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Tom Hardy's Warrior co-star Frank Grillo confirms the hit martial arts film's upcoming TV spinoff. He also intends to reprise his role.

During an appearance on The Kristian Harloff Show, Grillo was asked to clarify whether Warrior director and co-writer Gavin O'Connor is in the process of producing a follow-up television series based on the film. "He's going to do it as a television show," Grillo responded. "I think it was greenlit, actually, because he asked me a while back, he goes, 'Would you think you'd come back?' [...] I go, 'Yeah, dude, I'll come back."

egarding the overall presence of any returning characters from the film, Grillo noted that O'Connor will "use them sparingly, but significantly."

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Making its Peacock debut in April 2024, Warrior is one of the best and most acclaimed movies released in 2011. Equal parts riveting Mma action movie, moving domestic drama, and intense sibling rivalry, the movie stars Tom Hardy and Joel Edgerton as estranged brothers on a collision course for fighting supremacy. Thanks to the excellent story, gritty direction, and powerhouse performances, it's no surprise that the film holds a 92% Rotten Tomatoes score.

13 years after its underwhelming theatrical run, Warrior stands tall as one of Tom Hardy's best films, featuring one of his most memorable performances. Yet, far from attracting Hardy fans only, Warrior is a must-see for hardcore sports movie enthusiasts, fight fanatics, underdog champions, and those who enjoy emotionally hard-hitting stories that culminate with rousing redemption.

Throughout the 2010s, Brian Duffield more than did his part to keep the art of the original genre movie alive and thriving. Between his screenplays for the babysitter slasher-comedy "The Babysitter," the post-apocalyptic monster adventure "Love and Monsters," and the underwater survival thriller "Underwater", Duffield emerged as one of the hottest talents in Hollywood before fully coming into his own as the writer-director behind the well-received high school horror rom-com "Spontaneous" and essentially dialogue-free alien invasion thriller "No One Will Save You" in the 2020s. But before any of that happened, the first produced film based on one of Duffield's unique scrips became something of a disaster.

The movie in question, "Jane Got a Gun," has the makings of an inventive spin on a familiar tune, much like Duffield's other work. Directed by Gavin O'Connor, the Western casts Natalie Portman as the eponymous firearm-wielding cowlady, a woman whose husband is...

The next Karate Kid movie has finished filming after facing a release delay. Ralph Macchio confirmed the wrap-up on Instagram, celebrating the 40th anniversary of the original film with a special set photo from the final season of Cobra Kai. While it's still unclear whether the Netflix show will set up the next movie, Karate Kid looks to deliver on the legacy of multiple generations of franchise fans.

After initially facing a release delay, the next Karate Kid movie has wrapped filming.

Nearly three months after production began on the next theatrical installment of the franchise, Ralph Macchio took to Instagram to confirm the next Karate Kid movie has wrapped filming.

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The post, as seen above, features a special set photo from the final season of Cobra Kai, which was taken by Miguel actor Xolo Mariduea and shows...

“The Righteous Gemstones” star Tony Cavalero has joined the cast of “Lips Like Sugar,” a crime thriller set during the 1984 summer Olympics Games in Los Angeles, starring Woody Harrelson and Owen Wilson.

Cavalero is best known for his breakout performance as Keefe, the lovable ex-Satanist turned fan-favorite mullet man, in Danny McBride’s cult hit HBO series. “The Righteous Gemstones” was renewed for a fourth season last July.

With “Lips Like Sugar,” Cavalero joins a buzzy ensemble which also includes Oscar nominee Juliette Lewis, Sasha Calle, Kathryn Newton and Erin Moriarty. Harrelson and Wilson star as detectives John Carr and Phil Harris, a pair of homicide cops working to solve a possible serial killer case while police and city officials demand that all murders in L.A. be labeled “missing persons” for the duration of the games.

According to the film’s official synopsis, the plot kicks up when the...

Owen Wilson is a well-known golf fan who is ready to take his love of the sport to the small screen. The actor is set to star in an untitled comedy series for Apple TV+, which is in development from Ford v Ferrari co-writer Jason Keller.

Wilson will star in the ten-episode series as Pryce Cahill, “an over-the-hill, ex-pro golfer whose career was derailed prematurely 20 years ago. After he gets fired from his job at an Indiana sporting goods store and his wife walks out on him, Pryce hedges his bets entirely on a troubled 17-year-old golf phenom.” In addition to starring in the series, Wilson will also executive produce alongside Keller. Propagate Content’s Ben Silverman will also executive produce the series with Howard T. Owens and Rodney Ferrell, Entertainment 360’s Guymon Casady, Piece of Work’s Lee Eisenberg and Natalie Sandy, and Chris Moynihan. The series will...

