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Production is underway in London on Drake Doremus’s romantic comedy Next Lifestarring Emilia Clarke and Edgar Ramirez.

Clarke plays a jazz singer who finds herself across two alternate realities. The shoot is scheduled to wrap later this month.

Next Life is produced byMutressa’s Elika Portnoy, Gleb Fetisov ofFetisoff Illusion, UK-us production house42’s Ben Pugh and Kate Buckley, Doremus, and JohnPalfery Smith.

Doremus’s credits includesci-fi romancesZoe and Equals.

Pugh has produced UK films including Eran Creevy’s 2008 thriller Shifty, Peter Cattaneo’s Military Wives, Dominic Cooke’s The Courier, Agnieszka Smoczynska’s The Silent Twins,and Cattaneo...

Production is underway in London on Drake Doremus’s romantic comedy Next Lifestarring Emilia Clarke and Edgar Ramirez.

Clarke plays a jazz singer who finds herself across two alternate realities. The shoot is scheduled to wrap later this month.

Next Life is produced byMutressa’s Elika Portnoy, Gleb Fetisov ofFetisoff Illusion, UK-us production house42’s Ben Pugh and Kate Buckley, Doremus, and JohnPalfery Smith.

Doremus’s credits includesci-fi romancesZoe and Equals.

Pugh has produced UK films including Eran Creevy’s 2008 thriller Shifty, Peter Cattaneo’s Military Wives, Dominic Cooke’s The Courier, Agnieszka Smoczynska’s The Silent Twins,and Cattaneo...

Production is underway in London on Drake Doremus’s romantic comedy Next Lifestarring Emilia Clarke and Edgar Ramirez.

Clarke plays a jazz singer who finds herself across two alternate realities. The shoot is scheduled to wrap later this month.

Next Life is produced byMutressa’s Elika Portnoy, Gleb Fetisov ofFetisoff Illusion, UK-us production house42’s Ben Pugh and Kate Buckley, Doremus, and JohnPalfery Smith.

Doremus’s credits includesci-fi romancesZoe and Equals.

Pugh has produced UK films including Eran Creevy’s 2008 thriller Shifty, Peter Cattaneo’s Military Wives, Dominic Cooke’s The Courier, Agnieszka Smoczynska’s The Silent Twins,and Cattaneo...

Get ready for another go-around with the Guy Ritchie series, The Gentlemen. Variety has reported that the Netflix series has been renewed for season 2. In his review for season one, our own Alex Maidy said, “The Gentlemen series feels like a reimagining of the film. The story hits some vaguely similar notes but the vast majority is completely different. […] This is a unique reimagining of a successful story that takes it in a different direction and sets up future seasons.”

Netflix U.K.’s VP spoke ecstatically about the show’s successful first season, “With its gun-toting chickens and drug-dealing Dukes, The Gentlemen was a huge hit with audiences in 2024. Not really a surprise as Guy Ritchie remains one of the industry’s most iconic creators telling authentically British stories with his signature swagger, grit and wit. We are thrilled the series will be returning to Netflix for a second season,...

The legendary John Woo is back with The Killer, a radical reimagining of his own 1989 Hong Kong classic.

John Woo’s The Killer remake comes to Peacock August 23. Watch the trailer below.

Action auteur John Woo returns to reimagine and re-direct his own classic with the brand new movie, written by Matthew Stuecken and Josh Campbell (10 Cloverfield Lane), as well as Eran Creevy (Welcome to the Punch, Collide) and Brian Helgeland (42, Legend).

From the Oscar® winning producer of Oppenheimer, the kinetic action thriller stars Emmy nominee Nathalie Emmanuel as Zee, a mysterious and infamous assassin known, and feared, in the Parisian underworld as the Queen of the Dead.

But when, during an assignment from her shadowy mentor and handler (Avatar’s Sam Worthington), Zee refuses to kill a blinded young woman in a Paris nightclub, the decision will disintegrate Zee’s alliances, attract the attention of a savvy police investigator,...

John Woo‘s 1989 action-thriller The Killer is getting a “reimagining” from Woo himself, and IGN reveals this afternoon that the brand new movie is coming to Peacock August 23.

Additionally, IGN has shared a few images from the film. Check out Nathalie Emmanuel (The Invitation) and Omar Sy (Jurassic World) in the shot above and see more on IGN.

IGN details, “Nathalie Emmanuel [stars] as Zee, a mysterious and infamous assassin known, and feared, in the Parisian underworld as the Queen of the Dead.

