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Exclusive: Danish actor Roland Møller (Citadel) has landed the lead villain role opposite Jason Statham and Annabelle Wallis in Lionsgate’s action-thriller Mutiny. Others newly aboard for key roles are Arnas Fedaravičius (The White Lotus) and Adrian Lester (The Sandman).

In Mutiny, which has just wrapped production in the UK and Malta, after his billionaire industrialist boss is murdered in front of him, Cole Reed is set up to take the fall for the crime — leaving him on the run as he works to uncover an international conspiracy. Further character details for today’s new trio of cast members weren’t disclosed.

Jean-François Richet is directing from a script by Lindsay Michel and J.P. Davis, his collaborator on the recent Lionsgate action thriller Plane starring Gerard Butler and Mike Colter. Statham and his newly minted production company Punch Palace Productions are producing alongside Marc Butan under his MadRiver Pictures banner,...

Jason Wong, the British actor best known for “Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves” and his frequent collaborations with Guy Ritchie, has joined the cast of Lionsgate’s action-thriller “Mutiny” alongside Jason Statham and Annabelle Wallis.

Being directed by “Plane” helmer Jean-François Richet, the pic is being produced by Statham through his newly-launched Punch Palace Productions banner alongside Marc Butan via his MadRiver Pictures.

As per the description, in “Mutiny,” after his billionaire industrialist boss is murdered in front of him, Cole Reed (Statham) is set up to take the fall for the crime — leaving him on the run as he works to uncover an international conspiracy. Wong will play Taran, Cole’s supportive loyal confidant whilst the action and drama unfolds.

Principal photography will take place this autumn in the U.K.. The film marks the latest collaboration between Richet, Butan, and Davis following “Plane” in 2023. Evan Powell will oversee for MadRiver.

Tom Cruise might be the king of death-defying stunts, but even he knows his limits—well, sometimes. In a career full of heart-stopping moments, from hanging off planes to scaling skyscrapers, there’s one scene that left even Cruise tapping out. Yep, this one stunt was so extreme it was deemed impossible to shoot without risking a trip to the great beyond.

Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt in Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One | Paramount Pictures

And we’re not talking about some CGI extravaganza—this was supposed to be the real deal, but physics and common sense got in the way. Despite his adrenaline-junkie reputation, Cruise couldn’t pull this one off, leaving fans to wonder what could’ve been the most epic and expensive stunt sequence in cinema history. Even Ethan Hunt had to say no!

Behind the Scenes of The Last Samurai: How Tom Cruise’s...

Lionsgate Movie has debuted the first trailer for the Gerard Butler-led sequel ‘Den of Thieves 2: Pantera.’

Gerard Butler and O’Shea Jackson Jr. return in the sequel to 2018’s action-heist hit.

Big Nick (Butler) is back on the hunt in Europe and closing in on Donnie (Jackson), who is embroiled in the treacherous and unpredictable world of diamond thieves and the infamous Panther mafia, as they plot a massive heist of the world’s largest diamond exchange.

Directed by Christian Gudegast, the cast also includes Michael Bisping, Salvatore Esposito, Orli Shuka, Evin Ahmad, Cristian Solimeno, Nazmiye Oral, Yasen Zates Atour, Giuseppe Schillaci, Dino Kelly, Rico Verhoeven, Velibor Topic, and Antonio Bustorff.

Also in trailers – Josh Brolin & Peter Dinklage star in trailer for comedy ‘Brothers’

The movie hits U.S. cinemas on January 15th 2025.

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Gerard Butler and O’Shea Jackson are both back for Den Of Thieves 2: Pantera, which is confirmed for January 2025 release.-

Happily and proudly drawing influence from Michael Mann’s Heat, the heist thriller Den Of Thieves is a really entertaining movie. Released in 2018, it stars Gerard Butler and O’Shea Jackson, and was written and directed by Christian Gudegast.

The film – rightly – was something of a success as well, and the wheels were soon in metaphorical motion for a follow-up. It’s had to take its place in the queue behind some other Gerard Butler films, including the mighty Plane, but now Den Of Thieves 2: Pantera is readying for release.

The film shot in 2023, with Gerard Butler and O’Shea Jackson again headlining the film. Christian Gudegast is again in the director’s chair too, having penned the screenplay. Lionsgate, which backed the first movie, has put money into the second,...

After six years, the first official trailer for Den of Thieves 2: Pantera has arrived, giving us our first look at the upcoming heist thriller starring Gerard Butler and O'Shea Jackson Jr., although it looks like there will be a slight twist to their dynamic this time as, instead of trying to one up one another, they'll be teaming up to pull off the diamond heist of a lifetime.

However, the synopsis is not quite as revealing, telling us that "Big Nick (Butler) is back on the hunt in Europe and closing in on Donnie (Jackson), who is embroiled in the treacherous and unpredictable world of diamond thieves and the infamous Panther mafia, as they plot a massive heist of the world’s largest diamond exchange."

