Good news for exhibition as Lionsgate is delivering two big releases this fall: The Dave Bautista action pic The Killer’s Game on Sept. 13 and the Mel Gibson directed Mark Wahlberg movie Flight Risk for Oct. 18. Again, we can’t be without film product in a marketplace that’s starving for volume.
Meanwhile the Gerard Butler sequel Den of Thieves: Pantera will hit cinemas on Jan. 10, 2025; that title arriving to Lionsgate through its eOne acquistion.
The JJ Perry directed The Killer’s Game, based on the book by Jay R. Bonansinga and adapted by Rand Ravich and James Coyne, follows a top hitman, Joe Flood (Bautista) who is diagnosed with a terminal illness. He opts to take matters into his own hands – by taking a hit out on himself. But when the very hitmen he hired also target his ex-girlfriend (Sofia Boutella), he must fend off an army of assassin colleagues and...
Meanwhile the Gerard Butler sequel Den of Thieves: Pantera will hit cinemas on Jan. 10, 2025; that title arriving to Lionsgate through its eOne acquistion.
The JJ Perry directed The Killer’s Game, based on the book by Jay R. Bonansinga and adapted by Rand Ravich and James Coyne, follows a top hitman, Joe Flood (Bautista) who is diagnosed with a terminal illness. He opts to take matters into his own hands – by taking a hit out on himself. But when the very hitmen he hired also target his ex-girlfriend (Sofia Boutella), he must fend off an army of assassin colleagues and...
- 5/20/2024
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Filming is underway on the action-adventure movie Afterburn, starring Dave Bautista (Guardians of the Galaxy and Dune films), Samuel L. Jackson (Marvel Studios franchise), Olga Kurylenko, and Kristofer Hivju (Game of Thrones).
The film is directed by J.J. Perry, who recently helmed Lionsgate’s The Killer’s Game, also with Bautista. Afterburn is adapted for the screen by Matthew Johnson and Nimrod Antal from the Red 5 Comics title of the same name.
The picture is produced by Neal H. Moritz (Fast and Furious franchise) and Toby Jaffe (Total Recall) for Original Film, and Steve Richards for Endurance Media. Bautista will also produce for Dogbone Entertainment, along with Jonathan Meisner (Master Z: The Ip Man Legacy) and Chris Milburn (Strangers).
Black Bear introduced the film to buyers at the EFM earlier in the year and will continue selling it in Cannes. CAA Media Finance represents the US rights.
Ten years after...
The film is directed by J.J. Perry, who recently helmed Lionsgate’s The Killer’s Game, also with Bautista. Afterburn is adapted for the screen by Matthew Johnson and Nimrod Antal from the Red 5 Comics title of the same name.
The picture is produced by Neal H. Moritz (Fast and Furious franchise) and Toby Jaffe (Total Recall) for Original Film, and Steve Richards for Endurance Media. Bautista will also produce for Dogbone Entertainment, along with Jonathan Meisner (Master Z: The Ip Man Legacy) and Chris Milburn (Strangers).
Black Bear introduced the film to buyers at the EFM earlier in the year and will continue selling it in Cannes. CAA Media Finance represents the US rights.
Ten years after...
- 5/10/2024
- by Mirko Parlevliet
- Vital Thrills
Filming is now underway on action adventure movie “Afterburn,” starring Dave Bautista and Samuel L. Jackson with Olga Kurylenko and Kristofer Hivju rounding out the cast.
The film is directed by J.J. Perry, who recently helmed Lionsgate’s “The Killer’s Game,” also with Bautista, working from a screenplay adapted by Matthew Johnson and Nimrod Antal from the “Red 5” comic book of the same name.
Set ten years after a solar flare wiped out technology across the globe, “Afterburn” follows ex-soldier Jake (Bautista), who works as a treasure hunter recovering valuable objects from the old world for powerful clients. His latest mission: team up with freedom fighter Drea (Kurylenko) to recover the Mona Lisa before an unhinged warlord gets there first.
The picture is produced by Neal H. Moritz (“Fast and Furious” franchise) and Toby Jaffe (“Total Recall”) for Original Film and Steve Richards for Endurance Media. Bautista will also produce for Dogbone Entertainment,...
The film is directed by J.J. Perry, who recently helmed Lionsgate’s “The Killer’s Game,” also with Bautista, working from a screenplay adapted by Matthew Johnson and Nimrod Antal from the “Red 5” comic book of the same name.
Set ten years after a solar flare wiped out technology across the globe, “Afterburn” follows ex-soldier Jake (Bautista), who works as a treasure hunter recovering valuable objects from the old world for powerful clients. His latest mission: team up with freedom fighter Drea (Kurylenko) to recover the Mona Lisa before an unhinged warlord gets there first.
The picture is produced by Neal H. Moritz (“Fast and Furious” franchise) and Toby Jaffe (“Total Recall”) for Original Film and Steve Richards for Endurance Media. Bautista will also produce for Dogbone Entertainment,...
- 5/10/2024
- by Alex Ritman
- Variety Film + TV
Jack Champion, Sophia Lillis, Kate del Castillo, Tony Dalton, Whitney Peak, and Bobby Cannavale have joined Dave Bautista on action project Trap House, which has begun principal photography in North America on Monday (April 1).
Inde Navarrette, Zaire Adams, and Blu del Barrio (Star Trek: Discovery) have also joined the cast. Michael Dowse directs from a screenplay by Fast & Furious creator Gary Scott Thompson and Tom O’Connor.
The action film follows an undercover DEA agent and his partner who embark on a game of cat and mouse with a group of thieves, who turn out to be their own teenagers, who...
Inde Navarrette, Zaire Adams, and Blu del Barrio (Star Trek: Discovery) have also joined the cast. Michael Dowse directs from a screenplay by Fast & Furious creator Gary Scott Thompson and Tom O’Connor.
The action film follows an undercover DEA agent and his partner who embark on a game of cat and mouse with a group of thieves, who turn out to be their own teenagers, who...
- 4/1/2024
- ScreenDaily
Jack Champion, Sophia Lillis, Kate del Castillo, Tony Dalton, Whitney Peak and Bobby Cannavale have joined Dave Bautista in the action thriller Trap House.
The new action film follows an undercover DEA agent and his partner in El Paso, Texas, on a game of cat and mouse with a group of thieves who just happen to be their rebellious teenagers robbing from a dangerous cartel and using their parents’ tactics and top-secret intel to succeed.
Inde Navarrette, Zaire Adams and Blu del Barrio also board the indie now in production as Bautista reteams with Final Score producer Signature Films, an arm of U.K. indie distributor Signature Entertainment.
Trap House is directed by Michael Dowse from a script by Fast & Furious creator Gary Scott Thompson and Tom O’Connor (Hitman’s Bodyguard). Montreal-based Dowse also directed Fubar, It’s All Gone Pete Tong, Take Me Home Tonight starring Chris Pratt and Anna Faris,...
The new action film follows an undercover DEA agent and his partner in El Paso, Texas, on a game of cat and mouse with a group of thieves who just happen to be their rebellious teenagers robbing from a dangerous cartel and using their parents’ tactics and top-secret intel to succeed.
Inde Navarrette, Zaire Adams and Blu del Barrio also board the indie now in production as Bautista reteams with Final Score producer Signature Films, an arm of U.K. indie distributor Signature Entertainment.
Trap House is directed by Michael Dowse from a script by Fast & Furious creator Gary Scott Thompson and Tom O’Connor (Hitman’s Bodyguard). Montreal-based Dowse also directed Fubar, It’s All Gone Pete Tong, Take Me Home Tonight starring Chris Pratt and Anna Faris,...
- 4/1/2024
- by Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Dave Bautista action pic Trap House has added Jack Champion (Avatar: The Way of Water), Sophia Lillis, Kate del Castillo (La Reina del Sur), Tony Dalton (Better Call Saul), Whitney Peak (Gossip Girl) and Bobby Cannavale to it’s cast.
Principal photography is set to begin on April 1. Michael Dowse will direct a script written by Fast & Furious creator Gary Scott Thompson and Tom O’Connor (Hitman’s Bodyguard).
The film follows an undercover DEA agent and his partner who embark on a game of cat and mouse with an audacious group of thieves: their own rebellious teenagers, who have begun robbing a dangerous cartel, using their parents’ tactics and top-secret intel to pull off their heists.
Trap House is produced by Marc Goldberg and Sarah Gabriel of Signature Films, Michael Pruss...
Principal photography is set to begin on April 1. Michael Dowse will direct a script written by Fast & Furious creator Gary Scott Thompson and Tom O’Connor (Hitman’s Bodyguard).
The film follows an undercover DEA agent and his partner who embark on a game of cat and mouse with an audacious group of thieves: their own rebellious teenagers, who have begun robbing a dangerous cartel, using their parents’ tactics and top-secret intel to pull off their heists.
Trap House is produced by Marc Goldberg and Sarah Gabriel of Signature Films, Michael Pruss...