“But when, during an assignment from her shadowy mentor and handler Finn (Sam Worthington), Zee refuses to kill a blinded young woman, Jenn (Diana Silvers), in a Paris nightclub, the decision will disintegrate Zee’s alliances, attract the attention of a savvy police investigator Sy (Omar Sy), and plunge her into a sinister criminal conspiracy that will set her on a collision course with her own past.”

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UK filmmaker Eran Creevy has signed on to true crime action-comedy The King Of Sting, produced and financed by Claudia Bluemhuber’s Swiss company Silver Reel.

Creevy is currently writing the screenplay, based on Craig Glazer’s 2010 novel The King Of Sting: The Amazing True Story of a Modern American Outlaw.

Bluemhuber will develop, finance and produce the feature for Silver Reel, and is in Cannes discussing the project with buyers.

The story is inspired by Glazer’s own experience as a college student who goes on a two-year spree of stings, posing as police, IRS agents and hotel managers.

Film and TV financier and production company Silver Reel has boarded to finance and produce The King of Sting which Eran Creevy is set to write and direct. The true-crime action-comedy is an adaptation of the 2010 novel, The King of Sting: The Amazing True Story of a Modern American Outlaw, written by the real-life protagonist, Craig Glazer with Sal Manna.

Creevy, who recently directed two episodes of Netflix’s The Gentlemen series, is currently writing the screenplay whose plot will be set in 1980s America and told in part retrospectively by Glazer’s character in the modern day.

Silver Reel’s Claudia Bluemhuber will develop, finance and produce the feature. The company is in Cannes discussing the project with buyers. Florian Dargel, Alexander Jooss, Karol Griffiths, Gerd Schepers and Gero Bauknecht will executive produce.

Said Bluemhuber, “Eran Creevy is an exceptionally talented filmmaker who is the...

Enter the fast and turbulent world of underground crime in the new trailer from the Netflix original series The Gentlemen. The new show is inspired by Guy Ritchie‘s film of the same name. The trailer sees an unsuspecting chap get in over his head as he unintentionally becomes involved with his family’s drug dealings. This new peek at the series showcases the signature aggressive manic style of Guy Ritchie’s gangster films. Ritchie himself is wearing multiple hats behind the scenes as the creator, writer, and executive producer. He has also directed the first two episodes of the series. The show was also previously known to premiere sometime next month, but we now have a release date as Netflix announced the premiere will be on March 7.

The official logline from Netflix reads,

“The Gentlemen sees Eddie Horniman (Theo James) unexpectedly inherit his father’s sizable country estate – only...

Theo James as Eddie Horniman in ‘The Gentlemen’ (Photo Credit: Christopher Rafael/Netflix)

Guy Ritchie’s The Gentlemen series, set in the same world as his 2020 The Gentleman film, will premiere on Netflix on March 7, 2024. Ritchie created the series, writes, directs, and executive produces the eight-episode season starring Theo James.

Joining Theo James are Kaya Scodelario, Daniel Ings, Joely Richardson, Vinnie Jones, Giancarlo Esposito, Chanel Cresswell, Michael Vu, and Max Beesley. Jasmine Blackborow, Harry Goodwins, Dar Salim, Pearce Quigley, Ruby Sear, Peter Serafinowicz, Ray Winstone, and Guz Khan also star.

Ritchie’s co-writers include Matthew Read, Haleema Mirza, Billy and Theo Mason Wood, Stuart Carolan, and John Jackson. Nima Nourizadeh, Eran Creevy, and David Caffrey serve as directors.

“The Gentlemen sees Eddie Horniman (Theo James) unexpectedly inherit his father’s sizable country estate – only to discover it’s part of a cannabis empire. Moreover, a host of unsavory characters from...

Silent Night, the latest film from the legendary John Woo, reached theatres on December 1st (you can read our review at This Link) – and while Woo was doing the press rounds for his new movie, The Hollywood Reporter took the opportunity to ask him about a couple revivals of his older works: the remake of his 1989 film The Killer, which Woo is directing himself, and the sequel to his 1997 film Face/Off, which is set to be directed by Godzilla vs. Kong‘s Adam Wingard.

Asked why he has decided to remake his own film with the new take on The Killer (which went into production this past summer), Woo said, “Well, the project was in the works for many years, but it was hard to find a director to direct it. So when I came back [to the States], we got support from Universal, and they asked me to do it. So I...