In addition to Gerard Butler (300; Olympus Has Fallen) and O'Shea Jackson Jr. (Straight Outta Compton; Godzilla: King of the Monsters) reprising their roles from the previous installment,...

Lionsgate has revealed the official trailer and poster for Den of Thieves 2: Pantera, which will open in theaters on January 10, 2025.

Gerard Butler and O’Shea Jackson Jr. return in the sequel to 2018’s action-heist hit Den of Thieves.

In Den of Thieves: Pantera, Big Nick (Butler) is back on the hunt in Europe and closing in on Donnie (Jackson), who is embroiled in the treacherous and unpredictable world of diamond thieves and the infamous Panther mafia, as they plot a massive heist of the world’s largest diamond exchange.

The sequel was written and directed by Christian Gudegast, who returns from the first film. It is produced by Tucker Tooley, Gerard Butler, Alan Siegel, and Mark Canton.

Lionsgate is presenting a Tt Entertainment, eOne Features, and G-Base and Diamond Film Productions production. While the follow-up is not yet rated, Den of Thieves was rated R for violence, language, and some sexuality/nudity.

Mutiny is currently filming in UK, with Jason Statham starring and the director of Plane calling the shots. More here.

Jason Statham kicked off the year in some style with The Beekeeper. It remains one of the most fun films of 2024, as The Statham managed to kick seven shades of shit out of people, all while tending to his non-metaphorical hive. Sequels would be very much appreciated.

The Statham hasn’t been sitting back and counting the coins from The Beekeeper’s surprise box office success, though. He’s already reteamed with the director of that particular film, David Ayer, for Levon’s Trade. That’s based on a screenplay from Sylvester Stallone, and in turn on the book of the same name by Chuck Dixon. It’s set for release this coming January.

Now though, cameras are rolling on Mutiny, another action thriller that’s shooting in the UK. It...

Peaky Blinders and Malignant star Annabelle Wallis is ready to join Jason Statham to co-headline the forthcoming action thriller Mutiny from Lionsgate. The hard-boiled project finds Statham producing through his newly established Punch Palace Productions banner alongside Marc Butan of MadRiver Pictures. Jean-François Richet directs Mutiny from a script by J.P Davis and Lindsay Michel.

When principal photography begins this fall in the UK, Mutiny aims to tell the story of Cole Reed, a man set up to take the fall after his billionaire boss is murdered in front of him. Fearing for his life, Cole goes on the run while trying to uncover an international conspiracy at the heart of the crime.

Of course, Annabelle Wallis is a seasoned actor with many memorable characters to her credit. She plays Grace Shelby in the BBC-Netflix series Peaky Blinders, Rebecca Crosby in one of my comfort watches, Tag, the character...

Rotten Tomatoes, the aggregate review site that describes itself as “the world’s most trusted destination for entertainment reviews and recommendations,” has launched Rotten Tomatoes Verified Hot, “a brand-new elevated designation and badge honoring the best-verified reviewed theatrical films by fans.” This is the audience equivalent of the Certified Fresh Tomatometer badge, which the site says is “awarded to the highest reviewed films by professional critics” and the thing your best friend from college cites for his reason to see (or not see) whatever movie is out.

Verified Hot, according to the official release, is “awarded to theatrical films that achieve a Verified Audience Score of 90% or higher on the Popcornmeter, and meet other eligibility requirements,” although what those requirements are remains unspecified.

The inaugural list of Verified Hot summer movies includes “Bad Boys: Ride or Die,” “Deadpool & Wolverine,” “Fly Me to the Moon,” “Inside Out 2,” “Twisters” and “It Ends with Us.

Netflix is back with a new star-studded action movie — this time led by Mark Wahlberg and Halle Berry — with “The Union.” Wahlberg stars as Mike, a Jersey construction worker who finds his average life turned upside down when his high school sweetheart Roxanne (Berry) shows up and he gets tangled up in a continent-skipping international intelligence adventure.

But Berry and Wahlberg aren’t the only familiar faces in the Netflix romp. Here’s a handy guide to “The Union” cast and the characters they play.

Halle Berry in “The Union” (Laura Radford/Netflix)

Halle Berry as Roxanne Hall — Oscar-winning actress Halle Berry stars as The Union operative Roxanne Hall, an ass-kicking, world-traveling adventurer who never misses her shot. Berry is best known for her superhero roles, playing Storm in the “X-Men” films and Catwoman in “Catwoman,” as well as her Best Actress-winning performance in “Monster’s Ball.” Her well-known titles also include “John Wick 3,...

On Friday 9 August 2024, Channel 5 broadcasts Terror at 30,000 Feet!

M1 Plane Crash Season 1 Episode 4 Episode Summary

The upcoming episode of “Terror at 30,000 Feet,” titled “M1 Plane Crash,” promises to be a gripping exploration of one of the most tragic events in British aviation history. This episode is set to air on Channel 5 and will delve into the harrowing details of a commuter flight that faced catastrophic engine failure.

