EXCLUSIVE: Briarcliff Entertainment has acquired U.S. rights to El Chicano, a Latino superhero film with an all-Hispanic cast that just had its premiere at the Los Angeles Film Festival. It’s the second film for Briarcliff, the upstart distribution venture launched by Open Road founder Tom Ortenberg, after just…

Byron Allen’s Entertainment Studios has acquired distribution rights to the $45M action-thriller Boss Level from writer-director Joe Carnahan. The film starrng Frank Grillo, Ken Jeong, Mel Gibson, and Naomi Watts will get a U.S. theatrical release next year from the studio. Entertainment Studios released the…

EXCLUSIVE: The Hangover & Dr. Ken actor Ken Jeong and newcomer Mathilde Ollivier are set to play opposite Mel Gibson, Frank Grillo and Naomi Watts in Boss Level, the Emmett/Furla/Oasis Films’ action thriller directed by Joe Carnahan. The pic centers on Roy (Grillo), a retired Special Forces veteran who is trapped in a…

EXCLUSIVE: Annabelle Wallis has joined Mel Gibson and Frank Grillo in Boss Level, which Joe Carnahan wrote and is directing. Carnahan’s producing with Randall Emmett, George Furla and Grillo. A retired special forces officer is trapped in a never-ending time loop on the day of his death. Wallis will play Alice, a…

EXCLUSIVE: Mel Gibson and Frank Grillo are in talks to star in Boss Level, an action thriller that Joe Carnahan will direct next year. The premise: Every day, a retired special forces veteran (Grillo) is trapped in a never-ending loop resulting in his death. In order to stop his endless suffering, he must figure out…

EXCLUSIVE: El Chicano producer Joe Carnahan said that "all safety protocols were followed to the T" in the run-up to last week's on-set accident in Calgary when a stunt car and a taco truck collided and sent another car crashing into the camera platform as the camera crew went scrambling. He said a cameraman's claims…

Joe Carnahan has come aboard to write and direct and Frank Grillo has been set to star in The Raid, a new take on the martial arts film franchise launched by Gareth Evans in 2012. It got a sequel in 2014. The pic will be produced by Carnahan and Grillo’s nascent production outfit WarParty and XYZ Films, the latter of…

EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures has set Shawn Levy to direct Uncharted, the long-awaited live-action feature film based on the PlayStation video game series featuring the treasure hunter Nathan Drake. Joe Carnahan, who wrote the most recent script draft, had an eye to direct, but he has moved over to focus on helming Sony’s B…

Sony temporarily is removing the feature adaptation of its PlayStation game Uncharted from the calendar. The project still is going forward, and the studio as well as the pic’s writer Joe Carnahan — who tweeted his excitement last week — is “loving what they’re seeing,” per one insider, “Joe has a completely fresh…

It’s a day ending in “y”, and so it is that Donald Trump has sparked another firestorm of criticism this morning, and in doing so landed himself the honor of being called “a POS” (piece of sh**) by House of Lies star Don Cheadle. The cause: a tweet politicizing the tragic death of 32-year-old Nykea Aldridge, cousin of…

EXCLUSIVE: DreamWorks and filmmaker Joe Carnahan have parted ways on the long-in-development project Motorcade about a disgraced Secret Service agent who gets embroiled in a kidnapping attempt of the President of the United States as the Commander-in-Chief’s motorcade makes its way through Los Angeles. The project has…

Mark Donald’s memoir Battle Ready: Memoir Of A Seal Warrior Medic  is being developed for television by Joe Carnahan (The Blacklist, State Of Affairs) who is set to write the series adaptation and direct. Battle Ready tells the story of retired Navy SEAL Mark L. Donald, former Marine, combat medic, and physician’s…