Latest in Famke Janssen

EXCLUSIVE: RLJE Films has acquired rights to The Postcard Killings, the thriller based on James Patterson and Liza Marklund’s 2010 bestseller The Postcard Killers. Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Famke Janssen star in the pic, which is getting theatrical release sometime in March. Danis Tanovic (No Man's Land) directed a…

Hellboy’s Ron Perlman and X-Men star Famke Janssen are to star in BBC One spy drama The Capture. The Hollywood actors are the latest A-list names to join a British drama. They will star alongside the previously announced Callum Turner (Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald) and Holliday Grainger (Strike) in the…

EXCLUSIVE: X-Men and Taken franchise star Famke Janssen has joined Scott Speer's Endless starring Alexandra Shipp and Nicholas Hamilton. Endless, based on a draft by Rohit Kumar, follows madly in love 19-year-olds Chris (Hamilton) and Riley (Shipp) who are separated when a fatal accident leaves Chris stranded in limbo…

EXCLUSIVE: Momentum Pictures has acquired U.S. rights to the Ron Perlman-starring Asher, and has set a December 7 theatrical release date for the action crime drama directed by Michael Caton-Jones and penned by Jay Zaretsky. The pic centers on Asher (Perlman), a Mossad-agent-turned-gun-for-hire near the end of his…

EXCLUSIVE: There is a tremendous real-life tragedy and injustice at the heart of Central Park Five but there is also an extremely deep bench of talent for the Ava Duvernay directed Netflix limited series with Joshua Jackson, Christopher Jackson and 12 Years A Slave's Adepero Oduye now onboard. The Affair star, Hamilto…

EXCLUSIVE: Famke Janssen has been set to star opposite Nicolas Cage in Primal, the indie action movie to be directed by Nick Powell. The film is being produced by Luillo Ruiz of The Pimienta Film Company and executive produced by Walter Josten of Blue Rider Pictures, and production is set to start April 10 in Puerto…

EXCLUSIVE: Cuba Gooding Jr. started production today on Louisiana Caviar, an independently financed New Orleans-set thriller that marks the directing debut of the Oscar-winning Jerry Maguire star. Gooding Jr. stars with Richard Dreyfuss and Famke Janssen, from a script by Eitan Gorlin that Gooding Jr. rewrote. Paul Hag…

EXCLUSIVE: Ron Perlman, Famke Janssen, Richard Dreyfuss, Peter Facinelli, Jacqueline Bisset, Richard Schiff, Guy Burnet and Nadine Velazquez are starring in Asher. Michael Caton-Jones (Rob Roy, This Boys Life) is attached to direct for Perlman's Wing and a Prayer Pictures. In the Jay Zaretsky-scripted drama, Perlman…

EXCLUSIVE: Famke Janssen has joined Ron Perlman, Richard Dreyfuss, Peter Facinelli and Nadine Velazquez in Michael Caton-Jones’ Asher, a film about a Mossad member-turned-gun-for-hire in New York who is living the good life but at the end of his career. When one of his final gigs goes upside down on a job involving a…

Rob Riggle, Famke Janssen, John Michael Higgins, Wendi McLendon-Covey and Josh Ostrovsky (aka “The Fat Jew”) have boarded Scott Speer’s teen comedy Status Update which is now in production in Vancouver. The film, written by 17 Again scribe Jason Filardi, is billed as Big for the millennial generation and follows a…

Red Reddington, meet Scottie Halsted. On the heels of the embedded pilot episode of The Blacklist spinoff airing on Thursday, NBC has picked up the project starring Famke Janssen to series. It will be titled The Blacklist: Redemption. This is the second spinoff series greenlighted by NBC for next season, which also is…

After successfully spinning off its Chicago franchise, NBC is looking to do the same with The Blacklist, its drama from Sony TV and Davis Entertainment. The network is pursuing a potential offshoot series toplined by X-Men star Famke Janssen. Like with the Chicago series, the network is taking a planted spinoff…