Natural Born Killers stars Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis reunite in serial killer thriller Lips Like Sugar. The feature marks the directorial debut of Brantley Gutierrez and includes an all-star cast with Owen Wilson, Erin Moriarty, Kathryn Newton, and Sasha Calle. Production for Lips Like Sugar begins this month, and promises a storyline that blends crime and drama.

Natural Born Killers stars Juliette Lewis and Woody Harrelson will reunite for the upcoming serial killer thriller Lips Like Sugar. The film marks the first collaboration between the two following Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers and sees the two on the other side of the law. Announced last July, Lips Like Sugar stars Harrelson and Owen Wilson as John Carr and Phil Harris, two homicide detectives investigating a possible serial killer case in 1984 Los Angeles during the Summer Olympic Games. Per Deadline, Erin Moriarty, Kathryn Newton, and Sasha Calle joined the cast alongside Lewis.

The cast of the upcoming neo-noir thriller Lips Like Sugar has welcomed four more actors to its lineup, including Yellowjackets’ Juliette Lewis.

According to Deadline, Lewis is officially joining previously announced leads Woody Harrelson and Owen Wilson in a movie about two cops investigating a serial killer case in 1984 Los Angeles amidst the Summer Olympic Games. This marks a reunion for Lewis and Harrelson, who previously starred in Oliver Stone's 1994 movie Natural Born Killers. That film followed Lewis and Harrelson's characters embarking on a killing spree as part of their twisted romance.

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Other newcomers to the cast have also been revealed, and that includes The Boys star Erin Moriarty. Rising scream queen Kathryn Newton...

Exclusive: Filming is due to begin this month in LA on neo-noir thriller Lips Like Sugar, which will star Oscar-nominees Woody Harrelson and Owen Wilson.

It’s a nice cast on this one as Juliette Lewis (Yellowjackets), Sasha Calle (The Flash), Kathryn Newton (Big Little Lies) and Erin Moriarty (The Boys) have joined the movie which is set against the 1984 Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles.

Harrelson and Wilson will play detectives John Carr and Phil Harris, a pair of homicide cops working to solve a possible serial killer case while police and city officials demand that all murders in LA be labeled Missing Persons until the Olympic torch is doused and the international media has left town. The detectives’ paths cross with Tracy Anderson and Andi Campos (Newton and Calle), a pair of teenage girls that have formed a fast and intense friendship, with Montana transplant Tracy recently arrived...

Los Angeles, July 25 (Ians) Hollywood actor Owen Wilson was disappointed not to share any scenes with Jamie Lee Curtis on ‘Haunted Mansion’.

The 54-year-old ‘Around the World in 80 Days’ star features in the new Disney movie as priest Kent, but lamented shooting his scenes separately from the ‘Halloween’ actress who stars as the floating head in a crystal ball Madame Leota.

As per Female First UK, Wilson told ComicBook.com: “Well, I don’t get to work with Jamie Lee Curtis, and I was a little bit sort of, ‘Oh, gosh. That’s too bad. But that was only sort of made more clear, because we were doing some press the other day, and she has great energy, and she’s a very formidable person. I’m a bit more slow, from Texas, and she’s, you know… But I really enjoy her energy.”

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Woody Harrelson and Owen Wilson are set to team up to lead the thriller feature ‘Lips Like Sugar.’

Loosely based on a true story, the feature is set during the 1984 Olympic Games in L.A. The coming-of-age thriller is set against the backdrop of the punk and skate worlds of West Los Angeles. As the new friendship of two teenage girls from different walks of life unfolds and city officials focus on the Olympics, the lives of two former detectives (Harrelson and Wilson) become intertwined when one of the girls goes missing.

Grammy winner Brantley Gutierrez will take the helm on a story written by Anthony Tambakis (Warrior).

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Harrelson produces the film with Post Film’s Russ Posternak, Freestyle Picture Company’s Kevin Chinoy and Francesca Silvestri, 7 Deuce’s Jeremy Plager, Greg Lauritano, Subtractive’s Kyle Schember,...

Both Owen Wilson and Woody Harrelson have long since proven themselves masters of their craft, and getting a chance to see them together on the same big screen is always a golden opportunity. As it turns out, per an exclusive report from Deadline, the two will be reuniting once again, this time as detectives, on a new upcoming crime thriller feature titled Lips Like Sugar, with Grammy winner Brantley Gutierrez as the director.

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Lips Like Sugar is set as a coming-of-age crime thriller that takes place back in 1984, during the Olympic Games in Los Angeles, California. Loosely based on a true story, the premise initially follows the lives of two young teenage girls from completely different lifestyles against the cultural backdrop of the punk and skate worlds of West L.A. However, while the rest of the city...

