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Oscar-winner and controversial Hollywood star Mel Gibson remains popular with audiences, as the Braveheart and Lethal Weapon actor’s severely panned 2022 action thriller dominates free streaming. Gibson, who remains a polarizing figure following issues with alcohol and a series of controversies, including well-publicized antisemitic tirades, homophobic comments, and a domestic violence-related restraining order, was recently appointed a "Special Ambassador" for Hollywood by President Donald Trump. And, clearly, audiences still find Gibson a magnetic screen presence...especially when it's free.

Directed and produced by James Cullen Bressack, and starring Kevin Dillon, Shannen Doherty, and Michael Welch alongside Gibson, the action thriller Hot Seat is now #1 on free streaming platform Freevee, with audiences loving this tale of an anonymous criminal who plants a bomb under the chair of an ex-hacker, forcing him to break into several high-level banking institutions. You can check out the official synopsis for Hot Seat below.

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Mel Gibson's position in Hollywood is precarious to say the least, but that has not stopped his 2022 action thriller Hot Seat from jumping into the Freevee Top 10 after it was added to the platform earlier this month. Directed by James Cullen Bressack and starring Gibson alongside Kevin Dillon, the film was met with harsh reviews upon release, which makes its new-found success on streaming unexpected…but at the same time completely on trend for free streaming releases.

Hot Seat is a high-stakes hostage thriller, which centers on It expert Orlando Friar (Dillon) who becomes an unwitting pawn in a dangerous cyber-heist. Forced to hack into government servers while trapped in a booby-trapped office chair rigged to explode (of course he is), Friar must race against the clock to outsmart the anonymous mastermind holding his life—and the city—hostage. Gibson appears as Wallace Reed, a bomb squad veteran determined...

Tubi has announced sci-fi action film “Corrective Measures,” based on Grant Chastain’s graphic novel of the same name, which will star Bruce Willis and Michael Rooker and premiere in spring 2022.

Sean Patrick O’Reilly of “Howard Lovecraft” and “The Kingdom of Madness” will write, direct and produce the film, which is set in San Tiburon, the world’s most dangerous maximum-security penitentiary. The plot follows the monsters, cyborgs, and supervillains incarcerated in the prison, including wealthy genius Julius “The Lobe” Loeb (Willis) and corrupt warden Devlin (Rooker), who is after The Lobe’s riches. Dan Payne (“Watchmen”) and Brennan Mejia (“Power Rangers”) appear as Payback and Diego Diaz respectively, who increase tension between inmates and staff until anarchy erupts. Tom Cavanagh (“The Flash”), Kat Ruston (“The 100”), Kevin Zegers (“Rebel”) and Hayley Sales (“Deadpool 2”) also star.

MastersFX president and CEO Todd Masters will head the character design. Michelle O’Reilly and...

Fox-owned AVOD platform Tubi is ramping up its move into originals and a Bruce Willis-fronted sci-fi feature film is its latest project.

The Die Hard star is fronting Corrective Measures, an original feature film for the free platform. Starring alongside Guardians of the Galaxy’s Michael Rooker, the feature film comes from director Sean O’Reilly, whose credits include animated feature Howard Lovecraft and the Frozen Kingdom and When Calls The Heart.

Based on a graphic novel, the film is set in San Tiburon, the world’s most dangerous maximum-security penitentiary and home to the world’s most treacherous superpowered criminals where tensions among the inmates and staff heighten, leading to anarchy that engulfs the prison and order is turned upside down.

Willis plays Julius “The Lobe” Loeb, a super genius sitting on an untraceable fortune, at San Tiburon, an Ubermax prison hidden in the Great Northwest, resided by monsters,...

Vertical Entertainment has nabbed the U.S. rights to the animated film Panda vs. Aliens from Arcana Studio.

The indie was written, directed and produced by Arcana Studio founder Sean Patrick O’Reilly and executive produced by Stan Lee, the legendary writer, editor and publisher of Marvel Comics who died in 2018.

Starring Chevy Chase, Geoff Gustafson and Dan Payne, Panda vs. Aliens follows a celebrity panda who must save the world from evil invaders with the help of a magic medallion. Other producers included Gil Champion, Steve Chicorel, Baiyi Chen and Michelle O’Reilly.

Panda vs. Aliens is partly based on animated alien characters from ...

Vertical Entertainment has nabbed the U.S. rights to the animated film Panda vs. Aliens from Arcana Studio.

The indie was written, directed and produced by Arcana Studio founder Sean Patrick O’Reilly and executive produced by Stan Lee, the legendary writer, editor and publisher of Marvel Comics who died in 2018.

Starring Chevy Chase, Geoff Gustafson and Dan Payne, Panda vs. Aliens follows a celebrity panda who must save the world from evil invaders with the help of a magic medallion. Other producers included Gil Champion, Steve Chicorel, Baiyi Chen and Michelle O’Reilly.

Panda vs. Aliens is partly based on animated alien characters from ...