- 4/1/2024
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Terry Crews is a serial entertainer. The energetic actor has a muscular physique that action icons Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger were impressed with when they worked with him on The Expendables franchise. However, despite the hulking image, Crews would not limit himself to action movies as he would use his charismatic charm for such sitcoms like Everybody Hates Chris and Are We There Yet?, as well as being the host for the reality competition, America’s Got Talent. Crews is now ready to throw some fists and let the bullets fly yet again. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Crews will be seen in an upcoming action-comedy that will co-star the equally charismatic muscleman, Dave Bautista. Crews and Bautista have recently wrapped filming on The Killer’s Game.
The film’s synopsis, as reported by THR, says, “Based on Jay Bonansinga’s novel, The Killer’s Game follows a veteran assassin (Bautista), who,...
The film’s synopsis, as reported by THR, says, “Based on Jay Bonansinga’s novel, The Killer’s Game follows a veteran assassin (Bautista), who,...
- 3/8/2024
- by EJ Tangonan
- JoBlo.com
Terry Crews will be playing The Killer’s Game.
The actor will be seen alongside Dave Bautista, Ben Kingsley and Sofia Boutella in the J.J. Perry-directed movie, which has wrapped filming. Crews will be playing a character that was previously reported to be played by Ice Cube.
Based on Jay Bonansinga’s novel, The Killer’s Game follows a veteran assassin (Bautista), who, according to the film’s synopsis, “is diagnosed with a life-threatening illness and authorizes a hit on himself to avoid the pain that is destined to follow. But soon after, he finds out that he was misdiagnosed— and must fend off an army of former colleagues trying to kill him.”
Rand Ravich and James Coyne penned the screenplay. Mad Chance’s Andrew Lazar and Endurance Media’s Steve Richards are producers, along with Kia Jam. Bautista and Jonathan Meisner will executive produce for Dogbone Entertainment, with Scott Lambert also exec producing.
The actor will be seen alongside Dave Bautista, Ben Kingsley and Sofia Boutella in the J.J. Perry-directed movie, which has wrapped filming. Crews will be playing a character that was previously reported to be played by Ice Cube.
Based on Jay Bonansinga’s novel, The Killer’s Game follows a veteran assassin (Bautista), who, according to the film’s synopsis, “is diagnosed with a life-threatening illness and authorizes a hit on himself to avoid the pain that is destined to follow. But soon after, he finds out that he was misdiagnosed— and must fend off an army of former colleagues trying to kill him.”
Rand Ravich and James Coyne penned the screenplay. Mad Chance’s Andrew Lazar and Endurance Media’s Steve Richards are producers, along with Kia Jam. Bautista and Jonathan Meisner will executive produce for Dogbone Entertainment, with Scott Lambert also exec producing.
- 3/7/2024
- by Mia Galuppo
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Indie producer and distributor Gkids has revealed the English voice cast for Hayao Miyazaki’s anticipated hand-drawn animated feature The Boy and the Heron.
The cast includes Christian Bale (Shoichi Maki), Dave Bautista (the Parakeet King), Gemma Chan (Natsuko), Willem Dafoe (Noble Pelican), Karen Fukuhara (Lady Himi), Mark Hamill (Grand Uncle), Robert Pattinson (The Grey Heron) and Florence Pugh (Kiriko). Luca Padovan joins the cast as protagonist Mahito Maki, with Mamoudou Athie, Tony Revolori and Dan Stevens featured as the Parakeets.
Gkids handled casting and produced the English version in close consultation with Miyazaki’s Studio Ghibli. Slated for a North American release Dec. 8 in both the original Japanese and English-language versions, the film is an original semi-autobiographical story and Oscar winner Miyazaki’s first feature film in a decade.
The Boy and the Heron was a hit when it opened July 14 in Japan. It made its international premiere as...
The cast includes Christian Bale (Shoichi Maki), Dave Bautista (the Parakeet King), Gemma Chan (Natsuko), Willem Dafoe (Noble Pelican), Karen Fukuhara (Lady Himi), Mark Hamill (Grand Uncle), Robert Pattinson (The Grey Heron) and Florence Pugh (Kiriko). Luca Padovan joins the cast as protagonist Mahito Maki, with Mamoudou Athie, Tony Revolori and Dan Stevens featured as the Parakeets.
Gkids handled casting and produced the English version in close consultation with Miyazaki’s Studio Ghibli. Slated for a North American release Dec. 8 in both the original Japanese and English-language versions, the film is an original semi-autobiographical story and Oscar winner Miyazaki’s first feature film in a decade.
The Boy and the Heron was a hit when it opened July 14 in Japan. It made its international premiere as...
- 10/17/2023
- by Carolyn Giardina
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: Ice Cube is set to star opposite Dave Bautista in The Killer’s Game, the action comedy from Day Shift director JJ Perry helming for Lionsgate, which heads into production this summer in Budapest. His role is being kept under wraps.
Ben Kingsley and Sofia Boutella are also on board.
Based on Jay Bonansinga’s novel, the film is written by Rand Ravich and Simon Kinberg, with recent rewrites by James Coyne. The film follows veteran assassin Joe Flood (Bautista), who is diagnosed with a life-threatening illness and authorizes a kill on himself to avoid the pain that is destined to follow. After ordering the kill, he finds out that he was misdiagnosed and must then fend off the army of former colleagues trying to kill him.
Mad Chance’s Andrew Lazar will produce alongside Steve Richards for Endurance Media, which is financing the project, as well as Kia Jam.
Ben Kingsley and Sofia Boutella are also on board.
Based on Jay Bonansinga’s novel, the film is written by Rand Ravich and Simon Kinberg, with recent rewrites by James Coyne. The film follows veteran assassin Joe Flood (Bautista), who is diagnosed with a life-threatening illness and authorizes a kill on himself to avoid the pain that is destined to follow. After ordering the kill, he finds out that he was misdiagnosed and must then fend off the army of former colleagues trying to kill him.
Mad Chance’s Andrew Lazar will produce alongside Steve Richards for Endurance Media, which is financing the project, as well as Kia Jam.
- 7/10/2023
- by Justin Kroll
- Deadline Film + TV
The Killer’s Game is getting more players.
Joining Dave Bautista in the Lionsgate action-comedy will be Oscar winner Ben Kingsley and Star Trek and The Mummy star Sofia Boutella.
J.J. Perry, the stuntman turned director who was behind Netflix vampire feature Day Shift, will direct the project from a screenplay by Rand Ravich and X-Men scribe Simon Kinberg.
Based on the novel of the same name by Jay Bonansinga, The Killer’s Game follows veteran assassin Joe Flood (Bautista), who, according to the film’s synopsis, “is diagnosed with a life-threatening illness and authorizes a kill on himself to avoid the pain that is destined to follow. After ordering the kill, he finds out that he was misdiagnosed and must then fend off the army of former colleagues trying to kill him.” James Coyne handled recent rewrites.
Mad Chance’s Andrew Lazar will produce alongside Steve Richards for Endurance Media, which is financing the project,...
Joining Dave Bautista in the Lionsgate action-comedy will be Oscar winner Ben Kingsley and Star Trek and The Mummy star Sofia Boutella.
J.J. Perry, the stuntman turned director who was behind Netflix vampire feature Day Shift, will direct the project from a screenplay by Rand Ravich and X-Men scribe Simon Kinberg.
Based on the novel of the same name by Jay Bonansinga, The Killer’s Game follows veteran assassin Joe Flood (Bautista), who, according to the film’s synopsis, “is diagnosed with a life-threatening illness and authorizes a kill on himself to avoid the pain that is destined to follow. After ordering the kill, he finds out that he was misdiagnosed and must then fend off the army of former colleagues trying to kill him.” James Coyne handled recent rewrites.
Mad Chance’s Andrew Lazar will produce alongside Steve Richards for Endurance Media, which is financing the project,...
- 5/19/2023
- by Mia Galuppo
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Academy Award winner Ben Kingsley (Wonder Man) and Sofia Boutella (Rebel Moon) are set to star opposite Dave Bautista in The Killer’s Game, the action comedy that JJ Perry is helming for Lionsgate, which heads into production this summer. Their roles are being kept under wraps.
Based on Jay Bonansinga’s novel, The Killer’s Game is written by Rand Ravich and Simon Kinberg (X-Men series), with recent rewrites by James Coyne. The film follows veteran assassin Joe Flood (Bautista), who is diagnosed with a life-threatening illness and authorizes a kill on himself to avoid the pain that is destined to follow. After ordering the kill, he finds out that he was misdiagnosed and must then fend off the army of former colleagues trying to kill him.
Mad Chance’s Andrew Lazar will produce alongside Steve Richards for Endurance Media, which is financing the project, as well as Kia Jam. Bautista...
Based on Jay Bonansinga’s novel, The Killer’s Game is written by Rand Ravich and Simon Kinberg (X-Men series), with recent rewrites by James Coyne. The film follows veteran assassin Joe Flood (Bautista), who is diagnosed with a life-threatening illness and authorizes a kill on himself to avoid the pain that is destined to follow. After ordering the kill, he finds out that he was misdiagnosed and must then fend off the army of former colleagues trying to kill him.
