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EXCLUSIVE: Break, which is one of Rutger Hauer’s finals movies, will be getting a multiplatform release via Conduit Presents, the distribution division of Conduit Now. Conduit Presents acquired the Michael Elkin-directed crime sports drama and has set a release for Jan. 5, 2021. Break follows a young inner city kid…

EXCLUSIVE: Euro thriller The Sonata, starring Freya Tingley (Hemlock Grove), Simon Abkarian (Casino Royale) and the late Rutger Hauer (Blade Runner) in one of his last roles, has sold to France and a handful of Asian markets. On the heels of its North American deal to Screen Media, the film has sold to France with…

The world-weary gaze and sculpted features of Rutger Hauer made his face one of the most compelling countenances in genre film history — whether he was portraying haunted souls of broken nobility (Blade Runner, Ladyhawke, Blind Fury, Escape from Sobibor), malevolent men on a mission (Nighthawks, The Hitcher, Hobo with…

In a nod to Paul Verhoeven's cult 1969 series, Floris star Rutger Hauer in 2014 was tapped for a recurring role on Dan Fogelman's ABC musical fairytale comedy series Galavant. It was an inspired casting, and Fogelman today remembered fondly the beloved genre actor who died July 19 at age 75 after a long illness. "I…

Rutger Hauer, the actor who played the villainous Roy Batty in Ridley Scott’s sci-fi classic Blade Runner in a career in which he became a staple in genre films, died July 19 in his native the Netherlands after a long illness. He was 75. A funeral was held today, Hauer’s agent Steve Kenis told Deadline. Hauer was born…

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…