Woody Harrelson (True Detective) and Owen Wilson (Loki) have signed on to star in the coming-of-age thriller Lips Like Sugar, Deadline reports. Brantley Gutierrez will be making his feature directorial debut on this one after more than a decade of working on short films and music videos.

Scripted by Anthony Tambakis (Warrior), Lips Like Sugar is said to be set during the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles and is apparently “loosely based on a true story”. It’s also set “against the backdrop of the punk and skate worlds of West Los Angeles.” Here’s the synopsis: As the new friendship of two teenage girls from different walks of life unfolds and city officials focus on the Olympics, the lives of two former detectives (Harrelson and Wilson) become intertwined when one of the young girls goes missing.

Harrelson, Tambakis, and Gutierrez are producing the film with Russ Posternak of Post Films,...

Exclusive: Woody Harrelson (True Detective) and Owen Wilson (Loki) have been cast as leads in feature thriller Lips Like Sugar, which will be directed by Grammy winner Brantley Gutierrez and has been written by Anthony Tambakis (Warrior).

Set during the 1984 Olympic Games in L.A. and loosely based on a true story, the coming-of-age thriller is set against the backdrop of the punk and skate worlds of West Los Angeles. As the new friendship of two teenage girls from different walks of life unfolds and city officials focus on the Olympics, the lives of two former detectives (Harrelson and Wilson) become intertwined when one of the girls goes missing.

Harrelson produces the film along with Post Film’s Russ Posternak, Freestyle Picture Company’s Kevin Chinoy and Francesca Silvestri, 7 Deuce’s Jeremy Plager, Greg Lauritano, Subtractive’s Kyle Schember, and Zac Adams. Additional casting is underway.

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You wouldn’t be wrong to view the trailer for Gringo and think, “I’ve seen this before.” You wouldn’t be wrong to assume it gave away the entire plot either — mild-mannered American is used by his ruthless bosses to perform a dangerous job they refuse to attempt and is kidnapped by a Mexican cartel for his trouble. Will he survive the chaos? Will his bosses save him or extricate themselves from blame? Or will the hapless victim of an increasingly escalating ordeal somehow luck into an escape with or without an avenue towards revenge upon those who’ve done him so very wrong? It’s the same generic potential outcomes every movie with a similar conceit contains and yet the answer isn’t what will keep you sitting until the end.

Matthew Stone and Anthony Tambakis’ script is less interested in Harold Soyinka’s (David Oyelowo) fate than the journey towards it.

MaryAnn’s quick take… Woefully undeveloped characters, a thin yet convoluted plot, and a lack of humor in the black comedy. This is what it looks like when a hastily scribbled first draft goes straight into production. I’m “biast” (pro): nothing

I’m “biast” (con): nothing

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So this is what it looks like when everyone just goes, “You know what? This first draft of the script is great! Let’s just run with it.” This is almost always a bad idea, but especially so in this case, because the Gringo that we got from screenwriters Anthony Tambakis (Jane Got a Gun) and Matthew Stone (Soul Men, Man of the House) feels like what might have happened when they sketched out a rough outline of their “brilliant” idea — “What...

For his first studio film — and only his second feature in two decades — idiosyncratic Aussie director Nash Edgerton loads up on some of his signatures, including lots of bad guys, tons of twists, and a dark sense of humor. Unfortunately, his sensibilities are dulled by a sprawling story that never quite snaps together. Edgerton’s previous feature-length effort, the brutal and brilliant “The Square,” offered up a crime story populated almost exclusively by very bad people, an exercise in how to make even the most vicious of characters impossible to stop watching. For his “Gringo,” Edgerton adds something new: an actually likable protagonist.

Still, it’s not enough to make “Gringo” really pop, and the wacky worldview that Edgerton is so often able to infuse in his works — look no further than his brutally funny and violent short “Spider” for proof of that — never emerges within the confines of his most straightforward comedy to date.

Gringo Amazon Studios/Stx Entertainment Reviewed by: Harvey Karten Director: Nash Edgerton Screenwriter: Anthony Tambakis, Matthew Stone Cast: Joel Edgerton, David Oyelowo, Amanda Seyfried, Charlize Theron, Yul Vazquez, Thandie Newton, Sharto Copley, Harry Treadaway Screened at: Park Ave., NYC, 3/1/18 Opens: March 9, 2018 A cartoon that appeared the other day in the New Yorker magazine […]

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Chicago – In the latest HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film, we have 50 pairs of advance-screening movie passes up for grabs to the new crime film “Gringo” starring David Oyelowo, Charlize Theron and Joel Edgerton!