Viewers will learn about the flight’s desperate attempt to divert to East Midlands Airport as it struggled to stay airborne. The tension builds as the crew and passengers brace for a potential disaster. The episode will highlight the critical moments leading up to the incident, showcasing the challenges faced by the flight crew and the decisions made in a race against time.

As the situation escalates, the flight’s trajectory takes a dangerous turn towards the M1 motorway. This unexpected twist raises the stakes,...

It’s 8:23 pm, and a routine commuter flight from Heathrow to Belfast encounters a critical situation. Flames are spotted in one of the plane’s engines, leading the pilots to shut down the right-hand engine. As the flight diverts to East Midlands Airport, flying on just one engine, a new crisis emerges. The remaining engine loses […]

Terror at 30,000 Feet: M1 Plane Crash...

Gerard Butler is the Picasso of trash cinema. Across a career spanning three decades, he's starred in exemplar schlockfests like "Dracula 2000" (the movie where we learn that Dracula and Judas Iscariot (!) are one and the same) and "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider -- The Cradle of Life" (a film where Angelina Jolie punches a shark in the nose before hitching a ride on its dorsal fin), along with "Law Abiding Citizen," "Den of Thieves," "Plane," the "Fallen" movies, and many more like them. When he isn't playing diabolical baddies or rugged mavericks, he can often be found portraying bellow-y bearded bruisers, be they Beowulf in 2005's "Beowulf & Grendel" or, most famously, King Leonidas in "300."

That extends to writer/directors Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois' 2010 film "How to Train Your Dragon," one of the best mainstream American animated features of the 21st century and a movie that similarly has...

Der amerikanische Thriller „Shattered“ mit Lilly Krug in der Hauptrolle, ist ab 23. Juni bei Prime Video verfügbar.

Am 23. Juni feiert der amerikanische Thriller „Shattered“ mit Lilly Krug in der Hauptrolle Premiere bei Prime Video. In dem Film ist die junge Schauspielerin als Femme Fatale zu sehen, die einen einsamen Tech-Millionär um den Finger wickelt. Zum Cast zählen auch prominente Namen wie Frank Grillo und John Malkovich. Regie führte Luis Prieto, das Drehbuch schrieb David Loughery.

Die junge Schauspielerin baut sich ihre Karriere national wie international auf. Neben „Shattered“ gehören auch „The Heart of Champions“ sowie „Plane“ an der Seite von Gerard Butler zu ihren aktuellen Projekten. Momentan steht sie für die neue Zdf Serie „Club der Dinosaurier“ vor der Kamera.

George Miller’s Furiosa may be struggling in cinemas, but that doesn’t mean it won’t ultimately make money for Warner Bros. A few thoughts on the modern approach to box office reporting:

There’s a sense of ‘here we again’, as headlines emerge about George Miller’s latest movie, Furiosa.

Off the back of terrific reviews, the fifth film in the Mad Max saga arrived in cinemas with the promise of a sixth movie – The Borderlands – ready to go. George Miller said as much in his collection of pre-release interviews, the assumption being that Warner Bros would fire the starting gun should Furiosa’s box office receipts be solid enough.

Yet, as you likely know, the numbers aren’t looking good. The chances of Mad Max 6 are beginning to look incredibly slim.

By the time it’s completed its cinema run, the film’s looking at a worldwide...

Film financier, producer and distributor Sky Original Film has acquired U.K. rights to upcoming action-thriller “Mutiny,” starring Jason Statham.

“Mutiny” follows Statham as Cole, an ex-Special Forces and New York cop who was kicked off the force and now works in private security for Thai shipping tycoon and friend, Tibu. Cole is framed for the murder of Tibu at the hands of corrupt cops, forcing him to escape through Tibu’s freight ships, where Cole discovers that the corruption is deeper and more sinister than ever expected.

Principal photography on the film, directed by Jean-Francois Richet, will commence at U.K. locations in September. The film is written by J.P. Davis (“Plane”) and Lindsay Michel (“Sandpiper”).

Statham will produce “Mutiny” under his production company Punch Palace Productions alongside Marc Butan for MadRiver Pictures. Sky Original Film will release “Mutiny” on Sky Cinema and theatrically, alongside Lionsgate which recently picked up North American rights.

Carrie Fisher blamed Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens for Harrison Ford’s 2015 plane crash and her near-fatal car accident. She was convinced that the movie was cursed and even made a call to Mark Hamill to make sure that he was okay. Fisher returned to her role as Princess Leia in the film after 32 years in The Force Awakens and took some time to get settled in.

Carrie Fisher in Star Wars: A New Hope | Lucasfilm Ltd.

