Simu Liu is addressing an awkward moment that occurred during the 2023 NBA Celebrity All-Star Game.
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EXCLUSIVE: Luke Hemsworth (Westworld) has been tapped for the title role in Gunner, a new action pic from director Dimitri Logothetis (Jiu Jitsu, Kickboxer: Retaliation).
The film written by The Fast and the Furious scribe Gary Scott Thompson follows Special forces veteran Lee Gunner (Hemsworth) as he takes his two boys on a camping trip where the boys stumble upon a fentanyl lab and are kidnapped by drug runners. Unfortunately for the drug runners, Lee will stop at nothing to get his boys back safely, going up against not only the criminal cartel, but the FBI and local police as well, using the full force of his deadly abilities to reunite his family.
Joel Shapiro (Killerman) will produce alongside Logothetis, magiCity Studios and Acme Rocket Fuel.
Hemsworth portrayed Westworld Security Head Ashley Stubbs across all four seasons of HBO’s sci-fi drama Westworld and last summer returned for a cameo in Thor: Love and Thunder, having first been introduced in the MCU part of Actor Thor in 2017’s Thor: Ragnarok. The actor recently starred alongside Kurt Russell, Alexis Bledel, and Vincent Kartheiser in the crime thriller Crypto, also leading the horror-thriller Death of Me with Maggie Q, and most recently wrapped production on the thriller Bad Hombres with Thomas Jane and Tyrese Gibson.
Logothetis reinvigorated the Kickboxer action franchise with the films Kickboxer: Vengeance and Kickboxer: Retaliation — co-writing and producing the former, and additionally serving as director on the latter. He also recently wrote, directed and produced the sci-fi thriller Jiu Jitsu, starring Nicolas Cage, and serves as President of Acme Rocket Fuel, as well as Kings Road Entertainment.
Hemsworth is repped by CAA and Fourward; Logothetis
Simu Liu is addressing an awkward moment that occurred during the 2023 NBA Celebrity All-Star Game.
Simu Liu is calling out an awkward moment that took place during Friday night’s NBA Celebrity All-Star Game.
Jen Shah has reported to prison to begin her six and a half year sentence.
Jen Shah has reported to prison, ET can confirm. The disgraced star went to Federal Prison Camp in Bryan, Texas, to begin serving six and a half years following her fraud case conviction. A spokesperson for the Federal Bureau of Prisons tells ET Shah is in its custody. The spokesperson added, «For privacy, safety, and security reasons, we do not release information on the conditions of confinement for any inmate or group of inmates.»Shah's case lawyer, Ronald Richards, took to Twitter also said she's «safely in custody at Bryan Federal Prison Camp.
EXCLUSIVE: A hot package has just dropped late in the day at the EFM and has cooked up the first big deal on the ground in Berlin.
Universal/DreamWorks Animation’s How to Trian Your Dragon will return to the big screen, but as a live-action feature adaptation with the franchise’s 3x Oscar nominated and Golden Globe winning filmmaker Dean DeBlois returning to write, direct and produce the newest entry.
A former child star who found fame as a youngster on NYPD Blue has died of a suspected drug overdose.
American ex-child star Austin Majors tragically passed away in Los Angeles over the weekend - he was just 27. Celebrated for his portrayals of Theo Sipowicz in NYPD Blue (appearing in 48 episodes between 1999 and 2004) and Will Wright in the TV movie An Accidental Christmas, Austin also briefly graced the likes of ER, Desperate Housewives and How I Met Your Mother with his talent. According to TMZ, the actor was staying at a homeless housing facility at the time of his death, while it's believed that a fatal ingestion of fentanyl could be the cause.
Child star Austin Majors died at just 27 years old.
EXCLUSIVE: Australia-based Bronte Pictures has signed a sales deal with Archstone Entertainment for three new projects, which will be launched at this week’s EFM in Berlin.
EXCLUSIVE: Lena Headey (Game Of Thrones), Yara Shahidi (Grown-ish), Isabela Merced (Father Of The Bride), Lana Condor (Moonshot), Millicent Simmonds (A Quiet Place) and Iris Apatow (The Bubble) are set to lead buzzy action-thriller Ballerina Overdrive, which will be produced by Deadpool, Bullet Train, John Wick and Fast And The Furious director David Leitch.
EXCLUSIVE: VMI Worldwide has boarded worldwide sales to sci-fi actioner The Dresden Sun, starring Wednesday’s Christina Ricci, Mena Suvari, Linus Roache, Steven Ogg and Samantha Win.
Movies and mountains! Mammoth Film Festival returns to California this year and will feature several indie flicks with star-studded casts.
EXCLUSIVE: After a fierce bidding battle that followed the rousing premiere Sunday Sundance premiere, Apple is closing a deal for Flora and Son, the John Carney-directed film that stars Eve Hewson, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Oren Kinlan and Jack Reynor. Streamers Apple, Amazon battled to the end, and Netflix and Searchlight were all in the mix. Haven’t got a final number yet, but the bidding landed in the vicinity of just under the $20M Netflix paid for Fair Play, I’m told.
Lisa Marie Presley will be laid to rest at Graceland where a public memorial service is being planned. The artist and daughter of Elvis Presley died last Thursday, January 12 at the age of 54.
Their closest confidantes. The Presley family has leaned on their famous friends — publicly and in private — while dealing with difficult times.
Three days after Lisa Marie Presley died after going into cardiac arrest, Austin Butler appeared at the Critics’ Choice Awards, where he is nominated for his portrayal of her father, Elvis Presley, in Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis.
Olivia DeJonge, the actress who portrayed Priscilla Presley in the film Elvis, is paying respects to the late Lisa Marie Presley.
Austin Butler has broken his silence on the passing of Lisa Marie Presley.
A day after the shocking death of Elvis Presley’s only child, Lisa Marie Presley, the late singer was remembered by the Elvis film director Baz Luhrmann and its star, Austin Butler.