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EXCLUSIVE: Saban Films has acquired U.S. and Canadian rights to AGC International and Image Nation Abu Dhabi's action picture The Ambush and set an October release for the Emirati production which marks its first non-English language acquisition. The film, directed by French action maestro Pierre Morel (Taken), is the…

EXCLUSIVE: F9: The Fast Saga and The Suicide Squad star John Cena is in negotiations to star in Pierre Morel (Taken) action-comedy film Freelance, which Stuart Ford’s AGC will be selling at the upcoming virtual American Film Market. Endurance Media’s Steve Richards will produce the package alongside Sentient…

Nick Jonas (Jumanji) and Laurence Fishburne (Matrix) have signed on to star in Pierre Morel (Taken) action-thriller The Blacksmith, which AGC is financing and producing. Morel and Liam Neeson had enormous success with action franchise Taken. This time it will be Jonas with the very particular set of skills. The actor…

Taken filmmaker Pierre Morel has been set to direct action-thriller The Blacksmith, screenwriter Ben Ripley’s (Source Code) adaptation of the graphic novel by Malik Evans and Richard Sparkman. Jon Shestack (Air Force One) will produce with Jason Netter (Wanted), and Jeremy Stein, with AGC Studios’ Stuart Ford…

EXCLUSIVE: French director Pierre Morel is attached to direct a new film about France's most wanted criminal, Rédoine Faïd, who was just recaptured by French police last week after a daring helicopter escape from a penitentiary in July 2018. Condé Nast Entertainment and Sentient Entertainment have partnered to produce…

“Corrupt judges, dirty cops. What do I want? I want justice.” So says the grieving mom-turned-urban guerrilla played by Jennifer Garner at the start of this first trailer for Peppermint, setting up the mayhem that comes when an evil cartel picks the wrong mother to victimize. Directed by Pierre Morel (Taken) from a…

French director Pierre Morel, who directed Liam Neeson’s first Taken installment and most recently the Jennifer Garner-led thriller Peppermint, has been tapped to helm sci-fi thriller The New Mrs. Keller for Lakeshore Entertainment. Danish actor Claes Bang, star of the Oscar-nominated film The Square, is attached as…

EXCLUSIVE: Lit management/producer Sentient has acquired Tony Mosher’s survival thriller spec script Sirius in competitive bidding, and Taken helmer Pierre Morel has been set to direct it. The film tells the story of two members of a Danish special forces dog sled team — one a sage veteran and the other a bold new…

EXCLUSIVE: Jennifer Garner is in talks to star in Peppermint, the Chad St. John-scripted action film for Lakeshore that will be directed by Pierre Morel. At the same time, the film is in the process of moving: STXfilms is in talks to distribute the film worldwide. It looked like Lionsgate had secured worldwide rights…

EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate will close a deal with Lakeshore to distribute worldwide Peppermint, the Chad St. John-scripted action film that will be directed by Pierre Morel, sources said. Lakeshore is co-financing. Lionsgate is co-financing and co-producing. The high-action revenge premise has gotten the film likened to John…

EXCLUSIVE: UTA just emerged victorious in a signing derby for Taken director Pierre Morel. The filmmaker had been repped by CAA and had been in play since his agent Spencer Baumgarten left. Baumgarten, now at ICM Partners, was in the mix, as was Verve, but the team at UTA won the day. Morel, who came up as a…

EXCLUSIVE: Matthew Sand, who wrote the original screenplay for Peter Berg’s Deepwater Horizon, which stars Mark Wahlberg and has its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival next Tuesday, is writing a mini-series for the BBC entitled Lionhearts about the Third Crusade of Richard the Lionheart and the battle for…