“Gringo,” which opens on March 9, 2018 and is rated “R,” also stars Thandie Newton, Amanda Seyfried, Sharlto Copley, Bashir Salahuddin, Melonie Diaz and Harry Treadaway from director Nash Edgerton and writers Anthony Tambakis and Matthew Stone. Note: You must be 17+ to win and attend this “R”-rated screening.

To win your free passes to “Gringo” courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, just get interactive with our social media widget below. That’s it! This screening is on Wednesday, March 7, 2018 at 7 p.m. in Chicago. The more social actions you complete, the more points you score and the higher yours odds of winning! Completing these social actions only increases your odds of winning; this doesn’t intensify your competition!

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Warrior Will be available for the First Time on 4K Ultra HD Combo Pack on October 24 from Lionsgate.

Directed by Gavin O’Connor (The Accountant, Miracle) (Story by Gavin O’Connor & Cliff Dorfman, Screenplay by Gavin O’Connor & Anthony Tambakis & Cliff Dorfman), relive the epic Oscar®-nominated* fight that pins brothers against each other when Warrior arrives on 4K Ultra HD Combo Pack (plus Blu-ray™ and Digital HD) for the first time on October 24 from Lionsgate (*Best Actor in a Supporting Role). See Oscar®-nominee Tom Hardy (Best Actor in a Supporting Role, The Revenant, 2015) square off against Golden Globe®-nominee Joel Edgerton (Best Actor – Motion Picture – Drama, Loving, 2016) as brothers Tommy and Brendan in this edge-of-your-seat action drama. Experience every hard-hitting punch in Dolby Vision™ high-dynamic range (Hdr) and enjoy the thrills of the ring in four times the resolution of Full HD. Also starring Nick Nolte, who...

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Dwayne Johnson's take on Black Adam looks like he might make his first appearance in Suicide Squad 2...

Dwayne Johnson’s debut in the DC Extended Universe may finally be happening. He’s long been cast as the villainous Black Adam, a character set for his own standalone movie. Originally, Black Adam was set to debut in the upcoming Shazam movie, which seemed logical given that Shazam and Black Adam are notable rivals.

But that’s not going to happen now, and when Zachary Levi headlines the Shazam film, he’s going to have to fight someone else. Instead, a new rumour suggests that Warner Bros is looking towards Suicide Squad 2 as a means to introduce Black Adam. This would presumably introduce the character to the big screen in a smaller role first, ahead of the aforementioned standalone film.

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Amazon Studios and Stx Films have announced Gringo is the official title for the Untitled Nash Edgerton Project.

Gringo will get a domestic release in theaters March 9, 2018.

Combining dark comedy with dramatic intrigue, Gringo joyrides across the border into Mexico, where all is not as it seems for mild-mannered American businessman Harold Soyinka (David Oyelowo). Crossing the line from citizen to criminal, Harold tangles with duplicitous business partners, Mexican drug lords, international mercenaries, and the DEA. As he attempts to survive in one of the most dangerous places on earth, the question lingers: is this ordinary man in way over his head, or is he two steps ahead?

Directed by Nash Edgerton, who made his feature length directorial debut with the acclaimed Australian thriller The Square, Gringo also stars Joel Edgerton, Amanda Seyfried, Charlize Theron, Yul Vazquez, Thandie Newton, and Sharlto Copley.

Financed by Amazon Studios, the film is written...

Gringo is the official title of the Untitled Nash Edgerton Project!  Directed by Nash Edgerton with a screenplay by Anthony Tambakis and Matthew Stone, Gringo is a dark comedy with dramatic intrigue that features a joyride into Mexico, where all is not as it seems for mild-mannered American businessman Harold Soyinka (David Oyelowo). Crossing the line from citizen to criminal, Harold... Read More...

Paris Jackson, who made her television debut on Fox's drama Star, is set for her feature film debut in Nash Edgerton's untitled comedic thriller for Amazon.

The film centers on a businessman, Harold (David Oyelowo), who while in Mexico gets unwittingly entangled with drug lords, international mercenaries and the FBI. The feature is set to star Edgerton's brother Joel, as well as Charlize Theron, Amanda Seyfried, Thandie Newton and Sharlto Copley.

Anthony Tambakis and Matt Stone wrote the project, which will be produced by Edgerton and Theron, along with Rebecca Yeldham, Anthony Tambakis, Beth Kono and A.J. Dix.

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Jennifer Morrison – star of Once Upon A Time – is gearing up for the next phase of her career by filling out the cast of her feature-length directorial debut with an impressive roster of talent. Having already cast Ed O’Neill and multiple award-winning Allison Janney, Morrison has now added Melissa Benoist (Supergirl) and Michael Angarano (The Knick) to the list of stars set to appear in Sun Dogs.

