Ermanno Olmi, a noted Italian neorealist director whose 1978 film The Tree of Wooden Clogs won the Palme d’Or in Cannes, has died at age 86. No cause of death was given. Italian officials confirmed the passing of Olmi, whose films also include Il Posto, Walking, Walking, The Legend of the Holy Drinker and Long Live the…

EXCLUSIVE: Paul Anderson, Liam Cunningham and Rutger Hauer have joined the cast of 24 Hours to Live, a thriller from Fundamental Films and Thunder Road starring Ethan Hawke and Chinese actress Xu Qing. Production is under way in Cape Town, South Africa on the pic, which follows a career assassin who is given a chance…

EXCLUSIVE: As StarTree Productions’ upcoming vampire thriller Corbin Nash prepares to begin shooting, the cast has been filled out by genre film royalty, with Malcolm McDowell, Rutger Hauer, Bruce Davison and Corey Feldman signing on. The film sees Dean Jagger (Game of Thrones season 6) as the title character, a New…

Floris, meet Galavant. In a nod to Paul Verhoeven’s cult 1969 series and a case of perfect casting, Floris star Rutger Hauer has been tapped for a recurring role on Dan Fogelman’s midseason musical fairytale comedy series Galavant, about a knight (Joshua Sasse) taking on the evil King Richard (Timothy Omundson) who…