EXCLUSIVE: Assemble Media, a multi-platform production company, has brought on Scott Veltri to serve as President of Production and Development. In his new gig, Veltri will work directly with Assemble founder Jack Heller to build the company’s development, production, and financing slate with an eye to ramp up…

EXCLUSIVE: Vince Vaughn is returning to the Venice Film Festival this week after last year's triumphant Lido world premiere of Mel Gibson's Hacksaw Ridge. This time, he'll be in town with S. Craig Zahler's Brawl in Cell Block 99. The action/crime thriller is screening out of competition and also stars Jennifer…

RLJE Films has acquired all North American rights to writer-director S. Craig Zahler’s Brawl in Cell Block 99 starring Vince Vaughn as a former boxer turned-drug courier. RLJE Films, a brand of RLJ Entertainment, will release the film to theaters on Oct. 6. Brawl in Cell Block 99 will make its World Premiere at the…

Yahya Abdul-Mateen II has been cast in Fox’s musical biopic The Greatest Showman On Earth directed by Michael Gracey. Starring Hugh Jackman, Michelle Williams, Zac Efron, Rebecca Ferguson and Zendaya, the film follows the story of the famous American showman, P.T. Barnum, as he creates the three-ring circus that made…

EXCLUSIVE: Dexter and Limitless actress Jennifer Carpenter has been cast in the indie film Brawl in Cell Block 99 opposite Vince Vaughn. Written and directed by S. Craig Zahler (Bone Tomahawk), the story follows Bradley, a former boxer who loses his job as an auto mechanic as his troubled marriage is about to end…