However, once she got into the groove, she was an impeccable leader of the resistance. Fisher reprised her role in the sequel film The Last Jedi before she passed away in 2016. However, she made it into the third Star Wars sequel trilogy film as well in a digital recreation of her role as Princess Leia.

Carrie Fisher Believed Star Wars: The Force Awakens Was Cursed

Carrie Fisher in a still...

Exclusive: Gerard Butler is in talks to re-team with Den Of Thieves director Christian Gudegast in comedic action-thriller Empire State, about an attack on the iconic skyscraper.

In Empire State, when the Empire State Building comes under attack by a military contractor hellbent on revenge, Navy Seal turned NY firefighter Rhett (Butler) and NYPD Tactical officer Dani (yet to be cast) must put aside their relationship troubles as they work to rescue hostages and save the famous landmark.

Butler and his G-Base partner Alan Siegel are also reuniting with their fellow Plane producer Marc Butan from MadRiver on the project. Leonine Studios co-financed development and Leonine’s Quirin Berg and Alexander Janssen will executive-produce.

The Empire State script was written by S. Craig Zahler (Bone Tomahawk) and Brian Tucker (Secret Invasion).

CAA Media Finance will handle the domestic rights, while The Veterans is launching international sales at Cannes.

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Jason Statham is someone who is admirably unpretentious and genuinely grateful for his success, and within that, he has a definite preference of films that can predominantly define his career. Earlier this year, Statham was seen in The Beekeeper, a seemingly usual action B-movie fare with the star, but the movie from Suicide Squad director David Ayer would throw in some bold conceptual curve balls to the normal vengeance tale. Deadline has now reported that Statham will be working with director Baltasar Kormákur for his next action film.

Kormákur’s resume features such credits as Contraband, 2 Guns, Everest and the recent Idris Elba lion attack film, Beast. According to Deadline, “In the currently untitled pic, Statham will play Mason who lives in isolation in a remote Scottish island. When he rescues a young girl from the ocean in a terrible storm, he sets a chain of events in motion...

If there’s anything worse than a millionaire who fails to contribute anything meaningful to the world, it’s taking the fall for one who’s murdered and finding yourself in the crosshairs of thugs and criminals. Jason Statham is back in business with Lionsgate to star in the upcoming action-thriller Mutiny with Plane and Blood Father director Jean-Francois Richet at the helm.

Lionsgate, MadRiver, and Punch Palace are teaming up to release the film in theaters. Lindsay Michel and J.P. Davis wrote the screenplay for Mutiny, with principal photography beginning in September in the UK. Statham produces through his newly-founded Punch Palace Productions, with Marc Butan via his MadRiver Pictures studio.

In Mutiny, after his billionaire industrialist boss is murdered in front of him, Cole Reed is set up to take the fall for the crime— leaving him on the run as he works to uncover an international conspiracy.

Exclusive: Ahead of the Cannes market, Lionsgate has taken North American rights off the table on one of the bigger-budget new packages that’ll be on sale next week: that’s action-thriller Mutiny, which will star action evergreen Jason Statham (Fast & Furious) and be directed by Jean-François Richet (Plane).

Lionsgate, which we understand stumped up eight figures for Na rights, says it has committed to a wide theatrical release on the project which is based on a script by Lindsay Michel and J.P. Davis (Plane). Principal photography is due to begin this September in the UK.

In Mutiny, after his billionaire industrialist boss is murdered in front of him, Cole Reed is set up to take the fall for the crime— leaving him on the run as he works to uncover an international conspiracy.

The film is produced by Statham and his newly minted production company Punch Palace Productions...

Lionsgate has acquired North American rights to the upcoming Jason Statham action thriller Mutiny, the first project to be announced under MadRiver Pictures’ new pact with international distributors.

The studio has committed to a wide theatrical release on the story of a man who goes on the run to uncover an international conspiracy after he is framed for the murder of his billionaire industrialist boss.

Lionsgate, director Jean-François Richet, MadRiver head Marc Butan, and screenwriter J.P. Davis reunite after Plane in 2023.

Richet will direct from a screenplay by Lindsay Michel and Davis and principal photography is set to begin this September in the UK.

Several monstrous giants have worked in WWF/E as the wrestling company has always looked for someone with the ability to instill fear in the top Superstars. Legendary André the Giant, Big Show, and The Great Khali, have graced the company with their physical prowess and Omos is the new addition of such ginormous superstars in WWE.

Omos manhandling Bobby Lashley. Credit: WWE

Omos made his WWE debut on July 18, 2019, and the wrestler has been in the company ever since. Since his debut, the giant superstar has shown dominance over Brock Lesner, Seth Rollins, Aj Styles, and Braun Strowman. Omos recently was shown to be struggling to get on a plane with his fellow superstars due to his gargantuan physique.

Omos Struggled To Fit In A Plane Omos. Credit: WWE

Former professional wrestler Montel Vontavious Porter, popularly known as Mvp who manages Omos, recently shot a short video of his client.