Written by Anthony Tambakis (Warrior, Jane Got A Gun), the film will see Jennifer Morrison branch out with her own production banner – Apartment 3C Productions. Sun Dogs will be the first of two collaborations between Tambakis and Apartment 3C, and will start Morrison’s directing career off with a comedic look at duty, ambition and homeland security.

Ned (Michael Angarano) is a young man desperate to enlist in the U.S Marines and serve his country. Failing repeatedly, and then once more,...

Exclusive: Michael Angarano, Melissa Benoist, Allison Janney and Ed O'Neill have come aboard to star in Sun Dogs, the feature film directorial debut of Once Upon A Time star Jennifer Morrison that was penned by Anthony Tambakis (Warrior). Fabrica De Cine, which just closed a mega-deal in Cannes to produce and finance Martin Scorcese’s The Irishman, will co-finance Sun Dogs along with Caviar (Diary Of A Teenage Girl). The comedy, the first for Morrison’s newly launched Apar…...

Amazon and Stx Entertainment have teamed up on world rights to Nash Edgerton’s all-star action comedy that Stx is introducing to international buyers in Cannes.

David Oyelowo, Charlize Theron, Joel Edgerton, Amanda Seyfried, Thandie Newton, Yul Vazquez and Sharlto Copley are shooting the film in Mexico City.

Nash Edgerton’s Untitled Film centres on a newly married executive with a stake in a pharmaceutical company about to go public, whose life is abruptly thrown into disarray.

When he becomes stranded south of the border as a wanted man, the mild-mannered businessman realises that his aspirational life was not all that it seemed.

Anthony Tambakis and Matt Stone wrote the screenplay and Amazon Studios produces with Nash Edgerton, Rebecca Yeldham, Tambakis, A.J. Dix, Beth Kono. Trish Hoffman is the executive producer.

Edgerton previously directed Australian thriller The Square and short films Spider and Bear.

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Natalie Portman and Ewan McGregor star in new western Jane Got A Gun. Here's our review...

Maybe it's just my experience, but it might tell you something about how rare female-fronted Westerns are that some of my older relatives have asked me if Jane Got A Gun is related to Calamity Jane. As has been reflected in the vast majority of the genre throughout its cinematic history, men are the agents of frontier mythology and the American dream to such a great extent that women's options are next to non-existent.

In this case, the eponymous Jane (Natalie Portman) is quietly devastated when her husband Bill 'Ham' Hammond (Noah Emmerich) rides home after an altercation with the fearsome Bishop boys (led by Ewan McGregor), riddled with bullets and barely alive. Worse still, the gang are following Ham back to Jane, with whom they also have history, and the...

Exclusive: Once Upon A Time star Jennifer Morrison has launched her own production banner, Apartment 3C Productions, and will kick things off with her feature film directorial debut in Sun Dogs, a comedy penned by Warrior scribe Anthony Tambakis. The pic follows a young misfit with three failed attempts to join the Marines under his belt. Taking a Marine officer’s advice to “protect the homefront” a little too seriously, he sets his sights on a casino manager who may or…...

Following his acclaimed 2008 thriller "The Square," stuntman turned actor and filmmaker Nash Edgerton has begun shooting his currently untitled second feature (previously called "American Express") for Amazon Studios.

Edgerton has enlisted an impressive cast including Charlize Theron, David Oyelowo, Amanda Seyfried, Thandie Newton and his brother Joel Edgerton for the dark kidnap comedy-drama which is filming in Chicago and Mexico City.

The dark kidnap comedy-drama is co-written by Matthew Stone ("Intolerable Cruelty") and Anthony Tambakis ("Warrior"), but plot details are currently under wraps.

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There were many conversations surrounding Richard Linklater’s Boyhood, most of them bad, and among the more interesting concerned its star, Ellar Coltrane — one of the “what now?” variety. (This interested me so much, in fact, that I asked him about it during an interview in the summer of 2014.) It didn’t take long to get an answer: in September of last year, he signed for James Ponsoldt’s The Circle, putting him in a co-starring position with Tom Hanks, Emma Watson, and John Boyega. And now there’s an update from Variety: the actor’s joined Barry, an Obama biopic-of-sorts concerning the future President’s time at Columbia University in 1981.

They share no details about who Coltrane’s playing, though it’s at least known that Devon Terrell (of Steve McQueen’s unsuccessful HBO pilot Codes of Conduct) will step into the main role; Anya Taylor-Joy (The Witch, M. Night Shyamalan...