Mad Chance’s Andrew Lazar will produce alongside Steve Richards for Endurance Media, which is financing the project, as well as Kia Jam. Bautista...
- 5/19/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Lionsgate announced on Monday that it has acquired the worldwide distribution rights to “The Killer’s Game,” an action comedy starring Dave Bautista and directed by JJ Perry.
Based on Jay Bonansinga’s novel of the same name, “The Killer’s Game” will see Bautista play Joe Flood, an assassin recently diagnosed with a terminal and painful illness who, determined to not suffer a slow, painful death, orders a hit on himself…only to find out that he was misdiagnosed and is healthy. Mad Chance’s Andrew Lazar and Endurance Media’s Steve Richards will produce, with Endurance Media financing.
The film is written by Rand Ravich and “X-Men” franchise screenwriter Simon Kinberg, with recent rewrites by James Coyne. Lionsgate will launch sales of the film at the Cannes Film Festival this month ahead of the start of production this summer.
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Based on Jay Bonansinga’s novel of the same name, “The Killer’s Game” will see Bautista play Joe Flood, an assassin recently diagnosed with a terminal and painful illness who, determined to not suffer a slow, painful death, orders a hit on himself…only to find out that he was misdiagnosed and is healthy. Mad Chance’s Andrew Lazar and Endurance Media’s Steve Richards will produce, with Endurance Media financing.
The film is written by Rand Ravich and “X-Men” franchise screenwriter Simon Kinberg, with recent rewrites by James Coyne. Lionsgate will launch sales of the film at the Cannes Film Festival this month ahead of the start of production this summer.
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- 5/15/2023
- by Jeremy Fuster
- The Wrap
After bidding adieu to Drax the Destroyer with Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, Dave Bautista has set his next movie: action-comedy The Killer’s Game.
Lionsgate has come aboard the long-in-development project, acquiring worldwide distribution rights and setting J.J. Perry, the stuntman who made his directorial debut with Day Shift, to helm the feature.
Lionsgate will launch sales of Game at the Cannes film market, with production to begin this summer.
Based on a novel by Jay Bonansinga, Game follows a veteran assassin named Joe Flood (Bautista) who is diagnosed with a life-threatening illness. In order to set up his loved one financially, he authorizes a kill on himself. However, after ordering the kill, he finds out that he was misdiagnosed and must then fend off the army of former colleagues trying to take him out.
Rand Ravich and Simon Kinberg wrote the script, which has recent rewrites by James Coyne.
Lionsgate has come aboard the long-in-development project, acquiring worldwide distribution rights and setting J.J. Perry, the stuntman who made his directorial debut with Day Shift, to helm the feature.
Lionsgate will launch sales of Game at the Cannes film market, with production to begin this summer.
Based on a novel by Jay Bonansinga, Game follows a veteran assassin named Joe Flood (Bautista) who is diagnosed with a life-threatening illness. In order to set up his loved one financially, he authorizes a kill on himself. However, after ordering the kill, he finds out that he was misdiagnosed and must then fend off the army of former colleagues trying to take him out.
Rand Ravich and Simon Kinberg wrote the script, which has recent rewrites by James Coyne.
- 5/15/2023
- by Borys Kit
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Lionsgate has taken worldwide rights to The Killer’s Game, an action comedy package that has Dave Bautista (Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3) set to star and JJ Perry (Day Shift) aboard to direct. The studio will launch sales at the Cannes Film Festival, which kicks off tomorrow.
Based on Jay Bonansinga’s same-name novel, The Killer’s Game follows veteran assassin Joe Flood (Bautista), who is diagnosed with a life-threatening illness and authorizes a kill on himself to avoid the pain that is destined to follow. After ordering the kill, he finds out that he was misdiagnosed and must then fend off the army of former colleagues trying to kill him.
Rand Ravich and Simon Kinberg (X-Men series) wrote the film, with James Coyne handling recent rewrites. Mad Chance’s Andrew Lazar will produce alongside Steve Richards for Endurance Media, which is financing the project, as well as Kia Jam.
Based on Jay Bonansinga’s same-name novel, The Killer’s Game follows veteran assassin Joe Flood (Bautista), who is diagnosed with a life-threatening illness and authorizes a kill on himself to avoid the pain that is destined to follow. After ordering the kill, he finds out that he was misdiagnosed and must then fend off the army of former colleagues trying to kill him.
Rand Ravich and Simon Kinberg (X-Men series) wrote the film, with James Coyne handling recent rewrites. Mad Chance’s Andrew Lazar will produce alongside Steve Richards for Endurance Media, which is financing the project, as well as Kia Jam.
- 5/15/2023
- by Matt Grobar and Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Drew Pearce’s upcoming action thriller Cooler, starring Dave Bautista, which we first told you about, is launching sales at the Cannes market, we hear from sources.
FilmNation Entertainment’s newly formed production label Infrared won the package in a competitive bid in September, and we understand that FilmNation will be handling international sales. CAA Media Finance, WME Independent and FilmNation are tending to U.S. sales.
In Cooler, South Beach bouncer Ray Sagona (Bautista) is on the brink of finding redemption and getting his family back. But when a drug-filled safe is stolen from the super club where he works, Ray is blackmailed into finding it before the Miami Pd narcotics bureau comes to retrieve it on Sunday night. Now, as his past and present collide in ever-more dangerous ways, Ray must survive an epic 36-hour odyssey across Miami Beach to get that safe back … one final Herculean...
FilmNation Entertainment’s newly formed production label Infrared won the package in a competitive bid in September, and we understand that FilmNation will be handling international sales. CAA Media Finance, WME Independent and FilmNation are tending to U.S. sales.
In Cooler, South Beach bouncer Ray Sagona (Bautista) is on the brink of finding redemption and getting his family back. But when a drug-filled safe is stolen from the super club where he works, Ray is blackmailed into finding it before the Miami Pd narcotics bureau comes to retrieve it on Sunday night. Now, as his past and present collide in ever-more dangerous ways, Ray must survive an epic 36-hour odyssey across Miami Beach to get that safe back … one final Herculean...
- 5/5/2023
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Dave Bautista is getting back into the spy business, with a sequel to the 2020 action-comedy My Spy set at Amazon.
My Spy: The Eternal City is casting up as it heads toward a production start date this month and has added Anna Faris, Craig Robinson and Flula Borg to the franchise. Billy Barratt, Taeho K, Nicola Correia-Damude, Noah Dalton Danby and Devere Rogers are also joining this time around. Returning stars include Bautista as CIA operative JJ, Chloe Coleman, Kristen Schaal and Ken Jeong.
The first film was initially a theatrical play, but ultimately was released by Amazon Prime rather than in theaters in North America. The service ScreenEngine reported My Spy was the third-most watched SVOD film of 2020. My Spy centers on Bautista’s JJ, who is tasked with monitoring a young girl, Sophie (Coleman), and her widowed mother (Parisa Fitz-Henley), who are on the run from her international...
My Spy: The Eternal City is casting up as it heads toward a production start date this month and has added Anna Faris, Craig Robinson and Flula Borg to the franchise. Billy Barratt, Taeho K, Nicola Correia-Damude, Noah Dalton Danby and Devere Rogers are also joining this time around. Returning stars include Bautista as CIA operative JJ, Chloe Coleman, Kristen Schaal and Ken Jeong.
The first film was initially a theatrical play, but ultimately was released by Amazon Prime rather than in theaters in North America. The service ScreenEngine reported My Spy was the third-most watched SVOD film of 2020. My Spy centers on Bautista’s JJ, who is tasked with monitoring a young girl, Sophie (Coleman), and her widowed mother (Parisa Fitz-Henley), who are on the run from her international...
- 2/22/2023
- by Aaron Couch
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Prime Video has secured the return of Dave Bautista (Knock at the Cabin), Chloe Coleman (Avatar: The Way of Water), Kristen Schaal (What We Do in the Shadows), Ken Jeong (The Afterparty) and others for their My Spy sequel, My Spy: The Eternal City. Among the new additions to the ensemble in the second installment are Anna Faris (Mom), Craig Robinson (The Office) and Flula Borg (Pitch Perfect: Bumper in Berlin).
An action-comedy from STXfilms that Prime Video picked up for release amidst the theatrical shutdown of the Covid pandemic, My Spy told the story of JJ (Bautista), a hardened CIA operative who found himself at the mercy of precocious nine-year-old Sophie (Coleman), after being sent undercover to surveil her family. Schaal played JJ’s tech specialist colleague Bobbi, with Jeong as his boss, David.
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An action-comedy from STXfilms that Prime Video picked up for release amidst the theatrical shutdown of the Covid pandemic, My Spy told the story of JJ (Bautista), a hardened CIA operative who found himself at the mercy of precocious nine-year-old Sophie (Coleman), after being sent undercover to surveil her family. Schaal played JJ’s tech specialist colleague Bobbi, with Jeong as his boss, David.
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- 2/22/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Anna Faris, Craig Robinson and Flula Borg are joining the “My Spy” franchise, with all three comedy vets signing up for “My Spy: The Eternal City” at Amazon Studios.
