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Kevin Zegers To Star With Laurence Fishburne And Bill Paxton In ‘The Colony’

By BRIAN BROOKS | Wednesday February 29, 2012 @ 2:25pm PSTTags: Bill Paxton, Kevin Zegers, Laurence Fishburne

EXCLUSIVE: Kevin Zegers has been cast as the lead in the independent film The Colony, directed by Jeff Renfroe. Renfroe co-wrote the script with Patrick Tarr and Pascal Trottier. Zegers, Laurence Fishburne and Bill Paxton star in the feature about a small group of survivors in the aftermath of a future Ice Age who live underground fighting for their lives in a society that disintegrates into cannibalism and violence. Paul Barkin will produce. Zegers recently completed filming on the 12-part, $28 million British miniseries Titanic: Blood & Steel alongside Chris Noth, Derek Jacobi and Neve Campbell. His credits include Transamerica and 50 Dead Men Walking, in which he starred with Ben Kingsley and Jim Sturgess. He is repped by ICM.

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Bill Paxton In Talks To Direct ‘Kung Fu’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday October 31, 2011 @ 3:18pm PDTTags: Bill Paxton, David Carradine, Legendary East, Legendary Entertainment
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EXCLUSIVE: Bill Paxton is in talks to direct Kung Fu, a screen adaptation  of the classic 1972 TV series that starred David Carradine. Paxton, who’s coming off a run in the HBO series Big Love, gets the job after helming … Read More »

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Bill Paxton To Star In History’s ‘Hatfields And McCoys’, Kevin Reynolds To Direct

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday August 16, 2011 @ 8:20am PDTTags: Bill Paxton, History, Kevin Costner, The Hatfields And McCoys
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Bill Paxton has been tapped for the second lead opposite Kevin Costner in History’s miniseries The Hatfields and McCoys, about America’s most infamous family feud. Kevin Reynolds (Red Dawn) has signed on to direct the mini, to be … Read More »

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Relativity To Distribute Steven Soderbergh-Directed ‘Haywire’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday June 15, 2011 @ 4:58pm PDTTags: Antonio Banderas, Bill Paxton, Channing Tatum, Ewan McGregor, Gina Carano, Haywire, Michael Angarano, Michael Douglas, Michael Fassbender, Relativity Media, Steven Soderbergh
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BREAKING: Relativity Media will distribute Haywire, the Steven Soderbergh-directed action film that will get a Jan. 20, 2012 release date. Though Relativity Media financed the pic, it was originally going to be released domestically by Lionsgate. I’m told it was a … Read More »

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‘Big Love’ To End Its Run After Season 5

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday October 28, 2010 @ 9:46am PDTTags: Amanda Seyfried, Big Love, Bill Paxton, Cable TV, Chloe Sevigny, Ginnifer Goodwin, HBO, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Tom Hanks, TV
Nellie Andreeva

It is the end of the road for HBO’s polygamy drama Big Love. The series’ upcoming fifth season will be its last, with Mark V. Olsen and Will Scheffer writing the closer as the series’ finale. Despite gripes about the … Read More »

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