The January doldrums strike hard in Jane Got A Gun, an otherwise competent and richly shot Western that places far too much stock in its bland characters and unsurprising structure. The film, directed by Gavin O’Connor, is notably far more concerned with characters over action, but with clichéd personalities and paper-thin motivations spurning the drama into motion, it never truly gets off the ground.

Set in the New Mexico Territory sometime in 1871, the movie starts off with a bullet-ridden Bill Hammond (Noah Emmerich) riding back home to warn his wife Jane (Natalie Portman) that a specter from their past, Colin McCann (a mustachioed Ewan McGregor) is hunting them down. This doesn’t sit well with Jane, so she packs up her daughter, heads to a nearby town, and pleads for help from former fiancé Dan Frost (Joel Edgerton), who refuses to aid her initially because she might have broken his heart,...

Amazon Studios has come on to finance, produce and distribute Nash Edgerton‘s “American Express,” an indie movie starring Charlize Theron that currently has David Oyelowo, Amanda Seyfried and Joel Edgerton circling the ensemble, multiple individuals familiar with the project have told TheWrap. Theron will produce through her Denver & Delilah banner along with Rebecca Yeldham, who recently produced Joel Edgerton‘s directorial debut “The Gift.” Nash Edgerton will also produce under his Blue-Tongue Films banner. Matthew Stone and Anthony Tambakis (“Warrior”) wrote the script. While Seyfried is firmly attached and Joel Edgerton has also committed to the project, given that his brother.

After a particularly troubled production, Jane Got a Gun is finally getting set to hit theaters early next year. The Weinstein Company set the Western for release sometime in February 2016, but while we wait for the release date announcement, foreign distributor Mars Distribution has debuted the first international trailer, along with a new poster. We got our first look at the film with a photo of Natalie Portman that arrived in January, when it was still set to hit theaters on September 4. But a lot has changed since then.

The Western starring Natalie Portman was shot in 2013, but the production got off to a rocky start. Original director Lynne Ramsay abandoned the project on the first day of principal photography, which resulted in Jude Law dropping out as the main villain. Gavin O'Connor came aboard to replace the director, with Bradley Cooper momentarily stepping in to replace Jude Law, before...

Mars Films released the first trailer for Natalie Portman‘s “Jane Got a Gun” on Wednesday. The film stars Portman as Jane Hammond, a frontier woman who must take up arms when a gang of outlaws threatens to destroy the new life she has built with her husband and child. The revisionist Western also stars Noah Emmerich, Joel Edgerton and Ewan McGregor. Gavin O’Connor directed, with Brian Duffield, Anthony Tambakis and Edgerton all credited with writing the screenplay. Also Read: Natalie Portman's 'Jane Got a Gun' Lands 2016 Release From Weinstein Company “Jane Got a Gun” endured...

Houses Of Deceit is set to bring part of the FIFA story to the screen, with Ben Affleck producing and Gavin O'Connor directing...

Well, this hasn't taken long. The investigation into corruption at football's world governing body, FIFA, continues, and the ramifications to it are ongoing as well. But already, there's a movie on the way.

Gavin O'Connor, who helmed Warrior, has signed up to direct a film based around Chuck Blazer, the American executive who finds himself in the midst of the FIFA scandal. The project is based on the book Houses Of Deceit, by Ken Bensinger, and with the help of Ben Affleck - who's set to produce the film - the project has ended up at Warner Bros.

There had been something of a bidding war for the book rights, and Anthony Tambakis has already been signed up to write a screenplay for House Of Deceit (assuming...

Ben Affleck and Matt Damon will produce a film about the worldwide FIFA scandal.

The project is based on the upcoming book Houses of Deceit by BuzzFeed's Ken Bensinger, chronicling the role American FIFA executive Chuck Blazer played in the corruption scandal.

Warner Bros has won a bidding war for the rights, reports The Hollywood Reporter.

Affleck and Damon are involved through production company Pearl Street Films.

Blazer rose through the football ranks, becoming executive vice president of the Us Soccer Federation, but in the 2010s, he was hit with allegations of bribery and tax evasion.

He later admitted to conspiring to accept bribes alongside other FIFA executives.

Gavin O'Connor, who recently completed work on Affleck film The Accountant, is reportedly attached to direct. Warrior writer Anthony Tambakis is said to be penning the script.

Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are nearing a deal to produce a movie about the FIFA scandal for Warner Bros., which has just won a bidding war for an upcoming book on the infamous subject, an individual familiar with the situation has told TheWrap. Gavin O’Connor will direct from a script by Anthony Tambakis. The duo previously collaborated on the excellent Mma movie “Warrior” and Natalie Portman‘s upcoming western “Jane Got a Gun.” The FIFA scandal made headlines around the world and inspired Buzzfeed investigative reporter Ken Bensinger to write the book “Houses of Deceit,” which insiders claim will be the.