Director Pete Segal is returning to helm the sequel, which reunites franchise stars Dave Bautista and Chloe Coleman alongside scene-stealers Kristen Schaal and Ken Jeong.
The follow-up concerns a now teenage Sophie (Coleman) convincing JJ (Bautista) to chaperone her school choir trip to Italy where they both unwittingly end up pawns in an international terrorist plot targeting CIA chief David Kim (Jeong) and his son, Collin – who’s also Sophie’s best friend.
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“My Spy,” an STX Entertainment production, was one of many films that was intended for theatrical release before getting sent to a streaming platform – in this case Amazon’s Prime Video – in the...
Director Pete Segal is returning to helm the sequel, which reunites franchise stars Dave Bautista and Chloe Coleman alongside scene-stealers Kristen Schaal and Ken Jeong.
The follow-up concerns a now teenage Sophie (Coleman) convincing JJ (Bautista) to chaperone her school choir trip to Italy where they both unwittingly end up pawns in an international terrorist plot targeting CIA chief David Kim (Jeong) and his son, Collin – who’s also Sophie’s best friend.
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- 2/22/2023
- by Scott Mendelson
- The Wrap
Dave Bautista To Star In Bouncer Action Thriller ‘Cooler’ From Drew Pearce For FilmNation’s Infrared
Exclusive: FilmNation Entertainment’s newly formed production label Infrared has won a great package in a competitive bid, snapping up Drew Pearce’s action thriller pitch Cooler. Dune and Guardians of the Galaxy actor Dave Bautista will star. Production is expected to start in summer 2023, and Pearce is directing off his script.
Cooler is the first project to come out of the recently announced first-look deal between Infrared and Bautista’s Dogbone Entertainment.
The film follows a South Beach bouncer Ray Sagona, played by Bautista, who is on the brink of finding redemption and getting his family back. But when a drug-filled safe is stolen from the club he works at, Ray is blackmailed into finding it before the Miami Pd narcotics bureau comes to retrieve it on Sunday night. Now, as his past and present collide in ever-more dangerous ways, Ray must survive an epic 36-hour odyssey across Miami...
Cooler is the first project to come out of the recently announced first-look deal between Infrared and Bautista’s Dogbone Entertainment.
The film follows a South Beach bouncer Ray Sagona, played by Bautista, who is on the brink of finding redemption and getting his family back. But when a drug-filled safe is stolen from the club he works at, Ray is blackmailed into finding it before the Miami Pd narcotics bureau comes to retrieve it on Sunday night. Now, as his past and present collide in ever-more dangerous ways, Ray must survive an epic 36-hour odyssey across Miami...
- 9/28/2022
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: FilmNation Entertainment’s (Arrival) newly launched film production label Infrared has signed a first-look movie production deal with Dave Bautista’s (Guardians Of The Galaxy) recently formed Dogbone Entertainment.
Infrared, led by President of Production Drew Simon, and Dogbone Entertainment, run by Bautista, will focus on developing and producing features, many of which Bautista will act in and produce.
The deal was done by FilmNation Entertainment EVP of Business & Legal Affairs Alison Cohen and by CAA, manager Jonathan Meisner and Karl Austen on behalf of Dogbone Entertainment.
Simon and Bautista previously collaborated on My Spy while Simon was at STX, and FilmNation is handling international sales on Paul W.S. Anderson’s In The Lost Lands starring Bautista alongside Milla Jovovich, based on the short story by George R.R. Martin. Bautista most recently starred in Netflix’s Glass Onion: Knives Out 2. He is currently shooting the Dune sequel with Denis Villeneuve...
Infrared, led by President of Production Drew Simon, and Dogbone Entertainment, run by Bautista, will focus on developing and producing features, many of which Bautista will act in and produce.
The deal was done by FilmNation Entertainment EVP of Business & Legal Affairs Alison Cohen and by CAA, manager Jonathan Meisner and Karl Austen on behalf of Dogbone Entertainment.
Simon and Bautista previously collaborated on My Spy while Simon was at STX, and FilmNation is handling international sales on Paul W.S. Anderson’s In The Lost Lands starring Bautista alongside Milla Jovovich, based on the short story by George R.R. Martin. Bautista most recently starred in Netflix’s Glass Onion: Knives Out 2. He is currently shooting the Dune sequel with Denis Villeneuve...
- 9/16/2022
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Netflix has Dave Bautista circling to star in Unleashed, with Tag‘s Jeff Tomsic attached to direct a script by Blockers scribes Jim & Brian Kehoe.
Bautista is in talks to star and produce with his partner Jonathan Meisner alongside Good Fear’s Chris Bender and Jake Weiner. He’ll play a police officer who’s best friends with a canine partner that can sniff out any crime. When Boomer dies on the job, the cop pledges no more pooch partners, until he is teamed with Zeus. Bautista will next be seen on Netflix in Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, which premieres next month at TIFF, and he wrapped Knock at the Cabin for Universal and is shooting Dune 2 for Warner Bros.
The Kehoes are exec producing, and this is the third star-driven project set up this year for them. Their comic script Double Fault has Rebel Wilson attached...
Bautista is in talks to star and produce with his partner Jonathan Meisner alongside Good Fear’s Chris Bender and Jake Weiner. He’ll play a police officer who’s best friends with a canine partner that can sniff out any crime. When Boomer dies on the job, the cop pledges no more pooch partners, until he is teamed with Zeus. Bautista will next be seen on Netflix in Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, which premieres next month at TIFF, and he wrapped Knock at the Cabin for Universal and is shooting Dune 2 for Warner Bros.
The Kehoes are exec producing, and this is the third star-driven project set up this year for them. Their comic script Double Fault has Rebel Wilson attached...
- 8/5/2022
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: After working with big-name directors like Denis Villeneuve and Rian Johnson, Dave Bautista has found his next A-list director to work as the Dune actor is in negotiations to star in M. Night Shyamalan’s new top secret pic Knock at the Cabin. Shyamalan will write and direct, and also produce with Ashwin Rajan under the filmmaker’s Blinding Edge Pictures banner alongside Marc Bienstock and Steven Schneider.
Universal recently dated the film to bow on February 3, 2023.
While his most recent film, Old, involved a large ensemble, Shyamalan has always like to have one or two big movie stars anchoring his films — like Bruce Willis, Mark Wahlberg and James McAvoy — and given his track record of great scripts stars are always lining up. Bautista was quick to jump at the opportunity to work with the Oscar-nominated director.
Old grossed more than $90 million at the global box office, and repped...
Universal recently dated the film to bow on February 3, 2023.
While his most recent film, Old, involved a large ensemble, Shyamalan has always like to have one or two big movie stars anchoring his films — like Bruce Willis, Mark Wahlberg and James McAvoy — and given his track record of great scripts stars are always lining up. Bautista was quick to jump at the opportunity to work with the Oscar-nominated director.
Old grossed more than $90 million at the global box office, and repped...
- 12/6/2021
- by Justin Kroll
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: MGM is near winning an auction for an untitled buddy comedy action pitch that will pair Jason Momoa with Dave Bautista, who’ve emerged as the two hottest action stars in Hollywood. I expect the deal to close by morning.
The duo pitched it all over town this week, with Jonathan Tropper writing. The connection between the writer and stars comes from See, the Apple TV+ drama series that stars the duo. Tropper also scripted the upcoming Shawn Levy-directed The Adam Project with Ryan Reynolds. The film came from an original idea from Momoa, Bautista and Tropper. The studio will develop it, but the principals have made rich deals that kick in when the picture goes into production. Jeff Fierson is producing.
Essentially, the pitch calls for the duo to play brothers in a Lethal Weapon-esque buddy cop comedy likely to shoot in Hawaii. The stampede to get...
The duo pitched it all over town this week, with Jonathan Tropper writing. The connection between the writer and stars comes from See, the Apple TV+ drama series that stars the duo. Tropper also scripted the upcoming Shawn Levy-directed The Adam Project with Ryan Reynolds. The film came from an original idea from Momoa, Bautista and Tropper. The studio will develop it, but the principals have made rich deals that kick in when the picture goes into production. Jeff Fierson is producing.
Essentially, the pitch calls for the duo to play brothers in a Lethal Weapon-esque buddy cop comedy likely to shoot in Hawaii. The stampede to get...
- 11/12/2021
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Production set for Melbourne, Australia, in late July.
STXfilms has picked up Dave Bautista sci-fi adventure Universe’s Most Wanted for the US, UK, and India in a deal with AGC Studios and CAA Media Finance.
Production is scheduled to begin start in Melbourne, Australia, in late July. Roadshow is distributing the film in Australia and New Zealand, and the production is supported by Film Victoria.
Brad Peyton will direct from a screenplay by F. Scott Frazier (xXx: Return Of Xander Cage) and Jimmy Loweree about a small town that gets a big surprise when a spaceship carrying the universe...
STXfilms has picked up Dave Bautista sci-fi adventure Universe’s Most Wanted for the US, UK, and India in a deal with AGC Studios and CAA Media Finance.
