While Mel Gibson is attached to act in several films being sold in Cannes, he is getting closer to the next project he’ll direct, The Wild Bunch. Deadline hears that Michael Fassbender, Jamie Foxx and Peter Dinklage are in early talks to take part in the contemporized remake of the 1969 Sam Peckinpah Western about a group of aging outlaws looking for one last score...

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Rothchild is based on a 2014 Black List script by John Patton Ford. Unified Pictures is producing, and Keith Kjarval and Tyler Jackson will produce alongside Black Box Management principals Lowell Shapiro and Mike Dill, who represent the writer. The film will go into production in New York...

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EXCLUSIVE: Mel Gibson and Kate Bosworth are set to star in Force of Nature, an action film that Michael Polish will direct from a script by Cory Miller. Emmett/Furla/Oasis Films CEOs and co-founders Randall Emmett and George Furla will produce with Luillo Ruiz, with Tim Sullivan and Alex Eckert exec producing. This will be the second Gibson vehicle on the Croisette, after his attachment was announced yesterday on Fatman...

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The Professor and the Madmen” director Farhad Safinia is standing behind Mel Gibson’s statement after a long legal tussle over the release of the film. Gibson had sued Voltage in 2017, alleging that it had reneged on a deal to give him approval of the final cut. A trial had been set for May 6, but Gibson’s attorney notified the court prior to that date that the case had been settled...

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Scheduled to film in early 2020 in Canada, "Fatman" is the story of a rowdy, unorthodox Santa Claus who is fighting his business decline -- while a neglected and precocious 12-year-old hires a hitman to kill Santa after receiving a lump of coal in his stocking...

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