EXCLUSIVE: Shout! Studios has acquired all North American distribution rights to the neo-Western thriller Head Count, from Continuance Pictures and Method Media. Filmmakers Jacob and Ben Burghart — together known as The Burghart Brothers — are directing in their feature debut, from their script written with Josh Doke…
EXCLUSIVE: Ryan Kwanten (True Blood) and Oscar winner J.K. Simmons (Whiplash) — also nominated this year for Being The Ricardos — have been set to star in supernatural horror movie Glorious, we can reveal.
The film, which is quietly nearing completion, has an intriguing premise. Kwanten plays a young man who is…
FX has rounded out the series regular cast for drama pilot Kindred, based on an adaptation of Octavia E. Butler's influential novel. Joining newcomer Mallori Johnson, who stars, are Micah Stock, Ryan Kwanten, Gayle Rankin, Austin Smith, Antoinette Crowe-Legacy and David Alexander Kaplan.
The project hails from writer…
EXCLUSIVE: XYZ Films has signed on to handle worldwide sales rights to Oz sci-fi thriller 2067, starring Kodi Smit-McPhee (X:Men) and Ryan Kwanten (True Blood).
Previously with Content Media, the film marks writer-director Seth Larney's (Tombiruo) English-language directorial debut. The movie takes place in a world…
Oscar nominee Juliette Lewis (Ma, The Act, August: Osage County), Ryan Kwanten (TheOath, True Blood) and newcomer Jordan Alexander in her first major leading role, are set as series regulars in Sacred Lies: The Singing Bones, the second season of the anthology series from Blumhouse Television for Facebook Watch…
EXCLUSIVE: Futurism Studios, the film and TV arm of online tech and science forum Futurism, is joining its first narrative feature in the shape of Oz sci-fi 2067, starring X-Men's Kodi Smit-McPhee and True Blood's Ryan Kwanten.
Futurism’s Jason Taylor, previously president of production at Bryan Singer's Bad Hat Harry…
EXCLUSIVE: Ambitious Chinese buyer JL Vision has picked up rights to Oz sci-fi-thriller 2067 starring X-Men's Kodi Smit-McPhee and Ryan Kwanten (True Blood).
JL Vision is lining up a 10,000+ screen release next year in China for the recently shot film which is set in a deforested and oxygen-deprived world reeling from…
Sony Crackle has dropped the official trailer for the upcoming Season 2 of The Oath, the cops-and-cartel action series starring Ryan Kwanten, Cory Hardrict and Katrina Law.
The eight all-new episodes will be available on the streaming service Thursday, Feb. 21 (with a sneak peek on Amazon devices through the Sony…
EXCLUSIVE: Ryan Kwanten (True Blood) and Kodi Smit-McPhee (X-Men Apocalypse) lead cast in climate-change sci-fi-thriller 2067, which is now underway in Australia.
Also starring are Deborah Mailman (The Sapphires), Aaron Glenane (Killing Ground), Damian Walshe-Howling (Mystery Road), Leeanna Walsman (Safe Harbour)…
Ryan Kwanten (True Blood, The Oath) and Anabelle Acosta (Quantico, Ballers) are co-starring in Kill Chain, the thriller from Millennium Media and CineTel Films that is being toplined by Nicolas Cage. Reef Break, Blue Bloods and Numbers alum Ken Sanzel wrote and directed the pic, which has just wrapped production in…
Former True Blood star Ryan Kwanten is set for a lead role opposite Sean Bean in Crackle’s upcoming drama series The Oath, executive produced by Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson (Power) and his G-Unit Film & Television. In addition, Kwanten will serve as a producer on the series.
Kwanten will play Steve Hammond, son of Tom…
About a dozen actors have committed to joining their agent, Sean Grumman, at WME. The talent representative landed at WME last month after a long stint at CAA.
Following him to WME are Milo Ventimiglia, star of NBC's breakout new drama This Is Us; Troy Garity (Ballers, Boss); Ryan Kwanten (True Blood); Rosewood star Ja…