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EXCLUSIVE: We also hear today that Hugh Grant is in talks to join Guy Ritche’s latest action thriller formerly known as Five Eyes at Miramax and STX. The deal is not done yet. Grant would join Jason Statham, Aubrey Plaza, Josh Hartnett and Cary Elwes. Grant recently worked with Ritchie on Miramax/STX’s The…

EXCLUSIVE: British rapper Bugzy Malone (The Gentlemen) has joined Jason Statham (Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw), Aubrey Plaza (Parks And Recreation) and Cary Elwes (Stranger Things) in Guy Ritchie’s untitled thriller movie, which gets underway in Doha, Qatar, tomorrow. The film reunites Ritchie once again with…

EXCLUSIVE: Cary Elwes has joined the upcoming Miramax/STX feature spy thriller Five Eyes which reps the fourth reteam for filmmaker Guy Ritchie and star Jason Statham. The screenplay, penned by Ivan Atkinson and Marn Davies (The Gentlemen) follows MI6 guns-and-steel agent (Statham) who is recruited by global…

EXCLUSIVE: Small Dark Look, the crime drama project formerly known as Body Cross, is becoming a real thing at Focus Features, I hear. Jason Statham is in talks to board the project which recently got a new director, Dane filmmaker Martin Zandvliet. He’s the director of the 2017 Oscar nominated foreign film Land of Mine…

EXCLUSIVE: Following her scene-stealing role in the romantic comedy Happiest Season, Aubrey Plaza is switching genres as she is set to co-star Jason Statham in the Guy Ritchie untitled thriller formally known as Five Eyes. Miramax is producing and financing with STX handling distribution. The film was sold at the TIFF…

EXCLUSIVE: In a competitive situation, German major Leonine has won rights to recently announced Jason Statham-Guy Ritchie spy thriller Five Eyes, marking the first major deal to go down during Toronto’s virtual market. The splashy pre-sale, in the high seven figures, marks one of Leonine’s most lucrative acquisitions…

EXCLUSIVE: Just like Hobbs and Shaw themselves, Universal and The Fast and the Furious franchise producer Neal Moritz have become a buddy flick again. Almost two years after Moritz took the Comcast-owned studio to court for breach of contract on the F&F spinoff starring Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham, the two sides…

After launching their careers together on Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels, Jason Statham and Guy Ritchie are reuniting on the spy thriller Five Eyes. Statham will star and Ritchie will direct and produce from a screenplay written by The Gentlemen scribes Ivan Atkinson and Marn Davies with revisions by Ritchie…

After Jason Statham stepped away from the Kevin Hart action comedy The Man From Toronto last week, a story that Deadline first reported, Woody Harrelson is now boarding, we can confirm. Filming begins in five weeks with an eye on a November 20 opening. Patrick Hughes is directing the film written by Robbie Fox, from a…

EXCLUSIVE UPDATE: Busy night for Jason Statham. He just parted company with WME, the agency that signed him away from CAA early last year. Trying to get to the bottom of this, but it was a mutual decision between agency and client, and it happened right on the heels of Statham exiting the Sony Pictures comedy The Man F…

Hollywood action and comedy heavyweights Jason Statham and Kevin Hart are in talks to star in The Man From Toronto,  which is being directed by The Expendables 3 and The Hitman’s Bodyguard helmer Patrick Hughes.  The action-comedy is slated for release November 20 via Sony Pictures. Robbie Fox (Playing for Keeps)…

EXCLUSIVE: The Virtues and Raised by Wolves' Niamh Algar is boarding Miramax's hot upcoming Guy Ritchie action thriller that stars Jason Statham. As Deadline previously revealed, the project, which reteams Ritchie and Statham for the first time since 2005’s Revolver, was acquired by MGM domestically and was one of the…