STXfilms has acquired domestic distribution rights to Greenland, a disaster thriller that will be the next film from Angel Has Fallen director Ric Roman Waugh and that film’s star Gerard Butler. The studio said it is eyeing a May production start on the pic from Thunder Road Films and Anton. STXinternational already…

Gerard Butler is now in negotiations for the lead role in disaster thriller Greenland about a family's fight for survival in the face of a cataclysmic natural disaster. He is due to re-team on the project with director Ric Roman Waugh (Angel Has Fallen), with principal photography slated for May in Toronto. STX is…

EXCLUSIVE: Piper Perabo, best known for toplining USA’s drama series, Covert Affairs, has come aboard the third installment to the Olympus Has Fallen series, Angel Has Fallen, starring Gerard Butler and Morgan Freeman. Ric Roman Waugh is directing the sequel, which follows Mike Banning (Butler) as he continues to be a…

Ric Roman Waugh is eyeing the director’s chair to Angel Has Fallen, the next installment of the Olympus Has Fallen franchise. Gerard Butler is set to reprise his role as secret service agent Mike Banning with Morgan Freeman on board to return as well. Angel Has Fallen follows Banning as he continues to be a target of…

EXCLUSIVE: As Game of Thrones starts season seven Sunday on HBO, discussion might soon turn to who among the ever-thinning cast will have the best chance of following the series with movie stardom after the battle for the Seven Kingdoms is settled. Sean Bean already had a screen career to return to when his Ned Stark…

Shot Caller, which is being distributed next month by Saban Films and Lionsgate in select theaters and VOD, follows the harrowing journey of successful businessman Jacob Harlon (Nicolaj Coster-Waldau) who is transformed into Money, a stoic, ruthless prison gangster after a DUI sends him down the rabbit hole of the…

Saban Films — which last week picked up the rights to Alexandros Avranas' True Crimes starring Jim Carrey and also grabbed John Stockwell's sci-fi thriller Armed Response from WWE Studios, Gene Simmons and Erebus Pictures — has just acquired another project. This latest is director Ric Roman Waugh's crime drama Shot Ca…

Ric Roman Waugh (Felon, Snitch) has signed on to direct and rewrite Relativity Media’s sci-fi thriller that is currently titled Tipping Point, based on Todd Stein’s original screenplay. Tipping Point is a sci-fi thriller with a dark view of an overpopulated future in which the penalty for having children without a…

Dwayne Johnson goes undercover to nail a drug cartel to free his imprisoned son who was set up for a bust. Snitch is slated for February 22nd, and Johnson has at least four other movies coming out next year: G.I. Joe: Retaliation on March 29, Pain & Gain on April…

EXCLUSIVE: Participant Media has acquired Currency, a script by Mark DiStefano (Modern Sherlock Holmes) that has Ric Roman Waugh attached to direct. Anonymous Content’s Steve Golin and Alix Madigan will produce. The drama focuses on two Secret Service agents in pursuit of a private mercenary’s powerful and…

EXCLUSIVE: Ric Roman Waugh is in negotiations to direct Summit Entertainment and Participant Media's Deepwater Horizon, the drama about the April 20, 2010 of the oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico that caused a massive offshore oil spill that created what’s considered to be the second largest U.S. environmental disaster…

EXCLUSIVE: WME has just signed Ric Roman Waugh, the stuntman-turned-director who just wrapped Snitch with Dwayne Johnson. Waugh, a stuntman for two decades before he made his directing debut with Felon, had been a client of ICM Partners’ Nicole Clemens and was in play when she left recently to become a senior developme…