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Exclusive: We have learned that Voltage Pictures has appointed veteran producer Timothy C. Sullivan as Producer.

He will report to directly to CEO Nicolas Chartier and President and COO Jonathan Deckter.

Sullivan most recently served as the President of Production and Development at Emmett Furla, a position he held since 2016. Throughout his tenure at the company, he served as a producer on over 25 feature films including the upcoming Wash Me in the River starring Jack Huston, Robert De Niro and John Malkovich, Joe Carnahan’s Boss Level starring Mel Gibson, the Escape Plan series and Heist starring Robert De Niro, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Dave Bautista, and Gina Carano.

Starting as an assistant at Emmett Furla, he quickly rose through the ranks and after shepherding in the project Fire with Fire starring Josh Duhamel, Bruce Willis, Vincent D’Onofrio, and Rosario Dawson and advocating for the company’s involvement in the hit End of Watch,...

Tony Sokol Jul 15, 2016

Bruce Willis is a police chief racing against the clock to solve a case, in First Kill...

Bruce Willis will star as a police chief trying to solve a kidnapping with a ticking clock in director Steven C Miller’s upcoming action thriller First Kill.

The screenplay was written by Nick Gordon. Willis and Miller previously worked together on the bank heist flick Marauders.

'After a man and his son witness a thug shooting a bank thief while on a hunting trip, the bank robber takes the boy hostage, in order to recover the key to a locker that contains the loot from the bank heist', reads the official synopsis.

Willis’s police chief races against time to solve the case.

Emmett/Furla/Oasis will produce, finance, and release the film through their deal with Lionsgate Premiere. This is the 11th collaboration between Willis and Emmett/Furla...

Bruce Willis is in talks to star in the Lionsgate action-thriller Extraction, which is being directed by Steven C. Miller (Submerged). The story centers on Bruce Willis' character, a CIA operative who is still tormented over his wife's murder. His son joins the spy agency to follow in his father's footsteps, as they both begin work on a top secret weapons project known as Condor.

The plot thickens when the father is kidnapped by a terrorist group. After learning that the CIA isn't planning a rescue mission, the son tries to save his dad on his own, which plunges him into a conspiracy that he is nowhere near ready for. Umair Aleem wrote the screenplay, with Emmett/Furla/Oasis' Randall Emmett and George Furla producing alongside Aperture's Adam Goldworm. Tim Sullivan, Brandon Grimes and Gus Furla are serving as co-producers. Efo is providing the financing along with Ingenious and Odyssey Media Releasing.

Remember when Bruce Willis used to make interesting, original movies, like Pulp Fiction, Twelve Monkeys and The Fifth Element? An air of excitement would surround each announcement detailing which project the actor would get involved with next. It’s been some time since that excitement has been felt, however, because Willis has essentially been making the same movie, repeatedly, for years. The next product from that assembly line will be Extraction, directed by Steven C. Miller (Silent Night).

The plot focuses on a father and son duo of – wait for it – CIA agents, with Willis as the seasoned elder operative who is traumatized by the – you guessed it – murder of his wife. His less-experienced CIA operative son is working with him on the manufacture of a super-weapon known as the Condor, but is thrust into the driving seat when his father, Willis, is kidnapped by terrorists. As he realizes that...

Bruce Willis has been lined up to star in a new thriller film titled Extraction.

According to Deadline, the actor will play a former CIA operative who works with his son on the development of a super-weapon by the name of Condor.

However, Harry is forced to start a rescue mission when his father is kidnapped by a terrorist group.

The film is being directed by Submerged's Steven C Miller and produced by Emmett/Furla/Oasis Films' Randall Emmett and George Furla, as well as Tim Sullivan, Brandon Grimes and Gus Furla in the co-producer seats.

Shooting is expected to begin in Alabama from February 9.

Willis can currently be seen in Us cinemas in Brian A Miller's Vice and is set to appear alongside Bill Murray in Magic City's movie revival.

Exclusive: Emmett/Furla/Oasis Films has set Robert De Niro to star in Bus 757, a Stephen Sepher-scripted action thriller that Scott Mann (The Tournament) will direct. The film, which shoots in September in Baton Rouge, will be distributed by Grindstone/Lionsgate Films with Hannibal Classics’ Richard Rionda Del Castro and Patricia Eberle handling international sales. Efof principals Randall Emmett and George Furla are producing and financing, and international financing on the $15 million film is being provided by Hannibal Classics and Michael Mendelsohn’s Union Patriot Capital. Related: Cannes: Directors To Watch Bus 757 centers on a casino card dealer who puts together a crew to simultaneously rob a bank and hijack a bus full of hostages to use as collateral. De Niro will play “The Pope”, a casino owner with illegitimate business practices whose assets are the targets of the heist. Now that he’s in place, casting will begin in earnest.