A lot has happened since May of last year, so you'd be forgiven for letting it slip from your mind that director John Woo's classic 1989 action film "The Killer" is due for its own straight-to-streaming remake ... and it's also being directed by, you guessed it, John Woo. The unexpected news was first covered by /Film here and, honestly, we're still not entirely sure what to make of it. But it's definitely happening and today we've received our most significant update on the project yet.

Deadline was the first to report that the "reimagining" of the original action film, which follows an assassin (played by Chow Yun-Fat) who inadvertently blinds an innocent bystander during a shootout and sets off on one last contract gig to get the money to pay for her eyesight-saving surgery, has found its two main leads. Omar Sy, who most recently appeared in "Jurassic World Dominion...

John Woo‘s 1989 action-thriller The Killer is getting a “reimagining” from Woo himself, and we’ve learned today that Nathalie Emmanuel (The Invitation) is on board to star.

Omar Sy (Jurassic World) will also be starring in the Peacock film.

Action auteur John Woo returns to reimagine and re-direct his own classic with the brand new movie, written by Matthew Stuecken and Josh Campbell (10 Cloverfield Lane), as well as Eran Creevy (Welcome to the Punch, Collide) and Brian Helgeland (42, Legend).

Expect the new version of the classic film to debut on Peacock in 2023.

Written and directed by John Woo, the original The Killer starred Chow Yun-Fat as Ah Jong, “a disillusioned assassin who accepts one last hit in hopes of using his earnings to restore vision to a singer he accidentally blinded.”

A remake of The Killer starring Lupita Nyong’o was recently announced, but Woo had updated back in 2019 that...

For years, director John Woo has been developing a remake of his awesome 1989 film The Killer (buy it Here). At one point, Lupita Nyong’o was signed on to play the assassin role that had been played by Chow Yun-Fat in the original film. That version of the project fell apart when Nyong’o had to step away due to scheduling issues – but Woo just dusted himself off and kept working on the remake. Last summer, it was announced that Lupin‘s Omar Sy had signed on to star in the film, and now Deadline reports that Sy is being joined in the cast by Nathalie Emmanuel of Game of Thrones and the Fast and Furious franchise.

Details on the roles Sy and Emmanuel will be playing in the remake of The Killer have not been revealed.

Starring Chow Yun-Fat, Danny Lee, and Sally Yeh, the original The Killer was about...

Nathalie Emmanuel is set to join the cast of The Killer for Peacock and will star opposite Omar Sy in a leading role.

The two are toplining the reimagining of the 1989 John Woo film, which the auteur director is also set to helm and produce. The original pic starred Chow Yun Fat and follows an assassin who takes one last assignment in order to use his earnings to pay for the surgery that will restore the sight of a singer he blinded. The details behind this new take are unknown.

The screenplay was written by writing partners Matthew Stuecken and Josh Campbell, as well as Eran Creevy and Brian Helgeland.

Universal Pictures’ EVP Production Development Sara Scott and creative development executive Jacqueline Garell will oversee the project on behalf of the studio. Atlas Entertainment’s Charles Roven and Alex Gartner are producing. Lori Tilkin will also produce for A Better Tomorrow Films.

Universal has announced that Lupin‘s Omar Sy will lead John Woo’s reimagining of his 1989 crime drama The Killer for Peacock.

The original film written and directed by Woo watches as the disillusioned assassin Ah Jong (Chow Yun-fat) accepts one last hit, in hopes of using his earnings to restore vision to the singer (Sally Yeh) he accidentally blinded. Details as to the reimagining’s plot have not been disclosed. But Woo returns to direct the pic announced earlier this year as one of three Universal originals set to debut on Peacock in 2023. He also serves as its producer.

The screenplay was written by writing partners Matthew Stuecken and Josh Campbell (10 Cloverfield Lane), as well as Eran Creevy and Brian Helgeland. Universal Pictures’ Senior Vice President of Production Development Sara Scott and Creative Development Executive Jacqueline Garell are overseeing the project on behalf of the studio.

“Jurassic World Dominion” and “The Intouchables” star Omar Sy has been tapped to lead John Woo’s reimagining of his 1989 film “The Killers” for Universal Pictures.

The crime action thriller followed a top-tier mob assassin named Jeffrey, who decides to retire after he accidentally blinds a nightclub singer who gets caught in the crossfire of one of his hit jobs. Before quitting his beloved profession, he takes one last job to pay for her sight-restoring operation, only to be double-crossed. He then teams up with a rogue police officer to set things straight.

