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Sunday AM Update with chart after Friday 11:04PM and Saturday AM update: While it’s often written that the weekend that lands prior to or around Halloween is deathly slow, it really depends on what the studios put on the marquee. We could have said the same thing about the third weekend in October, that it’s just a…

Submarine movies are a genre unto themselves in Hollywood, which has been churning them out for as long as anyone can remember. There are some pretty good ones like Das Boot, The Hunt for Red October, Crimson Tide, Run Silent Run Deep and my favorite, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.  And then there is Hunter Killer. Now…

When the Russian President is kidnapped by a rogue general, the U.S. Navy SEALs come to the rescue working alongside the Russians to bring their him back. That is the premise of the new Summit military actioner Hunter Killer that stars Gerard Butler, Gary Oldman, Common, Toby Stephens and Linda Cardellini. The…

Hunter Killer, the project that was at one time on the Relativity slate, will open this fall from Lionsgate’s Summit label. The actioner starring Gerard Butler, Darkest Hour Oscar winner Gary Oldman and Michael Nyqvist, will drop into theaters on October 26 in wide release. Directed by Donovan Marsh, Hunter Killer was…

EXCLUSIVE: Bloodline‘s Linda Cardellini has been cast in Hunter Killer, the Millennium Films action thriller being directed by Donovan Marsh. Penned by Peter Craig and Jamie Moss and based on the novel Firing Point by George Wallace and Don Keith, the pic revolves around an American submarine commander (Gerard Butler)…

EXCLUSIVE: Toby Stephens, who next year will reprise his role as Captain Flint in Starz's fourth and final season of Black Sails, will star opposite Gerard Butler in Millennium’s action thriller Hunter Killer. The story revolves around an American submarine commander (Butler) sent into Russian waters to save the…

Exclusive: Australian actor Martin Dingle Wall has joined the cast of Simon West’s Salty opposite Antonio Banderas and Olga Kurylenko. Known for such Oz TV series as Upper Middle Bogan, Home And Away and Cops LAC, he also recently starred in feature Strangerland. Salty, which began principal photography last month in…

EXCLUSIVE: Michael Trucco and Ryan McPartlin have boarded Original Film’s submarine thriller Hunter Killer. It stars Gerard Butler as an untested sub captain teamed with an elite military unit to rescue the Russian president (Gary Oldman) from an ongoing military coup. Billy Bob Thornton, Common, and Taylor John Smith…

Relativity put out back-to-back press releases tonight (both dated Thursday) stating that it had “reached a milestone” at the company. That ‘milestone’ it said was selling the Gerard Butler-starring Den of Thieves to STX for $1.2M (the sale of which was reported two months ago). It said it did so to comply with the…

Millennium Films’ submarine action-thriller has added another member to its crew, drafting Zane Holtz for a key role in the story about an untested sub captain teamed with an elite military unit to rescue the Russian president from an ongoing military coup. Joining Gerard Butler, Gary Oldman, Billy Bob Thornton…

EXCLUSIVE: Gabriel Chavarria has joined Millennium Films’ naval action thriller Hunter Killer in a key role, joining Gerard Butler, Common, and Gary Oldman in the story of an American submarine commander deployed to Russian waters in order to save the elected Russian president from a military…

Taylor John Smith (Wolves) has booked a role in Hunter Killer, starring Gerard Butler and Gary Oldman. The action thriller centers on an American submarine commander sent deep in Russian waters to save the country’s elected president in the midst of a military coup. Smith will play a sonar man on the sub. Donovan…