The numbers are crunching for the sequel to Ben Affleck’s 2016 film The Accountant. The film, which is on the Amazon MGM slate, has announced some new actors that have been added to the cast. Among them is Allison Robertson, Robert Morgann and Grant Harvey. According to Deadline, Daniella Pineda, known for her roles on Cowboy Bebop, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom and Jurassic World: Dominion. She was also seen recently in the Gerard Butler/Mike Colter action film Plane. It is not yet known what role that Pineda or the other new actors will be taking.

As for the plot of The Accountant 2, “The film follows Treasury Agent Marybeth Medina (Addai-Robinson), who after her boss is murdered by unknown assassins is forced to contact Christian Wolff (Affleck) to solve the murder. With the help of his estranged but lethal brother Brax (Bernthal), Chris applies his brilliant mind and less-than-legal...

Exclusive: Daniella Pineda, Allison Robertson, Robert Morgan and Grant Harvey have joined the upcoming Amazon MGM Studios and Artists Equity feature The Accountant 2, the sequel to the 2016 thriller. Ben Affleck, Jon Bernthal, J.K. Simmons and Cynthia Addai-Robinson are reprising their roles, with Gavin O’Connor returning as director. Bill Dubuque penned the script.

The film follows Treasury Agent Marybeth Medina (Addai-Robinson), who after her boss is murdered by unknown assassins is forced to contact Christian Wolff (Affleck) to solve the murder. With the help of his estranged but lethal brother Brax (Bernthal), Chris applies his brilliant mind and less-than-legal methods to piece together the unsolved puzzle.

As they get closer to the truth, the trio draws the attention of some of the most ruthless killers alive — all intent on putting a stop to their search.

Artists Equity, which serves as the studio on The Accountant 2, acquired sequel rights from...

Gerard Butler has had a varied career so far, with him playing everything from action leads to rom-com love interests to a singing Phantom of the Opera. But, it has to be said that his most consistently entertaining output falls squarely into the action genre, and as far as Gerard Butler movies go, the action films will always be our favorites… so don’t expect to see The Ugly Truth on this list, but The Bounty Hunter might scrape by. Or maybe not. Let’s see how it goes:

300 (2006)

Perhaps The film that put Gerard Butler on the map for most people, particularly the action and comic book crowds. Butler is in peek physical form here, showing off his bod as the ultimate Spartan warrior and proving that he is indeed quite the leading man. His performance here is commanding, a bit in your face (in the right way), and exactly what the film needed.

If curating the Best Action Movies of All Time felt borderline impossible, then ranking just the top entries from this century is Mission Barely Manageable.

Most franchise IP blockbusters released to big box office hauls in recent years could qualify as “action movies” in one way or another. That’s particularly true when it comes to the omnipresent cultural phenomenon we call superhero films. It can be tempting to write off the entire action genre when all you see is the over-pixelated epics about super-somethings stopping intergalactic injustice that make up an increasingly large chunk of modern Hollywood. However, the action movies that depend less on fetishized source material have yielded some of the most personal higher-budget workaround. When done well, action movies can tell great character-driven stories through movement. Action — acted or animated — is simply drama made dynamic.

That principle is what separates so many of the movies on...

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Christopher Nolan’s deal with Universal for “Oppenheimer” included this: The studio, a leader in early release of films to home platforms, would need to make a very big exception.

At 122 days, “Oppenheimer” had the longest theatrical window of 2023. Compared to the year’s 84 other wide releases, it was more than triple the industry average of 37 days. Universal’s second-longest window belonged to “The Super Mario Bros. Movie,” which was a bigger hit than Nolan’s film but lost theatrical exclusivity after 41 days.

Studios aren’t interested in specifics around theatrical windows — or, in offering PVOD data beyond top 10 lists that offer neither financial context nor independent verification. This is our attempt to provide a full-year view of theatrical windows, after prior surveys revealed a 30-day average for the first four months of 2023 and 40 days for early summer.

Seasonal differences can be stark; all five of this January’s releases are now on PVOD,...

Last year, we heard that Gene Simmons of the rock band Kiss would be launching a new production company with Gary Hamilton (so the company is appropriately called Simmons/Hamilton Productions), and the first project they had given the greenlight was a shark thriller called Deep Water – with Deep Blue Sea director Renny Harlin attached to take the helm of the film! That film has since made its way through production, and a couple days ago we learned that the cast includes Aaron Eckhart of Harlin’s The Bricklayer, Sir Ben Kingsley (Gandhi), Molly Wright (Netflix’s True Spirit), Angus Sampson (Mad Max: Fury Road), Kelly Gale (Plane), singer and actor Li Wenhan, who is a member of the Chinese-Korean K-Pop group Uniq, and Nashi (Creation of the Gods I: Kingdom of Storms). Now a first look image has made its way online, and it shows the characters played by Eckhart and Wright.