Woo, the auteur director of movies like “Face/Off,” “Red Cliff” and “A Better Tomorrow,” will also produce the reboot. Writing partners Matthew Stuecken and Josh Campbell (“10 Cloverfield Lane”), along with as Eran Creevy (“Welcome to the Punch,” “Collide”) and Brian Helgeland (“42,” “Legend,” “Spenser Confidential”) wrote the screenplay.

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Bays will take on the role for an initial three-year period from October.

Mia Bays has been described as a “force of nature” who “really fights for what she believes in” by those with whom she has worked closely. Bays was revealed yesterday as the new director of the BFI FIlm Fund, one of the most influential positions in the UK film industry,

Alison Thompson, co-founder at UK production, finance and sales firm Cornerstone Films, is on the board of female-focused film charity Birds’ Eye View, where Bays is presently director-at-large. “Mia has a fairly unique skillset, having worked as...

Bobbi Jene Smith is excellent as a dancer attempting to reconcile motherhood, performance and family in this promising indie film

The latest triumph from Film London’s Microwave scheme – the BFI and BBC Films programme that has produced such worthwhile investments as Hong Khaou’s Lilting and Eran Creevy’s Shifty – is an engrossing close study of a thirtysomething woman caught between two worlds, and two states of being.

American choreographer Bobbi Jene Smith plays Charlotte, a principal in a contemporary dance troupe whose preparations for a major show are dealt two blows in quick succession. First comes a positive pregnancy test, and the realisation the body with which she so forcefully expresses herself will undergo radical change. Second, there’s a call from her family, gathering round the hospital bed of her dying grandmother. A rehearsal-room prologue has already established Charlotte’s remarkable physical flexibility; what follows is a...

The multi-year, first-look development, financing and production deal is for feature films.

Management and production company 42 has entered into a multi-year first-look development, financing and production deal for feature films with streaming giant Netflix.

Run by producers Ben Pugh and Rory Aitken with managers Kate Buckley, Cathy King and Josh Varney, London and La-based 42 has previously collaborated with Netflix on Sand Castle with Nicholas Hoult and Henry Cavill, The Titan starring Sam Worthington and Taylor Schilling, and Natalie Dormer and Ed Skrein vehicle In Darkness in some territories.

The companies’ upcoming collaborations include Jim Mickle’s In The Shadow Of The Moon,...

John Woo and Universal Pictures are teaming up to develop a remake of his classic 1989 action crime thriller The Killer. According to Deadline, the movie is being developed for Lupita Nyong’o (Black Panther) as a starring vehicle and she is currently in negotiations to take on the role of the assassin. That role was originally played by Chow Yun-fat. The studio has put the project on the fast track and Woo is set to direct it.

The story follows an assassin who puts her own life on the line to save a woman whom she accidentally blinded in her last hit. Eran Creevy (Collide) wrote a script that is based on an original draft by Cloverfield Lane‘s Josh Campbell and Matt Stuecken, and Brian Helgeland. The report goes on to say:

The film is a touchstone picture, one widely emulated for its balletic, stylized violent scenes. The redo...

Universal Pictures is developing a remake of Chinese action film “The Killer,” with John Woo returning to direct and Lupita Nyong’o attached to star.

The original 1989 movie, starring Chow Yun-Fat, Danny Lee, and Sally Yeh, was widely acclaimed and led to Woo being hired by Hollywood studios. Chow played an assassin who accidentally damages the eyes of a singer (portrayed by Sally Yeh). The two fall in love, and he decides to perform one last hit in order to pay for a corneal transplant to prevent her from going blind.

Nyong’o will portray the assassin in what the studio is calling a reimagination of the original movie. She recently starred in “Black Panther” and “Star Wars: The Last Jedi,” and won an Oscar for best supporting actress for “12 Years a Slave.”

Entertainment One’s Mark Gordon and Matt Jackson will produce alongside Woo. Luc Etienne will executive produce.

Exclusive: John Woo and Universal Pictures are teaming on a new version of his 1989 Hong King crime classic The Killer. It is intended as a star vehicle for Oscar-winner Lupita Nyong’o. She is negotiating to play the assassin, a role originated by Chow Yun-fat. The studio has the film on a fast track, with Woo directing.

Eran Creevy (Collide) rewrote the script based on an original draft by Cloverfield Lane‘s Josh Campbell and Matt Stuecken, and Brian Helgeland is being brought on to do a production pass. Producing alongside Woo and his A Better Tomorrow Films is eOne’s Mark Gordon and Lori Tilkin. Matt Jackson, Lori Tilkin and Luc Etienne are exec producing with Terence Chang. eOne’s Josh Clay Phillips will also have a producing role and is overseeing the project with Tilkin. The aim is to begin production later this year in France and Germany.