Production is scheduled to begin start in Melbourne, Australia, in late July. Roadshow is distributing the film in Australia and New Zealand, and the production is supported by Film Victoria.
Brad Peyton will direct from a screenplay by F. Scott Frazier (xXx: Return Of Xander Cage) and Jimmy Loweree about a small town that gets a big surprise when a spaceship carrying the universe...
- 4/14/2021
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Eros STX has taken United States, UK and India rights to AGC Studios and CAA Media Finance’s Universe’s Most Wanted. The picture puts Eros STX back in business with their My Spy star Dave Bautista, a title which was sold to Amazon Prime during the pandemic and did such notable business, that a sequel is already in the works on that pic as we first reported.
Universe’s Most Wanted will be directed and produced by Rampage and San Andreas filmmaker Brad Peyton via his production label Asap Entertainment.
In Universe’s Most Wanted, written by F. Scott Frazier (xXx: Return of Xander Cage) and Jimmy Loweree, a small town gets a big surprise when a spaceship carrying the universe’s most wanted and dangerous criminals crash lands in their backyard. Soon the sheriff and his son become heroes when they find themselves helping an intergalactic peacekeeper (Bautista) to keep the...
Universe’s Most Wanted will be directed and produced by Rampage and San Andreas filmmaker Brad Peyton via his production label Asap Entertainment.
In Universe’s Most Wanted, written by F. Scott Frazier (xXx: Return of Xander Cage) and Jimmy Loweree, a small town gets a big surprise when a spaceship carrying the universe’s most wanted and dangerous criminals crash lands in their backyard. Soon the sheriff and his son become heroes when they find themselves helping an intergalactic peacekeeper (Bautista) to keep the...
- 4/14/2021
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
STXfilms has acquired the rights to “Universe’s Most Wanted,” a sci-fi adventure starring Dave Bautista and directed by “Rampage” filmmaker Brad Peyton.
The film comes from AGC Studios and CAA Media Finance and is currently in pre-production. Filming hopes to begin in Melbourne, Australia in July. STX will release “Universe’s Most Wanted” in the U.S., the UK and India.
In “Universe’s Most Wanted,” a small town gets a big surprise when a spaceship carrying the universe’s most wanted and dangerous criminals crash lands in their backyard. Soon the sheriff and his son become heroes when they find themselves helping an intergalactic peacekeeper (Bautista) to keep the ragtag group of alien prisoners from escaping and taking over the world. F. Scott Frazier and Jimmy Loweree wrote the screenplay.
Peyton is directing and producing the film through his Asap Entertainment alongside Jeff Fierson, and Bautista will also produce through his...
The film comes from AGC Studios and CAA Media Finance and is currently in pre-production. Filming hopes to begin in Melbourne, Australia in July. STX will release “Universe’s Most Wanted” in the U.S., the UK and India.
In “Universe’s Most Wanted,” a small town gets a big surprise when a spaceship carrying the universe’s most wanted and dangerous criminals crash lands in their backyard. Soon the sheriff and his son become heroes when they find themselves helping an intergalactic peacekeeper (Bautista) to keep the ragtag group of alien prisoners from escaping and taking over the world. F. Scott Frazier and Jimmy Loweree wrote the screenplay.
Peyton is directing and producing the film through his Asap Entertainment alongside Jeff Fierson, and Bautista will also produce through his...
- 4/14/2021
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Eros STX Global Corp. has picked up the Dave Bautista-starring sci-fi adventure pic Universe’s Most Wanted for the U.S., the UK and India.
The deal with AGC Studios and CAA Media Finance will see Brad Peyton direct and produce the movie via his production company, Asap Entertainment, along with Jeff Fiersonvia. Bautista will star and produce through his Dream Bros Entertainment, along with Jonathan Meisner.
In Universe’s Most Wanted, a small town gets a big surprise when a spaceship carrying the universe’s most wanted and dangerous criminals crash lands in their backyard. Soon the sheriff and his son become ...
The deal with AGC Studios and CAA Media Finance will see Brad Peyton direct and produce the movie via his production company, Asap Entertainment, along with Jeff Fiersonvia. Bautista will star and produce through his Dream Bros Entertainment, along with Jonathan Meisner.
In Universe’s Most Wanted, a small town gets a big surprise when a spaceship carrying the universe’s most wanted and dangerous criminals crash lands in their backyard. Soon the sheriff and his son become ...
- 4/14/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Eros STX Global Corp. has picked up the Dave Bautista-starring sci-fi adventure pic Universe’s Most Wanted for the U.S., the UK and India.
The deal with AGC Studios and CAA Media Finance will see Brad Peyton direct and produce the movie via his production company, Asap Entertainment, along with Jeff Fiersonvia. Bautista will star and produce through his Dream Bros Entertainment, along with Jonathan Meisner.
In Universe’s Most Wanted, a small town gets a big surprise when a spaceship carrying the universe’s most wanted and dangerous criminals crash lands in their backyard. Soon the sheriff and his son become ...
The deal with AGC Studios and CAA Media Finance will see Brad Peyton direct and produce the movie via his production company, Asap Entertainment, along with Jeff Fiersonvia. Bautista will star and produce through his Dream Bros Entertainment, along with Jonathan Meisner.
In Universe’s Most Wanted, a small town gets a big surprise when a spaceship carrying the universe’s most wanted and dangerous criminals crash lands in their backyard. Soon the sheriff and his son become ...
- 4/14/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
By any terms, Berlin’s 2021 European Film Market will deliver its smallest pre-sales market in years. Covid-19 has put back productions, created distribution bottlenecks, and provoked huge uncertainty about cinema theater re-openings.
But there will still be titles – in development, in production and complete – across a broad gamut to whet buyers’ appetites, even at times have them reaching for their wallets.
The following are a curated selection of buzz titles, ranging from big budget to accessible arthouse.
Top Sellers
“The Actor”
Director: Duke Johnson
Writers: Duke Johnson, Stephen Cooney
Cast: Ryan Gosling
Producers: Gosling, Ken Kao (Waypoint Entertainment), Johnson, Abigail Spencer (Innerlight Films), Paul Young (Make Good Banner)
New York actor Paul Cole is beaten and left for dead in 1950s Ohio. Stripped of his memory and stranded in a small town, he struggles to get back home, and piece together his life.
Sales: CAA Media Finance, Endeavor Content
“Black Flies...
But there will still be titles – in development, in production and complete – across a broad gamut to whet buyers’ appetites, even at times have them reaching for their wallets.
The following are a curated selection of buzz titles, ranging from big budget to accessible arthouse.
Top Sellers
“The Actor”
Director: Duke Johnson
Writers: Duke Johnson, Stephen Cooney
Cast: Ryan Gosling
Producers: Gosling, Ken Kao (Waypoint Entertainment), Johnson, Abigail Spencer (Innerlight Films), Paul Young (Make Good Banner)
New York actor Paul Cole is beaten and left for dead in 1950s Ohio. Stripped of his memory and stranded in a small town, he struggles to get back home, and piece together his life.
Sales: CAA Media Finance, Endeavor Content
“Black Flies...
- 3/1/2021
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Anderson adapted screenplay from story by Game Of Thrones creator George R.R. Martin.
Resident Evil director Paul W.S. Anderson is teaming up with franchise star Milla Jovovich and Dave Bautista on fantasy epic In The Lost Lands, which FilmNation and CAA Media Finance will launch at EFM.
Anderson adapted the screenplay based on a story by Game Of Thrones creator George R.R. Martin about a desperate queen who enlists a sorceress (Jovovich) to fulfil her love.
When the witch Gray Alys and her guide, the drifter Boyce (Bautista), are dispatched to the wilds of the Lost Lands, they must...
Resident Evil director Paul W.S. Anderson is teaming up with franchise star Milla Jovovich and Dave Bautista on fantasy epic In The Lost Lands, which FilmNation and CAA Media Finance will launch at EFM.
Anderson adapted the screenplay based on a story by Game Of Thrones creator George R.R. Martin about a desperate queen who enlists a sorceress (Jovovich) to fulfil her love.
When the witch Gray Alys and her guide, the drifter Boyce (Bautista), are dispatched to the wilds of the Lost Lands, they must...
- 2/25/2021
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Here’s a hot one. Resident Evil director Paul W.S. Anderson is teaming with Resident Evil star Milla Jovovich and Dave Bautista (Guardians Of The Galaxy) on fantasy-adventure movie In The Lost Lands, which is based on the short story by Game Of Thrones creator George R.R. Martin.
The movie will follow a queen, desperate to obtain the gift of shape shifting, who makes a daring play: she hires the sorceress Gray Alys (Jovovich), a woman as feared as she is powerful. Sent to the ghostly wilderness of the ‘Lost Lands’, Alys and her guide, the drifter Boyce (Bautista), must outwit and outfight man and demon in a fable that explores the nature of good and evil, debt and fulfillment, love and loss.
FilmNation is launching the project at next week’s virtual EFM. CAA is arranging the film’s financing and will rep domestic rights.
Anderson has written the script.
