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In the midst of the fall festival season when studios roll out their most prestigious Oscar contenders, why not take a timeout from all that serious stuff, sit back and watch director-writer Joe Carnahan take us on a tightfisted, machismo-infused, ultraviolent B-movie ride? Since the heydays of primo movie bad guys…

EXCLUSIVE: Open Road Films, which didn’t pull back on theatrical releases for cinemas during the pandemic like other studios, has set a release date of September 17 for its Gerard Butler action movie Copshop from Joe Carnahan. Written by Carnahan and Kurt McLeod, Copshop follows a wily con artist who is on the run…

EXCLUSIVE: Hulu has struck an eight-figure deal for U.S. distribution rights to the Joe Carnahan-directed action sci-fi movie Boss Level starring Frank Grillo, Naomi Watts, Mel Gibson, Will Sasso, Ken Jeong, Annabelle Wallis, Michelle Yeoh and Selina Lo. The completed film will debut as a Hulu Original in 2021 after…

EXCLUSIVE: Alexis Louder (Watchmen) has come on board to star opposite Gerard Butler and Frank Grillo in the Joe Carnahan-directed action thriller CopShop, which just resumed production in Georgia after being temporarily halted because three crew members tested positive for COVID-19. Carnahan penned the most recent…

Mel Gibson and Frank Grillo are leading the cast of Joe Carnahan's thriller Leo From Toledo, which MadRiver International is launching on its AFM slate. Pic follows a former killer for the Kansas City mob, now hiding in witness protection, who has trouble with his memory. When his past catches up with him and he…

Frank Grillo (Avengers: Endgame) and Joe Carnahan’s (The Grey) production company Warparty has struck a partnership with Shanghai-based financier Starlight Entertainment Group. The “far-reaching strategic partnership” is to develop and produce global content with a focus on elevated genre features and it comes as…

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…