EXCLUSIVE: In a mid seven-figure deal, upstart Euro studio Leonine has pre-bought German-speaking rights to Gerard Butler action-thriller Remote Control, which is being sold internationally by STX. This is the biggest deal reported so far at this year’s EFM.
Angel Has Fallen star Butler took part in a popular buyers…
The upcoming EFM just got a shot in the arm with the launch of Gerard Butler action-thriller Remote Control from Hyde Park, STX, G-Base and James Bond producers Eon.
STX will distribute in the U.S. and launch international sales this week in Berlin on the movie which will follow Michael Rafter (Butler), a former war…
EXCLUSIVE: AFM buyers flocked to Gerard Butler action package The Plane over the weekend with MadRiver International pitching a sellout on the project.
After Lionsgate took North America, Latin America, the UK and India in the first days of the market, MadRiver has closed multi-million dollar pre-sales in major…
Gerard Butler's secret service agent Mike Banning isn't retired yet. More features, and even local-language TV spin-offs, are being planned after the success of Angel Has Fallen, the franchise's producer confirmed today.
Alan Siegel, the president and CEO of production and management outfit Alan Siegel Entertainment…
UPDATED with confirmation: In a big early AFM deal, Lionsgate has closed domestic and a selection of international rights on The Plane, the Gerard Butler action flick launched here by MadRiver International and CAA Media Finance.
Butler will star as commercial pilot Ray Torrance, who after a heroic job of successfully…
Gerard Butler has found his latest action vehicle in the form of The Plane, an elevated action thriller that MadRiver International is launching at AFM next week.
Script comes from Charles Cumming and JP Davis (Violence Of Action), and is based on the book by Cumming. Butler will star as commercial pilot Ray Torrance…
EXCLUSIVE: Andrew Bachelor, a.k.a King Bach (To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before, Meet The Blacks) and Marvel’s Daredevil actor Scott Glenn have been added cast of Greenland, the STXfilms disaster thriller starring Gerard Butler and Morena Baccarin. Young actor Roger Dale Floyd, who will appear in WB’s The Shining…
Secret Service agent Mike Banning basically saved Western civilization twice since 2013, and now he stands accused of trying to kill the U.S. president in Angel Has Fallen. Check out the first trailer above.
Here’s how it goes down: Just after President Allan Trumbull (Morgan Freeman) tells his trusted confidant…
STXfilms has acquired domestic distribution rights to Greenland, a disaster thriller that will be the next film from Angel Has Fallen director Ric Roman Waugh and that film’s star Gerard Butler. The studio said it is eyeing a May production start on the pic from Thunder Road Films and Anton.
STXinternational already…
Completing the trilogy of DreamWorks Animation’s enormously satisfying adaptations of Cressida Cowell’s How to Train Your Dragon book series, writer-director Dean DeBlois has again invested the story with adventure, emotion, great characters, and this time even a charming romance (in beautiful black and white). At its…
Gerard Butler is now in negotiations for the lead role in disaster thriller Greenland about a family's fight for survival in the face of a cataclysmic natural disaster. He is due to re-team on the project with director Ric Roman Waugh (Angel Has Fallen), with principal photography slated for May in Toronto.
STX is…