The movie will follow a queen, desperate to obtain the gift of shape shifting, who makes a daring play: she hires the sorceress Gray Alys (Jovovich), a woman as feared as she is powerful. Sent to the ghostly wilderness of the ‘Lost Lands’, Alys and her guide, the drifter Boyce (Bautista), must outwit and outfight man and demon in a fable that explores the nature of good and evil, debt and fulfillment, love and loss.
FilmNation is launching the project at next week’s virtual EFM. CAA is arranging the film’s financing and will rep domestic rights.
Anderson has written the script.
- 2/25/2021
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Milla Jovovich and Dave Bautista are attached to star in an adaptation of a short story from “Game of Thrones” writer George R. R. Martin called “In the Lost Lands,” and Paul W. S. Anderson is set to direct.
“In the Lost Lands” reunites Jovovich with her director from “Monster Hunter” and the “Resident Evil” franchise. In the film, she will play Gray Alys, a dangerous and feared sorceress who is hired by a desperate queen in order to fulfill her love. Alys is sent to the ghostly wilderness known as the Lost Lands and with her guide, the drifter Boyce (Bautista), and must outwit and outfight man and demon in a fable that explores the nature of good and evil, debt and fulfillment, love and loss.
The movie will be introduced to buyers at the upcoming virtual Berlin market. CAA is arranging the film’s financing and will represent its domestic rights.
“In the Lost Lands” reunites Jovovich with her director from “Monster Hunter” and the “Resident Evil” franchise. In the film, she will play Gray Alys, a dangerous and feared sorceress who is hired by a desperate queen in order to fulfill her love. Alys is sent to the ghostly wilderness known as the Lost Lands and with her guide, the drifter Boyce (Bautista), and must outwit and outfight man and demon in a fable that explores the nature of good and evil, debt and fulfillment, love and loss.
The movie will be introduced to buyers at the upcoming virtual Berlin market. CAA is arranging the film’s financing and will represent its domestic rights.
- 2/25/2021
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Director Paul W.S. Anderson, best known for the “Resident Evil” franchise, will direct his adaptation of “In the Lost Lands,” a sprawling epic based on the story by George R.R. Martin, whose “A Song of Ice and Fire” novels were adapted into “Game of Thrones.” Milla Jovovich, also of the “Resident Evil” movies, and Dave Bautista, from the “Guardians of the Galaxy” franchise, will star.
CAA is arranging the film’s financing and will represent its domestic rights; FilmNation Entertainment is handling international sales and will introduce the project at the upcoming virtual Berlin market.
In the movie, a queen, desperate to fulfill her love, makes a daring play: she hires the sorceress Gray Alys (Jovovich), a woman as feared as she is powerful. Sent to the ghostly wilderness of the Lost Lands, Alys and her guide, the drifter Boyce (Bautista), must outwit and outfight man and demon in this...
CAA is arranging the film’s financing and will represent its domestic rights; FilmNation Entertainment is handling international sales and will introduce the project at the upcoming virtual Berlin market.
In the movie, a queen, desperate to fulfill her love, makes a daring play: she hires the sorceress Gray Alys (Jovovich), a woman as feared as she is powerful. Sent to the ghostly wilderness of the Lost Lands, Alys and her guide, the drifter Boyce (Bautista), must outwit and outfight man and demon in this...
- 2/25/2021
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Irreverent sci-fi proved a hot title for AGC Studios at the recent AFM.
Sci-fi adventure Universe’s Most Wanted starring Dave Bautista has been snapped up around the world, after being introduced to buyers by AGC Studios at the virtual AFM.
The upcoming feature has been acquired for the UK and Ireland (Entertainment Film Distribution); Germany, Austria and Switzerland (Constantin Film); France (Metropolitan); Latin America, Spain, Italy and Portugal (Vertice Cine); Canada (Elevation Pictures); Cis and Baltics (Volga Film); Benelux (The Searchers); Eastern Europe and Turkey (Spi International); the Middle East (Selim Ramia & Co); Israel (United King); South Africa (Empire Entertainment...
Sci-fi adventure Universe’s Most Wanted starring Dave Bautista has been snapped up around the world, after being introduced to buyers by AGC Studios at the virtual AFM.
The upcoming feature has been acquired for the UK and Ireland (Entertainment Film Distribution); Germany, Austria and Switzerland (Constantin Film); France (Metropolitan); Latin America, Spain, Italy and Portugal (Vertice Cine); Canada (Elevation Pictures); Cis and Baltics (Volga Film); Benelux (The Searchers); Eastern Europe and Turkey (Spi International); the Middle East (Selim Ramia & Co); Israel (United King); South Africa (Empire Entertainment...
- 11/17/2020
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
AGC International has closed a raft of sales on virtual AFM project Universe’s Most Wanted.
Deals have closed with Entertainment Film Distribution in the U.K. and Ireland; Constantin Film in Germany, Austria and Switzerland; Metropolitan in France; Vertice Cine in Latin America, Spain, Italy and Portugal; Elevation Pictures in Canada; Volga Film in Cis and Baltics; The Searchers in Benelux; Spi International in Eastern Europe and Turkey; Joy N Cinema in South Korea; Long Shong International in Taiwan; Mvp Entertainment in India; Empire Entertainment in South Africa; Sahamongkolfilm in Thailand; Panorama Entertainment in Hong Kong; Pioneer Films in the Philippines; Selim Ramia & Co. in the Middle East; United King in Israel; and Echo Lake Entertainment for Airlines.
Director Brad Peyton (Rampage) and actor Dave Bautista (Guardians Of The Galaxy) are teaming up to produce the sci-fi action movie, which is slated to go into production next year.
The...
Deals have closed with Entertainment Film Distribution in the U.K. and Ireland; Constantin Film in Germany, Austria and Switzerland; Metropolitan in France; Vertice Cine in Latin America, Spain, Italy and Portugal; Elevation Pictures in Canada; Volga Film in Cis and Baltics; The Searchers in Benelux; Spi International in Eastern Europe and Turkey; Joy N Cinema in South Korea; Long Shong International in Taiwan; Mvp Entertainment in India; Empire Entertainment in South Africa; Sahamongkolfilm in Thailand; Panorama Entertainment in Hong Kong; Pioneer Films in the Philippines; Selim Ramia & Co. in the Middle East; United King in Israel; and Echo Lake Entertainment for Airlines.
Director Brad Peyton (Rampage) and actor Dave Bautista (Guardians Of The Galaxy) are teaming up to produce the sci-fi action movie, which is slated to go into production next year.
The...
- 11/17/2020
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Director Brad Peyton (Rampage) and Dave Bautista (Guardians Of The Galaxy) are teaming up to produce big-budget sci-fi fantasy movie Universe’s Most Wanted, which is slated to go into production spring next year.
The film will focus on a small town which gets a big surprise when a space ship carrying the universe’s most wanted and dangerous criminals crash lands in their backyard. Soon the sheriff’s son becomes a hero when he finds himself helping an intergalactic peacekeeper (Bautista) to keep the ragtag group of alien prisoners from escaping and taking over the world.
AGC Studios and CAA Media Finance will launch worldwide sales on the project in the coming weeks to coincide with the virtual AFM.
Peyton will direct and produce via his production company Asap Entertainment, along with Asap’s Jeff Fierson, from a script by F. Scott Frazier (xXx: Return of Xander Cage) and Jimmy Loweree.
The film will focus on a small town which gets a big surprise when a space ship carrying the universe’s most wanted and dangerous criminals crash lands in their backyard. Soon the sheriff’s son becomes a hero when he finds himself helping an intergalactic peacekeeper (Bautista) to keep the ragtag group of alien prisoners from escaping and taking over the world.
AGC Studios and CAA Media Finance will launch worldwide sales on the project in the coming weeks to coincide with the virtual AFM.
Peyton will direct and produce via his production company Asap Entertainment, along with Asap’s Jeff Fierson, from a script by F. Scott Frazier (xXx: Return of Xander Cage) and Jimmy Loweree.
- 10/30/2020
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Dave Bautista will star in a sci-fi fantasy film from AGC Studios and “Rampage” director Brad Peyton called “Universe’s Most Wanted,” the studio announced Friday.
“Universe’s Most Wanted” is about a small town that gets thrust into a fight for the world’s survival when a space ship carrying the universe’s most wanted and dangerous criminals crash lands in their backyard. Bautista plays an intergalactic peacekeeper who teams with the son of the town sheriff to prevent the escape of the alien prisoners and from them taking over the world.
Production will begin on the film in Spring 2021, and CAA Media Finance will represent worldwide sales on the project in the coming weeks. Casting is underway.
F. Scott Frazier (“xXx: Return of Xander Cage”) and Jimmy Loweree wrote the screenplay. Peyton will produce through his Asap Entertainment banner along with Jeff Fierson, as will Bautista through his...
“Universe’s Most Wanted” is about a small town that gets thrust into a fight for the world’s survival when a space ship carrying the universe’s most wanted and dangerous criminals crash lands in their backyard. Bautista plays an intergalactic peacekeeper who teams with the son of the town sheriff to prevent the escape of the alien prisoners and from them taking over the world.
