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Russell Crowe will reunite with 'Land of Bad' co-stars Luke Hemsworth and George Burgess on Tyler Atkins' upcoming sports action film 'Beast In Me', currently being filmed across Sydney and Bangkok.

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Russell Crowe has already proven himself in the Colosseum in Ridley Scott's Gladiator. Now he's training a new fighter for the Mma octagon in the upcoming mixed martial arts action film Beast in Me. Mma movies have been rather hit-or-miss. Entries in the Never Back Down and Undisputed franchises (in so much as the latter can be called an Mma franchise) have received mixed reviews from audiences and critics, while Tom Hardy and Joel Edgerton's Warrior is the undisputed pound-for-pound Goat of the sub-genre. But with the talent of Russell Crowe and the rest of its star-studded cast, Beast in Me has a solid shot at the title.

Thanks to Deadline, we have our first look at Crowe and Foundation star Daniel MacPherson in Beast in Me, along with the rest of the star-studded line-up. Alongside the pair, the movie also stars Luke Hemsworth, Mojean Aria, Kelly Gale,...

Exclusive: Here are your first look images of Oscar winner Russell Crowe (Gladiator) and Daniel MacPherson (Foundation) in martial-arts movie Beast In Me, which is in production in Australia and Bangkok, from a script co-written by Crowe.

They are joined in the cast by Luke Hemsworth (Westworld), Mojean Aria (The Correspondent) Kelly Gale (Plane), George Burgess (Land of Bad), Bren Foster (The Last Ship), Saphira Moran (It Will Find You) and Australian musician Amy Shark, who makes her feature film debut.

The Solution Entertainment Group is selling the project at the EFM in Berlin.

Pic follows Patton James (MacPherson), who abandons his mixed martial arts dream to support his wife, Luciana (Gale), and son. When his brother, Malon (Aria), suffers a serious injury and faces financial strain to underworld figures, Patton sets out to avenge him in a One Championship fight with the help of veteran trainer Sammy (Crowe). Below are additional production stills.

Another Russell Crowe and Liam Hemsworth collaboration was not a square on our 2024 pop culture Bingo card, yet it looks like we're about to check it off. Moviegoers are due to see the pair of Aussies team up for the second time in as many years in February's military action thriller "Land of Bad." The pair recently co-starred in the 2022 movie "Poker Face" (no relation to the TV show of the same name), a thriller about a high stakes poker game gone wrong that was directed by Crowe himself.

This time around it's not a card game that goes wrong, but a mission. "Land of Bad" follows a group of military men on an extraction assignment in the Philippines that takes a bloody turn, leaving one young officer at the mercy of the elements and local militia. Fortunately, he's not alone: he's got Russell Crowe's drone pilot droning in his ear,...

The upcoming action thriller Land of Bad features a star-studded cast including Russell Crowe, and there are some exciting details about the new film. The latest outing from genre auteur director William Eubank, Land of Bad follows an elite extraction team who must go behind enemy lines to rescue top-secret equipment and hostages. Promising to be a thrill-a-minute action extravaganza, Land of Bad features several notable names outside of Crowe including Liam Hemsworth and Milo Ventimiglia. Though the film features state-of-the-art military gadgets, Land of Bad is reminiscent of classic action films from the genre's heyday in the 1980s.

Director and cinematographer William Eubank is no stranger to genre movies and his diverse set of directorial credits includes sci-fi films like 2011's Love and 2014's The Signal, as well as horror films like Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin from 2021. While Land of Bad is the director's first foray into pure action,...

The release of Steven Spielberg’s “Jaws” in 1975 had a massive effect on popular culture, establishing the concept of the Hollywood summer blockbuster and remaining a prime target for parody to this day. One of its more unfortunate legacies, however, is how its depiction of the great white shark as a ferocious man-eating animal has endured, leading to increased hunting against the species for decades. And it’s a legacy that the director himself isn’t proud of at all.

“I truly and to this day regret the decimation of the shark population because of the book and the film,” the “Fabelmans” director said during a recent interview on the BBC Radio 4 show “Desert Island Discs” (via Entertainment Weekly). “I really, truly regret that.”

On “Desert Island Discs,” host Lauren Laverne asks guests to choose eight recordings, a book, and a luxury item with which to be stranded on a deserted island.

Award-winning filmmaker Steven Spielberg “truly regrets” making ‘Jaws’ as he believes it drove a frenzy of shark killings.

The director, 76, who made his name with the 1975 fish horror about a bloodthirsty Great White terrorizing a U.S. resort, added he hates the idea it painted sharks as man-eaters, reports aceshowbiz.com.

He told Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs he fears “sharks are somehow mad at me,” and said “I really truly regret that” about the spate of shark killings by fish hunters in aftermath of Jaws’ release.

He added the film was partly to blame for a “feeding frenzy” of “crazy fisherman which happened after 1975,” saying, “I truly, and to this day, regret the decimation of the shark population because of the book and the film.”

‘Jaws’ was based on a 1974 book of the same name written by Peter Benchley, who went on to become a shark conservationist. Experts say...

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Steven Spielberg sees the regular malfunctioning of his mechanical shark while filming Jaws as a cinematic gift, but says the fear the film drummed up against real-life sharks is something he wishes he hadn’t played a part in.

During an interview with the BBC’s Desert Island Discs, the director plays some of his favorite songs and unpacks his cinematic résumé, the discussion spanning everything from his work on films like The Fabelmans, West Side Story, E.T. and Schindler’s List, to his own personal life and pop cultural influences like Bruce Springsteen and Alfred Hitchcock.

It’s the latter — a master of horror — that Spielberg credits as having helped him find success with the 1975 film. That and a mechanical shark that just wouldn’t work.

“I had to be resourceful in figuring out how to create suspense and terror without seeing the shark itself.

Antaine Furlong and Charlotte Best on the set of Rising Wolf’.

Antaine Furlong’s Shanghai-set action thriller Rising Wolf, toplined by Charlotte Best, is currently shooting at Fox Studios in Sydney.

Best plays a young woman, Aria Wolf, who is trapped and kidnapped in the elevator of a super high-rise building at the mercy of tormentors in the Russian Intelligence Agency. The film is intended as the first of a trilogy, in which Aria and fraternal twin sister Zara discover their true powers, which are the result of an incident when they were seven years old.

This is Furlong’s debut feature, and he has penned the script with Kieron Holland, with James M. Vernon and Kristy Vernon producing. The production has been financed by a single private investor, and the producers are currently in discussion with various distributors internationally.

Starring alongside Best are Jonny Pasvolsky, Susan Prior, Tahlia Sturzaker,...