Update: John Woo’s next film will be a remake of his own actioner The Killer, this time led by none other than Lupita Nyong’o in the assassin role originated by Chow Yun-fat, Deadline reports. Scripted by Eran Creevy, the Universal Pictures production will begin later this year in France and Germany. See the original story below.

While the summer will no doubt be met with disappointments in the action genre, the season will kick off with a new film from a master in the field, John Woo. Although it won’t be available on the big screen, his new thriller Manhunt will arrive worldwide on Netflix at the end of this week, and the company is finally now starting to promote it with the first trailer. Coming from the Hard Boiled and Face/Off director, it finds a lawyer teaming up with a detective after being framed for...

Sir Ben Kingsley has never been shy about hamming it up in low-rent garbage (check out 2015’s “Self / Less” to watch him dye his skin orange and play a bald-headed version of Trump), but his latest performance takes things to another level entirely. The kind of low-rent action movie that only exists because everybody involved knew that nobody in the Western world would ever see it, Eran Creevy’s “Collide” stars Nicholas Hoult as a reformed car thief and Felicity Jones as the dying girlfriend whose kidney failure inspires him to do one last job.

But they’re both really boring. You know who’s not boring? Geran, the Turkish drug kingpin who lives in a gold-plated trailer with four prostitutes, suffers from short-term memory loss, and likes to spend his free time watching the 1985 John Travolta classic, “Perfect” (that’s the one where Travolta goes undercover in a Los Angeles fitness club). Kingsley,...

Watching Collide – the action thriller that debuted on roughly 2,000 screens this weekend – will, more likely than not, leave audiences wondering how indeed the film made it to the big screen. Its warmed-over love story, the one-last-job premise that fuels the plot and the parade of cliches it happily checks out of its cinematic bucket list don’t exactly scream “wide theatrical release.” So what then can we attribute the film’s major release to? Certainly, that answers boils down to the four acclaimed stars that frontline Eran Creevy’s third directorial effort.

Nicholas Hoult stars as Casey, a low-level criminal who gives up his life of delinquency when he falls in love with Juliette (Felicity Jones). However, in order for them to live happily ever after, Casey must resume working for drug dealer Geran (Ben Kingsley) on a task that puts both him and Juliette in the crosshairs of notorious...

Collide stars Nicholas Hoult as an American car thief and ex-drug dealer who gets involved in a cockamamie German cocaine heist in order to pay for a kidney transplant for his girlfriend (Felicity Jones) and ends up on the wrong side of a psycho trafficker (Anthony Hopkins) in a powder-blue suit. That’s more melodrama than the film needs, because Collide (titled Autobahn outside the States) has been put on this Earth for one purpose: solid, wholesome car-on-road, car-on-car action. Its English director, Eran Creevy (Welcome To The Punch), handles this with due competence—screeching tires, growling engines, grips tightening on steering wheels, and windshields shattering into glass confetti, cut from the usual surfeit of angles. The rest is unexceptional, a hodgepodge of corny voice-over and repetitive, anticlimactic plotting, with Hoult and Jones miscast as a couple of party-hardy American expats. But it isn’t unpleasant to look at.

Creevy...

Where would distinguished Academy Award-winning actors be in their dotage years if not for B-movies? Fortunately, there are plenty of them to go around — B-movies, I mean — guaranteeing lucrative paychecks and international location travel for the likes of Anthony Hopkins and Ben Kingsley, who compete in Collide to see which one can better chew the scenery.

Not that they’re the stars of this low-rent thriller directed by Eran Creevy. That dubious distinction belongs to British thespians Nicholas Hoult and Felicity Jones, here both playing Americans. That Jones’ star has so recently risen with Rogue One: A Star Wars...

Welcome back to the Weekend Warrior, your weekly look at the new movies hitting theaters this weekend, as well as other cool events and things to check out.

This Past Weekend:

Presidents' Day weekend was an interesting one at the box office, and as with most holiday weekends, it was particularly difficult to figure out how things might fare, other than The Lego Batman Movie, which remained at #1 with almost $45 million over the four-day weekend. Fifty Shades Darker followed with $21.3 million, about a 50% drop. Last week, I thought that the Ice Cub comedy Fist Fight would beat The Great Wall, although it seemed like it could be a close race. Nope. Matt Damon’s action epic came in third place with $21.6 million, which is a couple million more than my original prediction, but The Fist Fight fell short of my prediction by almost $10 million, grossing $14.5 million in its first four days.

