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Editors Note: Journalist-turned-filmmaker Rod Lurie just oversaw the release of The Outpost, an adaptation of a book by CNN host Jake Tapper on the courageous stand made by a small group of U.S. soldiers against hundreds of Taliban fighters in Afghanistan. Films are often graded by box office grosses, something that…

UPDATED with closing stock price. The stock of Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment shot up 26% Monday following the company’s release of chart-topping film The Outpost over the weekend. Shares closed at $9.01, their highest level since February. Rod Lurie’s Afghanistan war thriller, based on the book by CNN host…

War movies have come in every stripe over the years — good ones and bad ones and in between — but I know the difference, and Rod Lurie’s Afghanistan-set The Outpost is top of the line. If exceptional works like The Hurt Locker and Dunkirk have defined what is good in the genre in recent years, this harrowing look at…

Next week, one of the first movies to debut as theaters reopen will be The Outpost, an adaptation of Jake Tapper’s book that tells the true story of the U.S. soldiers who battled a Taliban attack on their camp in a mountainous remote area of northeastern Afghanistan. The project, directed by Rod Lurie, tells of the…

“Aren’t we supposed to be on top of the mountain to win this thing?” Here is the first trailer for Afghan War thriller The Outpost, director Rod Lurie’s adaptation of the nonfiction bestseller by CNN host Jake Tapper. It follows a small unit of U.S. soldiers, alone at the remote Combat Outpost Keating, located deep in…

EXCLUSIVE: Screen Media has acquired U.S. rights to The Outpost, the Rod Lurie-directed adapation of CNN anchor Jake Tapper’s bestselling non-fiction book The Outpost: An Untold Story of American Valor. The military thriller is about a small unit of U.S. soldiers, alone at the remote Combat Outpost Keating deep in the…

EXCLUSIVE: This week was supposed to be a great and promising one for all the filmmakers who had seen their films accepted into SXSW, a great majority seeking distribution after premiering in front of the usually highly enthusiastic audiences that storm the Austin festival every March. That was before the fear of the c…

New York-based York Films has come aboard to co-produce Millennium Media’s The Outpost, the Rod Lurie-directed Afghanistan war thriller based on the 2013 bestseller by CNN’s Jake Tapper. Scott Eastwood, Caleb Landry Jones, Milo Gibson and Orlando Bloom are already set to star in the pic, which is now set to begin…

EXCLUSIVE: Milo Gibson has signed with Alchemy Entertainment for management and is also joining Millennium Media's Rod Lurie-directed film The Outpost based on CNN anchor and chief Washington correspondent Jake Tapper’s novel. Adapted by Oscar-nominated The Fighter writing duo Paul Tamasy and Eric Johnson, The Outpost…

EXCLUSIVE: Voltage Pictures is in advanced negotiations to acquire Black Eyed Susans, a screenplay written by Rod Lurie and his wife, author Kyra Davis. Script is based on the bestselling Ballantine novel by Julia Heaberlin, and Lurie will direct it. Pic will be a co-production between Voltage, and Lurie’s Battleplan…

TNT has opted not to proceed with Monsters of God, its period drama pilot from Rod Lurie, Plan B Entertainment and Turner’s in-house studio. The project will be shopped to other outlets. In Monsters of God, written and to directed by Lurie, savagery and violence are the cornerstones of Colonel "Terrible" Bill…

TNT has given a pilot order to Rod Lurie’s post-Civil War drama Monsters of God, from Brad Pitt’s Plan B Entertainment. The project originally was set up for development at Starz three years ago. About a year ago, Monsters of God was put in turnaround and taken to TNT. The script by Lurie has been in development at…