"Warrior" director Gavin O'Connor is attached to helm a biopic about Chuck Blazer, the American soccer executive at the center of the ongoing FIFA scandal.

Warner Bros. Pictures won a bidding war for the rights to Ken Bensinger's book "Houses of Deceit" which is being seen as the definitive account of Blazer's role in the largest sports and public corruption scandal in history.

Blazer is one of the biggest reasons for the sport's growing popularity in the United States, but his lavish lifestyle led to allegations of bribery. Ultimately he wa deemed a cooperating witness in May’s arrests of FIFA executives.

Anthony Tambakis is on board to write the script while Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Guymon Casady and Darin Friedman are producing.

Source: THR...

It didn’t take long for Hollywood to capitalize on the embarrassment that is FIFA. The soccer (or football, depending on where you live) organization has been widely know to be corrupt for years, but something was actually done about it in May when the FBI arrested top executives as a result of a lengthy investigation. Now THR reports that Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are set to produce an adaptation of Ken Bensinger’s book Houses of Deceit, which was just acquired by Warner Bros. The book is being seen as the “definitive account” of American FIFA exec Chuck Blazer’s role in the FIFA scandal. While one might see this as an opportunity for Affleck to direct, the project already has Warrior helmer Gavin O’Connor attached to helm and co-write with his frequent partner Anthony Tambakis. O’Connor recently wrapped shooting on the thriller The Accountant, which stars Affleck,...

Joel Edgerton has discussed the troubled production of Jane Got a Gun, which has been hit by further delays this week.

The Natalie Portman-starring Western made headlines last year when the original director, Lynne Ramsay, was sued by her producers for allegedly failing to show up for the first day of shooting.

Edgerton, who was initially cast as the film's villain before replacing Michael Fassbender in the lead role, spoke to Digital Spy about the fraught and difficult production that followed.

"It was like musical chairs," Edgerton said. "Everybody swapping roles, and the director going Awol.

"We forged a great movie out of fire, because it was a difficult situation, but the result of all those difficulties and hardships along the way has been remarkable.

"I just finished the last piece of work on that movie... I'm really, really proud of it, and I needed to be proud of it,...

Jane Got a Gun

Director: Gavin O’Connor

Writers: Brian Duffield, Anthony Tambakis

Producer: Chris Coen, Terry Dougas, Aleen Keshishian, Scott Lastaiti, Mary Regency Boies, Natalie Portman, Zack Schiller, Scott Steindorff

U.S. Distributor: Relativity Media and The Weinstein Company

Cast: Natalie Portman, Ewan McGregor, Rodrigo Santoro, Joel Edgerton, Noah Emmerich, Boyd Holbrook

Jane Got a Gun may have lost some feathers (players) along the way and would have broke into our top 25 if a certain female filmmaker had remained on board, but we’re down all the same for this gunslinger revenge flick. Gavin O’Connor’s sixth feature film (Tumbleweeds remains his best work to date) is the ultimate test for the filmmaker who has had in his hands in several genres.

Gist: A woman asks her ex-lover for help in order to save her outlaw husband from a gang out to kill him.

Release Date: An August 29th date has been pegged,...

That got your attention, didn’t it? The troubled Gavin O’Connor‘s Western Jane Got a Gun is back on track again – Ewan McGregor has taken over for Bradley Cooper as the villain. The old west today, based on an original script by Anthony Tambakis and Brian Duffield, is a Star Wars reunion of sorts as McGregor will be joining Natalie Portman for the first time since Star Wars Episode III: The Revenge of the Sith. Production on the film runs through the summer for what will hopefully be a 2014 release, but the villain wasn’t scheduled to shoot until later into the production. McGregor, the...

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Ewan McGregor has replaced Bradley Cooper in Gavin O'Connor's upcoming drama Jane Got a Gun. We reported last week that Bradley Cooper had to depart the project after the Boston bombings delayed production on the currently shooting American Hustle, which threw his schedule into disarray.

The story centers on Jane (Natalie Portman) whose outlaw husband (Noah Emmerich) returns home barely alive after taking eight bullets. She reluctantly recruits a former lover (Joel Edgerton) to defend their property as her husband's gang comes to finish him off. Ewan McGregor will be taking on the role of the villain and leader of this outlaw gang.

Gavin O'Connor is directing from a script written by Brian Duffield and Anthony Tambakis. The project originally had Lynne Ramsay directing with Jude Law and Michael Fassbender starring.

Production is currently taking place in New Mexico.