Starring Nicholas Hoult, Felicity Jones, Ben Kingsley and Anthony Hopkins, Collide is a new action thriller from director Eran Creevy (Welcome to the Punch). Well, I say new, but Creevy’s film is one of handful of movies trapped in release limbo following the bankruptcy issues faced by Relativity Media.

After a heist goes terribly wrong, Casey Stein (Nicholas Hoult) finds himself on the run from a ruthless gang headed by mob boss Hagen (Anthony Hopkins). Now Casey has precious cargo that belongs to Hagen, who will stop at nothing to retrieve it. Left with no choice, Casey calls his former employer and drug smuggler Geran (Ben Kingsley) to protect his long-time girlfriend Juliette before Hagen gets his hands on her. Casey sets out on an adrenaline-fueled car chase on the German highways to save the love of his life before it’s too late.

Picked up by Open Road Films,...

Starring Nicholas Hoult, Felicity Jones, Ben Kingsley and Anthony Hopkins, Collide is a new action thriller from director Eran Creevy (Welcome to the Punch). Well, I say new, but Creevy’s film is one of handful of movies trapped in release limbo folowing the bankruptcy issues faced by Relativity Media. Picked up by Open Road Films, Collide has finally (hopefully) settled on an official release date of February 24th. With that in mind, check out the trailer, poster and a selection of images from the film below…

To pay for his girlfriend’s (Jones) medical emergency while abroad, Casey (Hoult) schemes to pull a drug heist for an eccentric gangster (Kingsley). After a failed attempt, he embarks across Europe on an action-packed chase in a race against time to save his girlfriend’s life from being taken by an evil druglord (Hopkins).

If you feel like you’ve been seeing trailers for Collide since 2015, you’d be right. Director Eran Creevy‘s crime thriller was a victim of Relativity Media’s bankruptcy and while Open Road Films scooped up the rights, the film has bounced around the release schedule like a ping pong ball in a car accident. After a […]

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"We've all got our reasons to crazy, reckless things in life..." Open Road Films has debuted another new trailer for the action thriller Collide, starring superstar actors Nicholas Hoult and Felicity Jones. This film was supposed to be released last August (see the first trailer here), but after generating pretty much no buzz they delayed it until this February. I'm still not interested, and this still looks as generic and bland as it did before, even with a great cast. Besides Hoult and Jones, this also stars Anthony Hopkins (as a mob boss) and Ben Kingsley (looking wacko), plus Nadia Hilker and Clemens Schick. The story is about an American backpacker caught up in a drug smuggling ring while trying to pull off a heist, taking him "on the run from his employers across Munich's high-speed Autobahn." Of course it's all about the action. Enjoy. Here's the newest trailer (+ international...

Geez, Open Road are really kicking off 2017 by getting their garbage out of the way. Last weekend they opened the Jamie Foxx vehicle “Sleepless” without screening it for press, and watched it tank hard over the holiday weekend. And next month comes the frequently delayed “Collide,” and I also won’t be surprised if it also opens without being shown to critics.

Nicholas Hoult, Felicity Jones, a zany Ben Kingsley, and Anthony Hopkins, all collect paydays for the the Eran Creevy (“Welcome To The Punch“) directed movie about a dude who has to go to some crazy lengths to protect his girlfriend from some very bad dudes.

Continue reading Nicholas Hoult & Felicity Jones Drive For Love In New Trailer For ‘Collide’ at The Playlist.

The Felicity Jones-Nicholas Hoult action auto movie Collide, which was extricated from Relativity Media during its bankruptcy crisis and rescued by Open Road Films, will now begin its journey as a theatrical wide release on February 3. The Im Global pic was originally scheduled to open August 19, but was then moved to an unset date. Formerly known as Autobahn, Collide is from British helmer Eran Creevy and follows an American couple, Casey (Hoult) and Juliette (Jones)…...

How far would you go for the one you love? That’s a tagline that’s been tethered to umpteen drama/thriller/crime flicks over the years, where a character is thrust into such a perilous situation that it leaves their significant other with little choice but to maneuver around a series of obstacles – both literal and figurative – to ensure their safety.

Another movie to hew close those hackneyed conventions is this summer’s heist movie Collide, an action-packed romp that finds Nicholas Hoult (Mad Max: Fury Road, X-Men: Apocalypse) in the role of Casey Stein, an Average Joe who is ready to risk life and limb to save his ailing girlfriend, Juliette (Felicity Jones).