Renny Harlin is one busy filmmaker at the moment, with his The Strangers: Chapter 1 headed our way here in 2024 and a brand new shark attack horror movie also coming soon.

Twenty five years after the release of Deep Blue Sea, director Renny Harlin is headed back into shark-infested waters with the upcoming Deep Water, we learned last year.

Aaron Eckhart and Ben Kingsley will star in the upcoming shark movie, and Screen Daily exclusively shares a first look image this morning. Check it out up above.

Deep Water is coming soon from Arclight Films. Stay tuned for more.

Molly Wright (Lionsgate’s The Best Christmas Pageant Ever), Angus Sampson (FX’s Fargo), Kelly Gale (Lionsgate’s Plane), Li Wenhan from Chinese-Korean K-Pop group Uniq, and Chinese actress Nashi (Creation Of The Gods I: Kingdom Of Storms) also star.

Deep Water tells the tale of an eclectic group of international passengers whose plane,...

Last year, we heard that Gene Simmons of the rock band Kiss would be launching a new production company with Gary Hamilton (so the company is appropriately called Simmons/Hamilton Productions), and the first project they had given the greenlight was a shark thriller called Deep Water – with Deep Blue Sea director Renny Harlin attached to take the helm of the film! That film has since made its way through production, and a press release reveals that the cast includes Aaron Eckhart of Harlin’s The Bricklayer, Sir Ben Kingsley (Gandhi), Molly Wright (Netflix’s True Spirit), Angus Sampson (Mad Max: Fury Road), Kelly Gale (Plane), singer and actor Li Wenhan, who is a member of the Chinese-Korean K-Pop group Uniq, and Nashi (Creation of the Gods I: Kingdom of Storms).

Scripted by Pete Bridges and John Kim, Deep Water centers on an eclectic group of international passengers whose plane,...

Arclight Films has announced that Aaron Eckhart and Ben Kingsley star in Renny Harlin’s survival thriller Deep Water, which is in post. Arclight continues worldwide sales at EFM this week.

The first feature greenlit by the stand-alone label Simmons/Hamilton Productions wrapped at the end of last year in New Zealand and Spain.

The lead cast includes Molly Wright (Lionsgate’s upcoming The Best Christmas Pageant Ever), Angus Sampson (FX’s Fargo), Kelly Gale (Lionsgate’s Plane), Li Wenhan from Chinese-Korean K-Pop group Uniq, and Chinese actress Nashi (Creation Of The Gods I: Kingdom Of Storms).

Harlin, whose credits include Die Hard 2,...

In Wolfgang Petersen's 1997 thriller "Air Force One," Harrison Ford plays President James Marshall, the rare commander-in-chief who is just as capable at punching a-holes in the jaw as he is at policy. Although the Cold War was over by 1997 — the Russian coup d'état happened in 1991 — Russians were still a handy movie "bad guy" in American cinema for a few extra years. As such, the bad guy in "Air Force One" was a bitter Russian jerkwad named Egor Korshunov (Gary Oldman) who felt the collapse of the Soviet Union could still be undone. President Marshall didn't take kindly to Korshunov's attempts to hijack Air Force Once, and the President kills multiple Russian goons over the course of the movie.

The film ends with Korshunov and Marshall grappling near an open cargo bay door, engaging in an action movie's usual round of merry fisticuffs. Before dispatching with Korshunov, Marshall angrily yells "Get off my plane!

Healthy consumer demand for feature films after their theatrical release windows drove a 17% rise in home entertainment spending in 2023, according to the Digital Entertainment Group.

A preliminary version of the Deg’s annual survey of spending was released Tuesday, with the final one due in March. It found spending across digital and physical home entertainment formats in 2023 reached $43 billion, up from $36.8 billion in 2022. While film transactions were robust, with blockbusters like Oppenheimer spurring demand across digital and physical sectors, the Deg warned that the dual strikes could have an “adverse impact” on results in “the next few quarters.”

Subscription streaming, the Deg reported, citing data from UK-based research firm Omdia, surged more than 21% year-over-year to top $37 billion. The category dwarfed video on demand (VOD) and electronic sell-thru (Est), with the ranks of major subscription services having swelled just prior to and during the pandemic. On the other side of Covid,...

Each week on “The Pit Stop,” Trixie Mattel recaps the latest episode of “RuPaul’s Drag Race” season 16 alongside a guest host. Following Friday’s fifth episode, season 14 queen Maddy Morphosis made her debut on the show and proved why she would be a great future host. Watch the full episode above via the official RuPaul’s Drag Race channel on YouTube.

In their recap of the episode, both Trixie and Maddy gave Q grace for her emotional reaction to being safe yet again because they see her as someone so very close to a win that they can understand the sting of not getting it. When it comes to Plane Jane‘s villain edit, Trixie can appreciate that Jane shouldn’t “punch down” in her comments on Amanda Tori Meating‘s drag, but at the end of the day it’s making good cat fights that we haven’t seen on the show in a while.

