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Shoot is due to get underway next month in Canada on thriller Cold Providence, which is set to star Karl Urban (The Boys) and Malin Akerman (Billions). Bill Jones and Ben Timlett are directing. James Gammon has written from a story by Ken Tuohy. Bleiberg/Dimbort is handling world sales at the EFM in Berlin this week…

Before moderator Aisha Tyler kicked things off for Amazon’s The Boys panel she called out anyone who brought their kids to Ballroom 20 for the panel because it is a very “adult” anti-hero superhero series — and she dropped an F-bomb for good measure. The series is based on the comic by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson…

A member of Comic Con royalty joined Amazon's The Boys today onstage in New York as Simon Pegg made a surprise visit to announce he is joining the Amazon series. Walking out with a “hello everybody,” the Shaun of the Dead, Star Trek and Mission: Impossible alum said he will play the father of Hughie, the character he…

Karl Urban has been tapped to star in Amazon's straight-to-series superhero drama The Boys. Written by Eric Kripke based on the comic book by Garth Ennis (Preacher) and Darick Robertson, The Boys is set in a world where superheroes embrace the darker side of their massive celebrity and fame. It revolves around a group…

Karl Urban, Ashley Greene and Forrest Goodluck have been set to star in Snowblind, a psychological thriller adapted from the Dan Roff novel that will mark the feature directorial debut of Marcus Alqueres, whose visual effects credits include 300, Rise of the Planet of the Apes and The Adventures of Tintin. Written by…

“I don’t want to see them die for what I did,” growls Al Pacino as the grizzled homicide detective in Johnny Martin’s upcoming crime thriller Hangman. This new trailer doesn’t make clear exactly what Pacino did – whether he missed a vowel or consonant in the child’s game of the title, or maybe something worse – but…

AMBI Media Group/ Deadly Codes Productions’ revenge thriller Bent has tapped Karl Urban, Sofia Vergara, and Andy Garcia as leads in the film, written and directed by Bobby Moresco. Based on characters created by Joseph O'Donnell, the pic is set to begin filming in Rome this month. It's follows Danny Gallagher (Urban)…

Al Pacino, Karl Urban, and Brittany Snow are set for director Johnny Martin’s crime thriller Hangman, with a script from Michael Caissie and Charles Huttinger. Rooster Films, repping  Caissie and Huttinger, confirmed the castings tonight. Pacino will play a homicide detective who teams up with Urban's criminal…

REFRESH FOR UPDATES Anton Yelchin’s Star Trek costars and colleagues expressed sadness and shock today, as news spread of the actor’s death. Star Trek Beyond director Justin Lin, Chris Doohan, son of original Star Trek actor James Doohan, Yelchin’s Star Trek reboot costars Zachary Quinto, Karl Urban, and John Cho, and…

Two months out from the film’s theatrical debut, Disney has released the first official trailer for the remake of its 1977 semi-classic Pete’s Dragon. Unlike the previous teaser released back in February, the new trailer is chock full of new footage, including, at last, a look at the reimagined dragon. In the original…

EXCLUSIVE: ICM Partners has just signed Karl Urban, who’ll reprise his role as Enterprise doc Bones in the third installment of that franchise that will shoot in April. Urban, who first burst on the scene in the Lord Of The Rings films, was last seen in the Fox/Bad Robot series Almost Human. He also starred in The Bour…

UPDATE: After setting psychological thriller The Loft for a summer 2014 debut, Universal’s also slotted its Zac Efron starrer Townies for a 2014 debut. The comedy stars Efron, Seth Rogen, and Rose Byrne in the tale of a young couple forced to move in with their newborn baby right next to a frat house. Nick Stoller (Get…