In order to afford those astronomical medical bills for a kidney transplant, Hoult’s protagonist returns to a life he thought was far behind him – smuggling precious cargo for a group of powerful mob bosses.

"Is it dangerous?" "What kind of question is that?!" Open Road Films has unveiled the first trailer for the action thriller Collide, starring Nicholas Hoult and Felicity Jones. This isn't the same as that sci-fi film Collider, instead it's a rather generic-looking action movie with a stellar cast. Besides Hoult & Jones, the cast includes Anthony Hopkins (as a mob boss) and Ben Kingsley (looking wacko), plus Nadia Hilker and Clemens Schick. The story is about an American backpacker caught up in a drug smuggling ring while trying to pull off a heist, taking him "on the run from his employers across Munich's high-speed Autobahn." If that doesn't interest you, I'm not sure what else will. This does look like it may be entertaining. Fire it up. Here's the first official trailer (+ poster) for Eran Creevy's Collide, originally from Yahoo: After a heist goes terribly wrong, Casey Stein (Hoult) finds...

In Collide, Casey (Nicholas Hoult) must revisit his dark past to save the one he loves. That set up is very familiar, but Eran Creevy is a director capable of transcending tropes. Creevy’s sophomore effort as a filmmaker, Welcome to the Punch, is a story of hero and foe uniting, a potentially trite set up that makes for a […]

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Though shot two years ago, Eran Creevy's action thriller previously known as "Autobahn" and now titled "Collide" looks to be finally emerging with a new Asian market trailer online ahead of the film's October 30th premiere States-side.

Nicholas Hoult, Felicity Jones, Ben Kingsley and Anthony Hopkins star in the story of a young man forced to go on the run after a heist goes wrong. Using flashy vehicles to make his escape along Germany's speed limit-free autobahn, he also scores the help of his drug smuggling former employer to protect his girlfriend from the mob.

Shot way back in 2014, there has been little heard since about "Collide" — formerly known as "Autobahn." The latest from director Eran Creevy ("Welcome To The Punch") is a full-throttle action flick starring Nicholas Hoult and Felicity Jones, while Ben Kingsley and Anthony Hopkins bring some vintage flavor to the proceedings, and a new international trailer gives another little peek at what's coming. Read More: Watch: Kristen Stewart & Nicholas Hoult Begin To Show Love In The First Clip From 'Equals' The premise for this one is fairly simple, with a young man forced to go on the run from the job after a heist goes wrong. He hits the autobahn with some flashy vehicles to make his escape, while enlisting the help of his drug smuggling former employer to protect his girlfriend from the mob. "Collide" will open on October 30th in the U.S. via Open Road.

Matt Jackson, a film producer and who has served as an executive at several production companies over his long career, has been named head of film production and acquisitions at The Mark Gordon Co., where he will be charged with overseeing the company’s film operations. Jackson most recently led development and production at Im Global as president of production, where he produced films including The Secret In Their Eyes starring Julia Roberts, Nicole Kidman and Chiwetel Ejiofor and released by STX. He also executive produced Gary Ross’ Free State Of Jones which stars Matthew McConaughey and is set for release (also via STX) on June 24.

Jackson, who will report to Gordon, will manage day-to-day development and production on projects and identify feature content for acquisition by the company.

“Matt is a terrifically talented producer with great creative instincts and excellent taste. He knows how to put movies together and...

The Sundance Institute is including a touch of Cannes this week as the likes of Pippa Bianco (her short Share was the 2015 winner of Cannes Cinefondation), Alistair Banks Griffin (Two Gates of Sleep premiered in Directors’ Fortnight in 2010), and the Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza tandem (from Critics’ Week Grand Prize in 2013 for Salvo) are among the dozen selected projects for the 2016 January Screenwriters Lab. The immersive, five-day writers’ workshop takes place just prior to the festival at the Sundance Resort in Utah, January 15-20. Look for several of these projects to one day break into not only Sundance, but other major film fests. Here are the selected people & projects:

The projects and fellows selected for the 2016 January Screenwriters Lab are:

Bull (U.S.A.) / Annie Silverstein (Co-writer/Director) and Johnny McAllister (Co-writer)

In a near-abandoned subdivision west of Houston, a wayward teen runs headlong into her equally willful and unforgiving neighbor,...