Exclusive: The increasingly prolific Emmett/Furla/Oasis Films has promoted Tim Sullivan from development exec to director of development and Jessica Welch to production executive. She had been executive assistant at the company run by Randall Emmett and George Furla. This comes as the company follows Lone Survivor by financing/producing the Martin Scorsese-directed Silence with Liam Neeson, Andrew Garfield, Ken Watanabe and Adam Driver. Efof also just committed to finance Labor Of Love, marking a reteam of Sixth Sense‘s M. Night Shyamalan and Bruce Willis, with Stuart Ford’s Im Global selling international at Berlin. They wrapped production on The Prince last month, and are getting close on the Tupac Shakur biopic, a film based on Hasbro’s Monopoly and Universal’s Everest. Related: Sundance: Bruce Willis To Star In Action Pic ‘Vice’, Teaming Again With Emmett/Furla/Oasis Films As for the promotions, Sullivan started at...

Exclusive: Lone Survivor producer Emmett/Furla/Oasis Films is set to produce and finance Vice, an Andre Fabrizio- and Jeremy Passmore-scripted futuristic action thriller that will star Bruce Willis. The $15 million-budget pic will be distributed by Grindstone/Lionsgate Films. The movie is set in a city in which humans can enact their most perverse fantasies onto androids. One android becomes self-aware and breaks out, only to become intent on shutting down the organization. Ambyr Childers, most recently seen in 2 Guns, Ray Donovan and The Master, will play the android, and Willis will play Julian, owner of the Vice resort that caters to the depraved. Pic begins shooting March 15 in Alabama and more casting is pending. George Furla, Randall Emmett and Adam Goldworm are producing. Barry Brooker and Stan Wertlieb will executive produce, and Tim Sullivan is co-producing. Emmett/Furla is fully in the Bruce Willis business these days:...

Exclusive: Emmett/Furla/ Oasis Films has set Jason Patric, John Cusack, Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, Johnathon Schaech, Gia Mantegna and South Korean actor-singer Rain for The Prince, the Brian A. Miller-directed action thriller. Patric plays a retired Las Vegas mob enforcer who is forced to return to the city and face his former enemies when his teenage daughter goes missing. Bruce Willis was previously set to star in the film. He plays Omar, a man with a score to settle, who has waited years for Paul to return. Emmett/Furla/Oasis is producing and financing with South Korea-based Union Investment Partners. Kim Young-don, Choi Pyeung-ho, Barry Brooker, Stan Wertlieb, Jeff Rice and Brandon Grimes will executive produce alongside producers Randall Emmett, George Furla, Ho-Sung Pak, Fred Song, Adam Goldworm and co-producer Tim Sullivan. Shooting begins next week in Mobile, Ala, and Grindstone/Lionsgate Films will release domestically. Hannibal Pictures will handle international sales.

Emmett/Furla/Oasis Films will produce and finance the action thriller Bus 757 from a script by Stephen Sepher, who’ll produce with Randall Emmett, George Furla, Alexander Tabrizi and Stephen Sepher. The $15 million pic will shoot next year. A Las Vegas card dealer puts a crew together to rob a bank and hijack a city bus as collateral. Brandon Grimes, Daniel Grodnik and Beth Holden-Garland are exec producers and Tim Sullivan is co-producer. Efof has the Peter Berg-directed Lone Survivor launching in Oscar season, and will soon start production on Martin Scorsese’s Silence, The Last Witch Hunter with Vin Diesel and Hasbro’s Monopoly, based on the iconic board game.

Odd List Simon Brew 20 Sep 2013 - 07:14

They don't make funny movies any more, right? Wrong. If you're looking for a laugh, then here are some you may have missed...

For this list, blame The Hangover Part III. It was whilst walking out of that film that I got into a chat with someone, who was bemoaning the lack of genuinely funny movie comedies. Certainly, big budget Hollywood comedies have no end of problems right now - with the occasional exception - but I couldn't help thinking of the many neglected gems that had gone through my DVD player over the past decade or so.

As such, I started to put this list together. It's inevitably subjective, as one person's comedy is another person's snore fest. But I've tried to dig out a mix of comedies from the past three decades that have either flown under the radar completely, or...

Breaking: Bruce Willis will star in The Prince, an action thriller that will be produced and financed by Emmett/Furla Films. The $15 million budget film will be directed by Sarik Andreasyan (American Heist) from a script by Andre Fabrizio and Jeremy Passmore, who scripted Ride at Fox and San Andreas 3D for New Line. Grindstone/Lionsgate Films will distribute and Hannibal Pictures will handle international sales. A retired Las Vegas mob enforcer is forced to return to the city and face his former enemies when his teenage daughter goes missing. Willis plays a man who has waited years for the enforcer to return, and a confrontation is inevitable. Randall Emmett and George Furla are producing with Adam Goldworm, and Barry Brooker, Stan Wertlieb and Brandon Grimes will executive produce. Tim Sullivan is co-producer. Casting is underway for an October start in New Orleans. Emmett/Furla is reading the Martin Scorsese-directed Silence,...