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RUST: Joel Souza’s Western Actioner Adds Travis Fimmel And More For October Shoot

Highland Film Group is announcing cast for Crown Vic helmer Joel Souza’s new Western, Rust, following the attachment of Academy Award nominee and Golden Globe Award winner Alec Baldwin (Mission: Impossible franchise, NBC’s “30 Rock”) last year. Principal photography will commence come early October in New Mexico with Baldwin joined by Travis Fimmel (Ridley Scott’s “Raised by Wolves,” Universal Pictures’ Warcraft, Amazon’s “Vikings”), Brady Noon (Universal Pictures’ Good Boys, Disney +’s “The Mighty Ducks: Game Changer”) and Frances Fisher (Titanic, Warner Bros.’ Unforgiven). Rust is an action/western which tells of infamous Western outlaw Harland Rust (Baldwin), who’s had a bounty on his head for as long as he can remember. When his estranged 13-year-old grandson Lucas is convicted of an accidental murder and is sentenced to hang, Rust travels to Kansas to break him out of prison. Together, the two fugitives must outrun legendary U.S. Marshal, Wood Helm, and bounty-hunter, Fenton “Preacher” Lang, who are hot […]

SUPERCELL: Highland Unveils First Look At New Disaster Thriller Starring Alec Baldwin

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Highland Film Group unveiled the first look at Herbert James Winterstern (NBC’s “Siberia”) new movie, Supercell. The film, which toplines Alec Baldwin from a script by Winterstern and co-writer Anna Elizabeth James (Deadly Illusions), just wrapped principal photography in Montana and Georgia in the U.S. from Short Porch Pictures and Thomasville Pictures. Supercell tells the thrilling tale of William (Daniel Diemer), a good-hearted teenager, who lives in hope of following in his father’s footsteps, the legendary storm chaser Bill Brody who was killed in action. His father’s legacy has been turned into a storm chasing tour business managed by the greedy and reckless owner Zane Rogers (Alec Baldwin). After William runs away from home, he teams up with his dad’s old partner Roy (Skeet Ulrich) and enters into the world of storm chasing. But the tornadoes have only gotten bigger. As his mother (Anne Heche) anxiously searches for her son, she’s joined by […]

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SUPERCELL: Alec Baldwin Disaster Adventure Now Underway, Adds Four To Cast

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Production is officially underway with thriller, Supercell, following its announcement back in March. Cameras began rolling on May 7 for the Alec Baldwin-led disaster thriller, and now more names are being added to the roster including Skeet Ulrich (The CW’s “Riverdale,” “#Freerayshawn”), and Emmy-award winner and Tony-nominated Anne Heche (Donny Brasco, The Vanished), with Daniel Diemer (Tribeca Film Festival winner The Half of It) and newcomer Jordan Kristine Seamón (HBO’s “We Are Who We Are”) rounding out the cast. Herbert James Winterstern (NBC’s “Siberia”) is directing Supercell from a script he penned with Anna Elizabeth James (Deadly Illusions), and with . In the film, Diemer headlines the thrilling tale of William, a good-hearted teenager, who lives in hope of following in his father’s footsteps, the legendary storm chaser Bill Brody who was killed in action. His father’s legacy has been turned into a storm chasing tour business managed by the greedy and reckless owner Zane […]

SUPERCELL: Alec Baldwin Heads Disaster Action Thriller From Highland, Short Porch At EFM

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Alec Baldwin (The Departed, Mission: Impossible franchise) is attached to star in Supercell, a new disaster action thriller that Herbert James Winterstern (NBC’s “Siberia”) will direct from a script by Winterstern & Anna Elizabeth James (Deadly Illusions). The film will serve as the launchpad for a non-exclusive first look output deal for Highland Film Group with Ryan Winterstern (Most Wanted, Inheritance) and Nathan Klingher (Zone 414, Becky) with their new startup, Short Porch Pictures. Supercell is an epic disaster movie that tells the tale of William, a good-hearted teenager, who always lived in hope of following in his father’s footsteps, the legendary storm chaser Bill Brody, killed by a massive super tornado. His father’s legacy has now been turned into a storm-chasing tourist business, managed by the greedy and reckless Zane Rogers (Alec Baldwin), who is now using William as the main attraction to lead a group of unsuspecting adventurers […]

