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It’s been a long, strange trip for Kidnap, the thriller starring Halle Berry as a mom who won’t sit idly by after her son is abducted. It was among the films caught in the Relativity kerfuffle, and its release date has been less carved in stone than in wet sand on a shoreline. But here it is: The official first…

EXCLUSIVE: Relativity Studios is in negotiations with Andrea Riseborough to play the villain in The Crow, the revamp of the fantasy pic that The Hallow‘s Corin Hardy is directing. Boardwalk Empire‘s Jack Huston is already aboard to play Eric Draven, portrayed by Brandon Lee in the 1994 original. Claire Wilson wrote…

EXCLUSIVE: Willem Dafoe is joining Gerard Butler, Billy Bob Thornton and Common for Relativity Studios' submarine thriller Hunter Killer. The film concerns a renegade Russian military leader whose actions lead to the brink of war with the U.S. It’s then up to an elite U.S. Navy unit to stop him from causing World War…

EuropaCorp said today it has pushed the release date of its franchise reboot The Transporter Refueled from mid-June to September 4. Luc Besson’s company says the move puts the film into the same fall-release zone when the other pics in the series bowed. It also said the new date will capitalize on the cast's ability…

Eric Bress, the writer-director of The Butterfly Effect and scribe of Final Destination 2, has sold the spec American Drifter to Relativity Studios. Deal marks the second script Bress has sold in four weeks, the last being American Hostage to Bill Block at Merced Media. American Drifter centers on a man who loses his…

EXCLUSIVE: Hot off the web release of a short film that demonstrates franchise potential for an ass-kicking teenage exorcist, the Rebecca Sonnenshine spec script Realm just sold to Relativity Studios in a mid-six-figure deal. Scott Speer is attached to direct. In the short, a young woman (played here by Adelaide Kane)…

EXCLUSIVE: The Crow will take flight with Jack Huston now set to play the starring role originated by Brandon Lee. Huston has closed his deal to play Eric Draven, the tragic hero in a film that will be directed by The Hallow‘s Corin Hardy and will begin production in 2015. He’ll do this after he finishes shooting the…

EXCLUSIVE: Relativity Studios is on the final lap to acquire the script for a Jesse Owens biopic that has Anthony Mackie aboard to star as the heroic American sprinter who dominated the 1936 Berlin Olympics much to the chagrin of Adolf Hitler. If the deal makes the studio will also finance the project, I’m told, which…

Relativity Studios and Lantica Media are partnering to co-produce and co-finance thriller Our Father, written and directed by Frank E. Flowers. Relativity's Matt Alvarez and Lantica Media's production arm are overseeing the project. Filming will take place at the new Pinewood Dominican Republic Studios, a Lantica…