We’re still in a holdover pattern for Hollywood at the global and international box office, though milestones continue to be reached on an offshore and worldwide basis for existing releases. Meanwhile, Anyone But You saw an uptick overseas and drops were good for others (including newly-minted Oscar nominees). One new local entry, India’s Fighter, flew to the top of the global weekend chart.

Among the latest Hollywood titles to hit a new benchmark, Miramax’s The Beekeeper buzzed past the $100M mark worldwide, Illumination/Universal’s Migration flew across $200M and Warner Bros/DC’s Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom topped $400M (see more detail below).

In significant new local play, Viacom 18/Marflix’s Hindi aviation actioner Fighter, from Pathaan director Siddharth Anand and starring Hrithik Roshan and Deepika Padukone, is looking at a $25.1M start globally (including $4.3M from North America), per comScore. As ever, concrete...

The queens of RuPaul’s Drag Race have turned out some questionable Cher impressions over the years (see half the cast of “Cher: The Unauthorized Rusical”), but one Season 16 contestant just put them all to shame.

Underwhelmed by Mhi’ya Iman Le’Paige’s performance in Friday’s “Everything Every-Cher All At Once” runway category, RuPaul presented the Miami-based with a simple question that would change everything: “Can you do a Cher impersonation? Let me see it.”

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Director Renny Harlin on why the original plans for Cliffhanger 2 never happened, as the sequel finally moves forward.

The original Cliffanger was directed by Renny Harlin and released in 1993. Starring Sylvester Stallone, the film is fondly remembered as a classic of 90s action cinema, not least for its memorable set pieces which, being of early 90s vintage, were largely practical in execution.

Although Stallone is of course returning for the long-belated sequel, Harlin isn’t involved in the follow-up, which will be helmed by Plane director Jean-Francois Richet. Cliffhanger sparked a career revival for Stallone, but Harlin worries that a key facet of the film’s production won’t stay true to that early 90s style of production.

“I hope they don’t try to replace what we did with a lot of CG. Because I think the audience will be able to tell that we did everything for real,...

So, here we are in mid-January, and though we’re staring down the barrel of a tough year ahead, it’s not all wintry doom and gloom on an international box office (and combined global) level.

While we’re not in blockbuster holdover territory, we should celebrate the wins when they come. To wit, there was a new milestone reached this weekend for Sony’s Anyone But You, which, with $100.2M, has become the highest-grossing R-rated romcom worldwide since Bridget Jones’s Baby in 2016.

Let’s also cheer that Paramount’s Mean Girls clicked with UK audiences in its launch and opened at No. 1 there. Also, Searchlight’s lauded Poor Things was tops in France, Freddie Mercury went supersonic in the IMAX edition of Queen Rock Montreal, and Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom is nearing a milestone that might not have seemed possible from the outset.

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There’s something about January that just makes us crave movies about comically stupid aviation and space travel mishaps. Whether that stems from a sincere desire for post-holiday palette cleansers or Pavlovian conditioning from a lifetime of studios dumping their misfires in the first six weeks on the calendar is beside the point. This is the time of year that brought us the basic cable heroism of “Plane” and the joyless asininity of “Moonfall” and the wide spectrum of mediocrity that exists between them. In that sense, “I.S.S.” is just another entry in a proud cinematic tradition.

Documentarian-turned-narrative-filmmaker Gabriela Cowperthwaite‘s new would-be blockbuster is the kind of film whose box office haul would have dwarfed the Gdp of several developing nations had it been released in 1989 with Sylvester Stallone and Dolph Lundgren in the lead roles. The entirety of the contained thriller takes place on board the International Space Station,...

Refresh for latest…: Warner Bros/Village Roadshow/Heyday Films’ Wonka continues its sweet run, crossing the $500M mark globally this weekend. The worldwide cume through Sunday is $505.3M including $329.1M from the international box office — and with Korea, which has a fondness for Hollywood musicals, still to release at the end of the month.

The Timothée Chalamet-starrer added $15.3M in 77 overseas markets this frame with another series of terrific holds in Spain (-1%), Australia (-36%), Mexico (-36%), the UK (-43%) and Brazil (-44%).

Crossing the five-century benchmark also makes Wonka director Paul King’s highest-grossing film ever. Wonka originally opened internationally beginning December 6, 2023 and in North America on December 15, 2023.

WB Motion Picture Group Co-Chairs and CEOs Mike De Luca and Pamela Abdy commented today, “With Wonka, Paul King, producer David Heyman and the amazing cast and crew led by Timothée Chalamet have delivered a truly special musical event.

“RuPaul’s Drag Race” season 16 continued on January 12 with Part 2 of its two-part premiere on MTV. Airing concurrently with the main show is its tea-spilling, backstage-focused sister series “Untucked,” now in its 15th season. This season, the queens become judges of their sisters through the “Rate-a-Queen” twist that requires them to rank their competition from tops to bottoms each week.

