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UPDATED with Nu Image statement: Nu Image, one of the defendants in Gerard Butler’s lawsuit alleging he is owed profits over the 2013 action film Olympus Has Fallen, has responded to last week’s action. "There is no merit to Mr. Butler's claim,” a spokesperson said Wednesday. “Nu Image has been open and transparent…

EXCLUSIVE: In a surprising turn, we have learned that Brett Ratner is lining up a directing comeback on his long-time passion project about pop duo Milli Vanilli. Millennium Media is teaming up with Ratner’s RatPac Entertainment on the project and is launching sales ahead of the upcoming virtual EFM. This would mark…

The Expendables and The Hitman’s Bodyguard producer Millennium has re-opened its Bulgarian film and TV studios Nu Boyana after getting a green-light to do so from the government, the firm has told us. Millennium says that “safety protocols are in place”, though the country has only recently begun easing a strict…

Lionsgate on Thursday released the trailer for Rambo: Last Blood, marking the return of the 37-year-old franchise made famous by Sylvester Stallone. It takes the wraps off the film for everyone else after the Cannes Film Festival got a taste of it last week during a festival tribute to Stallone. The fifth pic in the…

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…