Jane Got a Gun comes to theaters in 2013 and stars Natalie Portman,...

After a month of dealing with some very bizarre issues, including the director not showing up for the first day of production and multiple actors dropping out, it finally seems as though Gavin O'Conner's Jane Got A Gun is finally back on track - and it took a Star Wars connection to get it there. According to Deadline, Ewan McGregor has taken over for Bradley Cooper as the villain in the upcoming western, reuniting him with Natalie Portman for the first time since Star Wars Episode III: The Revenge of the Sith. In the film, based on an original script by Anthony Tambakis and Brian Duffield, Portman will play the wife of a outlaw (Noah Emmerich) who is forced to call upon an ex-lover (Joel Edgerton) when the husband's former gang arrives at her farm looking for blood. Originally, the antagonist part was going to be played by Edgerton, but...

Lifetime has passed on Renee Zellweger. The cable network has opted not to move forward with its drama pilot Cinnamon Girl, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. Story: Lifetime Orders Renee Zellweger Drama to Pilot Created by Zellweger and Anthony Tambakis (Warrior), Cinnamon Girl revolved around four girls as they came of age during the cultural revolution of the late 1960s and early 1970s in Los Angeles. The drama explores Cassie, Lola, Penny and Lou's lives as they reach a crossroads of the era's political, artistic, social and sexual rebellions. The entry was loosely based on Zellweger's move from small-town

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Lifetime has decided not to go forward with Cinnamon Girl, its drama pilot co-created and executive produced by Renée Zellweger, which was set against the backdrop of the Los Angeles music and movie scenes of the late 1960s/early 1970s. It tells the story of four coming-of-age girls — Cassie (Allie MacDonald), Lola (Alexis Knapp), Junie (Brooke Anne Smith) and Lou (Jade Bartlett) — and explores their lives at the crossroads of the era’s political, artistic, social and sexual rebellions. Zellweger co-created Cinnamon Girl with Anthony Tambakis (Warrior), and the premise was a combination of Zellweger’s real-life journey from small-town Texas to Hollywood stardom and Tambakis’ lifelong fascination with the Laurel Canyon music scene and the New Hollywood, auteur-driven era that began in the late ’60s. Cinnamon Girl was the last of three produced pilots from Lifetime’s most recent batch whose fate had not been determined. The network recently...

Warrior

Directed by Gavin O’Connor

Screenplay by Gavin O’Connor, Anthony Tambakis & Cliff Dorfman

USA, 2011

There’s always an element of mystery when viewing films for this column, a naïve and hopelessly romantic despairing at the fact that an absolute gift of a movie is neglected by the masses, especially when said motion picture is universally praised to high heaven by respectable critics. Sadly, this week’s pick is largely understated in its notable success by dint of filling almost all of the criteria for an unsung gem.

Like how The Illusionist was overshadowed by genre and release date neighbor The Prestige, or in the manner that The Thin Red Line was battered by blockbuster Saving Private Ryan, Gavin O’Connor’s Warrior, a mercurial quasi-hit from last year’s calendar, suffered by losing what was ostensibly a coin toss with The Fighter to pick out the best battle arena picture.

Oscar winning actress Renee Zellweger is about to firm up her resume as a multihyphenate as the star gears up to direct, produce and star in 4 ½ Minutes, a comedy set in the stand-up comedy world of New York City. Zellweger will direct herself opposite Johnny Knoxville in the tale of Jimmy Bennett (Knoxville), a commitment-phobic, train-wreck comedian whose life is falling apart when he takes a job looking after the genius son of single mom P.J. Andersen (Zellweger). The movie is written by Anthony Tambakis (Warrior) and based on the life and comedy of

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Exclusive: Allie MacDonald (Score: A Hockey Musical), Alexis Knapp (Project X), Brooke Anne Smith, Jade Bartlett and Sebastian Piggott have been cast as the the leads in Cinnamon Girl, Lifetime’s drama pilot co-created and executive produced by Renée Zellweger, which is set against the backdrop of the Los Angeles music and movie scenes of the late 1960s/early 1970s. It tells the story of four coming-of-age girls — Cassie (MacDonald), Lola (Knapp), Junie (Smith) and Lou (Bartlett) — and explores their lives at the crossroads of the era’s political, artistic, social and sexual rebellions. Zellweger co-created Cinnamon Girl with Anthony Tambakis (Warrior), and the premise is a combination of Zellweger’s real-life journey from small-town Texas to Hollywood stardom and Tambakis’ lifelong fascination with the Laurel Canyon music scene and the New Hollywood, auteur-driven era that began in the late ’60s. Inspired by Zellwegger, MacDonald’s Cassie is a beautiful,...