EXCLUSIVE: The Wedding Singer and Around The World In 80 Days filmmaker Frank Coraci is set to direct The Legend Of Sinbad for The Expendables outfit Millennium and Middle East firm Eagle Films. The big canvas English-language film will be based on the iconic One Thousand And One Nights character Sinbad, a fictional…

EXCLUSIVE: Millennium Films' Red Sonja film with Bryan Singer is being put on the back burner. After the movie was on the slate last year at the American Film Market, the prolific U.S. mini-studio has told us, “the project is not on the slate at the moment and is not for sale at the EFM in Berlin." Embattled Bohemian R…

EXCLUSIVE: Millennium Films has pacted with Russian businessman Andrey Georgiev on its upcoming slate of films as an investor and executive producer, including The Outpost, a film about American military valor based on CNN anchor and Chief Washington correspondent Jake Tapper’s best-selling book about one of the…

Bryan Singer looks to be getting a second chance in town close to a year after he was fired off 20th Century Fox’s Bohemian Rhapsody and his studio offices shut down, with the filmmaker in talks to direct Millennium’s Red Sonja remake. Millennium has been trying to reboot the 1985 Arnold Schwarzenegger film for the…

EXCLUSIVE: Mel Gibson and Colin Farrell are set to star in War Pigs, a Millennium Films actioner that Tommy Wirkola will direct, with Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Mark Vahradian producing through di Bonaventura Productions, along with Millennium’s Avi Lerner, and Matt Berenson. Christa Campbell and Lati Grobman are also…

EXCLUSIVE: Kate Winslet, Diane Keaton and Mia Wasikowska have been to set to star in Blackbird, an English-language remake of Bille August’s 2014 Danish-language pic Silent Heart. The Millennium Films pic will be directed by Notting Hill and My Cousin Rachel helmer Roger Michell and penned by the original movie’s…

EXCLUSIVE: Millennium Films has tapped Ashley Edward Miller to pen the screenplay for Red Sonja, the feature film based on the comic book heroine from the 1970s. The female-strong project is being financed by Millennium and produced by the company along with Mark Canton and Courtney Solomon of Cinelou, Christa…

John Thompson, who brought The Expendables to movies as the head of production at Millennium Films, has died. He was 71 and passed away Tuesday after a battle with leukemia, according to a Millennium spokeswoman. Thompson started at Millennium in 1996, producing three Expendables films, as well as the Jason Staham…

EXCLUSIVE: Last year was very good and long overdue for Holt McCallany with the journeyman’s lead in Netflix's Mindhunter and now 2018 looks to hit similar heights. With a couple of months before production on Season 2 of the David Fincher and Charlize Theron EP'd drama kicks off, I've learned that the Justice League…

EXCLUSIVE: Millennium Films is looking for the next Gal Gadot. With the success of female superhero feature Wonder Woman having smashed box office records, another female heroine is running headlong with sword in hand to the big screen. Sheena: Queen of the Jungle, the fictional American comic book jungle girl, is now…

EXCLUSIVE: The Detail was a film that was expected to star Keanu Reeves with the well-regarded second unit director Simon Crane making his feature film directorial debut. The action/adventure film was to shoot in South Africa starting on October 14 and end by Christmas. Producer/financier Steve Richards at Endurance…

UPDATED with comment from Avi Lerner: A former employee today sued Avi Lerner and his Millennium Films and Nu Image Entertainment in a wide-ranging complaint that includes sexual harassment, hostile work environment and gender discrimination. The defendant, listed as Jane Roe, worked at Nu Image for five years until…