Production will begin on the film in Spring 2021, and CAA Media Finance will represent worldwide sales on the project in the coming weeks. Casting is underway.
F. Scott Frazier (“xXx: Return of Xander Cage”) and Jimmy Loweree wrote the screenplay. Peyton will produce through his Asap Entertainment banner along with Jeff Fierson, as will Bautista through his...
- 10/30/2020
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Production earmarked for spring 2021
Dave Bautista will star in the irreverent sci-fi Universe’s Most Wanted for AGC Studios, which will launch worldwide sales with CAA Media Finance in the coming weeks.
Production has been earmarked for spring 2021 and Brad Peyton, will direct the story from a screenplay by F. Scott Frazier (xXx: Return of Xander Cage) and Jimmy Loweree.
When a spaceship carrying the universe’s most wanted and dangerous criminals crash-lands in a small town, the sheriff’s son becomes a hero when he finds himself helping an intergalactic peacekeeper (Bautista) to keep the ragtag group of alien...
Dave Bautista will star in the irreverent sci-fi Universe’s Most Wanted for AGC Studios, which will launch worldwide sales with CAA Media Finance in the coming weeks.
Production has been earmarked for spring 2021 and Brad Peyton, will direct the story from a screenplay by F. Scott Frazier (xXx: Return of Xander Cage) and Jimmy Loweree.
When a spaceship carrying the universe’s most wanted and dangerous criminals crash-lands in a small town, the sheriff’s son becomes a hero when he finds himself helping an intergalactic peacekeeper (Bautista) to keep the ragtag group of alien...
- 10/30/2020
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: In the wake of My Spy‘s great viewership on Amazon Prime, STX, I hear, is looking to reunite all the key players from the original movie for a sequel including director Peter Segal, and stars Dave Bautista and Chloe Coleman. It is still early, and no deals are in place.
No details on the distribution of My Spy 2 are available at this time. However, insiders are saying that given the success of the original on Prime Video, the streamer is in early talks. Amazon and STX did not comment for this piece.
My Spy follows JJ, a hardened CIA operative (Bautista) who has been demoted and finds himself at the mercy of a precocious 9-year-old girl, named Sophie (Coleman) where he has been sent undercover begrudgingly to surveil her family. When Sophie discovers hidden cameras in her apartment, she uses her tech savviness to locate where the surveillance operation is set.
No details on the distribution of My Spy 2 are available at this time. However, insiders are saying that given the success of the original on Prime Video, the streamer is in early talks. Amazon and STX did not comment for this piece.
My Spy follows JJ, a hardened CIA operative (Bautista) who has been demoted and finds himself at the mercy of a precocious 9-year-old girl, named Sophie (Coleman) where he has been sent undercover begrudgingly to surveil her family. When Sophie discovers hidden cameras in her apartment, she uses her tech savviness to locate where the surveillance operation is set.
- 8/11/2020
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
My Spy will hit Amazon Prime on June 26. Deadline first told you that Stx was selling it to the streamer after theaters closed down due to Covid-19. The pic’s previous theatrical release date was April 17. I hear the movie may also be provided to Drive-Ins and other cinemas that are open should they wish to book.
The pic received a bit of a Canadian release pre-covid, grossing around $200K. The pic has been released in some offshore territories like UK, Netherlands, Australia, Germany, South Korea and Hong Kong where it has collected close to $5M.
Directed by Peter Segal and financed by STXFilms and Mwm Studios, the PG-13 movie follows JJ a hardened CIA operative (Dave Bautista) who has been demoted and finds himself at the mercy of a precocious 9-year-old girl, named Sophie (Chloe Coleman). He’s been sent undercover begrudgingly to surveil her family. When Sophie discovers hidden cameras in her apartment,...
The pic received a bit of a Canadian release pre-covid, grossing around $200K. The pic has been released in some offshore territories like UK, Netherlands, Australia, Germany, South Korea and Hong Kong where it has collected close to $5M.
Directed by Peter Segal and financed by STXFilms and Mwm Studios, the PG-13 movie follows JJ a hardened CIA operative (Dave Bautista) who has been demoted and finds himself at the mercy of a precocious 9-year-old girl, named Sophie (Chloe Coleman). He’s been sent undercover begrudgingly to surveil her family. When Sophie discovers hidden cameras in her apartment,...
- 6/12/2020
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Amazon Studios has bought rights from Stx and Mwm to Dave Bautista’s family comedy “My Spy” for exclusive streaming on Amazon Prime in the U.S. and some foreign markets.
No streaming date has been set yet. The deal takes place with U.S. movie theaters not expected to open for several more months with studios vacating most release dates until the mid-summer at the earliest.
On March 6, during the early stages of the worldwide coronavirus pandemic, Stx had moved the North American release date back a month to April 17 in order to take advantage of a slot that had opened up after “Trolls World Tour” moved up open on April 10. At that point, Stx indicated that “My Spy,” which cost $18 million to produce, would benefit from expanded awareness.
In “My Spy,” Bautista finds himself forced to teach spycraft to a precocious 9-year-old girl, played by Chloe Coleman of “Big Little Lies.
No streaming date has been set yet. The deal takes place with U.S. movie theaters not expected to open for several more months with studios vacating most release dates until the mid-summer at the earliest.
On March 6, during the early stages of the worldwide coronavirus pandemic, Stx had moved the North American release date back a month to April 17 in order to take advantage of a slot that had opened up after “Trolls World Tour” moved up open on April 10. At that point, Stx indicated that “My Spy,” which cost $18 million to produce, would benefit from expanded awareness.
In “My Spy,” Bautista finds himself forced to teach spycraft to a precocious 9-year-old girl, played by Chloe Coleman of “Big Little Lies.
- 4/8/2020
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Amazon Prime Video has acquired Dave Bautista’s “My Spy” from STXFilms and Mwm Studios, Amazon announced Wednesday.
The film will now launch on streaming after the theatrical release date of the action comedy was pushed several times. Peter Segal directs from a script penned by Jon and Erich Hoeber.
“My Spy” stars Bautista, Kristen Schaal, Parisa Fitz-Henley, Chloe Coleman and Ken Jeong. Chris Bender, Segal, Jake Weiner, Robert Simonds, Gigi Pritzker, Bautista and Jonathan Meisner are producers.
Also Read: Dave Bautista-Led 'My Spy' Pushed to 2020 at Stx Entertainment
The film follows a hardened CIA operative (Bautista) who finds himself at the mercy of a precocious 9-year-old girl (Coleman) after being sent undercover to spy on her family.
Initially “My Spy” was set up to come a little more than a month after “Stuber,” which Bautista also starred in alongside Kumail Nanjiani. After “My Spy” was pulled from the July 2019 release schedule,...
The film will now launch on streaming after the theatrical release date of the action comedy was pushed several times. Peter Segal directs from a script penned by Jon and Erich Hoeber.
“My Spy” stars Bautista, Kristen Schaal, Parisa Fitz-Henley, Chloe Coleman and Ken Jeong. Chris Bender, Segal, Jake Weiner, Robert Simonds, Gigi Pritzker, Bautista and Jonathan Meisner are producers.
Also Read: Dave Bautista-Led 'My Spy' Pushed to 2020 at Stx Entertainment
The film follows a hardened CIA operative (Bautista) who finds himself at the mercy of a precocious 9-year-old girl (Coleman) after being sent undercover to spy on her family.
Initially “My Spy” was set up to come a little more than a month after “Stuber,” which Bautista also starred in alongside Kumail Nanjiani. After “My Spy” was pulled from the July 2019 release schedule,...
- 4/8/2020
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Wrap
Exclusive: With the recent shutdown of movie theaters due to Covid-19, the STX action family comedy My Spy, which was last scheduled for theatrical release on April 17, is heading to Amazon Prime. Amazon Studios picked up the Peter Segal-directed movie from STXFilms and MWM Studios for U.S. and key foreign territories. No streaming date has been set yet.
My Spy follows JJ a hardened CIA operative (Dave Bautista) who has been demoted and finds himself at the mercy of a precocious 9-year-old girl, named Sophie (Chloe Coleman) where he has been sent undercover begrudgingly to surveil her family. When Sophie discovers hidden cameras in her apartment, she uses her tech savviness to locate where the surveillance operation is set. In exchange for not blowing JJ’s cover Sophie convinces him to spend time with her and teach her to be a spy. Despite his reluctance JJ finds he...
My Spy follows JJ a hardened CIA operative (Dave Bautista) who has been demoted and finds himself at the mercy of a precocious 9-year-old girl, named Sophie (Chloe Coleman) where he has been sent undercover begrudgingly to surveil her family. When Sophie discovers hidden cameras in her apartment, she uses her tech savviness to locate where the surveillance operation is set. In exchange for not blowing JJ’s cover Sophie convinces him to spend time with her and teach her to be a spy. Despite his reluctance JJ finds he...
- 4/8/2020
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Dave Bautista’s “My Spy” is moving its North American release date back a month to April 17 in order to take advantage of a recently cleared slot for the family comedy.
