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EXCLUSIVE:  Range Media Partners has signed award-winning screenwriter, director, novelist, cinematographer, and musician S. Craig Zahler, Deadline has learned. "We are deeply honored to partner with UTA and work with Craig. There's one Zahler on the planet. And that's for good reason. He's a true multi hyphenate. And…

I have been watching closely the career of writer-director S. Craig Zahler, who tackles different genres with a style and ferocity not often seen these days. He did that to the western format in the cult hit Bone Tomahawk and followed up with an equally brutal peek into the prison system in Brawl in Cell Block 99. Now…

EXCLUSIVE: Unannounced, the fledgling distribution label of former Works UK CEO Laurence Gornall, has picked up UK rights to the S. Craig Zahler-scripted comedy horror Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich. The reimagining of the 1989 cult film, in which all hell breaks loose when a strange force animates the puppets up…

Vince Vaughn is back at the Venice Film Festival this year with a second-in-a-row starring role in a gritty crime thriller by Bone Tomahawk writer/director S. Craig Zahler. Last year, they were here for Brawl In Cell Block 99 and today will present Dragged Across Concrete out of competition. The film marks another…

The Jim Henson Company has acquired film rights to Hug Chickenpenny: The Panegyric of an Anomolous Child, the upcoming novel from Bone Tomahawk and Brawl in Cell Block 99 filmmaker S. Craig Zahler. He will direct the film version of his gothic, Dickensian take on The Elephant Man, which hits shelves next month. Zahler…

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Vince Vaughn, Dario Argento, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Edgar Wright, Tommy Wiseau and Paul Williams are spotlighted in the films of the 2017 Beyond Fest, which kicks off late this month. Billed as the biggest genre festival in Los Angeles, the slate features 23 west coast premieres and 32 events…

EXCLUSIVE: Vince Vaughn is returning to the Venice Film Festival this week after last year's triumphant Lido world premiere of Mel Gibson's Hacksaw Ridge. This time, he'll be in town with S. Craig Zahler's Brawl in Cell Block 99. The action/crime thriller is screening out of competition and also stars Jennifer…

Mel Gibson and Vince Vaughn are set to star in the crime thriller Dragged Across Concrete. Written and directed by Bone Tomahawk's S. Craig Zahler, this is a hot project for the upcoming European Film Market in Berlin, where Bloom is handling international sales. This marks a re-team for Gibson and Vaughn. Gibson…

EXCLUSIVE: Dexter and Limitless actress Jennifer Carpenter has been cast in the indie film Brawl in Cell Block 99 opposite Vince Vaughn. Written and directed by S. Craig Zahler (Bone Tomahawk), the story follows Bradley, a former boxer who loses his job as an auto mechanic as his troubled marriage is about to end…

EXCLUSIVE: 20th Century Fox has closed a big deal for screen rights to the S. Craig Zahler novel Wraiths Of The Broken Land, so that it could reunite the dream team behind the Best Picture Oscar-nominated hit The Martian. Ridley Scott has made a deal to direct with Drew Goddard to write the script. The film will be…

Bone Tomahawk writer-director S. Craig Zahler has signed on to write Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich, which will serve as a reboot of the Full Moon Features horror franchise created by Charles Band. Di Bonaventura Pictures and Caliber Media have teamed to option rights with the idea to produce multiple storylines…

Jack-of-all-trades S. Craig Zahler made his directorial debut this year with the bloody frightening horror-western Bone Tomahawk, which is the other Kurt Russell-starring western that everyone is talking about. It's a film that demonstrates a singular voice—a voice that is intensely focused, open and unafraid. Below…