev), Year of the Dragon (Michael Cimino)Day 5: L’Accademia delle Muse (José Luis Guerín), Les idoles (Marc'o), Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (Sam Peckinpah), The Killer Elite (Sam Peckinpah)Day 6: Good Morning, Night (Marco Bellocchio), No Home Movie (Chantal Akerman), Epilogue (Marlen Khutsiev)Day 7: Chevalier (Athina Rachel Tsangari...

Since his debut in Guy Ritchie’s 1998 film Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, actor Jason Statham has emerged in the past few years as one of the leading action heroes currently working, with his popularity being proven by the fact that the Transporter series, which he headlined for the first three films, has gone on to a tv show adaptation and will be rebooted in theatres next weekend with The Transporter Refueled. That’s not the only action franchise Statham has headlined, however, as he has also been the leading man in the Crank films and been a part of the Expendables franchise and, more recently, the Fast and Furious franchise.

Action heroes often have to throw lots of punches onscreen, and Statham has been no exception in this regard. Now the youtube channel Burger Fiction has put together a compilation of the numerous punches Statham has thrown onscreen...

Spanish director José Luis Guerín is best known in the States for his pseudo-fictional love letter to women-watching In the City of Sylvia, but in fact is a prolific documentary filmmaker and has brought with him to Locarno the lovely and elegant pseudo-documentary L’Accademia delle Muse. Playful and clever as ever, Guerín has collaborated with Professor Raffaele Pinto and several actresses, perhaps students, to stage a false course in philology. The class, populated almost entirely by women, discusses the nature, influence and meaning of muses in poetry, and what starts as seemingly a documentary on this classroom, its teacher and a few select students, subtly evolves into a drama of words and unseen actions.The issues at stake as discourse in the class—what desire means, if it has to be sexual, the difference between a woman and a muse, how a lover influences the beloved and vice versa...