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With Game of Thrones having just returned to HBO with new episodes this week, all eyes are on the man who plays Lannister, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, a fine actor who has landed another current project also definitely worth checking out. In the new film Shot Caller, which had its world premiere at the LA Film Festival and…

EXCLUSIVE: As Game of Thrones starts season seven Sunday on HBO, discussion might soon turn to who among the ever-thinning cast will have the best chance of following the series with movie stardom after the battle for the Seven Kingdoms is settled. Sean Bean already had a screen career to return to when his Ned Stark…

Shot Caller, which is being distributed next month by Saban Films and Lionsgate in select theaters and VOD, follows the harrowing journey of successful businessman Jacob Harlon (Nicolaj Coster-Waldau) who is transformed into Money, a stoic, ruthless prison gangster after a DUI sends him down the rabbit hole of the…

Saban Films — which last week picked up the rights to Alexandros Avranas' True Crimes starring Jim Carrey and also grabbed John Stockwell's sci-fi thriller Armed Response from WWE Studios, Gene Simmons and Erebus Pictures — has just acquired another project. This latest is director Ric Roman Waugh's crime drama Shot Ca…

James Buckley will make his U.S. feature debut in Connor4real, the Lonely Island movie being produced by Judd Apatow. Andy Samberg stars as a rapper whose album bombs and leaves him with little career choice other than to re-form his old boy band. Buckley will play Sponge, a member of Samberg’s entourage. The British…

Benjamin Bratt has lined up a pair projects — one for Netflix and the other for Bold Films/Participant/Relativity. First, Bratt has been cast in Ricky Gervais’ satirical comedy Special Correspondents about a New York based radio journalist (Eric Bana) whose arrogance and decadent lifestyle has hindered his career…

Charlize Theron-starrer The Coldest City was among the hot projects coming into this Cannes market. A few days before the proceedings kicked off, Focus Features pounced on North American rights to the spy thriller that’ll be directed by John Wick helmers David Leitch and Chad Stahelski and which is backed by Sierra/Aff…

Rose McGowan has been tapped to star in the indie psychological thriller Lower Bay from producer Michele Weisler. She will play Kelly Johansen, a best-selling author who investigates ghost sightings. Richard Gunn will play her fiancé, and Christopher Lloyd is set as a mysterious man who crosses paths with Kelly in an…

In what can be seen as the first big deal prior to the opening of the Cannes Film Festival, Relativity Studios is in final negotiations to pick up Bold Film’s next film, Shot Caller and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, who stars as Jamie Lannister in HBO’s hit series Game of Thrones, has just been cast in the lead of the film…

Bold Films, the production company behind the critically acclaimed films Whiplash and Nightcrawler as well as Ryan Gosling’s Lost River, has just joined with Participant Media which has produced such films as Good Night, and Good Luck, Syriana, An Inconvenient Truth, Food, Inc., The Help (to name a few) to produce a…