An upcoming thriller about a young couple caught between two warring gangsters has found a distributor. Per Deadline, Open Road Films has acquired the Us distribution rights for Eran Creevy’s next film, Collide. The movie features Nicholas Hoult, who was seen this year in Mad Max: Fury Road, and Felicity Jones (The Theory of Everything) as the […]

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Eran Creevy’s follow-up to Welcome To The Punch stars Nicholas Hoult, Felicity Jones, Anthony Hopkins and Ben Kingsley and is financed by Im Global and China’s Dmg Entertainment.

Sycamore Pictures provided additional financing on the thriller produced by Joel Silver via his Silver Pictures banner alongside Ben Pugh and Rory Aitken of 42, Brian Kavanaugh-Jones from Automatik and Action Concept.

Open Road plans an April 1 2016 release for the story about a young American couple trapped in a game of cat-and-mouse between two feuding criminals that plays out across the autobahns of Germany.

Collide shot entirely in Germany with support from Dfff, the German Federal Film Fund and Nrw, the North Rhine-Westphalia funding entity (Film- und Medienstiftung Nrw).

Im Global handles international sales.

Open Road Films will distribute "Collide," from director Eran Creevy, in the U.S.—saving the former Relativity Media project, originally scheduled for theatrical release later this month, from the trash heap. Relativity, Ryan Kavanaugh's 11-year-old indie studio, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in July after racking up $320 million in debt and being served with a rash of lawsuits on defaulted loans. Read More: "Troubled Western 'Jane Got a Gun' Rescued as Relativity Files for Bankruptcy" "Collide," once titled "Autobahn," stars Nicholas Hoult and Felicity Jones as an American couple traveling in Germany, where they become the objects of a cat-and-mouse game involving feuding criminals Anthony Hopkins and Ben Kingsley. The film, financed by Im Global and China’s Dmg Entertainment, with additional financing by Sycamore Pictures, is now scheduled to open in theaters Apr. 1, 2016. The soundtrack, on Republic Records, features an...

Open Road Films has acquired the U.S. distribution rights to action thriller “Collide” from Im Global, the companies announced Friday. The news was delivered by Open Road Films CEO Tom Ortenberg and Im Global Founder and CEO Stuart Ford. The pair also announced that the film will hit theaters nationwide on Apr. 1, 2016. Directed by Eran Creevy, the film stars Nicholas Hoult, Academy Award nominee Felicity Jones, and Academy Award winners Anthony Hopkins and Ben Kingsley. Also Read: Open Road Films Names Lynn Stepanian Evp of Television A young American couple (Hoult and Jones) are plunged into a game of...

Exclusive: It’s official. Eran Creevy’s Collide is hitting the Open Road. Im Global and Open Road Films today confirmed what had been expected for some time now, with the distributor acquiring the U.S. rights to the Nicholas Hoult-starrer. Open Road chief exec Tom Ortenberg and Im Global founder and chief Stuart Ford announced the film will open in America on April 1 next year. The film also stars Felicity Jones (The Theory O Everything), Anthony Hopkins and Ben Kingsley…...

X-Men: Apocalypse is Nicholas Hoult‘s most high-profile release in the near future, but he has a slew of other projects coming up as well. The Mad Max: Fury Road co-star is in Drake Doremus‘ (Like Crazy) sci-fi drama Equals, Owen Harris‘ (Black Mirror) Kill Your Friends, and a movie that few of us knew about, Collide. See the first Collide trailer after the jump. Eran Creevy‘s (Welcome […]

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"If you don't give us the information we need, I'm sure she will..." Wow. This is quite an epic trailer for what may turn out to be a simple action movie, but damn. That music! Collide is an action-thriller from director Eran Creevy about an American backpacker, played by Nicholas Hoult, who gets involved with a ring of drug smugglers as their driver. The film's title in this trailer is Autobahn, which is the international title for this, and also the setting of the final action scene where he encounters his employers on Munich's highways with no speed limit. The very eclectic cast includes a blonde Felicity Jones, Nadia Hilker, plus surprisingly somehow Anthony Hopkins and Ben Kingsley as villains. You don't want to miss this tease. Here's the first international trailer for Eran Creevy's Collide, found on YouTube (via The Film Stage): After a heist goes terribly wrong,...

The first international trailer has been released from "Welcome to Punch" director Eran Creevy's action thriller "Collide," a project previously known as "Autobahn" in some circles. Nicholas Hoult, Felicity Jones, Anthony Hopkins and Ben Kingsley star in the heist film in which Hoult is on the run from a ruthless gang after a heist goes awry and he ends up with a precious cargo and trying to outrun his pursuers on the speed limit free highways of Germany. No U.S. distributor is yet locked.