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Taraji P. Henson gets dressed to kill in the first trailer for Proud Mary, director Babak Najafi’s action movie with the Empire Golden Globe winner playing a hitwoman working for an organized crime family in Boston. Set to the tune of — what else? — “Proud Mary” by Tina Turner (her solo version, sans Ike), the trailer…

EXCLUSIVE: Babak Najafi, who helmed last year’s London Has Fallen to a $205.7M worldwide box office take, is in negotiations to direct Taraji P. Henson in Screen Gems’ Proud Mary. The thriller is about a hit woman who kills a drug boss only to learn that she has left a boy orphaned. A year later, she saves the boy…

EXCLUSIVE: Svensk Filmindustri has acquired Horizon Line, a spec script by Josh Campbell & Matt Stuecken that will be helmed by Babak Najafi. The scribes wrote the JJ Abrams-produced thriller 10 Cloverfield Lane which opens March 11, and Najafi directed London Has Fallen, the Gerard Butler and Morgan Freeman-starrer…

EXCLUSIVE: Looks like Gerard Butler won’t be alone for London Has Fallen, the Millennium Films sequel to the action hit Olympus Has Fallen. Babak Najafi, best known for helming Easy Money II: Hard to Kill (better known as the sequel to Snabba Cash) is now in discussions to helm the action film that is being…