After “No Time to Die” was pushed from April 10 to November due to the coronavirus slowing the global box office, “Trolls World Tour” moved up to take the movie’s former release date. This left the weekend of April 17 open for “My Spy,” which STXFilms moved on Friday, a week before the film would have opened on March 13.
The company indicated that “My Spy,” which cost $18 million to produce, has opened well in Australia and New Zealand and the studio believes the shift gives it an opportunity to expand awareness with an insignificant impact on its media spend.
The major titles opening on its former release date of March 13 are Sony’s action pic “Bloodshot” and Universal’s horror thriller “The Hunt.
After “No Time to Die” was pushed from April 10 to November due to the coronavirus slowing the global box office, “Trolls World Tour” moved up to take the movie’s former release date. This left the weekend of April 17 open for “My Spy,” which STXFilms moved on Friday, a week before the film would have opened on March 13.
The company indicated that “My Spy,” which cost $18 million to produce, has opened well in Australia and New Zealand and the studio believes the shift gives it an opportunity to expand awareness with an insignificant impact on its media spend.
The major titles opening on its former release date of March 13 are Sony’s action pic “Bloodshot” and Universal’s horror thriller “The Hunt.
- 3/7/2020
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Dave Bautista and his longtime manager Jonathan Meisner’s Dream Bros Entertainment are reteaming with their fellow Final Score producer Signature Films on Traphouse, a new action thriller in which Guardians of the Galaxy and Stuber star Bautista will topline.
Fast & Furious creator Gary Scott Thompson is set to pen the script for the pic, which follows an undercover DEA agent and his partner who embark on a game of cat and mouse with an audacious, and surprising group of thieves — their own rebellious teenagers, who have begun robbing from a dangerous cartel, using their parents’ tactics and top-secret intel to do it.
Bautista, who developed the project, is producing with Meisner. The deal was negotiated by Signature’s Marc Goldberg and Sarah Gabriel, Fourth Wall Management’s Jon Huddle, Craig Emanuel on behalf of Gary Scott Thompson, and CAA and Jay Rosenthal on behalf of Dream Bros.
“Traphouse...
Fast & Furious creator Gary Scott Thompson is set to pen the script for the pic, which follows an undercover DEA agent and his partner who embark on a game of cat and mouse with an audacious, and surprising group of thieves — their own rebellious teenagers, who have begun robbing from a dangerous cartel, using their parents’ tactics and top-secret intel to do it.
Bautista, who developed the project, is producing with Meisner. The deal was negotiated by Signature’s Marc Goldberg and Sarah Gabriel, Fourth Wall Management’s Jon Huddle, Craig Emanuel on behalf of Gary Scott Thompson, and CAA and Jay Rosenthal on behalf of Dream Bros.
“Traphouse...
- 8/13/2019
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: As Dave Bautista prepares to battle Hhh this Sunday in WrestleMania 35, he has just closed a Netflix deal to star in Army of the Dead, the $70 million-budget zombie heist film that Zack Snyder will direct.
Scripted by Shay Hatten and Snyder, the adventure is set amid a zombie outbreak in Las Vegas, during which a man assembles a group of mercenaries to take the ultimate gamble: venturing into the quarantined zone to pull off the greatest heist ever attempted. Zack Snyder and Deborah Snyder are producing, and Ori Marmur and Andrew Norman are overseeing it for Netflix.
It has been a busy moment for Bautista. He’ll next be seen reprising his Drax role in Avengers: Endgame, which Disney and Marvel release April 26; he also stars in Stuber, the Fox/Disney film that has a lot of heat and a July 12 release date, and the Stx pic My Spy,...
Scripted by Shay Hatten and Snyder, the adventure is set amid a zombie outbreak in Las Vegas, during which a man assembles a group of mercenaries to take the ultimate gamble: venturing into the quarantined zone to pull off the greatest heist ever attempted. Zack Snyder and Deborah Snyder are producing, and Ori Marmur and Andrew Norman are overseeing it for Netflix.
It has been a busy moment for Bautista. He’ll next be seen reprising his Drax role in Avengers: Endgame, which Disney and Marvel release April 26; he also stars in Stuber, the Fox/Disney film that has a lot of heat and a July 12 release date, and the Stx pic My Spy,...
- 4/5/2019
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Dave Bautista finds himself forced to teach spycraft to a 9-year-old girl in the first trailer for STXfilms’ comedy “My Spy.”
Bautista plays a tough-as-nails CIA operative who admits, “I’m just not that good with people, but there is one thing I’m good at,” followed by explosions and mayhem.
His superior (Ken Jeong) notes that the assignment was to gather intelligence, then adds, “but that’s kind of difficult now that you’ve killed everyone.”
Bautista is given a last chance to keep his job, and ordered to go undercover and surveil a family. But their daughter, portrayed by “Big Little Lies” actress Chloe Coleman, foils that plan by discovering the hidden cameras. She then blackmails him into teaching her how to be a spy — sealed with a pinky promise.
Coleman proves adept at the tricks of the trade, including beating a lie detector test and creating distractions,...
Bautista plays a tough-as-nails CIA operative who admits, “I’m just not that good with people, but there is one thing I’m good at,” followed by explosions and mayhem.
His superior (Ken Jeong) notes that the assignment was to gather intelligence, then adds, “but that’s kind of difficult now that you’ve killed everyone.”
Bautista is given a last chance to keep his job, and ordered to go undercover and surveil a family. But their daughter, portrayed by “Big Little Lies” actress Chloe Coleman, foils that plan by discovering the hidden cameras. She then blackmails him into teaching her how to be a spy — sealed with a pinky promise.
Coleman proves adept at the tricks of the trade, including beating a lie detector test and creating distractions,...
- 4/4/2019
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Ken Jeong, Parisa Fitz-Henley, and Chloe Coleman have joined Dave Bautista’s action-comedy “My Spy” for STXFilms.
Peter Segal is directing the script penned by the writing team of brothers Jon and Erich Hoeber. Bautista plays a hardened CIA operative who finds himself at the mercy of a precocious 9-year-old girl, having been sent undercover to surveil her family. The film is currently in production in Toronto.
“’My Spy’s the perfect vehicle to highlight Dave’s undeniable humor and charm, while continuing to stay true to his action roots,” Adam Fogelson, chairman of STXfilms, said. “His father/daughter-like chemistry with Chloe Coleman is a true pleasure to watch, and we could not have asked for a stronger roster of funny and talented co-stars to round out the cast of this wildly entertaining film.”
Good Fear’s Chris Bender and Jake Weiner are producing the project alongside Mwm Studios, Bautista,...
Peter Segal is directing the script penned by the writing team of brothers Jon and Erich Hoeber. Bautista plays a hardened CIA operative who finds himself at the mercy of a precocious 9-year-old girl, having been sent undercover to surveil her family. The film is currently in production in Toronto.
“’My Spy’s the perfect vehicle to highlight Dave’s undeniable humor and charm, while continuing to stay true to his action roots,” Adam Fogelson, chairman of STXfilms, said. “His father/daughter-like chemistry with Chloe Coleman is a true pleasure to watch, and we could not have asked for a stronger roster of funny and talented co-stars to round out the cast of this wildly entertaining film.”
Good Fear’s Chris Bender and Jake Weiner are producing the project alongside Mwm Studios, Bautista,...
- 10/17/2018
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Ken Jeong, known for The Hangover films and most recently seen in Crazy Rich Asians, has come aboard STXfilms’ Dave Bautista-starring action-comedy, My Spy, along with Midnight, Texas star Parisa Fitz-Henley, who played Meghan Markle in the recent Lifetime movie, and Big Little Lies‘ Chloe Coleman.
Peter Segal is directing the pic, which currently shooting in Toronto. Written by Jon and Erich Hoeber, the plot follows a hardened CIA operative (Bautista) who finds himself at the mercy of a precocious 9-year-old girl, having been sent undercover to surveil her family.
Mwm Studios, which is producing Stx’s Chadwick Boseman-starrer, 17 Bridges, is producing My Spy along with Good Fear’s Chris Bender and Jake Weiner, Bautista, Jonathan Meisner, Segal, and Gigi Pritzker.
Exec Producers are Erich Hoeber, Jon Hoeber, Michael Flynn, as well as Mwm’s Rachel Shane and Adrian Alperovich with Stacy Calabrese serving as a co-producer on behalf of Mwm.
Peter Segal is directing the pic, which currently shooting in Toronto. Written by Jon and Erich Hoeber, the plot follows a hardened CIA operative (Bautista) who finds himself at the mercy of a precocious 9-year-old girl, having been sent undercover to surveil her family.
Mwm Studios, which is producing Stx’s Chadwick Boseman-starrer, 17 Bridges, is producing My Spy along with Good Fear’s Chris Bender and Jake Weiner, Bautista, Jonathan Meisner, Segal, and Gigi Pritzker.
Exec Producers are Erich Hoeber, Jon Hoeber, Michael Flynn, as well as Mwm’s Rachel Shane and Adrian Alperovich with Stacy Calabrese serving as a co-producer on behalf of Mwm.
- 10/17/2018
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
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