In episode 2 of “Untucked,” the second group of seven queens reflected on the new twist, their performances in the “Queen Choice Awards” and prepared to cast their votes for the week.

Check out our full recap of the episode below:

Immediately following the judges’ critiques, but before they cast their own votes in the “Rate-a-Queen” twist, the girls were on edge about how the rest of the cast was going to assess the rating system. Plasma wasn’t sure if her if the other girls would appreciate her style of camp...

It took two minutes of screen time for Plane Jane to become the villain of RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 16. Right away, the shady Boston queen showed her true colors describing herself as an “authentically Russian hooker” and calling (according to the subtitles) a plus-sized queen a “piglet” in her native language.

The shade continued all episode as she consistently made rude comments about her competitiors (both in confessionals and to their faces) and became the only queen to opt to rate the queens from worst to best instead of best...

Here’s the beautiful thing about David Ayer’s “The Beekeeper,” which is essentially a “John Wick” ripoff starring Jason Statham as a former top-secret government assassin who violently unretires after someone kills his bees: If for some twisted reason you showed me this movie right after I’d woken up from a 10-year coma and told me it was opening in theaters that Friday, I might not have any idea what year I was in, but I would know — within five minutes, and beyond a shadow of a doubt — that it was the second weekend of January.

Too silly for late August, too memorable for streaming, and so committed to its own stupidity that it starts to feel like smart counter-programming for prestige fare like “Poor Things” and “American Fiction,” “The Beekeeper” could reorient a lost critic to their current place in the film calendar as reliably as the...

Stars: Aaron Eckhart, Clifton Collins Jr., Nina Dobrev, Ilfenesh Hadera, Tim Blake Nelson, Oliver Trevena | Written by Hanna Weg, Pete Travis | Directed by Renny Harlin

We’ve had The Gardener, The Baker, The Painter, and now The Bricklayer joins the list of men of violence who’ve taken up peaceful professions only to find out that in some jobs you can never truly leave your past behind.

Steve Vail was one of the C.I.A. ‘s most dependable agents, even if his lack of respect for procedure made him less than popular with his superiors. Disillusioned, he now finds solace in masonry, “When I hold a brick in my hand I know exactly what it is and what it will do every single time. It’s form is its function”

Radek was a C.I.A. asset working under Vail until he was compromised and his family murdered. He went rogue...

Someone better start shipping a freight of Biotin over to Gerard Butler's house because the "300," "Phantom of the Opera," and "Plane" star has got a mighty big beard to grow! Butler is a well-decorated performer who has dabbled in just about every film genre possible, but arguably his best role is as Stoick the Vast in "How To Train Your Dragon." As /Film's Leo Noboru Lima explained when ranking the animated adventure flick as the best in Butler's filmography, "How to Train Your Dragon" is one of the few mainstream movies to take Butler seriously as both an imposing leading man and a heartfelt performer, noting, "The film captures those two dimensions of Butler and layers them on top of one another, allowing Butler's prowess as a heartrending dramatic performer to erupt through the cracks of his — ahem — stoic persona." Lima also rightfully highlighted his delivery of "I...

Gerard Butler is returning to the How to Train Your Dragon fold, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. The actor will reprise the father role of Stoick the Vast in the live-action remake that hails from original co-director Dean DeBlois.

The Black Phone‘s Mason Thames and The Last of Us‘ Nico Parker are leading the project, playing Hiccup (voiced by Jay Baruchel in the original) and Astrid (America Ferrera), respectively. Universal has set a June 13, 2025 date for the project.

The original DreamWorks Animation trilogy was based on the books by Cressida Cowell, and told the story of a viking boy and his dragon, Toothless. The trilogy was released from 2010-19 and grossed more than $1.6 billion globally.

Marc Platt is producing via Marc Platt Productions alongside Adam Siegel, president of Platt’s banner. Lexi Barta is overseeing for Universal.

Butler broke out with the 2006 feature 300 and recently led the Lionsgate actioner...

Exclusive: Universal Pictures’ live-action adaptation of the DreamWorks Animation franchise How to Train Your Dragon is bringing back a familiar face, as sources tell Deadline that Gerard Butler, who voiced Hiccup’s father Stoick in the original movies, will reprise the role. Mason Thames and Nico Parker are set to star as Hiccup and Astrid, with Dean DeBlois directing, writing and producing.

The film is set to bow on June 13, 2025.

The new pic will draw audiences deep into Dwa’s imaginative lore. Working from a single narrative tapestry, the adventures of Hiccup and Toothless have captivated fans across three films that have grossed more than $1.6 billion combined.

Marc Platt is producing the live-action movie for his Universal-based Marc Platt Productions alongside Marc Platt Productions president Adam Siegel. VP Production Lexi Barta will oversee the film on behalf of Universal.

While the studio went with new faces for Hiccup and...