CHICK FIGHT: Malin Akerman Punches Her Way To Glory In The Official Trailer

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Just as before with the release of revenge thriller, Becky, Quiver Distribution and Redbox are pairing up once more to bring the fight to your homefront with a day-and-date release of Chick Fight, slated for November 13. ETonline debuted the official trailer on Tuesday, which is now making the online rounds and host to a cast that includes Malin Akerman, Bella Thorne, Alec Baldwin, Dulcé Sloan, Kevin Connolly, Kevin Nash and Fortune Feimster. When Anna Wyncomb is introduced to an underground, all-female fight club in order to turn the mess of her life around, she discovers she is much more personally connected to the history of the club than she could ever imagine.

THE FATHER: Donnie Yen, Alec Baldwin, Frank Grillo Star In New Action Thriller Shooting Early 2021

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Donnie Yen (Ip Man franchise) will star in The Father, according to Variety‘s Manori Ravindran. AGC International has acquired international sales rights on the action thriller which will launch for buyers at the Toronto International Film Festival as of Thursday this week. CAA Media Finance will handle U.S. distribution rights for the film as cameras get ready to roll early next year. Also casting Alec Baldwin (Mission: Impossible franchise) and Frank Grillo (Beyond Skyline), The Father is set in South Boston, and centers on Yen in the role of “middle-class Hong Kong immigrant John Chung, who is making the best of his family’s new life in America while working as a modest fish broker in the city’s docklands. When his teenage sons stumble upon four kilos of heroin and are hunted down by a local crime ring and corrupt cops, Chung must stop at nothing to protect them.” Tommy Wirkola […]

CHICK FIGHT: Alec Baldwin And Bella Thorn Join Malin Akerman Fight Club Action Comedy

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News broke in September that Paul Leyden (Crackle’s Cleaners) would direct independent action comedy Chick Fight starring actress Malin Akerman (Watchmen, TV’s Billions) from a script by Joseph Downey. The film, according to the latest follow up report at Deadline, will also join actor Alec Baldwin and actress Bella Thorne for prospective roles. Hailing from Yale Productions and Idiot Savant Pictures, the film was shopped at the American Film Market, telling of Akerman who will star as Anna. In the wake of her mother’s death, her father’s closet exit and the accidental torching of her uninsured coffee shop caused by a used spliff exposed to moonshine, Anna sets out to shake and stir herself from life’s funk when her friend draws her into the world of an all-female underground fight club. Baldwin claims the role of Jack Murphy, Anna’s reclusive trainer who helps her build herself back up in the […]

Eastwood, Baldwin To Star In Cop Sci-Fi, CROWN VIC

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Diablo star, actor Scott Eastwood is slowly but surely picking up notoriety into 2016 following upcoming appearances in WB’s Suicide Squad and Live By Night, and Antonio Negret’s new action thriller, Overdrive. The actor is now pairing with Alec Baldwin on a new sci-fi thriller filming on May 1 in Los Angeles titled Crown Vic from writer and director Joel Souza. Brand Inc. Productions is producing with Eastwood set to play a young, idealistic rookie opposite Baldwin’s role as an older, much more cynical seasoned detective; Both are partnered on a case involving the search for two vicious cop killers, and in the midst of it all, the younger lawman will find his own ideals tested before the night is over. Jim Valdez and Chris Barish are producing for Brand Inc with international sales going to 13 Films. H/T: Deadline, THR

MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE 5 Adds Rebecca Ferguson And Alec Baldwin

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Following a lawsuit dismissal just a few days ago involving screenwriter and former plantiff Timothy Patrick McLanahan, things are moving forward with some further casting news for the forthcoming production of the tentatively titled Mission: Impossible 5. Paramount Pictures annouced the film last August with actor Tom Cruise producing as well as returning to the role of agent Ethan Hunt in the fifth film of the series, pairing him once again with Jack Reacher helmer Christopher McQuarrie. Trade site Deadline has reported the addition of two more names to the confirmed cast, including London actress Rebecca Ferguson in the female lead, and actor and former MSNBC host Alec Baldwin in the role of the C.I.A. director. Simon Pegg, who debuted his role in the the third film and continued into the fourth confirmed his return to the franchise with MTV last November, while actor Jeremy Renner stated his return to […]